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Show BELIEVES HIS PLAY CAUSE OF TRAGEDY Paris, June 24.An extraordinary story which may help to unravel the rocont death in New York of Dr. William Wil-liam Latson was printed In today's Temps on the authority of a Polish-Austrian Polish-Austrian playwright, Leopold Kamnf. The long article is signed "Nozier," ami Is printed under the title "A New York Drama," and with this comment: "It is a strange story and I leave It to psychologists nnd American justice." jus-tice." Kampt, according to tho story, met Latson and a woman called "Anna" in New York In 1908. during the re-, hearsals of his play, "Le Grand Soleo." They became warm friends and soon the woman's friendship for the author au-thor grew to love She confessed this to Dr Latson, who cont nued to be friend Kampf. and for the sake of Anna's happluess tried to Induce him to settle in New York. Kam f. however, sailed for Europe three weeks after tho beginning of the romance For some time the two men corresponded, the doctor referring to "Anna" as "the child.' Soon, however, how-ever, the letterb became Igbs frequent fre-quent and then stopped altogether But the extraordinary personalities concerned in the reraance had left n strong impression on Kampf's mind, the article aa-vs, and he decided to use the material as the theme of a play He set to work and qulcklv finished "Mina et le Plalsir," which will be produced next October in Frankfurt, on the occasion of the in auguration of tho new theater The three chief characters in the plav arc said to be fnitbful reuroductlons of Dr Latson, the woman known ns "An na," and Kamrf so much so that the hero's nnme Is hardly changed, it being be-ing Larson Obliged to provide an ending for the play Kampf makes his horo kill himself to leave the path free to the two sweethearts, whom he always befriended, and who out of their gratitude for him felt they could' not marry so long as he lived. As soon as the play was completed a few months ago, Kampf sent a copy to Latson, and It Is his theory that both the doctor and "Anna" might have been th victims of auto-sugces-tlon. The doctor, he argues, might have written a last message to his mother and slater and then compelled "Anna" to fire the revolver shot which kHled h'm. Thus Kampf concludes, the mvstery of Latson's death Is easily exnlalnod and "Anna" Is necessarily Innocent, for she would havo obeye'i his will and would have been nothing more than an Instrument to his suicide. |