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Show FUN BROUGHT FAME. An KncMUtitcr ivltli it "Cop" Suggested 11 "lipular" S:iif;- It is a iny.stery to many how a "popular" "popu-lar" soil" becomes popula r. 1 1 .seen is-to is-to .spring out of the pavement or to sin"; on the Lack of the wind. A popular popu-lar sonjr is usually a genuine inspini-tion, inspini-tion, which often comes in a ipieer way. One r.i--ht last yearSlanley Wood, the dramatist and editor of the. Great Hi-vide, Hi-vide, hurried up to the po;.t. ollice in har.te to infti;re about, a letter. All the doors on l'arh row wrc closeil, and Mr. Wood was in .supreme disgust. ''Say, ofiieer." he exclaimed to a policeman po-liceman near by. "how on earth am I yoiinr to iret into the post ollice'.v, "Voir 11 find your mail in Heaven, younfr fidlow," feaid the cop. -'if you try to pet into the post otlkV by the Park row doors." The ollieer's reply seemed amusing to Mr. Wood, and il toolc in his mind the form of a, comic story in verso. Uut tliere seemtd to be a false note, and Mr. Wood turned his poem into a pathetic pa-thetic little story a ml some one wrote appropriate music. The sonr wa-i published, pub-lished, and one day Mr. Wood was ama.cd to find every Irmly around the theaters in Chicago whistliiifr hissoiifr. That is the story of how "Wait. Mr. Postman." happened to conic into existence ex-istence and become popular. |