Cohan

The Daily News, Manhattan "straphanger's delight," set aside three columns, had its compositors compose: Enter GEORGE M. COHAN

And out from the land of grease paint, mystery and hokum bursts George M. with a weekly humorous letter for the Sunday News. Think of it! The fellow who press-agented Betsy Ross's Grand Old Rag is going to toot a real Yankee Doodle letter for you every Sunday!

It will be a mean line in that racy American language he knows so well. . . . You can depend on one thing--the letters will be crammed full of speed, zip, pep and go! A guy who could write a song out of a flock of bugle calls and help win a war will write some letter--the kind that will make you shout for a lot of P. S.'s!

The announcement was worth three columns. It would be difficult to think of a figure from whom a series of signed articles would find greater favor with Manhattan newspaper readers, particularly straphanging readers. Moreover, it was not recorded that 'George M. Cohan had ever before stepped from the footlights to the headlines.

Wrote Cohan: "At last I'm a man of letters, whatever that means. . . . You'll just die laughing at some of the things I'll say. . . . Write me; wire me; phone me 1 ... I love my little readers. If any college boy cares to call my attention to a misspelled word or two I will appreciate it beyond words. . . . Yours,

"GEORGE M."