Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 173, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1911 — Rostand and the Law. [ARTICLE]

Rostand and the Law.

An American friend of JBdmood Rostand says that the great dramatist once told him of a curious encounter: be had had with a local magistrate Us •a town not far from his own. It appears' that Rostand had been asked to register the birth of a! friend’s newly arrived son. The clerk! at the registry office was an officious* little chap, bent on carrying out the letter of the law. The following dialogue ensued: “Your name, slrF “Edmond Rostand.” -A , “Vocation ?” ‘ “Man of letters and membef of the French academy.” y > “Very well, sir. You mbit sign your name. Can you write? If not, you may make a cross.” —Lippincott’s.