Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depends what you want when you go to the theatre. The Pulitzer Prize will probably never descend upon the benign person of Mr. George M. Cohan; on the other hand Mr. Eugene O'Neill, whose forbears must hall from a very different part of Ireland, will probably never write as good an evening's entertainment as Mr. Cohan manages to turn out with annual regularity. His plays are never profound, never very original; with a fair amount of practice one can almost invariably guess what is going to happen next. But the point is that one doesn't mind...
...current play, Mr. Cohan has gone mildly detective. Two young couples in New York spend much of their time together; but Mrs. Burgess and Mr. Loftus spend even more of their time together without telling their respective husband and wife anything about it. Mr. Loftus, finding two homes more expensive than one, steals his wife's jewelry to pay the bills. Mrs. Loftus calls in a detective to find the jewelry and he goes right on to find the secret love nest. One rather suspects he knew about it even before the play started, because he's the kind...
Loyal Bostonians in large number braved the unfavorable elements on Monday night to welcome George back to his "home town" in the revival of George M. Cohan's comedy, "The Song and Dance Man," at the Copley theatre. The members of the Copley company supported him adequately enough, and only occasional slips in the dialogue bore out his statement in curtain speech that the performance was studied and staged in the short space of five days...
...auto mobiles; 2) a Manhattan theatre where a box office clerk had to tell a patron that a cinema called The Hatchet Man (see p. 28) was not about the father of his country; 3) a song called "Father of the Land We Love," written by George Michael Cohan with a cover by James Montgomery Flagg, a copy of which was to be put into every U. S. home; 4) the offices in Washington, where the Bicentennial Commission originated celebration ideas...
...chairman of the Bicentennial Commission, organized in 1924 and put to work in 1930, Congressman Bloom has been in charge of disseminating posters, pamphlet biographies, music, the George Michael Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes...