Show r 1 J j PERCY P ERCY HAMMONDS HAMMOND'S imER LETTER J f I NEW YORK Aug Mr lB-Mr 18 probably was chagrined last Tuesday when whon he ho learned that had been greeted by bythe bythe bythe the newspapers with the ardent handclasp approbation of Z N Jl y T critical tons ton's bation It Is la one of Mr tons ton's gentler recreations I suspect to eel seize e a reviewer who has ha treated Ills hii play p play morosely and by writing him A tolerant letter to heckle and humiliate him As Aa Incapable of givIng giving ing pains as u sometimes ho he Is I of taking them Mr le Is 1 aol sel dom el-dom dour dom Inhuman Ho He Is not one of those detested sports port that owe their pleasure to another's others other's anguish but a tender paternal pastime which though exposing Its iti it delights d il hta that victim with tho the manner mannen o 0 fibs exposure I hove have had two enjoyable exper exper- experiences experience as a material for tor Mr tona ton tons ton's holiday Once was whon whop by mall ho be dejected me with come aoma fondling torments torment which that I h had d boon been wrong In I my of ot Oti Ott Otis Skin Skin- Skin nor nor Milt or Antonio At I or or time ho he caused cau d me to writhe voluptuously by y pointing out In the honeyed phrases of a parent who takes a 0 child across II that my error In reporting Miss Ml Billie Dillie Rose Ro a Briar while enor- enor enormous onor wore human and forgivable It was nice of you not to like my play he ha seemed to say I you EO so little tittle understand It You thought It was this and that when I 1 meant It to ba he the tho other i iSo t tSo I So to o to lc Is la Mr tr cor- cor cor that the critics toll mo me they thoy regret ret these thelle when ho he writes a play plY that pleases them In case they express gOlden opinions of his hla works they get no glad letters from him But from words derogatory they derive a flagellant recreation combining a delicious with the scourge of an amicable disapproval In Tv which I am told was evolved several years ago by I Mr and his helpful cOI 1 col- col collaborator col collaborator Mr H L Wilson In an antique shop shop hop In Me the N Y reviewers perceived like Desdemona a Il divided duty The comedy cheered them but It if they published their enjoyment they published their enJoyment theY would be deprived of letters from Mr lr and also the they would bereave Mr of the Joys of writing tois to them It ItIs ItIs Is Is la It not a convincing evidence of oC the abnormal probity of the Broad Broadw ey ayi t I that again they the turned their honest backs on temptation and wrote that Mr T WM was excellent I I as might bo ho suspect suspect- suspected suspected suspected ed from a If It not 3 a a Wilson Wil- Wil Wilson son Wil-son son drama Is Ie an idyll 1111 14 II about a boy and a girl The Tho one Is acted by Gr Gregory gory Kelly who like Peter Pan I will rever allow himself to grow up the other by Mrs Kelly Ruth i who though a child Is II rather old In the title of ot the play I the authors coin a word electing to be emblematic of the futilities of family pride Thus a Is one whose breast glows glos with the feeling that thatto to In him and d his fathers exIsts a cosmic aristocracy containing all the II tues known n to loftiness Kind hearts heart to him are leis lela lee than cor- cor cor coronet onet and simple faith than Nor Nor- Norman Norman man Better blood as a the saying Baying goes gon Bet Dot ter to be not Dot at all he thinks than not IL a a The front whom and WIl WIlson Wil- Wil Wilson Wll-aon Wll son take the name of this aliment ailment II Is Adam II a a haughty and hed man work man of work all In a aNew aNew New England summer ummer resort vil- vil village vil village lage There were T In n this hamlet shortly after fter Ad- Ad Adam Adam Ad Adam am delved and Eve span apan and On that account he gives the considerable consideration e It cornea cones to pus pasa ass through the oc- oc occasionally oc occasionally deft manipulations ot of Mr and nd Mr Wilson that the daughter of a and the tho Ion eon of a Castle Castlebury bury discern In the theyo yo young un eyes of ot one another tho the well known n lovo love light The are rich In purse lineage and social prestige having had governors and even U B S Bena senators on In their fam fam- familY family family ily So Bo they are horrified when they thOY learn that the latest of ef the tho has become moro more than I 1 the boy friend of the latest of the The young woman Is a amere amere amere mere waitress and saleslady In the tho I tearoom and antique shop A delightful silo she Is too as played and with comparative comparative- comparatively ly simplicity by Miss Mias Gordon The Castlebary boy Is Js a terrible thing vacant however however vacant cloudy u a ala it if over there was one one-I one and It Is said sald of him that he was sent down In hi his freshman year atthe at I Ithe ithe the university for being as aa much of ofa ofa oa a as most of the other lads in his class How ho evolves I two pretty women In affection for his imbecilic personality can be ox- ox explained ex explained only by MI Ml belief bellef In stage fairies This boy Is IsIf If any ono one IS 13 a hopeless nincompoop nincompoop poop very vary undesirable and you say sayto sayto to you yourself self How can ho he bo be a l ro- ro romantic romantic ro romantic mantic creation of tho the mature sa- sa satirical sa satirical Wilson w W blain ln sa-I sa The high spot which emphasizes the Idea and the deep deep thinking thinking 0 of M Wilson Nilson and occurs when the tho proud rough and tho proud foregather ly sib t ly Iy In la the tho antique shop to discuss methods of separating chil chil- children children dren of o a thousand earls j chU-j he lOre are prepared to be gentle In to their thell haughty hau disdain ot of othe the T T but the tho Big J needle not suspecting that such Is their the errand Immediately and with con con- considerable con considerable pity for tor their humble state puts thorn them hem In their thell place Ho Holets Holets Holets lets them know that the they are only cheap outsiders The play ends fragrantly as Is the custom with Ith Love triumphant over all and e even enmore c en enmore more Elsewhere was entitled Bristol Glass and aud when I last year It was as done In the Middle West Vest critics and drama loeu lover lo I pooh It as piffle o 00 |