Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-11-25
isodes in a book that is said to abound
In humor

lsodeS IN d DOCK tnat is sald 10 ABOUND
In humor,
II will be good news TO the theater-
going public to know that five OF Mr..
Clyde Fitch's plays are TO be published
thss fall by the Macmillan company.
Each OF these will appear In a separate
volume. one OF the frst will be THE
Climbers" keen satire on contempt
rdry New York society, which was
hailed at its first performance as an
epoch-making American play. There
are social climbers, but wealth is as
good a goal--I was a climber after
wealth and everything It brings" re-
marks one Of the characters In the sec
one act; TO which the heroine replies:
And ! am after happiness and all It
brings"
Those who knew Mrs. A. NJ. william
son when she lived in New York and
was Miss Alice Muriel Livingstone, VIII
be amused by an account that Is given
OF her first meeting with her husband.
Miss Livingstone had gone to England
for couple Of months travelling with
some American friends She had LETT
ter OF Introduction 10 Mr.. c. ". Will
hanson, editor and founder OF Black
and White, Of whom she know only
that he was a very clever and agree
able man. From her lodgings O., sloane
street, she sent her letter to him, and
he replied that he would call on a
certain day. When the certain day
arrived no Englishman appeared TO
partake Of the cake and dainty sand
witches that had been provided for his
tea. Naturally the ladies were an
noyed. A month or So later, Miss Liv-
inestone was walking alone through
Fleet street and CHANGED 20 see the
sign Black and White which brought
up 10 her mind the gentleman who
had failed 10 keep his appointment. Be
fore she knew Il, her curiosity had
driven her up fight ~ stairs and she
had asked TO see Mr.. Williamson. In
moment there appeared. to her great
discontinue, not the kindly. old gen.
tlemanlv editorial sort Of person she
eSpec'"1 but young, handsome, SOL
dlsr-like chap, who was profuse in his
APOLOGIES for his previous rudeness. and
proffered an adequate EXPLORATION
And now, what can DO for your" he
concluded In the depths Of her ON.
barrassment. Miss Livingstone STAN
mered back: IL didn't come FOR that.
IL only wanted toto know what you
looked like" The laughter than en-
Nutil bfkNU n IIfNUFtlD NNlfn DtTOFN
long meant courtship and MARRIAGE. and
has resulted IN the literary collpbora-
ton the latest evidence Of Witch is
their automobile romance, MY Friend
the Chauffeur"
Miss Myra Kelly. as she has shown
IN LITTLE Citizens" tho hook or East
side children, has an aptitude for re-
porting dialect in dialogue. Now that
she has married friends who have
visited Mr.. and Mrs. Macnaughton re-
port DIALOGUES between them IN a dia-
lect almost as funny "a that ~ her
stcriCs. The husband will say; when
think Of all the men who would have
liked 10 have hcr, Ike 10 reflect upon
having my dogs and nv guns" And
the bride will respond what call hay
fever IL really tears OF hoppv jealousy
when think ~ all me ei~ls who would
heve liked 10 have had him" And her
Irish comes ont too, she Is said to de-
clare often with n harpv infection: 81
don't believe a word Of g."