Word: tavern
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Song and Dance Man. Continuing the mood of reminiscence in which he revived The Tavern last month (TIME, June 2), George M. Cohan has seen fit to present his Song & Dance Man, first produced seven years ago. Although the piece itself is cloyed with the most bogus Broadway sentimentality, and although thousands are familiar with the cinematized version of the story, for Mr. Cohan's sake audiences received the play with affection...
...Tavern. The year 1922 will be remembered by many for the long skirts of its debutantes and the catch-phrase of its coxcombs: "What's all the shooting for?" Last week, a season after the reappearance of long skirts, the source of the byword recurred?a revival of Actor-Producer George Michael Cohan's The Tavern...
...clarify the piece?which can be safely categorized neither as burlesque, travesty or satire?audiences were advised through the programs that: "The vagabond who comes into The Tavern is the unmasked Cohan. And yet this vagabond could have been a Wandering Jew, Villon, Rabelais, Shelley, Puck. There is probably no one in America who knows better than he what is effective in the theatre. He is aware . . . just how audiences react to certain things that may be made to happen." Subsequent things that Actor Cohan made to happen were received with robust laughter when the audience was sure of itself...
Score--U. S. Marines 26, Harvard 0, Touchdowns--Gerard 2, McCaffery, Presley, Wingo. Converted goals--Zimmerman 4, Penalty goal--Zimmerman. Referee--J. F. Jennings, Linesmen--Lt. J. J. Tavern, and J. McCarthy. Time--Two 35-minute periods...
...There are thousands of open pubs and taverns on both sides of the Thames, but I do not recall hearing the strains of any English college songs coming out of them as the time for the race drew near. I was wondering if Oxford and Cambridge had any college songs. Also there was a dearth of organized cheering. It seems that they have no organized cheers in the English universities. At one point near Bull's Head Tavern I did hear a gentleman wearing the Dark Blue colors exclaim in a well modulated shout. "Well rowed, Oxford!" but immediately afterward...