Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are in New York only about a dozen really important producers. Their names remain fixed while those of actors shine and grow dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready...
George M. Cohan's list this year includes Ring Lardner's frequently re-christened Elmer the Great. Aside from that, it is made up of a musical comedy by himself, and a play for Grant Mitchell and one by and for the Nugents...
...broken." For once, an all star company seemed as good as the sum of its parts and the play creaked seldom as it rolled rapidly across the stage. Among the stars were: Frances Starr, 42, Cecilia Loftus, 51, Jacob Ben-Ami, 38, Rollo Peters, 45, Helen Gahagan, 27, Georgette Cohan...
...Cohan first night has often made a noticeable sputter on Broadway. Hence it annoyed the author of Whispering Friends to find that the critics in whom he had put trust had neglected his play and that the minor critics, sent in their stead, had abused it. The annoyance felt by Author Cohan was expressed in a series of confidently derisive advertisements which he caused to be printed in Manhattan newssheets above his own signature...
...Signed) GEORGE M. COHAN...