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Show THE CITIZEN 9 IIIIIIIIUIIIIIUWUllHIIIUINIUHHUINIIUIUUUIIIUUHHHNUHHHHHIIINIHHUHHNHIHHUINIUIIHIIIUSUMIMSNNNSSNNNHSHNUNMMMHUINHNMMMilillllllllllllllliiiiiiiiL. AMONG THE NEW BOOK WHY! 1111 You Should Know SHORT STORIES OF 1919. Book by courtesy of D. A. Callahan. Electric Vacuum Is Better The Motor is Gyroscopical and is suspended between the bear- -' in? so it never runs hot. of all motor trouble is in the bearings, but we will give you a CLEANER FREE, if you can show a single case hs . have where a worn out on an ELITE out of about 2,000 sold. Its revolving brush gets all the UirendM and litter without destroying the nap. "NVe buy right and can sell you the Cleaner with all attachments for cleaning curtains, etc. at the same price you will pay without attachments. set of bearings Only $5.00 Down It was in 1915 that Edward J. OBrien, connoisseur of brief fiction, first essayed to tell the American ' public what they should applaud by way of short stories. Since then his critical faculties have fallen into the possession of pessimistic spirits and no longer do we find him going into ecstacies over the achievements of authors young or old. In point of fact, his introduction this year is a gloomy indictment of the short story writers of this country. And when we peruse the stories in the collection we can not blame Mr. OBrien for having the literary blues. When our civilization was young we produced such glorious geniuses as Poe and Hawthorne and now that it has grown into its golden prime we produce only pygmies. Good sooth, the introduction is the most engrossing part of the book, for it reveals to us some secrets of the profession that are piquant if not sensational. Quoting a Mr. Frank, who appears to have impelled Mr. OBrien along the paths of pessimism, we read that Jack London never gave to the public what he deemed the best that was in him. London became a best seller. He sold himself to a syndicate which paid him a fabulous price for everything he wrote. He visited half the world and produced a thousand words a day. And the burden of his output was an infantile romanticism under which he deliberately hid his own despair. Since the reality of the world he had come up through was barred to his pen, he wrote stories about he wallowed and in the details of bloody combat. If he was aware of the density of human life, of the drama of the conflict of its planes, he used his knowledge only as a measure of avoidance. He claimed to have found truth in a complete cynical dissolution. But I know better he says, than to give the truth as I have seen it, in my books. The bubbles of illusion, the pap of pretty lies are the true stuff of stories. To confirm what Mr. Frank has said Mr. OBrien, quotes from the letter of a literary giant who, we are informed, seldom finds his way into American magazines for the astonishing reason that he is too deep for them too terribly loyal to truth. This arti3t has done work which ranks with the very best that has been produced in America, says Mr. OBrien, but it very seldom finds its way Into print for the very reason Mr. Frank has mentioned. There is no compromise in it. It offers us no vicarious satisfaction of our yarn-spinnin- And $5.00 a Month DODGE BROTHERS Acrowi from Salt Lake (Ml Theatre East 1st South 'SlllllllllllllllltlllllllllllllllllllllSIlSIlltllllllllllSIISIlllilllSIIBIlSi BINGHAM GARFIELD RAILWAY . AND The Scenle Line to BINGHAM sea-wolv- star-gazer- "Where Copper la King PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULE NOW IN EFFECT Leave Salt Lake City Ill 6:55 a. m. 2:15 p. m. No. 109 Arrive Bingham 8:25 a.m. No. 109 No. No. OI Ill No. 110 No. 112 1:85 p. m. Leave Bingham 8:45 a.m. 4:00 p.m. Arrive Salt Lake City No. 110 No. 112 10:06 a.m. 6:20 p.m. H. W. STOUTENBOROUGH, s AsslJt General Passenger Agent, 1207 Deseret Bank Bldg. g . Phone Was. 140 Salt Lake City, Utah aMiiiiiieiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisiiiiiiiiiiiaiiaiiBiiaiii:iiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiii, es s; self-estee- I have only a blind, consuming pas- sion of ideas, fervently declares this th8 014 Clatk Corair "Baakiar Parfcetioa Under U. I. Inapactloa" HlMMMMM.MMMMMMMM...m.UMO...................U....m....MU.UM.U.....M...8..MM.MUmM11,f...,HnnpH,tm).)) THE BEST DODGE BROS. Nine-tent- At hidden writer. And this blind passion of ideas drove me and hounded me till I had to tear loose from everything human to follow. For two years I lived in savage isolation. I thought myself strong enough to live alone, but I was not. What writes itself in me is too intense for the light-weigAmerican magazines. My last story took me months to write and I had to ruin it by tacking on to it a happy ending or starve. Naturally when one tears away, from everything human one leads a dogs life, or worse.. It is a pathetic spectacle to see the autocrat of the light-weigmagazines clutching a genius by the throat and shrieking: Write happy endings, damn you, or Service is Our Highest Aim ht Utah State National Bank ht starve. One longs to know more of such a sad, mysterious writer. Sir Lachrymose is a menancholy knight of such high attainments that one yearns to have him named so that one may bayonet the magazine magnates with the cold steel of scorn. Our zest is sharpened to find that his stories are instinct with the very pulse of humanity. The American editor fears their reality, and so the writer really found that humanity had turned from him. Meanwhile the unpublished work of this writer, who is dying, is Americas spiritual loss. In the same way America lost Stephen Crane and Harris Merton Lyon and many another, and is losing its best writers to. Europe every day. So that is what is happening our best writers turning to Europe for sympathy and encouragement. En passant, we might remark that Mr. OBrien pens his introduction to us from the classic shades of Oxford. The obvious conclusion is that Dame Europa knows an artist when she sees See and Hear the FOLLYDOLS at the NEWHOUSE The Brightest Spot : in Town Dine, Dance and Enjoy a Clever ' Show CLEAN, WHOLESOME LIVELY ENTERTAINMENT The Follydola appear under the. direction of Mr. Grover Frankie, dinner. 6:20 to 9, and during after-theatsupper, from 10:15 to 12:30, on week nighta. During dinner, 6 to 9, on Sundays. Tea, 4 to 6, Thursday and Saturday afternoons. - re : one, whereas Miss Columbia is so preoccupied with jazz and happy endings that she cannot tell an artist from a dog-catche- r. Of the contents of the book it may be said that it quite comes up to the sad expectations which the compiler has aroused in us by his prefatory pessimism. The story that he praises most is The Fat of the Land, by Anzia Vezierska. It is the story of life among the lowly Hebrews on New Yorks east side and, although it displays a keenness of observation and a hard brilliancy of style, it is sordid and mean. Its ending is painful enough, but are we to argue that because a happy ending does not always make a good story a painful ending must make a masterpiece? This, indeed, would be a grotesque non se-quit- More than eyer before, successful business requires Banking Service of the broad, permanent character we give. ur. Perhaps we can shed a few rays of light on the decadence of American fiction. To pick the fatal flaw in most of the stories the compiler accalims we must go back to the canons of the old (Continued on Page 14.) frContocK B7ABUSHED 1875 I CoJtaNKDm CAPITAL ANB SURPLUS 90000000 |