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Show The Artistic Temperament. The late William Dean Howells had no faith in the Greenwich village doctrine that the "artistic temperament" tempera-ment" pardons all things that authors and actors do not have to behave themselves like other men. ' "I used to know a poet," he said one day at Kittery Point. "This poet was very conceited. He neglected bis v.lfe, of course. "His wife once took him to task for philandering. She wept as she told how she had seen him drinking champagne cham-pagne with a chorus girl when he was supposed to be at work on a new poem. "He didn't deny the charge. "T thought you understood, my dear,' he said, 'that I am too good 10 be true.' " |