New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-15
ROYALTY RULES AT
AUTHORS DINNER
Writers and Publishers Get
Together at First An
mal Affair.
MOVING PICTURES
BETWEEN COURSES
William Jennings Bryan Is SAVED
by Wife from the Penis OF
Champagne Glass.


90, cad some power the giftie &c US
70 geo oursels as authors sec us'
po,.at,v was i'm evidence at the Biltmore
rIo,eI last uight-high royalty, AT thA''
Some OF il ran az high az thif'y Genus vi
. dollar-nfty publication. All OF IL ran a.
high as il could. IT was the hrst aniiua'
dinner of the Authors League OF America
and (, was considerably more than thdN
IN pulling off their first annual dinner
tho authors we're aided and abetted py
their friends and admirers. also by theh
publishers.
one way OF summing up last night
dinner IS to say that IT was den o'
Iions-a den Of lions without DANIEL
Most were literary lions, lot were pup
Usher lions. some just lions. The grand
leonlne total was four hundred, and the
lis, OF those present included contribs to
every magazine in the country.
Had the nineteenth floor of the Bit
more seen nc to give way at any time DC
tween and II last night, IL is sale
guess that 9O,C00.OOo Americans would 80
wthou, their reading material while
new generation of authors and publish
ers was being raised.
Bryan at Speakers Table.
Al the speakers table were william
Jennings Bryan, Winston Churchill
president OF the league Professor Will
lam Milllgan Sloane, OF Princeton, toast
master: the Rev. Samuel McChord
Crohters. Of Cambridge; Mr.. and Mrs.
Rex Beach, George Haven Putnam, Her
bert Putnam. librarian of Congress; j.
Stewart Blackton. head of the Vitagraph
Kate Douglas Wiggin, Mrs. }.
Stewart Blackton. Miss Agnes Repplier'
Mrs. W. J. Bryan Mrs. George Haven
Putnam ard Mrs. Winston Churchill
Seated around the tables we're such
we'll known writer's as Samuel Hopkins
Adams, Josephine Daskam Bacon. Ray
Stannard Baker, Ralph Henry Barbour
Porter Emerson Browne. Gelett Burgess,
Ellis Parker Butler. Walter Camp, Mary
Stewart Cutting Thomas Dixon. Mon
tague Glass. James Montgomery flagg'
Charles Dana Gibson Edna Ferber Ru-
pert Hughes, Cora Harris, Clayton Ham
ilton, VIII Irwin. Owen Johnson, Edwin
Lefevre Jack London. Peter Clark Mac
farlanc. Percy Mackaye. George Barr
llcCutcheon. Kathleen Norris, Lincoln
Stefens. Louis Joseph Vance, Paul West
Ida rarbell. Arthur Train and Edward
Mott Wooley.
As to publishers there were George II.
Boran, George Dutton, Frederick :. Hop
pin. Robert Sterling Yard, Mark Sullivan,
Joseph W. Lippincott Charles Scribner-
fjfty-four of 'em-count 'em. ffty-four.
As a shortcut to identification every
author and authoress wore a white but
ton bearing his or her name.
James Montgomery Flagg and the Bit
moro chef colaborated on the table OF
contents, otherwise the menu. The chef
was the author OF such things as Me
daillon de Filet de Bpuf Saute au Ma
dere," while his aid painted a neat F'lagg
stone to ornament the title page.
Films Shown the While.
With the serving of the Supreme d.
Dean Bass Victoria the lights were ex
tinguished and a moving picture-J
Stuart Blackton's treat-was shown. /
was a section OF Louis Joseph Vance
novel. Joan THURSDAY" Others were
THE Quick or the Dead by Ameli
Rives; Cherry" by Booth Harrington
HE Knew Lincoln" by Ida Tarbell
THE Vengeance of Durand," by Re
Beach, and pigs Is Pigs" by Eli
Parker Butler.
After Mignardises, seventeen course
from Paricots Verts Fines Herbes. Presi
dent Winston Churchill, speaking for tn
authors, welcomed every one and intro
duced Professor William MilIigan Sloane
who toastmastered.
Professor Sloane warned prospective
speakers that there would he time lini
on most Of the oratory, and said that hi
experience at previous dinners had FIRE
quently gone TO prove the truth of tin
adage, THE more talk the less speech.
Rex Beach then took UP the cudgels 70
the overworked authors. Arguing copy
right, Mr.. Beach contended that tn
American author was entitled to the SAM
protection as the manufactures and labor
cr. At this point authors applauded, All,
one man arose and Missed loudly.
Mr.. Beach then branched into a eulog,
of the moving picture business and II
possibilities as regards the author, bu
before he was fairly warmed up his tim
ran out Before sitting down. however
he found time to say that in the pictur
business to-day htere was lot OF film
fam business.
On Mr.. Bryan there was no time limit
Mr.. Bryan chose for his theme "Th
Writer with a Message" In contradistinc
ton 10 the writer who writes for tn
money. The comparison he drew va
that there was no comparison.
Although ! have gone on record a
favoring rigid antitrust legislation" sal
the Secretary OF State. II will try TO ge
an exception r.ade OF all combination
among authors. | do not believe tina
there is any danger Of a combination &C
curing or controlling enough money Z
render them dangerous TO the communit.
at large"
Water or Wine, Whieh7
Here something happened. Before Sec
rotary Bryan there stood two glasses
one containing water. the other cham
audience. the Secretary picked up a glass
The Secretary raised II to his lips Mrs
Bryan saw, reached all the way acros
Winston Churchill and Mrs. George Hav
m pt,tpafn aud fook the glass from, ~