New Britain herald., 1923-01-18
NEW LONDON GIRL,
 MISSING, IS FOUND
Miss Rogers Sought 'Atmos.
 phere' for Writing Play

New York. Jan. iS.--After having
 been away from home for forty-cighi
 hours. Miss Claire Rogers, IS year
 old New London girl, cousin Of Flu
 gene O'Neill and a student at Colum-
 bia university. was found yesterday in
 Greenwich Village. Sho had taken q
 furnished room in Bohemia under q
 false name and was writing play on
 a typewriter. Hungry and cold, for
 she had spent all but one cent of the
 s9.5i she had when she began her flight from home, she said that she
 had gone to Washington Square to
 look for local color and atmosphere tv
 put into a play. but that she was glad to go home.
 Her brother, William E. Rogers, ai, employe of the Hancock Insurance company Hartford, Conn.,, told how his sister had been found. When the story of her disappearance was pub lished insthe papers Wednesday morn- ing" Mir. Rogers said, Mrs. Helen Stone of 43 Washington Square SoutA called up my sisters aunt, Miss Agnes Claire Brennan of 452 Riverside Drive, with whom Miss Rogers had been liv- ing. Mrs. Stone said that my. sister had gone to her house Monday eve- ming to look for room, but that she had not been able to put her up.
 Girl Sought Quiet.
 My aunt and 1 and some detectives from the Missing Persons bureau went to Washington Square to look for Claire. We found her next door to Mrs. Stones house. She was very much surprised to see me, but took 1 it all as a matter of course. She said | that she wanted to live in Washington | Square and get little Of it's atmos- phere, so that she could put more realism into her plays. told her that her little trip was all over and thar | she had better pack up and come along home"
 Miss Rogers, having returned to the Riverside Drive apartment, then told the story of her experiences. She dis closed that Mrs. Stone was a friend of her family. T saw Greenwich Village for the first time last November when my aunt took me to visit Mrs. Stone" ;aid the girl. T was shown around he village at that time. It was Sum- lay and very quiet and it struck me IS place where I could be quiet and lndisturbed while writing. I decided
 could write better there than at rome.
 Last Sunday night I packed q suit 'ase with some things, including text ,ooks on play writing, manuscripts, ,pnv paper nd y,,x, ,,nrto,1a r. I hid the suitcase in the hall when
 left for class Monday. After class
 stole back to the hall, got the suit ase and went out again. I got a taxi . ab at Claremont avenue and 1I6th treet, around the corner from my unt's apartment.
 Had One Cent Left.
 ''The taxi broke down and I had to ct another one. The trip cost me s3. liter going to Mrs. Stones house I 7ent to another house in the neigh orhood, but there was a drunken Ian in the doorway. He frightened 1e and ran away. Tn another house he woman who came to the door aid that she didn't think looked as I belonged to the Village You ave no DuslIleSS neTe. (IeI out. Snc lid.
 Then l went to Al. They showed le one room for s5 without gas and knew I couldn't write there. I took le only other room, which was s6.50. hat left me only one cent. l wrote I the time except Tuesday night, hen I read a book on dramatic chnique.
 After hiring the room I went back Id told Mrs. Stone. I didn't know L DIV I was going to eat, but it didn't c orry me. Mrs. Stone invited me to Ii we breakfast with her the next day F Id l did. l did not eat anything the a st of the day and did not feel hun g V" c Miss Rogers said she had enjoyed it e experience, but would stay at b me and go on with her university ,rk. While living in the Village = ss Rogers worked on a play, The .teful Prank" dealing with q boy 4 q girl love affair, and on some { ems, which she had dedicated to ends.