Show WOMAN SEES OWN ON PLAY AND ENJOYS IT ti EW YORK Oct 3 Mary Iary Aborts erts Rinehart author co-author with Avery I 1 r f A To I o n 1 Sr o loli 19 wood The Bat and Spanish I e. e has had the enjoyable experience experience exper exper- I i nce of ot seine two plays playa from her r hand Ii tt- tt become successes e on Broadway simultaneously simultaneously simul simul- and and also J of ot s seeing eing them there for the thc first time and enjoying them as though she hadn't known them since they both were knee high to a grasshopper Mrs Rinehart came to Broadway last week fresh tresh from a vacation spent with I her husband and sons in the desert ree re regions regions re- re re- re where gions e she of I e Arizona said l o she had and l b been New burnt Mexico Mexico f fa to toa toa a conder which must have been a particularly particularly particularly par par- healthy looking cinder First she saw The The Brat itt the and of ot it highly Then on the night when the interviewer went to Maxine Elliotts Elliott's theatre to see her she I was viewing Spanish Love and begged begged begged beg- beg ged ot off from talking until the performance perform perform- 1 ance was over o for she Rhe admitted that 1 i mati G OUie the p peace ace e ih Shrilled e her Imm immensely l selY EXCITED OVEIl OWN ILAV 11 I was Just as excited over it it she declared later as though a friend had written it I think if u I 1 had been present present pre pre- sent the first night J 1 should have ha called for tor Author Its It's the first time I J have seen it played and you ou can imagine me tile I effect It Jt had on on me when I 1 have Just come back from the wide spaces or of the I desert and have hardly yet grown used to dressing without having a crowd of oC Indians Indians outside the door The da day the manuscript in its final form left lett with family fam fam- my desk I 1 went my ily Y to i New V v Mexico for I was in very y poor health at the time and there recuperated re reI recuperated re- re by being lost to the world I I J never attended any rehearsals ot of Spanish Love though I was on the road for a while with The Bat but I even that gave ga to me me a new sensation USUALLY II STALL ST. Usually in the past by the time a apIa pIa play of mine has been presented I ve hs-ve h e grown roon stale from it just as though I 1 had been sitting at ate atea a bedside with a asick asick sick patient So this is ia all the more I enjoyable for me particularly as 1 I can watch the plays plays- through the eyes ees ot of I my three boys which gives to me the I same pleasure that taking the children to the circus does for most grown UPS My sons are too old for the circus I though I 1 suspect they still sun like It They knew the ending of oC The Bat for instance but they're just as keenly In Interested Interested In- In in Its cours course of ot action as asI i I though they had Just run into the play I f ENJOYS g OWN 0 HOOKS I Personally I can forget target what I have written so eo easily that I can pick up ore of or my books and read it with enjoyment enjoyment en en- without recalling how I had been put to It to write it I have managed managed managed man man- aged to keep Spanish Love out of my mind St so that it struck me as new in spite of the fact that after atter Mr Ir Hopwood Hopwood Hopwood Hop- Hop wood and anel I finished the two plays plas I scarcely a dozen lines lined and entrances ha have Ve had to be remodelled That is i isI I I because we give sive a play one mo moc c final I revision that most authors rearranging I parts ruthlessly with our outlast application application tion of thought IX IN We changed Spanish Love Iove considerably consid I from the original though and when it Il was first put pat on we hesitated about the double stage platform platform and and j this novelty has been a bl big part or Its 1 success I am ant In favor of ot novelty inthe in inthe the thc theatre but hat novelty introduced InI in to ina toa a play entirely for tor its own sake own sako is a dead loss It must be bc used to facilitate tate and felicitate some big vital I theme theme and and I think we found Cound that inthis in inthis inthis this play I never have been to Spain though T J travelled d through southern southern I France but KemI Kemper Kem- Kem j I per have mado made the piece accurate in every every detail detail and and I for forone one cannot complain I It It is this kind of play I want to ta write write- more and more as time passes passes- it is my new pet The Tho war has made me t seek eek the graver issues of life liCe and andas andas andas as tithe time passes I find humorous writing less attractive It comes very easily I when every everyone one around me is is all aU rl right ht and conditions are but if the they arc are not m my humor grows forced and 1 I retire from it In a hurry |