NEW ZEALAND JOURNALIST.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18890, 12 December 1924, Page 14

NEW ZEALAND JOURNALIST.

Miss Nellio Scanlon, the New Zealand journalist who for three years has been practising free lance journalism in various countries in the world, and is now on her way back to New Zealand, had some interesting comments to make when interviewed in Adelaide recently. It is on America that Mis 3 iScanlon is at her best, says an exchange, for she travelled slowly through every part of it, seeing at first hand tho leaders of Government, and going right through the most important industry in every StateWashington opened tho doors to many an amusing experience, for such notable women as she met there, including Mary Roberts' Rinehardt and Mrs. Winter, President of tho American Federation of Women's Clubs, drew her by tho hand into that wonderful, that distracting and amusing, and altogether American world, the community of women's clubs. They made her talk, they made her dine and lunch and breakfast, they interviewed her with startling headlines, they paid her a hundred dollars to lecture them; and everywhere they grasped her by hand and insisted that she was "wonn'erful.' In London Miss Scanlon foregathered with many celobrities. The last Sunday she spent in England was as tho guest of Sir Philip Gibbs, who told her of how he wrote "Tho Street of Adventure" literally for broad and butter, when his paper (Tho Rag of "Tho Street of Adventure") had just, closed down. His brother, Cosmo Hamilton, tho popular author, is, says Miss Scanlon, the greatest contrast to kind, easy-going, jrentle Philip Gibbs. Ho is a handsome, polished man about town, very charming and goodnatured. Rebecca West and Fanny Hurst, author of tho famous "Lummox," went together to a reception at which Miss Scanlon was present, ' "Fanny Hurst very dignified, ctrey haired ana motherly, and Rabecca West very boyish and pert-looking, with a cerise splash on her lips, and little nose up-turned." While in U.S. A. Miss Scanlon published a book of sketches of American life, and was asked by Doubleday Page to write the history of her three years' writing routtd the world.