"IF WINTER COMES."
Mr. Owen Nares. who created the character of Mark Sabre from the famous novel " If Winter Comes," gives an interesting Opinion of his part in an interview with Edwin Dyke, published in the London Magazine. " The character of Mark Sabre is quite out of the ordinary and presents a fascinating study," he says. It will be a very difficult part to play, but I am looking forward to it keenly. Some readers of the book seem to think Mark would have been a little tiresome to live with, and I can Understand the sneaking sympathy for his wife, Mabel, whose worst fault, after all, was that she was conventional. Of course, the book has achieved a phenomenal success, and I think the secret must be the great humanity of the story and of the chief character. " The other day I heard of a somewhat heavily-married gentleman, who explained it* great appeal—so far as the stronger sex is concerned —by the fact that most men Imagine themselves Mark Sabres and their wives Mabels' "
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18215, 7 October 1922, Page 4 (Supplement)
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