Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-30
BOOK REVIEWS.
CLIPPED WINGS: \ Novel. BY Rupert
Hughes. author of Empty Pockets.
etc. New York: Harper 4 Bros.

the story OF an actress ~
sketchy outline, it is the rec
ord of young girls adVanc;
in stagecraft to the point
where public adulation of the better
sort waits upon intelligent and capao bic
artistry Young. devoted to the work
in hand and possessed of undeniable
Sits for this work. the girl moves Tor
2 considera BILE distance here along the
straight and narrow highway to dis
tinction Then nature cuts sharply
across her path. Nature is. after all,
p good deal of NNen. an incorrisibie
mischief maker. despite our sentiment
n pOetizings TO the contrary W nat
she does to Sheila K.emble is to present
n particular young man to her under
the widest possible management. A
few years earlier. or a few years later.
this encounter would have gone It's
way with thousands of other forgotten
meetings. That is just the way with
nature She is invariably, on hand
when the clock strikes. And so Sheila
niarrics the man. She retires, likewise.
to the private business of raising b; :
hies and trimming her corners to SUIT
the views of stodgy in-laws. as wen as
10 meet the very decided notions OF Il
husband as to what is and what is not
becoming in his wife. Finally, Sheiia
goes back to the stage. Why she does
this. and under what accommodations
of circumstances, readers Will prefer
10 find out for themselves. since this
is the Kind of story that is enllnentIy
worth tirst-hand gathering.
Decidedly. Clipped Wings" has fea;h-
cred its way into the ring where novels
that count befong. In the first place.
~ finr, iSn ff
Md in the second place. Mr.. Hughes.
turning away from the common
temptation to weave Il fairy tale out OF
stage material. has produced upon the
solid basis Of reasoned and focUscd
development vivid picture of stage
lie in its reaction upon an intelligent
AMI sincere young artist. Again. the
u:itcrcurrent of this story is of an APP
pr ciable depth and breadth. 1t is from
his source that one gathers fine
1850 of the business character of the
stage artists life, a truer sense of the
W .ues of the profession. From this
point. too. comes the big and pressing
o,estiou that. by virtue of it's own
10 &c and it's own wide reach, opens
OFT OF this brilliantly convincing state
y INT of the case of Sheiia kemble.
Nhy-and this is the question--in the
marriage state is a woman expected to
submerge whatever of talent and train
'r= she may possess for work out in
the open field OF endeavor where so
many of her satisfactions lie. while a
nan. on the other hand, is encourag ed
in This same field and annIauded for
achievement therein? Would not the
world be a richer world. and happier
one. if the overworked gospel of sex
neI,ad IN ME- roon, for soroe of tbe
other activities. splendid and clamoring
activities, Of human beings
AICOTT MEMOIRS Posthumously
comniIed tom naners iorrraIs and
memoranda Of the late DR. Fred
.rick l. ~ Wills nv. E,ditb Willis
Linn and Henri Bazin, Boston:
Richard &; Badger
Two points of exceeding moment
mark this rare little hook one is ,ha,
a.. v-:,;a - r.,
~ INNS Dc " DoS' hNeu ioi Ten years
more or less. as az intimate of the AL
colt household boarding with the Al
co,,. for . r, ., en-, .;,o r.,o
" p " ~ ''- ie
DINER is that he Is none other than
Laurie. the boy friend and playmate
that figures so happily in Little Wom-
en- Thess two facts, coupled with
fly. serve, in a queer human chemistry,
TO bring the reader also into face
to-face. hand-toS hard association with
pr.nsnn 49,, "a ~ t-,nsoanJo 49,
New England group of which he was
f'N' 49, s' s'hOtt Nhsip-
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became thereafter a member OF their
family. Here are many interesting
thngs aoon, ths iainily me. ana the
-Nis IN their inherent natures ana
VI pnIns tue .uSntet VI p'oHsof
49,! wiz ipNe WHAT DI-
''1 i.a' ~ say doou, ~, nouisa Alcol.:
joe ol neI ON" ,-ittIe w omen,
-, pesiues. On IiItefes'Ihs STUDY
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pat.; az neiS aoo,it.onis., as the eA =
Feeolhsl! io'ape out utterly no, e
count man IN anything thaf saFor.ed or
wa iookea toWaro earning hNihR
'or hlmself ana ms rainily- The ex-
pertinent OF rrultiands as COM
'pnhist adventure - given mere IN a
coh'lse nut aonflrspIe characteFizatofi
OF 'h"t utopiah scnehhe. On" catches
Eopd we've ~ Ei'e's son; too' anu OF
Inofeah- OF Marsare' uiier ana raw
thorne ana ihomas starr hlhG Inc
hooh - OF Tue prlceiess SORT III its Ell :
rect OF terminating IN person certain
sallent and hl2hiy spirltualized point
IN NH:rleah IRE.
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