Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-04

lance says, 1--WE aim at the establish
ment Of a great Shakespeare house. 10
be devoted primarily TO the further
ance Of the study and Interpretation
of the poets works, and also TO serve
as n recognized center for humane
learning generally Therefore II the
response is adequate, IL US hoped that
there may De erCtod ia London u
Shakespeare House or Institute, with
Shakespeare library "a lecture theater
and a central han TO receive 1ttins
statue ot Shakespeare statues Of 9TH
ar famous men being added from time
20 time"
OF course to couy ont this anbl-
tious plan large Funds win be neces-
siry and the organizers Of the project
hope that the appeal may come home
to everyone not only to the rich but
also 10 those OF limited means Say
the committee: "'rhc memorial should
represent the world homage TO the
poet the worlds tribute 20 hls genius
no begin with. Richard Badger has
made a subscription Of $4,000 TO the
fund and one of $500 FOR the general
working expenses of public appeal
Iu order 90 encourage further donations
70 R planned to organize Shake
spoara commomOwtiou" 10 be observed
i0 all parts of the world during Shakes
spcara week. which commences with
| tine poets birthday AurUl o. one Of
| those most interested On this movement
| g. Lod Ayabury the former Sir John
| Lubbock who has consented TO act as
treasurer OF the memorial fund.
|
| John Strange Winter" who moot
! people know 20 be Mrs. Arthur STAN
| nurd has Just told how she came to
| choose her uon.uamo This disclosure
| has been made GIN Che courgc OF a. dis
| CUssi0u ON the feminine note In fc-
| ton in which Mrs Stnnnord has
| taken part 10 had been assorted that
| the choice bv many women writer's
| OF masculine names was pro3f OF the
! soX's "momctlc quality" But "Iohn
| Strange Winter" denies this. my very
| hurdensoma uom-dc-guerrc," she snys
| "Was forced uucn mo by men ! wrote
| tales for Years under n feminine pseu.
! donym but when / asnircd to volume
| issue 'he aetutc publishers absolutely
| declined To publish my first book un-
| lees ] chose "a masculine name-'the
| more real sounding the better II was
| not pleasant to me, but I was prac-
| tical enough 10 give way ON the point
and have suffered ever since"
American doyotees of Rusktn win
rry,et ia learn that tba house no oc-
| cuuied for many years, IN the London
suburb of Hcrne Hill Is in danger Of
being demolished to make way for O.
modern villa The house which long
stood opposite It, "a fine old place with
mullloned windows and slate roof,
whose sole crime was that il was old
| fashioned has just been pulled down,
The building which is imperishably
associated with Ruskn's genius viii
| ussurelly share the same fate unless
sentiment can BE- aroused to shell out
sufficient money TO rescue Il from the
| hands Of the utilitarian builder intent
only on making the property pay. II
| win be remembered that Ruskln went
TO live there when he was only four
| years old and there wrote Modern
| Painters" the work which first made
| him famous The green painted. wide
| old-fashioned gate and the garden In
| which he PLAYED whom a boy are still
| there. The Wistcra creeper has de-
| yooped into a giant from the sproutinq
| pigmy of Rusklu's day and now runs