Show Great American Novel Misnomer j jAU Mrs Hurst I Says AU Author and d Lecturer Declares r This Country try Too Large for Distinction of Any One Writer I By Ely SELMA MILLER Like a frigate under full canvas there swept In from the boudoir a a. large Iorge woman In a fluttering gold and purple silk negligee and am like lIko a a regal dowager stepped stepped out of an ancient Arabian Nights Romance inclined her head in formal greeting greeting greet greet- ing Fanny Hurst was ready for an In- In lew I Cr Crossing one ono leg over o the other IOther a foot shod in ChIne soy boudoir mule mulo gently tapping the air she seated herself hersele and got to the business business busi busi- I busl-I ness of answering the press A red I serpentine bracelet which magnetized magne magne- magnetized I the gaze and a row of ot small golden gold n balls on a comb stuck into a a. of Jet black hair drawn to the nape of her neck accentuated accentuated accentuated the orientation of tastes in her leisurely moments This is the first lecture tour of Miss Hurst and she was at the Hotel Utah having come for tor the tho purpose of delivering a lecture Monday evening at the tho Assembly hall hail under the auspices of the ex- ex ex ex- tension te ci division n. of the University I of ot Utah I I had to dome come west to meet some i genuine Americans she said I There are none nono in New York you jou ou know I met some real ones in I Idaho the other day I It t was hard to break through the I cool shell of her dignity and re- re I serve Strangely too for of all the writers of today none have shown themselves so sympathetic and understanding understanding un un- un- un I of ot human nature in the outpourings of the pen than she How long have I been writing writing writing writ writ- ing It just Well Vell I really cant can't say seems as though I have never really started that I have Just been writing always I commenced commence 1 to write when I left lett college in 1912 You see that is not so long ago Up to date she has written five volumes of ot short stories and three novels She has Just finished her fourth called The I I consider Lummox the best I have done I feel Just as though that Inaugurated a new era in my writing I have hao always felt that Humoresque was my best short story Yes New York has been I the locale for most of my things but I like to feel that my themes have been universal in appeal I I write laboriously and I dont don't get any better as I get older I change but little for or a write so 80 slowly There Is something about writIng writ- writ writIng writing Ing which makes it impossible for many to succeed at It Miss Hurst said She described it as as' as being something indescribable leastwise something born In a person that all the study in the mechanics of writing wilting cannot make up forThe for tor The field of writing is indeed overcrowded but not the field of ot I literature MIss Mies Hurst does not gloat over o her typewriter and Is not overzealous overzealous overzealous over- over zealous to be in its Us company She Shears says flajs she hates tho the sIght eight of it t and all the work It symbolizes symbolize I I hate an and dread work of ot any kind but Im I'm not happy unless I Iain Iam Iam ain am at ut work she said There is no such thing as the great American novel she de declared declared de- de Each section must con con tribute its epic She declared that at present this intermountain country country coun coun- I try has the greatest possibility She 1 said there have havo been many western western western west west- books but as have ern none as yet 1 come como out of ot this section which truly interpreted the spirit of tho people peo peo- pie a d i If Tf I had time I would like to write it myself She Sho did not mention her marriage marriage mar mar- which along with her literary literary liter liter- 1 ary work has contributed to her tame fame For eight years she ahe and her husband have havo lived under separate roofs and treat each other as sweethearts sweethearts sweet sweet- 1 hearts The thing she sho said that spoils so many writers today in their scramble scram scramble scram scram- ble blo to find tho the proper market j When I first started to write i we Just wrote and let the tho market take care of Itself I took some writing courses when I went to college collego and I can say that college does whet the tho Intellectual appetite College Collego people today dare not be shining lights of accomplishment America has haa canonized the lowbrow low low- brow No one dare be bo |