The evening world. Newspaper, July 3, 1912, Page 9

__The Evening Wor Id Daily Magazine, Wednesday, July 3. 1912 ep eS oon ———_—__~: — WHY, MY DEAR peta dail Aw- Courd f YOUR WILLIE 18 | WELL OF OS ree OH CouLd 1 Mita GRAFT WE ASITING Too MUCH CERTAINLY | HAVE Your WILLIE OH CERTAINLY So ACCOMMODATING | DING. DING, DF Ase Your AH- wittig HAS WILL BR PLEASED If 1 SHoutD SEND Not Hewitt} RUN AND “POST 1 KNOW HE WiLL " ) euintit ‘fee Gone OFF ware pune ia Your wiktit To BE GLAD To ( THiS LETTER —— RUN DOWN TO L ~ Bu T LHAVE ENGAGED ‘a6 Tor ‘You \ THe BUTCHERS THE CORNER WITH | ] SRVBRAL AS513 TANTS eC IS lhl 30 THAT WE CAN | CONTINUE To ACCOMMODATE) “How I Write a Play” The Man in the 2 Famous Dramatists Tell for the First Time | c : 7 MY BRAN New Caco! W | ) The Methods by Which They Have Won Success } | hele bp F Ena oar Br O n € I by Payee peyate DRESS! GET Away pot eae A Great Summer Story of New Yoh Copyright, 1912, by The Press Publishing Oo. (The New York World), 3 ‘By W e 1 1 $ H a $ t i n s 4—By Margaret Mayo, desesesrenseoreses 4 Author of “Baby Mine,” &c. 09) + by the Bobbe merrill € any good reason, you'd 4 tell me.”" T have ever written two plays according to the same sys or en A tittle Urred at 1e corners e ame length of time, For instance, 1 must have ror ah of Nanoy's mout move upon the manuscript of “Polly, of the Circus,” several months inter- «rg Ag ba 4 No girl living, she said, “woud 4 Ie lintected in getting work dred in Consent to being married out of hant mer lke that. If you want to marry me, . you must walt for me," \ hie bende are bh Geld a tvert Kl fbr the feed 1 Tw a g of the va vening between the wri rious acts of the play. On the othe hand, T had all the rough and most of the important work on “Baby Mine’) done within three days and nights I started by making notes for the play the same morning tiat IT got t for It from @ newspaper ar’ my notes running into dial myself go. the time night cagne my frst act was practically compléte and| in the same shape In which it was ultl- | Gone! », I felt, that very af mately played. The other acts of the | e mn atgern, 5 BL te for our marriage play followed quickly, because I had| Him a bling aye license, Now that Nancy had been fortunate enough to hit upon an promised to marry me on the {dea that offered so many. posetbilities | . \ inane morrow, she was as anxious of complications and misunderstandings | HAMLET ( Pt Moll hed er finde ts Oe Ss tea about it as ,1 was, At first) we had 4 that all T had to do was to open my | i N AND y CRAWL . res She healtates im avowing’ hers, planned to drive in in the morning and mind and let the problem work itself out | come HERE. IN "THE House <Gtumme Ket tne License together, and then 6 without much effort on my pa®. \AHAT 00 You MEAN Z CHAPTER VII. autetly to the nearest minister, but € It has always been my theory that BY SCARIN? MY (Continued) was ignorant of such matters and afraid \ that it might be refused with the ink vearce dry upon it, It would be much ANCY'S alk got [nto an unex. safer, T thought, to leave @ Iittle margin, pected snarl, and ah and when 1 got my Hcense, find out tently about nghting dt. 1 w rehar 1 what would be required of 4 not sure that she bad heard Us mo. A little breeze whispered was reluctant, however, to leave y alone, feeling all of a city man's doubt of the safety of the country, and S heads, running In dizzy spirals al disturbed by the thoudht of that night big branch, stopping to peer at us prowler, whose hat had but yesterday with his yellow striped head held hesl- disappeared from our road tant ‘ I told Nancy so ng of my fears What have you ¢ "T repeated. and to my surprise she took then ‘an you find it in yo heart to marry quite seriously ancy 1 can go with you,” she suggested. my aurprive Nancy smiled at me, ‘A pretty long walk, I'm afraid,” £ What do you think?” she asked sald, “and you know you are still @ ttle “I think," To said, “that 1 t from the watk we took yesterday, 1 more than heaven, that [can give y aps though we coukl drive dn.” | such @ love ax only a starved man Go and try the neighbors," sat Gli se give, that somehow, In some way, with cy, “and if you can't get a eon A mp | God's help, Lan make you happy. But yoyance, perhaps you can get some ene t N. Y. Shops aaa 4 story takes care of itself and « 5 ’ z Lite sranied vs ee BAN a epitensry uta eata rte Malta a| | eS A\ Contestn: “tm one falis by the way, no matter how hard one tries nor how much skill or | ‘experience one may put Into the telling of It. Mr. Pinero, with all his knowledge | & of technique, has, as we know, often fatled to get @ox-office support because au- dlences have found his characters unpleasant or his story lacking in the pos- | “© sbbility of applying it to the lives of the majority of men and women, All this may seem to be a digression en Write a play, but as a matter of fact write ‘on any story fs to ask myself | coutvivute to my plot are Hkely to be amusing or to have any kind of charm | for the average merson in the audience. Uniess my plot can be worked out b from my Intended answer as to how Ty ve first thing I do before beginning to ther the majority of the characters that the blossoma: a sapsucker Mutt [from a nearby tree to the one over tpMimreeavle charactera T dl; rd it. If tt can be worked tin this wi I ask) f whether the situation with which T start will dd up," as We say in the vernacular, If 1 find that the situation which Inspires my story is t to admit of steady development I abandon my sche: Given a little Incident with possibilities of a ttle n Interest, the rankest amateur in playwriting ts apt to turn out something that will so ap Ito mans agers or other playwrights that somebody will take i: in hand and put it in reaentable shape for the stage, In other words, the {dea is the thing, and, hav- | ~ ing got hold of a good one, I work upon it as steadily as the conditions about |~ me will permtt, I have no system of and few convictions, | ,v, ay tell my story repeatedly to as mar will endure the persecu- | tion, I get ideas even from seeing my friends bored. Many of them make good | -*: suggestions which I am quick to use. Some of the best of these suggestions | »..come from persons who know nothing of the stage. It ix these persons who are usually most keenly alive to the Inconsistencies of character and the psy- anchology of action that we with theatrical training and Instinct are apt to| v overlook. | A Modest Request. I think my best guide, If T have a guide, i¢ an absoluie love for my audience, ws JE think too that Tam asking too much to come in and stay with me, There of you. I am 1 by your uncle's i, really a lot of work to be done about terms, which It may or may not the house, and I bave no right at all to right me to break, to stay here out i. taking uo. around. tha. eens of the way of the world, I have noth try. Vl go if you ean get somethi ing to offer you, nothing at all ‘To ade ah pe 4 The Japanese Girl Her Daily Lite, Amusements, Work and Ambitions By Mock Joya sy My experience as an actress has, of course, aided me in the writing of plays 1 a reputation for ical excellence : : ; ; to delve in, in spite of my consctence; A r Rg age tiered ty HE prosent strong vogue of white| Marry me wor me paps to bury | ay ‘ F. But in acting a role gou are apt to be misunderstood by an audience if you a By ler temo act a Chowviat, 188. by Fro Bowe Bultishing Cn, (tha Mew Yor Wor FE LL CHT Rene ecclate Cul Ssurakite Hire sini hia iosIs but if you can't L shalt be perfect'y happy, If only you can persuade some woman to come in and work with me for the rest of the day.” playing @ part that makes you seem a fool or dull or stupid, whereas in the| +) capacity of author if you are not entertaining in what you put before an audi- | depau ,, ence the fault Is entirely your own, and so you feel ready to take your medteine, | jy ‘1’ noted for his mellifluouw helt of white kid and a handbag | With things, to cramp your life In mai SichehAVAT ts aa | Ways, to exile yourself from all the cot |Mughter and little galetles of the world, social outcast. But su ppens, ag the #oclal posi- | t 1 7.— Social Duties of Japanese) +e \ welling ‘ian ever h mentioned Wives. itn) cut-out desig this State in a Little-visited section of the State ai ighborhood is more the flap of the and on the > ‘An audience «peaks to an author In unmistakable terms. I felt safe about | wh fopped overnight. ina log cabin. inhab- ‘ Inv her nelehbarhopa: le: mare. ims | myriad prectous trivialities that | lo the rounds of my nelghvors “Polly of the Circus” after the second act and absolutely sure of “Baby Mine’ | HT man. and wife. After. breakfast | (f Teapanaaayee ot eae portant to a aa me wile tian sola pay mae Baie ko ite fore woman Worth while, Yeu, Without very much success. ‘The horses i ay at, who had been ins wife is widely d ot iphs outside 0 ne stitching We “ - «ten minutes after the curtain was up. I love and remem an audi) always, han tana Ali | bi perie Bee jeer ret Tete ee cute i he ni _ big a he Have seon so Iittle of the Joy of things, Were ‘am Tam altting in au orchestra chair when writing a play, and this make f hat o Tn case of @ death or sickness ina \ Was ploughing to do, and 1 think their me want t said he would sn of things, and the happy, pean wife, ‘The social and try to be entertaining, I always think of the people who are watching the| lil t) make one slight roquest before the visitor | ’ “| family of the circle, all wives in the rah dey hlhabels tun of tines, that you toe Owners Ie with some suspicion on ) . play as happy; I see them with bright faces. ‘They are first in my mind, and 1 | pee eriiecriMprerrtarrrt GQuaintanne of See Careueer J | RMatuorhiond visit house and ex red ribvonm that are now 9 devel mteray rte are WO iny city clothes, ‘There was no telllig ‘athink of them as #0 many good friends, But I really had to jive Polly to “zee” | "he sald. itt crident anziety |aimited to Intimate friends of the fam-/ prens sympathy. And a birth ve wedi’ag | fashionable with white dresses, "th en Ee Ee te ange trem how such w man ax 1 would treat horse- «her. For one thing, I hoped to play the part, so I tried to write something I before leavin Harper's Mag Aly, and only the wives of high ofclais | ts aivo hulled with appropri! presents, Set ts very pretty and can ve had at T can't help loving you, loving ne oy bats bape beet «gould feel. 1 used to cry over Polly, But as for technique | have never £ and diplomats have large numbers of} An omission of such socal calle ta une | $1.00. vod aid waning sou . pd a od feving kereee ty + set form, In fact, I had never read a play/when I wrote my first one, H “Couldn't Ansv soctal sequaintances een | pardonab In cane the mistress ie Out) Tang silk wloves in, excellent quailty | She got slowly to her feet and ? thue wives eat ———---+ i: e Couldn't Answer. Phere are no bails, no card parties, of town or sli mora of thel have the two-tone, stitching and can|gragnily proud hetere ie tis: Thea te content aapesie mite .« as ; elwte at the White th Schon [20 tea Dartion and very few theatrs| family perform W lie had in tlness Wille and cresm atl eiuinee Givi ane aioe ne of the latter, @he was e larse ft = e : ® an suffrage amendment was under | Parties in Japan. Dancing Is not a) As a privil $1.00, At the sone briee there are the “ANT L repeate ray sant-faced woman of middle age, } « t V t "| soctal entertainment in Japan, and te /of the neighbors to help neatly emb ed along the aim| Yen," sald Nan Hele ea te, Behalble and axsertive, who would tne etty incent s mance ua ats |Supanene "women never play carda. lin any diiulty or Pe i you toned? Yousdo hot knee fee yintercgs taal fm fe Beery ot i veloers A attain | maying cards is only done by men and] woman in the district is alwaye more! paws yey : ich about women, Mason; nothe te mimeo ead witch fam aore (j } ce * in voting, She | women of low character and {9 @lways|than wiiling to do whatever she ¢ and eMly 40 ater at all about Bury me | was largely inspired by curiosity, « arose and cata pitylu women who play cards would never say | of the death of the heat of a family, |iiue wait aan and Joyous and pretty things that worn her new neighbors were like, | gna sper tke ta 8 porate eppemen}.” | publicly that they 0 90. the orher members of the bereaved fans! Blaze Ate have replaced sweaters| L : a me Bothing AY i, Meat was charmed with her, and with bec he scone Although many people think that tealiiy are often so sorvow-stricken that 4 i voted ‘ou think, can you truly think, tha heart I left them. together, Trouble-Maker. tnd one i nah ma Ua | dation ate m popular pantie of the| they. a ae ee nite the numer {A summer and are worn by chikdren| to” he here wich you would be ‘that? ready” engrossed in oUe new. alle’ and | AR young people, pleave, for your own sakes, turn j Japanese women, tea parties are not At artve on such an ce. | O8 Well as a lade canbe NO) ict now ObAE t neve Siame Je Ite Brushes i “D—D deat ears to the busybodie sepes—nellaperereereom known in ordinary Japanese families 40 canes nome of the! tw i IY te vens WHC the Wher all Lonetnee Gra. Ate ates awaie” mal RnR ae eae ; There are certain unenviable people who seem | Bill Was Useful. What the Japanese women have In the} Khborhood take charge! CUllese cole i sblasers| vhat are they worth? ‘These things do filles to's man On e6@h Om Oreand Ag 7 to take pleasure in making trouble for others, ‘They deal solemn tea ceremonies, and those cero-jof thy Whole matter and spend many | spell Mason, ft mine? It was unbellevably wonderful & eblefly in hints and rumors, “Don't say that I told ‘you, Head th 5 smth) peri monies are too solemn and serious to] days and nights at their friend's house. ath the lig the wer « that [, Mason sworth, should ever *°hut I heard" That is the favorite way of beginning shew felt of labor all | 6 @ means of entertainment Often an orphan of a nelgnbor ts hot ah “ be Koln on an errand at all, And suathelr poisoned confidences, | a Se Sener oe 1 The Japanese women visit theatres! cared for by all the wives of the netKh- | Tae A, poten ll ey i ih and unde te a mile oF e 3 went Benips oo, 98 “Any girl or young man who listens to these scandal 0 At much addicted | trequently, but theatres have not yet | borhood and they under no cirsumatances | IM @ suspen: f “ nding, the lmugiier and tare af seal going Jb ue Mae ee 4. MOongers Is exceedingly foolish and is likely to be made | new min vunced his’ intention | become places of gocial entertainment, | complain of the tark and burden, It ts Byary. Ray HA MbouitR CeRRaUITILy Gf (da Ob aueie dae? SUE aveead (TEE exceedingly unhappy. The seeds of distrust grow quickly | ewett a Hh He SHE OL) ae SRE ‘The social circle of the Japanese wives| their soclal duty and they are willing " ~ night th a hand to touch in the dark sun Was warm, lush fleld and meadow, when once planted, and though they may be rooted up later J parse one ot the SMe aia ont wena: [consists of neighbors, and their sociul|to de it iene ae cents ea to look into In the light, sodden with the overnight rain, smoked fon, the better way 1s not to give them a start. | lke wilite Deant, “but it would be a mig Jdutles are the expression of thor! ——_ ae Peet Las the things that make her with earthly smelt that brought to z “Il 14 ure 32) gon. Nothing to offer, Mason? Noman my city senses primal stirrings that erformance of for the place if old Bill was to quit dritk-| tetendly feeling and | friendly acts to their neighbors. In this yn strangers, f Things Not.. * .. ** ‘) Make !t a rule never to listen to {dle or malicious gos- Spesip about your friends, | nore,” thrilled through me lke wine; birds were stirring cheerfully in the he woman a out her hands with @ Litt hy, what do you mean, brother | a er asked co bors are : 5 . me to come again, Should she have ter the elder exg |COURU mele Matdd’ aealinba ‘cra. het: (AGO she finished and [caught rows and thickets, and from time to “A Question of Veracity. [iene so, or should 1 have asked her |y ne ler om lout in Japan neighbors are friends, aad | Canacally Kencw border ate Ti cents white | them In both my own, ull she awayed time f would come upon a brown rabble ‘2 eR, BH." writes; “A young man who| permission to. make another call he gets drank | these friends come next to relatives y i nmatiched towel with an eine | (2 me, hidtag her misty eyes againet sevtinel, ears slanted forward at attens ‘has told me he loved me asked me to] The latter procedure is the correct "sallow “prong {200 personal sriends In tha matter of = red ai arrdeiy ven. aeurried ‘off to. herald the. news a pan personal | ay 5 cents, | Mor Pawninsaa: and ana irried of{'to herald the news goo to an entertainment with him.] one. tater T met two friends and they said ao, © he had asked them first, but they} “F. J." writes: “Is it proper for 2 declined, Fle “denfes this, What shall) young lady to order beer while in a new Nanay, and, soovinn 2 4 (se road, “After all, it was reale Mee Up Ih mye meme Atl une {ty—solld, comfortable, healthy realty, and before I had halt way 1 wa striding the road like any soldier; to’ When a family moves to a new nelgh- By John L. Hobble. shad nd therefore | | i borhood, it is the first duty of the wife x - A Hunting Incident. {pri auce hernelt. to. ull famnilien. tn FAMILY trees foul hy grafting usu: | summer use. One 48 inches aa lips met m at las ford young man's company?” Afr Benen, eed out in # corde’ ithe neighborhood: bringing with her a| © aly t bs senne W " , And ie ne Under (he (ree tCecthen ond ’ehen and the world jax hetdre BRA om £'" You must decide which to belleve,| ‘The young man should do the orders picturesque iivapheraaiia, engaged a smali | Present of noodles te each house, This) P eas we Sane we had planned our lives to very eters WIMit wight 1 felt strongly ready. YiSour friends or the young man, and|ing, if it Is to be done, SOLAN OBA HM astcmlghad GAMk AKAMAI | eee eae Mee ins all an nct A! TOMOBLLES st RIA NeOlacms| com topte ; nity Lself, and Thad been weolded and | \Mthough Dovletana. vas. othe withen act accordingly Lamond jumiied Out frm behind © lof, tooked about, amd | People, and ev Le POOE RAL will, nde oing instruments of sudden death Hie berated and forgiven for my blindness (OUR Heo. ty Olerk iv, Wee me - “WL. writes: I paid attention to| dropped oter as if dead neglect this friendly act. ‘Phi or visit ax for anda and stupidity, and the bird had flown t beng mnt eee ad ms and — : t " on itt exclaimed the e e rh w oe sm ents ny on pack to us @ na hought as as 4 nforn op, 1" writes: ‘I have been pay+ja certain young girl for a year, but phen’ ore en med the} the house of the rich with th WAN WOMAN. © an eplaram, ‘s not , Laer Paeitehy ey AU ONLEN Sanunces Inoked: at eB ey d rene s i “\ng attention to a girl for three}my parents thought another girl more | Neniied the boy, ‘f. guces he must ‘have Present of noodles and the rich return id so long as sho is interesting} -"* A A Pre Vi Apes rin , : =a and Ww! ‘months, and though I love her she|sultable for me, What do you adyise| lasiel bimelf ty death." —vudze tho courtesy, They are on the same|eniugn to be quoted arket whieh . fort in me PA ale Bierce yi 7 y ethers no love for me, Do you think|me to do? oe jtanding in the social circle of the neigh | ee [bath while in a reclining poaition. | Tt mand adruptiy from my ahgaider and oUF Dediat beat I could and he bad “ihat I ehould lose any more time with] If you are of age choose for yourself, Good Night! | borhood, }P2VERY quarrel is a block tn ayer. tne ad of tho bathtub heraelf off arm's length. made te out our icense, leaned towar \ " . When a wife introduces herself to all f 4 » the well known racks Was not e twice chided me as one having gossip to impart and hor? i ae v i rundation of ne lawyer's | a 88 6 “ ©." writes: “I am in love with al 66 BE, how Fer tes it miles of the neighborhood, sh {tune ft any tub, It be | with eowar Tenn't see any gain,’ Wishing am F gas. Uilni you would Ge vary. foolish to) tbe mr ay Whe aan He said the win | was ey member of the social a % a Monge holler 4. |T said, “in waiting. If you are to marry — “Me, Ellsworth, . “a friend of , ‘epive up hope after so brief a courtship. | gir, Dut she is very changea Shall) living ‘ | La a - » 4d- line at all, Why shouldn't you marry yours was asking for you here only yea ; yl a I try to win her affections?” | killing time, Ww boiling © with all the responsibility and privi i ihe: san constructed of finely te aR OO ate y CW) gg MC: Ket writen: “Recently I paid a That must depend upon how deeply! siting an iis wore, ae we tous Ik out 8 te And any neglect to perform her share Yaar, there are, Dram ith cel ish and can Be | Se chic alt Mae tan Wty ppnmaenieeriaamelael poung lady © call, Ghe G4 not ask your own ere involved, | | ele! ational Mowthly, of duty to her welghbors will instantly of cuuiev, @ larger number of bovks, purchased at Oh aa: , What?’ dt asked. "df you have (To Be Continued.) Pane tiem ee PALIT aan - -- _- - - . 7 ‘ mt