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Pigeons and People (by George Michael Cohan, producer), subtitled "a comic state of mind in continuous action," runs in one long act like Philip Barry's Hotel Universe. A benevolent insurance tycoon comes back to his apartment trailed by an elderly, jaunty bum named Parker (Actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...Cohan). Found on a park bench chatting familiarly with the pigeons, the bum has told the tycoon a story of his life. The tycoon, astounded by a renegade with elements of greatness, offers Parker hospitality, grudgingly refused. A neat plot, promising an idea play, skitters at that point into Pirandello-echoing lunacy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 30, 1933 | 1/30/1933 | See Source »

...satires and trailing leagues behind its pennant-winning cousins comes the current offering at the University, "The Phantom President," and it comes not as a stirring triumph in moving picture production but rather as the last-feeble whisper of a once glorious theatrical type. But it has George M. Cohan. The presence of this dean of Broadway's white lights cannot make a poor picture good, but it can more than satisfy the greediest publicity manager of Hollywood and furnish ample opportunity for the exercise of his pre-view talent. Little need be said of the spider web which ironically...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/7/1932 | See Source »

...unpaid butter & egg bill of $1,130 forced into receivership Manhattan's Friars Club, famed theatrical organization founded in 1904 by Playwright Channing Pollock and ten other pressagents, headed almost continuously since 1912 by George Michael Cohan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Habitual patrons of Maestro Heckler's West 42nd Street establishment well knew the star performer who jumped through hoops, pushed a toy train, danced, juggled, kicked a ball and ended every performance by waving the flag of the Irish Free State in the manner of George Michael Cohan waving the U. S. flag. He was a bright red flea with black, roguish eyes, much larger than most male fleas. Few of his admirers knew that Paddy was not an Irish flea: he was found on a German sailor in Hoboken. Last week Dr. Heckler exhibited his fleas in Carbondale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: End of Paddy | 10/31/1932 | See Source »

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