Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1918 — Protest a Happy Ending. [ARTICLE]

Protest a Happy Ending.

The Paris correpondent of the Pall Mall Gazette recently reported a curious suit that should interest the readers of Flaubert’s romance of Carthage. The action was brought by the niece of Gustave Flaubert against the adapters of “Salammbo*’ for the cinema. ’ Flaubert, x it will be remembered, finishes his novel with the mobbing and death of MathoS before the eyes of his mistress, who "‘ seems entirely Indifferent to his fate. This would not do for the film. The adapters not only save the general’s life, but ring down the curtain with the marring-’ of the lovers, who “live happily together ever after,” and have a multitude of children to grace their old age. This platonic and commonplace ending to a “masterpiece" horrified the dilettantes, who made so much fuss about the caricaturing of the story that Flaubert’s literary executor felt compelled to take the matter up, and has appealed to the courts for redress. —Kansas City Star.