The mysterious Ash enjoys his place here as the first named and credited words & music man who collaborated with Justin Ringleben and Frederick W. Hager on the now little known song Sunbeam (1919) which was published by McCarthy & Fischer, New York. Internet searches have turned up further works which suggest that Paul Ash could have actually been the chief collaborator on that work. The foregoing is merely an "intelligent guess" and cannot presently (2008) be substantiated.