Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Phantom President (Paramount) proposes that the way to save the U. S. is to elect George Michael Cohan president. A strange combination of serious flagwaving, savage political comment, pure comedy, farce and romance, it owes much to George S. Kaufman's Of Thee I Sing...
Noteworthy is the fact that the famed flagwaving manner of beaming, grey-haired, wry-mouthed George Michael Cohan in The Phantom President conveys the real excitement of his own sincere convictions. When he sings, "It's a grand old flag, Don't let it drag," it sounds like a new and tremendous idea of his own. When he prances, he does it like a supersalesman who knows he is good. No actor, he carries off his part ably simply by continually remembering he is George Michael Cohan...
Even with Paul Green's sincere writing, Barthelmess' well-intentioned acting, Director Michael Curtiz' occasionally striking photography, Cabin in the Cotton fails to excite with its cinematically new problem, treatment and landscape. The sweet, empty face of honey-haired Bette Davis is notably effective in a villainess part. Excellent shot: the lynching party following bloodhounds along the top of a ridge screened by bare trees...
...Michael Lambert Igoe (delegate. Democratic National Convention...
...Senate investigation last spring much adverse comment was caused when it was revealed that red-haired Michael ("Mike") Meehan, specialist in Radio, was also in the Radio pool. Last week the Exchange lessened the chances of a specialist profiting through his knowledge by ruling that no specialist may participate in a pool in his special stock, nor may the firm to which he belongs. By use of the phrase "directly or indirectly" the Exchange can also prevent evasion of the rule by specialists who might participate in pools through their wife, cousin, stenographer or a dummy corporation. Some...