The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-11-23

OH61cu III New 1Ork City
The following story of E. C Gilmore is
an interesting addition to what has been
said and written about Hall Gaines hav-
ing first introduced the pope into a play,
in his version of ''The Eternal City:
All this poppycock talk about The
Eternal City being the first play that
has ever contained a characterization of
have good reasons for knowing that IL
IS nothing of the sort. Away back in the
los garden, we had one of those expert
ences which 1 am not likely ever to for
get. Dion Boucicault then at the height
of his fame had Just finished his famous
run in The Shaughraun,' He wrote
new play. which, although I won't be
positive, l think was called The Pope of
Rome This am positive of, however,
the pope was the principal character in
the play, and BOueicault played the role
himself. At the first performance, al
though the play met with little popu-
larity, there was no hostile demonstra-
ton. But the next morning the news
papers opened fire on US with unanimt-
ty which was awe-inspiring- The second
night the house was packed, and In all
my experience l have never witnessed
such a scene of pandemOnium. In spite
of the fact that he was the popular idol
of the day. Boucicault was literally
Kissed off the stage But the actor was
game and insisted upon giving another
performance. 1t was our third and last,
for that night the audience almost tore
the seats out. and then / stepped in, and.
wishing to protect my furniture we'll
as my star, insisted Upon an immediate
change of bill To his dying day Dion
Boucicault never forgot that experience
Mrs. Mary Stewart Cutting done a not
able series of stories in her Little Stones
of Married Life, recently published, and
has, by the success which the tales have
made, placed herself in the position which
she has both striven for and feared for
years. 1T is so hard TO strike ten
twice. she explains. One does not need
to be told that Mrs. Cutting has been
through all the suburban experiences and
has lived the married life with which
the book deals. Five of her six children
are living; her husband died nine years
ago, and since then she has been trying
to write the stories which she says she
was always making up to herself Be
fore her marriage she wrote a few poems,
which appeared IN LippencottS Magazine,
signed Mary Stewart. Later on she wrote
a number of children's stories for a
small church paper
Writing for Children says Mrs. Cut
ting, Il found an excellent education, as
one is obliged TO be clear and concise
But il was about seven years ago that 1
began to turn my attention seriously
toward writing. It was slow and dis
couraging. By dint of hard work got
one or two. stories accepted by different
leading M gaines and papers. Try as
hard as l might, l could never get two
articles accepted by one magazine, or
more than two II year But wrote
and sent, and sent and wrote, always eX-
pectfnS a refusal. and with fresh deter
mination to succeed each time a manu-
script came back to me. About three
years ago / wrote Their Second Mar
rage which was published in one of
the magazines. Before long I found this
was giving me a reputation. and since
then have written only stories of mar
ried people.
Il do not write story quickly. / have
to live into it-and I can never write any
outline of it beforehand. ] have the ell
max in mind from the very first, and thai
is always clear to me, If nothing else IS.
The people l write about become entirely
real to me. Once I wrote a murder and
detective story, and never wanted TO
again-it was so horrid to live with such
dreadful people"
Mrs Cutting has in fact, made her rep
utation in a practically new field-she has
| begun her stories where other writers
leave off. Marriage is a very general ex-
perience, and the married people live with
as much energy and activity as the bach
elors and maids, or the boys and girls.
yet in fiction they generally cease to be
once the marriage ceremony is per-
! formed The stories in the present col
| lection seem TO reveal the very heart of
/ domesticity. but in every instance it is
! the married life that one likes TO think
| is truly representative, the married life
/ whose problems and trials are only
TO be solved by the abiding affections of
/ the contracting parties. The book leaves
/ a very pleasing sense of satisfaction with
/ the reader
| The recent Look which comes TO mind
/ in this cOnnection-perhap because of
! Contrasts r. V Risley's THE Life of a
| Woman" The latter story-a long one