Salt Lake Telegram | 1924-05-18 | Page 35 | Marie Corelli, Woman of Mystery

Marie Corelli, Woman of Mystery Marl Coral 11. tb novelist, died Quietly In her ateop at her fltrat-f fltrat-f ord-on-Avon home early on the morning of Easter Monday, aged yea re. Hhe had been ailing for aome waeka. but waa apparently recovering re-covering srhea h developed heart trouble. Few women had a greater vogu than she, few women a stormier Ufa. She prof eased an lntenae hatred for preaa tnin and preaa photograph photog-raph ere, yat fewer people hav had more publicity. 6b Imagined all preaa men and critics were la league agalnat her, and for many years no novel she wrot was Issued Is-sued to the preaa for review. Kbe took upon herself tha character of; publlo ceaaor. la Maud Allan'a unfortunate un-fortunate libel action agalnat Pem-berton Pem-berton Ollllnsj It came out that a letter from hr calling attention to the "Salom" dance was ueed to at art lha myeterfoua campaign against th tliouaands of men and womn whoso names were aald to he printed In th mythical "German Black Book." To a great extent the dead nor-ellat nor-ellat waa a royatery. Even her birth advele, among th-m "The Mighty Atom," "Thelma," "Th Treaaure of Heaven" and "Tha Horrowe of 8s-tnn." 8s-tnn." This latter waa an enormoue success dramatised, snd every smsll lima company had Ita veralon. Tha bast known and probably th only authorised adaptation 'waa that played for ytara by C. W. Homer-, set. . Psttllng down st fltratford-on-Avon. aha created herself a sort of custodian of William Hhakeapeara'a : memorv and carried on a bitter war agalnat the municipal authorities authori-ties who refused to conduct the memorial calibrations to her liking lik-ing Th lets Andrew Carnearl fell under her especial ban when he had the audacity to offer a publio Itbrory to the town she had adopted. Her war against Stratford's su-thorltles su-thorltles csme to a pitrh la loj. when she brought a libel action agalnat a towjx councillor who had arcuaed hr of trying to buy a piece of land for a free library of her own erection. It was proved st the trial that aha had acquired I th land In question for the extn-tun extn-tun ..r a technical Institute she had already q nipped with a collection of her own novele. Flte waa swarded one farthing damages. acrlbed herself as of mingled Italian Ital-ian and Hcottlah parentage, but In-elated In-elated that the name ahe uaed waa her own and not a nom da plume. Whatever her parentage, ahe waa adopted aa a child by Charles Mac-ksy. Mac-ksy. th author of "Cheer, Boys. Cheer. snd educated at his expense. ex-pense. Originally intended for a mualcal career, she became a novelist nov-elist by chanca when, in her epare time, sh wrot "Th flomsnes of Two Worlds." a story supposedly founded on her own experiences. VoowtMpahwrrojnnv