Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-02

at all events are written simply and
naturally"
McEvoy declares frankly that the
play which has made" him never
would have been written had IL not
been for Bernard Shaw, and il Is like
as not that the younger man never
would have done as he did and sought
the acquaintance of the elder had he
not suddenly discovered that they were
near neighbors. This discovery was
made by McEyoy shortly after he had
escaped from London and gone TO live
at his fathers cottage In Hertfordshire
Shaw. who makes a point of spending
, as much time In the country as pos
sible, was living at Harmer Green, close
by. ana McEvoy saw and recognized
him at the railway station which both
used for their infrequent trips to town.
TO the boy VINO was writing plays in
Tields and on hillsdes Shaw represent
cd tho muster" and the temptation to
try 10 know him was too strong to be
resisted 30 after much hesitation Nc
Evoy wrote him Il letter which he
says he would have given much to
have back as soon as 1t had dropped
IN the box, and asked Shaw's permits
sion to come 10 see him. That letter
was posted one evening, and the next
morning its author Unexpectedly found
himself face 10 face with Shaw n the
railroad station.
HE MEETS THE SOCIALIST.
'T suppose said McEvoy. that I
must have looked so exceedingly
guilty that he knew in n minute who
| was. anyhow, he came, up at once
and asked If it was I who had written
to him. BY this time 7 had become
aEhast NJ my own presumption, 80
said SO and asked him 10 consider the
"a ION tvtg. =
away, hut he wouldn't hear of it,"
MY dear fellow he said. Il was
delighted to set your letter" and
said McEvoy ito cut Il long story
short, he asked me To dinner that
night, and we soon got 10 be very
good friends
Meanwhile, both Shaw and McEvoy
had rdoved away from Hertfordshire,
the scene of their hrst meeting, and
We're reighbors again In the famous
White Horse vale If Berkshire,
which no one who has read Tom
Browns School Days will need TO
have recalled to him. Here II Is, not
far from the famous Blowing Stones"
and 10 the center of one Of the most
glorious stretches of country in Epg-
land that McEvOy's famous tent stands
and that the young drAmatist lives MS
Ihprcau-likeeXiste except for my
horse ms he says, "of which Thor
eau never would have approved"
PICTURESQUE VANTAGE.
Vantage, the first home in England
of Richard Croker Is the town near
est 40 McEvny's camp, ana here his
mother lives i'm an old mill. that also
was tho young rlaywnght's home lust
beiory he took 10 the simple life al
together. McEVoy discovered this
picturesque old place soon after Mis-
fathers death, in 1905 and went 10
live there forthwith. and when Ber-
nard shaw In his turn. decided to
leaN Hatfield, he cam, TO Vantage.
az Mc+NuNS suggestion, and took up
ms abode M Ncaragc close by.
'it was Willie shaw was at Wan
ldgr.' said AlelGVny. chat / sent him
my hrst play and asked n he would
read H. II was a farce-comedy. and
I'm sorry 10 say that in 10 The hero
broke his neck. Wel a. day on two
afleward I got a card from Shaw
asking me 10 come and sec him. and
when l got there he received me with
scorn,
EFFORT WAS ROASTED.
My good man., ho said. what do
you moan by wasting my time In maxi
ing mo rond such rubbish as that play
of yours. What ON earth do you sum
pose people care whether "a man like
that breaks HIS ueck' such people
ought To break their uocks
'iut, said McEvoy "all the time /
saN "a twinkle u his eve. so / was not
wholly surprised whom he said But
what ] really sent for YOU Cor was to
say thut this play wrctchel as II Is.
tells mo lhnt you have power In you.
sp now go ana write a play about peu-
Pile .u thor hpmes''
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