The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-11
BY BARRETT II. CLARK.

atrc movement Lennox Robinson | had
met when the Irish Players were in Amer
lea, but at that time lac was 50 busy selling
tickets and keeping his company out of
the. hands Of the New York and Chicago
police that he had no time for interviews
or the exchange of ideas
And when | was IN Ireland | was told
o! his preoccupation with volunteer
army which was to start revolution or
suppress one in Cork. had arranged to
meet T. c. Murray, the schoomaster-
dramatist, author of Bjrthright and ,'aH-
rice Hdrte, bat the Sunday train schedule
in Ireland, which means that there are no
trains at all, deprived rae of the pleasure
OF a visit to his home near Barney.
A Protege of Shaw.
The author of Nired Marriage was the
third and last man of the group particu
larry cared TO see, and he lived in London.
] had some lines wondered how 1t was
that a writer whose style was so distinc-
lively national in tone had come to settle
In London, and whether he intended TO
depict in his later work the people he
had known ami lived with. ! had heard
besides that he was a protege of Bernard
Shaw | was little fearful lest Mr..
Ervine should succumb TO English iniiu
ences and lose his characteristic style and
flavor | might ask him about this when
i saw him.
Tah &c WpI known
as the author of three rather widely read
novels: Mrs. Martins Man, Alice and
Family, and Changing Winds. In Octo-
be-. 1914, when / visited him at Hendon
his name meant nothing to the public at
large: he was merely one OF a group of
"rising" young Irishlnen who had contrib
uted handful of grim dramatic studies
concerned with the folk of the small towns
and cities of Ulster. 1t was the young
Irish dramatist called on, the author Of
Mired Marriage and The MdgnaninouS
Iorer. and not the novelist.
Bashful, Rosy Checked.
Mr.. IRVINE and his wife live in what
looks like a model apartment. 1t is one
of those bright new red brick buildings
whose quaint architecture is inspired by
Tudor castles!\ Hendon. or at least that
part of Hendoh where the EHines live,
is new looking suburb of London, where
queer little crescents wind in and about,
losing themselves and the unwary wan
derer, and finally coming out unexpect-
edly at the precise spot where one started
from. / came upon the Arcade I was
hooking for in the middle Of one after
noon in the fall of 1914, and climbed the
narrow staircase to the second floor.
The door was opened by bashful and
rosy checked young man whom l would
scarcely have taken for Mr.. Ervine had
not Bernard Shaw told me that his young
friend was both bashful and rosy
checked, and had / not heard the click
OF typewriter just inside the door,
which stopped short as / rang the bell.
] stepped into a tiny apartment furnished
throughout with the best OF taste in the
old English manner. We went into the
dining room, which also did duty as a
drawing room. / sat in the corner on a
comfortable window seat, and Mr.. IRVINE
opposite me on a chair.
A Pulling Fellow.
IRVINE was at that time in the early
thi-ties. His youthful aspect was just a
little surprising, for who does not figure
TO himself the stern aspect of the author
of stern worksf Qndeed, find it hard
tbo &C
Sou as a very young woman.) There
was hardly a trace of the mental stress
which must have gone to the making Of
Mired Marriage on the countenance of its
creator; unrufied serenity of soul and
contentment with life could be read in
the clear blue eyes, the unlined forehead.
The voice was calm and steady, and the