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94ssd:
In addition to counterfeiting, the Secret Service also investigates identity theft. I learned this via a news story about the Target incident.
I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City. I am a theatre major who has been to NYC three times. It is sad that I had to learn this via my musical theatre history class.
Although I also learned from the same class that Cohan was strongly anti-Union. In 1919, Cohan said that if Actor's Equity won the labor dispute they were in, he would quit show-business and run an elevator. A journalist retorted that to run an elevator Mr. Cohan would have to join a union.
LookingIn:
--- Quote from: 94ssd on 21 Jan 2014, 14:28 ---I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City. I am a theatre major who has been to NYC three times. It is sad that I had to learn this via my musical theatre history class.
Although I also learned from the same class that Cohan was strongly anti-Union. In 1919, Cohan said that if Actor's Equity won the labor dispute they were in, he would quit show-business and run an elevator. A journalist retorted that to run an elevator Mr. Cohan would have to join a union.
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Have you seen the Miller Building in Times Square and it's famous statues dedicated to the first ladies of theatre?
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: 94ssd on 21 Jan 2014, 14:28 ---I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City.
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Had my picture taken with it the only time I've been to a broadway show.
There's a reason...
The Cohans (George, his parents and his sister) were residents of my great-grandmother's boarding house when they were performing in New York. George got along famously with my grandmother, though she was about a decade younger. Nevertheless, jokes were made of a "betrothal" (often in exchange for room and board when things were thin for the Cohans).
George met Mary, so he never wrote a song called "Martha" (My grandmother's name), and my Gramma married a nice first generation German Engineer instead. But had it gone a little differently...
Well, my last name would be Cohan. Of course, it wouldn't be me, but... you get the idea.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 22 Jan 2014, 10:12 ---
--- Quote from: 94ssd on 21 Jan 2014, 14:28 ---I have also just learned of the giant statue of George M. Cohan in New York City.
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Had my picture taken with it the only time I've been to a broadway show.
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Our professor said when he got to New York to start his acting career, he got off the subway in Times Square, dropped his bags at the base of the statue, and said "I'm here, George!"
--- Quote ---But had it gone a little differently...
Well, my last name would be Cohan. Of course, it wouldn't be me, but... you get the idea.
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Still, it's awesome that you have such a close connection to Broadway's first leading man.
94ssd:
More news learning - it is against the law to leave your vehicle running and unoccupied, punishable by a $50 fine. Although I have violated this a couple times, I definitely understand how it can be a safety concern as well as an environmental one.
This was mentioned because car thefts increase in the winter
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