Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-28
News and Gossip

" In LONDON because Ol NhS "''a' A
Barker. the distinguished poet ana
author Of Letters from Living Dead
Man" which has been translated into
ak languages, has given zip her house In
/ KenslnRton Square and will return TO
| New York. Mrs. Barker Is the author OF
those hon mots, Never ask a woman
! her aRe-beautiful things should not ss
! labeled" and "a woman may be tree
womani-but only when she is free OF
! financial obligations"
| cNpvBRAL well-known radicals appear
y ns characters in Reginald Wright
| Kaufman's latest novel, Jim" to be
published in January. Mr. Kaufman, an
advanced thinker himself, says "the radi-
cal group in New York includes many an
arrant faklr and noisy hypoeritical un-
oonventlonalst. Socialism is often an ex~ r
cuse for shifting responsibility. II wo-
man tires of her husband and duties, she
can hear loud, clear call to dodge her
plighted word. II, as a mother, she wishes
to throw off her obligations to a child,
she will find a mission True idealIsm Is
in whether person fulhlls the intimate
obligations of human relationships,
whether he can accept favor and not later
viclously vituperate the benefactor."
TT NowLEDGE of MaeterlincR's pros
N posed election to the French Acad- 8
emy has Just reached this country. NJ.
Maeterllnck will fll the seat left vacant
by Jules Clarete, and will be the first
foreigner elected to the French institu- b.
tion, st
TT is reported that II. @. Wells has
J. given up fiction for the time and de-
voting his energies to writing about the
war. .-
MO WOMAN can afford to be poll
lNliclan If she has past" declares
George sylvester Viereck. "A dead past
may menace even Tammany leader, but
q wOman's antecedents. unlike the woman
herself. remain et5rnally youthful" Mr..
Viereck's play, THE Lady of the Son
nets" will be produced shortly by Oliver
Morosco While he Is editing THE Fa-
therland" he is also at work on an orig
lna version of the Wandering Jew leg-
end. Mr.. Viereck is an advocate of suf-
frage.
CUFFRAGB, by the way, is discussed
y in II. G. Wells latest novel, The
Wife of Sir Isaac Harmon, and one OF
the characters is said to be no other
than the well-known English militant
leader. Winlfred Graham also treats OF y j
suffrage in 1.-THE Enemy of Woman" y
published by Mitchell Kennerley One Of =
the most active suffrage workers in Amer
lea, a woman known for many years in
journalistic circles, has returned to New
York for the winter. after campaigning
through the West, and contemplates en-
tering the field of creative, imaginative
work with novel on suffrage. a.-
ONE of Rex Beach's hobbies is boating =
" and canoeing His motorboat- is said
to be the fastest on Lake Hopatoong and 4.
he maintains a whole fleet OF the tipsY
craft In his latest novel, The Auction
Block," Mr., Beach treats of the ex-,
ploitation of children by parents, which,
says Mr. Beach. is becoming a common,
crying wrong.
NORBERT SEVESTRE. the French Z
IN novelist who translated n Everett
Harre's romance, "The Eternal Malden,''
into French writes that he is serving at. 4
the front. NJ Sevestre says that before
joining the coors ne completed a novel
entitled lie Desertion de rApache" tho
tale of an American Indian brought to
Paris and deserted. NJ. Sevestre visited Il
america last spring to complete his mate
rial