SOURCE: "Mr. Cohan in Ah, Wildernessl" in Two on the Aisle: Ten Years of American Theatre in Performance, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1938, 235-36.

In the following excerpt, originally published in 1933, Brown reviews Cohan's performance in Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness!

As the small-town editor in Ah, Wilderness! George M. Cohan gives the kind of performance about which, were his name Gregory Mussorgsky Cohansky and Mr. Cohan a member of the Moscow Art Theatre, Oliver M. Sayler would undoubtedly be writing polysyllabic books. The learned weeklies and highfalutin' monthlies would soon be devoting pages to it in which such fancy words as "rhythm," "pattern," and "antiphonal radiance" would be printed in even fancier type. Having been a simple Yankee Doodle Dandy, a flag-waver and a Song-and-Dance man, and being an actor who is even now appearing in a domestic drama which begins on the Fourth of July, Mr. Cohan...