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...patient and slightly bewildered public learned last week that the June strike of the actors and the subsequent struggle with the managers will affect the Fall season scarcely at all. With the exception of David Belasco, George M. Cohan, George Tyler and Henry Miller, the managers have admitted defeat and are casting productions under the new and slightly rigid conditions demanded by the Actors' Equity Association...
...Homeric (White Star) -Georgette Cohan, actress, daughter of George M. Cohan, famed actor; Mr. and Mrs. William G. McAdoo...
...skits that besplatter the show. Author Paul Gerard Smith comes out of vaudeville with an itch to thrust satire at his audience. His travesties of The Hairy Ape, Ladies' Night and The Song and Dance Man will work no harm to Eugene O'Neill, Avery Hopwood and George M. Cohan...
Aside from the sentimental objection to calling Messieurs Washington, Clemenceau, Cohan, and the pullman porter by a common Christian name there seems to be no valid basis for the Society's efforts. No other appellation but "George" will do for the porter. He can not be expected to reply to "Pat" or "Mike", nor even "Hans" or "Fritz". He is usually too old to be called "boy" and too young to be hailed as "old man". And furthermore, he is too important a personage to be addressed by any title but one which traditionally connotes dignity and respect...
...this would be a nucleus of a collection of historic musical instruments used by great composers, which I consider are now proper for the playing of advanced modern jazz. It was further stated that I am planning to obtain instruments used by Liszt, Beethoven, Mozart, and possibly George M. Cohan...