The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-10-05
THE CENTURY NOT
TO Be PUBLISHED
IN ENGLISH FIELD
President Of Publication
Announces Intention of
Suspending
LADY WARWICK TO
WRITE FOR FILMS
Will Also Permit Motion Picture Con.
Germ to Use Warwick Castle
and Her Own Estate
at EastOn
Rx HAYDEN CHURCH

BY HAYDEN CHURCH
London, Oct Especial lit Is re-
ported that w. w. Ellsworth, president
of the Century company, who mas just
sailed for America, made arrangements
while here to stop the publication OF
the Century as an English magazine
after January 1, next, as II Is more
convenient and economical to buy only
the American serial rights of the work
of some of the big English authors with
whom the Century has deals pending
for future work.
This leaves IIarpers and Sribners as
the only American magazines separately
published here and catering for English
sales. There is. to be sure. an English
Worlds Work, but it now has prac-
tically no connection with the American
periodicals of that name. On the other
hand, the English editors are buying
more and more of the contents of the
American magazines for republication
here. and the work of many American
writer's who ordinarily would not find
a foothold here is becoming known to
English readers. Although American
editors still come to England for a
large proportion of the highest quality
of fiction, it looks as if the Amer can
story tellers in all but the top rank
were getting the upper hand here as
rapidly as the American playwright of
the same grade.
Princess Troubetzkoy. best known as
Amelie Rives. is not so well known in
England as in America, but her new
novel, Worlds End" is to appear SER
tally here as well as in the United
States by arrangement with The
Weekly Budget" and will probably be
brought out by an English publisher
next spring. Meanwhile the princess
cousin. Halle Ermine Rives, who has
not hitherto made much impression on
English readers is gaining a foothold
with her "Valiants of Virginia" which
is getting some first class rate reviews
Lord Douglas Book
Evidently there is going to be COM
motion over Lord Alfred Douglas
Forthcoming book to be entitled Oscar
Wilde and Myself" Ronald Ross
Wilde's literary executor, is doing his
best to prevent its publication, knowing
that Lord Alfred has no great affection
for him, and will probably make a Bit
ter attack on him. 1t is reported that
the book is now finished and is being
revised under legal advice to make SURE
that it Is free from libels. and that 1T
will be published this autumn. Lord
Alfred has announced that he proposes
to make spirited defense of his rep
utation.
No one who read elizabeth and Her
German Garden" will have forgotten the
April and May babies who figured in
that delightful book, and the Countess
Won Arnheim's readers may be sur
prised to learn that these have now
hot, los nd ra ST
ing at Girton. the English Vassar
A sweet girl graduate tells me that
they are fair-faired. clever without be-
ing brilliant, and altogether nice little
things" really called after the months
in which they were born. Their mother,
the now widowed Countess Won Arm
heim does not encourage them to be
luxurious or extravagant. and, aided
and abetted by her, they always spend
their long vacations In some original
manner-tramping, carayanins, or
camping out
A Successful Author
That phenomenally successful lady.
Mrs Florence Barclay. though she had
to 20 to America to be discovered
has now no end of honor in her own
country and is, in fact, one of the
favored few among authors whose
books are invariably reviewed on the
day of their publication. Truth TO tell,
however. Mrs Barclays latest story,
THE Broken Halo" has had only
sorry reception at the hands OF the
English critics. most of whom, In fact,
demand who 1t can be that read Mrs.
Barclays novels? Says the "bookwhack-
err of the Daily News: If 1t were
not for its probable enormous sales, 1t
would be the easiest to say nothing
about this kind of writing. Yet what
Is read so widely must have some good
fru1 MI
not discover it."
The al-conauering 'moves' are now
making a conquest of the literary men,
bers OF the British peerage. The
Marchioness of Townshend has been
turning out film dramas for some time.
and now the Countess of Warwick an
nounces that she has made an arrange
ment with a British moving picture
firm to do likewise. The countess de-
clares that her chief objects in doing
are to educate the masses and to give
the British films and impetus In. the
competition for supremacy with foreign
films" but the fact remains that the
WarwiclSs are in extremely low water
financially, a meeting of the earl's cred
itors having followed the sale Of his
town houses, so one suspects that l. S. d.
has weighed to some extent with her
ladyship. 1t appears. moreover, tina!
Aot only has the countess.-who once
became known the Norld over DIS Ine
Babbling Brooke-contracted to write
dramas for the aforementioned house,
but has placed at their disposal War
wick castle and its historic environs
and her own estate at Easton, Essex,
which boasts many thousands of acres
of deer-park, gardens and woodland, to
afford a setting for the filming of her
plots.
First Play Sensational
'I have written my first play In g
highly sensational vein." said Lady
Warwick in an interview yesterday.
ut is called The Great Pearl Affair."
and, therefore is extremely topical. But
in time hope 70 prove that things of
a far higher character can be filmed.
Il have listened to Mr.. II. G. Wells
views on the future of the cinema as an
instructional medium. and 1t is in this di-
rection that I hope to lift my work to
more elevated plane.
II have decidede to do several things
in the field of historical drama There
is much history that is practically un-
known in the Warwick archives, and
have two incidents now in mind that
Will form admirable subjects for dra-
matte treatment.
s'They concern Piers Gaveston and
Isabel. one OF the daughters of the
king maker who married the Duke of
of Malmsey, and they will have War
of malmsey, and they will have War
wick castle as setting
Lovers Logic
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