The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-27
BY FRANK WARD o'MALLEY.


4 BURNING ambition is all but
~ consuming George Michael CO.
han. the same George NJ. who
before he was barely out Of his twen-
t3es had achieved all the ambitions
there were, are or ever win be, and
thereupon long before getting out Of
his thirties achieved some more. Only
. few days ago he told me Of the new
est yearning now gnawing at his ns-
thetic innards, wherefore it would no
be surprising II during the week that
has elapsed since he spoke of his latest
ambition George Michael had arrived
At his newest goal and was some yards
onward toward another one-invented.
perhaps, only last night.
For young Mr.. Conan believes more
srdently in the value of speed in arrtv-
ing at things and then speeding up
afresh after getting there than even
his sprightly ancestors did His grand
father, for instance, waited for more
than 200 years after the Mayfiower
had marked out course from the
British Isles TO the Massachusetts,
coast before deciding to board q ship
and sail for many weeks over the same
route-from the ould sod Of the
Co-HANS to a new land that insisted
upon calling him and his progeny
Con-" whereas II It ever occurs to
George NJ. to visit the Irish home OF
his paternal and maternal ancestors he
doubtless will insist upon jumping
eastward in an airplane or refuse to
60 at all.
From Crib to stage.
furthermore, George Ms talented
father served through our civil war
and later worked as n harness maker
before deciding to drift toward the
stage, but George NJ. tore Off his bib
and fiung away his last nursing bottle
I'm the very act of leaping from his
high chair to the stage. Because OF
childish lack OF experience in leapins
no landed. it's true, near that part OF
the stage backdrop which Is closest to
ths wings. but he hit feet foremost and
almost Immediately jumped TO spot
where the middle aisle meets the foot
ughts
One cannot hold the centre OF the
stage and simultaneously move away
from It, but on the other hand George
Michael was a wriggler at infancy and
never got over II. And to solve the
problem OF holding the spotlight but
still keep going he began TO dance
wildly in perpendicular fashion-and
he has been moving ever since.
II Herr Johann Lavater hadn't lived
moro than a century before George M.
was born the old German poet doubt
tess would have changed two nouns
Of his famous homily in young Mr..
Cohan's honor. so that II would run.
SWho makes quick use OF movement
n q genius OF producers" Also, to
jump forward century, II the adver-
Using writer who makes slogans for
the telephone company were an en-
ployee of the publicity department Of
the momentous house of Cohan a
harris his well known catchline would
have read. THE railroad Is quick, the
telephone Is quicker. but the george
mcohan Is instantaneous"
Speed and George NJ. were born
at about the same moment AMI
grew up together. and little George
was wise enough to breathe In the
speed atmosphere Of new day until
q was a part OF his being. Express
trains began to streak across the con-
tifent about the time of his birth.
When he was n little hoy the trolley
car was beginning to bump the horse
ear aside. even In Providence. r. l..
where he was born.
Speed. speed-and More speedi
He arrived at the age OF reason at
The same moment that devil wagon
drivers were donning goggles and