The sun., 1919-10-12

Mansfield started. At last the,
chance for which he had been waiting
so long had come. Smiling and dean
ing far over the table he inquired
sweetly: WAS the Empress nerrouS7"
Then, with the true dramatic instinct,
he rose. bowed, and strutted majcs-
tically from the room.
That story, as told here, is long
drawn out. AS Booth Harrington
used to tell it, it was probably half the
length and had three times the effect.
Brevity is a rare quality given to few.
Was it not Mark Twain who said that
he had tried every way of rewriting
Frank r. Stockton's THE Lady or the
Tiger" but had never succeeded in
condensing any of his versions to less
than twice the number of words that
the original Stockton version had con-
sumed? Also "Tark" not only told
that story but he acted 1t In the tell
ing.
And such is the far reaching per-
sonality of the man that if he tells a
story in the course of a letter the
recipient always in imagination sees
that story being acted and empha-
sized. For good as Harrington is as a
teller of tales he is quite as good asa
writer of personal letters. In the
course of the writing a whimsical
fancy will strike him and for two or
three pages direct communication will
be sidetracked for narrative as enter
tanning as any chapter of "Penrod" or
| ~
pages will be embellished with little
sketches. For example, he will chance
to think of what happened to his
favorite dog on a recent motor boat
| trip in wintry Maine waters. Then
will follow what he said to the dog
and what the dog said Ian reply, and of
the dogs subsequent reproaches and
persistent refusals TO be again be-
guiled to such a venture Or of a
more serious nature. enjoining
friend to urge on another friend the
greatest care in recovery from ty
phoid. ,rs
do tell O. to be careful.
But then the recovery. 1t is the most
wonderful thing in the world. You
are new. made all over again. with
every simple joy in life restored"
Somehow he expresses things as NO
one else does. Recently he wrote a
friend who had been put up for MEM
( bership in "A New York club with
which he himself had been long asso-
ciatod.
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