Word: cohans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soap manufacturer whose competitor is about to offer a criminal "March of TIME" on the air. The Pulitzer Prizeman throws his employer out a window of the Empire State Building, hangs a radio announcer, wakes up. Reviewers compared Crime Marches On with The Tavern, produced by George M. Cohan in 1920, which did not make any sense either...
...Jimmy Savo a new Charlie Chaplin. Even if, as critics unanimously predicted, Parade proves to be theatrical medicine too bitter for bourgeois taste, Jimmy Savo will have the satisfaction of having appeared under the august auspices of the Guild, whose portals have been passed by only one (George M. Cohan) erstwhile song & dance man before...
Plymouth: "Ah Wilderness"--Eugene O'Neill in a very mild and mellow mood, despite which he has turned out an excellent play. George M. Cohan does some superb acting. Run ends October...
...Even Mr. Cohan's friends last week had to admit that his latest song was probably his worst. The two-four time music resembled an outmoded march of the 1900's. Typically Cohanesque was a bugle call for the transition from verse to chorus. The words were no better than the music. Excerpts...
George Michael Cohan has written more than 500 songs. He thinks "Venus, My Shining Star" (1894) is his best, but the U. S. public still prefers "Over There" (1917). Last week George M. Cohan turned out another song, for a huge benefit for German-Jewish refugees from Nazidom, held in Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. The affair was called "Night of Stars" and so was Mr. Cohan's song...