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Three More Writers
Brown Bros.
E. V. Lucas
Baroness Orczy
Courtesy of Ceo. H. Doran
By Henry Albert Phillips
C7 V. LUCAS, one of the editors of Punch, the humorous weekly, is an author easy to know. And you can see the man just as he is if you will read any one of the many books he has written — some of his "Wanderer" books, for instance : "A Wanderer in Paris," "A Wanderer in Rome," and so on.
If you dont know Punch, then you should meet him, too, at any cosmopolitan news-stand and take him home, for a quarter, I think it is in America. His pages reflect Mr. Lucas perfectly.
Finally, Mr. Lucas is managing director of one of London's biggest and oldest publishing houses, Methuen & Co., and there I met him.
"I write because I like writing and I never write about anything I am not enthusiastic about," said Mr. Lucas somewhere along in the conversation.
I think those few words express more nearly what should be a writers creed than any others I have ever read or heard.
"I never pretend to be exhaustive, but I make it a point never to become exhausting."
But you get the idea from those two expressions of the sort of man Lucas is and the kind of thing he writes.
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T>ARONESS ORCZY (pronounced Ortsee) -L^ is the author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" — considered one of the best sellers in the world, a book that has sold five million copies in about twenty years — at the rate of two hundred and fifty thousand copies a year !
Here is an ideal story for the motion pictures and yet it has never been presented in the films. And the reason, in part, for its non-production and thus denying to the cinema world one of the most intriguing, thrilling and picturesque stories, is to be found in my preamble. Among other things, the Baroness feels a lack of confidence in the ability of scenarist and director to render with perfect fidelity the story that is so near her heart. She acknowledges her own inability to aid them further than submitting the story *as is.
"We have been offered all sorts of money for The Scarlet Pimpernel,' " she told me. "Periodically, someone from the films comes along with a new offer. I have my ideas why I would not yet perhaps sell it, but I am not the sole owner of the rights, outside book rights. Fred Terry, the actor, is my partner in dramatic and other rights and has the idea that a film presenon j>age 11}