Allow me to use Eddie Relkin's term of greeting. You know that this season Relkin has made me Picon'scious. Of course I got a rise out of "Oy is dus etc.," but the biggest thrill I received several weeks ago while visiting your theatre was when E.A.R. [Relkin] asked me, nay, rather pushed me up to the mezzanine to see what he termed -- "the greatest thing IN THE WORLD." You know what it was? A collection of your theatrical posters in many languages from various parts of the world, and in one corner I noticed the very first full-page newspaper ad, a drawing that I had made for your very first New York appearance as "Yankele." Was I thrilled?

That's why I said "Certainly!," when Dora Weissman, the irresistible, asked me to add my meager talents to help decorate this book in your honor, although it is printed by Mr. Harry Donenfeld, a bigger philanthropist than I am. You see, I have good company in the great Harry Hershfield who did such a splendid job on the cover. I merely did the montage that Dora termed "From Broome Street to the North Pole," and the other cuts of you and your family.

I hope you like them, and that I'll have the opportunity to do much more for you graphically in the many, many years that you will carry on to brighten our lives with your sparkling personality.