The Record Union

The reports that come from Rome about the poet, novelist, dramatist, and industrious self-advertiser, d'Annunzio, are bewildering. With the help of "capital" and royalty, he is about to realize a poet's dream and build a temple of dramatic art, with which trade and commerce shall have nothing to do. He has just had one new play, "A Spring Morning Dream," acted, and another, "The Dead City," is in rehearsal in Paris and Rome. Two other new plays, "Iron" and "Laura," are finished in manuscript. He is writing, simultaneously, five new novels, each one taking the name of a flower. At the same time his genius is devoting itself to the composition of three mysteries, "Persephone," "Adonis," and "Orpheus."