Music: Ready Cohan

George M. Cohan, veteran song-&-dance man, dramatist and Broadway's darling, has always been "regular." When it comes to patriotism he is not only regular but ready. Long before the World War he warmed up with such rousing ditties as I'm a Yankee Doodle Dandy and You're a Grand Old Flag. When the War really gave him something to pitch to, Tunesmith Cohan wrote its U. S. theme song. Over There sold around 2,000,000 copies.

Last week Tunesmith Cohan tried his aging right arm again. Before 1,500 approving members of the American Newspaper Publishers' Association in Manhattan, he sang his latest marching song....

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