sentences:  Newspapers at the time reported that Cagney intended to consciously imitate Cohan's song-and-dance style, but to play the normal part of the acting in his own style.Although director Curtiz was known as a taskmaster, he also gave his actors some latitude.Cagney and other players came up with a number of "bits of business", as Cagney called them, meaning improvised lines or action in theater parlance.