The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-24
KEEPS PROM
. TO DEAD MOTHER
Baroness Won Wrcdc Continues
Her Life as an
Actress.
FINDS NO GOOD IN AMERICA
English Writer Declares People
Are Hypocritical and
Cruel.
Especial Cable to The Times, Dispatch. ]

London, December 23.-HoN far q
mothers dying wish should influence
the subsequent life of her daughter is
problem that besets the Baroness
Won Wrede. whose stage name Is Miss
Ray BcvcridEc. and who is known In
The United states as the American
Marie Tempest.
Baroness Won Wrede. who arrived in
London about three months age, made
q promise To her DYING mother that
she would do her utmost TO arrange for
the production OF five plays which hcr
mother had written.
In order to fulnil her promise Bar
oness Won wrcde went on the stage
herself. and although she has no love
Tor the life. nevertheless made a sue
cess. All the time. however, she was
longing to settle down on particu-
lar pig farm.
AT the present ,nomen, this particu-
lar pig farm is in the market, it has
been offered to the baroness. but-her
mothers plays are stlll unproduced
Il was mere girl when my mother
disd seven years ago" she said, and
Tor the past six years nave oeen
playing leading parts on the American
stage. always hoping that should
mothers plays
The stage life. with all its excite
mc"ts. does not appeal to me. though.
OF course. TO play leading parts In
London is something more attractive
than any other part OF the world can
offer.
"nrt think everyo ody has Two
naturcs--i know am practically two
distinct p.oplc-anJ what may call
my natural nature Is always longing
to take me TO beautiful pig farm.
just near ms old home in Munich.
II is the most beautiful farm in
the world---just a; the foot of the
Bavarlan Tyrol-with a really old
peasants cottage. I, IS about 800
acres.
Il, is an IDEAL homo for pigs and
chickens. and tn. commercial side OF
IL is attractive.
But whether l should buy IT. now
that Il is for sale. Is the problem that
veXcs me. Perhaps, whilst | am stil
young. ought to stick TO the stage
and sacrifice my own desires for my
mothers las, wish. But would she
wish II II she knew"
According TO Ellison Young. who mas
written an article in the English Re-
view. Americans are hypocrit!cal SEN
timentni, cruel. and they lack the one
thing that they think they have
liberty.
Here are few OF his wise remarks
in that organ of England's cultured
classes
The traveller from the Old World
hnds that whatever other good things
may flourish In America. whatever
fine institutions may have reared
themselves on her soil, and whatever
ripeninG in her wide seed fields. the
thing that ne knows as liberty does
not exist there.
You hear a great deal about 'cul-
ture' in America, and every American
who has made money Is laudably anxi-
Gus to acquire culture also: and he
goes out to get it in the same spirit
that he set out TO get money--that IS.
10 get as much OF IT as possible in ms
short time AS possible. lie treats
II as though It were a product some
thing that could be bousht or acquired
rapidly by any one concentrating him
self on the enterprise. But OF course
1t eludes him.
The difference between so-caiied
American culture and true refinement
or cultivation is the differences be-
tween a pine board that has had n
coat of varnish applied to /, and a
piece OF old mahogany that hns been
rubbed and polished through years of
use and care until 1t wears an almost
indestructbls brllliancy.
The time of literature in America
is not yet There are many Ameri-
can characteristics that seem to me
likely TO produce a real founda ton for
literature; the chief Of these Is probab-
~ the love OF ritual. The love of
ritual rests chiefly on the dramatic
sense, which is highly developed in the
Americans. although their theatre is
beneath contempt.
Boston, of which they are so proud,
Is spoiled by r. distressing and prig-
Eish self consciousness that makes
even genuine scholarship repellent.
The American is always talking of
Spead and quickness: but he will waste
five minutes in telling You that he has
so many things to do that nc has not
minute TO spare.
The ordinary English business man
gets to his office between Q and 10.
takes an hour and a half for luncheon.
and probably leaves before 5: and
he will have done more business in that
day than his American counterpart in
New York. who Is at his Office at
in the morning, rushes out and
swallows quick lunch in twenty min
utcs. and perhaps does not leave hts
Office till 6 OFF in the evening.
If the amount of talk were any criter-
of quickness In doing 1t, then indeed
the American would have the palm.
cannot find that qulckness is an Amer
lean characteristics. What Is mistake
en- for quickness Is a kind OF nervous
ndgets
eff we analyze the worst among the
characteristics which I have called
American, we find hypocrisy, sentimen-
tally. cruelty, and boastfuiness; and
NH ch tn, no in
dividual are characteristic Of immature
". And America Is In truth very like
child at the wkward age.
THE Americans are childish In
everything, in tholr simplicity of heart.
in the Eusto with which they address
themselves to life, in their adherence
to artificial and Imposed standards OF
conduct, in their tendency to talk too
much. and too much about themselves,
N their nrofonnl and admirable