Show t Strange Likeness of Its Plot to Real Life Story i of the the- New Orleans College Girl Who Rangy Away With M the Married Professor 4 ay j 4 a y 7 tyr yb v 4 4 F y o-a o t ti i v i k 3 1 s s w c 4 e y a 8 gr 7 y v i i iJ e Cb 5 J f o S 'S y S R r a ae aY ay aa Y t 6 My a h wb b ta 4 i iM y d Y t C M e v vW a z b Raw v k A Adim dim il w r k ki i j 1 y t f rp 1 Mb F n nr r k x 9 N NF r F 7 Jl ti X c Yx Sr ra y c aa v SOr vr C v v w S S an anc ancar n c car carr r x xv v x n 3 k Rio de JaneRo the picturesque capital of Brazil where the nm kA vf away lovers of Evelyn Scotts Scott's novel had anything but a rt n pleasant their guilty honeymoon FEW months ago aeo Evelyn Scott A AFEW a young woman who had already achieved some little fame as s a novelist published a new story tory and nd ono one more startling than any of her preVIOUS and nd it ones It R was c called Escapade E known widely very soon oon became Many Zany critics pr praIsed this thia book as a really great piece of literature Others thought th that t its author had gone goue con considerably con cou- considerably too far in m caning calling a spade a spade and in ID revealing the most m inti- inti intimate mate tc deta details s of If love lov and and motherhood andin and andin sordidness almost too brutal in picturing for a reader to endure endure But But whether the book was condemned or praised everybody was w s struck with its ita It re realism The story t is Ls told in inthe m- m inthe the first person and it 11 is hard to belte believe e that it is S the tin result of pure imagination and not th the of the authors author's ac actual ac- ac actual teal experience or at t least the experience experience ence of some somo woman she knew very well fr The story created a particular sensa- sensa lion bon in the city of New Orleans where who everybody read it at once was struck WIth its si to what actually bap hap hap- hap m in m real I life e to t a New Orleans so- so society EO girl pretty Miss Elsie Elsio Dunn Dunn Dann when she fell m love with Professor Creighton Wellman of Tulane University and ran away with him to South Sonth America leav lean leaving k ing mg behind the tile professors professor's wife w Elsie Elste Elsi Dunns Dunn's elopement was a complete to everybody in m New Mew Orleans According t to the newspapers that ro- ro re rei i the amazing details the whole thing was a tremendous and quite unexpected shock not only to her parents parent and intimate friends but also to Professor Wei W mans man's w wife e At the time of e the elopement about ten years ago Elsie Dunn Dim an attractive blond bland tri girl of twenty years or so so Q was W a student at Newcombe College As AJ tile the daughter of Mr and end Mrs Seeley Dung Dmm she Ehe was fras of a and socially prominent family Besides Beside her courses at Newcombe ch she had several extra classes at the tile nearby Tulane University classes classes in medicine Professor Wellman who taught these cla lasses was then hen living with his wife w He was a highly considered authority on scientific matters and prominent in lD New kw Orleans society circles A little before the holidays in Juno Janu J January ana ana- ary 1914 Pro Profesor csor Wellman rang rane up the university um offices office one night and asked that the tile following message be sent to his r WIfe I have met my ny friend mend and you wID wl l not be able to reach me When Un Wellman received this message mes mes- message sage Age the following day she sho was ninth 1 surprised and apparently Quite mystified fled fied fi d Ulc Like Lib every one else cl who knew the professor she seemed to take tab his absence to mean simply that he had gone on a hunting trip Butas But was found out outa outa If a later the professors professor essora tinting hunting was already ov over ver Within a few hours hoar after ms his telephone message ho Is fa believed to have been on n bee hi way to Brazil Bail with a abrand abrand brand new and much more youthful love Jove mate At the Ute same amo time ELsi Dunn Dumi diep- diep disappeared di p- p from her beT horn hums home much to th the as astonishment as- as astonIshment of her ber family and Nobody had suspected inspected the very quiet qu and girl giri of having a love affair and and even U if there had been any such concerning eon g her the th name imams of ct the pro pro- pro professor lessor fessor under whom she sh was vaa taking courses coarse in medicine median was one with which hers her WOt would d have hare been i linked Iu d But it began tote be to-b to whispered that Else Elmo Dunn and nd Professor Wellman W had ran runaway away together and soon toon this belief be- be became became be became came widespread throughout the ci des where both were known The two never reappeared tn In New Or Orleans leans Nothing more was heard beard of them themI there thle beyond a cable cabIe from the tho professor I J dg jt s nt at ats resigning his post f Tulane and occa i al i e et s fY t 1 from South rumors AmerIca stating that d 1 V r J jJ the little blond college kb 0 t a tJ f- f fr r f girt and the tall dis Z l t looking Y had been seen to- to to e k J Jl l 9 J J Jl l aI gether on some ship or k o 4 P Y 1 il pT T at some acme h hotel ote I t 1 ti big s ps p- p t I A a t W Wf f r Some time later Mrs tt v l f t P b Vt f 1 rd Wellman obtained a dl di w i e fJ f d J ro f t x ra br Wf k I Changes also t ta r bs q rv if J l 1 v took place In the family w u t 1 of ElsIe Dunn Ilex ner f I a parents were dl A yH r i p 1 1 y married h Mr Dunn soon p x l a 1 j again agam and left New Orleans I f i wIth hIS new wife we i Y oaf y t The mystery of what had 1 a become of ElsIe Dunn and e q N a rj the UnIVersIty professor who ho Cyril Kay Scott the 1 1 1 4 t t husband of Evelyn a out had so strangely dropped H the Scott and himself a 1 M of sIght almost at same Few minute became a forgotten writer and andon on the y w if t f ar jj p matter But the whole right an interesting p was revived and gl eA e er pen study dudy of Evelyn ti R V yv i v Scott Stott y interest r new by j 1 the tb appearance in IU the bookstores bookstores book bookstores stores of New Orleans and on the city's library shelves helves of Evelyn Scotts Scott's novel noTel Escapade Everybody who read the book was struck with the close dose resemblance between be between be- be between tween its Ita hero bero and aDd heroine and Professor Wellman and lId Elsie Elsio Dunn Duns and the way Its plot follows out what is thought tobe to tobe be the most reasonable explanation of their thell disappearance dL appearance As Ju the book became more and more widely read ad and discussed new links were added to the already strong chain of cir circumstances and probabilities that seem to connect it t with the simultaneous drop pine drop ping from sight of Elsie Dunn and Pro Pro- Professor Professor fessor lessor Wellman Axe Are E Evelyn lyn Scott Scott the now new novelist and Elsie Else Dunn the studIOUS and innocent college girl of ten tin years ago one and the same lame person T If they arc are not identical then does docs Eve Eve- Evelyn Evelyn lyn Scott know ElsIe Dunns Dunn's life story well enough to make it the theme of a DOVen novel It is recalled in m New Orleans that Elsie Dunn was fond of writing and that Professor Wellman had strong literary ambitions The rather mysterious nov nov- novelist clist who writes under the th name Dame of Eve Evelyn lyn Scott is married to a man calling himself Cyril Kay Scott And the latter since S the disappearance of f CreIghton Wellman from New Orleans in m 1914 has published like his wife we a number of books The runaway lovers in m Escapade flee to South America The repeated re reports re- re reports ports of Elsie Else Dunn and Professor Well Wen Wellman Wellman man being seen together came from trav tray travelers travelers elers to South American ethos The eloping hero and heroine heroin of the novel DOvel were desperately anxious to re vu re- re return return turn to the United States States but were un- un unable un unable able to for tor many years partly because of the th rigid passport requirements whIch the tho war brought and partly because the deserted wife had threatened them WIth arrest All AU this fits in perfectly WIth what might have happened to Elsie Blame Dunn Dunnand and the protestor professor if as is 18 believed behoved they left the country under assumed names lIames If Elsie Dunn DUDD i is not Evelyn EvelD Scott Scott or cr orif if eho ho is not the heroine of Escapade then what has become of hert her It would seem only natural for tor her fam family y to clear tip up the tb mystery by explaining But nut Elsie's father Seeley Dunn Donn Dunn re- re vu fused to discuss the matter with witha a rep rep- representative representative representative of this newspaper end and hIs present wile wife vehemently denied that bever be beever ever lad had such a daughter Mr Dunn Drains Dunns reticence and his wiles wile's w cs c's denial cannot cannot however shake the ofa ion ore ion f host beat of f persons tona in New Orleans Orleans Orleans- I i Jj 10 4 s sP sY P Y ry 1 At ya yat b Cl W w of d Kg t v ti c- c sa r v y rv a l i ii at R N Nr x r iy a ir Co b x r ry a of r v v o oc c y t ir ra r Another view of Rio de Janeiro to which the doping hero and heroine of Escapade fled and where Elsie Dunn and Professor Wellman also are supposed to have gone who knew Elsie Dunn Dam and Professor Wellman They insist that hew is the hero of Escapade and she the th the heroine herome and that very probably she is theauthor the author of this remarkably frank person first ae- ae so ae count of their then illicit illi tt love adventure The story goes coes into the most intimate deta details s concerning the tb heroines heroine's heroine love l life litand e and her maternity But Bat it u is a for the tho most part wrt with the hardships she fhe had to endure with theman the theman theman man she tore from fram another r womans woman's arms and with th the sordid surroundings in winch which they dragged out a miserable eXIstence throughout the period of the war vax When the story opens the ho runAway lovers are together in m South America she and John They are penniless ess and there is 15 a baby COmIng John John a biologist biologist ogist by profession aon n is earning a meagre living at bookkeeping When we left home she WrItes writes with witha a deliberate intention to t return we anticipated aa hardships Though I Iam ia CUD at t a 8 lour loc t to the unkind of the news news- newspapers newspapers papers from rom from home ome that that without a t aa angle to arto what has actually occurred anathematize John and arid me In the most I vulgar terms the exposure of injustice gratifies m me and gives an almost mystical mystIcal cal assurance to my sense of right Yes I want to be an 1111 outcast m in m order to real rea realize ize fully folly what human beings are capa capable ble be of oL Louise has the law law on on her sIde John and I left the th Vented Hinted States WIth seven hundred dollars dollar This money came from the sale alo of some tome microscopes and other valuable instruments that were Johns John's property A fortune has haa not been l left fl to Louise Louise but at least she the has more than we The Therum rum ruin of our health and future 13 is to bethe bothe be bethe the indemnity for tor her chagrin on dis drs discovering coveting covering that something indeed not quito nice has haa occurred within the most inti intimate mate circle to which convention binds biad her Without too mum much i effort of tion bon tiou I can follow Lou emotion as 33 she awakened to the e humiliation of f her for position for sting it tt it mast have haft been In a 4 lift life indicated dedicated to 1 social e how impossible iLle not tobe to bo pained by b- ba a t ot to be glossed over Louise wants to be seen at the opera on all the most fashionable nights and to know knour only the t best est people And so society so- so society ty c is 18 almost as liS unkind to the th info inno innocent cent participants in its ts scandals is to the tho sinful originators of the debacle We have baTe behaved as Louises Louise's enemies and she is justified in Ia considering us as 83 aswell well The novel makes it ft clear dear that the hero hero- heroine heroin in ine hie and John were wot unable to return to the United States because LoUIS threatened their immediate arrest und under r the Mann act ct I Is Louise the Mrs Wellman who divorced Dr CreIghton Wenman Weiman and who is living on Charles Street m New Orleans Mrs Wellman recently said laid that she sho ri o had trained men ng for them but had bad not succeeded m in tracing her husband and the th lady ladym m in the th cas case And who is Nannette in hi the story tory Un tiro relative who finally follows the tho rans run runaways to South America to share their lordships Nannette was left leby by her ber husband called Uncle Alec Alee in to the book Is she ho intended to represent rep Elsie Dunns Dunn's mother and Ibo tm fir first t wife WIle of now r a au important u official Evelyn Scott the author of Es E a novel noTel dealing witha with a romance surprisingly like that m in which Elsie Dunn a New Orleans society and Professor Well man Well Well- Wellman man a married man member of the faculty of Tulane University actually figured of the Interstate Commerce Commission on in Washington I think so oft often n of Nannette says the heroine of the novel When I first told her that I loved John she was less shocked than I had exp expected ded Her moral convIctions like hlee most of the ready mAde ready convictions of the world meant nothing to her until she reverted to their the r state state- statement sta statement to- to ment in m an nn instinct of defense But when she knew that John and I were r going to live together she took out anold an anold old pistol which belonged to Uncle Alec and threatened threatened to kill herself with it Nannette according to the story tory seems to have ha ha H in doing nothing bu but irritate both the heroine herome end and her hus has husband husband band after her arrival in South America Nannette Nunnette has been over all aU the de der de tall of my much more elaborately than she wrote them to me v a rItes the author She knows that I Iwas was in m insanely in- in insanely sanely miserable at home but she sum sim simply ply cannot imagine that the acon agon agony of an another other equils the pain pam she Ebe herself hersel has bas pa passed sed through er 0 and o OHr o c she the sad card to me I thought I vas aas as going comi mad LoUise pursued me with insults insult and andre re re- reproaches re- re reproaches reproaches about Joh Join and you know know I Iwas Iwas Iwas was the one who ho pleaded leaded with you not to todo todo todo do anything sh I Absurdly mingled with her antipathy to John is s a very real comfort in the distinction which he achieved in the past 0 i 1 She has justified him bim to other people by recounting his Ms accomplishments If Lf mat mat- matters matters could hav have bave been satisfactorily ringed ar-ringed Sr ar ringed I 1 might have nave married him bur With h her r approval Evelyn Scott rod Scott and Cyril wb wise who might relieve the minds of 10 so many per per- sons ons by ju just t who they are rand and whether or not the th events eventa recounted m in Escapade are founded on cm fact fart fact have recently of f the th South Seas andare and are living hying in ce E Even their publishers have havi no Idea when they will return retarn to this country if i at alL And oven if they should return return U reis no DO ouo that they be ba beany any more metre mor willing wiIl to discuss the mystery y of Elsie Dunn nn and arid Professor Creighton W than the man aan who is believed to be the former fo formers former's s 's father n i mfr |