Show Story Stork of Mother Love dove and Sacrifice Told In Great Triumph of Girl Gird Author It Mrs Mrs Millay Left Husband to Provide Her Talented Daughter With Chance to Develop Artistic Traits New American Opera Makes Dream Come T True Truc ruc By Br BRUCE GOULD COULD S Special Correspondent of ot The StAndard Standard Examiner Examiner Copyright 1327 1927 Consolidated Press Pres Association NEW YORK Feb 19 Back IS Back ot of o the tir sp spectacular triumph of ot Edna I St t Vincent Millay with the en- en enthusiastically thu cn-thu heralded production ot of The Tho Kings King's Henchman pro pro- produced produced produced this week at the th MetropolItan Metropolitan itan nan opera house lies the tir story ot of a mother who believed In her daughters daughter's genius and ot or a 8 faith which made her dreAm m come true To obtain the th proper perspective perspective tive It will be best to employ the movie flash Clash fla h back First then picture the tb golden horse shoo shoe ot of the too cel celebrated Met Met- Metropolitan Metropolitan The curtain goes down mid thunderous 8 applause For 0 minutes It continues All ot of the celebrities who make n a a tir first t tight night at the tho opera what It Is Join In tho the cheering and shouting And the yellow ellow curtains are aro part part- parted parted parted ed ed to show hof Miss MIllS Millay and Deems Taylor the tho composer bowing and vowing bowing In the spotlight tr MOTHER TUL-KE TUL In the madly cheering audience audiences Is s a a tiny grey trey woman Vincents mother the tho wildest enthusiast of the lot lot I was crazy about It it she sho said today and even when she he said It it her eyes ees lit up with the memory ot of the tho steno cono when crit- crit critics crit crit- critIcs critics ics and laymen lamen pounded one on an- an another another an another other and cheered and cheered to think that America had finally como come of ot age ago operatically Then she sho exclaimed with a burst ot of pardonable mother love But But nobody can help admirIng admiring Ine Ing Vincents Vincent's lyric work it if they know anything about letters letter I Icam came near getting gering in front of ot the curtain myself LEFT LEI lIEn HER HUSBAND From that glamorous clamorous scene kip back 28 years Vincent Was but seven and her two sis sis- sisters tern sis four tour and one respectively and and Mrs Mr Cora Corn Millay had bad just Ht her husband because she wanted her throe three daughters to tomake tomake tomake make names for tor themselves in the world I I had nothing but my hands ands to use in supporting my babies she said My Ily own people were headed headed cool New Englanders and they couldn't understand why I left my husband to earn my own living But I wouldn't be bo daunt daunt- daunted daunted ed pd Im I'm a s sport I guess a throw throw- throwback throwback throw back back to some Home old self reliant an- an ancestor ancestor an ancestor I had not been Leen able to write or 01 bean be an an actress as I had wanted to be I was determined determined determined ed that somehow some om wa way way- my daughters should sirs Mrs Millay worked as a nurse In Camden Maine but never had tune time to study for tor a certificate The daughters were left with neigh neigh- neighbors neighbors neighbors bors When they grew up they worked too waiting wailing on table or whatever was at Land at-Land Land The veined worn work-worn hands ot of Mrs Millay the tho lined inel but Strangely ely face are IlIe physical evidence of or years ot of through poverty but somehow because she ch was as a poet and because l-ir l rt ot of nf her Iter mothers mother's In- In Indomitable indomitable In- In spirit Vincent wrote Renascence that youthful poem ot of fire tire and courage which went ringing throughout the land and brought tame fame tarn to the tho year 19 year li 1 author author WENT T TO COLL COLLEGE GE Mrs Caroline B Dow Aunt Caroline Vincent tails calls her even today national head of ot the Y T TW w w C A who was summering in j Vin-I Vin Camden Insisted on sending Via Vin- Vincent cent to Vassar college And after atter Vassar came New York where all young genius eventually comes to conquer or be b conquered Vin- Vin Vincent Vincent Vin Vincent cent lives with Norma Nonna the sister lster who is now playing on a Broad Broad- Broadway Broadway way Broad way stage Ot Of 0 r cou course the they settled set set- set settled lied In Greenwich village because It was cheaper Norma design design- designed designed d cd ed costumes Vincent wrote As soon as IlS they could could they moved to larger quarters and sent for their Wa Ve worked and slaved and things didn't quits quitt meet but we e were happy the th mother said INHERITED I DESIRE Those things latent and re- re repressed repressed re repressed pressed In me m have come como out th In my girls My youngest daughter Kathleen has hIlS just brought out outher outher outher her first novel you know Neither Vincent nor her mother weighs more than a II bare hun hun- hundred hun hue hundred dred pounds Both ravo bobbed hair though Vincents Vincent's is auburn In and 1 her mothers mother's gra gray But moth moth- mother mother er cr Millay used to wear bobbed hair back when she was 19 be- be before before be before fore It was the fashion and that certainly gives fives her the right to do doso doso doso so now that she Is 63 3 00 00 |