Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-04-23

TO prove him absurdly wrong. The
publishing house that has had more
Of its novels dramatized and produc-
ed than all the other houses in Ameri-
ca, The Bobbs- Merrill company, re-
ports that there never was time
when good book-plays received such
ready acceptance from managers ana
public.
For example. the biggest comedy
hit OF the season, the biggest comedy
hit Of many seasons, Seven Days, was
made from the book when Man
Marries. The author had no previous
reputation as a playwright Tor inc
stage In the hctional complications Of
the quarantined dinner party ana
jumped at IL.
n the greatest laughing success since
Charley's Aunt was made from
story. so also was the most distin-
guished success Of the present thcatri-
cal year Jerome X jerome wrote "a
novelette, entitled the Passing OF the
Third Floor Back long before he
wrote the modern morality I'm when
Mr. Forbes Robertson has attracted
such great attention.
Another example. George Middleton
made "a dramatization OF Meredith
Nicholson's the House Of Thousand
Candles. That delightful actor, p. NJ
Holland, appeared In the role or
Rates The critics screamed. To was
temporarily Withdrawn from the
boards Farewell. book-play!' said
the wiseacres. Today four companies
are playing The House or a Thousand
Candles to crowded houses, irum
Augusta to san Diego-from Van
couver TO Tampa So great has been
the success OF Hugo Koch, who took
the place OF Mr Holland as Bates,
that his managers, Messrs. Rowland
and Gaskeu. will star him this spring
I'm "A play by Il. r.. Rose from mother
Nicholson novel, The Port Of Missing
Men. And George Middleton has been
engaged to write az TOP speed play
founded on third Nicholson book,
Rosalind at Red Gate the sequel to
The House OF a Thousand Candles.
Among the other successful hook
PLAYS this year may be mentioned
Septimus. the Barrier, A Little Broth
or Of the Rich. The Coast Of Chance.
Idols and Arseno Lupln.
The end OF the book-play!-N Is 10
laugh.
Tess Of the Storm Country" re
markable novel 10y Grace Miller White,
which has Just been published by W..
J. watt q Co, has already had an exc
ceptional and even romantic history
II was written I'm Germany last win
ter. and while the author was still in
the midst Of her work upon n. she had
the misfortune to DE Knocked down and
nearly killed by a cab horse I'm Berlin.
A number Of the later and most stir
ring scenes I'm the book. We're written
while IL was still doubtful whether the
author would ever recover from her
terrible experience.
From Germany the manuscript WAS
sent by Mrs. White TO a famous critic
In London. who at once pronounced 10
work Of unusual character. His iuds-
ment was speedily verified by the fact
that despite the well known prejudice
I'm England In relation 20 American
nokpls. IL was once accepted by "a
leading London publishing firm az un-
usual terms As a result the exceed
ingly rare spectacle was presented Of
"A novel by an American author being
published in England before it uppearrd
I'm America II was brought Uut in Lon
don In September last, and immediate
~ met with a remarkable reception
from the English critics Even those
papers which are recognized iu Eng
land az strongly anti-Americlu and
which are always 40 great pains 90 at-
tack anything bearing the hallmark of
the United sites, after finding what
FAULT they could devise with the book.
invariably concluded by admitting ms
unusual power and lnterest-thc most
adverse criticism that appeared ending
with tho grudging admission there Us
force and a graphic quality of writing
iu Mrs Whites book