The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-05
Novel Tells How
Beauty Returned
to Old Woman

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National Pictures, Inc, In whose
film version COrinne Griffith will
appear as Countess Zattiany.
By Gertrude Anterior,
Author Of Many Notable Novels,
and One of the Most Widely
Read Writers Of the Day.
CHAPTER III.
They ate their dinner under the
amused eyes of Mrs. Larsing, who
had served dinners a deux be-
fore to couples that had "lost
their way" Afterward they sat
by the fire and talked desultorily:
. great deal about themselves:
sometimes wandering to the sub
Jects that had interested them be-
fore they met each other. Claver-
Ing told her Of the many plays he
had written, and burned; because
In his inordinate respect for the
drama he had found them, when
not wholly bad, too good to be
good enough. But the long pracs
tice had given him a certain mas
terry, Of technique, and when she
had set his brain on fire he had
had less trouble than most young
,playwrights in compelling his i'm
agination to adapt itself to the
.inexorable framework. He had al
ways felt that the imagination,
what is called, for want of a
better term, the creative faculty"
was there, but it was lethargic;
It sometimes reused itself to,
spurts and flashes during wakeful
nights. but slept like beacon
strictor that had swallowed a pig
when he tried to invoke it. No
doubt, as Cora had told him. his
life had been too easy and agree.
able: he made a good deal Of
money with no particular effort,
he was a favorite with the clever
est men and women in New York,
and he had no one to think Of
: but himself. His mother was dead
and his sisters married. And
there was NO doubt that if you
were on top, a personality, New
York was the most enchanting
place in the world to live in.
1uSf as it must be the most I'M
satisfactory for the poor ana in
significant. To have conquered
New York meant more-several
thousand times more-than con-
quering all the rest of the United
States put together, with New
York left out, Moreover, it was
the. only, place where you could
have any real fun. if you wanted
your fun with the sort of men
who drifted to New York from
all parts of the nation as natural
~ as pilgrims went to Mecca. If
1t was your fate to be pOliti-
clan, Washington, of course. was
the goal. But that, in his opinion,
was merely moving from a little
small-town to big one, and he
thanked his stars he did not have
70 live in "A place where there
was nothing hut politics and So
ciety. In New York you had only
to help yourself to any phase
OF life you wanted.
Mary smiled as she remembered
the contemptuous remark of an
other New York convert: "Oh,
Washington is merely an island
outside of New York" and she
fell to wondering what New York
would have been like if it had not
been fed so persistently by those
streams Of eager and ambitious
brains debouching into it from
every part of a by no means I'M
ambitious and negligible common
wealth. Another island, probably.
Certainly it was the most ex-
hilarating place in the world to-
day, with its atmosphere Of in
vincible security and prosperity,
its surging tides of life. No
wonder it was impossible for the
intensive New Yorker to realize
that four thousand miles away
a greater world was falling to
ruin.
She told him something of the
old political life of Vienna, con-
tinually agitated by some Balkan
Question; of the general dislike
Of the "TIeir," whose violent death
ut Sarajevo had been the death
knell of European peace; appre.
tensions Of the day when he
should ascend to the throne, for
he was intensely clerical and re-
dictionary. If he had survived
until the old Emperor's death, and
there had been no war. it was
doubtful II there would not have
been a "palace revolution" within
six months of his succession. It
is also possible that the people
would have had their revolution,
for they were becoming enlight-
ened and disconnected, and power
full men in the highest offices Of
the government were in sympathy
with them.
at suppose you mean this Prince
Hohenhauer for on" said Claver-
ing.
His Belief
"Iohenhauer believed that ev.