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...Cockatoo by Arthur Schnitzler. Mr. Schnitzler's playlet advances the notion that slumming was a popular diversion in France during the reign of Louis XVI. Undaunted by the fact that the Bastille has just fallen, a band of gallants and their lady friends come to roister in the tavern of one Prospère. The host has planted actors in the crowd to relate bloodcurdling events, thrill the guests, give them their money's worth. Climax of the satire comes when one mummer, having proclaimed that he has just murdered his wife's lover, finds out that...
Author Claude Houghton. English poet, playwright, novelist, has also written: The Phantom Host, The Tavern of Dreams, Judas, In the House of the High Priest, Neighbors, The Riddle of Helena, Crisis...
...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...