The Washington times., 1922-10-21
DUT|ESNEVER
' MOvEDDR.H HALL
Or MRS. MILLS
Noted Psycho-AnaIyist Dis
cusses Character Revelations
In Dual Tragedy.

BY DIR. ANDRE TRIDON.
Americas Foremost PsychO-Analyst.
Author Of "Psycho- Analysis and
Love-" and STANDARD Books
On PsychO-Analysis.
Copyright. 1929. by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
NEW YORK. Oct. 21.-Sophisti.
Gated men and women Of the world
may engage light-heartedly in love
affairs and remain quite as little dis
turbed by them mentally. as the
Rev. Hall and Mrs. Mills appeared
TO be by theirs. but these worldly
overs are not EpiscopalLan clergy.
men and their choir singers.
The love letters Of Rev. Hall and
the object Of his infatuation disclose
their authors never even considered
for a second the discrepancy between
.heir protested religious beliefs and
heir actions.
Just as little did they bother with
the effect which their affair was
bound to have on their environment.
hall was q husband, Mrs. Mills a
wife and mother, yet that fact never
seems to have been considered by
ither Of them.
Married Life Separate.
have known Greenwich Village
tree lovers who managed to torture
themselves at times over their own n
,nfidelities, actual or planned. !
nave known cynics OF both sexes
who reveled in the thought that they
were successfully deceiving their
lawful mate. Hall and Mrs. Mills re-
manned perfectly neutral. They
seemed TO experience neither re-
morse nor sardonic JOY over the sit
uation in which they placed his vile
and her husband.
Even as they kept their ethical
professions and their behavior IN
air tight, non-communicating com
partments. they kept their married
life and their love life separate
Here again It Is the woman who
seems to have been a trifle more
human. Remember her epistle
about darning his clothes.
They accepted the objurRation of
the Latin poet, Enjoy the Pres
ent Day" and they made few plans,
II any. Any other couple OF lovers
would have stifled in the peeping
Tom atmosphere Of New Bruins
wick and run away from II as soon
as they were sure Of each other
Undoubtedly. Hall preferred the Sc
curity Of his pastorate and she that
Of her home.
Common In Great Cities
Such affairs are common in great
cities, where human beings lose
themselves easily and can meet
each other In their hearts content
with little concealment and little
deception. The incredible amount
Of duplicity and dishonest ingenu
ity which our two lovers must laVe
displayed In order to carry their
Intrigue as long as they did, is q
poor commentary on their calibre
and mettle. What lies both OF them
must have told daily, not TO men
ton the lies they were acting. In
order to secure their freedom OF
movement in town like Ne"
Brunswick!
Mrs. Halls absurd reiteration OF
her faith in her husbands faith
tulness to her. II II 10 not part
Of a well.laid plan, would indicate
that Hall was probably as loving
at home as he was "at our road,
and while / know Of a very clever
French play based partly on the
amusing spectacle Of a roue who
treats his wife and his mistress
without any display Of favoritisn
to either, Halls professed misery
as shown by letters written while
away in Maine would indicate thai
Mrs. Hall occupied but little OF his
thinking time. and that she could
not offer him much in the way oi
companionship.
On the other hand, Mrs. Hal
may have been the recipient OF
quiet, subdued affection while tho
burning kisses were reserved fol
the wild gypsy" Some fifteer
years ago New Britain clergy
man, the Rev. Jere Cooke, found
himself In the same situation. Hi.
love for his wife could not hold
him back and he bolted. threw of
the garments he could no longer
honor, and earned a livelihood ir
the west as a manual laborer.
Hall preferred to remain out.
wardly respectable to the end, q
Mills to urge him on to a flight
into the free world. The prepara
tions they were supposed to have
"ChS oihyt hSoi' ~ PiSpoi I"
ton for such time when exposure
might come. But they were moi
going to seek martyrdom.
1t cannot be her love for her daugh
ter which kept Mrs. Mills back
What a spectacle for a psycho-ana
lyst Of the Freudian school.
Charlotte Like Electra.
Charlotte Mills, like Electra Of old
avenging her father by Furnishing
her mother. the hatred, so common
Of the average daughter for the aver
age mother blazing out shamelessly
when the daughter gives to the pres,
part Of the correspondence between
her mother and Hall.
, How alarmingly small all the peo
pie connected with this not very mys
terious crime appear under the
searching light Of judicial and psy
Geological inquiry.
The incredible selfishness OF tn,
two protagonists, their genius fol
stimulation, their utter lack Of any
feeling besides a physical cravins
and longing for each other could no
ave been accentuated, had both
been primitive savages untouched b,
ciyili1a tim inafead of heinO y,,ndary