The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-21
NEWS OF THE BOOK WORLD
Paris Has a Dramatic Authors Trust-le
Has the Consumers, In Other Words,
the Theater Managers, Badly Beaten
Also Controls the Output Of the Play
WrIghts-one Mans Experience.

II the actors of the country could pre-
vail upon the playwrights and the authors
of the country to form a trust like that
OF the Society of Authors and Dramatic
Composers of Paris they would have the
theater trust done to a turn" The So
clety mentioned, at least has the theater-
men at Its mercy in Paris:
nj. Louis Forest, writing for La Revue
and quoted IN .TheaLlterary Digest, shows
how the society operates as a trust that
In the successful control Of matters of
interest to 1t matches the match trust
Of America. M. Forest says:
This venerable institution was founded in 1929
by dramatic authors who were weary of being
morally ana financially at the mercy of the
powerful nonopolizing association which governs
the market OF dramatic production from the chef
deuyre down to the meanest parody OF the
care-concert with an iron hand No theatrical
manager dares to break AWAY from its rule, uI-
der pain of never being able to get hold of q
modern play to put upon the boards, and of
being. therefore. condemned to die Of inanition
NO author can work Independently of 1T, under
pain OF never having his piece produced. He
would N hnd no manager willing to even glance at,
the manuscript of a writer not enrolled in the
ciety-which would be but another way OF
dying.
M Roy. banker. desiring Ito buy the
fes-Parisiens theater, which had
failed was refused the right to do so by
the commission of authors, who alleged
litdl 4AC was d4IStQy a Slle1Al partner IN the
Athenee and Folies-Dramatique theaters,
and that In reality he was only acting as
the representative of the managers of the
a boYe- mentioned playhouses. N They sub
jected him to- the following interrogatory
before rendering the final Judgment. This
Is M. Roy ownareport: M 8f
.'Do you know. NM sDeyal and Richemond ~
(theatrical managers).
Eyes, very WELL"
AT once ten voices raised to impose all
sorts of conditions on me, of which these a
few:
"You will engage artists from the Athenee
or the Foies-Dramatique; you will not borrow
any scenery from the said theaters. We forbid
Richemond,'' etc. 8
i When some order was restored, NJ. Pierre
! Wolff added: 1--WE, however, do not object to
your dining with your friends sometimes
.'Manchu and Muscovite' is the title OF
4 Putnam SWeale's important new book on Mani
churia, which the Macmillan company has an
nounced. The volume consists largely in letters
from Manchuria, written during last autumn,
! popular In character and packed with interesting
1 facts about the country and the people and the
/ way in which business is done and affairs are
carried on. historical sketch, entitled. PRO
logue to the Crisis gives a complete account
Miss Belle M. Brain of Springfield Ohio
is known thruout the entire missionary
4 world for her unremitting labors in rous-
ing and sustaining interest among the
christians at home'' in the work Of those
who are advancing and upholding the
standard Of Christ among heather and
semibarbarous peoples. In Holding the
Ropes she has summed up and system.
atized all her ideas. and applications tx
mission work Of the most approved meth;
'1ods in the pedagogical and evangelica
fields. Delavan l.. Pierson, an editor Q,
the Missionary Review Of the World, II
4 which the chapters composing the pres,
(ent book originally appeared, says In hi:
Introduction to the volume "The stud.
4 Of missions Is science and the man.
agement of a missionary meeting is an art
Therefore, when so great interests are a
stake, Miss Brain must be commended 70
Ehe- earnestness and thoroness in present
ing to missionary w workers. at home tht
Ernost advanced escieIftif1c methods of stud
and the most artful means of arousing tn
interest Of Indifferent church members ami
} listless 3sahdayI school schalarsJQ 81
Mr.: Howell's' latest pYvel'S 1.-THE Son of Roya
En- ass.s4 X Fe H Ngn s nss
can, Review, hs. arousiaA general ipteFSst as d
romance Of man and woman past their youth
LIT will be published IN book form by, the Har
. pers in the autumn: Mr. Howell is still a
England 81
Il The Uneasy Chair.AS
! In the simple words of a frontiersman
Joseph Henry Taylor tells of his twent
I years experience in trapping and study
1 ing the beaver. mi the preface Of hi
$ story he expresses the hope that, if Their
e / is any boy who yearns for the life of til
6 trapper before he fully decides TO senabar
Y upon such career, he will read Beavers
8 Their Ways. The author trusts that the
the boy will give ups his plan to .becom
a trapper.
, However, the book is by no means pes
: simistic, altho the trapper is always re
| ferred to as a 'clovenfoot' or schiying
. tom The work is not intended to b
. scientific; it merely tells of the custom
e of the beaver in the northwest. as act
i ually verified by the writer. The. boo
: IS illustrated with photographs taken i
North Dakota, most of them In tn
> Painted Woods lake district S