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RF co PoP] WANTA SHOW THE FRELLAHS HOW WE PLAY ' WKETCHIN TIGEIPS. WILL You TBE THE TIGER ? WELL IVE SWORN OFF ON THAT BUSINESS A COUPLE OF TIMES BUT ILt TAME Just ONE MORE CHANCE ui O ]GoAs FAR AS You HE ANYTHING To BRBAIC TH2 MONOTO THis SIMPLE COUNTRY LIFE “Flow I Write a Play” Famous Dramatists Teil jor the First Time The Metieds by Which They ave Won Success Copyright, 1912. by The Press Publishifig Co, (The New York World), 9—By Rupert Hughes. Author of “Excuse Me,”’ Ete. E playwright is a professional wrestler who must stand reacy to meet I 11 comers—managers, stage managers, actors, critics. Sometimes the udiences refuse to be comers, but the critics always come. Long before that agonizing ordeal) the playwright must wrestle, Ilke | Jacob, with vague and invisible and | intangible beings whtch are still able | to get him on the hip. He gets from somewhere—some call it divine in- apiration, some call {t indigestion, some call Jt more or less unconscious theft—an i idea. This may be @ character or an incident, a situation or a plot, If the plot comes first, he must get charac- ters to carry {t; if the characters, he must get a plot for them, Usually they will not fit. Then comes the wrestle, Characters will not behave. You start with a simply glorious scene for your big curtain, You retire to the beginning to work up to it. By! the time you get to it It won't do atvall. You realize that it was a putrid idea anyway, and you had strangely overlooked the fact that it was used In the Ny Hindu comedy, “The Little Clay Cart’; also it is announced in this morn- ‘8 papor as the exact theme of Augustus Charles George’ play which was pro- duced in Buffalo last night and comes to New York next f Iam a great believer in sticking to the medium you are working in. When you are writing for the stage do not write for the reader's eyes but for the beholder's eyes. Do not compel the actor to describe his emotions, but enable him. to enact them in an actual physical environment. The stage, th 8° Feb) Chairs find clothes and tea cups and umbrellas, and real people with audible voices and visible gestures, is a glorious medium to work in. I alternately revel in and curse the physical obstacles and limitations. I love to juggle with properties. Property jokes are considered low by many eaypest writers, but they rarely fall in the theatre because they belong in the theatre. ,f write with pen and Ink and brute force, but have my secretary keep clase after with the typewriter. T never dictated anything except a vaude- vijie sketch, “Miss 318." I find the usual Hbrary index cards very conventent. One can fot down a single entrance, exit or incident on each, and then shift them and shuffle them as the work ¢avelops. I do not use a toy stage or mannikins, though I have always meant to get one for the next time, But; I work very closely from a stage diagram. In writing “Excuse Me,” before | L could make any progress I had to secure blue prints of actual Pullman cars and arrange the people in their seats, It was no small job, I spent days and nights over transcontinental timetables and changed trains a dozen times before I found a route that fitted the plot. My first idea for a play comes in some casual fashion, suggested by heaven knows what experience or encounter. It may come as an incident, or a character, or simply a vague desire to write something about a certain emotion. It rolls about in the back of my head, or ther accumulates a lot of other characters, ideas, incidents, itself on my attention and I take it up. It is a military maxim to select a point and march te ft, first selecting another point directly in front of it and marching on that. I try first to get it settled just what I am driving at and what the peak of my endeavor ts, Then I try to wallow round and back and fill, till the peak ts the high spot of my next-to-the-last act. Then I dawdle about for several days or weeks, making futile assaults, writing a few lines here, a scene there, and scrawling notes on the index catas, The selection of names for characters {s an exciting process. There are} few books that make more fascinating reading than a telephone book, I have never dared own a directory lest I should study nothing else. In selecting labels for characters I try to avoid Mterary names for the serious people abd burlesque names for the filppant. > Finally comes a spasm of work, a sort of hemorrhage of the fountain pen, and I write a good part of the day, nearly all night, at times working for six weeks or #o on five or six hours’ sleep a night. I smoke vast quantl- ties of cigars and fret and fume, and write and scratch out, and paste in and tear off, and call myself a genius, a congenital {diot, or a poor wretched miartyr, or a great unappreciated artist, or a low-browed child of g00d luck, ti], eventually, the play is all neatly typed, red@ruled and ready for the figst round. | he result seems to bear no relation to the amount of time and labor fmvotved. I worked off and on for six years on a play that lasted but two weeks; for twelve years on another that lasted three weeks; for about a fon a play that has had two seasons and a half, and about six or seven mths on “Excuse Me.” The story of this last play ts disgraceful. One night I sald to my wife, “7. belleve I will write a farce. I wonder what 1 could write It about? I wish I,aad @ predicament.” I looked over a portfolio of unfinished stories, found a°novelette I had begun years before, the whole story to be included in a transcontinental journey, changed the characters, added new ones and drew up @ brief scenario, which was accepted immediately by Mr. Savage. The first version of the play was written in ten days. Two later versions con- wisted mainly of additions. Rehearsals were conducted without a word of ceptroversy, the play was produced on Friday, the 18th of January, and ts still bowling along, It ts really scandalous how comfortable it was. In my case, et least, it has been an exception that proves a rule. Little ‘‘Don’ts” for Well Groomed Women. ITH ‘the increasing number of for a simple little dinner at a restaurant “bachelor girls’ and women|or even for an evening at the theatre. who earn thelr own Hving| A more expensive hat goes with this has come a simpler manner of |handsomer sult, either a large one with dressing in the evenings CU eerie s juries Siosaed | 5 . small hats made of} restaurants and theatres which is & Somat ate (a frat eeees tata ing favor steadily. occasions. Jt 48 growing more and more common] Certainly white gloves should be worn tq feel that the long trailing evening|and above all else dark shoes, either gowns and wraps are not appropriate| pumps or high boots, Tan shoes are wear for street cars and should only|only permissible for use in tho daytime, ba worn when the wearer is going by) Colored handkerchiefs ar carriage or tax! Jarticle that should not be seen after Most women make it a point to have/ darkness falls, Pure white onés, alone, twe tailor suits; one, very simple, for|look well in the evening, Also, veils m@rning and ordinary daily wear; the| should be discarded, even with a tailor o ‘more elaborate, that can be worn | mi . bouts, and gradually Eventually it forces chit ‘ov silk walet to match, vells is considered correct, \ ” G-o-o-d N-i-g-h-t! SH-H! Canr You Str STILL A MINUTE! How 00 You EXPECT ME To SWAT THESE PESKY FLIES, WHEN You KEEP SCARIN? 7EM AWAY! —THERES ONE SiT STi! ON. You NOW- Vincent’s Advice Say “I’m Sorry!’’ to i ak e make up a way quarrel is to say “I'm sorr: Personally, 1 don't believe lov- ers’ quarrels to be Necessary, If you care for a person, why sey or do things which are sure to wound? If) you wake up in a bad temper, work tt off Uf you must); on your friends and acquaintances, but don't allow yourself to make unhappy the one person who matters most. However, the best of resolutions go} to smash now and then. And if yout | have so far forgotten yourself as to quarrel with your sweetheart you can do your best to mend matters by mak- ing up as soon as possibl Don't be afraid to humble yourself; some of the wrong was certainly on your side, Say ‘I'm sorry,” and see how much brighter the world will be, fest “C. E." writes: “I am a young man arning $8 @ week. Would It be pos- sible for me to live on that sum tn New York without any help from my family?” Plenty of girls aro living here on $4) @ week. “W. M.” write: T am in love with @ girl, but six months ago we had a misunderstanding. Could you tell me of some way to make up?” The simplest plan would be to write her a note of apolog: Probably she will be ready to meet you half way, Yc ung Love. “C. T." writes: "T am @ young man of twenty, desperately in love with @ girl of neventeen. She will not take Te seriously, saying we are too young. I can never love any one else. How can T win 1 agree with the girl that you are both too young to bind yourselves irrevocably, Be good friends for another yeas or two and then ask her again. M, M." writes: “Is it customary for a girl to present her intended with a upon receiving her engagement ng? . No aift is necessary, r# “L, A." writes: “A young man paid sult; not even the thinnest of face} me attention .for three montha and I tion ng from him, Now I don't | accepted Go WAY You MUTT CANT You SEE JM AFEROCIOUS TIGER. TM LIABLE To BAT Y% Pere, NIX J SuPPOSAD T> TE? Cut THAT OUT ttf Copyright, 1012, ty The Prem Publishing Oo, ) (The New York World.) eC THERE! T misseo Him | dust -HOW Do You EXPECT ME To EXTERMINATE THESE GERM- BEARING PESTS. IF You KEEP, ON FIOGETIN’ AN’ FUSSIN? AN), OISTYURBIN ‘EM JUST AS J] GET A <--> GOOD CHANCE, The Japanese Girl Her Daily Lite, Amusements, Work and Ambitions By Mock Joya Copsright, 1912, by ‘The Press Publishing Co, (The New York World). No. 10.—DIVORCE IN JAPAN. LUTHOUGH the majority of the vorce his wife by his own will alone Japanese wives are happy,| Whenever the divorce ts contemplated, Japan has the distinction of the family of the wife ta always con- having the largest number of sulted as to the best way to straighten divorces in the world, After|the matter. And in such casos, the| Japan comes the United States in the/ “Middle Man” who is sclected at the! number of divorces, tlme of thelr wedding to solve any and However, the reason and cause for/all dimculites between them, is the men Aivorce ts entirely different in these two] Who has the entire matter in hts hand. countries. In Japan there is no divorce | Often thix man proves a mesenger of on the ground of cruelty oF non-sup-| pence; and by hia diplomatic tactics all port. Most cases of the Japanese di-|diMcuities are removed and the couple vorce are on account of disagreement |{s as happy as ever. But when he fails between husbands and wives or between|to adjust the matter, divorce is the the two famllles, step that 1s agreed upon by all con- ‘Tho family and not the individual {s| cerned. the standard in Japanese In order to| When the divorce is agreed upon, the kocep unstained the name and reputation | wife-takes her effects and returne to cf the family, individual comforts and} her parents or brother. In Jepanese di- Pecullarities are sacrificed. Wives must|vorce the Court has no hand at all, ! and the divorce ts only the annulment {of the marriage agreed upon by all cons corned, conform to the customs and manners of the house, and when it happens that they cannot an! when there !s no way of settling the natter, divorce is sug-| There !s no alimony In Japanese di- gested us the slo menas of solving the; Vvarce. The word “Alimony” has no problem. This inability on the part of corresponding Japanese word, and its the bride to conform to the customs ‘of meaning Is not known to the Japanese her new home is the main reason of; To the Japanese mind, alimony sounds most Japanese divorces. |too absurd to be true. In Japan, it is In Japan wives never Myvorce thelr’ understood that wives are divorced on husbands, It ls always the husbands account of thelr faults, and those who who divorce their wives. have faults enough to be divorced However, a Japanese husband can ai- should not receive any more consider. ation than the annulment of thelr mar+ riage, When a Japanese wife is di- vorced she returns to her parents and nee him any more, Should I send the) ring back?” |the divorce 1s recorded tn the official ainly. You shouldn't have ac-| books of the city. That t# the end of since YOU the matter and there ts nothing else to cepted it in the first place, were not formally engaged. 46 on elther aide ‘There {8 go such thing as legal “sep: Sration” in Japan, and there ta no rece| ord of gny Japanese Court granting | {such a separation, When the couple! jWante to be separated they are di- |Vorced. And divorce is a personal af- fair in Japan, Court and public has nothing to nay about It. | ‘The divorced women have very little chance of marrying again, although widows have as many chances of marrying as have American widows. The Japanese think that a women who! could not conform to the pecullarities of one family and make her married life happy, can nover be accustomed to those of another family and able to be 4 good wife to anybody. By the Japanese custom, remain with the husbands when the wives ara divorced unless the husband “H, D." writes me the proper way to introduce each ‘other when you are engaged?” "Phe usual appellation for the young man is “lance” and for the young woman “flaneee.” Both words are pro- nounced the same way, Fictleness. “B. D." writes; “What ts your opin- fon of & young man who pays a good deal of attention to @ girl and then ig- nores her suddenly, without giving a reason?” Uniess the girl hae offended him in some way, he is just plain changeable— and discourteou “T. M." writes: “IL love a girl very but she docan't care for me, #hall T do? Keep on paying her friendly atten: to keep them. And often and | the mothers are not alowed £0 see their | she w lentiare t Uvorced, | G-0-O-D N-I-G-H'T al! children be AW FOR THe LOVE oF WHAT AM 3% By Ferd G. Long THERE \T Goes! IF You'D ONLY SIT 6TiuL I Courd GET HIM EASY. C a Oe Good Stories The Weak Boom. EDILI, M'CORMICK was telling in Wash. Ineton “bout “ene of many boone, “That boom is es fedble,” he said, ‘as feetle 1 can only Mlustrete ite feebleness by ‘ot a story, drummer was waiting et Nola Chucky for the @outhern Cangon Ball Limited, The treia Cramied in at lest, nine hours late—« ragehackle, fashioned ee an olds high-wheet bicycle, “The drummer’ got aboard. There seemed be only one other passenger. The locomotive hoot tne bell clanged, the wheels mpun rourd and hissed, but the train failed to move, ‘Then there werd more more putfe a hisses, and still the train didn't budge, inally, after a third vain effort, the engineer got dow and sbouted to the passengers. whose heads stack ‘Anajously out of thelr respective windows: ‘fay, 1 have to ask you two gepta to climb off WUT get started!’ "--Weshington Star, A —>—_—- Where He Wanted Him. KC AN 1 talk to you a few minutes?” eahed the life insurance agent, eccording to TeeBite, replied the superintendent of the “if you don't mind walking about the ch me, 1 haven't really the time te II right” enid the agent, “I'd rather more around a little anyhow,” ‘The superintendent led the way out of the pattern room, Uence Inte the woodworkers’ 4e partinent, stopping every woment or two converse ‘with some operative, and took hia call at lect inlo the room where the huge hammers were filling te air with their unearthly din, New," "1 qm ready to listen to — A Tragic Recitation. EY say « notable French actress ooession. iy Wee to play @ tle Joke om ber pnb Hiv, mays the Kanase City Journal, She wat abead, T to London recea:ly and had an auxtience in tears, A large, wide Tnalishman was weeping coplmsly Sit, "sou sewin tH0 Ved," ay hin ide, remarked a Freachman impressive she in! I cannot under. ty 1 can underwtand the tra Freachmas, “yom bee el ee alien Tee nau tylieation table," aes No rick at All. Us before the boat left on ite retum trip came straggling down the met” but 1 loose hime,!* 1 weil you," pemniated the “Buty “Vell T hat on “You must bere it Gatakeepge; “rou coulde't lose at." ‘Vat!’ goutel the band man, “I coulda’ loose dat Iittle tecker? Mein Gott! 1 baf loose wy base drumi"—Hucoms Magasion, tt Be What's the Use. EORGE ADE, Oliver Hertford and several others were once swapping stories, haviag for their baste the inability of ue Briton 0 understand an American Joke, The pany Yaugbed tearuly mt several of the tales, whens Drammide who chance! to be present ‘this perfectly obvious rman G Well, you can ap Engiisi:man,’* OM courts yout Ade, “vat It Ivewn't de ary 6 vine he said, yelling into the ear of the| DING THA DINGD DING IF YA EVER MENTION The Man in the By Wells (Copyright, 1011, by Bobbe-Merrill Co.) SYNOPSIS OF PRECKDING CHAPTERS, Masog Ellews th, et work because cover his bani come to marry ant ye dan at aa n Janey & prisoner, ‘and Nanci £2,008 Peanwivente aren, they fall een. wily in love with each other i other 7 faee whe martial tite be We mvng Ui tiicon? tatty sanhegeed anal meets an econ jeman armed Getty wham “te Tella Mevetsen Celt tes i ie visage eroticy ‘ct feaeing SyAette ed's CHAPTER XVII. (Coat tiued), The Sirtews of War. STARED at hing enigte doubta as to ‘his strongly reawakened, “Now,” Mr. iby sald more quietly, “what has | deen your own experience of him? Should you say ho was a man to be trusted or a man to be treated care- lessly? You may have found some measure of happiness through him, but do you think he did what he did for either your happiness or that of his lece?* “you are quite right; sleeve. hould fen e devil, found you, Mr. Ellaworth, very glad indeed. Between ‘Us, Perhaps, we can put the devil in chains, I think you are almost stronger than even Dr. Morrison. “I wish I could take you with me, Mr. Ogiby," I said; “I find you @ healthy stimulan’ Mr, Oxibby sighed, “I wish so too, but that is Impossible, I cannot do much but look down from my window at life and occasionally shout encouragement, | May I ask what it ts that you purpose to do first?” “Well,” I replied, “first 1 shall go back to my hotel to eee if, by jehance, there is a letter from Nancy, and then perhaps tho best thing to do would be to go to some good private detective bureau. 1 do not know why that did not occur to me in the frat Mr, Usiiby’s hand clutched my he sal “Youth and strength, place, but detective, in som meant to me police, and police mean publicity, 1 have been very anxious, Jf powstdle, to keep this mat- ter private.” “Quite right,” sald Mr. Ogilby. “But naturally @ private detective an entirely different thing, and now with my pooket full of money I can af- ford one.” “Well,” said Mr, Ogilby, ‘you mut let me hear from you every day. No, do | not make a note of my address. It will ough for you to remember ‘t and things committeed to paper so often come into other hand “1 know that well enough,” I said rue- fully. Bxactly, exactly, It would even be Ibetter, Mr. Ellsworth, {f you left the jenvelope blank, and only addressed \t |the moment before slipping your lester Hinto the box.’* He opened the door and escorted me hinself to the head of the stairs, When I reached the dorkness of the next land- to see him atill stand. after me. I said, “and thank “Goodby, ) "Goodby and God be with you, ‘Mr, Ogilby. I clattered heediessly down the nause- ous, dangerous stairs, keeping well to said the wall, to be sure, but quite unminds ful of thelr treacherous gloom; for now 1 had a definite plan and all the money I was likely to need, and the brave words of the little, old gentleman on the |top floor were still echoing like 4 busie in my eare, I set my face west and jhaif running, halt walking, found my | way back to my hotel. “Good luck? asked my friend, the hotel clerk. | [ aaid, drawing out my money. “1 want to pay my bill and have you put half of this tn the safe, Put in tt jan envelope under your own name, #0 | that, sf need be, you can telegraph It to me." | *Goinge away?’ he esked, as un- startled if my sudden wealth were the most thing in the world. “rm not sul I sald, “and for the present 1 am going to my room, Has any mail come for m The clerk shook his head. I hardly expected any, and turned away to ‘search the red telephone book for @ list of detective agencies, I found sev- eral, and, with the old gentleman's ad- vice still in my mind, committed te memory the addresses of four or five whie'l atrock ny fancy, T thought ¥ would make the rounds unt I found ip ee RON HR Brown Derby of Great Summer Story of New York Hastings ‘ some man I personally liked, who seemed honest, intelligent and experi- enced enough to work with me and for me. But before going out again 14 stopped at the desk and repeated the mea which I had chosen to the clerk. ‘Do you know anything about any of these people?" T ’ “IL guess they’ , h,”* said the clerk, terloua Slater, or are you out fer? nge?" Uttle of both,” T d@newered, “or * even a little of either.” i “Well,” said the clerk, “that’s the way to do it, providing of course that you % get a good Sherlock. These sleuthe ere like everybody ol them straight, some of them crooked, t Don't be afraid to cross-examine theft. By the way, the mati's just come in. { Shan I run over it for you, or are yeu in too much of a hurry?” a “No,” T ald, “I'll wait, but there ten't.¢ Much chance that you'll find any . In apite of my doubt I found oe waiting very impatiently, Here you are,’ the clerk anid; “ie. ! @ny une to yout” and he tossed @ Jeti onto the counter. Ll ‘The envelope was an thumb-marked and dirty, on a8 been addressed at Marbury, and readdreseca trom ture in @ scrawl of purple ink. Ae carefully my exe!tement would permit, I tore it | and a out the Mttle aut) et It cont eaid tre clerk; “what ts ‘8 all right,” f replied; “: ' { § sy ¥ , right." For down at the bottom Soest, anusaas into the leet bit space, was @ name looked for, set before another wich | t ; the tears stinging into my eyee with the’ surprise [ett of it with an un- bounded thankagiving for their mystic and magical coupling: for ¥ read sires ly, "Nancy Blleworth ; wae CHAPTER XVIH. 1 Hear News. SLIPPED the note back tate ite envelope and into the aide Pocket of my coat, where I» kept. my hand upon it eg if {t were some sentient, prec- fous thing that might escape me un. ? aware, I was wild to read it, but ime Patient, too, to be alone with this firat signed letter from Nancy; to be out of public observation—away even > from the friendly eyes of the clerk. 1 did not wait for the elevator, but * Tan Up thred Mghts of stairs 204 locked and bolted the door of my room be- hind me. n there I searched the Place, pee: Into clossts and beneat ed the bed, as some timorous old ] might have done, to mako the certainty ot my privacy doubly sure, Then sgain | i deen the letter out. It was written ‘ery minutely and dn pencil, ao ti had to hold it to the light: go “Mason, Di : . the first place I am well; hurry, for Tam afraid. As I ruts et Mra, Luthrop’s—and surely that good: woman has somehow got you my mote —they took me, pretending I was in- sane, They still outwardly keep that pretense up, and in private he je erwal } enough to boast of it ta me. I am in a little private retreat in Winterd but Ido not think that, aside from or two show patien more insane than I know that such a pl There ure men, wome dren, all of them prisoners. le still calls himself ‘Dr. Morrte and seems very sure of himself. He has told me, of course, that our marriage was a farce and that I emt to marry him or stay here all) my life. I hate and fear him even more than I used to; but I have Jet Blin think that he could frighten me {nto marrying him. He bas always wanted me to marry him, you know, This L am giving to one of the maids, who ” loves me for some reason, and whom * T think L can trust. But hurry, dear + love, und come for me, for I love you - and am afraid, Be very caret = by ite very nature, this place . the most careful guard. You arb'ta q all my thoughts and prayers, > ‘NANCY ELLSWORTH” T read and reread the note until F had 1t by heart, and then carefully I Durmed \t; for I was no longer so confideng of the security of as pockets, The name Winford I knew well, or at © least the name of the town which J am * here calling Winford. It was, I bellewed, little more than a village. I could reach it In less than a day, so thet, altheugh @ perverse fate stil! held the name of the man in the brown would not be many hou it trom him himself, Nancy, thought that I already knew it, was that Mrs. Lathrop had given me her | note, the note which may have ended, with his name, eA t was 4 name evidently #0 end go distasteful, that the cautden it had not occurred to th we made things ater knew sap