The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1921-01-19

wo5$t enemy doesn't wish that on him
for a century toscame an epitaph no
doubt viii adorn his tombstone read
ing He was friend and an inspira
ton to the struggling story writer.
And no man could wish for greater
tribute.
Mr.. Cohen is al this time spending
his .svacatsan season as guest at the
Breton Inn, at Ormond Beach. where
he swhiles away his period of rest
with se holes of golf. or struggle
with the willy finny trout. and for
gets the intricate situations IN which
he places Fiorian Slappey. the propri
etor of the Il viii Arise Burial Sc
ciey. and other characters which
he sliad made as familiar figures in
issseries of negro stories in the Sat
urday Evening Post as Harding, Bry-
an. or even Billy Sunday
One cannot come To know Mr.. Co
hen without receiving the Impression
of tense vitality which he puts into
every story which he writes. but one
may easily see where comic situations
arise, which he so cleverly weaves
in bis plots. as he is determined TO
entertain his readers believing that
such entertainment is q great and a
good thing and his readers agree with
him. to the number OF several mill
ions.
Mr.. Cohen has had one of the most
rapid climbs 10 success of any short
stony writer today Only - years OF
age. he has stood IN the favored class
of story writer's. to which only a few
attain fer the past i've or SIX years,
and even before that was known as
the most prolific story writer il
America.
Hs Ii. story. extending over a per
Tod sof 50 few years. carries with it
preionlii...te spiB 10 succeed. no
mat + how hasd on insistent editors
OF 4aagta les fought 10 discourage
hins, Tor hew much he was forced TO
pavsIsncle sam TOR postage on return
ed stories.
\ fey wears ago. when Cohen de
ci'.ei that he could write for publ
casfoa. he wrote ana submitted no
less sia;tn 13g stories before one was
accepted Bat that did not phase him,
when he knew that he had something
To lei. wh.eh he must have publish
ed Ashtn tbs I;5d story was accept
ea.-there was no stopping Cohen ON
his upward o.inb. lie wrote 80 many
stories that he feared publishers
wogssi turn them down because his
name appeared 20 much IN the maya
z.nes Of lesser standing so he took
u nsins nan d plumeS in order 10
GEE ever more stories. lie ground ont
three short stories a week. and took
On serial eyely two weeks, as sort
OF sree.eution- After period of this
most pro ie writing. he TUNED TO ma
tersai which he bel eyed would sell
10 the bigger magazines, and had
the knowledge necessary to know
what would MAKE hit. lie conceiy-
ed the Eegro stC,1eS. because he was
raised in Charleston and Eyed in Bin
nlinsham. and knew the southern ne.
gro. He told their story. Ills fame was
mad
the 4 scouragements to even a writer
of the reputation which Mn Cohen
bears. lie wrete a play. THE Crimson
Alihi" collahorating with George
Breadhurst. which was rejected Is
times before il went across. Ii has
been one of the biggest of stage sue
cesses. He wrote the "Scourge". a
road. and viii appear on Broadway in
the spring He wrote another play
which Edna Goodrich is starring in.
which is now on the Pacific coast,
which soon will be given New York
playgoers.
Recently he received 9 contract 10
write movies for one of the big com.
panies, who took him to California
and filmed four of his stories
But now he says he is back TO story
writing again and plans To devote the
next year. after he finishes his Va
cation here. strictly 10 story writing.
which he loves. The other work
movies. vaudeville sketches and the
Gke-haye been but a diversion.
Cohen WIS born in june 1891 al
Charleston. his father being a laWyer
of that city. After receiving his edu.
cation in tie public schools ami the
Porter Military Academy he spent a
year a. eva engineer with coal and
railr2aa company He then jumped Ia
rev spaper reporting. getting his start
in that Inc With the Birmingham
lessger decreasing his experience
With other papers in the south.
he s;ua FL Ian and prac,iced ii
charleston Tor Two years. with hi,
father. bus decided that good writel
was being wasted ia Tire interest o
law. - cammenced writing stories
With the result mentioned aboye-1S.
Stcsies rejected
Readers OF All Cohens stories II
he glad 20 know that he will continue
HIS series Of negro slofi,>. lie recent
y siSsed ,oatfa~t Tor SERIES o
eight comic stories. nor Of the color
81 eerietv. uth tAe cosmopolitan
NagaTue u commence IN The snring
Vie has other contracts our. which
rlesin a big ysar ahead Tor the popula,