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Show y V"" . y Utahns Plan Observances Gunther Tale As Poetry Week Opens Recreates Cites Chaplin 31 The crown of literature is poetry. It is the end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty. The . writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. W. Somerset Maugham C , The Importance of poetry will be stressed throughout Utah during National Poetry Week, Sunday through Saturday, with schools, churches and other organizations featuring poetry in their classes and programs. Gv- - George D. Clyde has proclaimed Thursday as Utah Poetry Day and the Utah State Poetry Society will celebrate that day with poetry reading from 10 a.m. to noon in the .Friends of the LiLrary room, Brigham Young University library, followed by a in the Y Center cafeteria on the Provo campus. Salt Lake Meetings Poets will meet again Thursk day from 6 to 9 p.m. for a supper in Salt Lake City, after which they will attend a program of poetry reading in Memorial Park Recreation Center in Memory Grove. Special guests for this event will be Rex Campbell and Dr. H. E. D. Redford. Linnie Fisher Robinson is general chairman and Mrs. Ellis H. Pedersen, food chairman. Utah poets whose works are published in Utah Sings, VoL IV are asked to bring their copies for autographing. lun-phe- , pot-luc- New Division There will be a new division added this1 year, for small books of poetry, with Kathryn ( Kay as chairman. . Accomplishments of the poetry. organization .under, the. leadership of Ann W. Hafen, president, Include publication pf the Utah Sings volume, which has brought recognition to poets throughout the state and focused attention on local creative talent, and the annual High School Poetry Contest, which has proven a stimulant to younger poets. ; School Bus Tale Offers Hilarity Here Comes The Bus, Haywood. Carolyn Haywood by Morrow. Ed- of die and Betsy fame brings another likeable young fellow n fold in her into her Here most recent book, Comes The Bus. When young Jonathan moves to the country with his parents he has to take a bus to school, and therein lies the story and the fun. The bus is not any ordinary one but a special school bus, and Mr. Riley, who drives it, is equally special and understanding, as all school bus drivers should be. Indeed, the story is in many ways Mr. Rileys. But Jonathan manages his part very well as he innocently finds himself in various situations that bring hilarity to the like the day he forreader gets his birthday cake (which his mother had packed in a hatbox) and leaves it on the mailbox and the mailman picks it up and brings it to the hat shop, thinking its a hat that has to be returned. Ruth Orbach, Chicago Dally News well-know- good-humor- Joins Art Jury Special to The Tribune LOGAN Everett C. Thorpe, associate professor of fine arts at Utah State University, has -- been selected as a member of a three-ma- n jury for the fine arts department of Arizona State Fair, It was announced Saturday. "The Lost City, Gunther. Harper by John & Row. $5.95. This Is toe kind of book Leon Uris tries to write and cant. It is filled to overflowing with characters, events, and local color and gives the reader s sense that he Is getting die inside story of a time end a place, a moment in history. That John Gunther should have a sense of history, rather than merely a sense of what is news; Is of course gratifying and should surprise some. It might seem that after so many of those Inside books, he and his typewriter would be so glutted with facts and figures that they would be unable to produce anything different But he has shown that he cab write the sort of fiction that treats great and important events in human terms (and that should do as a working definition of the historical novel). The place and time Is Vienna In the early 30s (1931 to 1934, to be exact). Because It comes as such a pleasant surprise, there is a temptation to rate this book higher than it deserves. We have only to look at the novels of Viennas native writers Musil, Broch and Von Doderer to realize how much more could (and probably should) have been done. But still, this takes nothing away from what John Gunther has done which is to write a book that commands our attention and is eminently worth the reading. Bruce Cook, Chicago Daily News. My Autobiography, half-broth- er " th 715 Fascinating Steps to Fame Ostracism by st iyywwif The Salt Lake Tribune, Sunday, October 11, 1964 Charles Chaplin. Simon 6 Schuster, New York. $6.95. For all his fame, for all the publicity, good and bad, that he has received, for all the controversies of ' his later years,' Charles Chaplin is one of the worlds least understood men. He is both a celebrity and an enigma. His autobiography, composed without the aid of either ghost writer or editor, is highly revealing. Yet, as is the case with many autobiographies, it reveals no more than its author wishes. Chaplin gives few dates and omits a number of important details. For example, the name of Llta Grey, his second wife and mother of his two elder sons, is not mentioned. Spectacular Rise - Chaplins rise was spectacular. He came to the United States as a member of a British vaudeville troupe. Within a matter of months he was an established motion picture star, earning huge sums for those days when the movies were in their infancy, and moving from one artistic and financial success to another. Chaplin was an unusual combination a comic genius who knew how to get and keep mony. And while he didnt exactly use people, his never permitted a hint of loyalty to stand In the way of a better contract. The first third of the book Is by far the most revealing and best written. Chaplins boyhood was one of grinding poverty. He and his Sydney rW1t Charles Chaplin . . . Autobiography tails to solve enigma. were in and out of boys homes as horrible as anything ever described by Dickens. The parents were struggling music hall performers whose early success quickly faded. The . mother lost her voice, then worked as a sweatshop seamstress to support her sons. The father died of alcoholism. It was a hard life with no apparent prospects, but the Chaplin boys wouldnt realize they didnt have a chance. Chaplins great creation Is the character called The Litgraphy he manages to mention tle Tramp, though there nevmost of their names. er was a tramp like that. It beChaplins fall was as specgan as an improvizatlon. One tacular as his rise. He fled the I United States, where he had ? day in 1914, Mack Sennett rerelinwithout lived for years marked, We need some gags quishing his British citizenship, , X here. Put on a comedy make4 because of mounting antagonwill do." Anything up. latthe I had no idea what makeup ism and harassment, ter it should be added, outto put on, Charlie relates. rageous In the extreme. to the on the However, way Denies Communist He wardrobe I thought I would Was he a Communist? He dress in baggy pants, big V shoes, a cane and a derby hat. forcefully denies the charge, I wanted everything a contraand his words seem to have I diction: the pants baggy, the the ring of truth. At any rate, coat tight, the hat small, the It would be strange for a Com4 shoes large. . , . Remembering munist to express the admiraSennett had expected me to be tion , for William Randolph a much older man, I added a Hearst that Chaplin does. Persmall mustache which, I reahaps, the man who created ' f The Little Tramp soned, would add age without simply I couldnt explain himself or his hiding my expression. I had no Idea otfto character, but the motives satisfactorily. moment I was dressed, the His later years have an idylclothes and makeup made me lic quality. He lives In Switzerfeel the person he was. I began land with his fourth wife, Oona to know him and by the time I ONeill 36 years his junior walked on the stage, he was and their young family. He should be happy, yet he recalls fully born. Road to Fortune Joseph Conrads simile that life is like a cornered, blind rat as as was that It simple Charles Chaplin was on the waitingJo be clubbed. This is a fascinating book, road to fortune. The one-reers gave way to feature length though it is devoted chiefly to films. How marvelous they what Chaplin did, leaving the Chaplins Improvisation ted The Gold reader to guess what Chaplin were! The Kid, to characterization of tramp. really is. Rush, City Lights," ModTheodore Long ern Times, The Great Dictaadvirtisimint tor." Only the last was marred Into be effort an by topical Teachers to Meet stead of universal Salt Lake Chapter of Utah Tha Chaplin was not only famcopyright law of tho Unltad Music Teachers Assn, will Stain (condanwd) arc frea to you ous, he was adored by milrequest. A "murt for upon lions. But the love was not remeet Monday at 8:30 p.m. in authorsyour and writers, playwrights, pubconcenlishers. lecturers, songwriters, etc. 3719 So. the Organ Studio, ciprocated. Chaplin In the Interests of an Intrated on the rich and famous. State St. Mrs. Alpha Bolton Published formed America by this agency. No Write today! Entirely He knew everybody who was will discuss the Organization obligaUon! free I Literary Agant Mead. Dept. of the Recital. somebody, and In his autobio SLT, BIS Broadway, N.Y. 10, N.Y. , el plagiarism Vive Mol! An autobiography by Sean OFaolain; Little, Brown & Company, publishers; $6.75. treS Every writer. is a man with one deaf ear and one blind eye, who is possessed by a demon and unteachable by anybody but himself; a man who only For Youngsters Carolyn (3.50. Vienna, rr'f' tnterei&ant! our Lack dt 'pening., to half hears and half sees the world about him because for half his time he is absorbedly listening at the keyhole to his own Demon, examining with fascination his primordial Sha- a kit of jparh . . . dow. As the spider must spin, and the clouds must drift and fallr and Hie trees grow and shed and grow again, I had to go on writing, waiting and watching for the appearance, within me, of the theme that leads the writer Into his Cave to talk to himself, to speak to the man who enfolds him, until the shape of life is broken and there is, literally, no more to be said. Thus Sean OFaolain traces the story of how his fights and his experiences combined to make him a writer. A charming, complex, thoroughly sophisticated report. Tania Karol. 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