& Mrs.JERRY COHAN"The Irish Darlings"TREBORThe Man of Mystic ChangesCapt.McCrosson""sZOUAVES"My father was playing in a variety theater, breaking in a scene.No one was more expectant than he was - unless there was my mother.She was busy right then in a smaller production." A right-to-left dissolve on the billboard fades into the interior of he small town""s theatre, where George""s Irish father Jerry Cohan""s (Walter Huston) name is placed on an easel card.His character changed when he confronted both Eddie Brock and then Marko after a bank robbery in an underground subway station - he left believing the Sandman was dead after he disintegrated in a flood of water.] The unusual, out-of-place object with straight-edges causes them to be alarmed and they react nervously.Producer David O.Selznick had acquired the film rights to Mitchell""s novel in July, 1936 for $50,000 - a record amount at the time to an unknown author for her first novel, causing some to label the film "Selznick""s Folly.