The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-28
PICTURESQUE CAREER;
BUT WRITES REALISM

The Baltimore boy had a shilling In NJ,
pocket, hardly enough to get him from
Canton to Vladivostock. but his powers
of persuasion were intact. These he
tried on the agent OF the Pacific Maj
and with success. Al NladiVustoyk "a
received Il hundred pounds sterling n,
advance expense money and iuun ps
first long breath. His war experienced,
were interesting and his despatchos I'd,
his paper valuable, AZ \ good many nm.
portant personages attcsted ~ the tiuc.
bit his ambition and his zeal proved he
undoing, for the Russian officials ob.
jected to certain uncensorcd drsutt,No,
that he contrived to get through 3" ton.
don and he left the counry under m.Ii.
tary escort.
Pekin was the scene of Mr.. llowa-l,
next adventure. once established In ma
Chinese capital he met young Ski.ka,
then Governor ard General. and securcl
an appointment as paymaster in the i'm
perial Chinese army with the rank %,
Captain. But after "A while tho OrIcn,
began to pail and the Occiden; to- pn',.
with the result that Golden IL wei.
coined him aud the san Francis,
Chronicle and the Sunset Wuga.tuc pad
him real money for the frui Z, tis pen.
The acceptance OF three stories by 'u.
editor OF Epcrybody's Maya .inc at THE
time encouraged Howard to test his lIrs
nearer home, 50 he returned to Bali.
more. where he tried his hand at elm,
life. joining the Baltimore Country. Ral.
timore Athletic, Athaneum. Charcoal,
Journalists and the Paint and Powder
clubs. while in this whirl he created
the diplomatic agent In America, tho
gentleman has since become an ami.
ton. and published him under tho title
"Norroy, Diplomatic Agent"
Then he went abroad and managed
Theodore Gerard in 1.-THE Vamplr,
Dance" and had a number of other play.
let's produced in Paris and London. Or
his return to America no hobbl,d Oh.
rowing foot. stakcd out a claim ON Long
Island and sat dow To- the business -
writing books and plays and sue like.
Among the results worth mentioning
is '"The Only Law" the first American
realistic ''crook play" Then came
"Snobs." produced at tho Hudson Thea.
tire. New York. with Frank MacIntirs In
the leading part. 1t ran u year. hf'o.
which Mr.. Howard turned his prot,au
attention To the Winter Garden and Til,
Passing show Of 1912" was the outcome
This introduced the French "r,yue" =,
America.
In the meanwhile he had written lrI
published three romances. one ~ which
So far has only been published boo Ger.
many. essays, plays. criticisms and Shor.
stories without number. lie va, a. ON,
time a play reader for tho late Henry
\. Harris. dramatic editor Of Smi'l'y
Nd0dsfno and dramatic critic of 'h. \.p
York Morning Telegraph. lie has dram.
affixed a story and storyized a dra ma
he has written a novel. a. d~istingusN.l
from a romance-'An Enemy To -.
Getty which Was reviewed mos, ftvo-.
ably. and he published in 1919 q lls,
entitled The Red Light Of Mar. Tia,
has not yet been produced. And "-
man who has done all this and lived
all this will be 81 the seventh day -
next January.
There is but one more thing to record
save that he is married and has two
children, and that is. since 1919 he ha.
been at work on the novel into wh.,n 10
has built his real literary ambitions
The title of this novel is Gods Man"
and II will be published the eleventh ~
September by Tn Bobbs- Mcrrill COM
pany.