The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-03

on the Souud-on the beautiful Pelham Road,an just across from It. Slocum. From the dainty rose and white bedroom that was my special guest nook. I would be wakened every morning by the bugles blowing across the sound-I can't get 'enl up! I cant get em up! can get 'em ur in the morningl
 MT. CcCardell's secretary MT. Rose. is one of those learned foreigners that know everything. A most accomplished linguist and musician-a courtly and charming man. The place is bower of Japanese naples, hawthorne, lilac, syringa and wisteria, and as happy and interesting a home as the heart of man can desire. and throned in it is just the dearest wife and mother I know. She has the true Irish warmth and charm, and he bubbles over with the wit and humor that psisoned in printers ink has made him famous. His wife showed me with great pride one article which won him 5000. I owe much to Mir. McCardelrs knowledge of ways and means and dramatic people ue should know. When they asked me who I'd like to meet, said at once, Augustus Thomas Che lives in New Rochelle, just 45 min utes from Broadway), and James Mont gomery Flagg By the by, I was at the premier night of The Model and heard Mir Thomas make his first-night speech. He Is not handsome, like one would judge from his bust pictures. He is forid and baldish and business looking. l really think his play As Man Thinks, is the strongest of our modern American plays. From that and The Witching Hour he has made fortune. When he made his first hit he was down to Park Bench for an abiding place.
 .'Tell you about Belasco,' Mrs. Rivers repeated my question after me. His hair Is turning very white these days and I'm not surprised for he has certainly had hard luck this year. He has the best per sonal publicity man on the press, but even he could not keep out of print the many suits for plagiarism waged against him this year. He has lost them all, too. In the brokers offices (play brokers-they are as much part of the game as the play wright) one hears much about it. The consensus of opinion seems that he has never really written anything, but that he has appropriated and edited the thoughts and photograph sceneries of others! He's so sore and angry that for whole week this summer :n every New York daily he advertised that he would neither read nor accept any American play submitted to him. I personally do not care as much for his stagings as many do. There Is an overplus of attention to detail that gets tiresome. like The Governess Lady very, very much. but do not care for The Return of Peter Grimm. He has no music any more in any of his theatres. as you know and the chimes ring up the curtains
 What did you like best among the plays you saw?" asked.
 George Arliss in 'Disraeli' for acting she said. "As spectacles, The Garden of Allah and 'Kismet."
 'sWho are the best play brokers?' !. I queried.
 Alice Kauser. with her splendid offices in the Knickerbocker building. and Mrs. William de Mile, mother of Cyril and William de Mile. playwrights and collab- oraters. with Belasco. They place plays collect royalties and manage the contracts between playwrights and producers. Mr, McCardle gave me the best advice re- ceiyed. He said
 '''Write your play; make it human and full of stirring situations; turn it over to a good broker. and forget it. Some day 1t may come back to you forlornly as mo good" Some day 1t may make you ricn and famous-a la Baby Mine (s10,OO0 q week.. but if you try to place it yourself 1t will break your heart and run you crazy. without fail. It's the biggest gam bls on earth. And no woman, especially