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When a specialized actor is given a specialized role, the one specialty being miles apart from the other, we have a dilemma much the same as that of the famous immovable object and irresistible force. Just how those two settled their difficulty is unknown, but George M. Cohan impersonating Franklin D. Roosevelt presents quite an anomaly. For years Mr. Cohan has pleased his audiences by playing the soft-hearted, slightly baffled middle-aged man so accurately described by "Dear Old Daddy," the name of his 1935 offering. He makes no change in his ways in the current piece...
...actors and critics from which the committee of judges will be chosen to pass upon manuscripts submitted in the second play competition, will include: Richard Aldrich, Winthrop Ames, Delos Chappell, Alfred de Liagre, Jr., Max Gordon, Lawrence Langner, Gilbert Miller, Brock Pemberton, Rowland Stolibins, producers; Ina Claire, George M. Cohan, Lynn Fontaine, Walter Hampden, Helen Hayes, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, actors; John Gasson, John Hanrahan, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burns Mantle, Ruth Pickering, critics and editors; Edward Goodman, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Worthington Miner, Philip Moeller, Antoinette Perry, Leo Strasborg, directors; A. M. Drummond of Cornell University, SamSawyer Falk, of Syracuse...
...last week, will now be re-written to suit a "new and entirely different persona''ty." According to Louis B. Mayer, she will be a comparatively unknown brunette from Worcester, Mass., named Rita Johnson who won recognition on Broadway this season in George M. Cohan's Fulton of Oak Falls. Miss Johnson thereupon declined the role...
...Passed the Army Appropriation Bill which provides for 1938 military expenditures totalling $416,413,382, a peacetime record. Sent it to the Senate. ¶Passed bills providing appropriations of $700 each for gold medals to be presented to Actor George M. Cohan, for his Wartime pepsong Over There, and Explorer Lincoln Ellsworth for his explorations, sent them to the Senate...
...able financier came to the rescue in the person of Baltimore's Van Lear Black. Hearing whispers that the Suns were going down for the last time, Mr. Black brought from New York the It Pays to Advertise company under the direction of George M. Cohan for a special morning performance before a group of Baltimore businessmen who were guests of the Sun management. Before the show they heard an ode composed for the occasion by the Sun's Poet Folger McKinsey ("The Bentztown Bard"). Baltimore buzzed with talk at this stunt and local admen took the hint...