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Show IBSEN WILL WRITE NO MORE The Great Dramatist Is Living the Life of n Recluse .Times O'Donnell Henneit gives i Worm's account of Ibsen, the latest published: pub-lished: "Tin purpose of our visit " Mi Worm said. ' was lo sound fir Ibsen on the possibilities Of his undertaking n lecture tour of America under Mr. Tyler's direction, or of writing n play to be presented l.y one of the Llebhr stars. As to the first proposition I may sav ili '. though tho dramatist does not sp.iak EBngllah, we planned to ha- e h'ni SddKI I th. American public In fterman. md we felt he coul-i reach Inrge audiences ,,f students and tlerinan-Aitierlcans In thut tongue "But It required only a glance at the venerable vener-able man peering at us with watery syes from behind Ids heavy spectacles to assure' us that our plans could never be carried out. even Were Dr Ibsen willing to consider them. So we di, not broach thorn to him He hit-wrlttcn hit-wrlttcn his lnt line. He is living the life of a recluse He very seldom h..'s out of doors now. but onco In a while Is taken for an easy drive. "The library, where he spends most of h!s days now Is a high. dark, old-fashioned room on the first floor of his house. Newspapers were strewn about. Conspicuous on the shelves were the works of Kant and Schopenhauer Schopen-hauer Dr. Ibsen was dressed In an old black frcck coat, and wore a black tie. He Is btout stouter than when I saw him fifteen yeurs ago His face. In spite of ihe marks of age I had almost said of dotage Is still wonderful I was overwhelmed by It. You can fee the Intellectual newer In It It somehow makes you dumb at first I can compare his coun-t.ranc coun-t.ranc to but one thing It Is like an Iceberg it la a marsive domineering countenance almost al-most terrible. "We began our conversation by asking him If he realized how his plays were admired In America, and how Interested the people were In his mvHsage "He smiled grimly a kind of sntanlc smile I should call it. or Is saturnine the word? nnd snl I hi was glad to hear It. but that he bad no tangible evidences of that almlratl n. lhat tho Americans used his work without paying lor It I thought of the 'art for art s lake' u-vote.-v who have made fame nnd s-me money out of him on our slug.', an 1 told no more on that subject "We spoke of the rupture between Norway and Sweden, and Of the futuie uf Norway av a i. .public He replied that he ill. I "not sec why Norway sh lUld not be a republic on American principles and that he would like to see lliut. We asked him what he thought of tho ld.-ii thut a Swedish Prince should te. called to the ihioin ..r Norwuv, nnd In ;tg lin said he could see . no reason why Norway should not become a republic, anil that he was not In favor of a Swedish Prince. n suld he Would like to VS to BSC the Utile when Norwuv ehould be a republic." |