Word: marc
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Were distant ancestors of President Coolidge named "Collins"? Were less-distant ancestors named "Colynge"? Sc, last week, Marc J. Rowe, heraldic artist, who traced the Coolidge family back for centuries. He added that "Coolidge" probably was not of Irish origin. Artist Rowe displayed in Washington a painting of the Coolidge coat of arms, a gold griffin on a green field, with the insignia "Virtute et Fide" (Virtue and Faith). The griffin, said Mr. Rowe, symbolizes watchfulness. It appears also in the coat of arms of J. P. Morgan...
...into American manners and language. They were acclaimed, justly, as play-wrights of promise and the world settled back to await more words of wisdom from them. In time, their partnership was dissolved but now one of them has broken his silence. Which leads us, not altogether inevitably, to Marc Connelly's latest play, "The Wisdom Tooth", now at the Hollis...
...Marc Connelly is primarily responsible for this curiously distinguished adventure. Mr. Connelly is the man who worked so long and so successfully with George Kaufman in the manufacture of such plays as Merton of the Movies and Beggar on Horseback. The Wisdom Tooth is his first flight alone...
half score or more years ago George S. Kaufman wrote a musical comedy with Marc Connelly and peddled it about the town without success (it was produced eventually as Be Yourself and ran for several months) ; then Dulcy; To the Ladies; Merton of the Movies; Helen of Troy, New York; The Beggar on Horseback; and Minick. With the exception of the last, which he wrote with Edna Ferber, he has collaborated on these plays with Mr. Connelly. This year they split, Mr. Kaufman's first musical by himself will be The Cocoanuts, for the Marx Brothers, and his first play...
WEBSTER'S POKER BOOK-H. T. Webster, George Ade, G. F. Worts, Marc Connelly, R. F. Foster-Simon, Schuster ($2.50). Cartoonist Webster long ago laid hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes...