| Show ita 1 bi WRITING or A PLAY ili 13 II 11 r I 1 ailt bosis of Sot herns I 1 or P id al etain 0 I 1 4 11 P golt S WROTE IT slag chat with the author of ra a int r he oaly artistic of tile present I 1 agn in n new york the many treala f a no now I 1 NY person who i r fame suddenly at once achieves becomes I 1 it I 1 I 1 JN t A character an I 1 interesting and I 1 in these thee days 4 11 when a large majority I 1 I 1 I 1 01 of american 1 1 1 71 theatrical managers 1 A are I 1 bously engaged in asseverating that y good plays come onh fro from tlc tt alc other side of the pond tb b 1 i m clr 0 if the man or woman an who up 1 14 s ll 11 ians vid don is is a subject of which tb ahr at it arge 1 and the suckling stickling fardous Sar dous j delight it light to read binni ii it very rare thine thing and there nrc I 13 lotsof purchasers asterito af after it in f 1 I 1 a ahre shrewd of a manager manage r as mr field of museum lias has ordered 6 the from ial s MT inston a serious play called ag caba v N aich will bo be produced in oc ali or ember on ilie the surface sin face captain appe a is i N s 1 a the outsider only as a a play windi wa waK given at a 1 l t tr al matinee I 1 last I 1 u prill anil produced in august at the ly cenni theater th riter new york I 1 waa was curious to enow low how this young woman entirely ignorant ig of professional theatrical mattera matters bai bad ba bit n a able ble even to secure a hearing for her p i v frob 11 mr Sot sothern bern and I 1 confess that the sto story ry as told roo me by mies miss merin mering 9 tou toil has a increased ini ceased rather than diminished mv surp surprise r iso MIM N Mtr ferington ington has long taken an interest in amateur theatricals she has a lady friend of similar tastes and the embryo ahm right was wits constantly suggesting that tuis this eliat ti it or the other thing would make a pretta su nc As miss I 1 is a lady of hit I 1 g i literary ln lit attainments as her contributions to the magazines will attest her ber friend who is also an intimate il ac disint toce of edward sothern suggested suggest e d atiat sl adopt dramatic writing as a profession fes sion and promised to bend mr sothern to see her ht As the actor was at that tin time le molly 11 in reva of a play the pr preliminary ellmina ry portion of the pro gramme went through without will out a I 1 itch tir L v iu rs ago a mr sothern first visited hiss mi rington arington at the request of the mutual and in this casa it must be admitted fic lpaul arvind the interview on that cunin ovas not a particularly com comprehend compre hen en sire ni i va tho the actor only explained to th aspi in playwright the line of char characters acte r which he desired coplay to play among others be mentioned that the irish gentleman would be a it type new to the stage for a fuw few days miss busied busted her mind v v ith it h concocting concoct ing interesting stories re about the central figure of an irish gentleman gent leman then she wrote a first act se several times too long which she sent to mr soth dolhun rn who paid her another visit in the follon follo wim i ni spring and told her very fran frankly kl thit that th it bar work i ork was but the story as detailed tailed df to him possessed vitality theu he went away and miss instead of becoming dis heartened resolutely ely set to work rewrote the first act and at afterward ter finished the play on the occasion of mr air Sot hems herns n x ab cibit after the close of the season lie ex cuned that while he liked r as the piece was then known very much that it would be more to hi is interest to play henry arthur jones the dancing girl during bis his next tour he ile advised d her to sell her comedy to any ore who would produce it promptly but alo alto told her that if she cared to wait walt until he lie got ready be would put it of o f later in the season after there had been a good deal of revising done mr sothern notified miss that he be would give a trial matinee at the lyceum this was done and the press notices were on the whole extremely favorable although thero there were manifest crudities to which miss told me that even she was not blind next morning sir mr sothern delighted the hopeful author with the announcement that be had bad decided to use for the season of 1892 1872 3 miss tient apart a part of the past rummer with that prince of kindly men joseph jefferson ly by his advice much pruning wits done lone and two I 1 irrelevant char ebar aders were ruthlessly eliminated so that the piece as produced at the lyceum last month stood forth a nearly faultless piece ct of dramatic construction miss is probably less than twenty five years old her iler face denotes I 1 the strongest intellectuality and sho alto ba baa 3 I 1 a terse and tic ishm manner of expressing herself which Is 1 positively captivating I 1 she 1 I is i tall rather me slender ader and though not robust in constitution is it i devotee of hw swimming wini ming she lives in a little cottage I 1 11 I 1 I 1 ii agn I 1 L I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 a I 1 4 I 1 1 N I 1 MISS limehouse lik like house ehouse at the corner of one Il hundred undred and forty first street and the grand boule tord tard only a few rods away from the blud hon on river and it was at tt it window commanding I 1 this beautiful ill view that captain I 1 was slowly created miss ws not torn born in tho the united states but has lived here since she was as a little child her iler modesty at her ber achievement the magnitude of which sho she teems seems scarcely to realize e makes her it somewhat difficult per person 8 on to interview she says that she will make ber life ife work there is encouragement in miss mering tons toas experience for us aspiring dramatic authors had she given up at the first second or third obstacle encountered suca lc a would have eluded her and the american biage would bavo have suffered accordingly OCTAVOS OCTAVUS COU EN E N |
