| Show I i GOOD LUCK Of j I I 1 BAR BARONESS O ORCZY fi jl Ii n I i r rp t i p J JI I t 4 I i I Came Canie Through One of Her Books j It l L II Which Has Achieved Great t If lt Success H j jJ t I f i J 1 j jf t a t I f t 41 BRINGS HER BIG 1 I l t I t I I 1 Ii IiI f ii I II jm I I i t up I t 1 1 f ti 11 1 N I II Learns That Shut Ha 1 I 4 1 l I nit nil 11 t nl I t lio 1 Il j f 1 q t Died In itt v J r lf t tJ J jg Ii I L Li t f i 1 I U 1 Special Correspondence 1 t T tI O lON 11 18 aI If the tars 1 f 1 t LONDON L I count COUll for tor anything In human af at affairs It S I j j j fairs It must mul have l Ilen been en a 1 I If q i f tally hUly lucky one on that In time tt i j J t when hen the time Oro y i 11 i j 1 t was vas horn born After A el In itt a I few fw i 1 yearn a phenomenal success MIlCO B ns as an J h S author h ind playwright with none nono of at I E K l thone Ih tIto struggles and r hArtI t j tt I which wh are lie supposed I u uto to be he hi the liable preliminaries to 10 I j 1 j I literary mill Itel dramatic triumphs time she i I 4 line has hn Jut just Inherited n a 1 large estate est ale In iti Jj j I I II J Hungary I bor imor native land It I was nuts Ial ono oin 1 of or it the th loll popular of her books boulI A ASon I I 11 Suit Son of or the he th t people I now In Its I tenth t here w which bleb ana the tho or of I f t I her the first tidings of her 1 1 1 t food fortune fortune I t t ll I i HOOK I II j t I hr That hunk book nas been beo translated Into I t I f I Ii G thus Ihn Hungarian tongue lonu It I deplete depIcts thin t i n S It jS lives live of or the tl peasantry and the great r t l landed lel of ot Hungary who rule ruIn t s 11 over Olor their v v Vest t estates munch much mich In tho time f I I I I It t J Js same s nf f HI Ion must IH till dIll feudal lords In Iii II I I England I II 11 ngo lugo IRn such uch u man u I t Ii IiI wa Wll was time Iho uncle Oriole ulel of I time the baro ne who re reci ft W I i J fr k i r ci and thereby therel the tho hulk bulk of ot his hla grit Krit fortune parsed to his lii hi ll f I I tube niece In Iii li the I hI great lt rambling old olti I i r Ir 5 hoUKu In itt w which hi he II resided the thu til early earlye tit J p pear e ear ars of lieu her lel own on girlhood gi hOld had been r i passed lIld limit Hut lut the II I lawyers lawn did dil not know j Item bet address here heie Time The Hungarian n c I J of Item hei book bonk however gave awl Ii I Ithe the nf sit hei London j J I I to 1 To them tho the I lawyer wrote enclosing a l letter for fol forthe r II time the Ih She he muni It II r u 1 her imer nn simm fn her II return toni a n la late to tome f i j me this night ant HUM learned that 1 big I S i 11 I had bad har been to her hr title Sh I I t is I now in Iii Hungary looking over ovet her herI I l I I 4 ii 1 I lJ You can enn hardly Imagine she alms Ihl said ald 11 i before lust her departure with wih what de tie delight tp r r I L light I C shall hal winder wander Cr the th old l 4 which h Ih I 1 have imy ha Vf not nol seen n for many man years enre l m 11 butt I Mba hall it nut mit be ho tempted to 10 tu 1 f there I h lt taI liml an sa R It I nit nil al Is I England la is h my mv hums 1111 where I 1 hose have I J fund h IIII and recognition nun I 1 r L i 1 should never n vr bo ha bl happy away from It tt I r I lone II II He I have books looks And i aa u uto I to in write I hate hf e no In Idea of ot i c I I I Ing n my mv work because I have Inherited Inh i a fortune t I i I P I I ItON t tIO tON IO OF en THE IHL UE II OlI t Ic Many r of Dr f the Incidents described ed In InA li J i i i t A Son Sn of or the tha People happened ha m in tho tha i L L neighborhood nel w bloh she ithe U Is S 1 I J I i It I Was 1 on 01 her fathers father fat hr estate of the cre m which the hc ba bao 11 has t I I t I o vividly You rn could r I ly I believe she nhe hI said w when hen r to th the matter mator thAt In th x modem nys J truce men ln r could ud be mi so l I I S Unit that they should r tam m en engine Il engine gine as A thu th work of I the devil Such Sueh i i was wac al the th OHM ese I however ansi and atI my I father j had to IC ray pay Il dearly for tor ln his hiM advanced I S Sl Ideas l I r f I It I 1 m b ht cau auf e bin hl efforts I t j I S to Ii lc sow ow w the of or n among Imia hil 1 I people him hint only on I ter that I I II 4 Huron Orray who hued hud been hen u IL 1 distin i i I I el Ii 1 i diplomat dl t settled I i I i I In lit II England with lh him his then f i I 16 who at II that thai I t I kil not act a word nf of English l h ot o r which the she h la ii I now IO no so I a 1 master 11 lle t 1 Hut lucre here her wr fahn found the people l j t i too 11 lv for hIm nim to Keep keell I I with wih und and Ind lust lost hl hit his entire fortune The IQ f I i I heretics then tit cut LUt ll herself adrift front from I her wealthy and ansi r n J In lit the homeland I nl to nuke make her he J t I Iown I own II la Iti II time the world orld How lIo she nhe he sue 4 t c ded Is l beat told lold In hem het own words wor 1 1 t u J fl tI MEANT TO UK e tt AN N 1 o I 1 originally meant tn to be bl an sn artist artista t u a 1 great nothing short hurt of ot An i leea 1 i tense fame would ury i me flue n 1 I art Il v I very ry fo tM o f I vean and t tl ti uy 1 y was Wil moet mOt on out i about It C J r F never 1111 had menu than A it I vet Vel ery f talent for rr ll it I stud and lu IM MT seemed scented t I to h I had hd time the th el d to tn mite nl or nr ox IX the th talent for tor It I I 1 I lint 1 I was HAS always a 1 gre great t tender ede and anil Ind nn Rn ardent playgoer lr and anti I 1 y was u aJ qui tutu Mi u ly storing AI ll away aWI r Ii In my m mind mild Ideas and anil Ind knowledge ot of i ii r j technique ob obi ob nation of or character anti and dramatic notion which mutt must mus have I I fermented fur for years a And 11 stood me Inc In la n rood goad stand st when whon 1 T finally took look up lip lit literature as IS the work of or my life fe G BABYLONIAN JA MAU Inri iI V 1 a I hind ux il times limes 8 at It that dolt ranch h Institution the loyal n t y a 11 nIlI m encouraged l an ns I wa waIn was In tho Iho laya days by IJ my m dear old friend J L Long II Il A tho thu creator clator of it that I vs nd nutty popular picture The Market I t ip spent nt t many anus happy days day In hl studio watch search ilch tug tag hint paint and amI to lo him for tor fort d I f a in of Ir his hili mo most I popular copular HM Ihs t i dt Hulked l models m dell I tit e n et 1 1 t j and 1111 1 in III hiM bin l Preaching Fron this tha 1 Waters hi his at and many mallY other n th at pictures picture there aru nu several r r very WIY faithful mils oC n t f ma n i n IT I t there In is no nn doubt that MB his brilliant brilliant picture pk of or ancient Egypt Brat sowed ow l r thima thra th needs ItI Iti in tny my 10 mind Ind which brought broughty y is 1111 By 11 tilt the Gods Goda t T HUSBAND Whilst studying art I met my bus hua lIu band 11 1 Mr 11 Montagu I ar tow already thru then a well oell II known black arid and white am at 1111 i vater venter r color artist for a R f few w y goal ars alter after my II marriage I 1 Joined him In III doing H fur for books book H ant ami 4 5 0 i Ii it I l Is less leu that than six nix years year n ap ngo n that I Iti ti irM overl by b I J ini but I any talent for tor writing The story ft nr r row this Ihla happened 1 I Is to w II common k fla Im t a that It I becomes quaint tram from Its very N simplicity My Iy husband and my Ct sir H wore were house hous hunting at nl that time f v and ami In the Interval were here an nil I paying rl pa Ing guests with n a family whose ho o oI tt L I recreation In writing y short which they would 1 read readout readout out aloud lo to one on another or to such of or oft t 1 their U as nil would taro care to hear heRr One OneY Y cv having heard one of oC those not 1 very NY brilliant t rend read I suddenly I t said mild to my husband Now OW look nt at the tho people who have been be n thir th Ir own on little narrow circle they ll write writ stories and presumably some come someI I urn t timer get then them published so 80 why it i I T who hove have Icon been all nil over Op I 1 y Km Europe ope und and have known so eo o many peo that frit are lire worth knowing why I ri I write writ stories torl too toe 1011 Why x you sou ou w wise Willi my husbands sin aim sint t pit loll And AmI that thaI was the be he beP P of oC my literary career Lees I I than six Ix yearn genre ago I x had hall never nevar taken up H a pen for any other purpose than thull i to write my III letters I Fired by b the tho ex I of some ome strange eta era I began to write short The tt first few I 1 ever f er wrote were at III once mince ac no accepted copied by Title Tills was wn encouraging r I D FC M r S k i I Fi Then ono day Tew traveling on the top tOil r of an un just JURI beyond ASe 1 park I url station over cyst one rut M t th the squalid bridges that cross rol the canal unal at It thai thin t n f miserable tit fat corner of London I l looked 1 a t down one on e u of the most mt os desolate streets iI I Ikno I know kno the one that skirts skirt the canal at lit m that point dark wretched lonely und anti r i it II k me Ine what a II number of ot m terl 1 OUM ous OU and Ind forgotten crime must have havo beet h 11 perpetrated tI down darn the equal i Id 11 portions 01 or mighty London That t II brief thought It wa was wall a n meta mere flash nash led t c r me ins to conceive and evolve detec d lec h live stories jj told tolt by IJ The Old Man In III the Corner Connor My I first drat novel 1101 1 was the t Candlestick but bUl published during durin thu c a anxious unto limo of the liner Doer war IIII It failed I to mako make headway against the Iho mam nf of I 41 fi military and political literature of that 1 js season Since th the gret success of ThoI The Tho I t Scarlet Pimpernel It Il ha hll has been beat reprint reprinted oil ed and line has hn stet met with unqualified HUC r ces Cl I Tho Scarlet Pimpernel was arst 4 1 written ns RII a It play by b my illy und 4 myself elf In collaboration Unlike tho Iho III ht hu t F outcry of oC the thu unknown dramatist l i Isi is wo we tire na bound to confess s that wo we 0 y had no un In III getting our play rIllY rend read and accepted by b the tho very 9 management to 10 whom wo 1111 submitted It AVo l had no connection with the stage Hinge stager In any capacity my husband hu mss waH an anu u tit r artist and I wag WAil then only n it 1 writer of h short magazine stories anti and III with the thes s 4 s i of ot nn 1111 extremely able and kinds kind s critic know knew not a 1 soul connected with is the tho stage s til go If DUET BRET m sl i r 1 t t It Jl would be b for or mo IIII to name namo hr my III favorite authors I think on the thea a whole though that tin author who I 1 4 i l moat n cola to tn me IH la UrN linen Harte r f a i Against 1 gu mist that and 1 I nay MIlY thin his t In lit till nil hu ho humility I the author who has hits most In my work Is la Victor Muir v i Hugo HUlI My Iy critics have hav been kind ra enough to praise my style Hye apart rt front from fronti i tho the mere mero plot of my hooks books what merit mErll my lily m stylo has bus I 1 owe In a 1 great measure to constant loving perusal Ieru of or that great prophet of the romantic the IJ ideal al In Inart Inart art People now kind Indulgent people EH ions men ns op well as liS asmore asmore more frivolous have told toll mn rn that In the play ulay IIla of The Scarlet carlet Pim Pimpernel pernel per el as well an ns In lit the book and In Irv all my later works the love soonta 8 hove have always seemed to them so 80 real realand and aul convincing Now I never lever tackle n I Incidentally the most mOlt dim cult and often the most mORt thankless acetic I In s k book or nr play without steep big Ing my m myself elf In some of ot my lilY favorite poets preeminently Tennyson or Items Heine or nr that exquisite Persian poet loel M I fluid find have hR a most In effect whilst before writing a romantic areas Victor Hugo Is I perfect ct manna In to the wIlderness The baroness Id is a 1 charming little If till woman frank frunk anti and unaffected In man manner ncr ner and not a bit spoiled either by her success or extraordinary good goad luck IlIck |
