Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Freedom Ring (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Latest Hollywood discovery in box-office lures is the value of Americanism. Flag-waving of the George Cohan variety has always been a box-office standby, but the cinema's new patriotism goes deeper into the last refuge. It stems from: i) a sudden awareness that in failing to capitalize the forces which produced the New Deal, John L. Lewis and the Wagner Act, the cinema has missed a golden opportunity; and 2) the general eagerness of producers to forestall a wave of U. S. antiSemitism, which they greatly dread...
When George M. Cohan resumes his Presidential role in I'd Rather Be Right, some such couplet could be added to the lyrics about "one boy with du Pont, and another one with Hearst." For last week Son-With-Hearst Elliott Roosevelt made a deal to affiliate his newly formed Texas State Network of radio stations with the Mutual Broadcasting System, whose stock is 50%-owned by the anti-Roosevelt Chicago Tribune's Station WGN. Bamberger's Station WOR (Newark) owns the other half...
...York, The Son of the Sheik went into its second week after drawing nearly $14,000 at the George M. Cohan Theatre. In five other Eastern cities it packed theatres. But the greatest triumph of The Son of the Sheik was at Chicago's Garrick Theatre, where it did more business than any other show in town except Holiday, accompanied by Tommy Dorsey's swing band. Garrick audiences were apparently about evenly divided between middle-aged women and young girls who had heard about Rudy Valentino from their mothers. Wrote one lady patron to the theatre...
...Among them: George M. Cohan, Thomas E. Dewey, Howard Hughes, Faik Konitza, Franklin D. Roosevelt...
What with newspaper ads, glittering marquees, and huge neon signs hung out on Boston's drab skyline, people are beginning to wonder about this "Proven Pictures" outfit. The thing started five years ago, when some enterprising gentleman bought up George M. Cohan's old Tremont, installed projectors, and asked the people what they wanted to see. Letters started coming in and now they average over a thousand a week. Just to check up on the proletariat's taste, the Tremont got a New York clipping bureau to send them leading newspaper reviews. When the people say please, and the critics...