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...Rise of Rosie O'Reilly. George M. Cohan is responsible for this obvious "defy" to the Ku Klux Klan. He has been responsible for several others from the same mould in the past few seasons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Jan. 7, 1924 | 1/7/1924 | See Source »

...show, which de Ganahl and White will rewrite, concerns the plot of a play within a play and involves an extremely original situation. There is considerable mystery as to the nature of the plot, for it is said to be something new in musical comedy. Mr. George M. Cohan, now acting in one of his own plays in Boston, is assisting the authors with their book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE GANAHL AND WHITE TO WRITE PUDDING SHOW | 12/18/1923 | See Source »

...Some producers can afford to put on a box-office failure just because it's an artistic success, but I haven't reached that stage yet," said George M. Cohan to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternoon between acts of "The Song and Dance man", in the title role of which he is appearing at the Selwyn Theatre. "It costs money to operate in the show business, and you've got to give the public what it wants. If the public expects one thing from me, I'd be foolish to experiment with another. I am ready to turn to something...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ARTISTIC SUCCESS WITH BOX-OFFICE FAILURE DOES NOT APPEAL TO COHAN | 12/13/1923 | See Source »

George M. Cohan, fond of Irish names, has brought forth another, The Rise of Rose O'Reilly, soon to immigrate into Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Dec. 10, 1923 | 12/10/1923 | See Source »

Ralph Morehouse had a trying part as a detective. We suppose it should be blamed on Mr. Cohan; but still, the blurb of the detective which lets the audience, and the actors, know how much he loves humanity seems terribly over-done. It is a trifle sickening for a two-fisted, hardboiled, graft-hunting. Irish detective to fall without warning to the estate of fond "deus ex." Mr. Morehouse would have had it over sooner if he had known his part better. But the prompter's voice can rarely be entirely dispensed with on stock company's first nights...

Author: By R. S. F., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 11/21/1923 | See Source »

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