This is Berlin, Irving, "The Popular Song," song text, In printed program for "Beefsteak Dinner, by The United Song Writers of America" Clipping about the dinner laid in. It dated back in 1916 and resides in the Edmond Wilson Papers. Edmund Wilson (1895-1972), American literary critic; author of literary criticism, social criticism, history, autobiography, novels, plays, and poetry; editor and writer, Vanity Fair, The New Republic, and The New Yorker. Wilson was closely associated with major literary figures including F. Scott Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, John Dos Passos, Mary McCarthy, and Vladimir Nabokov. He was married to writer Mary McCarthy, actress Mary Blair, Margaret Canby, and Elena Mumm Thornton, who edited a collection of his correspondence. To see more from Wilson, check out the Edmund Wilson Papers on the Beinecke digital library! Link in bio! Call Number: YCAL MSS 187