Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1922-04-14

| cldentdlIy, the duJnOr pays nlSn
tribute to Charlie Chaplin's develop
ment, that quaint figure of pity
comedy" When the rod and author
ity Of manager and commercial
pressure were removed, the poet in
him gave rein to "ricb and moving
incongruities OF mood and character
and situation, amid which he him
self, without changing the quaint
garb of buffoon days, began to ac-
quire a quality of soft and curious
pathos" If you have seen him in
"The Kid" you may recognize what
Max Eastman means
Someone has written to ask: Who
wrote Elizabeth and Her German
Garden?" And what became of the
author?
Years ago I clipped from a paper
a comment that interested me, and
pasted inside my copy Of that book:
Countess Won Arnim is a blonde and
is pretty, and her husband, The Man
of Wrath as she called him in her
first novel, tdolizes her and waits on
her in a manner which astonishes
other German husbands of their ac-
quaintance.
She was Mary Annette Beachamp,
an English girl, daughter of H. Her
ron Beachamp. Count Henning Au-
gust Won Arnim, her first husband,
died in 1910, leaving her with son
and three daughters, the charming
babies in the Garden story.
She is now Countess Russell, hay
ing married Earl Russell in 1916, and
is the author of 10 other books pub
lished since the first one appeared in
1898 ON. A. Donohue & Co., Chicago.
were the American publishers). She
produced almost a book a year, with
the exception of the period just fol-
lowing Count Won Arnim' death, and
during the war, when benevolent ac-
tiyities kept her too busy for novel
writing. Her latest is christopher
and Columbus" which came out in
1919. Her other books are: The
Solitary Summer, The April Baby's
Book of Tunes, The Benefactress,
The Adventures OF Elizabeth in Rue
gen, The Princess Priscilla's Fort
night, Fraulein Schmidt and Mr.. An
struther. The Caravaners, Priscilla
Runs Away, and The Pastors Wife.
The last has been much talked about.
Read it and you'll find out why The
Countess has a house in London, and
couple of years ago she had coun-
try home in Chichester l do not
know whether she and Lord Russell
still keep the place up, but ] fancy
they do. If | should so to England
again I'll find out for you!
A bear I have always thought
that, next to a dog, a bear is the most
interesting of all animals. And what
a wonderful thing it must be to find
tiny one, big as a squirrel, before
/ its eyes are open. Wouldn't you like
to watch it grow up-play, get into
mischief cry when il is lonely or
hungry, show its swift fits of tenn
per?
William L. Underwood had that re-
markable experience, in the Maine
woods, and was fortunate enough to
secure a quantity of excellent photo
graphs to prove the almost unbelev-
able statements he makes as 10 the
bears career in his new book, "Wild
Brother (Atlantic Monthly Press,
Boston, So The other day when /
was tired I took it up, thinking I
would just look at the pictures and
glance through page or two; but !
could not put it down, once I had
looked inside, and sat till I had read
it from cover to cover. One picture
in particular I wish / could show you
Of the little chap. who could be meas
ured by inches, with his fat round
tummy, nosins in the bottom of the
teacups on the table in search Of wet
sugar He lived TO be Il years old.
weighing 4eO pounds, but he never
killed anyone, though there were ex-
citing moments when 1t looked as