Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-10-24
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William Somerset Maugham, the
play-wrltcr is q most prolific worker.
No less than three plays and a novel
were produced by him last year in Eng
land. His play, Jack Straw" is at
tracing much attention from New
York audiences. The Baker & Taylor
Co. Will publish his novel. THE EN-
plorer," carly in 1909. The chief char
acter Ill tho novel is said 10 have been
drawn from Cecil Rhodes. The love
interest is charmingly supplied by an
American widow, Mrs Crowley.
The publishers OF THE Car and the
Lady" used dimnutive cardboard
automobile to advertise the story. Tho
novelty of this form of advertisement
gave il a wide popularity, with the re-
suit that the publishers received visits
from automobile manufacturers, re-
quests for their catalogue OF automo-
bile advertising men. 1t is reported
that the book Is becoming highly
porular and that second edition was
called for within 10 days.
Thou Fool" by ]. j. Bell, the new
novel by the author of Wee Macgree-
ger" Is quite unlike that delightful
bit of sympathetic comedy The study
is serious one Of tho problems con-
fronting the business man OF today.
THO hero. however, Mi. Bell intimates,
snot taken from study OF Sir Thorn
as Lipton, though there is a great SINH
lnrity between Mr.. Bells creation and
the Scotch Baronet."
Miss Jerry Dangcrtield, the heroine
OF Meredith Nicholsons new novel, is
introduced to the reader in the act OF
Winking at young man out of a car
WINDOW. Mr., Nicholson claSsifies the
wink. after the manner of Jacques on
the lie. There is the wink inadvertent,"
he says, ITO which 10 meaning can be
attached. There Is the wink deceptive,
usually given behind the back of Il third
person. And then, to be brief, there Is
the wink of mischief, which is observed
occasionally in persons Of exceptional
bringing up" Miss Dangerfield's wink
Is assigned to the third class But
when she met the young man again she
denied that she had wlnked at all. Mr..
Nicholson finds in immortal song but
one alpsinn to the wink. lie quotes
from Browning:
".All heaven meanwhile, condensed into
one eye,
Which fears to lose the wonder.
should it wink.
When Mary Roberts Rinehart was
reading the proof-shcetS of her mystery
story. "The Circular Staircase she
was travelling through New England.
and had the long galeys with her In a
grip. After night in an upper berth,
the porter told her the train stopped
at Portland 40 minutes for breakfast.
Mrs. Rinchart got out and dashed into
the restaurant for cup OH coffee
and a canteloupe. Fifteen others from
Ter car did the same. The lady who
waits had hardly deigned to notice tho
woman who writes when, glancing to-
wa.d the door, the latter saw the train
pulling out. She and her comrades
stood not upon the order of their going.
Pel-mell they dashed out. holding be-
seedlings hands toward their posses
sione; their hats, their pocketbooks,
their tooth-brushes, the embryonic
best scller The train didn't stop
Didn't even hesitate. Went on and on.
There were two Catholic priests who
said what they thought in Latin,
which didn't help much. There We're an
Episcopal clergyman. professor OF
something or other, six women, several
children and a collie dog. They stopped
the train $50 miles away and cut out
the Pullman, empty except for a pallid
and covering porter Then the COM
pany sent the miserables on to 1t by
accommodation. They had lost five
hours. They had not breakfasted or
lunched. So they entered the car in a
mass, fell on the porter and tore him to
sireds. Then, when they had cleaned
W tie mess, Mrs. Rinehart quietly re-
vumed her interrupted proof-reading.
Holman Day, author OF King Spruce.
has provided his readers With q liter
airy surprise. Mr.. Day has written not
new novel, but a lively. story for
hoys called ''The Eagle Badge" to be
published by the Harpers during DC.
tcber. The new story bears at least
one resemblance to King Spruce-it Is
set in the woods Of Maine, and is frag-
rant with the spice of the lumber camp.
What is there in common between
Marie corelli, the author of Holy Or
ders.', and Robert Kitchens the author
of THE Garden OF Allah?" Advance
information about Holy Orders" TO
be published by Stokes on Sept. 80,
shows it to be a work of intensely
stricl ideas on moral questions, where
az, Hichens' works are perVaded by