Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING Interpretations of Creative America MAY 8 1932 Art and Literature '& DIVERSITY IN MOSER GROUP Activities in Utah Artists' Colony Countess in Exile Pastoral Landscape in Current Show Bravely Meets New World Mountain and Pastoral Landscapes With More Intimate Scenes and Striking Pioneer Concepts Included in Log'an Painter’s Offering By Irina Publisher Harrison Smith Inc New York The troubles confronted by a patrician when revolution breaks out are an old story by now There have been scores of memoirs — not the least interesting of them being “A World Can End by Irina Skariatina —but an account of how a patrician meets a changed world and triumphs is something new Madame Skariatina who was the Countesa de Kel- A WORLD BEGINS THERE Is broad variety in subject to be found among the paintings Moser Logan artist who furnishes the major portion n of the exhibition now In progress at the Newhouse hotel gallery Mr Moser has not confined his recent painting activities to his immediate vicinity and while Logan’s canyons and beautiful Bear lake have given him several of the themes there also are versions of the Idaho landscape and the Tetqns scenes found near Salt Lake the Wellsvllle farming region and other beauty spots An increasing vigor of statement marks Mr Moser’s work and a surer compositional strength He has a distinctly modern viewpoint and uses his color daringly Ills transcriptions of nature are In no sense conventional but are done with fidelity to his vision and assert their individuality Artists have found his present showing the best collection he has offered two-ma- Included In his landscape Interpretations and making an Important item the show are two of his pioneer themes the “Westward Ho" which gives his conception of the caravans on the trail to the west and "The Answer” showing the weary train of pioneers coming in to the wide valley— this latter a picture of grand spatial quality A pastoral landscape that will have appeal Is the "Clarkston Mountains— Cows Coming Home” showing a poplar-Bnq- d lane with the cattle moving barnward at the end of the day Similar in quality and Interest Is the broad vista of meadows bounded by a mountain range that is called “Wellsvllle Mountains — Cattle Grazing” and this same mountain region ranged by a flock of sheep has given another quiet picture “Old Homestead at the Lakeside” has as its motif one of the houses of Davis county and gives a glimpse of the lake beyond its Intimate surroundings' A contrasting subject offers the artist’s version of the Tctons and Lake Jenny the spanning bow that seems to lose itself in the valley giving its title "The Rainbow" The familiar aspens have furnished several studies a simple composition and most pleasing being the "Beyond the Aspens" With the collection la a group of the Holladay Impressions that have been admired particularly for their lushness of spring greens after rain A recent study is of "Keyser’s Farm” in which blossoming orchards are a central feature Other versions of Utah’s springtime beauty and several brilliant autumn canvases complete the show In ox-tea- m "Wdlsville Mountains Cattle Grazing! one of Henri Moser s newest -terpretations of Utah v LOGANITES IN COAST EXHIBITION LOGAN— Professor Calvin Fletcher and H Reuben Reynolds of the art department of the Utah State Agricultural College and Mrs Calvin Fletcher have received word of the acceptance of their pictures submited to the jury of the San Francisco Art Association’s annual exhibition to be held at the This la a disCalifornia Palace of the Legion of Honor San Francisco tinct honor for these local artists aa approximately only 13 per cent it la laid of the pictures submitted are accepted There is perhaps only one show In America more difficult to get Into and that Is the Pittsburgh Inter- national Professor Fletcher's entry is "October" a pastoral scene In a warm color scheme portrsylng the hillside northwest of the Logan stadium "Mystery Lake" la the title of an Interpretation of Bear Lake Mrs Fletcher’s It is a picture that drew from Professor B J Noydfeldt who contribution recently taught in the college's summer sessions the comment that it was one of the best paintings by a young American that he had seen It was also singled out In the recent Utah Art Institute exhibition by President B F Larsen as perhaps the most forward-lookin- g picture in the group Another Bear Lake Impression "Bear Lake in Utah” was Professor olds’ entry This shows a group of willow trees and horses od the sandy The artist’s Intent was to reveal t with a ranch tn the background some of the mystic qualities of the lake seen from a distance Professor Reynolds la also exhibiting in an Invitational show with a group of artists tn Ohio He sent a small subject "Fiaherman’i Tale" which is a beach scene In Barcelona Spain and a Utah mountain landscape scenes : w r tr--' exhibition at the Newhouse which comprises F5LLOWING the present Moras with the Moser collection Verla Birrell young n show art instructor of the city will be presented In her first scheduled for a three weeks’ display At the Weber Gymnasium Ogden a aeries of spring shows will be opened with a group of J T Harwood’ delightful new canvases now being shown at the Beasley art room with which will be exhibited the Minerva K Telchert murals new group of Replacing the Harwoods at the Beesley gallery will b Later there A B Wrights canvases largely pictures not before exhibited will be a collection by Bessie Alice Bancroft shown at this gallery A large general exhibition is being planned for the West high school probably for the closing two weeks of the school term This will include a majority of the Utah artists 1 X ' Fairbanks Makes Innovation for Flower Exhibits Another atep In art promotion in the sculptural field being made in Michigan under tire Initiative of Professor Avard Fairbanks of the state university’s department of sculpture was shown in the national flow-- r show held recently in Detroit the North Ameri- can 1 lower Show At the suggestion of Professor Fairbanks sculpture was used as central motif In some of the exhibits and the effects achieved met with such approval that the managers of these annual exhibitions are planning to extend the use of sculptural pieces In succeeding affairs giving them increasing prominence “The Sunshine Boy" the fountain piece by Mr Fairbanks which was reproduced on last Sunday’s art page was placed as the central figure of the California exhibit and his "Nebula" was the center of the main exhibition occupying a beautiful garden plot at the mam entrance of the exhibition rooms Scanning the Magazines one-ma- AMERICAN MURALISTS EXHIBIT American painter and photographer! were shown MURALS by exhibition which opened the new quarters of the Museum of Modern Art New York City on May 4 The exhibition during its months of preparation has attracted much comment throughout the country became of the increasing interest in mural decoration! and because of the widespread discussion of the problem of who la to do the murals of thf nation’s great building or hold citiThe artists included In the exhibit are all American-bor- n zenship papers Many of them are young painter who have never had a chance to express their Ideas in wall decoration although their work has ahown their Interest In composing decorations on a large scale Oil on canvas tempera on wood panels fresco ceramic tile and pastel on celluloid welded between glass are among the mediums chosen Over 60 artists were invited to exhibit and 33 have submitted canvases and 14 have experimented with They are all contemporary painters of every inclination thus insuring the representative character of the exhibition Notables Included are George Biddle who aends a fresco from Italy Henry Billings Louis Bouche who designed a glass room for Wanamaker's last year: Glenn Coleman Ernest Flene Hugo Gellert William Cropper Stefan Hirsch who lent a panel from Mexico Morria Kantor Thomas La Faree Jan Matulka Georgia O'Keefe Henry Varnum Poor Philip Reisman Maurice Sterne Franklin Chenault Watkins the of the Carnegie International last December Plans for enlarging the national membership of the Museum of Art have been announced by the trustees Members outside the metropolitan area are to receive catalogues of each exhibition held so that they may be in touch with the latest developments In modem art It is also planned to send some of the exhibits on tour forty-nin- e photo-mura- ls prize-winn- er ler of Russia has given such an account In her latest book “A World Begin" In the days of the Czars Irina Skariatina was one of the “pampered darlings" of royalty Her grandmother bad been vtcerme of Poland her mother had been to the Czarina she herself had been leading figure In the life of the pt Petersburg of the last The revolution of of the Romanoffs 1917 with the cdhsequent rise of the Bolsheviks changed all that From a position of wealth and Infill!ence the countess was precipitated to one Then after of misery and degradation months of trouble and tumult and illness she was permitted to leave the land of her birth Russia as an exile “A World Begins” la her story from thla point From Russia the countess went to England there to join her poverty-strickeslater and from England to middle western America — of all countries! It waa In America that her “new world" began Madame Skariatina came to the United States as tutor to an American woman of wealth — a figure so extraordinary sa to be almost unbelievable and at the accurate In all same time detail The woman of wealth lived In — town called ’’Dawn" a middle western by Madame Skariatina — a city a few miles from what she labels Metropole and which undoubtedly la Chicago Tnere the countess served as tutor In French for one year The reaction of a delicately nurtured woman of the nobility to the inevitable crudity of the American midwest la easMadame Skariatina wa ily imagined She met It certainly In a new world however bravely tried to Understand R and succeeded much better than waa to be experted It la the account of her contact with these strange United States— with her queer employer who la only typical of the “new rich” her encounters with the patrons of cheap boarding houses that make the book what it is —an intereating and highly Vital human document and a biography which is not so greatly different in spirit from Sinclair Lewis’ "Main Street” Madame Skariatina Is shrewd and her comments on American life and manner are penetrating and accurate Her book can be highly recommended Its inter est will repay the reader tenfold for hi trouble It Is Indeed as line a book aa has been written of America by a foreigner for it is neither biased nor dishonest It Is sincere to the highest degree It la well written it has humor and n z ?riI ART SHOWS FORTHCOMING na r ed - Ska-riati- SCRIBNER’S Discussing the Westernizing of China that has been taking place through the flood of “new conceptions new techniques new articles of use and enjoyment new standards of life and conduct" Grover Clark writing in the month’s Scribner’s comes to this conclusion: "The basic changes which now are going on In China inevitably will materially alter her relations with the other nations China whether the West likes it or not la moving toward effective naUonal coherence and consequently toward dominance In Influthe Far East and ence In the development of world civilization It is for the West to say whether China comet into world affairs as a friendly in peaceful progress or as a distrustful enemy filled with a desire for revenge end equipped with the force to satisfy that desire" differConcerning the ences and their threat of international friction he decides: "The fundamental issue on the settlement of which in large degree will depend the road China takes la simple Will the nations bf tha world having entered into the most binding sort of pledges to settle their disputes by peaceful means and having set up the machinery for settling disputes peacefully continue to accept as a reputable member of International society any nation which under the domination of a f military group deliberately persists in violating those pledgesT The nations have outlawed war Will thsy outlaw a nation that uses war! “China nseds no help against Japan She can bring Japan to her knees by the use of the weapon of economic boycott But for its own ' ssber-rsttlln- iA PAIR OF CRIME PUZZLES MONKEY BOAT Publisher By Nicholas Trott Company The MacMillan New York With the author choosing the deck of the steamer Atalanta returning from Europe as the scene of his murder it might seem that his brilliant Dr Apple ton WiUiaton Walker professor of as well as consultant in criminology would meet no extraordinary problem in picking out tha criminal But while the criminal cannot run away tha range ol suspects is not as limited as might be presumed in fact is constantly widened until even the chattering monkeys In the hold of tha vessel seem linked with the crime The puzzle begins with the theft of the blue envelope contents unknown from James Bralnerd wealthy New York newspaper owner which the captain asks Dr Walker— more familiarly "Pebbles"— to Investigate Before Pebble can take thought Bralnerd la found dead chair— arsenic poisoning la his deck Sweet Mlllia says the ship’s doctor Wells Bralnerd’ adopted daughter was the last person with whom he drank before his death—and Miliia Inherits a large slice of his fortune But an intruder attacks the explorer Simon Wiggs In his stateroom the flute player “Caroline" otherwise Whttemore Abbott of Skillet Idaho la caught eavesdropping Elbert Wilkins the noisy bookkeeper who never (peaks la nearly drowned in his bath end Dr Winton with a slingshot Moreover Field Pebbles assistant discovers the blue envelope in Lucretla Arnold’s purse she turns the tables so deftly that Field himself la nearly arrested and afterward Arnold takes to sleeping on deck There Is a third attempt at murder and a nocturnal visitor to the “menagerie” below decks before Pebbles shrewd deductions finally uncovers the alias of the criminal which is accomplished however before the boat docks Besides constructing a quite ingenious Jigsaw puzzle Mr Trott has an entertaining style of hi own and will prove a pleasing recruit to the ranks of tha psycho- -biology mystery writers F RAISE FROM PRIESTLEY J B Priestley who has himself made excursions Into tha field of the mystery story designates Ellery Queen as one of three American mystery writers who embodies the desirable combination of an Intelligent detective tale and a novel The other two are Kay of character Strahan and Frsncea Noyes Hart Mr Queen's latest “The Greek Coffin Mystery" is an April 21 issue from Stokes THE WEDDING CHEST MYSTERY' By A Fielding Publisher H C Kinsey Sc Co Inc New York Here we have Major Hardy a famous explorer sending his friends the Boyd Armstrongs a great Chinese wedding chest as a gift The chest is to be opened at a tea in the Chinese suite of the magnificent Armstrong home Armstrong has received a mysterious call in the morning and leaves saying he will he unable to return until late in the day Yet when the chest Is opened it discloses his murdered body in place of the dwarf trees that were to be souvenirs for the guests The chest had been placed immediately upon its arrival in the Chinese suite whose one entrance had been locked Major Hardy had himself seen the trees packed In the chest How then had Armstrong’s body been substituted? Mrs Armstrong’ faint when the chest was opened seemed natural but actually the it happened beInspector discovered fore she could have seen what the chest contained What was the meaning of Armstrong's appointment to meet the private inquiry agent Schofild at the very spot where the chest stood? An old abandoned laundry garage yields a clue Miss Dickens’ golf clubs another also Mr Wong of the Chinese orchestra seems to hold a secret and it's quite likely that the Westraltan Exploration dealings have something to do with the crime But it la a little missing clock that gives the Inspector and Schofild working together tha final solu- tion Mr Fielding fits the pieces of hla plot together neatly and tne untangling of the puzzle Is not Implausible It seems that he mislead his readers rather deliberately at the beginning yet “The Wedding Chest Mvstcry" has Its points understanding JUDGE PRIEST REVIVED Irvin S Cobb broke Into four antholoshort story classics In gies of 1931 falling short of hla record of two years ago when he waa represented to nine volumes His latest book "Down Yonder With Judge Priest and Irvin S Cobb" (Long Sc Smith) revives hla most famous character the old southern judge whose popularity was nationwide 1931 COMING LECTURERS Among the European authors who ar planning to lecture to Americans this fall ara Harold Nlcolson and his wife Victoria Sackvllle-Wes- t Clemence Dane and Vicki Baum PRIZE-WINNE- The Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for 1931 was awarded to Stella Benson for “The Faraway Bride" (Harpers) She was also awarded a special Bilver medal by the English Royal Society of Literature for the same book j Russian Captures America Lv future security the world needs clear end unequivocal assurance that war tn fact has been outlawed It still la much too early to lay that the peace machinery of the world has broken down In the face of this Japanese it la vitally military challenge Important that tha organized nations of the world shall deal with the threat of Japanese militarism themselves rather than leave it to China to deal with Japan alone The effective failure of the machinery of peace to maintain peace will turn China China toward militarization inevitably will come to dominate the Orient" Garbo Gandhi Kreuger and Congress Well all 1 know la Just what 1 read In the paper Congress Just keep ua all oq the Jump all tha time waiting to see wbat they are going a OntN-to da with u minute they are not c going to have a sales Tax but they put I Tax on about a third of tha things that are sold Then they were asked to explain why It waa that they taxed a boot but dident tax a shoe or why out a tax on eapt but non on hats That is Just about aa nontenslkle as the things they fill do Thay tried to hang toot! of it onto the Auto buyer or Gas- WILL ROGERS Well they Just as well put oline buvtr it on bathing suits or chair or anything alts that folks use anything outside ot meat and bread and a Gandl Breach-cloutcan be called a luxury or a necessity whichever way you want to look at 11 Auto may be a luxury a bed may be a luxury you ran rid on e street car or you can also sleep on the ground neither one is an absolute necessity Well H Just looks like Congress took a list of everything mad and shut their eyes and V?ok a pencil and mark off some pamea ’ ‘ 1 h BY WILL ROCjERS and laid "W wtll tax everything the aero" They were afraid pencil marka to have the sales Tax for fear the voters back home wouldent tend them back this a matter Of fact the voter fail when back horns while they dident want any tax they did want on that wa equal to most respects People when you get most right down to It are fairer than so now as 1 pea you looks Individual it Mr lines few these that Congreaa will get their tax bill bended bark to era with everything changed but the title and then Congress will have to knuckle under for Juat what they had refused to do in the first place They been Investigating Wall Street but there ha been so much devilment going on there that one Committee rent dig ft ell out They wanted to publish the name of the Firms that were Implicated In the “Bear Raids" and the list was Si thousand England eom out with their Budget and it dident make any allowance for paying their debt to ua Well we com out with our Budget without paying our W cant seem to find debt to ourselva any dough to do anything with bpt England hatient any more than broke out till Senator Borah waa right on their tail He reminded cm that there had been an Oversight on somebody ‘a purl Then he waa Joined by Pat Harrison another old crony of min from away down In Mississippi Pat told England She would pay or else she wouldent build herself any more Navy Well England who waa to tickled at balancing their Budget they had plum forgot about ua but when they heard from the above two lads they went back Into "Confer-enc- " You see that the trouble you Juat cant do a nation a favor or they will want it continued although I will aay this England will pay and did quicker than any the rest ot era Franc Just hai guya laying awake at night to think up reasons for not paying Tnay glva guys percentage on every new Idea h gels for new reasons Frances main reason now is that it she paid tm aha would have to use her gold and It sha had to use her gold she wouldent ‘have as much gold But England Is a different breed of cats altogether The old Englishman la a mighty high type business man Well we will hear a lot about it anyhow for It will be starUng to com due in a few months and the campaign thla fall will be so full of debt argument that vou will think the future of the country hinged on the outcome Hollywood Is all excited they hear Greta Garbo Is gumg home she might be at boms fox aU we know nobody hm ever seen her out here In fact she may make her pictures over there and Just be lending cm over Sha la supposed to go home no wand take up this match king Job He was tha biggest man over there And ahe la the biggest woman So they figure ah could put it on Its feet Say by the way that old boy sure put on over on em dident he? Talk about ua having aom slick “Hombres" why Europe can mak a sucker out of us for "Fenagllng’’ guys This depression has brought out a lot of crooked stuff where if things had gon on and they had been able to keep covering up they would never have been known Talk about running a Ford car into a Billion dollars why Just think of running a little tiny stkk of wood with some phospherous on the end of It Into an establishment that controlled tha finances of a dozen nations Wt all Just kinder sitting around her waiting for the new Fords to be delivered that's about the only event In our lives We trade tn the old ones and go in debt for the differences We are all talking Olympic games out here We dont know what they do or how they do It but we want to see It It will Fifty five nations are coming either be a success or a war one so In It to miss coca dont want either you There la hundreds of women competing only In this ease they have to compete against Mxbfiltm and bo! Just agatoa! IRINA SKAjRlATING the men Its going to be well wot th seeing Com on out you are not doing anything anyhow If you run a store or ar In business why put youf customer In the ear and bring him too then you wont lose him Remember the date? Well I forgot when it was myself but its sometime during the hot weather (Copyright 1832 by th McNaught Cyfr BOOK POSTPONFD Whose Major Franris "The Lives of a Bengal Lancer" was a last year’s best seller has signed a contract to lecture In America next fall In the meantime revision ot his new book “Ten Bloody Years" (Viking) scheduled for April publication tins been delayed It is now set for October The "Bengal Lancer” is to be filmed log (citwze gg JLs game pm Yeats-Brow- |