Show Wallace Returns Returns' to alma mater as writer Author Attacks Attacks' FbI lywood od OnS Li L Return Dr Wallace Walace St gner returned to his once native Mormon country Tuesday with a bi biting criticism of Hollywood viewed from Stanford university where where the author is It isnow now teaching caching ng He returned to Salt Lake City for or a lecture Tuesday at 8 15 pm In n Kingsbury hall hail on the University sity of Utah campus where he taught English from 1934 to 1937 after graduating in 1930 Hollywood he said holds holds' ita Its audience in contempt As he put it il in deploring the film ilm industry's proneness to follow Instead of lead You You dont don't grow unless you stretch In fact he hc continued nearly every mass mass media medi r radio the press literature and education in general li general is guilty to some degree af of of feeding pap for pabulum to the people e. e Hollywood Honywood Worst Vorst g But Hollywood he said ad Is the worst k They assume their audience has hasa a mental age and then make a picture at a level the youthful looking English nov novelist novelist- list list- critic continued good but in dead earnest Sw Switching t hl g t to the positive he lie said sala molders At of public imbUe opinion should strive t to educate hot cater to the masses If I were writing childrens children's books books he explained Id refuse to grade down on the vocabulary Children will vIlI only learn larger words if they ar are exposed to them Writes of Execution His next book however is anything any anything thing but childrens children's reading Itis It ItIs Itis is the convulsive story of Joe Hill Joseph Hillstrom I W W organizer organIzer organizer organ organ- izer whose 1916 1913 execution at the Utah 8 state te penitentiary for fora a double double double dou dou- ble murder in a west side aide Salt Lake City grocery store storer r rocked reeked ked th the state the naU nation n and even a a. world which already had a w war r on on its hands Dr came to Utah as a aboy aboy aboy boy not long after the Hill am execution tion and left in 1937 Although his historical Marmon Mar Mor Mormon mon Country was one of his first writing successes he believes Utah history has haa now had the literary edge taken off oft it The time has come cometo to put more emphasis on the people and less Jess on the history of at the state he de de- de- de dared That is a stage at which frontier ventu every e eventually lly arrives In a a sense his book on Joe Hill will be o one e of these he add added d. d Some of at his other ther books have hav beenS been S Second cond Gr Growth a of mont One Nation a a treatise on gr ups the Rock Candy Mountain and ReP Re t. t P t is I |