The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-06

Miss +. Tennysun Jesse. who has been
variously headlned as the great niece
OF TennysCn. as the author ~ The Black
Mask" the grim play which made sem
sation nj the Princess Theatre last winter,
and as the author ~ u novel OF bohemian
wandering called THE MILKY Way" has
distinctly refused to have any IDEAS about
either love or methods 1t writing, regard
ing which she has been interviewed from
one 10 six times "A day ever since her
arrival In New York.
Miss Jesse announces that she did not
come to New York to be interviewed but
to be perfectly frivolous and to look on
New York without any ideas OF copy.
She arrived here after a somewhat eNcit-
ing journey through the West Indies. in
which she encountered one plague, one
earthquake and one Castro. But within
n day after her arrival a young and OPP
t!mlstic writer. who produces articles
upon high ideals in fiction for the minor
magazines that are bound In brown paper.
sought out Miss Jesse at lie Marquis Hotel
and asked confdingly: Tell me, didn't
you write The Milky Way as protest
against the oversexed fiction OF to-day"
To which Miss Jesse replied Il did
not, | wrote II to make money"
The would-be interviewer was naturally
disappointed because she had expected
to find Miss Jesse complex and glad or
It.
The apparent complexity starts in i'm
pressing the interviewer AT once. For al
though the BLACK Mask" was sufficiently
grim to give most OF the Princess The
atre audience a nightmare after having
seen IL, yet Miss Jesse herself Is slen-
der and decidedly pretty girl. as OF course
the great niece OF Tennyson would have
TO be in order to live up to MAUD" There
Is compleXity No. ].
Is there not In this pretty girl deer
~ hat a IN.
precIated by The Family, took revenge by
Expressing Itself with Elementary Power
in the BLACK Mask? Not according &c
Miss Jesse anyway! She says she wrote
the BLACK Mask because IL amused her
and that her only complaint about The
Family Is that they won't let her &c
| awaiting as much as she wishes.
Completely number two appears In Tho
/ fact that THE Milky Way" is about AZ
/ different from the BLACK Mask as G
chocolate eclar Is from corn beef hash
] II is essentially Il gay, joyous. fantastic
! novel which truly relates the wondering
of the painter girl and writer through
southern France. Whence came th'
Great Soul Change which caused IN
| pretty grandniece OF Tennyson 10 turI
! from Grand Guignol terror to springtim'
mlrth7
! According to Miss Jesse the spiritua
| change Is thus explained. 1t doesn't exist
She says she wrote The Milky Way
because she Is Il good little girl and ac
customed TO taking advice. When dinini
with a London critic he commanded he
to write n lively and fantastic novel
which she straightway did, being accus
| toned to obey her elders.
As matter of fact this grand niece Of
Tennyson. this author. who Is quite &C
customed to the most perfervd Enslisl
literary society, Ia quite content To- be
normal human being. In England SIN
rides and motors and aviates; In New
York she has been known to slip ava!
from tho various rich people who ar
entertaining her and to go to tn
movies" which, being English, she call
the CINEMA"
incidentally her next book Is going I,
be on Panama theory. and she has onl
one ambition in writing it--not TO men
\ ton the -Pauncefots treaty.