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...Dear Old Darling" is the perfect medium for the bland, effervescent personality of the American stage actor, George M. Cohan. Besides that, it is an evening's worth of high-tension excitement, with astonishingly little remission. After you have left the theatre, however, your task--the spectator's task--is done. There is nothing to brood over in melancholy moments. "Dear Old Darling" makes no pretensions beyond those of good, solid entertainment...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 2/19/1936 | See Source »

...soap manufacturer whose competitor is about to offer a criminal "March of TIME" on the air. The Pulitzer Prizeman throws his employer out a window of the Empire State Building, hangs a radio announcer, wakes up. Reviewers compared Crime Marches On with The Tavern, produced by George M. Cohan in 1920, which did not make any sense either...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Nov. 4, 1935 | 11/4/1935 | See Source »

...Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine too bitter for bourgeois taste, Jimmy Savo will have the satisfaction of having appeared under the august auspices of the Guild, whose portals have been passed by only one (George M. Cohan) erstwhile song & dance man before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jun. 3, 1935 | 6/3/1935 | See Source »

Plymouth: "Ah Wilderness"--Eugene O'Neill in a very mild and mellow mood, despite which he has turned out an excellent play. George M. Cohan does some superb acting. Run ends October...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Merry-go-Round | 10/20/1934 | See Source »

...Even Mr. Cohan's friends last week had to admit that his latest song was probably his worst. The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's. Typically Cohanesque was a bugle call for the transition from verse to chorus. The words were no better than the music. Excerpts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Night of Stars | 9/24/1934 | See Source »

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