Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-05-08

happened on The other side of the
Door.
DR.. Samuel McCombs "I'he Making
of the English Bible" will be publi-
shed this month by Moffat, Yard &
Issued his mastery little treatise on
"Ihe Power OF Self-Suggestion,,
which attempts to solve the question
of securing, each reader for himself.
the height of personal efficiency.
..An Englishman,s Home" the play
by Major Guy du Maurer, the print
ed text Of which has been made avail
able through the Harpbs, has had a
q handful of people. bored with a
long-enduring London fog, drfted in
to theater for the first performance
of a play whose author signed him
self merely "a Patriot" 1t happened
that the play, too, opened in scene
or fog. and perhaps that deepened the
effect of what was to come. And It
came-the overwhelming drama, the
picture of mans own home. the
satire that stung, the story that swept
the mind to laughter and tears, to
fury and shame, to terror and re-
solve. The next night the police guard
ed the theater from the crowd, the
press CldIuplcut tIlts PAtOllSE $4,000 ~
nothing else. And then Mr.. Charles
Frohman brought COMPANY over to
America, and we saw the play was not
for England alone. The scenesis Mr..
Browns home in the country, in
Wickham, Essex. Soldiers invade it,
while the family diabolo. doing pic
ture puzzles and limericks. reading.
about football. War is on, but nobody
realizes 1t. Local troops arrive to de-
fend the house. but they don't seem,
to realize, either. They don't; know
how to fight The Browns don't know
how to fight. The house is. shelled, set
on fire, DESTROYED. Only old Brown l re-.
mains, trying to fire a gun for the
first time in his life. to defend his
home--an Englishman's home And
he is punished for it with his life. The
play Is remarkably written. inEa key
of satire against the self-satisfied
Englishman which made one Ameri-
can gasp as he read it, TITS a wonder
the stage wasn't mobbed-'
Irving Bachelors Hand Made.
Gentleman" in his novel of that name
Just, published by the Harpers, was
sketched from the authors memory
OF an old schoolmate. Mr.. Bachelor
recalls, with a twinkle in the eye, this
same "Pegleg McCarthy's" determin-
ed endeavors to conform himself to
Tile teAteIIldl Ieu ulI elilClilS VI ID Sooii-
tleman. much after the advice of!
Lord Chesterfield. But there the
resemblance between character and.
model ceases, for the rise of Mr.,
Bachelors hero to unique indus
trial control in the giant enterprises
OF the last century in no wise paral-i
llels the career of his schoolfellow.
The reader wonders. too. whether the
5latters quaint phrases are literal
memories OF this aspiring youth, or
the product of Mr., Bachelors own
particular genius for the portraiture
Of the humble.
The most remarkable incidffts in
this story of Mr.. Bachelors are true,
q story of rural New York State some.
fifty years ago. wherein young man
first suggested to Commodore Vander-
bilt the idea Of combining the rail-
roads which latter formed the New
York Central system. Another great
name is introduced, and in this case
the character is still living--Andrew
Carnegie. Mr. Bachelor obtained his
details from the recollection of men
who knew.
The Handmade Gentleman is an