The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1905, Page 8

A DISASTER WHICH I CANNOT HELP” SAMUEL L. CLEMENS INTERVIEWS THE MARK TWAIN, FOR THIS NEWSPAPER PORTRAIT ART, AND MARK REMARKS THAT HE WANTS TO FAMOUS HUMORIST, DISCOURSES ON BE PRETTY BY MARLEN FE. PEW (Copyright, 1905, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) NEW YORK, Nov Mark Twain in an even 70 years old anksgiving day, Maybe it would be more accurate to say years ee score and ten have éilvered the beautiful leonine head of ous American author and humo time hae brought a slight tremble to the busy hands, but remaine in the spark ling eyes, pure rose madder paints t while b nt spirits crisp thought, with clear and rapid expression, tell of health of body and mind This is Samuel Langhorne Clemens at 70. We to interview him, my friend Fireman, the artist, and I ¢ Fifth av, and N st. in the shade of Twatr Id-fashioned town house tted an assault. We would ag him and take away f { knowledge and information which would encompass the Tw version of all questions of the day at home and abroad In a small library we opened the attack. We all sat 4 to amoke. Twain ran up a white ounell of war He told that he be ved we were honest We might go on and talk for an hour, he answering our questions freely. But he ed us to go out and repeat accurately what’ he had sald. No human being could carry away another's thought as expressed In an hour's tatk and trans it exactly Let us be exact in all things and begin today, Let us experi ment with this interview just for fun. It would be original, anyway and he had long wanted to interview himself We capitulate unconditionally He put me to taking down words verbatim Fireman started his sketch. Mr. Clemens began his interview with Mark Twain CLEMEN’S INTERVIEW WITH MARK TWAIN There have been all kinds of in terviews except natural interviews that is to say, conversations which could occur naturally fn real life Necessarily an interview must be ‘one of two things, question and an swer, or monolog. Neither of these is quite what is wanted in an inter View. The question and answer Process belongs in the court, and the parties to it are a lawyer who wants to find out something. and the wit- Bess who often wishes to defeat the lawyers’ desire “Manifestly process could not Produce a valuable interv since Mt would lack its most interesting feature, the attempt to conceal what The interviewed person had been @ueetioned about. in the case of the Interviewed it ts no trouble to con Seeal, for the accused can decline to @Bswer when you put him fn an un- ‘comfortable place, and as there is Ro compulsion upon him the subject thas to b* changed. The result must always be @ colorless interview, for ‘the subject is changed at ew he Moment when it is about to become | interesting. | “But never mind about the forms ‘the real trouble about an interview fs that the matters touched apon are always suggested by the interviewer. and as he cannot know what ts of first interest in the prisoner's mind, | the is not likely, save by accident, te Suggest a tople that the prisoner ‘een talk about with any real warmth. “It is most unlikely that either You gentlemen with a week to pre pare in could guess the subject Which is not only oppermost in my geind this morning, but is occ “| is dag and solidly packing to the ex- ‘elusion of all other interests the whole spacious firmament of it.| ‘That subject will seem to you and to everybody else trivial whereas ta Me for just this day and train only It ts of first importance. It iw the) matter of portraits—portraits of me. “Many people think | am a happy man, but I am not; It is because my | potrtraits do me justice. I have a highiy organized and sensitive con Stitution and an educated taste in esthetics, and | cannot abide a por. “trait which is too particular, I am SAMUEL L. + ammeter aR IR AEE ON I AE ET TR ST [had not dono him any harm, and] sult is altog enting to the he was not a man who would say| spirit fan unkind thing about a gorilla] “The longing of my heart ts @ | wantonly. I went with him to in-| fairy portrait of myself: I w to |spect the ancestor, and examined) be p 1 want to eliminate facts Thim from several points of view,| and fill up the gap arm: | without being able to detect any j dlance Walt, sald & my with | > confid ° at ry ho em ie eeietea thy veront| BETWEEN ORE AND |and put it om the gorfila. The re [had i CLEMENS DICTATING TWAIN, record and authentic, I said ne| detect I refer to ‘Pet It fe ~ Thes Sarony, with still ris-| a fairy play. There isn't a thing f ling excitement and with joy added] it which could ever happen in reg) jto tt, sald he had found my great-| life That Je as tt should be grandfather in t person of the/ consi« beautiful, sweet gorilla and had recognized him at] fi wat infy once by his resemblance to me. and impossible from begin T was deeply burt, but @id not] end. It breaks all the rules of rep! ---MARK TWAIN FIREMAN’S SKETCH OF ALLY MARK TWAIN AT POR THIS NEWSPAr R ta and the re | life drama, but preserves ints the rules of fairyland I kuew Sar the gortila reveal this, meant no because offense, for thing more than @ passing resem ‘IT WAS THE DIFFERENCE sult was surprising. | saw that the gorilla, while not looking distinctly] An Irishman was seen coming ow like me, was exactly what my great-| of « dentist's office in the Alaska grandfather would jook Ike if | bad} yutiding with hie bh et = te one. Sarony photographed the| pis jaw and seemingly ta creature in that overcoat and spread | ag. Y. He was hailed by a f reat tend of his Pat, did you hear Hear me roar t are a dom liar, I t roar at all bat if that Mrs. Kelly's Anna hadn't been In there I'd a roared the roof} mut the ore? Mike, you , off, but she'd be a tellin’ me old | ‘ woman shure.” | i i\ “Git out wid your tooth p } 4 $ | Pat. 1 said did you hear about f+ jORE? Company i« show and | toll ye it is fine; it beats anything I ever saw Yis, Mike, and T have ~ bought | } } block of it meself. It is the only j way to make « dollar thee ye that ye can depend on to earn big profits, and we should help S« at. tle to have a mine we will be prow of.” rH —o—_—_ read Page @ consistentty | get rich. Others have. °** * Read Page 6 *** i you you'll Don't pay rent er os Ragley’s Corner BUY YOUR AN INTERVIEW WITH MARK} as I was made—this is a disaster ee ee Se: ae Which I cannot help and am in no|!®s the lecture Twain was “sweat-' the picture around the world. It way responsible for; but is there|!®6 blood” because Lansing didn't) has remained spread und the e ey fair reason why the artist|tumble to his humor and Row be-| world over e. It turns up every j Should notice that? | do him no|€®" to clap his hands, stamp bis! week in some newspaper some j harm, yet he always exercises this) feet and cheer. The audience fell in| where or other. It is not my favor j wanton and malicious frankness|!ine. At the hotel that night Row/ ite, but, to my exasperation, it ts | reminded Twain that he had sald: | everybody else's. Do you think you upon my portraits. “I should like to be drawn once, before | reach 70 again, as I should look if I bad been made right in Stead of carelessly Mr. Row, you saved me.” Dear Mr. Row “That alleged portrait has a pri “You must not expect me to be calm and collected w 1 am} talking upon the sut which has made my life a bitterrsss. 1 could be handsome if the n would only help, but he has er done this. “Even the camera has always entered with enthusiasm into this conspiracy to paint me as | am. There is one photograph which has Persecuted me for what may be fairly termed a lifetime. Sarony took that portrait and in all these years | see it in print oftener than any other It arrived once more Yesterday with this mark: ‘With this I anclose a picture of your self in the Detroit Journal. Of course it is a we ut, but I pre fume not a bad picture, in which You can see yourself as others sec you.’ “No doubt the presumption is right. That is just the fault I find| with it. 1 have explained that por trait @ great many times. It is such & distress to me when I see it . that The < nghetags g he pieture Sarony made of a I siways put down my work and|gorilia in Mark Twain's overcoat ey it. 1 have explained it tol which the author says has perse s Lansing gentleman in a dic cuted him for a lifetime. tated letter last night, and if you - would do me the kindness to print) vate history. Sarony was as much that letter, maybe I shan’t have to|of an enthusiast about wild animals explain again for a month as he was about photography; and Twain handed over a letter ad-| when Dr. Du Chaillu brought the dressed to Samuel H. Row, of Lan-| first gorilla to this country in 1819 fing. Mich., who in @ recent com-| he came to me in a fever of excite Mmunication recalled to the humorist; ment and asked me if my fat how “when you were young and|was of record and a tle, I sald handsome | had the pleasure of in-!he was. Then Sarony, without any troducing you to a Lansing audi- abatement of his excitement, asked @nce.” Mr. Row recalled that dur- me if my grandfather also was of could get it suppressed for me? I will pay the Hmit After this letter had been marked in evidence, Mark Twain went on Gifts | “This morning | have received another heart breaker in this line.|]’ Now WHILE THE STOCK 18 It comes from Webster, of the Chi COMPLETE and ba m re the cago Inter Ocean. If will ex amine that portrait (handing to me ® cartoon by Webster) and then eo wi ladl t aside llook at me you will yournelf. » now, on receipt of a » exact. This kind and then delive uracy, continued long enous when req can ruin a man who ts constructe let us she as I am. In that picture all the line o' med, imagination lw upon th *owders and Totlet wutler, all the facts ar ure Sets, T ot ished upon me butler | an vi ha: Box Italian; the Ita in that picture ° nd Bags, Puff i that is what I want oxes, Candie Webster's cartoon-letter, in whict s and the finest | as an exaggerated negro, was| I of Mirrors aver seen in this ked “Exhibit A and Twain Remember, we can save «1 his attention to the pletures|— from 15 TO 20 P ON CENT reman, which were then near YOUR PURCHASE. ompletion NO TROUBLE TO SHOW These portraits are absolutely! GOODS satisfactory. What I want is a handsome picture. These are not fonly good portraits, but they are also handsome. They are dignified They are intellectual. Let us dis seminate these let us make them popular, Let us use them to drive out arony’s —over-consclentious gorilla, These portraite are right because they are physically correct and at the same time they are ideal izations spiritually. 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