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Show AUTHOR ON TOMATO RATIONS Barry Pain, Noted English Humorist, Underwent Poverty Period After Success. London. Barry Pain, whose new "Eliza" stories ore to be published shortly, is undoubtedly one of the most popular of living humorists. After Aft-er leaving Cambridge university, Mr. Pain became a classical tutor at a "crammers;" while there he sent an article to the Cornhill called "The Hundred Gates." It was accepted promptly by James Payn, then editor of that periodical, who, furthermore, sent the young author a very kind letter. let-ter. The cleverness of this article attracted at-tracted the attention of Sir Francis Burnand and Wemyss Reid, editors of Punch. Mr. Pain's subsequent contributions contri-butions to Punch and The Speaker were so successful that he resolved to come to London. Then came "a period of romantic poverty," a period in which he lived on bread and tomatoes and in a laborers la-borers dwelling. It was during this time that Mr. Pain received a visit at the laborer's dwelling from the pompous butler of his editor with an invitation to dinner. |