Word: cohan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debut, and with his own son, Pat Rooney 3rd, now doing his own song-&-dance, platinum-haired Pat Rooney walked into Federal Court in Manhattan, filed petition for bankruptcy. His assets: $252, and a job entertaining at Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe. Liabilities: to touched friends George M. Cohan, $200; Ben Bernie, $200; Harry Richman, $100; Ollie Olsen, $25; Bob Hope, $25; Victor Moore...
...press, Marc Connelly on freedom to teach, Orson Welles on freedom of assembly, Archibald MacLeish on freedom of speech, Paul Green on racial freedom. Filling out the broadcasts, now designed to run 13 weeks, will be scripts on freedom in general by Stephen Vincent Benet, Sherwood Anderson, George M. Cohan, Ernest Hemingway. Not entirely indiscriminate in its praise of the U. S., The Free Company will include in its broadcasts a bit of salutary criticism, with Founder Boyd offering as his stint the fight of a worker against capital's frauds and labor's finks...
...Rose, with music by a 26-piece orchestra under Director Russell Bennett, singing by a mixed chorus of 18, and a commentary by Deems Taylor, ASCAP expects its program to be quite a show. Adding lustre to the hour will be such famed ASCAPers as Irving Berlin, George M. Cohan, Oley Speaks and Richard Rodgers...
Generalissimo Buck saved his biggest guns for the last. George M. Cohan sang his Give My Regards to Broadway, his Yankee Doodle Boy, his Grand Old Flag. Then a dark little man, introduced by Mr. Buck as "the nearest thing to a genius we have in this country," walked to the centre of the stage. As Irving Berlin began singing, the audience rose, joined in the music by the hundreds, then the thousands, until 15,000 voices were swelling God Bless America, an ASCAP song...
Twelve years ago George M. Cohan and the late, great Ring Lardner pooled their talents and their mutual enthusiasm for baseball, produced Elmer the Great, a farcical saga of a rookie pitcher with an arm like a whip and a Model T brain. A story goes when Lardner first saw the show on Broadway, he was convinced that it was terrible. He acknowledged as his own only one line of the script. He underestimated both the play and his part in its conception. Elmer spoke Ring Lardners language, proved as durable as his Alibi Ike. Last week, with...