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When the wrinkly little infant who was to be named George Michael Cohan let out his first faint caw, firecrackers were popping in Providence, R. I. Bands were playing. It was July 4, 1878,* a birthday worthy of one who was to be famed as the greatest and most successful flag-waver in the U. S. show business. This week George M. Cohan is to wave a flag in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to introduce a song called "What a Man!" in honor of President Roosevelt's 52nd birthday. The Manhattan celebration will...
Music was George Cohan's specialty before he took up acting and playwriting. When he was 8, his parents went touring in a melodrama called Daniel Boone on the Trail. "Georgie" was taken along to sell songs in intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went...
...opinion the movies are no more than a lot of fun in a big photo gallery," said George M. Cohan in a recent interview. "They don't compare with the stage, and I feel certain they never will, I struggled through a film once, and all I can say is, 'Never again...
...distinguished actor and playwright is now playing in Eugene O'Neill's latest play, "Ah Wilderness," which he considers one of the best vehicles he has had the opportunity to play in. "It does not seem to me," claimed Cohan, "that Mr. O'Neill's plays are a very great departure for the general style of writing. Of course this is the first piece I have acted in, and therefore I am probably not the best judge. I know that some of his other works are quite different, and I should like to play in one of them. I consider...
...team for his erratic playing, was named No. 1 U. S. tennist, after Ellsworth Vines turned professional. As picked by the Pulitzer Prize judges, Maxwell Anderson's Both Your Houses might be called Play of the Year. However, it developed early trouble at the boxoffice. George M. Cohan's performances in Pigeons & People and Ah Wilderness ranked high at both ends of the season, but represented no zenith to that talented actor's career...