JEAN SUTHERLAND ENGAGES PRIVATE AIR LINE
LONDON, August 17.—Jean Sutherland, the novelist, has engaged a private air line and is making excursions several thousand feet into the air to find an atmosphere supposed to give the right inspiration for her work.
This goes Sinclair Lewis one better, he insists he can work best on an ocean liner. Miss Clemence Dane finds it impossible to work on her country estate in Devon. She says the cackling of the chickens and other rustic noises disturb her so much that she has to flee to her London home in Holland Park when she wants to do serious literary work.
Compton Mackenzie and several other British novelists seek the seclusion of the channel islands when they want to write a new book. Miss Sheila Kaye-Smith says she finds a hotel room an excellent place for work, as the impersonal character of the surroundings enables her to concentrate without any desire to rearrange the furniture or change the hangings.
Key West Citizen, Key West, FL, August 17, 1926
