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Gambling. George Michael Cohan is an actor who, in the character of a hoary and vindictive gambler, by making improper proposals to a mercenary trollop, can cause middle-aged ladies to murmur happily with approval, although one would expect them to clap tippets to their ears...
...time. Its writers include A. E. Thomas, playwright, Rube Goldberg and Ring W. Lardner, funnymen. It will serve to frame fat, raucous Trixie Friganza and Jimmy Savo, small comic. A modernized version of A Temperance Town, oldtime comedy by Charles Hoyt, will include incidental tunes. George M. Cohan will smilingly assume the stage as author and actor in Gambling...
Colonial at 8.10--"Billie". Another Cohan show. Good clean fun for all ages...
...money, she laughed and said that she was only fooling. At Keeney's Vaudeville House in Brooklyn when she was 13 she won $10 on amateur night singing "When You Know You're Not Forgotten by the Girl You Can't Forget." She danced in Cohan and Harris' chorus; in burlesque she sang some of Irving Berlin's first songs; when she was 17 Ziegfeld headlined her in the Follies of 1910; two years ago she made her debut as a dramatic actress in Fanny. She had an operation on her hooked nose to make...
Mima. David Belasco is the grand old man of the U.S. theatre. To prove this, he wears a turn-around collar and permits himself to be photographed frequently with a benign facial expression. Like Flo Ziegfeld, George M. Cohan and certain other producers, he is never publicly designated as ridiculous. For the last few weeks, articles have appeared in news-sheets telling how "the Dean of the American Stage is working day and night, transforming his theatre into a veritable Hades," how "Belasco's version of Ferenc Molnar's Mima costs $300,000 to present," and lastly...