Salt Lake Telegram | 1923-02-25 | Page 4 | 'the Bright Shawl' below Standard

The Bright Shawl Below Standard Almost any producer of popular mod em rn fiction might have written The Bright Shawl If It the name namo of oC Joseph did not appear as the author there would be bo little to indi cats cato that tho the man who many critics hall hail as Americas America's foremost fiction writer writ writ- er or had taken the time to produce such auch a 0 light and sl superficial tale It is as different from flom Java Ja Head and The Tho Three Throe Black Dlack Pennies two of earlier tales as a copy of or Stories is irom tho the Egyptian Book Dook of oC the Dead Doad Tho The Bright Shawl is tho the tory story of oC an American youth who goes to Cuba on a visit for tor his health It Is In the days before the tho on against Spain The boy burns to sacrifice himself him him- self Cuban Uban freedom Ho lie becomes the friend of oC certain Cuban young oung men who are also sworn to the tho cause of or freedom The Tho American youth makes a 0 botch of ot his hla good Intentions Intention and nothing U is accomplished Incidentally he lie is II somewhat somewhat some some- what Infatuated with a II professional dancer who wears wean a R bright shawl hawl and n thus nua us the excuse for tor the title Perhaps wrote the story to toay ay ay the expenses of ot his hla re recent reo re- cent visit to Cubs Cuba He lie might better have havo stayed toyed at home homo He Ic is tar far more at ease case In his hll stories morles of Old Salem Hitherto ho he has ha always been most fortunate for for- In choosing themes that lend len themselves Co to his decorative style of ot writing Alfred I A. A Knopf New lew York