Show sn IV i'' rfe b‘ir ' p t ' utr - v i- t - $ '3 rlgggg4mr 1 T ifc Vc f In the Field of Modern Writers THE SALT LAKE TKlliUXE SUNDAY MORNING Growth Toward Civilization A By E E HOLLIS Publisher The Century Company Lancaster PAGEANT New York Selection of Literary Guild for February tT)AGFANT" with its crowded brilliantly colorful tapestry deplct-- 1 ing a section of life that has long escaped fictional exploitation recalls to American readers In memorable fashion the name of Q B Lancaster It Is a history of the colonizing of Tasmania or Van Diemen's Land as it was called In 1826 and of the slow movement of civilization In this far distant Island the dumping ground for Britain's convicts Not only because- of the romantic interest inherent in such B a story but because of the skill with whuh this material has been interwoven with the history of her Corny ns and Sot leys Miss Lancaster’s book li an achievement Comyns and Sorley s arrived In the penal settlement in 1820 when Hobart Town was no more than barracks prisons and whaling station and b took up grants of fine sheep country along the river The crude huts of these gentlemen adventurers were built aide by side with but Even a rail fence between for piotection as well as for neighboilinees when spacious Clent Hall was established— a mile or more fiom Major Sorley's Bredon Madame Comyn caw to that— its windows were kept heavrs convicts escaped ily shuttered at night because of the threat of to the hills the sign of whose coming was a dead man at the settler’s gate that were redeeming the bush And a few redcoats guaided the chain-gang- s and building the roads for the colonists “Pageant" vividly recreates the life of this stark new world whose wild beauty was made hateful by this hideous system Miss Lancaster's research combined with family traditions gives a convincing picture of conditions In the colony when convict ships poured In their miserable passr ngers until to tuin th prisons bulged and inmates were loosed with tickets-of-leav- e bush-rangand England Ignored the vlgoious unending protests of the ettlers withdrew its grant toward upkeep of toe system and unsympathetic govemora imposed heavier and heavier taxes A part of this struggle and of the new day when in 1853 Cessation of Transportation was granted are the Comyns and Sorleys though not fight-to- g on the same side The squabble between hearty gererous belligerent Captain Comyn and Major James Sorley grew fiery when the latter become councillor and seeing who buttered his bread discreetly upheld the governor's policy Hi old friends might whisper “lickpot” but the Major rose steadily to prominence and wealth whila life at Clent Hall became more and more straitened Amid the welter of politics the lift of three generations of Comyns moves along through adventures gay and terrorizing romunees born and shattered marriage and birth and death in their round despair and bitterness The exquisite and gallant Madame Comyn a croud French lady is 8 dominant figure and after her the petite Jenny eo like her grandmere In charm and spirit who because she was faithful to one love disappointed toe hopes Madame had act noon her Madame had been ambitious snd early knowing the Captain hopeless looked to Mab her youngest handsome 1 to make 2omyn name in the land — and Mab's life is jken by the weak Julia Sc Madame’ hopes then w ere later a Comyn was to win royal attention Madame was gone Standing forth sharply too In the moving pageant Is the tragic figure ef Robert Snow a gentleman bom though wearing the yellow jacket of the convict and his bitterness his dreams and his hatred of Mab play their to story a story that is absorbing fiom its first page It is realistic fart the with the glamor of romance and done with understanding of human emotions wattle-arid-dau- bush-range- COMPANY K By William March Publishers Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Inc New York The Distinguished Service Cross the Navy Cross and the Croix de Cuerre with Tslm are brought forth in “Company K" as exhibits presented to the great court of public opinion as evidence in support of a sincere plea for lndlcTT ment of war William March holder of all these decorations knows whereof he wittes find he writes brilliantly conPei haps militarists and vincingly pseudo pati Iota will clamor for his scalp betrsuse he u so bluntly frank He deals not with the untold monetary cost of warfare he foregoes tabulation In total of the loss of human life the economist's views are disregarded but what could be more damning of legalized slaughter than his deexperience throughpiction of out the recent great atiuggle? The of youth is startlingly exemplified In tha picture of thousands of boys surmounting the trenches dashing forth to Slav the invader the “dirty Hun who cuts off the feet and hands of women and innocent little children” The floodgates are opened wide and mountainous waves of lifeblood Inundate the world as those same confident youlhs trade bullet for bullet grenade for machine gun hail and come into sickening hand to hand first-han- d er t ed E COMEDY Anne Green Publishes A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE By E P Dutton A Co Inc New York Whoso gay unfailing sense of humor enables her to see ANNE GREEN In quite a dlffeient light from tost to which her distinguished brother Julian views it and yet with a keen penetmive eye has tui ned out another light hearted novel as fresh In charm as 'The Selby" the novel with which she first captured her public Usually Miss Green has written ctf Americans to France but “A Marriage of Convenience" has to do entirely with French people and the Fiench family’s custom of arranging the marriages of its children The author's long residence to Paris has given her Intimacy not only with the customs but a No with the French chaiacter and the various members of the two families Involved in this affair are delightfully well observed And the point of view of toe eldets is subtly set in contrast with the cynical Intolerant attitude of the postwar generation not by any means to the utter Confounding of the older generation Claire VUlebreton a product of postwar Parts coming reluctantly to visit her paternal grandmother on her country estate Bellegrange is won ever much to her aurprire and finds herself becoming fond of th- - frank-Spokspirited old lady with whom her father had quarreled long io and Whom she had never seen until now She even finds that country I fo has somethlrg to recommend it and Antoine Dormond the young man who i a neighbor and favorite of Madame Spitzbach is not altogether unbeatable though of court-- not shining in comparison with her exquisite toother Gaston her idol and hla Parisian friends Then Antoine proposes — his method amazingly at variance with the accepted form — and Claire learns that the families hae planned this quite gujUbls aJltance Antoine — while having no desne to marry nrtainK not this “unmannerly ctObspatch"-h- as dutifully obeyed his father with the expectation that Claire will refuse him But the gill furious at his fiank-tea- s spitefully accrpts him but insists on a two-yeengagement which is not at all in accordanee with toe family plans Claire returns to Pans her intentions only to punish Antoine she rejects the idea of having a husband selected for her Also she hopes much from the two years of art study her grandmother has promised her But her modern cocksureness ha suffered— possibly she may be wrong about oma things snd with this strange humility ahe sees her family through pew eyes— the tired mother and inflexible father the foolish extravagant Gaston Antoine bewildered by Claire’s incomptehensible behavior runs up to Paris too and la further disconcerted to see Clairs apparently pursued by another young man The course of this mad turbulent affair abounds in toe sort of half serloua situations Miss Green Is so adept In fashioning her forte being comedv rslher than diama and Its developments give occasion for introduction of a varied assortment of deftly drawn and human charac-toIt U all admit! y accomplished and one will mark "A Man lag of Convenience" as an advance in Miss Green' special art en V ILIIAM MARSH (Pmwini kr Rarolg ol-- rl adf-denyi- half-absu- m pilgrimage aeeklng realization of hi dream world his protest against the uncial svsis-and Its consequences that Mr Ward ha depicted His bold virile pi Ints have often a thrilling quality Mr Rard iotioduira new device in hn putuies using two colors blai k to slow the movement of the story red for the ection of the man a mind— Inc h device la an aid to In'eipreiing the narrative vet acrrelv needed ai effective U Mr Wild s development He ia New EnMary Madison a mlddle-egegland spinster in response to en urgent invitation from the daughter of an old friend of her girlhood days goes to e Montana ranch for visit where she takes pait In a series of events thrilling and otherwise and performs the part of narrator While tha locale of the story ahlfts confusingly bark end forth ai rose the country es the Interior stories are related the major portion of it is laid In e modem dwelling end en abandoned stage station on a ranch not great distance from Butte City as Montana’s largest city was once called Cowbovs city folks ghosta atrange di'appenranres and hidden passages play their part in the unfolding of the tale The publisher’s statement that the reader would be extraordinary who could solve the mystery In the first nineteen chapters cannot justly be construed Thera will be readas en exaggeration ers who will enjov the “Mystery of Silver Spring Ranch" RIDERS ACROSS THE BORDER By realized all the emotional and le In this method of telling a story which necrxsai lly has Its limitations Mr Ward’s symbolic hero U a worker ho-blank In a huxfl industrial plant walls and belching chimneys are efutilized in the picture This fective giay world stlles the young man w ae his mmd revolving plans of eape a plunging Into the unknown Then we see him roaming through lovely siene but S he sloop to plm k a lower It U aeen that even amidst tl e pear of nature evil snd horror exist Tie Isnrhing party he wltnesves colors his n eo’al vision Brwrd when havthe farmhouse ing found snork at charn s t the faro er i wife roue Ml paszluna uncontrollably and he Pees from Pi fatmer’a wra'h Overcome bv burr er and fatigue he la tempted to s'eal vrvrisb'e from garden Is discover el ty U recluse owner who Succor him Staling tills klrsd'y phljoaoj her' re ) ia taught new values gains f a new vision Perilling his former world Ms fellow alavea of Industry ha and rttrim of returning to release them be mo rig rum savior of mankind Mlm lie gins a- k however he finds it fm lory ilo-eunder armed guard the ii Ikm wm krra and their families stars ng Hr')1) ally he flings hlmse'f Into the hut its on rnornenl of t Hi lh w tui 'e rcmlllng onlv in dramatic pcssibilit 1 - is II is nr 9 ear Mr Waid find gomrthmg l S' stem v rt l pHlntlal nnnntive he in pUILTe o"jr than to show- on man’s tn"P it t w ! c l‘h tt uni ko'y hi Indii-lrli- v- - - unit r f 'Mu twins an Men us Hun-ia- ’ ihmith and a six months' slsv In hax rei Russ a lie at a !evur U ur p 'jnm 1 rii 1 1 f ' ir llt I wmti V f j" f - u- -- V' 4 “Vs P f v r N t ' I U Ag J Ossj "Ranchito" one of Maynard Dixons virile portrayals of southern desert now at Hotel Ben Lomond OGDEN — Original treatment of mountain and desert subjects give to the paintings of Maynard Dixon noted western grtlst an especial interest A collection of about seventeen of these Dixon oils sent by Mrs Frederick G Ruthrauff from California have been on display at the Hotel Ben Lomond the exhibit sponsored by Mrs Joseph E Evans They will be at the gallery for an Indefinite period An outstanding canvas among them U “Ranchito" a large canvas In Mr Dixon’s boldest manner In which Mexican ranch buildings stand beyond e stretch of hot erid desort with sparse clumps of eagebrush making deep shadows In the vivid sunlight A low range of mountains on the horizon Is banked by golden clouds in a sky of Intense blue gal-ler- y Blossoms Pinched From the Stubble Of Everyday Life TORTULACAS ” TN THE WHEAT Rv Grace fetone Coates Publisher The Caxton Pi inters Ltd Caldwell Idaho This second volume from the poet pubwhose “Mead and lished a season ago Immediately brought her to critical attention finds her In varying moods less mordant and cynical and provocative In expression None Die less rich In lyrical content In beauty of phrase and figure the new book does not quite reach the vital stimIt is ulating quality of Its predecessor feel In these pet haps that one does ofnotemotional repoems the breaking straints the personal element that characterized toe first collection It la a more objective expression This Is not to say that among these Wheatfleld “portulaca"— toe dainty varihued hlossom we used to call “moss roses" — one wt'l not come upon aome thistles that will sting as In “Pedant" or “this Insult out of amity" of which ahe questions: Is It the uncut gein Jewel against calamity Or a subtle Borgia token scarring its way to rest? Before It was love between man and woman love that has the sweetness of mead and can turn to the bitterness ol mangel wurzel of which Mrs Coates Her her themes are varied wrote and from toe Incident of childhood told in the tlUe poem to the final poem “The ClLff" with Its deep understandng of the healing power of nature there Is maturity of thought and insight Into toe needs of the spuit and revelation of many facets of the poet s mind It Is a book that a ill charm and In whirh to Mangel-Wurzel- LAKE ARTIST RECEIVES AWARD rereived word of an honor awarded her by the Delta Delta Della sorority when she was given first cash prize for her entry In an art contest conducted by the Quill Quests department of The Trident national magazine of the sorority for Us "The Wedding Dress" Miss alumnae Vincent's portrait of her sister was the w inning entry All artlve chapters participate in this exhibit which Is held three times each ear The January contest In whirh Miss Vincent won first place was held at los Angeles The srttat who Is now working for her degree at the University of Utah plans to go ebioad in June to study for a year in Paris end probably for a time la Flnienre find satufarlion By Irving Fisher end Fugcne Lvman Fisk Publishers Punk and Wagnall Co New York City This little volume which points the mad tq health end extension of life whl h was first brought out In 1915 Is now In It nineteenth edition entirely revised and containing all the newest idea Of the health expert concerning proper food exercise hygiene of the brain and nervous as stem eugenics end organic hixtv well known sdenre audisensej thorities constituting the Hygiene Board have each year lent their knowledge to the task of keeping the book up to tte moment Dr Irving Fi'her who write a new Introduction for the edition aavs that In compiling the dal the editors have followed arlenie fnlth fully ralhrr than tiariition The rules for healthful living laid down by these authorities have pul In appliiation in recent years resulted In an increase of ten yedrs In the average h’e span HOW TO LIVE CFT THAT JOB By Roh-i- t T Cchler Publishers fredenrk A Stokes Company New York In a dav when Job are pratier than tli pioveibm! hen's teeth and there me novel aprlng author people hundred men for every Job a book of practical counsel such e tots has Ha value Its advice la neither theoretical nor visionary but based on toe actual experience of many men both those who ere employers and those who huve had to geek jobs It la written by a men who ha been In the business world for many years an expert In finding position for other Mr Geblers chapter sties the necessity of knowing thmoughly ones qunlif i atoms of knowing the Job lor which one Is fitted of utilizing what ever special talents on may have of turning what may have been a hohby to prac tu ai account of being reedy to at re Opportunity by the Huts ahould ahe pa-- s Sudden unemplov ment he shows fusquently open up unknown sourus of income as necessity fur seerth arises He gives advice on how 'to adl yourself" how to sell vnur services about self diagnosis on developing your own market It Is advu helpful to the man employed who desires to make t change a well at to the unemployed for the older man and woman a well ax for the young person Just startirg out In the woild And ttie chapter on 'Tha commercial vlilue' la reading lor every business person i Mrs Fianklm D R nova veil toon to be Im'alled as First Lady of the Land ha dlled lh letter of her father f Roosevelt younger brother of Theodor Roosevelt and they will be by R ritjner a In February under the title ' Hunting B’g Game In the Fuddle the letters ol Elliott Roos velt bportin mi " pub-Unhi- d a “The Captain H'v the title for t alia- - e 8 nhh s which Covri tiled will Minch Cu'arruba hn Mi krt for Up b nik i!h i'i noiiiio w r in i ) I'h the pu’ a' on Cii mil gv novel '! n W Rea" I tl pew n ad puhluh So Uh In Mai I ' In tie a CovkI Frlede ai tntrodiu mg a new Kafr h of E E ‘ k J a n 1 LOA COLLECTION NOW ON DISPLAY V Opening at the Newhouze Hotel gallery Sunday a loan collection of etch- ings oils water colors drawings by Lawrence Squires that talented young Utah artist who died just es he was beginning to make him-ol- f t position m the art field will be on display for two week With the show also will be few pieces exemplifying his craft in the decorative ertx At the South Cache high school the spring exhibit has Just opened and on March 14 the anniversary of Mr Squires’ death the purchase picture end several gift paintings for addition to to Lawrence Squires Memorial collection will be unveiled Between forty and fifty pictures representing a large majority of Utah's irtlsts are In to present exHy-ru- Cult large number of to canvases shown In the Utah Art Institute exhl bltlon were removed when th show wa dismantled to th R Orpheum theater where tl y will be on display for a week nr until Friday Thl is l new departure fur the local theater el though RKO theaters In other cities have offeied such exhibits end It Is litre lv to be popular with th Salt Lske public a it give mcey more en ep poitumtv for viewing the paintings The pictures have been hung In to long lobby the mum fnyer and on to mezzanine wuh aprrlal lighting arranged to show th- - oi to good advantage Among those ou tlinjliy are aelectlona fiom the grow- - f J hn He'd Jr Hal Burro as A B Wi o ht H Reubn Reynold Mab Frair Joseph A F Fver-et- t Cime Young Krrr Rena Olsen C'orneliu Sal sbuiy Flcnence Ware L Vonne Vlnrrnt K-- I LETTfcR WRITING IS AN ART Tht Art Ii And on th Light da All edition STATIONERY copies on order by February IV A new “1 Ife d R i loud Wavier” by Erne-- t Newman k m li'h mule iiitlc la scheduled for h i hruary puhlli alien by Knopf It appears Just prior to U M'lb anniverof tl commemoration sary of Wagner's dr nth The WOI k comtins Pure voluo-rplete will compir-fn-- t covering tha vru firr-- i Wjini-rbirth in IMI to the rrul uf U Die 1813 period r whin M PaisfeH “A Pros in rial IjmIy In London " sequel to tl a Kghlv sut i pssful 'Hraiv rf a 1 mvm d ‘ Enhanced Letter I Written If the re to be Identical In ho mat ami pi up except that each copy of the flrrt edU tlon will be signed bv the author the edition being limited to the exact number of In's i first editions In limited Mexico and New Mexico subjects predominate n the group as indicated in the titles "Skies m New Mexico" “Navajo Pony" “New Mexico Sunset" "Old Hacienda" “Mountain Juniper" a study of on of the glanta of to mountain heights Is canvas that la attracting much attention end a smaller picture of an "Old Juniper’’ is also admirad Another of hla strong tree subject “Dead Fir" has a sort of appealing pathos There are several of hi vigorous mountain landscapes and others are ‘Noon Halt” “Lai Afternoon” “Sum mer Clouds " A canvas suggesting region farther north than the Mexlcoe Is called "Morning After Snow ’’ Mr Dixon who was bom In Fresno California in 1375 canje of southern family transplanted to California aftei the Civil war when “boom" times prevailed In the San Joaquin valley end fortune were made In the raising of cattle and sheep in mining end othtr speculative enterprises The artist received no formal art education having one term in art school in San Francisco In 1802 He made frequent trip to old Monterey and tha high Sierras doing Independent wuik and encouiagement was reimed from Frederick Renting ton to whom he sent his early sketches Principally self taught his point of view end stvle m very personal end his work hB a stt iking Individuality For several yeai s Mr Dixon did news paper and magazine illustrating but In 1912 abandoned it to devote himself to painting end to mural decoretmg Chief ly his work la western In character of mountains ranches Indian reservations but on oi his most famous pictures I the symbolic “Shape of Fear” four hooded figures given expression from attitude only as no faces ere shown It was purchased for a large sum by the National Academy of Design end assigned to the Brooklyn Museum INNOVATION IN ART SHOWING ARRANGED The Literary Almanac Richard Aldington ha a new “All Men Are Enemies" on the list of Doutdeda v Doian The la no In Portugal to study the and the literature of the country Brilliant sunlight envelops the whole picture hibit Topics of General Interest n one fee! f -- 4 Miss La Vonne Vincent whoso progress in art Is being watched with much intere t by her Salt Lake friends has Publi-her- s Dodd New York As usual there’s plenty of bullets end banter romance end radng end colorful action in this western siory by Jack-soGregory who has averaged e couple of novels e year for more years than one can remember as the "Riders Across the Border title implies has its locale along the Rto Grande where Rogue Madden owns two extensive raneherns one each l‘d There are of emuse of the border bandits but Rogue Madden Jih a way all his own of disposing of the more troublesome of these He doesn't do so well when the daughter of an old frlmd a bir-hari'- -' SALT Jarkson Gregory Mead it Co Ine 1 pllTliS ” The kidnaping of toe girl by e band of rascals running dope end aliens Into the country starts Madden on toe battle of his rareer which brings “Riders Across brealhiesa rlimax tor Border" to voted to letters and narratives somewhat long In developing the plot v and one of lh iiron rz heart ! L) ttd Ward - struggle with boys on the other side boys v ho have heaid the same horrifying stories of their t lversaries torturing German prisom-- t s A cove in the sea of humanity is reddened with the essence of life when a bayonet strikes true calculated and di Iven to deal instant death and a trickle colors the surface of that nur-A ' Vor!?grov' b5tsMl! °Vhe 'If when seating 22 German prisoners are herded into s gulch and shot to death “Brutal said one member of tha firing Did he not know it is an old squad war trick to keep sending surrendering parties over until there are more prisoners than combatants behind a section of the allies’ line? And at a signal the semblance of an attack from the enemy the prisoners rush their guards and deal bloody blows from behind Tricky? It’s war! Both sides are trained In all the tricks And 22 Germans who volunteered for tha surrender party are sacrificed An extraordinary aerie of sketches— “Company K" is not In conventional novel style— reveals thoughts of dying men men who want to live despite excruciating wounds of men who are inherent cowards of men who scheme to evade action at the front of men who are genuinely patriotic and know not why Each man in Company K is given opportunity to speak The final gasping thoughts of the virtim of a machine-gu- n bullet are chronicled the aensatlona of a soldier Impaled upon a bayonet are written down the “yellow" one sy es he runs that his life is far too valuable to throw awav that his body shall never serve as fertilizer The lieutenant returned with criptlll talks of patriotism pling wounds and the glory end honor of America and her cause but gives himself away as he concludes his speech: “I do not regret the foot I lost crossing the Meuse on that terrible night of November 10th I feel that 1 offered that foot on the altar of my country' honor and I am proud that you my constituents have shown your confidence In me by me to represent your interests in the house of representatives" What bravery Is displayed by Wil liam March in recording the war as he knew it what support for the plea for blow at the Univcisal peace what Jlngmst end what substantial proof that war is not always holy that two sides cannot be right even If they do pray to the same God for victory that per- haps ne'tber side can be right! ‘Company K” is a wall of protest that demands wide end heedful attention of his father arrives The girl had bten given Into the wardship of Rogue father but that gentleman having been killed in Mexico Rogue assumes the task — a pleasant one yet fraught with Us own peculiar dangers moatly to the SITtlNG SILVER OF kfYSTERY RANCH By Ada Carter Dart Publisher The Caxten Printers Ltd Caldwell Idaho In this story the author has blended more or less successfully two or three styles of wrlttrg reminiscent of e bygone period Considerable space is de- Man’s Conflict With Life in Woodcut Novel i Ogden Has Dixon Exhibition Mystery and Adventure ar WILD PILGRIMAGE A Novel In Wood-Utby Lynd Ward Fubllsheis Harrison Smith and Robeit lUm Inc New York For this third of Ms stirring pirlonal eovels Lynd Ward has gth e hit theme end his Lite from a ptragtsph by Arturo Oiovarmlltl “Thinking thli gi that cannot be chained ami cannot be lex krd but that wimd-- r fur nv In the sunlit world each in wild pi’grlmage ef’er a destined It la on mans Activities in Utah Artists' Colony BITTER PROTEST AGAINST WAR lh MERRY 1933 COURAGEOUS BOOK STANDS AS Cnnvas of Hroud Suf'op 1’row‘Uls Story of LiipLuid 8 IVnal Century and II Colony of tho high-spirit- 19 Art and Literature COLONIZATION AND CONVICTS By G FEBRUARY It g erj m'1' rn'hu ii h tt retl wnikltg on a nr V long (in' primp ' to te f Iiishrd It r the auturi n h and Bay the Eight Kind at Bee DESERET oBOORo COMPANY - I I H Ml ris t I 11110 0 4 FAST ON SOUTH ' SJ tAt TEMPLI CITY ifT — |