Show ua da influence of waggling ton tongues gues upon the public at large IN N THE present era with every man woman and child elbowing their neighbors in an effort to get up in front there to attract the wavering eyes of the world publicity of one sort or another is considered the essential factor in human ress to be talked about to appear in in the public prints to have ones name on the national lip is considered a flying start toward the hall of fame unfortunately many supplicants for recognition are unable to distinguish ti I 1 the difference between fame and notoriety publicity gossip rumor at all 1 one and the same thing born 0 of f the whispering chorus is strong medicine to take dope to some stimulant to others but there are authentic instances where publicity of the right sort the outgrowth of spontaneous and merited acclaim has turned the edge of a dark cloud into sl silver luminous and a joy to behold T the he marvel is that in most cases the waggling of a few tongues was re for the ensuing transformation actors dramatists artists novelists inventors unsung unknown and shunned of fame suddenly by virtue of a small group have gone over with the public and been acclaimed failures have been revived to make fortunes forgotten books brought again to life music music that once palled flung back into the public ear to bring fame to composers dead or forgotten career of david glarum edward westcott who wrote david harum declined by nine publishers died in the spring of 1893 1898 in the autumn of the same year his book found its way to a printing press more than copies went went into circulation walter brownes everyman a morality play reached the stage after the author had said died of a broken heart his family had the satisfaction of knowing that he had written a masterpiece charley kleins the lion and the mouse was a flop first afterward to become without changing a single line one of the great money makers of the american theater 1 4 felix graux a french youth who as a schoolboy received from his uncle the story of how the bastile fell in paris wrote the reds of the midi which made n no 0 impression whatever until gladstone then premier of england finding the book in a secondhand second hand shop wrote a letter to the publishers stating that graux had achieved the almost impossible in bringing the greatest event in french history to life through the eyes of a dead man nearly copies were sold as a consequence davis admires butler in 1910 returning to new york nork from a yellowstone trip with samuel G blythe I 1 found discarded in a vacant pullman seat a copy of samuel butlers the way of all flesh which both of us read with satisfaction and before reaching new york A year later during a luncheon given in honor of arnold bennett at the university club new york I 1 said jokingly to the englishman arent you fortunate to sit at this table consuming terrapin worth one pound the plate drinking vintage champagne and mingling with the intellectual elite of the twentieth century while underneath the shrubbery of the garden at the woking boking crematorium forgotten and with nothing to mark the spot lies the ashes of your peer dead these nine years to o o o w w whom do you refer replied the novelist who not infrequently spoke with a slight stutter samuel butler who wrote the way of AR all flesh arnold bennett concurs rising from his seat the briton made a profound bow and extended his hand you are quite right he stood alone among english authors but it will be a long time before he is forgotten this brief dialogue overheard by a reporter present appeared the next day on the front page of the new york herald john macrae head of the house of E P dutton co publishers of the way of all flesh a copy of which blythe and I 1 had read the year before im immediately brought out another edition contained in a jacket carrying in full the colloquy between myself and arnold bennett at the university club luncheon revitalized by bennetts high endorsement dorsek dor nent the way of all flesh which had sold less than 2000 jumped into a best seller and so effectively established butler in the united states that twelve years later 1923 his collected works in twenty volumes in a limited edition of cd sets at were brou brought glit for the united states or ar yo ri Ari tain U servi ef |