Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study in human nature," explains Mr. Cohan. "I guess you would call it a comedy, but it's got a serious note in it. This fellow O'Neill doesn't ring the bell, he lets you pull it. The play just shows you this fellow's observation. You wouldn't call this a part I've got at all. It's a study. This fellow's got a great reading public, too -I imagine he has, anyway, and so it's got to be looked at from a literary standpoint...
George Michael Cohan need grudge no man his artistic output. In his autobiography he scores himself 31 original plays, 14 collaborations, 500 songs ("conservatively"). "It's been a great life," he adds...
Life started for him in Providence, R. I., 55 years ago on, as he is always ready to remind you, July 4. He trouped with his family, The Four Cohans, in "Jerry Cohan's Irish Hibernia" when he was nine. His sister Josie was billed as "America's Youngest and Most Graceful Skirt Dancer." "Master Georgie" was featured for his "violin tricks and tinkling tunes." Aged 13, George traveled the country in Peck's Bad Boy, grew inured to the beatings he had to take in every town from boys who were irked by the Peck...
...strike organized by the White Rats, vaudeville union, marred the New York premiere of The Governor's Son, Cohan's first musical comedy, in 1901. But after that nothing stopped him. When critics belabored his offerings, when editorial writers fumed at his famed flag-waving act, Cohan began publishing The Spotlight, a weekly throwaway. "Week after week I'd go after them," he recalls. "Week after week they'd come back at me. They slipped me at least a million dollars worth of free newspaper advertising." In 1904 he went into partnership with Sam Harris. They...
George M. Cohan is no more arrogant than George V of England. Neither of them sees any reason for humility. Cohan probably has more friends than any one in the show business. His dressing room is a salon. While Hirano slides deftly about waiting for a sign that his employer needs a cigaret, actors, journalists, policemen, priests, all sorts of people arrive and depart. Mr. Cohan owns gold badges given him by both the New York and Chicago constabulary. A good Roman Catholic, he never denies a Catholic charity the right to produce his plays. Many an actor has popularity...