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Show 3ad Gobbler, but Good Playwright. Jacques Le Lorraln. whose tragedy "Don Quichotte," was produced In Paris a few nights ago and Is announced to be a great sucoess, has" had rather a picturesque career., A year or two ago M. le Lorrain, who previouscly had attracted at-tracted come attention by his literary efforts, distinguished himself by starting start-ing In business as a cobbler. Le LorraJn's father had been a cobbler, cob-bler, but tho eon tried his hand at this trade only because, though his writings writ-ings bad brought him some fame, they had not produced bread and butter regularly. reg-ularly. The writer's cobbler shop war. in the Rue du Snmmerard, and he advertised ad-vertised It widely In verses of his own i composition. Le Lorraln also wrote letters let-ters to the Paris newspapers in which he compared himself with Spinoza, who made spectolca for a living- whiio he laid tho foundations of his jrrcat philosophical philo-sophical workp. But'Le Lorraln proved to be a bed cobbler If a srood poet, and the things he did to the shoes speedily dro.e v'..y such cunfor.-j'-ru us his verses, attracted. So Le Lor am decided to ' aliek to his )'ivt." He oiosed hU cobbler's shop asd bacame a schoolmaster, and Jt was while following Ui&t calling that be wrote thu drama which -has brought him fame. New York Press. |