Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in the first scene 59-year-old George M. Cohan, answering to the name of President Roosevelt in top hat, cutaway and pince-nez, summoned his Cabinet to a meeting in Manhattan's Central Park, playgoers settled down to a show they expected to surpass Of Thee I Sing. But they soon found it was not as good as all that...
...genial person of Song-and-Dance Man Cohan. President Roosevelt admits that "the trouble with this country is that I don't know what the trouble with this country...
With a bankers' convention in town to whet the edge of its skepticism toward the New Deal, tart old Boston reveled last week in the ribbing 59-year-old George M. Cohan gave 55-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Actor Cohan, prime Down East favorite, was appearing in the tryout run of the George S. Kaufman-Moss Hart satire, I'd Rather Be Right, due on Broadway next month. Mummer Cohan wore a pince-nez, assumed a Groton inflection in opening his fireside chats. Musing on budget-balancing and third terms, he sang a song called...
...opening performance Satirist Cohan irked the authors, annoyed Tunesmiths Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart by balking at other verses about Liberty Leaguer Alfred E. Smith and some of his associates, substituting instead some lyrics of his own devising. "I just wouldn't sing them," said Actor Cohan, who is no less famed for his loyalty than for his wide talent, "because they were about personal friends of mine." Actor Cohan's extempore lyrics were not repeated. Co-Author Kaufman pooh-poohed rumors of backstage discord over the incident. Said he smoothly, "Everything is smooth and lovely...
When a specialized actor is given a specialized role, the one specialty being miles apart from the other, we have a dilemma much the same as that of the famous immovable object and irresistible force. Just how those two settled their difficulty is unknown, but George M. Cohan impersonating Franklin D. Roosevelt presents quite an anomaly. For years Mr. Cohan has pleased his audiences by playing the soft-hearted, slightly baffled middle-aged man so accurately described by "Dear Old Daddy," the name of his 1935 offering. He makes no change in his ways in the current piece...