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George M. Cohan Theatre

The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre | 1996 | | Copyright

George M. Cohan Theatre, New York, at 1482 Broadway. This was opened in 1911 by Cohan, who staged several of his own works there. Among later successes were the Jewish comedy Potash and Perlmutter (1913) by Charles Klein and Montague Glass, the farces It Pays to Advertise (1914) by Walter Hackett, and Come Out of the Kitchen (1916) by A. E. Thomas, and several musical comedies, including Two Little Girls in Blue (1921). Clemence Dane's A Bill of Divorcement (also 1921) established Katharine Cornell as a star and was followed in the same year by Ed Wynn in his own musical comedy, The Perfect Fool, from which he took his nickname. The last years of the theatre were uneventful, the final production being a musical, The Dubarry (1932), with Grace Moore. A year later the building became a cinema, and in 1938 it was demolished.

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Glass, Montague (Marsden)

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Glass, Montague [Marsden] (1877–1934), playwright. The English‐born dramatist and short story writer was brought to America while very young and began his career by contributing to various magazines. All his successful plays were collaborations, and many of them were based on his stories about a pair of comic Jewish business partners: Potash and Perlmutter (1913), written with Charles Klein; Abe and Mawruss (1915), written with Roi Cooper Megrue; and four with Jules Eckert Goodman: Business before Pleasure (1917), His Honor Abe Potash (1919), Partners Again (1922), and Potash and Perlmutter, Detectives (1926). Although several of his other plays received favorable notices, they had short runs.

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Gerald Bordman and Thomas S. Hischak. "Glass, Montague (Marsden)." The Oxford Companion to American Theatre. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (June 1, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O149-GlassMontagueMarsden.html

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