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...depends what you want when you go to the theatre. The Pulitzer Prize will probably never descend upon the benign person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind...
...current play, Mr. Cohan has gone mildly detective. Two young couples in New York spend much of their time together; but Mrs. Burgess and Mr. Loftus spend even more of their time together without telling their respective husband and wife anything about it. Mr. Loftus, finding two homes more expensive than one, steals his wife's jewelry to pay the bills. Mrs. Loftus calls in a detective to find the jewelry and he goes right on to find the secret love nest. One rather suspects he knew about it even before the play started, because he's the kind...
...Cohan as the detective is his own inimitable self. For this reviewer, who first saw Mr. Cohan in "Little Nelly Kelly" when he was still singing and dancing. Mr. Cohan remains one of the best actors in the country. There is a quiet finesse to his every action. He always has his audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe...
Loyal Bostonians in large number braved the unfavorable elements on Monday night to welcome George back to his "home town" in the revival of George M. Cohan's comedy, "The Song and Dance Man," at the Copley theatre. The members of the Copley company supported him adequately enough, and only occasional slips in the dialogue bore out his statement in curtain speech that the performance was studied and staged in the short space of five days...
...chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, organized in 1924 and put to work in 1930, Congressman Bloom has been in charge of disseminating posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes...