| Show J t" Pioneer Saga T£?&- 4C' Far From Home ” ooo EXODUS TO GREATNESS The tSory of the Mormon rfS 4 But Massasoit Is a Symbol of Utah Art f yHO nrrt Council of fl tntjr the story of the THIS ismigration from Nauvoo to the valley of the Great Sait lake when the pioneers made camp on City creek In July 1847 While the subject la not new Preston Nibley has written it with fresh ardor for his book la a collection of the most important experiences of the pioneers while on their long journey to the Rocky mountains The author has caught the glow of human hearts and the deep and finer motives of the g men of that event The story In all Its Interesting detail from the sermons and letters of Brigham Young and the devoted men with him during the dark days when driven from Nauvoo and later when they were crossing Iowa In the rain and mud during the soring of 1846 Is given anew Their sufferings at Winter Quarters are vividly described and there Is finally a narrative of the historic journey to the Salt Lake valley Mr Nibley has brought to the reader for the first time the beauty and telling journals of the pioneers Nearfy every man kept a daily description of the sufferings and activities of the people who were carrying out the will of God in seeking new homes tn the far west The author has recovered the real thoughts and feelings of our fathers and mothers and this Is the hardest subtlest and moat educative function that any writer of history can perform The accounts which give true pictures of the country they passed through the Indians they met and the distances they traveled from day to day are Impressive to the reader life-siz- Against background of luminous color three riders mount a summit This painting by Leroy Clark Imlay is included In Z C M I exhibit The Rural Scene F INTEREST to the many fiends' of LeRoy Clark Imn exhibit lay will be his now current at Z C M I Tiffin room under auspices of Alice Merrill Horne Mr Imlay ranch owner of Grantsvllle paints the rural scenes he knows best Horses cattle sheep the range and rolling hills are his topics — and he paints with feeling and underone-ma- Outstanding is the standing number of figure and animal studies and his decided feeling is like a deluge of men rising unabatedly and driven daily onward by the hand of God" All that was buoyant and creative in American life characterized those pioneers and not a day passed without their prayers to God for their dreams to come of the European race toward the Rocky mountains has the solemnity of a providential event It HARSH U LAXATIVES? -- not for me & - For years I took laxatives that I knew weren’t good for ‘harsh laxatives that irritate impair the digestive tract and need nutrition Now I never them! I’ve found a better way — LEMON H this healthful way &yu Sunkist in Tribune Sunday wateq May 2 nt rough-and-read- un- y Quin-ne- y grammatical detective White to crack the burglary of wealthy Henry Page’s This stirs up jewel collection a cauldron of night clubs playwright actor theatrical agent lovely Gloria Bain a strip-teasa murder a will and a er divorce There probably would have been more ingredients if somebody had not told the author that dinner was ready Read — and you are propelled from chapter one to the back of a jet page with the speed(Ziff-Davrocket and like it Co New York) is 1948 SEEMS that Cyrus Dallin Springville-bor- n sculptor of whom Utah is proud visited the capitol when he was in hia seventies ' He was shocked to find himself represented by a poor cast of “The Protest” This is the figure of an Indian holding up his hand In a gesture of opposition presumably against the white men Mr Dallin considered this defective cast a poor representation of his art He had become head of the sculpture department Boston School of Fine Arts the oldest school in the nation devoted to this type of work Also the attitude of the Indian — apparently opposing the paleface andhis progress — was inappropriate for white-men’s Mr legislative halls Dallin had done some- thing far more fitting — a statue of the amiable Massasoit and no mountain too steep to climb There was no disobeying of comHuman mands no hesitancy love sympathy helpfulness — these were the dominant traits of every man The women who came with that first company were of the same spiritual life — rich In courage and faithful to their divine duties They brought the threefold leaven of enduring society — faith gentleness and home with the nurture of Mr Nibley has shown children how they exemplified the words of Joseph Conrad as found in his Story entitled "Lord Jim”: 'To us their less tired successors they appear magnified not as agents of trade but as instruments of a recorded desuntiny: pushing out Into the known in obedience to an inward voice to an impulse beating in the blood to a dream of the future” Mr Nibley has written a remarkably fine book 5M High Jinks N "My Love Wears Black” by Octavus Roy Cohen Jean a movie star and Rutledge Bruce Jnpram wanted to get married The major difficulty was Fred Wilson who was Jean’s husband Things looked bad for the young couple when they discovered the murdered Wilson in her home Things looked even worse when Bruce went back for the body and discovered a substitute corpse Before the slayer was brought to heel there were other high jinks including two more killings Octavus Roy Cohen gives this one everything he’s got which is plenty on a mystery thriller (MacMillan New York) Thrills Chills PULL the a curtains huddle and bright light prepare for thrilla and chills Here is Anthony Gilbert with "The Missing Widow” — in which Arthur Crook superior detective does some plain and fancy detecting although he himself is no gentleman and wears vulgar suits What to Emily Watson happened You’d when she left home? better find out (A S Barnes and Co New York) V l t ' ' ' jjr tC j&JjJ r§ 1 1 f-i- W S 15 -- ' ij f trijr liiijfij r uji i m "r r ? ‘c - $ -- J Coral Sands Two shots ring out in the misty Calcutta night — an Englishman liea dead in an exotic there garden You take it from alley-waand you'll find yourself in honkytonks night clubs — with Indians masks end the strange pulse of a city that never sleeps — and neither will you because this is a swiftly moving turmoil of events out of this world Richard Collier plotted it (Pellegrini and Cudahy New York) 1 (ah Stala ArrlruMoral Codes that figure had been placed orv a height overlooking Plymouth Rock in Massachusetts Like most sculptors Mr Dallin was direct and energetic He wrenched a leg from the offensive figure and used that limb to batter off an arm 'Then to replace thp mutilated brave he sent at his own expense the original plaster cast of the Massachusetts statue Thus the cast came to Utah Usually old Massasoit is ig- nored Of course people sometimes read the inscription on his pedestal: "Massasoit Great Sacherrt of the Wampanoags Protector and Preserver of the Some admire the Pilgrims” splendor of the sculpture Some are filled with mild uncritical wonderment A confidence man who had made my acquaintance and wanted me to believe him a naive retired farmer commented admiringly "My they grew ’em big them days didn’t But mostly Massasoit they?” is a forgotten man is a symbol of True we justly pride ourselves on our music and rpend relatively large sums to encourage it But when it comes to sculpture and painting and architecture most of us pay to culture out of habit but not out of real apWe preciation for its power have little feeling for what good art can do and does do to shape character and strengthen and elevate the spirit and just as little Indignation at what bad art can do— and does do — to stultify or weaken us: We re gard it as pastime or frivolity not as the result of the high striving of the human spirit to know and to express itself So the savage from the d coast of New England stands huge but ignored in the rotunda of the capitol My suggestion Is that we remove him from this utterly inappropriate place This is not the opening gun in a to send Massasoit backcampaign to Massachusetts By all means let us keep him He was wrought by LASSASOIT in Utah art lip-servi- ce isri 44 he’s far from his native New England but there's a good reason for making his home under Utah’s capitol dome Massasoit rock-boun- one of Utah’s few top-ran- Every woman's treasury of beautiful things to crochet Easy-to-follo- k sculptors and we have all too few examples of fine sculpture in the state But let us put the Sachem In some gallery or some spot where he will be comprehensible as a work of art and will not be regarded as an evidence of lack of a sense of fitness For to have this aborigine looming up into the dome of the capitol is a He is grotesque incongruity neither Democrat nor Republican neither statesman nor greeter of western pioneers He is so far from home so far from having any reason for being there! 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