Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-02

ROSARY OF A RAMBLER


The victory of Gross. the real estate
man of Chicago. over Rostand the
literature of par,is. is productive of sug
pestions. All Ioval Americans. espe-
/ ciallv all loyal westerners will be proud
~ th4 victory which has come to the
n,an who Years ago wrote the play
which was to make secure the fame of
. great American actor. while If
filed the purse of a French play writer
and brought him the crowning renown
| Of his literary work. To many peo-
Mo who are not loval. il will come
With q great surprise that from the
ranks of the practical keen business
men. there should have came one OF
the classic of modern literature. For
the oft quoted phrase Can any good
come out of NAZARETH which the for
eicner utters when something worth
ing compared to the contemptuous in
difference of the disloyal American.
That is a good lesson which the trial
and lis end will teach Another is
that it is not safe to steal ideas and
words. any more than it is to steal
money and eiwels. Mr. Rostand is q
clever man. He was clever enough
10 see the good in another mans work
and that is a cleverness which many
men of talent lack. He was clever
enough to take that good and to re-
rurhich it and change slightly and he
was clever enough to foust onto man
ager. actor and public. the revised
inlay as his own. But cleverness with
pothine back of it. is never strong
There was little back of Rostanda
cleyerness. There WAS not justice
there was not honesty. there was MOI
kindness. So in the end the purse
which was filed by the stolen work
of another and the fame which never
was rightfully his, are to be taken
from him. only his cleverness will re-
main. And cleverness can avail little
for one who is known to have per
i,lred himself.
So
There is another and an interesting;
side of the story of Samuel Gross mil
lionaire real estate man and author of
The Merchant Prince of Cornville,
the forer,lnner of "C,vrano de Berger
ac." Ii is an interesting story and
a pathetic one he tells of his early
STRUGGLES as n writer in the DAYS when
he was determined TO give his thoughts
Ia the world and his life 10 the art
he loved He may look back now and
smile nj the times when he lived or
thirty cants q dav and sometimes from
cheer necessitv on less. but at the
tin,n tbey ,vara anvtbinp hut h1mor
one md avan va+ the man must feel
tho iniustice of it all Had the recog-
,,;ti.,, witch he now, receives IN every
ba,,5 baen bis in those DAYS the eff
foc+ Nv, bis life ond tho effect on Amer.
tom ,iterature can nor he stated They
can onlv be imapined THE wears in
eess in tho h,,rrvinr world of Chicago
business. have brought him wealth and
the leisure it alone can confer but
they have taken away the youth an6
the ambitions which the Young man
had. when he had nothing else. They
have brought him experience and con-
fidence but they have taken away
hopes and ~ncies which all the wealth
of the world can not bring to him
again. 1t is said that the long cher
ished dream of Mr.. Gross to devote his
time to literary pursuits is to be full
filed: that he will erect beautiful
theater in Chicago, and lead the life
of which he dreamed so many years
ago. a ripper and richer force may
be in his work, but there will be some
thing of the hardness which the bit
terness of the years has brought to
him, and when all ms plays ana DOCKS
and poems are written, 1t VIII not be
surprising If his masterpiece shoulu
prove to be the play when years ago
the half-fed, half-Wafmed young
dreamer wrote in MS attlc IN the CITY,
where he was in tune TO WIN MS lor-
tune and his fame.
'sWomen folks are so queer" the lit
tie girl muttered to herself, all uncon-
scious seemingly of the fact that she
was making a statement very, very old,
and that her denunciation might, like
the proverbial chickens, come back to
herself 1t had all come about thru her
irving to be kind and sweet, and that
was what made her feel the worst
about it, so she told her contidant. She
whose lives are spent in boarding
houses, and the one where she and her
mother lived had it's full quota of
women. Among them was a very di-
minutive creature, whose one consola-
ton was that the lady next her at the
table was even smaller. Time and again
had she been challenged her neighbor
"to measure" only to be refused That
proved her supremacy even if it had