The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-12-27
FAMOUS AUTHOR NOW 4 CONSTABLE Preston Mudd0ck Nightly
 Guard of Westminster IN INDIAN MUTINY
And Has Been Writing Ever Since. Robert Kitchens and Arthur Nor ris0n Also Members of Corps
 He Has Joined
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Lohuon, December 5.-tSpecial )-One of the most renowned. prolific and trav- eied of British novelists has just joined the distinguished little band of writ ers-already numbering Robert Kitchens Filson Young and Arthur Morrison among it's members-who, debarred by their age from going on active service, are acting as Special constables- at home He is Dick Donovan" who gave us Jim the Penman,'' and whose raal name. as you probably are aware ia T F. Preston- -Muddock Though he lives out on breezy Clapham common where. Ill poetically named Nightingale lane. he has cozy little house yclept "Dono- van House" this author. who has writ ten so many times of police work. is himself acting for the first time as policeman in the meti opolitan area. ls ihg' Tn iact one of the nightly rnarl- ians of an important point in s > w" district
 The novels alone of Dick aaf.a fs ifzl-- who was in India all Asfa0. .h t- mutiny-number. so he orfassaI f to.a'-. at the Savage club taer actly 7S, includp, s 5ar
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 2f @ tsafg sttled in Cal fss e aat4pf of For God e1t hi education partly
 4ra -iy in the land of
 ,dn earning his living
 1ndry In Cossipore near
 .hd was there from begfn- m .le end of the mutiny, but then uRpe nderlust" got hold of him. and started off on his travels which took i'm through Australia, China. Japan, ava and the South Sea Islands, and tlater) through the United States Cam ada, Russia, and pretty well every oth- er part of Europe. He is a big man, noW close on TO- with once sandy saeard whose original color has made a gallant struggle against the grey. Of late, he has been having a lot of of fers from the film companies, but as yet they have not bid high enough s'o satisfy him. He recently finished a sw novel, the scene of which is laid
 Australia and which is called Out lere
 4 Acting As Constable
 A~considerable younger author, who has just been given a temporary com mission as lieutenant in the Royal Naval volunteer reserve, is Lion Clay ton Calthrqp who wrote Everybody Secret ana rff~- es,.ftrO -tU tfry Ianu, anu who. obviously inspired by Barrie is second only to the author of Peter Pan" as authority on fairies and their ways. He is never tired of writing about fays and I remember when, sev- eral years ago, Constance Smedley gave a wonderful fairy tale dinner 1t the Lyceum club, at which we all wore golden rabbits suspended over our shirt fronts, it was Calthrop who 'did' the table decorations, and won lerful they were, representing whole airy villages, with fairy castles, fairy lells revels and what-not
 Incidentally, Calthrop who draws learly well as he writes. is a recog- lzed authority on the history of Eng sh costume, subject on which he has published several books, illustrated by imself. He has written several one-act lays, too, the last of which, "Harle- uin,' was done in front of Bernard lhaw's 'Androcdes and the Lion,'' and was generally adjudged a far more ar tistic work than the main item in the programme, which. in fact it survived Calthrop, who is the son of John Clay ton. a famous English actor has ex- fifitEa at the Royal academy and also
 sia eredit 'St. Quin, thoroughly eeaaHttai ,loNel published a couple of als aga wh.ie is last book, a col 1ectien et widely read contributions to