Tailor Made Man, A

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre | 2004 | 700+ words | Copyright

Tailor Made Man, A (1917), a comedy by Harry James Smith. [Cohan and Harris Theatre, 398 perf.] John Paul Bart ( Grant Mitchell), a drudge in a tailor's shop, dreams of marrying Tanya Huber ( Helen MacKellar), his boss's daughter, and of becoming a great and famous man. But Tanya has an arrogant, snobbish fiancé who has written a book in which he says that with proper clothes and charm any man can reach the top. John appropriates some evening clothes left at the shop and heads out to conquer society. He is soon lionized, courted by an heiress, and given a cushy Wall Street job. Of course, John is eventually exposed and sent back to the tailor shop. By that time, however, Tanya has fallen in love with him, so his future is not totally unpromising. Although Smith and producers George M. Cohan and Sam H. Harris openly acknowledged that the play was based on a German work by Gabriel Dregley, the adaptation and production were good enough to overcome wartime prejudices against almost anything German.

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