The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-08-28
Notes and Gossip

Dld you ever form a mental picture
OF some celebrity you had never met,
and then come up with a rude shock
when you really saw the man? Did you
ever draw picture of his daily life
from newspaper accounts of "our own
correspondent" and then learn the
truth from his own lips? Well, that is
what has happened to us. In fancy we
have seen William Allen White seour-
ing the Kansas plains in his touring
car, catching express trains for week
ends at the Waldorf AStoria roaming
at intervals in Europe, writing best
sellers in moments of leisure, dropping
in at Columbia to get a degree-off
again for Emporia to quicken the cir
culation of the Gazette But June-so
the almanac says-ushered in vacation
days, and so we wired Mr.. White asking
him what he was going to do about It,
Look upon this picture and on this II
have no plans" Mr.. White assures us,
other than to come down to the Ga
zette office about $50, work through to
o'clock, or half-past, go out home
eat dinner. hitch up the old horse to the
surrey, load in the family and drive
around from half-past s until dark, go
to bed at or $3.50, get up at dew time,
go down to the office again. NV work
includes writing editorials, local. pay
locals. helping out with the telegraph.
making some advertising contracts,
dabbling in politics. introducing nota-
BILE people at the Chautauqua, passing
the hat for the good roads movement,
doing the ornamental act and making
myself generally obnoxious to my fell
low citizens and friends. L trust this
will give you a correct idea of my sum-
mer vacation.
1t does; and now that we come to
think of it. where could man go fish
ing in Kansas Prom Life.
Winston Churchill is spending the
hot months at his summer home at
Cornish. N. H. He has highly enjoyed
the unique experience of having his
latest novel, "A Modern Chronicle" the
most sought for book of not only this
country but England
A. Vivanti Charities. author of The
Devourers," a story of the development
of a wonder child is herself the
mother of a musical prodigy. Vivien
Charities, who has achieved a European
reputation as violinist. The father of
Mrs Charities, an Italian, was an intt-
mate friend of Garibaldi and Mazzinf-
Her mother, a German, was the sister
of Paul Lindau, the dramatist. and of
Rudolf Lindau. the diplomat. As poet
Giosue Carducci thus places Mrs. Char
tres: Three women have been great in
modern European lyric: Desbordes VAL
more, Elizabeth Browning and Anne
Vivanti Chartres." AS dramattst Mrs.
Charities is known in this country as
the author of the comedy of manners.
THE Man"
The Newark library has over 100
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possibility, scheme has been devised
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