Salt Lake Telegram | 1907-03-08 | Page 5 | Edna Wallace Hopper and Lew Fields on How they were Blindfolded

EDNrt WRLLftCE HOPPER AND LEW FIELDS ON HOW THEY WERE BLINDFOLDED fflf BLINDFOLDED W y By a Book I ' KDNAVTAIXACX EOPPES. Edna Wallace Hopper says she heard about "Blindfolded" from a friend and immediately got a copy. "I never let it out oj my hands until I finished It." she says. "It is the most fascinating thing I ever read In my life. I know Pan Francisco so well the old San Francisco of before the fire, of LEW IJZLim. courpc that I tfid Wallow the hero of the story about evKrv bcre. and 'ttsnd In spirit by his side' while the stirring things were happening all around us. But I was as intuit in the dark as he. for I. too. was 'blindfolded.' I never srw a book whose title fltted it so well as Mr. WaJ-cott's. WaJ-cott's. I wrote him about it, and he modestly replied that the credit for he felicitous title, belonged to his publishers." "I nearly missed getting to the theater for a matinee because I was 'blindfolded,' 'blind-folded,' " said l'eter Dalley In a letter to Earle Ashley Walontt. the author, recently. re-cently. "I picked up your hook. 'Bllnd- j folded.' after breakfast. That's all. -What ' happened? "In less than fifteen minutes I was oh-I oh-I IhiouR to everything outside its pages. I j was so absorbed in what your characters I were doing that I didn't notice the clock, j I felt mv valet's hand on my shoulder and heard him say that It was 1 In the afternoon, after-noon, and that It was Saturday. I " 'I can't go: I'm 'blindfolded,' " I re-I re-I piled, without looking up. , "There wasn't a sound for an hour, and then I heard a sneeze. I looked up. and there was mv valet standing behind me. He hadn't moved. lie had caught a glimpse of the book, and had been read-it read-it over my shoulder since he had called me an hour before---It was 2 o'clock." Th rights for newspaper publication of "Blindfolded" have been secured by THE TELEGBAM, and the first installment install-ment or tills -wonderful story will appear ap-pear in Saturday's issue. Jallv installments will be printed. Don't miss the first installment. .