Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rather Be Right. The Kaufman-Hart, Rodgers-Hart, George M. Cohan musical spoof about F. D. R., the Cabinet, the Supreme Court and the U. S. A. (TIME...
...last week the President's mother went to see George M. Cohan impersonate her son in I'd Rather Be Right, the musical comedy in Manhattan which mildly spoofs the Administration. Mrs. Roosevelt Sr. had reserved her seat in another name, but the news leaked out backstage. Actor Cohan, who would not harm a fly unless it was a typhoid carrier, soft-pedaled a line here & there. But at other lines of his, such as "'If Eleanor would stay at home, I'd get a decent meal," Eleanor's mother-in-law heartily...
...pair of dimwit sleuths come to death-grips in a lighthouse with an underworld menace known as The Octopus. Lost documents, a character using a hook instead of a hand, secret stairways, octopus tentacles and poison gas are handled in pseudo-mysterious manner, sometimes reminiscent of George M. Cohan's famed burlesque, The Tavern, sometimes just good-natured hokum...
...keep faith with audiences who have grown to expect a modicum of Yankee Doodle from Actor Cohan on any stage. the President closes the show with a typical Fourth of July speech about the U. S.. "A country where, if things are wrong you can get right out and talk about them. And . . . there aren't many countries like that left in the world...
...President Cohan confides: "I'm really quite a hero. I only have to say 'My friends . . .', and the stocks go down to zero...