Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whispering Friends. On the night it opened, the more important play reviewers, foes and friends of its author, famed George M. Cohan, whispered among themselves and decided to attend the revival of Our Betters (see above). What they missed was one more farce about the newly married couple which was, in fact, less of an addition to this smoking room form of drama than a repetition of innumerable predecessors. The girl friend of the rich wife says to her, in effect: "I think your husband married you for money. I will flirt with him and we shall see." Her advances...
...confused with George M. Cohan Irish theater man. Mr. Cohan of Houston, Tex. gave a building to Rice Institute, named it for his father & mother (still living) and planned to endow it with instalments from his yearly income...
...apprenticeship of disagreeable routine. He has no soiled laundry to count, no water to carry. He starts his competition Tuesday night, and Wednesday morning he is a full-fledged reporter. The writer, when he had been a candidate for the CRIMSON less than 24 hours was interviewing George M. Cohan in his dressing-room in a Boston theatre. And Mr. Cohan had no idea that he wasn't a veteran of many such interviews. Or if he did, he politely made no comment about...
...Contemporary Drama." Mr. Hamilton, a writer and lecturer on the Stage, and Professor of Dramatics at Columbia, in his many books has not confined his attention to the present period but has ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent book, entitled "Conversa- tions on Contemporary Drama," is published...
...Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns...