Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citizens of North Brookfield Mass staged a homecoming celebration for two native sons," Cornelius McGillicuddy ( Connie Mack") (born in East Brookfield) and George Michael Cohan (born in Providence, R. I.). Said Baseball Manager McGillicuddy, after the local semiprofessional team beat his Philadelphia Athletics 9-5 : "Nothing would please me better than to spend the rest of the summer here?the way my team is going." Said Actor Cohan: "To show I'm a typical New Englander I'm going to have apple pie for breakfast...
Music was George Cohan's specialty before he took up acting and playwriting. When he was 8, his parents went touring in a melodrama called Daniel Boone on the Trail. "Georgie" was taken along to sell songs in intermission, play second fiddle in the orchestra. "Why Did Nellie Leave Her Home?" was his first song published. He was then 15. Not long after, when he was looking for a job in New York he met a man with a street telescope who gave him a free peek at the stars, told him Venus ruled the show business. Cohan went...
...entered the War George Cohan started writing topical songs. He sat down at the piano, fumbled around with the F sharp chords† and in no time "Over There" was ready for Nora Bayes to sing and 4,000,000 soldiers to march to. "Over There" sold 3,000,000 copies, became musical history. Woodrow Wilson sent Cohan an autographed photograph while his secretary, Joseph Patrick Tumulty, wrote a letter: "The President considers your War song a genuine inspiration to all American manhood...
Presidents held a new interest for Cohan after that. For the George Washington Bicentennial he wrote "Father of the Land We Love," went to the White House and presented Herbert Hoover with the first copy (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). Three years ago he wrote for the Edison Golden Jubilee a song that was never published. Called "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man," it starts...
...Composer Cohan, who is now acting in Eugene O'Neill's Ah Wilderness!, calls his Roosevelt birthday song just a "howdy" to the President. Its chorus...