Word: elmer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Elmer the Great. Elmer Kane didn't quite know what it was all about but that was something which he refused to admit to himself or anyone else. His girl didn't seem to think he was so hot; all Elmer knew how to do well was to pitch ball, so he took the contract that was offered to him and went south to training camp with the "New Yorks." His teammates kidded him because they thought he was fresh; Elmer, puzzled and proud, started to leave the club. But the boys knew that Elmer wanted to make...
That is the story of Elmer Kane in its essentials; it is also the story of Jack Keefe, the hero of Ring Lardner's You Know Me, Al. Somehow Ring Lardner has been able to put Jack Keefe, himself in person, onto the stage, and Walter Huston plays the part so that you forget it is one. George M. Cohan produced the play and Cohan plays have plots; therefore you will find, muffling the funny and pathetic character of "Hurry" Kane, a ridiculous jumble about an attempted Black Sox deal which is very nearly sufficient to spoil the play...
...ELMER THE GREAT...
George M. Cohan's list this year includes Ring Lardner's frequently re-christened Elmer the Great. Aside from that, it is made up of a musical comedy by himself, and a play for Grant Mitchell and one by and for the Nugents...
...postponements and the retirement of William A. Brady from his sponsorship. On the first night, the press agent, having left his job, leaped upon the stage with Sharon's converts, voicing a mock repentance. The crude vigor of the performance and the oily excesses of the actors made Elmer Gantry an exciting, though phoney, melodrama...