Salt Lake Telegram | 1929-10-20 | Page 4 | Story of Romantic River Packets Carefully Told

of Romantic River Packets P ao k e t s Carefully Told T old Realism Found Chief Quality in iii Current Writings Writ Writings ings By RICHARD MASSOCK NEW y g y YORK YORK YORK-Evry livery schoolboy has heard of folly bu hut how many have o heard of oC to folly 1 There is ts In Louisiana a thriving ln town named Shreveport that Henry Henrj throve c for or whom It was named 1 I is virtually for forgotten Otten even there Captain Shreve c w was i the Rob Robert Rober rt Fulton of or the tho western rivers In 1816 while all Wheeling V W. Va Vt was was' laughing l at him he h laid th the tho keel of ot the first of tho the boats that tha afterwards were to be Identified d with river transportation He Invented and piloted successfully the tho forerunner forerunner fore fore- runn runner r of tho Natchez and th the Robert E. E Lee Leo of ot classic racing fame Came Tho The stories of ot Henry Shreve o othe ot of the Ute famous race and of oC western riv river rl r travel from Its earliest days to Its decline now flow are told b by darnel arnett Laidlaw Eskew Eske in The Th Pa Pageant e nt o othe ot of the tho Packets described as the first firs real story of ot the thc Mississippi steam steam- boat The flavor or of or tho the golden goMen days das o of flows through h Eskew's account of or an era cra that gave cave AmerIca America Amer Amer- ica lea Mark Twain and the sectional nickname Dixie For the name attached to the south was coined by bythe byth the who did their banking at the New Orleans Banque 13 d des 8 The banks bank's 10 not notes s were printed print print- ed in lit French on ono one t side Ide and from th the tho large letters DIX signifying 10 came the term anc and later land the thc latter litter meanIng meanIng meaning mean- mean Ing the town where the notes came caine me from before it acquired a a wider connotation REALITIES Returning to realism John Riordan Riordan Riordan dan a n young oung electrical engineer I turned author has written one of or those stories of hard drinking y youth On tho the Make In style as Idiomatic as his title ho hc presents a series of or snapshots of or young men hard boiled in their being very er very er pursuit of girls and jobs On the thc women's side Ruth Suckow Suckow Suck Suck- ow has written in Cora tho the story of or an lo Iowa girl who rose from squalor squal squal- or to a 1 responsible place in business busness business busi bus ness surrendered tl ti for tor an nn unsatisfactory unsatisfactory factory marriage and then pulled herself elt up again And speaking of or the modern Jeffrey Jeffrey Jettre Jeff Jett- re rey Farnol in Another Da Day has transformed his swashbuckling ro romances romances ro- ro mances to Hells Hell's Kitchen of ot all nIt places giving Ivins his desperadoes guns Instead pf f the usual swords As for other established novelists no W. W B B. Maxwell laxwell considers In The TheMan TheMan Man Who Pretended one Oswald a n. young artist who wIth so flO convinced himself that he was as at heart a 1 coward coward cow cow- ard as asto to build up a a. protective psychosis psychosis psychosis which carried him on to deeds of ot bravery cry And Frank Sketch of a Sinner Is the portrait of or a n. ayoung ayoung young wife all an tangled up UI in her love for lor three men including her dull dun and a aging ln husband Which about completes the fiction list e except for tor the short stories O Of these a new collection b by Don Marquis brings back bacic Tim O and A Variety of People while Elizabeth Bowen who wrote a memorable mem mem- n novel vel The rhe Hotel I is represented Rented by a a. volume of or psychological I I studies under the title Joining I AP