Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-10-02
POLICE TO CENSOR
PLAY BY RECTOR
Adams, ex-Episcopal Minister,
Who EIoped With Mystic Soul,
Author of bird Cage"

PROVIDENCE, r. l., Oct "A sex
problem play dealing with marriage,
which is being produced here, is said
former Episcopal rector, to deal with
his own experiences.
The play is called THE Bird Cage
and 1t is of such an extreme character
that parts of it cannot be described
in public print 1t is said to exceed
in sensationalism plays recently sup
pressed and altered in New York and
the police are expected to act when
it is produced there in the near
future.
Adams is the man who disappeared
in August, 1902, with a young woman,
musician and student of Baltimore,
whom he called a mystic soul" For
almost year Adams was completely
out of existence so far as knowledge
of him in New York was concerned.
He married the girl in Seattle under
the impression that his wife had OBJ
tanned a divorce, and they had one
child.
Then he learned that Mrs. Flora c.
Adams had not obtained divorce and
he started proceedings at once on the
ground of desertion
His "sIystic Soul" Away Year.
He was separated for a year, he
says, from his mystic soul" Then
Flora c. Adams got a divorce and
the marriage of the former rector
with the Baltimore girl was ratified.
Adams has since been trying to
support two families-his first wife
and their four children and his sec
ond wife and their boy, eight years
old. He has had a hard time of it
and has not always been able to pay
his first wife all the alimony the
law allowed her.
The moral of Adamss play is that
the wedding ceremony doesn't insure
true marriage and that divorce should
be easily obtained. Adams admits it
is all built on his own career.
I'm not promoting the thesis of
trial marriage, free love or anything
of the sort" Adams says. THE story
is that of a girl who wants to know
her own mind before she marries a
man she was engaged to three years
before and hasn't seen since.
She is hurried into the marriage
because, as she says to her dicta-
torial father, a retired rear admiral:
You think a woman's heart is like
a ship. orders are orders and some
man must command
Adams was at one time a clergy
man in the Protestant Episcopal
Trinity College Hartford, and the
General Theological Seminary. At
first he had charge of churches in
New England.
He attacked the Roman Catholic
Church and conducted his own serv-
ices in accordance with advanced
ritualistic practises.
In 1896 he became assistant to the
Rev. DR.. Morgan Dix, at Trinity
Church, New York, and later was
called to Buffalo, where he received
salary of $4,000 from st. Paul's
Church. He returned to New York
and became rector of the Church OF
the Redeemer, at Park avenue and
Eighty-second street.
Rev. Mr.. Adams in 1898 Joined the
Roman Catholic Church, which was
surprising to his followers because OF
his previous attacks on this church.
For several years he Travelled over
the country, lecturing under the aus
pieces of the knights of Columbus.
He disappeared from this city in
August 1902, and nothing was heard
| from him until the following May,
when a friend here received a letter
| from him written in New Zealand.
At the time Mr.. Adams went away
Miss Gertrude Desch, of Baltimore
also disappeared. They were to-
gether in New Zealand and Mr.
! Adams referred to her as his 'mys-
tic SOUL
| Mr.. Adams is now about fifty eight
Years old. The last time that he
| figured in the newspapers was in 1903
when it was said that he had re-
pented of his actions and had agar
become a communicate of the Roman
| Catholic Church.
Mr.. Adams was born in Cuba, al.
though his father was member of {
Virginia family.
NEW YORK, Oct. 2.-The police o
this city have been requested to cen
scr 1.-THE Bird Cage" a play writer
bv Henry Austin Adams, ex-Episco
| nal rector, when it is put upon TIN
boards here. 1t is being produced il
Providence, r. l., now.
The play is said to reflect the ca
reer of it's author, and to be fla
more rsque than the two play
which recently came in for much no
toriety here.
Cuts Off Mole, Then Dies
BALTIMORE. Md, Oct. Lies
than week from the time she wa