Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-21

Dorothy, not |, says that she will "be an actor to buy horses and musician to have art
 And the wife, the real heroine of "Shore Acres is Mrs. Katharine Corcorau Herne, for if it were not for the authors wife he wouldn't be an author.
 To call upon Mrs llcrnc iS quite the same thing as calling upon Mir. Ncrnc, fu- he and his wife are two people who have proved that marriage isn't a failurc. Where you find one, there, generally speaking. k the cOrollary.
 As Mrs. Herne tells of the writing of shore Acres, ' il k very interesting story.
 In the drizzling rain one summer day Mir. and Mrs Herne, who had a summer home at Lamoync. Me, were taking a CAnstitu- tional.
 The kindly, queer, quaint deaf old farmer who hailed Nr. Iicrnc with a Hi Wal yew takin that woman Ia this hiId nv n day!' and who, when they stopped to talk with him. took them over his place. '' lovingly explaining the trees in the hedge were there because he set them out when a boy and they he'd growed up along u' him, an he hedn't the heart To cut 'rm out this old, ancient days Maine farmer had something to do with inspiring the play ';;hurc Acres
 Perhaps the other grizzly old cod-svr whO came to hear it read in the low Ccilel liv. lbNlli NtlN ptAN W siH AAAt sAltA W lAN prepared himself for solid enjoyment with his feet un the dresser and then wen: >nur- iugly to sleep before the reading he-Hu-hC may have provided some of the buculic touches in the piece.
 That wa~ bat the bare outline of the play what wa, done that summer. IL has been gone over and over, until Mir. and Mrs. Hvruc regard i; as sonnet hing they are ready tu pin their stage faith tu, ,,,.rI,s lr-l,tt,l yyrst.. Heruc, in the first pincr u'hvr authors were coming 10 him for advice, " hich he gave so admirably soid. Why not write play yourself:
 MT. Ierne mistrusted his ability, bat b. | underrstimatcd it.
 Were you q rcalI.; when You bvsan ic write playsf" Nlr. lI,ri." was u>Sc,I re | gently.
 II had no theory. he replied Il wa. always a natural actor. Critics said that was cold. Ilway~ tricl Ia make person l age on the sta-,. >rtu real There "rC crit l ics of rullis::. who have s.id tn I.lc. 'lf you | wish tu put on the stage a real huslcurricr l why do yCu Is"l 20 among thc lalrprvT- and select u:.c: ii,,. rys,>on l. ;lat .i real l.'sl | Carrl,r will l."t ~ccu rral uu the ~iH.:,- lIG | will unJ EaNv the asl tu GiNc protection q, l his uatuF.liut~-. l WAS told that Antoine | selected for the T. t.atu. l.iisv iu Paris q  They were hot prulC~>iuna.-. bui they wcT' actors am surc l Cuull form a similar company aIiyw here.
 Did you ever consider ILr adv iSahllIIy | uf forming such a CumlaHy' Wa I Ay,l. | No" Mir Hcrnc rypiI,d- I have found l too many sympathetic IrI,ndS anuu., act l ors. They freely ClIvrd their services 1 when my plays were wIlisCut popularity Y 1 They wCrr willing to make a sacrifice il l the interest of the dcf,u>c Uf my work. l Their CnCnUraE, he cOnlinurl was very valuable to me. My plays LaC a singular experience They wcrc applaud ed ut every performances. but the audiences were extremely varied in s'zc. w. r,ayci to an audience of Si.CCJ one night :ud I, an audience Cf s3O tEc following night Yet both the large and the small aud .rnot= were enthusiastic
 Was not the net result a suoCc~s in financial viewt'
 No, but I felt confident that it WAS success in an artistic view Mir. Hernc IT. piled. My friends would sometime, say make money, but they wer. not in verN grave earnest, because they knew that il was simply impossible for me to write any thing which was not within the phases o my own experience of life. Then found so much consolation in the approval of per sons whose opinions esteemed that my dis interestedness about money had not as mucl merit as you might suppose"
 He wrote The Minute Man, Hearts O Oak, ," Drifting Apart, Margaret Elem ing' and shore Acres, ' without a hesitan thought in his planning.