The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-10

serially through one of the magazines
before it makes its public appearance
between book covers. All that IS told
of the story at the present time is that
the period IN which the action of the
plot takes place is that of Queen Eliz
abeth. The heroine is lady in waiting
at the court and the hero is young
officer in Sir John NEVIS feet
Miss Johnston spends most OF her
time in her Virginia home. She writes
slowly, and the typewriter comes in for
the greatz burden Of her composition
/ She has recently directed the dramatiza-
! ton of her story Audrey" which has
I just opened in New York city.
/ The following story by F. c. Gilmore
is an interesting addition to what has
been said and written about Han Game
having first introduced the pope into
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 a pope of Rome is amusing to me
have good reasons for knowing that It is
nothing Of the sort. Away back in the
middle '70s. when I was managing Nj
bios garden. we had one of those ex-
periences which 7 am not likely ever
to forget Dion Roucicault. then at the
height of his fame. had just finished his
famous run in The Shaushraun.' He
wrote a new play which. although ]
won't be positive I think was called
The PuDe of Rome This I am posi-
tive of, however. the pope was the prin-
cipal character in the play and BOuci-
cault played the role himself. At the
first performance. although the play met
with little popularity. there was no hos
tile demonstration But the next morn
ing the newspapers opened fire on US
with q unanimity which was awe in
spring. The second night the house
was packed, and in all my experience ]
have never witnessed such scene of
pandemCnium. In spite of the fact that
he was the popular idol of the day,
BOucicault was literally Missed off the
stage. But the actor was game and
insisted upon giving another perform
ance 1t was our third and last for that
night the audience almost tore the seats
out. and then I STEPPED in, and, wish
ing to protect my furniture as well as
my Star,insisted upon immediate change
of bill To his dying day Dion Bouci-
cault never forgot that experience
Mrs. Mary Stewart Cutting has done
a notable series of stories in her lit
tie Stories 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 50 hard
to strike ten twice" she explains. one
+ does not need to be told that Mrs. Cut
ting has been through all the suburban
f experiences and has lived the married
her six children are living, her husband
died nine years agO. and since then she
has been trying to write the stories
4 which she says she was always making
UP to herself Before her marriage. she
wrote few poems which appeared IN
Lippinc0tt's Magazine signed Mary
Stewart. Later on she wrote a number
of chndren's stories for a small church
paper
Writing for cf-ffdren.' - says Mrs Cut
ting, Il found an excellent education. as
one is obliged to be clear and concise
But it was about seven years go thai
I began to turn my attention seriously
toward writing It was slow and dis
cOura ging. BY dint Of hard work I got
one or two stories accepted by dIfferena
leading magazines and papers Try as
, hard as might ] could never get TWO
articles accepted by one magazine or
$ more than two in a year. But / wrote
, and sent. and sent and wrote, always
{ expecting refusal and with fresh dc-
+ termination to succeed each time man
uscTiut came back TO me. About three
years ago I wrote Their Second Mar
riage. which was published in one OF
the magazines Before long found this
was giving me reputation and since
5 then [ have written only stories of mar
ried people.
II do not write story quickly. !
have to Ike into it-and 7 can never
write any outline Of It beforehand =
nave the climax in mind from the very
first. and that Is always clear to ne II
nothing else IS The people I write
about become entirely real to me. once
/ wrote murder and detective story,
and never wanted TO agaiu-it was 81
horrid 10 live with such dreadful PEG
pie"
Mrs. Cutting has, in fact. made her
reputation in practically new field
she has begun her stories where other
writer's leave of Marriage is very
general experimental the married peo-
=
5 lty as bachelors and maids or the BOYS
ana Girls yet in fiction they generals
cease 70 he cnce the marriage ceremony
D as rHnal- The stories in the present
collection seem TO reveal the very heart
{ ql Gcinesticity. but in every ia.e-ancs
L IS the married life that one likes 10
I tnlnk IS truly representative. the mar
d REQ IKE whose problems and trials are
only 10 be solved by the abiding affee-
E u"ns OF the contracting parties. The