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Show AUTHOR AND ARTIST TO WED IN EAST i ROMANCE BEGINS IN OLD HIGH SCHOOL LOUISE RAND BASCOM and Watson Barratt, former Salt ! Lakers, whose engagement soon is to be formally an- 1 nounced. j r jp-OE j : ! I ,1 , j vy in fo Louise Rand Bascom and Watson Barratt Will Announce An-nounce Engagement Soon. O.MU time in the fall two former (T Salt Lakers, Louise Rand Bas-com, Bas-com, a writer growing in fame, kj and Watson Barratt, artist, now ot New York, will be married at the home of the bride's fauier in Highlands, N. C. Tiie formal engagement, it was learned here last night, will be announced in the near future. The acquaintance of MiS3 Bascom and Mr. Barratt began when both as children chil-dren were living on West Temple street. Miss Bascom was then making her home with her uncle, Dr. F. S. Bascom. The author and artist were educated and lived here until they left for college. Miss Bascom Bas-com going to Wellesley and Mr. Barratt to enter the Chase Art school in New York. In their high school days in fait Lake they were both memhers of the Red and Black staff. Miss Bascom being literary editor and Mr. Barratt chlet artist. They were graduated with the J903 class from 'what is now West high school. At Wellesley Miss Bascom specialized In dramatics, taking part in about thirteen thir-teen plays, sometimes as the "leading man" and sometimes in comedy parts and in English. After college Mies Bascom Bas-com began to write In earnest. The circumstances leading to renewed acquaintance between these two rormer schoolmates were as romantic as the plot of one of Miss Bascom's own stories: While lying in the hospital ill she picked up a copy of Life, and saw there one ot Watson Barratt's pictures; she had an Impulse to write and tell him how proud she was of him, but before she had acted upon it he had happened to see in an editor's 'office an open magazine with her name beneath a story's title, and wrote congratulating her. This started a correspondence which ultimately led to their doing a Salt Lake article together for Harper's, July, 1913, Mr. Barratt contributing con-tributing the illustrations. Besides this, Mr. Barratt Illustrated Miss Bascom's stories. "The White Shoes" (Harper's, November, 1914). and "The Better Man" (Harper's, February, 1916), both of which stories were starred on the Boston Transcript's Tran-script's lists of best snort stories for the respective years. Miss Bascom has had work , accepted by over fortv magazines. She has written one child's book, "The Bugaboo Men." and seven plavs, called: "The Masonic Ring," "The Golden rioblet," "Vera's Vacation." Va-cation." "Catching Clara," "The Bachelor Bache-lor Club's Baby," "Aunt Mollle" and "Posy Pots," published by March Bros., Lebanon, Ohio. She has also done several sev-eral dozen children's dialogues for March Bros., and stories and dialogues for use in the Boston public schools. Mr. Barratt has had, besides those mentioned, men-tioned, illustrations, subject pictures or covers for the following magazines: Harper's Har-per's Monthly, Harper's Bazar, Saturday Kvenlng Post. Life, Judge. Hearst's, Hampton's, Every Week, The Masses, Country Gentleman, etc. In 1914 he was awarded a ?;00 prize in the Post's art competition. In 1 PI 5 he did some stage designs for the late Melville Ellis and Elizabeth Marbury which, when produced, were said to have been some of the most beautiful ever seen in New Yorkv Later he accepted a position as chief designer for the Ackerman studios of New York, where he designed some sets for the Winter Win-ter garden, Hippodrome, high-class vaudeville, vau-deville, etc. Recently he became art director di-rector of the Metro-Rolfe Moving Picture company, where his first job w7as to design de-sign surroundings for Ethel Barrymore. It is understood that Mr. Barrafct has already al-ready left this for a better position. 'I V ' -In ' ' t 1 'Ars C8 H Lp ' ' ,T IL |