Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Billie. If there was any ambiguity of gender in the title of George Cohan's most recent American musical play it was removed when pretty Polly Walker, in a fetching fluster, confessed: "That's my name, Billie, and my daddy's was the same, Billie." Her confession was made on first meeting Jackson (in the previously popular non-musical version known as "Broadway") Jones. He had inherited money from his uncle and Billie was his uncle's secretary. For commendable reasons, Billie wished Jackson not to sell the avuncular corporation, a chewing gum one; she urged...
...would be very difficult to say in what respect an American musical play is better than a musical play which is not American. Also it would be useless; Mr. Cohan and the formula have made each other famous and it will require more than death to part them. It is true that the indigenous qualities of Billie happen often to be its most appealing ones; there is a scene in which two idiotic rogues confer together, making monkeys of themselves and many others. Songs and dances are in Billie also; of the former not the least engaging is one which...
...Billie, Polly Walker is melodious and shiny, while Mr. Joseph Wagstaff never stops being an excited Jackson Jones. Altogether Billie is excellent entertainment, clean without being inane. It is to be regretted that, in his effort to slight none of the great U. S. ideals, George Cohan has promoted or permitted a measly interlude, a song of which the title and refrain are "Personality." Possession. Edgar Selwyn is not a playwright who takes his comedy too lightly. Indeed, in this play of gloomy wedlock and ill-starred infidelities, he preaches a sad sermon with his quips and makes Margaret Lawrence...
...also the story of Jack Keefe, the hero of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al. Somehow Ring Lardner has been able to put Jack Keefe, himself in person, onto the stage, and Walter Huston plays the part so that you forget it is one. George M. Cohan produced the play and Cohan plays have plots; therefore you will find, muffling the funny and pathetic character of "Hurry" Kane, a ridiculous jumble about an attempted Black Sox deal which is very nearly sufficient to spoil the play entirely...
Died. Mrs. Helen Costigan Cohan, 74, retired actress, mother of famed Actor-producer George M. Cohan; of stomach trouble; in Monroe, N. Y. The vaudeville team of "The Four Cohans" (Jere J. Cohan, Mrs. Cohan, son George, daughter Josephine) was famed in the '90s; a Chicago theatre is named for them. George M. Cohan is the only survivor...