Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Critical Reviews of Late Rooks Exiled Russian Sees No Hope In New Regime Ertz Depicts Older Generation’s Emotional t Entanglements Affecting Outlook of Clearer- t Sighted Young People 1 — — By E E HOLLIS THE STORY OF JULIAN Ertz D Appleton Susan Publishers By & Co New York SUSAN ERTZ’ gift of seeing into the minds and lives of her people manifest again In this newest of her novels which Introduces a group of Interesting people Rather than the fifty years of its heroine’s life that she followed in “The Galaxy” she deals with but a few months in the history of the young Julian rt who at 18 has already found life “complex alarming and perPro-be- verse" Chiefly this Is due to his unhappiness over the discordant relations between his parents which tears him two ways between devotion to his neurotic complaining mother and prideful love for his father who is a brilliant scientific writer Extremely sensitive Julian’s outlook Is darkened by his mother’s constant tears and querulous plaints and an Inherent reticence makes It Impossible to discuss the situation (with the father His distress is increased by discovery that his father loves anpther woman with whom he might find happiness but for his wife’s horror of divorce Julian’s one confidante Is Hilde-gara charming girl as poised and serene as the lad Is melancholy and shy Child of an entirely happy marriage Hlldegarde faces life with She has won Joyous confidence Julian to talk things out for they love each 'other When his four years of college are over they can think of marriage until then theirs Is a happy innocent companionship But the vicar and an neighbor happening on the two when they are after a swim scandal Is set afloat Hlldegarde’s- parents understand the harmlessness of the escapade but think best to carry her off until It may be forgotten Which leaves SUSAN ERTZ Julian without his chief support and counsel to his mother’s reproaches his father’s preoccupation with his own affairs and finally to a humiliation that drives him to deliberately But life was not plan an “accident” with his battered motorcycle through with him yet— and lying In a hospital bed hearing that Is being brought back to him Julian has hope again It is with Pauline Trellet nearly thirty and a popular novelist even more than with these young people that Miss Ertz’ power of creating a Her InvolvePauline is deftly characterized personality Is revealed ment with Julian’s father- the difficulties of Probert and his wife the Mderly Trellet’s Infatuation with a young woman who though not thoroughly bad Is not quite all she should be are set in contrast with Julian’s story as If Miss Ertz would say that after ail the younger generation may be trusted to see things clearly that It is the older generation’s frantic strivings after happiness at all costs that cause Its disillusions and distort Its viewpoint “The Story of Julian" Is written with all the subtlety and finish and nice prehestration that has characterized Miss Ertz’ preceding novels It is possible one may not find it as wholly convincing as "Madame Claire" it Is nevertheless a delightful and engrossing work de evil-mind- ed sun-bathi- ng - Hilde-gar- de - RECALLS CHAPTER OF CIVIL WAR THE BORDER: A MISSOURI SAGA Publishers By Dagmar Doneghy William Morrow & Co New York DONEGHY— in private life Mrs Joseph Warren Beach wife of DAGMAR professor and writer— deals In this first novel with a dramatic episode In American history presenting a passage that has largely escaped the notice of fictlonists —the warfare on the Mlssouri-KansHer father was a Missourian border during the Civil struggle of the ’60s From him she has gleaned the knowledge of those days which gives her story Its authentic flavor Even before actual outbreak of war there had been hostility between abolition Kansas and the slaveholding Missouri and Kansas Jayhawkers was a nare of dread to the youngsters of Dan Leinster’s family on a border farm near the Santa Fe trail to which they had come from Kentucky In 1855 Because of "nigger stealers” Leinster was compelled to sell his slaves down south and when he felt It his duty In supporting the economic system on which his prosperity was based to Join the active Confederate forces his wife was left with but one woman servant and her small boys to carry on the farm With the granary and smoke house full the family would not know want for the term of the war—soon to be over of course But Jayhawkers marked all Southern sympathizers and constant raids depleted the" Leln-ster- s’ provisions their stock was run off then their fine barns were burned and finally Federal cavalry under orders set the torch to their home leaving the family utterly destitute except for one cow they had hidden Nellie Leinster however Is of heroic stock— the type that after such a lesson can still cry "Hurrah for Jefferson Davis and the Southern Confederacy” She gathers her little family into an old deserted log house and through a winter of the greatest distress manages to keep them together Spring brings some relief but it brings also the mothers severe Then comes the Illness and the news of Leinster’s death on the field terrible Order No 11— federal retaliation for Quantrell’s raid and the massacre at Lawrence Kansas— which banished innumerable families from their border homes MLss Doneghy's account of these border events Is graphic and enMainly It Is through the grossing presented with a wealth of detail eyes of the boy Andy who was five at the story’s beginning and as curious and questioning as a real boy can be that we see these happenings Perhaps this Is why the figure of Nellie Leinster the linfalterlng woman who builds on the chaos of her world returning from exile to reclaim the acres that are her sons’ sole Inheritance never really comes alive however It Is strongly drawn But the book has vigor and as recreating a page of history has genuine value as i i ' f f I ll “A BEIATED VICTORIAN:’ PICTURED I : f i ) 1931- - 3T y Art and Literature A CHAMPION OF MODERN YOUTH Susan 4 SUNDAY-MORNING-OCTOBE- ALBERT GROFE By F 0 Mann Publishers Harcourt Brace & Co New York has been suggestion in recent fiction It has been remarked of rpiIERE L a revival of the Victorian tradition Mr Mann with this story of a Londoner who belongs far more to the Victorian decades than to this modern day does much at least to encourage belief that the literary trend Is toward a less morbid and unpleasant realism without Indulgence In soppy romanticism Ills leisurely moving quite undramatlc narrative wnlrti was the September choice of The Book League of America relates the history of a young man who pulls himself up by his bootstraps from the poverty of the slums to a position of affluence and by a little Judicious publicity of It Is autobiographic In character Albert Grope being perprominenee mitted to speak for himself and because he is a simple unassuming fellow even If a self-maman we enjoy knowing him albeit he Is stolid and a bit stuffy In his Vlctorlanlsm Albert w as Corkney "born and bred” His father dying before his birth ius mother charred for a living She was a pious woman and to the virtues of thilft'and sobriety she Inculcated In tier son was undoubtedly due ills after success Ills beginning Is with a crude second-han- d bookshop which as he discovers a genius for catchy advertising broadens Into an From the pinched days of his childadvertising business of proportions hood and the hardship of his first jobs the story moves slowly along through scenes In which we alternately applaud sympathize with approve or laugh at him The economic stre-- of his youth and a natural timidity left him with small and after the dialh of Ills mother lie knows great rapulty for making friends loneliness Ills first love affair the girl being a xlllv creature unapprei lathe of the Victorian virtue1 is a dismal fiasio Afteiward ills experiences in the chapel tlrrle' and the higher smiety to whlih the ingenious M Spurt gives him "'a Sig up are more enter alinng to the reader than Kiev were pleasurable to Albert — until escaping the Mhcmiiig lady Onllahv he attouhex the motherly Laurette Much Beenes as those furnished bv the Malley household or the dinner at fingers' “diggings ” or at the Society of Ancient Truth have a deliriously nomte Mr Mantis satire Is grntle and hiij a pcit though Albert is unaware of It Borne of hi odd characters— the bibulous snrdonlo humor quid and unhmbed and ungiateful Phoenix for Instance or Mr Blnwberrv Albert a rarlv employer who having once discovered a box of water colors thereafter neglei Is business For (hose for Ius ‘hart work' might have slopied out ol the pages of Dhkeus who enjoy a reversion to the old ti edition of Lngluti iltcratmc here Is a they will ilip into wltli UioiuugU plcAsujc UNDERWORLD AND SOVIET Bv Vladimir Orloff Publishers Lincoln e Dial Press New MacVeagh-ThYork should who know has here A man presented a profound analysis and dissection of soviet treachery spying falsehood and crime Vladimir Orloff in "Underworld and Soviet" gives the public what he has set down with sincerity as giving a real insight into the bloody methods of rascals in the minority driving with lashes the majority to submission Orloff the exile fearlessly exposes the despicable operations of secret ser vee agents who stoop to depths of infamy who halt at absolutely nothing to spread the cancerous mental disease of soviet principles He chronicles m masterly manner how the crazed bolsheviks demolished the law courts the police and gendarmerie headquarters at the outset of tlieir ruthless roughshod plague-lik- e ride over the land with the objective of destroying and other data concerning “agents provocateurs murderers and criminals who wished to step into important posts In the subsequent revolution He says that the bolshevlsts who are preparing for the government of the world have taught the people nothing new in the way of “provocation” conspiracy and treachery of twisting facta or of murder but have meiely added more gruesome touches wherever A OLD WALDORFS Yankee Gaucho Down-Eas- t U- In the Field of Modern Writers COLORFUL DAYS IN GAY PICTURE - PEACOCKS ON PARADE By Albert Publisher Sears Stevens Crockett Publishing Co Inc New York Many volumes have been written on tnat period of American nisfory sdown as “the gay nineties” and it is not at all presumptuous to suppose that many another will be written That peilod was in a sense’ one of the most colorful the nation has known It produced a peculiar type of men who swung - Rocku ell into governmental and financial leadership with remarkable ease and rapidity Many of these leaders lacked a background of any sort Some were without education or more than the one Their principal asset was a quality of clear vision with the possession of an imagination that gave them to see farther than the moment In short these men were able to gain power and pile up riches almost beyond the dreams of avarice These figures and the capers they cut give to "Peacocks on Parade" color and absorbing interest The old Waldorf hotel its "Peacock Alley” and those who strutted therein pass before the reader's eyes amazing and lifelike A trip to New Yoik in those days was not complete without a visit to ihat famous hostelry and from what Mr Crockett says the show wag well worth the price of admission Therfc was for instance the Bradley Martin ball a front page story in New York papers for weeks The affair was the costliest and most sumptuous ever dreamed of by New Yorkers of that day And the w hole thing cost 89036 35! Today that would about pay for a night in a night Knit’s fiontispiece rudl-menl-- of for "A Yankee m Tatagonia ” ( Houghton Mifflin) by Robert ami Katherine Barrett possible Orloff describes the assassination of the czar and his family during the night of July 7 1918 Upon the abdication of the czar according to Orloff he called his counselors and said to them: ”1 have abdicated for the good of the country It is necessary to avoid civil war And then after his utmost effort to hold the nation together to preclude such ghastly conditions as have resulted the condemned persons were ordered to stand against the wall at Ekaterinburg where the death sentence was read to them In the group Nicholas his wife their were son Alexis and his tutor Dr Botkin and an The only asked “Aren't you going to take us elsewhere for execution?” A few revolver shots were the only answer— and the royal family was no more And then absolute chaos The memoirs of Orloff reflect the futility of subsequent hopes Final efforts to muster the last props of the old regime were frustrated and Russia sank into the pitch blackness from which she has never emerged in his x lew and into which the reds drawing d of their their color from the victims seek to draw the rest of the world 16-1- Murders — New and Old ex-Cz- ar ex-cz- ar life-bloo- “Sheik” Loses Romance With Newer Version To all those for whom the desert possesses a glamor a volume by Colonel Andre von Dumreicber "Trackers and Smugglers m the Deserts of Egypt” (Dial Press) The author will offer revelations has spent many years among the nomadic Arab tribes becoming familiar v ith their laws and customs and feuds and his conception of "The Sheik" is quite different from the popular conception of the romantic writer The Arabs’ gift of tracking whtch to the uninitiate savors of magic is revealed as the quintesWhile the sence of observation adventures he relates are based on official reports they are suitable to the pages of Romance The book has been described as "an epic of the Egyptian Camel Corps" one of whose duties is to prevent the smuggling of contraband across the sandy wastes to the shores of the Mediterranean NEW YORK—John Henry was a "nntchel man an’ on de day he was bawn he weighed fawty pounds" and in tjie ool of the evening down South from Texas to Virginia and back again the Negroes alt aiound and tell tall tale of his mighty exploit Roark Bradford whose delineations of the Negro's idea of heaven brought him fame and fortune has put the legend of John Henry In a book Recently Bradford told a United Press correspondent that Negroes of the Old South believe implicitly the yarns they spin about the giant “rousterbout’’ The legend differs according to localities he said though always the rame is the same and the theme never varies John Henry can do e job of work better than anybody else Along come the engines and John Henry vows he can outwork the engines and he works himself to death trying to do it On the day John Henry wes born he rared up In bed and demanded to know Has dr dawgs had dey supper ylt‘ Assured that the dogs had dined he roared "Well den ain't 1 as good as de dawgs7 Don't let me git tnad on de day 1 se bawn ’cause I so akeired of my ownse f when I gits mad" He then orders up “four hnmbonrs an a pfltful er cabbages a bait o' turnip greens trcclop loll an' season hit down wtd a side 'r imddlln an' a tone cr mid cawn bread wit hot- - pollliker to wash hit down an two hawg Jowls in’ a kittle er wliippo-we- ll bis- peas an' a akllletful er red-h- Instrumcnt By I UNOR LLNNEN So many changing winds play through These pipes that I have called my heart I know not how the song may end from listening at the sUrl Come swiilmg breere wind! Come gentle And move itiv nature is von will Lot spin r me spare me fiom thr dix Winn any wind shall leuve mo stllll club Of the many familiar figures of the period recalled by Mr Crockett one of the most powerful was John W Gates who came from the West to make a fortune in New Yoik Gates was also one of the loudest and most vulgar persons the metropolis had seen And for that reason he attracted almost immediate attention If places didn't suit him he'd threaten to buy them out Gates played poker with other Wall street men of his crowd and often $100 000 changed hands during a single evening in his suite at the Waldorf Judge Elbert Gary when he first became associated with the Gates crowd tried to join the game one night Gates sent down word by a bellboy telling Gary the game was too stiff for him The man who was later t6 become head of United States Steel hung his head and left the hotel There are so many figures so many personal anecdotes that the book is never for a moment dull Crockett reviews among other tilings the battles engaged in by hotels and famous restaurants for leadership in catering to "the people who counted " He also reveals tnn high times some of those same people enjoyed on various European sojourns There is one person however who does not appear extensively in the account That is “Diamond Jim” Brady whose jewels dazzled Broadway for a He was the last of the long time "Peacocks" — alid one of the most picturesque He had a Gargantuan appetite and a soft heart he never tuined a deaf ear to pleas for a “five” or a "ten” even from persons he had never seen before There should have been more about him In “Peacocks on Parade” but it’s a long and comprehensive volume as it stands You can't put everything in one book itable crimes hiding his identity behind THE BROADCAST MURDERS By Fred Smith Publisher The John Day Company New York It was inevitable that there should be a radio murder mystery but by no means inevitable that that tale should be intriguing and mystifying In “Broadcast Murders” however Mr Smith keeps one move ahead of his reader all the time He hBs combined the allure of the radio wnth the romance of big business and the thrill of evil His mystery is an intri- "The Squid’ moves undetected through his muiders robberies and swindles and as in all good mystery stories suspicion is cast first upon one character and then another and only in the last chapter ie the mystery solved The book suffers from one glaring defect — the nonsensical language used by its characteis most of whom aie members of the upper strata of British so-- c ety and most of whom use a sickening form of Anglican slang Aside from this fault however "Murder in Wax” la far better than the usual mys- cate aliair The chief element Is the desire of a gang of criminals to eliminate all those who threaten their plans They have perfected an elaborate scheme for using radio m their operations The one who is the brain of the gang Is hidden and even the most astute reader will have difficulty In locating him unlesssus-he makes use of the trite formula of pecting the least suspicious person among the actors There are murders right and left and for a time It look as if young Danny McGlone king of radio entertainers will be unable to cope with the situation But Danny isn’t going to let little thing like a bunch of gangsters ruin his radio career so he walks along smilingly into every trap until he Is able to reveal the whole plot to his boss Then of course the plot Is finished e MURDER IN WAX By Peter Baron Publisher The Macaulay Company New York Few mystery stories have been marked bv as much carnage as this in which Mr Baron indulges From the first chapter where a king's messenger is slam to the last in which a whole squad of policemen is blown to death there is plenty of bloodshed yet only a minimum of thrills But if "Murder in Wax” is not The exciting it is at least Interesting mystery is well masked and well developed and even the most avid reader of detective fiction cannot determine the solution in advance There is a bloodthirsty supercriminal known only as "the Squldv” who perpetrates a series of brutal and highly prof grim placid wax mask a huge tery yarn t e THE LODGER Mrs Publishers Jonathan Cape and liar- rison Smith New York First published 18 years ago Mrs Belloc-Lownde- Belloc-Lownde- famous story bears s’ re- printing among the crime mystery Inventions that are being turned out so rapidly today and will compare favorably with the best among them Edmund Pearson who may stand as an authority has termed it the best novel about murder written by any living author has taken as Mrs basis for her tale the atrocious and horrifying series of crimes which startled London some decades ago She deals not so much with the efforts of the police in tiacing down the maniacal criminal as with the experience of a elderly couple particularly the woman who gradually come to connect the weird activities of the ci with the strange behavior of their lodger" the man whose rental of their rooms had saved them when they were near starvation Mrs Bunting who feels a sort of sympathy with the queer Individual who sits all day reading the Bible in their upper looms creeping out only by night lives in constant terror yet cannot betray the man nor can the husband when he finally guesses the lodgers identity Belloc-Lownd- ' an’ a big Jugful er cane molasses cause my name is John Henry an I'll see you soon” In Biadford’a version John Henry rollin’ cotton works on the steamboat man ever and he is the seen He has “a spring in his knees and a weave in his hips slid a buck in his back ” And when the old Mississippi start running uphill and the thunder crack out of the west John Henry dies w ith his wored-dow- n cotton hook In his ' NOVELIST’S INSPIRATION Margaret Widdcmer's poem" "Flight” winch appeared in a magazine is the poem from the last stanza of which Bess Streeter Aldrich drew the Inspiration for her latest title “A White Bird Flying" Misa Widdemers poem will be Included in a new volume of her work that l to be issued next year by Farrar Im-in- al it Rinehart Bottome cults cotUm-rollm'e- xt && ii Bradford says the Negroes of the South speak of John Henry with reverence end Jach teller of tales has an individual flourish to give to the legend TRAVELER TO ADDIS FINDS DIFFICULTIES i- - dt-c- H the plich him knes of Unit ho-- 'e Irtlure the relief ttaln atrivcu” Mrs Ritchie spent the winter months between Miami Fla Charleston S C and Savannah Ga More recently she has visited with her daughters Mrs Henry W Moore of llingham Mass and Mrs F R McIntosh New York Mrs Ritchie by reason of her varied activities as a clubwoman In the literary field la one of Utah's most disShe lias been a tinguished women contributor to leading magazines has a number of popular childiens books to her credit and also one novel "In His Image” whose merits lead her friends to hope that ahe Will do further work in this field Her latest literary production Is a book of fairy tales “The Giants Fairy Tales” which was published in England about a year ago w here It i meeting with wide succe-Because of her absence arrangements have not yet been made for Its American publication Mr Ritchie wa formerly a member of the Women's Republican club the Ladies' Literary club Of which she la atill an honorary member and of the Saturday Night club s c hand Josef Israels IL whose novel “The Bta and tho Land" is a recent Doubie-da- y Doran book found his trip to Abyssinia one of the most difficult) things lie ha undertaken In the first place he didn't know Just where Abvs--t ilia was and he couldn t find anyone r e who did Having located it by Ilf atlas he learned that getting thoia was still more difficult He finally reached Djibouti the port of entry on t"c Red Fi a where ho wav to take t train for Addis Ababa a three-datr!p since the train runs only by day when it Is fate from native snipers “Though three days was the regular schedule ’ Mr Israels says “it took my train right days The fltst prtirular trouh’e tame about 40 miles from Dliboutl where everybody had to get out and walk past a washout In the track and transfer to another tram T rat was by no means an extraordinary occurrence on that line I was told but that same evening as we approach! d the fthloplau bolder the train ran into a ditch and was completely wrecked That likewise wav nolllh g for the Fremh Tallroad rmplojrs to get rxr lied about They shrugged and A few pso-- I for a relit f train ie wete hurt but we waited six hours n4 There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them— Phyllis SvV ‘tfe MRS & ! r LILT M UNSELL RITCHIE Mrs I!ly Munxell Rttchlf one of Salt laikes lidding writers and wdfe of the li to Judge Morris L Itllcble who was for many years judge of the Thud district imilt in Salt lake has i eturned to Salt laike for a viMt of s v of two era! months after an abn-fuvears She traveled exten ivcly doting this pi i tod having rent six monlhs in Santiago Chile and at Mina boldado near Melon ( hde v here her snroiii-liIs a ropiK I mum k R Mi Intoih : iq ermli ndent On her return limn South Anu'iiia nl -- w |