Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-06 | Page 11 | Veils of Family Secrecy Torn Away in Biography of Poet

I I I I I I Veils of Family Secrecy Torn Away in Biography of Poet Life ilife and Mind of Emily Dickinson Fills Fils Need Robeson Penned By PAUL W. W WHITE I NEW NEW- NEWYORK YORK July 5 UP UP TIle The veils veis of family secrecy winch which so long have obscured one of Americas America's outstanding literary figures have been torn aside aside by Ameria's Genevieve Tag ard in The Tho Life and Mind of En Lie MIn Emily Dickinson Dickinson Dick Dick- inson Knopf Our knoWle of the poet ha has been and generally unsatisfactory un un- un- un satisfactory It I has remained for Miss to piece together Into an authentic whole tho the bits bis th that t have been offered freely and the theother theother theother other bits bis discovered only after patient pa pa- tient Plodding through the past In her pe biography the writer has haM given ii ua the true story of ot Emily Dickinsons Dickinson's mysterious love hove and has ha Identified the man with a sworn wih swo-r swo statement to give background for her assertions Ho was Gould later a Congregational George Gergo min mm- later ister Iter whom hom Emily renounced at her fathers father's behest In fact Miss Tag Tag- gard points pints out Emily sacrificed everything to a Jealous father save her poet poetry A po poet t herself hersel Miss shows unusual understanding In re revealing xe- xe the tho mind of or Emily Dickin Dickin- son Her biography which was ten years ears In preparation is penned with delicacy and tand precision and gives us ua usa a n portrait which has the stamp of ot ofa ofa ota a distinguished intellect Paradoxically biographies of ot the living are often oten likely to seem more unreal than biographies of the dead ded An n exception is Paul Robeson Negro b by his wife Ife Elanda Eslanda Goode Robeson Harpers Harper's Although h this volume defies denes' tho the cu current rent trend in biography in i that t the e subject Is 15 given gWen almost fulsome praise It is curiously readable study of ot the scholar athlete who lately has been thrilling Lendon Lon Len Ln- Ln don audiences with his performances performances perform perform- ances as Othello Othelo The reader reder may feel teel embarrassed at times by the lavish adoration I Essie bears her husband But R Robeson beson whose talents put put him above race and color is worthy of ot most of of the compliments his wife bestows upon him Andre Andro Adre Tellier a young Frenchman Frenchman French French- man who for tor some reason prefers to write In English Is tho the author of ot The Magnificent Sin Kendall Ken Ken- dall dali a novel that treats of Jeanne Carneau an operatic star Just Jut as n in many stage and motin motion moton mo mo- mo- mo tin tion ton picture productions a minor character steals the tho show from the principals so In this book bok does one ne of the subordinate characters emerge merge as a's a a- sufficient reason for tor having written th the thO book The reference reference ref rd- ref ref- Is to Carneau's foster mother Mm Mme Boucher as Gallic as they mako make cm em em and a 3 woman who knew and got what she Bhe wanted Theft Is rarely to be encouraged But when some predatory ry made away aay with this reviewers reviewer's copy of the anonymous It Ex n a ghastly attempt to burlesque tho the thore re recent ert Ex books there was considerable considerable con con- rejoicing True tho the re revIewer reviewer reviewer re- re viewer had read but se ent seventy five pages and the remainder might hays hay been leen better It would be only charitable char char- I to think so Recommended fox for tor those who ho like their humor with T Ith more than a touch of ot spice spice Queer Queer People by Carrol Carroll Carroll Car Car- roll rol and Garrett Graham Vang Vanguard Van Van- guard rd This Is is' the wildest Holly Hon g of ot all al the numerous satirical novels depicting the center of the tho movie ovie industry More Mora or Loss Less Lis Personal One Ono of the better beter recent thrillers is Green Ice a 8 crime story written story written b by Raoul Roul Witfield Whitfield a n cousin of Mrs Mrs Andrew Carnegie Whitfield has behind him an 11 adventurous ad career that Includes Jobs as a flier filer mill mm laborer laborer and ad movie actor He lie now lives ilves on Park avenue avenue Irving iving FIneman who won wona on a a. prize with wih his novel This Thi Pure Young Man is that rarest of ot personages a a native New Yorker of foreign The procession authors to Hollywood continues Re Recent ent emigrants Include Rene Fulop- Fulop Fulop and Jacques Deval Deva Apparently Emil Emi s Ludwigs Ludwigs publishers are ae having ha as difficult a a. time keeping up with wIh him as aro are tho the publishers of ot Edgar Egar Wallace Walace Which is to say sy that Ludwig LudWI next will wJ be represented in a a volume entitled entitled en en- titled Three Titans which combines combines com corn bines tte biographies of ot Beethoven Rembrandt and Michelangelo I I