The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04

i'll the landed gentry class. On his estate Thomas
Place, besides his splendid home the dramatist
has built paatia residences His own abode is
located at the end of Thomas Place, facing to the
north, and is completely excluded From the front
OF the house there fine view overlooking charm
ing valley It's interior is exactly what might ex-
pect from of his wealth and culture
Augustus Thomas is keenly interested in politics
His speeches indicate that he is friend of the down
trodden and oppressed. When one sees how good
dramatic fortune has been to him one can easily
understand his desire that others should be as we'll
provided for. Only the downtrodden need not apply
for leases at Thomas Place! The Thomas home and
grounds just the places where would be ex-
pected to toss his heart UP with the lark. Things
were not always SO easy this for Augustus Thomas
and yet at Thomas Place, in the words of George
Meredith, Pleasure flows from the earth and sky
not the purse. Yet when summer comes the Thomas
family moves to East Hampton, where the dramatist
has another home near the sea.
New Rochelle is also the home of Francis Wilson,
the author of The Bachelors Baby" But Mr. Will
son lately rented his residence and moved to other
parts, he not be correctly mentioned be-
longing the great American playwright belt.
WHERE THEY'RE THICK
Mount Vernon and its neighbor, Port Chester, have
quite nest of dramatists Herbert Hall Winslow
the author OF The Vinegar Buyer" and other sue
cesses, and Charles Taylor, who wrote The King of
the Opium Ring" and other thrillers, the notabes
OF Mount Vernon. The two celebrities Port Ches-
ter Brandon Tynon and Frederic F. Schrader
Mr.. Tynons latest work was "The Passion Flower"
but it will not be forgotten that he is the author OF
Robert Emmett" At Frederic Whitney's beautiful
home at Byrams point Mr.. Shrader has been writing
the libretto OF a comic opera which MIR Whitney will
produce next season. Mr. Shrader's most successful
play The French Ball." in which Fanny Rice
appeared for years.
Continuing along the Boston post road for four
miles we come to Greenwich, and there at its mil
onaire suburb Belle Haven, we discover the first
woman dramatist in the playwright belt--Mrs. Rida
Johnson Young. The author of The Lottery Man
has large, roomy stucco house. 1t sets we'll back
from the road and is screened by many splendid oak
trees. Mrs Young has two in the heart of ex-
elusive Belle Haven. Back of the house is sunken
Italian garden, and well away from the house is
roomy stable and garage, built of the same material
the house.
The dramatist does all her work in a room on the
second floor and she could very we'll be called "a
little ink lady for the that she does all of her
composing typewriter. All that is to be seen in
this workshop the photographs of several famous
and actresses roll top desk, typewriter and
table, and case of pigeonholes in which are kept
copies of the many plays that Mrs Young has written
She keeps her books in the living room downstairs
but there not many formerly Last winter
when away on a visit and the house closed, thief
way of books, furniture and silver ware
Mrs. Young has resided at Greenwich for nearly
years. and all her successes were written there
At little cottage on Steamboat road, the Indian
Harbor yacht club, she wrote GLORIOUS Betsy for
Mary Mannering, Blown of Harvard" and THE
Boys of Company B." During the three years that
she has resided at her home in Belle Haven she
has written The Lottery Man" Ragged Robin" in
which Chauncey Olcott has starred during the last
two years, and Barry of Ballymore the Ocott
play for this season; Naughty Marietta" the comic
opera for which Victor Herbert has written the music
and in which Oscar Hammerstein will star Nine.
Trentini during the coming season, and The Candi-
date" which the Messrs Shubert will present during
the present The dramatist IS at present at
work play for Helen Lowell, who is now
appearing in The Lottery Man., and which the
Messrs- Shubert will present during the coming sea-
son. Mime. Trentni is at present the guest of Mrs.
Young, studying her role in Naughty Marietta"
Another dramatist of this is Julian Street the
novelist and playwright Mr.. Street is at in