Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-10-21 | Page 4 | Hamilton Gibbs Offers Portrayal of English Scene

Hamilton Gibbs Offers Portrayal of f. f English Scene Scene- Harness Tells of Turbulent Turbulent lent Postwar Matrimonial Matrimonial Matri- Matri Problems 4 If It you ou like a superb story of love e and marriage A. A Hamilton Gibbs' Gibbs latest novel Harness can be be strongly recommended but If it you Ou have any aversion at all to poo people le leand and things thoroughly English scratch Harness from your our fall fail list and wait for tor this Individual member of the prolific Gibbs' Gibbs family family fam lam ily to write his next book It might be different as A. A Hamilton has decided to live awhile a in America Harness is appallingly English The characters are constantly eating eating eating eat eat- ing roast beef mutton and buns and drinking tea and whisky anI and soda In addition they run around calling each other old thing an and 1 old bean two o expressions that if it they are used once are used a thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand times In this stor story If It Haless Harness Han Hal peas ness is meant to portray the typical typical typical cal English scene it certainly falls short with respect to the con convers- convers tion Gibbs employs In spite of that fault it is a a superb sto story It revolves re about two to persons Michael l Gordon and Patri Patricia cia Wade seeking something to hang to after the war He had been an officer and she had driven an ani i ambulance Now he wanted a place where he ic could write Pat whom he had known practically all his life liCe fits Into his scheme so they were married They found an ideal cottage just outside L London which they modeled to their liking and where they find happiness away nom from the younger mad jazz-mad crowd of which Pats Pat's younger sister Sylvia is a member and to which they hey each feel they do not net belong Then Michael l starts on his booK and Patricia who had followed a a. a t. t stage career before the war went back She proved an almost Immediate immediate immediate Imme imme- diate success But before long she had to quit to for the prepare arrival arrival ar ar- rh rival l of a child Michael l finished his book boole one showing the Inside of things in war-time war and could not find finda a publisher A After ter the boy Is born Pat goes back to the stage and Michael stays stas at the cottage writIng writing writ writ- Ing book reviews and short stories The They drift apart She takes to 0 staYing staying- in the city nl and ami 10 is often oCten seen seen in company company with i the leading man of her show Michael l finally goes to the theatre and wrecks a dressing room with tile the leading leading- man Pat comes pomes back then and Michael l finds a publisher for his book Harness does more than scratch the surface It goes deep dee revealIng revealIng revealing reveal reveal- ing its characters In a light that shows up each little detail of their lives Little Brown Co Boston v Boston