Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-02-22 | Page 7 | University-Dramatist Will Lecture Here

Dramatist Drama WiIl Lecture Here teat t L 1 ii In jn store for those who Thornton Wilder in his lecture Jecture riven in dIrch Kingsbury hall haJJ Mon Mon- 2 the thc aL number on minds and artists artista series S division of at the Uni- Uni y f ot of Utah Wilder who Was born in Wis- Wis pent hl his early cary years in iner Where here his 1 father er was Amen Ameri- generaL Later he ale Went from where he heHe I ted in He Be then fo Yeara at the I Y Yin In ome American I rapid rise to fame I n WIdely I His discussed I in lit lit- 1 initial SUccess When in 1926 his J first appeared This by his sun still Which flie e Bridge ot of San Luis Luj greater Re Rey I attracted nil worldwide ot Andro next novel was The In 1930 In hd 1935 Havn My Destina- Destina Juon to his t Mr Wilder achievements has hns UI made a his lIe brilliant net tt With Shall ShaH Sound remarkable u need In I success New ew York He Is theatrIcal matters adeep interest In what- what I er e happens before and behind the footlights A striking feature of ot Mr r. r Wilders Wilder's work is the fact that not one of his novels repeats the theme or methods of at the story that preceded it al although although although al- al though there thera has been a kind of at defInite def- def mite progression In Tho The Cabala he Jet let light in u upon on the secrets ofa of at ofa ata a certain clique in modern Rome In n Tho The Bridge of at San Luis Roy Rcy he ie looked behind certain of the mysterious mysterious mys mys- ways of at God as shown in eighteenth century Peru In The Woman of at Andros with Its scenes laid aid in one of at the Greek islands before be bc- tore fore the time of at Christ he concerns himself neither with the mysteries of a clique cUque which are unimportant nor with th tho great mysteries of God which are undecipherable but he deals instead with the profounder yet more comprehensible mysteries of ot the human heart