The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-11
From the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 @ ONDON-About three months ago 1S gave you the first authentic ac- A- count of Miss Maude Adams mysterious disappearance from the stage after her triumph in ''The Little Minis ter'' and Romeo and Juliet" Up to that time everybody wondered what had be- come of her, and continued to wonder until there appeared in the columns of the Herald the story of the life she had passed as an inmate of convent in Tours | among the simple and saintly lace makers l in that province of France where the l finest French is spoken, chanted and l prayed.
 | It now becomes my pleasure to tell the | world of the second chapter in the mys- 1 tical life of that little lady. Last June l Miss Adams left New York just as she would like to travel always, unrecognized, and arrived in Queenstown on the good l ship Mauretania, ufheralded, unannounced and pretty much unknown. From Queens | town Miss Adams went direct to Dublin, Ireland, where, with woman companion and maid, she settled herself in a little | matched roof cottage among the peas 1 ants.
 i, To rest? Not bit of it! But to begin | some real work, her season in "The Jest ers'' and The Twelfth Night being regarded by her as mere play; and there she is now living with her books. her I friend and constant companion, her plans | and her ambitions.
 In little trips about the country; in oc- casonal visits up to Trinity college, Dub 1 lins glorious and glorified university, where they are now giving a summer l course of lectures on English literature. | and especially in chance talks with tho peasantry, Miss Adams is drinking in the finest thing Dublin has to offer any tray eler; its well of English undefled, for by common consent, nowhere else on earth Is there spoken such excellent Eng fish as Dublin English, in accent, choice of idioms, intonation and enunciation. The 1 best authorities agree that Dublin is the capital of the English-speaking world when it comes to the most beautiful handling of the language.
 1 That is one reason why Miss Maude Adams went to Dublin, but only one The other reason happened just three days after she got settled. It took the form of | a note to MT. Barrie, who was in Lon don, asking him to come over to Dublin, and to which MT. Barrie replied that he only regretted the distance was not twice as far So as to prove his willingness.
 And so they met in the little cottage among the peasants just outside historic l Dublin. Fancy the delight in that meet | ing, the first in five years, between the author and the creator of Lady Babbie,
 Phoebe Throssel and Peter Pan; between
 the man with the golden pen and the ac-
 tress who has breathed life into the best 1 that that pen has produced.
 But it was not all fun and mutual ad- miration, that meeting Miss Maude Adams | would not be party to it if some sort
 of work or progress did not enter.
 For several days MT. Barrie lived in | Dublin. He heard all about the plans and
 ambitions of Miss Adams She wants
 play built upon the career of Joan of Arc.
 Two qualifications make MT. J. M.
 Barrie the one man of all men to do this
 work for Miss Adams. MT. Barrie is great writer but, better still Mr. Barrie
 is the object of Miss Maude Adams ut
 most confidence. The perfect harmony of ideas and of feeling that exists between
 the two almost crowns the effort with
 success at the start-off.
 The extraordinary thing about MT
 Barrie's undertaking is that Miss Adams
 and he are going to all this pains for but
 single performance of Joan of Are
 and that in the magnificent million dollar
 stadium of Harvard university next June
 On or about June 20 Miss Adams will
 appear at Harvard university, by special
 invitation of the German department of
 the university. and which MT. Charles
 Frohman has accepted in her name. Miss
 Adams will play the Joan of Arc' role
 that has always touched her fancy and had for her a mystical charm. She Is ] something of mystic herself. so it is