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

| DuI SOON dIterWdfu the call or tDt
| Wild got too strong for him and 1t wa:
| then that he set out gypsying. Fol
months on end caravan" on Dart
| mouth was his home. and the rea
| 'Romany' fold of the road We're his
| companions. or course he could moi
| succeed In passing himself OFF as one OF
| them; he is too fair. but he told them
that he was ''minding' the van for a
gent and they took him at his own
valuation, and let him share their life
and help them with their shows.
AS A PLAYWRIGHT.
Thus McEvoy spent practically the
entire summer of 1906, and In this way
he also gathered the material for his
new play, Gentlemen of the Road" Of
which you are likely to be hearing
soon. When Shaw had read David
Ballard" he said. This must be acted
and he promised TO bring the piece to
the notice Of the Stage Society at once.
When produced the play attracted so
much attention as a grim, powerful
study of real life that the author has
had no difficulty In finding production
for most of what he has since written
His latest four-act drama is an uncon-
ventional study, a cantest between the
call of the blood and the power of con-
ventionality--with convention Victori-
Gus, OF course, McEivoy would do the
unexpected thing. 1t is 10 be produced
presently at the Manchester repertory
theater, which is making speciality OF
McEvoy plays.
RATHER RETIRING.
Charles McEvoy seems rather AFRAID
that his queer manner of life may bo
thought a pose. for it was all could do
to get him to talk about ii. and an
even harder job to get his consent to
the publication OF the accompanying
photographs. taken by friend of his
One of them has been referred to al
ready as showing McEvoy, In typical
garb. and save that linen collar tenn
porarily replaced the neckcloth shown
In the picture 1t was thus that the
young playwright was arrayed when
finally / ran him TO earth i'll London the
other day and submitted him to a bonn
bardment OF ulrWclcome questions. His
hat, which il would take an authority
on the humors OF garb, like Its weaier,
TO describe adequately. really looks
moro like a pancake, indented and
provided with a rim, than anything else,
and its owner twiddled it thoughtfully
Between his hands as he talked.
SPARTAN EXISTENCE.
McEvoy declares that he doesn't de
liberately seek discomfort" and re-
marked that If he finds a well-cooked
meal on his mothers table when he
visits her ottage--which Is once or
twice u weel-he does not dlsdain 1t;
but for the rest his existence Is a
tryly Spartan one. The tent he occu-
pies Is not even an "a one, but just
a framework with covering enough to
shield its occupant from the elements.
yet tho young dislmatist occupies ii
from one weeks end TO another and
without regard to the state Of the
weather.
ECCENTRIClTIEs OF GENIUS.
His diet hardly deserves to be called
that, II begins with morning coffee,
which he makes after he has risen and
started fire. and thereafter embraces
bread, cold meal. onions and beer. This
is his menu that Is, II McE.voy re-
members 10 eat, which he quite ofton
doesen't He says he always has an
ambition 10 do a lot, but quite often
spends his day on horseback instead, or
I'm feastin his eyes on the panorama
of the downs aud doesn't get n
stroke done on the other hand when
a creative III Is ON him he Viii work
fevcl1shly from dawn TIL dusk. for-
getting he has a stomach and M tho
end hnd himself as he expressed II.
quite faint and weak"
GETS CLOSE TO NATURE.
\ liked belief that "real people, are
not often encountered by the plav
wright or novelist who lives what Me
bvoy scornfully describes as the M.
elhry life Yves one OF the motives
which The dramatist has In choosing his
unnrthodoN existence, "How much of
ieal lifc does the author see who spends
Ms Jays IN rooms aud his evenings in
literary clubs surrounded by MS
own hndf' he demanded. ''rhes,
Iramps' these gypses OF mine, ana rear