Word: m
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are in New York only about a dozen really important producers. Their names remain fixed while those of actors shine and grow dark. David Belasco, Lee Shubert and his brother Jake, Sam Harris, "Ziggy," the Selwyns, George M. Cohan, Winthrop Ames, William A. Brady, A. H. Woods, George White, Dillingham-everyone who sees plays or reads about them has heard of these. There is only one new man among the first-line producers. Younger than the rest but equally successful, he took it easy last week while others were in a ferment of excitement, getting their new offerings ready...
...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...
John Van Ryn spent the spring at Princeton because it was his senior year; George M. Lott went abroad on the Davis Cup squad, played tennis. Yet Van Ryn extended Lott to five sets last week before Lott turned Van Ryn into a pillar of fault, ran out the match, won his first leg on the Newport (R. I.) Casino singles cup. The same afternoon Lott, paired with John (California) Doeg, bested Van Ryn and Wilmer (Texas) Allison in the doubles final. Lott may play freshman tennis next spring at Brown University, which last week admitted him to its rolls...
...Miss M. . . . oran...
Engaged. Lieut. Commander John S. G. L. Dundas of H. M. S. Vindictive, son of the late Hon. Cospatrick Thomas Dundas and of Lady Cordeaux; to Miss Ruth Northrop Coleman, daughter of the Postmaster of Minneapolis...