Show Irwins Always Plotting Against Each Other but Find It Helpful H 5 I 1 5 5 S x 5 I 5 5 t v S 'S 5 5 v 4 S L S 4 ty 4 S S 1 5 5 5 1 S 5 4 S L' L p. p Inez and Will Irwin at work in their study Writers Are Successful Happy i and Popular in n Spite I of Marriage I IBy By HORTENSE SAUNDERS SAUNDERS' N NEA EA Service Writer I How to be happy successful i in interesting interesting in- in popular popular and and married married- m j in other words how to enjoy the blessings of civilized lif life is a secret that Inez Haynes Irwin I win and her i I husband Will Vill Irwin seem to have discovered Here is a a. situation beloved of the dramatist and novelist where the he I husband and wife are both successful suc sue I Jl authors and where I Jealousy might flourish like the gr green en b bay y tree and create a fine I problem play But instead you rou find two splendid SPlendid splendid did people nicely balanced as well as temperamental devoted to their work and taking it very seriously sh sharing I g delightful companion I shirt ship and cre creating together a a. home and a home atmosphere that draws I devoted friends to both I Our work Is necessary as-necessary as our home hom Mrs Irwin told me If we had bad to pay for for- forthe the privilege of ot writing writing writing writ writ- ing we would Probably Probably ably we get rid of a great deal on our fictional characters that we save each other Ye We have the same hours tor for work work the the morning morning but but We we work in different parts of the house housew w with th an entirely different ap ap- ap My Iy husband tells me the plots for all his stories and outlines the material for his articles to me be before before before be- be fore he starts to he write write he really do does s this to get get everything clearly I defined in his own mind Then he sits down and writes in a straightaway straightaway straight straight- away awa fashion SHE SHI N NEVER EVER TELLS I never never tell him a plot or or tell him im anything about a story until I show him the finished product I destroy lestroy much before I get started and I wouldn't sh show w a living soul I my first draft of a story Often he suggests changes after I have completed a novel which I usually make because I respect his editorial editor editor- ial Judgment highly and pd I know he knows better than han anyone else I whether I have expressed what I really mean or not In other words we are another of ot these best- best I severest friend combi combi- nations Temperamentally Mrs 1 IrwIn says sars they are quite different and I th their ir environments and training have been dissimilar r. r You see ee she went on Im from New England He is from California Califor Califor- nia One of the first things I no noticed noticed noticed no- no about him when I first met him years a ago aro o at a dinner where c- c Gellett Burg Burgess ss and Samuel Hopkins Hopkins Hop Hop- Hop I kins Adams and Ind other literary people people peo pea pie were also guests was his I breezy free w western stern way CalIfornians Californians Califor- Califor are always that way you know and New Englanders rarely are and that quality always at- at I us because it is so refreshing and different The Irwins were married in 1916 and sailed immediately for Europe where Will wiil had been war correspondent correspondent correspondent corre corre- and was returning after a a. brief vacation We Ye Ve shared the spectacle of that frightful war and our passionate interest in the cause of oC our own country and the allies ames was a bond of attachment that has since transformed Itself Into our mutual mut conviction that war must be abol- abol THEY WORK APART Each of of wr wrote te extensively but quite separately during the years ears In Prance and our honeymoon honey honey- moon and our our first years cars together were busy hectic times that seem absolutely unreal and Impossible now no Though they work apart they enJoy en- en n n- n jO Joy their recreational hours to to- to gether They share an enthusiasm for golf golt tennis motoring and the theatre And love Jove for earl early American furniture she continued We Ve VeI I I both collect it avidly We Ve have two homes filled with colonial treasures and anel some day We we may have to get a tI third just third Just so vie we can In furnish it Their winter home Is la in the older I section of New V e York n. n dell old fashioned typo of home borne that gives evidence not only to their love ot of antique furniture but their taste in selecting it In their large living room everything Is beautiful j I 5 I but related to the whole and the feeling for spaciousness has not nut been sacrificed to their zeal for possession You sense their home has been assembled with loving care Our other great enthusiasm I Is our love our adoration for tor Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare Shake Shake- speare she went on We Ye Ve may disagree on other authors and playwright playwright play play- wright but we meet theet In common reverence before his shrine Liking Likins the same sarno thing is really what makes people like each other she concluded Yes Indeed I belleve believe believe be be- lieve in homes homes happy happy homes happy happy happy hap hap- py marriages and In love that en en- en dures In dures-In in spite of tho the fact that my last lut b book ok Is Gertrude Divorce And I b JI ve nothing Is Isso Isso isso so conductive to artistic expression expression sion aba a and ad d creative work Ork In any busi business usi- usi ness neBS or profession as satisfying home life Ufe |