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Elmer the Great (First National), based on a play by Ring Lardner and George M. Cohan, is a sophisticated version of baseball's saga of the yap rookie who makes good. This is the second time the play has been done in sound but the treatment is fresh, the characters new. Elmer (Joe E. Brown) is a temperamental yap. The Chicago Cubs buy his contract, find he has lost interest in baseball, make a deal with his girl (Patricia Ellis) to lure him into camp. There he bats out their best pitcher, walks off raging because they are incompetent...
Congratulations are due CBS. Edwin K. Cohan, technical chief of the chain, on vacation in Miami, reversed loops to New York, offered President-elect Roosevelt use of Columbia facilities, obtained a statement from him for the radio audience, secured an authentic witness, canceled New York broadcasts interfering, notified stations, announced the broadcast in record time for network alignment...
...Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc ] now feel that further operations with the present facilities offer little possibility of contribution to the art of television, and we have decided to suspend temporarily our program."-Edwin K. Cohan, Columbia's technical director, explaining why Columbia discontinued television service last week...
George Michael Cohan on the loose. When the shadow-boxing is over, remaining enigmas are: 1) What was the story in the park? 2) Who is Parker? 3) What did he want? 4') What was Pigeons and People all about? Only positive fact is the first-rate characterization of Parker as a superior indigent, expert at crying, bragging, weaseling, bullying, philosophizing, face-saving and putting everybody else in the wrong...
...closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...