The herald., 1896-01-05
ANARCHY PAUL kAUVAR"
How a Great Play Was
Produced
AN INTERESTING NARRATIVE
Concerning That Famous Drama
Brain Failure Ends a Most
Remarkable Career

During the summer OF 'sS had the pleasure
OF meeting intim tely the disting guished play
wright, Steele MacKaye. He was passing the
summer at Block island thirty miles out in
the Atlantic, and had selected this famous re
| sort that he might unds turbed COM pie his
great masterp ece. anarchy" 1t will be no
breach OF confidence ii 1 add that the cele.
! brated author looked forward with eagerness
to the financial promise OF the new play.
RecolliI 6 the misfortune that over ook the
Spectatorium at Chicago (steele MacKaye 8
worlds fair dream) l am FIRE. to be ieve that
the author OF anarchy" found his full st
no. e' of achievement realized at Block Island
during that memo able summer In a COM
Portable cottage near the north sh ore light.
house Steele MacKaye began the building of a
gre at drama.
The roar OF the mighty Atlanti, as il beat
asaiust the rug gcd cliffs was rythmic music to
his vigorous brain Night aud day he tolled
at the framework OF the memorable play 1t
must be finished as fast as possible; many
necessities urged this Its first production in
England must be previous to it's iui.ial per-
formance in this country to comply wi co y
right exactions. Faster and faster the frame
work OF ANA chy" uprearcd. Brighter
and brighter grew tne promis of plentiful
reward. Then the curtain was rung down
| Messen ers were hurried to and fro Anxious
| friends whispered ''Steele has broken down 4"
| At midnight reached his bedside. and i: was
a picture will not soon forget. That mag
| Ilrpput n n phvc nd int iloot nj
manhood was tossing helplessly on the bed
bemoauins bitterly his most uptimely afllic-
| ton.
Beside his pillow rested the score of his loved
drama, and when placed it on the table he
| uttered protest that told all too plainly his
| financial hopes concerning "Anar hy''
| ecle Mackaye, the author of Hazel Kirk -
| written on the boards VI a carpenters bencl
while he was inventing the double stage and
the theatrical ehair--a man of perfect hysique
| IA giant in mentality-the ide Il hero OF many
famous dramas had snapped the first bread
| OF IN ntal vi ali y ana WAS paying his first
| tribute to an "overworked brain "
No man could have been more surprised
at the sudde failure OF nature than our es-
teerned patient. For weeks FAXED that fall
te ing tagging brain and at last it threw aside
| its re eminent and steele MacKaye was con-
| valescent. trip to he Adriondacks, a fe W
weeks rest and my patient returned to Block
| Island with an amanuensis. and "Anarchy"
was soon ompeted. At Buffalo New York it
was first produced under the title OF paul
kauvar," and scored most crafty ing success
Natures first warning at block Island wa S,
indeed the handwriting on the WALL but con
s,ious only Of his former prowess he took up
ig Iva
Chicago W s to be the crowning glory OF his
life; after half million OF dolars had been
spent or the great Worlds Fair enterprise e
| financial panic came and the Spectatorium
had to be alb ndoned. 1t was he "last straw"
to complete the mental and physical over
| throw OF life that had been devoted to all
| that was "est in human ty
| 1 saw him at Chic go he was setting out
for California in quest of what proved TO be
| his lest conlict with nature. He who runs
may read the moral of this sad arrative and
| tai ing ii home 10 his own heart, ask:
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