Evening star., 1909-05-09


management, plans the advertising campaign,
and supervises the press work.
Winchell Smith and Some Others
W/INCHELL SMITH. who made the come
w dy, Brewster's Millions" and is author
of The Fortune Hunters" saws he chose dra-
matte authorship because YOU don't have to
be grammatical in plays / couldn't write
magazine article for million dollars, he adds;
but dialogue comes easy to me. However,
Mr.. Smith, like many Others of his cult, hates
the drudgery of composition" He likes to
plan a new piece; but wishes that the manu-
script could be got out of my head by sur
gica operation" Mr.. Smith IS tall, slender,
varied experience. He began life in the grain
and feed business in Hartford, and acted for
many years in support of that still more cele-
brated Hartfordian William Gillette.
Langdon Mitchell. author of The New York
Idea" and John Luther Long, author of
Madame Butterfly" both Philadelphians.
Mr. Mitchell won fame as poet, under the
pseudonvm of John Philip Narley before
Becky Sharp brought him to the attention
of theatergoers. Mr.. Long, whose ethereal
fancies are SO charming, pretends to practise the
prosalc profession of law at 62o Nalnut-st.
Every Man Criminal at Heart
EUGENE PRESBREY, gray bearded, vi
- brant, intense, devotes himself mainly to
the adaptation of novels. . / want the novel
that can't be dramatized.' he declares, and for
this reason he found much pleasure IN dong
"Raff1es." 1t seemed hopeless task to win
sympathy for confirmed criminal, and Mr..
Presbrey had about abandoned the task, when
one evening in Seventh ave, he saw man run
ming at top speed, policeman in pursuit, and
heard the cry, Stop thief - The fellow was
ing round, | got good view of his hunted
desperate expression. Before | knew what
doing | whispered Get up the alley'
And didn't tell the policeman!
So No sympathy for criminal. exclaimed
to myself when had leisure to analvze my
action Why, every human being is criminal
at heart He knows that under certain cir
cumstances, he might be the fugitive. and he
feels sorry for the other fellow IN proportion.
Mr.. Presbrey wrote Raffles in three weeks
and it has been acted in every country that
boasts theater
A Few in a Nutshell
THERE is George Broadhurst lean and busi-
nessllke, who made a reputation by his
farces, and then, when that had been forgotten,
made another by his serious dramas. There IS
Paul Potter white haired, rotund genial the
intimate friend of Charles Frohman and the
adaptor of "Trilby.''
There are earnest young William c. De Mile
author of "Strongheart y; Paul kester, wisp
of lad timid and self conscious, who glories
in swashbuckling melodramas and did when
knighthood Was in Flower" Thompson
Buchanan, newspaper reporter to his finger
mans Way; Sydney Rosenfeld. the wit and
dreamer, onetime editor of Puck, who refused
to write book sub with Augustus Thomas
because he objected to any scheme which in
volved pooling our separate flames to become
ANONYMOUS and there whole army OF
brilliant newcomers like William ] Hurlbut,
of The Fighting Hope" who lives stones
throw from me at Shoreham. Long Island and
Avery Hopwood. who collaborated with me in
producing Clothes
Some of the Fairer Playwrights
7 SHOULD like to tell you about pretty Mar
garet Mayo, who is building villa from the
proceeds of Polly of the Circus" whose
thoughts were turned to authorship when sent
to the daily journals story to the effect that
she had won a wager by writing play in
twenty four. hours Miss Mavo in the
supporting company of Grace George, whose
press agent | was at the time, and the tale
invented to advertise the presence of Pretty
Peggy at the Herald Square theater.
Rachel Crothers Is a sedate, New Englandish
Young woman who used to teach acting in the
Wheatcroft School whom met when she was
going from office to Office with the manuscript
of The Three of U.s. Rida Johnson Young,
famed for Brown of Harvard" and 'The
Boys of Company B. is tall dark, fine looking,
and her professional career began when she was
leading woman for her husband, James Young,
in her first play, Lord Byron"
cant make YOU acquainted with people IN
line,-only kipng can do that,-and
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