Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Samuel Lee, and Mr. L. O. Schwab '14 began intensive work yesterday towards the production of the Hasty Pudding Show. "Take a Brace", which they are to direct. Mr. Silvers has been Al Jolson's musical director for several years. He has also done work for George M. Cohan and D. W. Griffith. Among the well-known song-hits that he has written are "April Showers" and "Just Snap Your Fingers at Care". Mr. Lee is a well-known producer on Broadway. His latest work has been with the "Gingham Girl", a success in New York during the past winter...
...revive "The Miracle Man", for the play in itself does not merit a resurrection from the land of the dead and gone. When "The Miracle Man" appeared in book form from the pen of Frank Packard it was an effective and striking story, but in the play, George Cohan has treated the Patriarch of Needley, Maine, and his faith, strong enough to make a "gang of crooks go straight", in a manner which amuses but does not convince...
...Miracle Man" is seen the hand of the playmaker who knows how to get his laughs and how to amuse his audience. The crooks and the villagers all contribute to the fund of humor. But in the scenes of emotional stress where the characters should feel and live intensively, Cohan fails to make them real...
...make the audience believe in his power. He is merely a nice old man with ideas. And the criminals in their turn, as they one by one fall under the healer's magic spell, never seem to do more than move the plot toward the inevitable happy ending. George Cohan has written too many musical comedies to write a convincing play...
Barnum Was Right.?Everything is explained when it is learned that John Meehan, who helped write and stage the play, used to be a director with George M. Cohan. The shrewd touch of that nasal genius is everywhere conspicuous. The twin wraiths of Seven Keys to Baldpate and The Tavern wander spectrally amongst the audience...