Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-10-08
AMERICANS IN PARIS
Gathering of Writers, Artists
and Other Professional Men.
MISS FLORAWIL SONS NOVEL
Millions Spent Abroad by Our
People
LONDON NOW A WAY STATION
Tourists Season in the French Capt.
tai Extended-Stories of
Deserted Wives.
by WILLIAM Z. CURTIS.

Special Correspondence of The Star and Chicago
Record Herald.
PARIS, September IA, 1906.
Wherever you go in Paris you find ia
mliar faces. not only OF the tourist multi
tude, but of other Americans who are liv-
ing here temporarily. There is an unusual
gathering of writers, artists and other pro-
fessional men, many of whom have been
attending international conferences In diff
ferent parts of Europe
Paris always has its quota of actors, ac-
tresses and musical people. They come over
to get Ideas and costumes and new plays,
while novel writers come for plots and in
spiration, of which Paris is always produc-
tive. Booth Harrington. Vance Thompson,
George Barr McCutCheon and other men,
bers of the Hoosier Story Tellers' Union are
to be seen on the bouevards every day,
their faces wearing the frown that always
indicates intellect. Miss Frances Benjamin
Johnston of Washington has been making
photographs and has added a new occu-
patton to her repertoire. She has become
literary agent or broker for manuscripts
of books, plays and magazine articles. That
is getting to be gu tie a business. created by
Mss Elizabeth Marbury of New York. the
pioneer. She has been so successful that
she now has a suite of offices in Paris and
another in New York, with several clerks
to carry on her correspondence and cash.
ierS to handle the wealth she Is accumu-
lating. Several other people have since
gone into the profession. and there is plen-
ty of room for them because the business
grows 1t is customary for authors and
playwrights to conduct their business
through a middleman-to say a middle
woman, perhaps, would be more correct in
this instance-who usually can do much
better for them and increase their receipts
much more than the amount OF the COM
mission that is charged besides keeping
their accounts, collecting their royalties
and seeing that their books or plays are
well advertised.
Miss Wilson's Story.
Miss Flora Wilson. daughter Of the Sec
ed in the literary colony, has finished
novel of western life, entitled The Scotch
Captain 1t is her first attempt at a long
story, although she has written several
charming short ones The manuscript,
which has been read and highly commend
ed by several critics in Paris, has been for
warded to a New York publisher and, l
suppose, will be issued for the holiday
trade. Miss Wilson has been in Paris for
two years and has been a very busy wo
man. She lives over in the Latin quar-
ter, surrounded by an Interesting group of
her fellow countrywomen and countrymen,
students in the university. the Conservatory
of Music and the BeauX Arts, and has her
self been studying music and painting In
addition to her literary work. She was
fortunate enough to secure the studio for
merly occupied by Whistler. the famous
American painter, when he lived in Paris,
and that has been inspiration in her
work. l saw a paragraph in a paper some
time ago that Miss Wilson expected to
make her debut in opera very soon. but she
never had any such intention. She may
appear on the concert stage, she says when
she returns to the United States, If any
body wants to hear her sing, but has not
been studying opera. She spends her sum-
mers in Scotland with her fathers friends
and relatives, and last summer was the
guest of Andrew Carnegie at Skibo Castle.
Another American girl who is likely to
distinguish herself is Miss Mary A. Nc
Evily, a protege of Senator and Mrs. Car