El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-12-03


N and then the passion 70 peer into
and disclose the secrets Of the /
private lives Of public characters re-
; suits in the publishing OF a diary
D or memoirs"
The things that are nobody's bust /
! ness become thereby everybody's ousi-
The petty faults Of a great mar. or
{ woman are exposed before the muill-
l tude-
mercy Of the I'll advised man or woman
I Of letters whose Inventive lacu-ues /
/ are so poverty stricken, whose wit IS
/ so UNDERGONE and whose lack q nu-
manlty is so striking that friend ana
! foe are lampooned equally without
/ respect for their persons or positions
/ Consider the squirting victim
/ pinned down by the pen whereby the
Z world may take its iii OF III nalureu
inspection His foibles and follles are
I exposed TO view He is a nine Gay
/ wonder and. while the author and eL-
l ploiter. through lack OF merit, VIII be
soon forgotten, his victim can never
/ forget the shame and misery
] No redress IS possible 70 ire qead.
! but TO the living there is the doubtful
solace Of libel proceedings
Lawsuit Of Maurice Verne.
/ The latest lawsuit OF this nature.
arising from a literary lampoon. IS
ne action taken by Maurice Verne. Of
/ Paris, against Guillot de Sai1s whose
last novel ''1Tarius Manf0utT, &C
cordinE 20 deposition. makes odious
use Of Verne's name. as wen as those
~ Terne's feminine friends and SER
wants. and incidents OF his private
"A mans private life Is nobody's
business" complains Verne, Unless
he poses as a leader or an example
The musician. the poet and the artist
l should be judged by their works and
{ not BY lheir private ives anu u
their works interest noEellsr suIll-
GENTLY 10 inspire him with a desire
] 10 fmmortalize them in book, the
alluEion should be yelled ano not d.
This announcement comes directly
after the discussion Of the now no
torious diary OF Mrs. Margor Asquitn,
wife Of EnEland's former premier
Her flaylng criticism Of high officials
and merciless expose OF friends have
brought her severe coudemn ati9ri
She herself was the Woman with the
Serpent's Tongue" lampooned by VIE
] liam watson, once poet laureate OF
England
! been imuortalized in this vlrrlollc
] poem. but that rebuke in verse did
Q not slay her hand from penning the
diary wherein statesmen their wives,
l families and affairs are so mercilessly
. ] treated That this Is now widely
read and causing great comment can
not be denied, but such literature
. cannot live beyond the notoriety OF
the moment
: No lawsuit, however, has been llLeu
against Mrs Asquith-
Addison's Denunelatiou-
Addison, who. with Richard steele.
I wrote many editions OF the spectator
Z IN the early 18th century. bitterly IN
Weighed against those who write 20
: wound. Most miserable OF all Tvretches
! IS he, according TO that dauntless
scribe. who uses his talent to hurt his
I fellows
Sometimes great authors Of fiction
[ have lapsed, Intentionally or other
wise. into Characterization which has
I been believed to be personal Dickens,
in BLEAK House" creates Horace
Sl<impoles generally believed a. the
time The book was published 20 be
the prototype Of Horace Walpole-
But, although Dickens drew pen pic
lures OF men and women he found
about him, and even took names out
Of the city directories, making Differ
eut combinations out Of Them, most
OF his inVective was used to bring
about reforms, and was, therefore,
forgivable.
But TO think Of the experience that
fell to an artist OF our own day and
OF this cityl Sitting with his vile IN
a theater one evening he heard a
young actress, in her role, mention
his own name. an odd one, too. saying
z
that name. WHY PoEany, the wei
known Bohemian artist, who was
mentioned. has filed suit against
author and producer Of the play.
PoEany claims his wife ana he are
estranged over the affair; that she
declares her husband must indeed be
/ q dreadful man IL his character is
common talk about the theaters. Mrs.
Pogany has fled his home, the artist
D5Aanunzio,- Revelations.
Libelous wit may be said TO be the
refuge OF small minds. But there Is
another form OF personal expose that
causes no less misery. This Is the
publishing Of experiences shared win
another long after those relations
have ended The man who viii kiss
/ and tell" IS not usually admired and
/ I finds himself socially ostractzeo-
But great men claim great privi-
leges, and perhaps Gabrielle d'Annun-
zio, poet and conqueror OF Fiume
finds for himself excuses 70 explain
publishing the details Of his romance
with Elsnora Duses famous trage-
The exploits Of the warrior-poei
/ have won him world fame, but he
fails to win admiration by barring Lns
heart Of woman who loved him
His one time inamorata claims C
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