Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1908-07-07
Author Of Three Week: Says shs
Discovered Bln b nlh|ng Camp.
WILL OaAuATle AtR Novel
Mrs. 0iyn 10 In Paris In Search Of a
Heroine for Three Weeks Which
viii be staged Next Season in St.
Louis and New York.
(By Associated Press. }

(By Associated Press.)
PARIS. FRANCE. July 6.-Mrs.
Elinor Glyn. the English novelist, Is
in Paris looking for a French actress
speaking English who will Le able TO
take the role Of the Queen in the new
play which she has written from her
book Three Weeks" Mr.. James X.
Hackett is aiding In the search. but
the quest appears to be a difficult one.
The remarkably strong and versa
tile personality OF the heroine de-
mands number OF natural artistic
and physical qualities and gifts which
are rarely found united in any one
artist. and the necessity OF playing
the part in foreign tongue adds con-
siderably to the difficulty.
However. Mrs. Glyn Is optimistic
and has made arrangements with Mr..
Hackett to produce the play in st.
Louis next month and in New YORK
later.
Mrs. Glyn has just come from Am
erica and has given few impressions
gathered during her tour in America.
"As psychologist" she said. Il
was, OF course infinitely more inter
cSltU III III VI Wv
of the people ! met there. In my
contemplation Of skyscraper monsters.
factories and other so called sights.
must say l have come away with
sincere admiration for the American
people.
Il made q complete tour OF the
whole United States except the SCUM.
and do you know where l found the
most perfect type OF manhood? IL
was in the mining camps OF the far
West. Nothing impressed me SO much
in all America as the true nobility OF
the miners.
I'm them l found all the innate
breeding, manners and manliness one
has been accustomed to imagine could
only be encountered in the true oid
aristocracy of England.
"They are indeed splendid men.
Their chivalry toward women put to
shame some of the most polished men
OF the East In America any sell
respecting woman would be absolute
" safe in the miners' camps.
What q true sense of justice they
have. ! admire the way they admins
ter law out there. They strike the
bedrock of justice. They are grand
men and America should be proud OF
them.
Appointed Deputy Constable.
When Mrs. Glyn left the mining u.s.
trict a deputation Of miners. VITA
Governor Hutchinson at their head.
presented her with revolver ana
badge appointing her q deputy con-
stable.
Mrs. Glyn Is proud OF both. she SAID,
and has now become an expert shot
with the gun and says the kind
thoughts which prompted the gifts
made them among her most sai"e"
possession.
As to America as a whole, con,
tinued the novelist, "it is great
country in the best sense OF the woru.
The people are wonderful peoples their
energy Is inspiring; to live smons
them is a tonic. OF course. every
thing IL not perfect there any more
than In old England.
"The wings Of the American easie
Of liberty sometimes have tendency
to crow lopstded. Class and cast are
mot vet entirely meaningless words IN
tn United States. Americans are
not vet quite learned enough to see
and Judge things In their proper per
spect;ve. That Is q FAINT Of youth
Iika children making their nrst al
temp, to draw. the effort resulting ,n
a sheet full Of animals with propo,..
ionally huge bodies and absurd little
legs or vice versa. -
Americans are often still Children
but added Mrs. Glyn. with q smile:
"thev are fsne. beautiful children an"
I love them" ,,r,
on American women Mrs. GIVE
smoke with great sympathy. Sne
found them, above all things. oea. ss
fnllv "sroomed' and dressed ana tne
mos, persect hostesses she had seen
In any country -,,,n
she WA not deeply impressed WIN
their profound literary knOwledge OF
culture, OF which she had heard. sne
Thought the average OF actual Know
edge was the same rs IN other eoa"'
tries. but the natural Wit ana cr'>p
mes. of the American nation gave ~
umch hotter exprcssiou