The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-11-26
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humor," says the author, when he tells
 of the Morocco bank.
 Kentland continued to know George
 Ade after he became famous, but Brook had never known him up to the time of his residence there, nor heard of him as an author-only as son of the banker and brother of the sheriff. So when his house was completed and he began to make frequent trips to the village post office in his automobile, the wise men | of Brook compared notes. made inquiries | and found that he was writer Of | shows or "opries." To this day, in the minds of many of his peighbors. every | thing Ade does has some relation to the | theatre All of his guests are looked | upon as troopers" all his letters must l necessarily come form actors, and if the
 Brook understanding were equal to any such theory his table would be spread with prop banquets. In illustration: | Ade was entertaining. among others,
 the mother and sister of John McCutch-
 con, his life long friend and Illustrator
 of several of his books. All the summer | guests at Hazleden stay out of doors most of the time. On one trip to the will | lage Ade met an old friend of his fathers,
 whom he had not seen in a long time. 1 'T drove past your house, George, last night" he said. 'I saw you sitting In l front and I had notion to drop in
 Why didn't you? Glad to see you at
 any time.'
 well. I was going to. but I saw you had some actresses there, so drove on" This past summer George Marion. MT.
 Savages stage director, was a guest at | Hazelden. It was sheep-shearing time | and the main expert of the county. George Long. had the job. Marion was some- | thing of a puzzle to him. He wore a
 sweater and cap and his makeup other wise was baffling to Long.
 "Who is that?" he asked of Ade's | brother. Joe.
 That's George Marion, the stage man. | ager."
 'I<ind of an actor?'
 Yes"
 | long pause.
 Tt beats me. I can't understand how ! some of them city people can work hard | all day and then go and spend fifty cents ] to see some show.'
 Marion pursued system of training while at Brook. As fighter reduces his l weight so Marion Init the road" With sweater on and cap pulled down he would l jog into town for two miles and run back. | This programme had all the farmers guessing. Exercise they had In plenty in the fields and 1t was inconceivable that , anybody should voluntarily run along dusty road unless he was eccentric Some of them attributed it to lack of hos pitality in Ade in not letting Marion have | the use or ms noISeS, OtutfS tlltrStu il to naughty English coachman employed at Hazelden who had refused to gossip about his masters household and who had come In for general dislike The latter theorists won. What do you thnk?" said one of them at Toll
 Bledsoe's barbershop. "I met that driver of Ades coming in this morning with
 the team and that actor running behind trying to catch up with him!' The editor of the Brook Reporter Is
 considerable parsonage and a man of
 deepest convictions. Without giving Ade
 a chance to show his democracy, he ar-
 rived at the conclusion that because he
 was rich. owned a big house and automo-
 piles. and went to New York frequently
 he must necessarily feel a contempt for his neighbors. Ade delights in meeting the simple people of the country. but the editor knew better. So he sedulously left Ade's name out of the columns in which all the small talk of the village was re- corded. Ade might return from Japan e vgttA new play and be interviewed