Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phantom President (Paramount) proposes that the way to save the U. S. is to elect George Michael Cohan president. A strange combination of serious flagwaving, savage political comment, pure comedy, farce and romance, it owes much to George S. Kaufman's Of Thee I Sing...
...nomination and his one chance for national sex appeal when Claudette Colbert refused to marry him. But when they see a medicine show in which a silver-tongued mountebank and his assistant (Jimmy Durante) are selling their medical compound, they see the natural resemblance between the showman (Actor Cohan) and the Statesman (Actor Cohan). They hatch a plan to elect the statesman president on the show-window antics of the showman. Miss Colbert and the statesman's butler are deceived by the imposture and the former takes a new interest in the showman's version of Cohan. To solve...
Birthdays. John Davison Rockefeller, 93; Nikola Tesla, 75; Finley Peter Dunne, 65; Irving T. Bush, 63; Calvin Coolidge, 60; George Michael Cohan...
...Cohan as the detective is his own inimitable self. For this reviewer, who first saw Mr. Cohan in "Little Nelly Kelly" when he was still singing and dancing. Mr. Cohan remains one of the best actors in the country. There is a quiet finesse to his every action. He always has his audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe...
Under Mr. Cohan's direction the rest of the company is uniformly good. The staging of the play is as obvious as the writing. But it is always dramatic, is always good "theatre." It is just that sense of the theatre that distinguishes alike the writing, the acting, and the production of "In Confidential Service." And it is just that sense of the theatre that makes this play, as all of Mr. Cohan's plays, so thoroughly enjoyable...