The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-25
ORIGINALITY IS RARER THAN THE DOOO
Cause of Great Deal of the Plagiarism Is that the
Field of Thought Has Been Plowed Up
So Often bv Writer'S

tie HiasidEiSt skipped Saifv on toWATu
the climax of his local reputation as a
! brilliant thinker"
In yesterdays state papers it was
/ told of Gertrude Hoffman, who is daz-
cling the metropolitan publics with
her Russian ballet, that. while in Indi-
annapolis doing her Salome vaudeville
stunt. she freauented the theater
W here the Imperial Russian Ballet,
with Pavlowa and Mordkin. was Civ
ing its Incompatible exhibition of the
terpsichorean art, taking microscopic
note of their effects. methods and per-
fections and these she had boldly in
corporated into her own entertain
ment.
Much in theatric art is imitation.
Simply the old Cleveland often paste
at that-in new setting.
True is this also of the musical and
literary art.
Anthony Hope, of the Prisoner of
Zenda." wrote 2 fresh and charming
tale. He has been initiated to nausea
ton, and successfully. The public is
not discriminating. 1t readily accepts
Il ~" tei lOi q velvet purse
The theater and the publishing
house, the lecture-platform and the
study-room are not the only mediums
of plagiarism. Where is it found in its
greatest perfection than in the literary
club 'paper?" The profundities that
have been handed out at club meets
for originalities will check up heavily
against the Great Day,
The most neglected thing in society
today is the quotation mark.
One of the interesting events in the
world of amateur sport is shortly to be
pulled off in Australia, when Larned,
the national tennis champion of this
country. Mclaughlin, the winner of
the allcomers this year at Newport
and Beals Wright. the runner-up at
the last event and one of the best
known American players. will go to
Australia to contest for the Davis cup,
the international trophy wrested from
this country several years ago, taken
to England by the famous Dohorty
brothers, and borne off to far Austria
liza later.
BY defeating Dixon and Lowe, Brit
ish representatives of the sport recent
ly, the Americans won the right to 60
to the far distant continent and make
an effort to bring back the Davis cup
to America where it was long held.
Larned is, perhaps, the most bril-
liant exponent of the game of tennis
known to the tennis world. An cratic
player and fluctuating in the steadi-
ness of his game, Larned. at his best,
is inimitable. No one can get by him.
A few years ago when the Dohorty
brothers, regarded as the most Won
derful opponents of this game who
have ever played it came over from
England and carried away everything
in sight, Larned had lapsed, through
lack of continuous practice into care
lessness and was not even in ordinary
form.
The Dohortys were geniuses at this
game.
Their methods differed radically
from those traditions and rules which
had always controlled the best players
of their country. The old English ten
nis-the legitimate game-is played in
this country in greater perfection than
obtains in Great Britain, owing to the
Donorty influence, although it is said
to be returning to its former plane Of
operation since the death of the elder
Dohorty and the retirement of the
younger.
The CALIFORNIA; have been the SEN
sation of the past few tennis seasons
and that one of them, Mclaughlin,
goes to Australia to enter the lists for
the Davis cup, argues great brilliance
and proficiency in the game.
May Sutton, the young woman Of
that state who has made an interna-