| Show Helen Jacobs Trades Racquet For Quill Pen Novel Writing r 7 1 I Jg 1 p- p f I i A fJ Ii i I d t V 7 q f 4 The girl tennis players you watched last summer are turning turning turn turn- ing their talents to other fields Helen Jacobs is writing a novel While Alice Alicc Marble the thc slim blond national singles champion champion cham cham- pion of the thc U. U S. S has become a singer in a New York hotel night club Net Queen Plans to Play Again in Europe By Associated Press WILLIAMSBURG Va Dec 24 24 Helen Hull Jacobs often top- top ranking woman tennis player of the United States moved into Williamsburg Williamsburg Wil- Wil the other day to settle down and write a historical novel about life in this section during the eighteenth century She is living at the Orrell house a little cottage on Francis street provided with a hitching post quill pens and other refinements refinements refine refine- ments of the gay She's combing Williamsburg for facts and a atmosphere t m 0 s p her e and she's working like a dog As J a a. lady novelist of old Virginia Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- ginia she doesn't look much like the streamlined Helen Jacobs of the tennis courts She's gone into her new work heart and soul She hasn't played a game of tennis since she's been here Those Darn Details I want to finish a rough draft of the book by next spring Miss Jacobs explains from her wing chair beneath the portrait of a sol sol- sol sol- looking colonist So often when youre you're writing anything terribly terribly terribly ter ter- ter- ter long you run across details you wish you had checked So Im I'm anxious to write the whole thing here on the spot In the spring Miss Jacobs will wilI go abroad to compete in international international international tennis matches She may come back to to- to to Williamsburg next winter to finish the book It will be Miss Jacobs' Jacobs second novel The first was published in England last year under the pseudonym pseudonym pseudonym Braxton Hull HulI which is the name of Miss Jacobs' Jacobs aunt I preferred to send it to the publishers publishers pub pub- lishers under an assumed name and let them handle it on its own merits she explains T L T L What i Im I'm m trying to do tic now isa isa is isa a novel of the years 1771 to 1790 built around the character of Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter Braxton says sas Miss Jacobs explaining that Braxton was an ancestor of hers and a signer of the Declaration of Independence He was an important figure in Revolutionary Revolutionary Revo Revo- times but Miss Jacobs thinks thin the the present generation knows less of him than it ought to Seek of Inspiration In her pursuit of facts she works six hours a day combing research material in the library of William and Mary college in the morning visiting early Virginia landmarks landmark in the afternoon and writing at night after dinner I cant can't write a line worth putting putting putting put put- ting on paper in the morning You have to be inspired inspired to to feel a certain certain tam tain glow glow to to write well I lookout look lookout lookout out my window at night and it all comes to life for me The afternoon sightseeing tours are part of a well-planned well cam cam- Miss Jacobs has assembled intricate maps of Tidewater Virginia Virginia Vir Vir- Vir- Vir ginia as it was in the days of Carter Carter Carter Car Car- ter Braxton and each day after lunch she gets in her roadster and traces the old post roads to the plantations Charming People At sundown I 0 often f ten ramble around the country and have a look It reminds me very much of England More so she says than i Arizona where she was reared or Kentucky where she has recently lived T The e few people she has met In Williamsburg she's Williamsburg-she's she's too busy to have met them all are all are charming like the English Some day she's going to play tennis with some of them on the William and Mary courts The Braxton opus should come from the press about two years hence under Aunt Braxton Hulls Hull's name If it isn't any good Helen Jacobs wants to know it As she i puts it I dont don't want to waste the rest of my life Ufe trying to write if I cant can't write |
