The evening world. Newspaper, July 10, 1912, Page 13

‘the Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, July 10, 1912 Copyright, 1912, by the Press Publishing Co, % (The New York World.) ~ L “THERE (S No REASON WHY A LIGHT SHOULD Ba LIT IN THERA. SER) OW “POP WALITS IN ND NOTHING HAPPENS: 1S MY LITTLE MAN AFRAID OF THE DARI. SURELY NOT ? | EDIE, THERE AND {Deep Water Doings 8 % (-aiRReh-) # w By G8. Bedell wv EVBaAWDBaovwe knowlejge that ignorance is ‘Diss makes @ happy woman un- happy.. Early birds, with Cold bottles'on the ide, bring early wrinkles, ‘No woman (s inaolvent @o jong as she can emtle cheerfully, ‘When there is the devil to pay, wom- an has to foot two-thirds of the bills, Tt wasn't Samson's Physical strength that angered Delflah, but his mental weakness, i, ! MA 4 SR LA We do not object so much to Kipling’s “rag and bone," but he might have given up one more “hank of hair." Remember that the man who tumbles from the pool of love over his depth into the: lake of metrimony, drags a woman in with him, — i * = The hand that rocks the cradle be- SS > hen longs to the happlest woman in the SGP? weep o? e Oe eg world. Se be QwL= ‘The old. woman who tries to act Itke f girl of sixteen looks as natural as a cow climbing @ tre ‘Dear me, the stage women used to be as modest as any others in my complained Aunt Martha, “But that was before so many society women went on the stage,” ex- ined her wise nephew, Baw 4 Mra. Red Mullet—Careful, childrent Don't venture through the @ into that bull-head’s field. He's or and he hates red! Mr. Hopper—Guess we got cheated, Mirandy, when we bought parrot fish. He aln’t spoke a word since we've had him “How I Write a Play” "Famous Diamatists Tell for the First Time ‘$2 The Methods by Which They Have Won Success oa Copgright, 1012, by The Preas Putttwhing Co, (The New York World), Sub-Manager—Why? Leading Man have four day gromh bon oi 5.—By A. E. Thomas. pcb anager Uiswel Well ‘ptt: ont ‘tac. f°! Author of “The Rainbow,” &c. he SKING a man how he writes a play recalls the fellow who was asked if he could play the violin, “I don’t know,” said he, “I never tried." One can never tell if he can write a play until he tries. And then he's not sure until ho tries {t on an audience, I take tt that every play of conse- bruncing baby on quence owes its birth and building to a foalish re on | fenci Good Stories Couldn’t Play Hamlet. BADING MAN I TRAVELLING” PANY—We play Hamlet to- Nadie? OTS of people in Montana have manners. But the manners aren't all alike. If you doubt ft, read this sign which is hung in onspicuous place in a Butte, Mont, restau- “What Chances?”’ ‘UPPOSD Mr. A. Mr, Montgomery, (y= Leading Maa—Ten I must borrow the ‘ehm of two ponce! LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! trons of this restaurant will please not fow butter and other things on the walls and » OF mix Ketchup, vinegar and ie it @ joke! WILL PAY FIVE DOLLARS REWARD information to convict any one guilty of @ach disorderly conduct! RE at al A Youthful Fan. HE minds of the young iilea are mos’ ip With the topic of the day~daseball, a heart-whole. What are the ohances for Mr..C.? ‘That ie the grob- as Mo tate ‘ an idea, That {dea may come to an Jem one or two tet- “ . ‘O-o%, Wigle wee petay: chanted" ha 5 s ‘ author from @ newspaper paragraph, @ tere have asked “Are you the man who sassed my wife?" mother, Momay'e” and days Utele darting! short story in @ magazine, a chance me fo solve, And am. What of ir" CR aS) eee, Moa al oe, . word dropped by an acquaintance, » in the neturé of Will you kindly tell me how you got up the courage to do it?” . other!’ said Tommy reproviugly, ‘Why, ‘ ‘ funny story told at a dinner table or a things the enewer personal expertence. A playwright 1 cannot be definite constantly on the lookout for ideas for plays, A good one 1s worth money to i him, That's his business, But it ts|tlent devotion will arouse in Mime B. a HE ive Ve was 4 ery good story that can be told|love deeper than her unrequited first ath He caked the umuat question whether Mule 4 ony an. told ratcuce eee fancy. Thane 1s the chance that Mr. there was any reason why the ordinance of ee mipate, It Pereer Granted that a given story appeals! A. will finally be accepted, but only aa baptism should not be adminintered, By tt fe i to a playwright as dramatic, his next ,@ consolation prize, And there te the and positive. There ts the chance that Mr. A.'a pa elder while baptizing converts at a re- pila h BES A vival meeting advanced with @ wiry! An Easy Vermont Mother. sharp-eyed old chap into the water, says T The Man in the } een | A Great Sammer Story of New York Pcie nla ated died Michael ‘ . By Wells Hastings (Copyright, 1011, by Dubte-Merrill Co,) looked as {f she was daring her to eay ~ ® word, I tell you I didn't Uke it at 4 See oe, RCEDING CHAPTERS. all, but here they were, and I showed } ee Rete of Gio aad" tyuumeree tat them up in their room. Pretty soon Sover hia hands, - Ho he consents, fore large in: the doctor came back, and I liked ; come, to marry Hon I things still less, Ho's an ugly one, fe ‘ the doctor, and you can word for tt y " “No,” T answered; “only once, vegue- Sn by a eunerions tna tive wees & tare ly, and tn the moonlight.” Doubting that their marriage was pertormel ty "You know then,” ald Mrs, OP, man, ty pan @ “that ho ls almost as tall as you are, with great, heavy, sloping shouldereand = * queer, broad, atumpy hands, Hie hair was black and not very thick and grew down low in the middle of hie fore i head, In what I think ta called @ wido u peak, and what with jong nose 1 her to der it and eyes too small and near to- fir. wether and that queer, mean, Httle baby ae mouth of his; T can tell you @ was CHAPTER X. sorry T hadn't slammed the door in (Continued,) his face.” Mrs. Lathrop’s mitts at lant was some picture of the “efter all she would not “How was he drensed?” I asked, quite have done that; if she “I don't exactly know,” sald. Mra. had een careful enough to Lathrop. “It remember that he did have welte to me, It did not seem 4 brown derby und that his clothes were probable that she would have Down too; amooth, T think, and with « loft @ sheot with a torn corner behing, RAtTow stripe. He wore a ring with » t i be fn a certain indication of what ohe had S0r',ee minted, Purple stone tm it. AM done, should her guarding dragon look monay, Still, J hated the wo ymore. through the room in the morning. Perhaps a woman always does gato a T eat down for a moment on the edge Woman more, when she's hating Bt all. ‘of the bed trying to imagine what she I thought she was fat at first, but sho would have done, Then I glanced over ee only heavy eevee ‘ang strong, 4 wi @ square, man) face and @ silly eee. Greplace; it was clean and ion Sr chorus-gitl hair, over 4t. Mrs. Lathrop was watching me with “NO one sald very much while they she wald, ehaking her Were eating thelr upper, The two of head; “no burnt paper. them had the girl between them, a Perhaps, I thought. the dragon dia fing t#ked across her, while #he saldnothing. the rest of the aliect; but if she had OnCe or twice t ctor raised hie abi ‘ done that, she would have mispected *¥ebrows at me, as if he meant me to the note itself, and would either have Understand something he didn’t'want to got it away from Nanoy or queationed #*¥ at the moment. He had caught me athrop about tt. It seemed more looking at the girl, poor dear, I’ suppose, rol then, as T thought it over, 4nd all the could think of was to make that Nancy had softly elld the sheet % mystery of it; for it was pretty plais from the drawer, and had drawn it that she was frightened and unhappy, under the bed clothes, where ahe might when she raised her han crumple ft to @ ball in silence, I got up and leaned oftt of the window; was not @ scrap of paper upon the iittle gether by a cord. So, when he came dawn, out into the kitchen to pay me, I asked “What are you looking for now?’ him about it axked Mra, Lathrop. “Perhaps I @hould have tela yeu “1 thought,” sald T, “that #he might about it, Mrs. Lathrop,’ he said, ‘but have crumpled up the rest of the sheet there are things that one does not and thrown it out of the window,’ of unless it !s absolutely necessary, (Mrs. Lathrop had been etanding, now young lady has run away from @ she wat down with a gasp. “Now, for torium, and her aurse and I are certain, you'l think I'm the biggest !n her back, st would have deem tdiot in the world,” whe said. ‘There !f some one of her family could hav. was @ little ball of paper on the lawn Come with us, but they ere all abroad this morning. I suppose I am a tidy St present.” soul, Mfr, Mason, for I aidn't think any- ‘Do you mean to say,’ I asked him, thing abott that paper at all, except ‘that that lovely iittle thing is out of that #t was on my lawn, and I put it— her mind? dear knows, I am afraid to tell you-tnto ‘Only eghtly, Mre Lathrop,’ he the atov told me; ‘we hope to have her wet fra ‘The Mttle Dirditke face was pink with year or #0, Absolute quiet and mod@- as % _—— if rH Vermont towns After a pause a tall, powerful-looking man| garined, with the ol fi “a k is to build up. He must firat| chance that Miss B, will come to regard he Hot pad Aa ae tovdrive the horse to town everyday and ‘wat determine what 1s to be the climax of as an unmitigated bore—particu- Pag ag gt t want to interfere in yer buss | jeered by his neighbors for ustng such @ miserable his play, the big scene, comic or strong, y if Mr, C, relents in time, poke ge Bada A eae ead bee ore at the ACE TPTOMA fas the caso may be. Then he must go| Poor Mr. A, you are in an wnoom- Se ce let coo Casini tare ine ance "a friend atae* . back to the very beginning and lead up| fortablo triangle! Common sense sug- fou due we eee to ft. He must clothe with flesh and blood the dry bones of his skeleton, He|kests an exit, but I am aware that in p water over nig! 14 him, must people his stage with a group of well contrasted characters, some pf.|n!no cases out of ten you will cling to ist enlist the sympathy of his prospective audiences, your forlorn chance. T know playwrights who proceed without any inethod ke this. They “write|No Young Man. sen ast. One day he comers, “Where's your hi asked, —_— “Sold him! How much did you gett” Got a hundn Who in tthinder 414 | whom 1 ' horse to for @ hundred dollar “Where are the modest, clinging girls of a generation ago” asked the omental bachelor. roll ad bila 1 sold ‘hina to wother themselves into 1t” ax they go along, subsequently rejecting what tm ineffective "4a, Two Mme: og am plat werSitting up for their husbands with rolling pins,” explained the benedict, day Breuning Post, eri. and preserving what seems good, But this ts a fashion both wasteful and Apert es ee pled Pa ee _ Ps troublesome, as well as elipshod, and I do not think it can be commended. It " ht Made a Diiference. seems to me that playmaking 1s @ good deal like architecture, Bullding @ play {attentions although I have graduated ISHING i9 more ¢ull_of mystery Twas Kit Inepeetion and the different companiee|!8 much Hike bullding @ house, The first thing to do ts to supply a strong | 70 Be h a ant a considered good- F than a dime novel, For instance, I of the battalion were standing with thelr Xils| foundation, Upon'th!s 1s superlmposed your structure, and last of all comes |" Lae on a 4 i hero are a few questions about on the ground in front of them, ‘The seracant- | ene decorations, meaning the dialogue. ying. You are barely out major was makiug the examina eagle eye detactal the absence of of Private Finn, and he de ft that the sisest of childhood, fisherman on earth cannot answer: When two men, using the same sort of balt, tackle, &c., fish in just the ame way, afde by side, from same boat, why will one of them sometimes make a good catch while the other catches nothing? Why will a certain ‘bait prove Irresistible to the fish one day and be scorned by them on another day that 1s just lke the first? Why do fish seem ravenously hungry one minute and Me sulkily and motionless on the bottom the next minute? Why will there be hundreds of one sort of fish in @ certain locality one day and why will they all be replaced by a to- tally different kind of fish the next day? There are @ hundred other unan- awerabdle fish questions, But most un- One thing seems inevitable to me. No man can write a really good, ver- led what excuse aefous play without meditation. He must kuow his characters, How can he| wy mie make them seem real to others unless they are real to himaclf, thelr creator? |}, harming young indy, and 1. have sir "Why the | But slavery to a scenarto 18 to me incomprehensible, ‘This may serve 80M | made known my feelings to her, al- me for my kit} writers, In fact it does—Paul Hervieu, the French dramatist, among othe ip aemeanl “°'| But I should as Hef go to Jail and be done with it, I have repeatedly, when }1y q proposal necessary’ talking with managers or stars regarding an {dea for a play, been asked to| Certainly, {f you wish to marry the submit a written scenario, But I have never done #o and I never expect to A written scenario would deprive me of all joy in the work. My characters whole company griaued,— would move Ike marionettes and talk like phonographs, Iam sure. Every now] “J. a1." “A young woman with ——_—_-—- and then too I read or hear of some playwright who works with cardboard|whom I'm very much In love ts angry niking or paper dolla, by means of avhich he reinforces his | because L spoke to her without being Honesty Itself. © prog # with his work at's a thing I cun't understand perly Introduced, What shall I do?’ A nate" to me that a playwright who has no more imagination than that ought| ‘The obvious thing 1s to secure an in- pousg. ep iuumain tron of to be In some other business, Before I actualy begin to write a play my char- {troduction and then apologize, the Biaie. ‘fhe Louisville man was favorably 40° | acters are so real to me that T know what they look like, what thelr voices | _,, a Pre ee Ce eet trol th sound like, what sort of clothes they wear, where they stand or ait as they se a gst Ks an cere ne abeyance util he could persgnally ook 1. say or do what I make them fay or do, Paper dolls and cardboard scenery! | Wek and bagagad te & wit redenta, which he could Why, you might as well tmagine that Milton had to get a photograph of Luctter | Silden. Do you thinic our ineome gum. SB yy before he could write “Paradise Lost." lent to marry oF it was not long bef Not New York, | ‘ou hi ni opportunity was a” ..de4, The Louie! Many changes are made in rehearsals, but not, T belleve, as many as mont | | 0! 0 New Tork, {f you have no other The Mystery of Fishing. Cc." writes am tn love with though I have not form “Plane, sor, I wasli every day,” And the sergrant-major walkel on, while the ON tor I they are so easily caught by one man “Do you_know Bill Sarket’* i perforr ut on the road,” before coming into New York at all. In the] «yr 7. writes: “What ts a aultaole| while another and perhaps more expert “Shore, 1 know iatm,”* aed | case of nbow" LT worked steadily for two weeks, constantly changing litrenaay gift for a girl I have known fisherman, sitting close beside the lucky bind of @ young sian fe bef the third act, while the plece was being played every night of tts fortnight’®| ie ontne re fisher, won't get eo much as a bite? 14g be hows preparatory tour, And one scene was never played anywhere until the opening | powers are always appropriate, “Honest? Shore, Why, he's been arrested | performance in New York, isc three times for stealin', and ‘acquitted each time.’ ie oe ‘ow and then one has to sacrifice a scene or a ch sons, One such character was entirely eliminated from * eter for strange] 44, c,"* yuld women who A Million Wheels. >. SE an Woes. oe 4 Wh Ignorance Is Bliss. | °°" it was too good, This c ter, Intended to be merely in the buck>| | oc see remove thelr couts on hot! GS] 7% catimated that there are now / ally for high capacity cars and for ree) ere igno ISS.) ground of the main story, developed #o strongly In the acting that it was . a service on the reiiwaye of the| frigeretor cars, which are usually found | MRBAT gendral was taking a regiment into | uittmately decided that it ser y obscured and weakened the original theme, | "4 i wheels, or about 5 per cent, of ¢he| ders for freight cars from flve ratlways| veary joy nie to reall if avoid tay. Wheels. under freight and pas-jalone call for over forty thousand of |men paused to tear svn, The ‘ equipment,” saya the Railway] these wheels, so that the number in | finest man in the detall was a young.» Thi for it e was no 10 rer been under fire before, W the aneey ta, he opene’ re ++ poptied the general " in mi " ; oh in Wheels are now |Anterchango will soon be #0 large us| pm ullng dom the fone, he foosiod ts hat Seno the ‘Repiment,"wichout bate seme. tas | pi own that 7 You were the coolest wan], “8 7." writes: “lam very much It nerally for tenders, engine} to make charges for solid steel whi disturbed a nest of hornets, as he thouglt he beard teat he | wider fire I ever saw!" ove with a young lady. How shall I red and turned pale, find out if she cares for me?" © prominent jtem in freight car repair | them singing fiercely about his ears, But the} was te be promoted ‘The man gasped : lad was Bot, going to trom bormets when “Whati’ he exe! ed, regardiens of gr@nmar, i Jah intone, SOAS teri allen ehgets anarion | ak ben PESO | self-indignation, and I think hi - orn treatment work wonders, you polntment was only Jess t know, She imagines that she hae deen Well, it can't be helper married, and will probably ¢ell you @o least. we know now how the note was If wots the chance.’ written, and I can tell you I am glad of ‘Well, she wears a wedding ring,’ any news at all. What ts the first train said I. That made him scowl at me, I can get from here to New York or Mr. Ellsworth. It was pretty plain he Philadelphia? thought I was too inquisitive; dut I ‘There isn’t one tn either direction am not one that minds other people's for an hour anda half,” #aid Mrs, La- scowls much, and I guess he saw that throp, “and, nave both he was doing the wrong thing, &o, of us forgotten about dinner, finally, he told me that they let her —— ae wear It to keep her quiet, and I more th If delleved bec CHAPTER XI. Sotlcn't ik coaen ge dada whether she The Guests. Was married $r not. i “Then he went tn and whispered to 1 eo eich pica St at that nurse @ few minutes, and went out withor ing another word to call tt, my hostess told M® me, Pretty soon after that the ladies ll | everything that she could re- went upstairs to bed." Gira, Lathrop member, She was @ keen paused and elghed, and T, too, eat little woman and a sympathotlo one, and silent, impotently angry at the thought when I told her that Nancy and I had ef the night that Nancy must have been married but @ day or so, her indig- passed, and must pass again, for how nation, already very much excited, long I could not say. I looked up to iJ knew no bounds, She safd that about find Mrs. Lathrop staring at me In a» 10 o'clock on the e efore the red- t. wheeled haa up befors her gate, and that ® man describing at himself as Dr, Morrison had rung her know 1t2"" 1 asked. [ p chuckled. “Do you sworth, that all this time bell and asked If sho had lodgings for you have been eating dinner in your the night for two ladies, He himself, he gloves had explained, could only stay for sup- Why, so T have," I aatd, “but T am 1 per and would return for them in the quite through now, so the harm is morning. , “L didn't Ike him very much when I two days T had forgotten my htin, ers hands, and this sudden remit first saw tnly wh t inging back with ar a ned pain of my al Mr. Ellsworth, Ih s time a new thought and 1, Jate or not, IT = mingled with the bitter olf one two ladles away f «1 down at my gloved hands id very much have liked to before and remembered how strong they were, e wot through supper what a compensation, poor though Aw soon as he found f had @ room f unusual physteal power they jowed, and the reflection heart~ e went back to t red for a while, end 1 up to find Mra, Lathrop stare ‘Sho colored, upon mine. Elsworth,” 8! la into n rr on en 2 0: not unttl the doct go a Iittle easy, That his horse in the at t ating right % wood look at t her you or Jear, but it p 1 ¢ an was | ly), looked Yeas," sald isnt that what you yd und as if she had x thinking about? baa) have been been erying; and her etty dress was sitting there for the last five minutes torn at the neck, And ali the hil looking like battle, murder and sudden they stood there in the hail, the other desth.” woman kpps ® hand on her ang and _. (To Be Continued.) ae |