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Last year the club received the assistance of Mr. George M. Cohan, famous musical comedy writer, with the book of the play, and this year Coach Silvers said that it would have the best of professional assistance in the production...
...Daily News, Manhattan "straphanger's delight," set aside three columns, had its compositors compose: Enter GEORGE M. COHAN...
...announcement was worth three columns. It would be difficult to think of a figure from whom a series of signed articles would find greater favor with Manhattan newspaper readers, particularly straphanging readers. Moreover, it was not recorded that 'George M. Cohan had ever before stepped from the footlights to the headlines...
...Wrote Cohan: "At last I'm a man of letters, whatever that means. . . . You'll just die laughing at some of the things I'll say. . . . Write me; wire me; phone me 1 ... I love my little readers. If any college boy cares to call my attention to a misspelled word or two I will appreciate it beyond words. . . . Yours...
...authors, since any libretto which eliminates Helen Ford from an entire second act can hardly be called flawless. There were one or two able melodies in the proceedings and many players of moderate reputation and ability. John Meehan, who long stood at the right hand of George M. Cohan, staged the piece and inserted welcome wedges of Cohan dancing. By and large, the entertainment is only mildly invigorating...