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...incapable of assuaging him, his physician sagely conceives the plan of facing him with the sergeant, letting Lodar blast away at him with a revolver loaded with blanks. This cures Lodar, rings down the curtain on a spotty, boresome play. Audiences wondered what ever persuaded Producer George M. Cohan to allow the piece to appear under his auspices...
...several times a week for at least 40 years and keeping her girlish enthusiasm for the drama and retaining her eager interest in play actors and lavishing upon a languishing art a glittering and figurative vocabulary that was always ebullient and never seemed to repeat!" Said Producer George M. Cohan: "Amy Leslie may retire 1,000 times but she will always be a part of the American theatre. ... I have personally known Amy Leslie and have been proud of her friendship for 30 years...
Other July 4 birthday celebrators: Actor George Michael Cohan, 52; Cartoonist Reuben Lucius ("Rube") Goldberg...
...Song and Dance Man. Continuing the mood of reminiscence in which he revived The Tavern last month (TIME, June 2), George M. Cohan has seen fit to present his Song & Dance Man, first produced seven years ago. Although the piece itself is cloyed with the most bogus Broadway sentimentality, and although thousands are familiar with the cinematized version of the story, for Mr. Cohan's sake audiences received the play with affection...
...veteran hoofer, Mr. Cohan is qualified to put plenty of credible pathos into the part of "Hap" Farrell, of Carroll & Farrell -Songs, Dances & Funny Sayings. With the death of his partner, "Hap" falls upon evil days, tries to rob a man, is regenerated and goes out West where he makes some money. So inexorable is the fascination of life on a tank-town vaudeville circuit that he returns to a profession in which he can never be successful just because "every song & dance man always thinks he is the best one in the world...