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Show DRAMA COLONIAL OPENING. A Cohan play, under the management of Cohan Co-han and Harris, Is booked to open the season at the Colonial. It is a rural musical comedy of New England j life and is one of the best George M. Cohan has I written. I The players who interpret the several roles I are people with reputations for conscientious work. Edward O'Conner will appear in the rolo of "Harrigan," and his song, "Harrigan," has become be-come one of the' most popular hits of the day. Grace King has the role of the village postmistress, post-mistress, and Laura Bennett that of the village ,t gossip, and the following artists have been en gaged to interpret the different characters: Richard Bartlett, Frank Buoman, Dan Bruce, Ed-win Ed-win Belden, James B. Gentry, Flossie Martin, May Maurice, Helen Young and Bobby Wagner. For the scenes of his play Mr. Cohan has gone to the village of Brookfleld, Mass., which is fifty miles from Boston, and he has there selected some of the types that make up the inhabitants of the little town, and has drawn them so carefully that they are said to live in the atmosphere of the play and plot he has devised. "Fifty Miles From Boston" might have perhaps per-haps been quite as great a success without the introduction of a song, but Cohan's cohorts have come to believe that no play from his pen is complete com-plete without music. Therefore he gave it tg them and in this, his latest handiwork, he has supplied some fascinating numbers. They are entitled en-titled "Jack and Jill," which is a down-to-the-min-ute .version of the old lullaby your mother was wont to sing to you while dangling you on her knee; "A Small Town Gaf," "Boys Who Fight the Flames," "Ain't It Awful," "Harrigan," and "Waltz With Me." They are all decidedly Cohanesque. |