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...that they are not much less pathetic for being so much more absurd. The audience wished only for something to happen to this charming old rogue to spur him out of what promised in the first two acts to be a bog of dialog. Baby Cyclone. Playwright George M. Cohan is an authority on husbands & wives. In his newest farce, he sets down that "whereas a woman has a whole bagful of tricks, a man has only one-the hat trick." This trick consists in the man's donning his hat and leaving his Mrs. alone for the night...
Married. Mary Cohan, 18, daughter of George M. Cohan, patriot; to one Neil Litt, orchestra leader, following an elopement; at Elkton, Md. Georgette Cohan, eldest daughter of Mr. Cohan eloped in 1921 with one J. William Souther; telegraphed her father: "Married a Yankee Doodle boy. Wave your flag." Mr. Souther died in 1925 and she later married and divorced one William Hamilton Rowse. Mr. Cohan was divorced from his first wife, Actress Ethel 'Levey, who afterwards married Claude Graham White, famed British aviator...
...introducer on the speaker's platform is obliterated by the lecturer who gets up to speak. He had some failures. He needed money (he had always spent copiously what he earned) and tried to get it in vaudeville, in the cinema. When he acted in George M. Cohan's The Tavern in 1920 people remembered what a good actor he could be. Last autumn he appeared in the Theatre Guild's production, Juarez and Maximilian. The week before he died he was headlined in a one-act play, Kidnapped, at the Flatbush Theatre, Brooklyn...
...Home Towners-South Bend, Ind., censors Manhattan. By comical George M. Cohan...
...young man, irresponsible, selfish, becomes entangled with two women. One he marries; the other he leaves to bear a nameless child. Instead of allowing the play to rush to its inevitable catastrophe from this point, Miss Vernon, under the guidance of George M. Cohan, makes it diddle with detectives, telephone calls, attempted murder, cross-examinations, till finally she puts an end to it all with a last tragic scene that recalls the promise of the first two. Shirley Warde carries off highest honors in the cast, though Chester Morris makes a sufficiently convincing cause of all the trouble. The lighting...