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...Contemporary Drama." Mr. Hamilton, a writer and lecturer on the Stage, and Professor of Dramatics at Columbia, in his many books has not confined his attention to the present period but has ranged all the way from Aeschylus to Eugene O'Neill and from Aristophanes to George M. Cohan. Four of his volumes of dramatic criticism are published in a uniform series by Henry Holt and Company; these are "The Theory of the Theatre," "Studies in Stagecraft," "Problems of the Playwright," and "Seen on the Stage." His most recent book, entitled "Conversa- tions on Contemporary Drama," is published...
...Revue, in Hitchy-Koo, in Up in the Clouds?" It was that same pretty girl, native of Jellicoe, Tenn., one-time music student at the Wilson-Green School at Chevy Chase. She had fled classroom and the First Baptist choir for the snapping footlights of Manhattan. George M. Cohan, alert actor-producer-play-wright, gave her audience & advice. The advice was to go into musical comedy. There, a Southern drawl, an arch manner and a pure voice carried her to the top of the musical stardom, to join the All-American Grand Opera Company in France. Now her cycle returns...
...There are other actor-managers; e. g. George M. Cohan. But they differ from the old school which founded one of the surest traditions of the theatre on the actor-manager principle. Usually the contemporary actor-managers present many shows ; appear themselves only occasionally; i. e. they are businessmen with an acting talent. There is, however, a famed actress-manager who last season showed herself an artist with a talent for business. She managed, directed and acted in (and will do the same this season) the Civic Repertory Theatre. She is Eva LeGallienne...
...Popular actors' clubs in Manhattan are The Lambs and The Friars. Neither is exclusive, or exclusively of the theatre. The Shepherd of the Lambs is Tom Wise; the Abbot of the Friars, George M. Cohan...
...Merry Malones. What Schlitz beer did for Milwaukee, George M. Cohan has done for the American flag. He has done much the same thing for Irish households, soft-shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly...