AUTHOR AND PARMER

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 87, 7 January 1919, Page 10

AUTHOR AND PARMER

| MK. VACHELL'S EXPERIENCE. ! i Horace Annesley Yachell, who'"p-rote "Humpty-Dumpty," the comedy in which Otis Skinner is appearing at the J,yceum Theatre, is ,a California farmer (says the New York "Herald")- There is no evidence of this fact in, his play, but it is a fact. Mr. Vachell was born in' England, and educated at Harrow., Then he wenfc c to the Itayal Military Col-' lege at Sandhurst. Before he. entered (lie Army,, however, ho took a vocation and came to America to hunt in Wyoming. He liked the country, and wandered on to'the Pacific coast. ■_'■ 'It. is a curious fact that while, hia novels give evident signs of his life in California, his ploys do not. ' In his plays it is only the life he knew and knows in'Engla'nd that he depicts. Possibly ha may have upJiis sleeve an American play. If ho has he has not told anyone, about it yet. A few-of his stories he has told both iu novel form and as ploys, ss iip did in "Quin- ) neys." ."Humpty-Dumpty" is not one of'these. It is a play only. Other pieces of Mr. VachcU's that have been presented in New York are "Quimieys," "The Chief," in which John Drew appeared; "The Lodger," which introduced Lionel Atwill to New Ycrk; "Thp 1 Case of Lady Camber," and 'Ten," which Mrs. Patrick Campbell played hnre. In. London he has also produced ".Inbilee Drax" and "Mrs. Pomeroy's "Reputation." ' , ■;'! '