Marcus clarke’s LIFE ROMANCE

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 130, 23 August 1927, Page 15

Marcus clarke’s LIFE ROMANCE

i ost Australians and New Zeahave read Clarke’s “For the jerm of His Natural Life,” and are awaiting the release date of this stirJ. m S historical opus. Yet few people ed held by the irresistible ° f that nov el that the tender little J-naracter, Sylvia Vickers, was pat \Ta^? d by Clarke from his young: wife. ‘ Dunn, whose sympathetic disP Tw° n endear «i<l her to all. n V 1?u gh °nly twenty-three when he JjY the young actress, Ills charm of sin and e^e & a nce in dress had led him. 7™ , hi 9 arrlval in Melbourne at th* bin ° f ei * hteen - into the wrong comof an d the experience of those years \h* ?« Ste ‘ ind dissipation showed Clarke nt divine purity of Marian. Hers was v n impetuous wooing, for the ardeni frni^ 8 * m . a n adored her passionatels aftl! 1 first meeting, and it wa» w p but month’s courtship that they to V narrled - A >’ ear later they went RPtti asmanla and the old convict Elements, Clarke having been com- ; sioned to write a serial for the Australian” Magazine. and aa bi* wife’s shuddering concern k Borrow for the men who had once the .h lmprlaonfe d there that inspired i aracter 80 truly portrayed by Eva *'ovak. "Sylvia Vickers.”