Loyal Bostonians in large number braved the unfavorable elements on Monday night to welcome George back to his "home town" in the revival of George M. Cohan's comedy, "The Song and Dance Man," at the Copley theatre. The members of the Copley company supported him adequately enough, and only occasional slips in the dialogue bore out his statement in curtain speech that the performance was studied and staged in the short space of five days.

Mr. Brian, who established a reputation in musical comedy and operetta in such productions as "Buddies," "No Nanette," "The Chocolate Soldier," more recently in "Merry Widow," is confronted with the somewhat difficult of portraying the unsuccessful small time trooper and of enunciating, as convincingly as possible, the trite old them that no real actor can ever leave theatre. Considering the difficulties, portrayal of your true "down and outer is well done. He has achieved this beaten, despairing air which is typical of the breed. In addition, he gives impression of quiet power and earnestness which enable him to across a hard luck story in a thoroughly moving fashion: to express the wronght sentimentality which accompanys the hackneyed thesis of "the lure of the theatre" with surprising conviction. His humor is natural, forced, at times naive. But the "Happy Farrell of Carroll and Farrell, Song Dances, and Funny Sayings' 'takes himself and his woes so seriously that missed the optimism and dash which we usually associate with song dance men. He was perhaps too too somber, too doleful. The boast the he was "the best song and dance in the world" failed to ring true: threat that he would throw himself the East River seemed far more possible. Mr. Brian's interpretation, however, is admisable; moreover it is vincing and consistent throughout.

In the supporting cast, Mr. is sufficiently ponderous, jovial, and penetrable to make his portrayal Chief Hannitz an unqualified while Miss Loomis is thoroughly in the role of "boarding house operator."