New Britain herald., 1926-03-24

of, say, five years, and leave her flat
 "The man she married may have been what we call good provider, and she may have had every reason to believe that his protection was hers for life. But here she is at the end of five years. q good deal of her youthful buoyancy gone with her illusions, forrod to strike out for herself, with little training for anything and no money of her own, un- less she is willing to accept help from the man who is casting her .adrift. And Judges everywhere have recently been discouraging husbandly generosity by their anti-alimony proclamations. /
 "As a result, women are beginning to ask quite frankly: Where do l get off in this marriage game? How can make it secure my future?' And, like Mrs, Craig, good many realize that they won't get very far unless they do acquire the knack of managing their husbands. Of course, this truth has al. ways been more or less we'll understood by the sex, but the point is they are now admitting it. You would think that, since 1t exposes the tactics of henpeck- ing woman, men would be more inter- ested in 'Craig's Wife than women, but such is not the case. The women have been tlocking to see it. Fifteen hundred of them were there at one matinee"
 "Well, if you think that Mrs. Craig and women of her type are right but that their methods are wrong, what do you suggest as an alternative?"
 THE playwright paused for a moment and said:
 Honesty in the marriage game" he replied. "If women fear they are going to be left, homeless and bank accountless, by their husbands, they should tell their husbands so. The whole question of finances and provision for the wife should be thoroughly discussed and planned before marriage. Some adjust ment should be made which seems fair and safe to the wife. Then she need have no fear for the future. She need not attempt to control her husband like Mrs. Craig.
 And believe that the younger gen. eration will bring about some such re- form in the marriage customs. Many of the young couples l know, for in- stance, now discuss financial arrange ments before marriage The wife looks upon her home-making as at any other career and demands certain economic returns from it. A number of them have adopted the plan for dividing the hus- bands income equally. Both contribute an equal percentage to the upkeep of the home, and both reserve equal amounts for recreation and savings &C., counts. That gives a wife some inde- pendence.'
 Are you married, Mir Kelly7"
 "No,' he said emphatically.
 Then, how"
 'I know what you are going to ask mellow do know anything about the economic difficulties of matrimony?' Well. how do know anything about the psychology of Show-Of? Merely by observation. l simply study the people and the life that goes on around me.
 Every one is in the process of writ ing a play nowadays. I have been deluged with requests from people for me to read their plays, and some of them l have read. And what are these plays about? Oh, bareback riders, South Sea Island belles, 9th avenue heiresses, denizens of the underworld any one and anything except that which the writer has at his elbow. If they would only observe and study the peo- pie and life on their own thrilling city blocks"
 "They could turn unpleasant people into profits" the sentence was finished for him.
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