—
box 39/3
180
Nas u notell doetor. He began writ¬
hang in.
ing shen Die Was 101
Mis father, too, had written for the
frals seettheatre. The first. work of his to bo
ng spiltfnetel ehme abont by aceldent. He
Berlinggns twentgeeinht und was practising
medleine. The director of onc of the
AS für
theatres sonichow got hold of the play
posstble
und mistook it for the work of his
vountry
füther. He found enough merit in 71
In the
to enconrage the poung doctor, and
8e der.
then followed another und another.
Prepara¬
As his reputation grew he gave less
leinnity Tand less time to the detunl practice
ien will
of medieine, and to-day he does not
Thls re¬
practise at all. Unless, as he told us,
an ad
some one comes to him“with a pain,
or par¬
and he will not treat that patient if
States,
he can avold it.
problem
We found him in exactly the sort
he final
of home we expected to find him. His
Uropean
study 1
highly pollshed room.
1 as 18
Everything in it is pollshed, not only
uropean
of polish, but literally polished.
Everything in it is exqulslte. The
furniture, the china, the hangings ere
all those of a collector, but there 19
little that is old in the room. This
qualitg of polish strikes you at once,
1 and you feel it not only in the study,
Thut in the salon and even in his
garden. The telephone is so arranged
that when you enter he disconnects it
and sends it out of the room. We
Chops.
thousht of Al. Woods.
Avid
And then he stands at a high desk,
entllated1 much like the old English bookkeep¬
33.cent. fer’s desk. On this he writes. There 1n
on theno high stoci. He is about five feet.
six inches tall, and the desk is about
as high. As he talks—in English, by
shey go,
the bye—ho rests his head on bis
buly one
hand. Picture If you can a man about
10 An
sixty. Do you recall that well-known
sing willpainting of the doctor at the bedside
hat the
of a child? He might-a few yeare
ago-have posed for that flgure. Few
rate 18
faces have in them the tranquillity
0,000,000
that is in the face of Schnitzler, but
few tranquil faces seem as shrewd.
e many
Shrewd but pleasant. As he talks yon
10 CA
begin to understand the mentk. qual¬
out the
Ity, rhe turning over of the min 1, an
en they
it were, of all his plays. Von feel chat
hanthe
he is rather more incisive than broad,
gen rals¬
more of a scientist than a human¬
pere are
precise. More like
Itarlan. He is ver
arketed
atcacherthan, say, Molnar. Romance,
stion on
agein, rather of mind than of heart.
Ve wool
There is littlo likellhood of his comn¬
lery olle
ing to America. He is eager to come,
HoWn As
but Lthe money is too much now, and
Col. the
the journen is too long.“ He 1s much
mb and
Interested in America, and he ha
he de¬
heard fron. time to time of the growth
on Wool.
movement
the little theatre
duty
throughout the country. When w
any
told nim that his plays were being
more and more produced in these
theatres he hesitated as if he didn't
mutton
like to ask the question. And then
sat least
I wonder why It is I am hot
asked.
paid?“ Whereupen he showed us a
record of the productions of his plays
icrensed
in America and of how little he re¬
Insumer
celved. This record in its entirety he
stra cost
Is later to gend#us, when we shall ask
hen able
the Authors’ League to Investigate 1t.
1e ment,
Some of the facts aro startling.
0 rosse
Even more startling than whnt
ralsed.
mericans
has been done b
pound,
the Hungarian authors. This record
at least
dates back many years. He re¬
what I
celved tle agreed price for the fllm
chat 33-
richts of Anatol.“ A price abent ene¬
many
therebp #fifth of what is pald for ang Brees.
way success. Ha seemed satisfled
ateven
with that pavment until we told„
KSoN of some of the prices that had been
pald for pieture rights of plays in
America. We aaked him what he
thought of the pleture and he sald,
ay.
There does not seem to be much of
Tthe Sth
Anatol’ in It except the titlc.“
pbertson
Out into his garden we went, and as
Ablished
we stood under a cherry tree, eating
alv One
cherries, he turned and usked.Why
ithe im¬
aro von so distralt?“ We looked at
thecherry tree and thought of another
the oid
cherry troe, but we lied. We did not
vhy one
tell him that we were distralt because
portion
we werethinking here was a pilgrim
st place
who had come tothe home of a
h
master and had been told by the
to refer
In ques Tmaster that the land from which he
had come had robbed (it comes to
has de¬
that) the master. We think we sald
tted the
something about anthors in Ameriea
ght, birt
not having gardens, and how they
theory
wrote,apartment house plays because
Wus
tney Iived in apartment houses. And
ne Sab¬
his looh seemed to say that it wan
ronthe
someth#ng else of which we were
* Trom
thinking. He gave un some flowern
n day
Hatthe
and sald. Come to see me agaln.
sthe day
Wenant to goagain and we hopé the
Ixtcenth
Anthors' League will holp us to be
# twen¬
welcomed.
Sclusive.
(Copyrignt. 1912, ly S. Jer Kaufmen.)
ha Chil¬
inmand¬
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Oses
nth.
Always the well digger gets in his
n other
box 39/3
180
Nas u notell doetor. He began writ¬
hang in.
ing shen Die Was 101
Mis father, too, had written for the
frals seettheatre. The first. work of his to bo
ng spiltfnetel ehme abont by aceldent. He
Berlinggns twentgeeinht und was practising
medleine. The director of onc of the
AS für
theatres sonichow got hold of the play
posstble
und mistook it for the work of his
vountry
füther. He found enough merit in 71
In the
to enconrage the poung doctor, and
8e der.
then followed another und another.
Prepara¬
As his reputation grew he gave less
leinnity Tand less time to the detunl practice
ien will
of medieine, and to-day he does not
Thls re¬
practise at all. Unless, as he told us,
an ad
some one comes to him“with a pain,
or par¬
and he will not treat that patient if
States,
he can avold it.
problem
We found him in exactly the sort
he final
of home we expected to find him. His
Uropean
study 1
highly pollshed room.
1 as 18
Everything in it is pollshed, not only
uropean
of polish, but literally polished.
Everything in it is exqulslte. The
furniture, the china, the hangings ere
all those of a collector, but there 19
little that is old in the room. This
qualitg of polish strikes you at once,
1 and you feel it not only in the study,
Thut in the salon and even in his
garden. The telephone is so arranged
that when you enter he disconnects it
and sends it out of the room. We
Chops.
thousht of Al. Woods.
Avid
And then he stands at a high desk,
entllated1 much like the old English bookkeep¬
33.cent. fer’s desk. On this he writes. There 1n
on theno high stoci. He is about five feet.
six inches tall, and the desk is about
as high. As he talks—in English, by
shey go,
the bye—ho rests his head on bis
buly one
hand. Picture If you can a man about
10 An
sixty. Do you recall that well-known
sing willpainting of the doctor at the bedside
hat the
of a child? He might-a few yeare
ago-have posed for that flgure. Few
rate 18
faces have in them the tranquillity
0,000,000
that is in the face of Schnitzler, but
few tranquil faces seem as shrewd.
e many
Shrewd but pleasant. As he talks yon
10 CA
begin to understand the mentk. qual¬
out the
Ity, rhe turning over of the min 1, an
en they
it were, of all his plays. Von feel chat
hanthe
he is rather more incisive than broad,
gen rals¬
more of a scientist than a human¬
pere are
precise. More like
Itarlan. He is ver
arketed
atcacherthan, say, Molnar. Romance,
stion on
agein, rather of mind than of heart.
Ve wool
There is littlo likellhood of his comn¬
lery olle
ing to America. He is eager to come,
HoWn As
but Lthe money is too much now, and
Col. the
the journen is too long.“ He 1s much
mb and
Interested in America, and he ha
he de¬
heard fron. time to time of the growth
on Wool.
movement
the little theatre
duty
throughout the country. When w
any
told nim that his plays were being
more and more produced in these
theatres he hesitated as if he didn't
mutton
like to ask the question. And then
sat least
I wonder why It is I am hot
asked.
paid?“ Whereupen he showed us a
record of the productions of his plays
icrensed
in America and of how little he re¬
Insumer
celved. This record in its entirety he
stra cost
Is later to gend#us, when we shall ask
hen able
the Authors’ League to Investigate 1t.
1e ment,
Some of the facts aro startling.
0 rosse
Even more startling than whnt
ralsed.
mericans
has been done b
pound,
the Hungarian authors. This record
at least
dates back many years. He re¬
what I
celved tle agreed price for the fllm
chat 33-
richts of Anatol.“ A price abent ene¬
many
therebp #fifth of what is pald for ang Brees.
way success. Ha seemed satisfled
ateven
with that pavment until we told„
KSoN of some of the prices that had been
pald for pieture rights of plays in
America. We aaked him what he
thought of the pleture and he sald,
ay.
There does not seem to be much of
Tthe Sth
Anatol’ in It except the titlc.“
pbertson
Out into his garden we went, and as
Ablished
we stood under a cherry tree, eating
alv One
cherries, he turned and usked.Why
ithe im¬
aro von so distralt?“ We looked at
thecherry tree and thought of another
the oid
cherry troe, but we lied. We did not
vhy one
tell him that we were distralt because
portion
we werethinking here was a pilgrim
st place
who had come tothe home of a
h
master and had been told by the
to refer
In ques Tmaster that the land from which he
had come had robbed (it comes to
has de¬
that) the master. We think we sald
tted the
something about anthors in Ameriea
ght, birt
not having gardens, and how they
theory
wrote,apartment house plays because
Wus
tney Iived in apartment houses. And
ne Sab¬
his looh seemed to say that it wan
ronthe
someth#ng else of which we were
* Trom
thinking. He gave un some flowern
n day
Hatthe
and sald. Come to see me agaln.
sthe day
Wenant to goagain and we hopé the
Ixtcenth
Anthors' League will holp us to be
# twen¬
welcomed.
Sclusive.
(Copyrignt. 1912, ly S. Jer Kaufmen.)
ha Chil¬
inmand¬
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
Oses
nth.
Always the well digger gets in his
n other