The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-07-07

A DAY WITH MARIE CORELLI

found scholar. a brilliant converser,
and possessed OF scintllating wit and
keen sense of humor. Miss Corelli
has a most compelling personality.
rs lodestone. and. best OF all. fem
inlne from the tips OF her small feet
TO the top of her fluffy head She
loves pretty garments and her dresses
Ike her house. display the taste OF
an artist
Miss Coreli adores Shalsespeare's
old home town, and at her own ex-
pense, Just 10 please her sense OF the
fitness of things, she has uncovered
and restored the Tudor house. which
now makes a picturesque feature Of
Stratford. This was done purely for
the love OF doing II and seeing It.
or course; envious tongues misrep-
resented this action and endeavored
to attribute self-seeking purpose TO
the expensive experiment. but tho fact
remains. nevertheless. precisely as
stated.
Hearing that Miss Corclll was the
power behind the throne which caused
the house OF John Harvard's mother
. TO be restored and presented to
America, Miss Corelli was questioned
and the following interesting story
told. IT is given In the famous au-
thor's own words. Hearing that the
founded Harvard college was for sale
TO the highest bidder (whether brew
Ell or vandaD, she says:
Quietly | set to work on ways and
means for purchasing II by private
treaty Fortune favored me in my
design. for during n summer cruise
on board Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht.
the Erin, ] met Mr.. Edward Morris.
son OF the millionaire, Nelson Morris,
OF Chicago. and to him ! conlded the
hope ! had long cherished, which was
that the Harvard house should be-
long 10 America, and TO Harvard
university in particular,
You may ca>l II romantic mo-
tiou. perhaps. 7 said but should
like TO think that the house OF John
Harvards mother was a link with
John Harvards university. and a sign
OF friendship between the two ma
tons
"Mr. Morris was greatly taken with
the tden and both he and his charm
ing wife entered into IL with spirit
and generosity. After some further
talk together on the subject he com
mlssIoncd me to purchase the Har-
trusted 10 me tho work OF strength
ening. restoring and safeguarding the
ancient cdifice. removing all mod
ernitles, and bringing Il back, as far
as possible. to Its original condition.
interiory as well as exteriorly.
''As | have made a study OF Eliza
bethan architecture. the task was
very coDEenIal To me, and lost no
ilIip III setting " WIS
solved that the work should be un-
dertaken by Stratford- -on- Avon men
and I secured the admirable services
OF Messrs. Price Il Sons, builders and
decorators established In the town,
who. under my supervision, started
on the difficult and delicate business
OF putting the old house back as sc-
curately as might be into its SIX
teenth century aspect, Tho result
has more than surpassed our most
sapguine expectations. Visitors en-
ter!nE IL today viii sec the rooms
pretty much as John Harvard's moth
er saw them-as, no doubt John
Harvard himself saw them when n
smsll boy. for u is hardly 10 be sup
posed that he never visited his moth
cr's home or his grandparents. II
mus, not he forgotten that Robert
Harvard, his father. belonged 10 the
parish of st. Saviors Southwark
where Shakespeare had hts Globe
theater,'
Much is said and written concern
ing the lack of all personal docu-
meuts (such as letters and private
family records) relating 10 Shakes
pcHre-tbiE so-called want OF oN1-
denco' giving rise TO the most ridisu-