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...small part in an amateur theatrical separated the phone clerk from commerce.Told he ought to be on Broadway, he proved it by becoming a chorus boy in George M. Cohan's Little Nellie Kelly in 1922. He changed his name to Oakie* and tacked on the Jack because it seemed to fit. A meeting with Director Wesley Ruggles in 1927 led straight to his first picture, Finders Keepers...
...Washington, D.C. he saw his life story done in a professionally paced musicomedy, Cook Book, by The Harlequins of Washington's Catholic University. Last year Catholic University's drama department got the smart notion of biographing eminent Catholic show businessmen in musical shows, began with George M. Cohan on hand to salute his imitator...
...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...