The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-10-01
HARRINGTON DESERTS DRAMA
70 Return To WRITING BOOkS
FROM NOW ON, NE SAYS.
Indiana Author saJs There's More Con.
fort In Fiction Unaeas NOu Produce
Your Own Plays TOO-Iies spent .
Peaceful summer In kennebunh pert.

Indiana Author aayS There's More Com.
fort In FieIiOa Inseas leu Produce
Your Own Plays TOO-Ele's speat q
Peaceful summer On kennebunk pert.
Pooth darlington came back yester-
day from a summer at kennebunkport.
Me, and announced that he had about
made up his mind To give up play writing
and devote himself TO books. Mr. Tar
kington seemed quite determined about
IL yesterday In fact he said that the
play which he had been revising for MAY
Irwin and which used To he called Mrs
Jim will be about all for him in that line.
The gentleman from Indiana came
here Yesterday expecting to find his
managers and proceed at one with
rehearsals. hut found they were out Of
town. Now he has until next Monday
to look about New York
TO tell the truth. said Mr. Tarkingt on
at the Wolcott. having been away from
New York ever since last April I feel
lust like a zap and in the course Of a
walk this morning ! caught myself stop
ping on street corners and staring open
mOuthed as the p"ople went by The
impression New York makes after five
months absence il startling
Then I also expected To find Wilson.
my collaboration. here. but have learned
that he is at some remote point IN the
Canadian Rockies with mule and a
chatting dish. 50 there's nothing for me
to do but sit around and think | haven't
done any work this SIMMER except on
that play. and now I'm mp against 10 for
q new name Anyhow. it's my last play.
according to my present reckoning
Yes. l am going back. Writing books
il my business find II more interest
ing. and then YOU are master Of the job.
In making a play the average play
wright Is simply a suggester after all and
cuts only a small figure It's all right
for a man like Pinero OF Thomas. who
do their own producing. hut for the man
Who IL not "A dramatist by profession
u IL unsatisfactory work
Wilson and have Just been through
the process Of having PLAY made into a
book We didn't do u. but We got the
credit Of a. and there have been all sorts
Of harsh things said about Va by the book
reviewers. A magazine asked permis-
sion to make "A story out Of ~. and We gave
permission. a. IL was asserted that this
would advertise the play. When | got
the magazine ! found that Wilson and
were represented to I've the authors % the
thing that was published. and when | saw
the story in print ! was unable 10 read
more than the first few pages. The
critics Just lac into me. In the play
chateau ~ the first scene. The re-
writer located this chateau IN southern
France and made Boulogne. which ~
OOO miles away. only three hours distant
by automobile. One critic thought !
ought to know better. having lived over
there.
YES. I have had a fine summer said
Mr. Harrington. Who IL rlIddIer and broader
than ever. i have been either on the
water. in the water or container 81
water all the time. for have been on the
chariot all the time. kennebunkpOrt
was a literary centre in a small way. for
near by the cottage we had was Mrs.
llargar Delan nd, who has IIst finished a
new story called The Iron Woman Then
George Barr McCutCheon came M there
and John kendrick BanR- lives hard bv and
used 10 come 20 the village occasionally.
II -. however. quiet life one leads up
there.
We thought once We were going 20
have a big story up there one afternoon
when a young fellow went out one after
noon with a girl in a little motor boat.
with the saa very rough. and dad not show
M that night II vas a great diAappoInt-
ment 90 everybody when the next morn
ing they were found anchored ont at sea.
their motor having broken down. But
there's one thing about kennebInk port
and that IL the modesty ~ the natives
We took some servants up there from
Boston. and when the local hack delivered
rs all at the cottage ! asked the driver
How much, The fare was a quarter
apiece How many we're there he
asked. began to count them. and then
he remarked | suppose ] don't do my
duty TO tho livery people. but just can't
turn around and count my passengers
II looks ~ suspicious.
Mr.. Harrington would not agree that
play writing was more remuneratIVe than
writing books A book that - popular
will probably do a. we'll a. popular
play. he said It's just a case ~ luck
am unfortunately not u the class that
, can count upon the popularity ~ a book
or a play. he observed mOde~tly
-IsXpect 10 spend a month IN New iprS
and then | expect To go over Ia Princeton
10 $500 sDme football ! like to ~ there.
for somebody sometimes mistakes me for
one ~ the undSTRrads Johnnie Poe
and ! we're sitting in the g.ill ~ the inn
one afternoon last year that's the place
where they used To bar under claS-men.
when a junior came up and IN n stern
voice demanded. Gentlemen 10 What
class do YOU belong. please? When !
answered % he stole softly away.
i was going 20 Capri to spend the win
ter but have been scared O,t Of the idei
by the cholera IN Naples. used to yak
through the streets ~ that town. and |
tell you II ever "A place asked for cholera
II wnE Naples. But ! am going south
with the birds when they migrate. Some
how the idea Of housebnst On the Miami
With allIgstors disporting themselves IN
yitinalv about aDnpals