Word: cohane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only has he been able to dominate the Camel programs (CBS, 10 p.m., E.W.T.) in his own most explosive and sidesplitting manner-with much credit to an understanding producer (Phil Cohan) and an admiring young foil (Garry Moore). Jimmy has also, after twelve years, made a sensational comeback in nightclub hilarity at Manhattan's Copacabana...
...opening night, Mike Todd, as much a man of the theatre as Noel Coward or George M. Cohan, seemed intent on finding that elusive something that will turn a rambling Hayride into a non-stop express for Broadway's Hall of Fame. Condensation and a half-hour's worth of sock comedy material should do the trick...
...himself gave a blackface performance at Bel Air, Md. P. T. Barnum once corked his own face and appeared in such early favorites as Zip Coon, The Raccoon Hunt, Gittin' Up Stairs. Stephen Foster wrote his masterpieces for minstrels. John Philip Sousa, Gentleman Jim Corbett and George M. Cohan's father all did their blackface stints...
...cavalcade of show business, So Help Me is much longer on names than faces. Jimmy Walker, John Barrymore, George M. Cohan and many another flit through the book as mere bit players; even Jessel's wives remain blurred as individuals. His mother, his mainstay on the stage, draws a blank. Next to Jessel in importance are Jessel's gags. The best are none too brilliant. Of a decrepit theater he played in: "I was sure there were wild deer in the balcony." Of quarters in a crowded hotel: "We were finally given a room overlooking a coat hanger...
America has songs for all kinds: let Mr. Pegler and his barbershop quartet amuse themselves with the truly American songs of George M. Cohan; let our soldiers march to the strains of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; but let us reserve for our national anthem a composition which expresses the best we have in us-the Star-Spangled Banner...