Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11

1t superiority over every other form
of fiction because of its very brevity.
its immense force deriVable from to-
tallty."
Arthur Stringer, whose new novel of
adventures, The Under Groove" uhe
Mcclure company is about to be dram
atiZed. confessed to the fact that h,.
was once young and foolish enough to
write farce. He also confesses to
taking it 10 busy Broadway manager
whom he had met in q social way and
knew more or less we'll. In two weeks
the young author looked up the busy
manager and had his manuscript thrust
back into his hand, I've read this play
| of yours. old man." explained the man
ager, and / find that unless it's punc-
tuated by frequent and prolonged ap-
| plause IL s going to run 40 min
| utes short. And after going through
| those three acts of yours I don't see
| where that punctuation is going to
come 'front.'
Harold MacGrath Is the most domes-
| tic of men. But every Saturday night
he goes Oft to his Syracuse club and
stays as long as there IL any one left
| to swap a story with him. This is gem
| orally long, long time, and 1t la wee
| srna' hour generally before the spirit
moves him homeward Then he takes
! n cab. But the cab is never allowed to
draw up in front of his house. 1t is
| always stopped before little church
| around the corner. His wife, observing
| this curious Practise. asked way. ut
| is very simple" said the author. 'If
| / clattefed UP to our door Mt this UNI
| earthly hour. the neighbors would be
| raising their eyebrows. But If | stop at
the church, only God knows about It,"
L
| 1t is rumored on good authority that
| o. Henry, the famous short story writ
| er. has at last managed to drag him
| self away, for a time at least, from
| ''little old New York" which has so
long been the scene of his literary ac-
tivities. Somewhere on the shore OF
| Long Island, far from the hustle and
stir of Broadway and the many sights
and sounds of the city which he knows
so well. o. Henry has made his home
for the summer. What Will come OF
this visit is matter for speculation;
| Perhaps O. Henry viii discover" Long
Island In the same way that he die
New York and produce volume OF
short stories dealing with Long ISLAND
local types or perhaps, inspired by thu
restful atmosphere of the country, hC
may devote his efforts to that Ions
novel which every short story writer
is popularly supposed to produce a
some time In his literary career Gus
to show that he can, don't you now
The present Dutch Craze If such I
term may be applied to the fad tina
has lately existed for everything tina
comes out of Holland seems now Il
have extended to fiction. We hav'
had Dutch plays and Dutch novelties
innumerable and now we have gu
first romance with an exclusive Dutcl
setting. but whit American and Eng
lsh characters. "The Chaperon," b!
c. N and A. NJ. Williamson tthe Nc
Clure company( Is one OF the mos
charming stories these authors have We
produced Unlike their other books, III
automobile Though We hear its pun
occasionally Is not the chief factor her
, but a motor boat, and the story !
, one OF a cruise taken by a merry part
of English and Americana through tn
| quaint Dutch waterways. Seldom ha
a more fascinating picture OF Hollan
been presented than that which Is
, be found In this delightful story.
The Macmillan company announce
r n third large edition of "Mr. Crewe
Career" the new Winston Church,
: novel. This means that the sales with
I'm three weeks OF publication have ru
FAR into the second hundred thousand
a record that recalls the boom yeai
of 1905,