Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1918 — His Wonderful Memory. [ARTICLE]

His Wonderful Memory.

Horace Annesley Vachell, playwright and novelist, had an extraordinary memory, which stood him in very good stead when he wrote his play, “Searchlights.” He composed the play very rapidly — straight off on his typewriter, in sact — and did not trouble to take a copy. In these circumstances, he refused to intrust the precious manuscript to anyone less careful ffian himself. Hailing a motorcar, he brought it up to town, and promptly left it behind him on the seat of the cab! He set himself to retype the play from memory, and just as„he had finished Scotland Yard recovered the missing copy. Mr. Vachell found, on comparing the two scripts, that he had rewritten the play almost word for word!