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...TAVERN?George M. Cohan causing spectators to speculate upon his sanity (TIME, June...
...TAVERN?George M. Cohan mad again (TIME, June 2). TOPAZE?Extremely amusing French satire (TIME...
...will be remembered by many for the long skirts of its debutantes and the catch-phrase of its coxcombs: "What's all the shooting for?" Last week, a season after the reappearance of long skirts, the source of the byword recurred?a revival of Actor-Producer George Michael Cohan's The Tavern...
...clarify the piece?which can be safely categorized neither as burlesque, travesty or satire?audiences were advised through the programs that: "The vagabond who comes into The Tavern is the unmasked Cohan. And yet this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself...
...scene is laid in an inn, during an ear-splitting thunderstorm, to which a prattling, sleepy-eyed sage (Actor Cohan) comes for shelter. Subsequent activities, which include robbery, violent quarreling, gunfire, are sometimes burlesqued, sometimes played "straight," never consistently acted. Once Actor Cohan comes down to the footlights and soliloquizes to the effect that everyone in the world is an actor, that he alone is a spectator, that some day he will meet the Great Author. Spectators take this to be in dead earnest, applaud loudly. Sole orthodox comic part is played by Joseph Allen in the role he created...