Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 1 MODERN WRITERS o 4 By E E HOLLIS THREE ENGLISHMEN By Gilbert Frankau Publishers E P Dutton and Co Inc New York City FRANKAU has never written a finer novel a stronger or GILBERT book which convincing one than this more than and the wars two knew which a of furnishes a panorama generation a war called to be not is it However of the aftermath greatest dreary that of battle roar and clash amid the storjhough there are passagesis set Eton at lads friends of three the to It story one is not likely forget at the beginning who held far different Viewpoints toward life and were were bound wholly unlike in temperament and (nature as they strains withstood all that together by a loyalty past half In the record of their lives there is reflected the England of thisloves and their followed men three these The divergent paths century chronicle varied a form and richly their missteps accomplishments marriages stubborn that is continually absorbing The struggle in South Africa with the Boers is exciting England at the openjng and Andrew Curie whose older brother is in Africa with the troops is eager to go also Ardently he desires a military career but fears the “ogre” (his father a retired officer) hasnt money enough to keep both sons in the army The ugly Max Benton not yet 18 is interested only m science Sapping than pinning flags stinks" he says inelegantly "amuses me a jolly sight more handsome oa a war map1 Max and Andrew were agreed that the boldly nevertheless this captain of Jeremy Wainwright was “a bit of a bounder” won their admiration Jeremy the house who boasted his amorous adventures had charm and though his crped that “Money’s power Moneys fun Its the to a point that only thing worth having nowadays” leads him In afteryears never justifies his friends’ criticism theif loyalty based on Etonian tradition Mr!" Frankau’ s concern is with the mental and spiritual development of these three as well as the outward course of their lives His first interest who embodies the national ideals and perhaps is with Andrew the soldier outline in the story but either of firmest in idealistic this fighter emerges realizes his ambition to Andrew characterized is his fellows definitely crisis that closes join in the African trouble winning his spurs in the very his brother Robert’s career His first mad infatuation with the emotionally him a memory whose resurrected questing wife of an officer is to leave continues his soldiering sees service Andrew his to harass is afteryears ghost in India the scene of his first brief married romance— forgotten in the confusion and horror of those years on the European front in such blighting hours as when he is among officers of cavalry protecting that interminable back a whole nightmarish retreat from Mons of remnants that had “held army for a night” While Andrew is winning medals and orders and coming home a brigade reputation as a surgeon in line hospitals and major Max is building his — street and Jeremy having been slightly wounded on Red Cross Wimpole service — is piling up money in the city becoming an M P and getting involved in sometimes questionable “deals” As these three develop under the the pressure of events in these vital years one sees how each will meet own test of the postwar period of readjustments and changes Each after jus nature deals with the questions of love and marriage of success and honor the possibility of death The women who help to make or mar their lives are never quite as important to Mr Frankau a$ the men themselves yet they have substance and place in the pageant of the generation Mr Frankau’s picture of these stirring years is calmly studied and well worth our consideration He is not a war novelist however he does seem to are impresplace emphasis on his soldier hero and the battle scenes which sive passages though one (pacifists especially) may not accept all the authors 600-pa- A i New Impetus Given To Art Interests ge ’ 4 4 n- - views as to war causes and preparedness f "With the American Proletariat TALK UNITED STATES! By Robert Whitcomb Publishers Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Inc New York City we have an American proletarian novel told in true Americanese THIS IN vernacular the story of the American “aristocrat of labor" in his own Robert Whitcomb is a spokesman for the American working man isattemptin his and talks and what ing to set forth just how the worker thinks mind today It is An honest attempt and in a measure successful His Matt Williams tells you a thing or two as he promises and tells you straight There is a good deal one may learn from his story but there is too much of the confused thinking and talking of his kind Matt Williams born in New York City is not of the foreign element but comes of good Yankee stock His father is a skilled laborer “very mechanical” and once had a job with Thomas A Edison it is to be noted His love of liquor a cause of much disagreement with his wife he finally left the family to look after itself which was occasion for Matt to leave school— he thought education all "hooey” anyway He gets a job on the Evening World delivering papers to the news stands his partner on the “speed little wagon” a hard little Jew Sammy Feitelbaum Matt found him “a good Yankee but the when was there the enduring and begun friendship guy” a youth set's out to see America Sammy prefers to stay on and take up course in bookkeeping It is really a girl that starts Matt on his vagabondage there isn t money for them to marry with each having to help the family and Matt gets restless He picks up a buddie on the road and together they see a good deal of the United States bumming their way working at jobs on Elephant Butte dam in the oil fields the harvest the mines On the whole it is easy enough and Matt likes the adventure though sometimes luck is against him His lonely so he signs for a sea pal is killed before his eyes and in Frisco he is soon he is back “hot for the sees gets him nowhere trip' But all this Matt school bricklaying game” and gets on in Chicago going to the bricklaying Dot Polish the of and of pretty a bit thinking marrying money making Then comes the war hastening the marriage and Matt goes overseas to an experience he doesn’t jtalk about afterward Coming back to a wife and war baby is a bit frightening but assured of a job everything is “hunky secures Matt his part in the postwar “prodory” His bricklaying expertness Williams must have a house in Oak Park sperity” With wages steady the Dot fills it with items bought on the instal(the mortgage doesn’t worry) ment plan Matt rides to work in his car plays golf at the country club Dot has social aspirations A journeyman’s card in his pocket the building boom spreading assuring that dough can be picked up anywhere Matt gets an urge to travel and from New York to Frisco the Williams “do” America in the Nash Settled down again in Chicago taking on bricklaying contracts Matt man” one of the Big Shots — and “that is thinks of himself as “a self-mathe way it was when the crash came” Anyone could tell what happened to Matt then— building shut down in the Loop as all over the country and Matt is back at the bottom no money for the mortgage the instalments on the piano Dot bitter because Matt doesn’t get a job Matt hanging around the Union quarreling at home and finally Matt is back on the road But his experiences are far from as pleasantly exciting as before and Matt gathers' new ideas during his year of bumming ideas that take him back to Chicago when opportunity offers to organize a new movement within his Union If this tends toward communism apparently it reflects thespirit of the worker of Matt'Williams’ class For Matt is representative of the elements that tend toward radicalism in America Mr Whitcomb in presenting him gives one something to think about A de Love Vs a Social Concept ’ JEZEBEL’S DAUGHTER By A- - R- - Craig Publishers Doubleday and Doran Inc Garden City N Y unusual romantic theme with considerable COMBINING a very propaganda its settings shifting from Ecuadorean jungle and cities to the English countryside to Soviet Russia again to England and back to the Caucasus “Jezebel’s Daughter” is a novel that continuously grips the interest and yet fails to be altogether satisfying It is written with sin cerity and is full of ideas but the author has not succeeded inbringing her two themes into unity And the woman whose influence is so potent in the book rerqains symbol only rather than a living person making Richard Lowth’s obsession difficult to understand Richard son of an English manufacturer of galoshes has no respect for s4 f Jacket i ARTISTS’ COLONY ACTIVITIES IN UTAH From Boer War Days Down Through the World Struggle and Its Aflermath Gilbert Frankau Records the History of Three Lives in This Fine Novel e v S Summer Salon Opens With Many Exhibitors ‘Pageant of a Generation’ V 1935 Art and Literature IN THE FIELD OF w 7 Design by Jay (or "Jezebel’s Daughter" Mural of Indian Theme Vi by Minerva K A i Teichert k s S Visitors In Salt Lake City during the summer who would make acquaintance with the art of Utah will find excellent opportunity in the large collection that makes up the Summer Salon under way at 21 West South Temple street under the supervision of Mrs Alice Merrill Horne Fifteen or more Utah artists are represented and also the Wyoming muralist Minerva K Teichert and an Idahoan Nellie Kilgore Klinge Two large murals of Indian theme which are new accomplishments by Mrs Teichert with several of her earlier conceptions of historic subjects fill almost an entire wall making a striking part Of the show The Indian subjects portray the tribal arts of weaving and basketry one showing a family scene where mother and daughter are at work at the loom another slim young woman engaged at the sifting of meal and the warrior father half glimpsed in the background A young lad with his bow completes the group and the details of the picture are realistically depicted n Refreshing in tone the blanket and pottery jars giving vivid colorfulness the picture is extremely Its companion mural interesting is in progress where basket-makin- g is even more brilliant in its color harmonies A charming portrait of a young girl represents Myra Sawyer a Utah artist who has not exhibited for many years Several other portrait studies are shown Lee Greene Richards’ painting of Mbs Horne being marked and Florence Ware’s agreeable conception of "Alice in Wonderland" Among the landscapists B F Larsen takes prominent place with his study of Utah trees and J T Harwood with several European scenes of the Mediterranean Paris churches and the rivers tf France with their old bridges Frank Kent has a fine dreamy landscape touched by autumn’s fingers and John Stansfield and Henri Moser each are seen in characteristic half-wove- moun-tainscap- es Klinge has two very pleasing canvases E J Bird’s glowing Mill creek impressions Rose Howard Salisbury’s delightful water colors a Verla Birrell study of trees along the river bank flower pieces by Bessie Alice Bancroft with other things by Mary Teasdel Waldo Midgley Caroline Van Evera and the lata O D Campbell complete the current display Mrs Writers of Rocky Mountain West V M vVv ys Browning Letters Recently Found to Be Published Soon NEW YORK— Twenty-tw- o unpubletters by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning the discovery of which was announced a few weeks ago have been bought for publication by the Woman's Home The price ie said to be Companion the largest ever paid for a series of magazine articles of this character The letters came to light in London presumably from a relative of Mrs Browning whose name was not reTen of the letters are from vealed Robert Browning all of them signed and 12 are 'from Elizabeth Barrett Browning all signed except one All of them were written to Mrs Browning's sisters Henrietta and Arabel They deal with intimate details in the early married life of the Brownings The collection includes the first letter written by Mrs Browning to her sisters after her marriage the first letter written by Robert Browning to them and the first denial by Mrs Browning that her marriage was an Popular interest in these elopement letters have been greatly increased by the popularity of the drama and film on "The Barretts of Wimpole Street” The first latter written October 2 1848 at the little town of Roanne between Moullns and Lyons to her sisters after Mrs Browning bad received the first packet of letters frotn home lished m In “Our Western Poets” a little brochure of verse just published by America Singing a yearly publication edited by Loring Eugene Williams Cleveland Ohio another group of Utah is to be found Mrs Chegwid-de- n is again among them the others rs shows that shs expected to be hurt by her father's letters but that the letter of her brother George the only one of her six brothers whose letter had reached her at Orleans was unexpectedly severe Mrs Browning wrote: "I thank and bless you my dearest Henrietta and Arabel what I suffered in reaching Orleans at last holding all these letters in my hands can only be measured by my deep gratitude to you and by the tears and kisses I spent on every line of what you wrote to me—Robert came in and found me just able to cry from the balm of your tender words” Writing of how greatly she was loved by her husband Mrs Browning says in the same letter: “He puts out all his great faculties to give me pleasure And he loves me and comfort more and more Today we have been together a fortnight and he said to me with a deep serious tenderness ‘I kissed your feet my Ba before I married you but now I would kiss the ground under your feet I love you with a so much greater love'" Some of the letters describe vividly the years the Brownings spent in Italy the places they visited the pblitlcal upheavals through which Italy passed and all the “little nullities which pass for events in our life” as Robert Browning wrote in one of them Filling Your ‘New Leisure’ THE ARTS OF LEISURE By Marjorie Barstow Greenbie Publisher Whittlesey ouse New York City Speaking of this Increased leisure of which one hears so much talk these days one of the very first of our spare time avocations and recreational delights should be the reading of this altogether engaging treatise by Marjorie Barstow Greenbie Every page it of It is not only enjoyable reading is also rewarding rich with knowledge leading us toward a fuller more gracious living The new economics may afford us added hours of leisure— so ws are led to believe— but shall we know any more happiness? That is Mrs Green-biepoint Do we know how to use this leisure or shall we In this paradise of shortened hours of labor be as uncomfortable “as if we had found with harpy ourselves in heaven in our hands and nothing to dq but ’s Five of Utah's writers who are contributors to The Tribune are represented in the collection of fugitive verse which makes up the Davis' Anthology of Newspaper Verse for 1934 which is the sixteenth annual edition of this work Those Utahns whose published verse has been selected are: Maud Chegwid-de- n of Salt Lake City Edith Cherring-to- n Pasadena Cal who is now in Marysvale Utah Elizabeth Burning-haBountiful Helen C Coucher Tooele and Otjando Rigoni Eureka verse-make- Vv X (' Lu-cibeing Alice Bates Herron Tooele Iredale and Claire Sewart Boyer Salt Lake City Varah Armstrong Logan Eleanor Schow Mantua Iris Schow also a Utah writer makes her appearance in the June issue of Kaleidograph national magazine of poetry with a brief poem "Wisdom to Naught" disproving an ancient axiom: le “Waste not want not" Thus the sages cry But I who never waste a cent Want much that gold could buy “Waste not want not" So the sages say But I who never waste an hour Want desperately to play the way the business is run bis socialistic ideas are an embarrassment to his father Out in the Ecuadorean tropics to study rubber he meets Cornelia Curtois a big tawny woman much his senior and whose life is a scandal but to whose peculiar charm he succumbs at once Cornelia is a sculptress and while men are necessary to her emotionally and always she has a lover in train she can forget them completely in the feel of damp clay In Richard she senses something of her own wild spirit and recklessness and almost prevented they became 'lovers — only Cornelia’s violent death hadn’t wanted to possess Afterward very soon afterward Richard who Cornelia only feeling she could give him something he needed being “too big for the ordinary conceptions qf virtue or vice" turns to Sarah4 her daughter— Sarah whose strict English morality had been revolted by her mother promiscuousness but who had not been able to resist her charm any more than the many men and who had h’Sted the constant flitting from place to place her mother’s restlessness demanded The man believes that in Cornelias daughter1 he will find what he had been promised in Cornelia and incredibly Sarah knowing that he hdff been in love with her mother gives him her love with a fullness of which Cornelia would have been incapable The Lowths go to Russia on their honeymoon and Richard’s socialistic tendencies are set aflame by the ardor of the young Communists whom he meets-a- n enthusiasm Sarah cannot share — and he tries to transplant their ideas to England attempting on his return to establish a garage along communal lines The enterprise fails and the discouraged Richard eagerly grasps at opportunity to return to Russia on an engineering job Parallel with Richard’s absorption in his job and with the Communistic social concept is the problem inherent in the relationship of the Lowths Richard still obsessed with his thought of Cornelia and Sarah feeling that she constantly fails him because she is so unlike her mother yet loving him so greatly it is possible for her to accept that unfaithfulness that finally frees him from his obsession and apparently is to remove the barrier between them But if the romantic difficulty seems to be removed the question of Richard’s revolt against English social traditions is left unsettled with the weakness of the Soviet idea of progress dimly recognized in the man’s mind Coming after the tremendous success of the author's first novel “When Adam Wept” the book is rather disappointing play tunes for the everlasting amusement of God” If this leisure is not to add to our happiness of what value is it? Happiness is such a personal thing coming only from within the "doctors of leisure”— valuable as their diagnoses are— cannot accurately prescribe for it All the equipment now talked about for employment of leisure time— community recreation swimming pools etc — are good things but the essential thing Mrs Greenbie says is to own one's self and to be able to explore one's possibilities of sensation feeling thought creative action and not be controlled by mass Interests—neither family community or society not like Babbitt be “just a collection of things and gestures that have been put over on him by salesmen and national advertising service clubs and fraternal lodges his church his bank And his j political party” As to using one's leisure to collect stamps develop hobbles join community recreation Mrs Greenbie cries: “Is this all there is to life— this bouncing up and down on hobby horses? How melancholy a thing is time if all ws can do with it is to kill it” Yet discussing the “arts of leisure" which she suggests we should cultivate Mrs Greenbie advocates first that which to most Americans appears as the most disgraceful way of killing time — the noble art of loafing This talent is a natural one and in many has amounted to genius— consider Socrates she says or W H Hudson or Walt Whitman who could loaf and invite his soul in all circumstances These knew the joy of listening “to the silence” of seeibg “into the life of things" Showing us how cultivation of the special art of observation can be the source of joy the satisfaction in the “preposterous art” of Indulging in care the beauty brought into life through serene meditation Mrs Greenbie writes very persuasively But she would not have us find know- our joys only in solitude ing that “good society is the flower of leisure" she points out the need to practice the difficult art of being sociable the fine art of manners to iearn that old art of conversation which seems to have vanished since the day of the salons There are Other kindly gracious delicate arts that expanding leisure should see revived things that add grace and richness to living that the hurry and rush of modern life have almost destroyed and whose inestimable values Mrs Greenbie reestablishes in this lovely book that gives us the formula for fashioning the good life the chief art of all The book is written from a fresh viewpoint and with charming humor -personal “Wish and Wisdom: Episodes in the Vagaries of Belief” is an important recent book (fora Appleton-Centur- y Joseph Jastrow widely known for his contributions to the academic development of psychology writes of the wondrous phenomena which have actually been believed by man aberrations in human credulity from the early ages 'Definite plans looking toward a broadening of the art movement in the state consolidating a'i the fine arts interests into one strong group were set In motion last Sunday during the meeting of artists held at the Utah State Agricultural - coilegd Logan where a number of the profeeslonal artists and people were guests of the college This movement for the coordination of effort by the fine arte groups was presented by Stanley N Child president and Gall Martin secretary of the Utah Art Institute Explaining the purposes and objectives of the institute Mr Child pointed out certain weaknesses in the structure of the organization and its failure because of an indifferent public tc accomplish the alms for which It was formed and proposed plans for stimulation of lagging public interest and the combining of the efforts of various groups for the advancement of all arts Statistics quoted by Mr Maftln as to funds spent annually Yor certain luxuries and amusements indicate conclusively there is wealth to spend for cultural things if oesire can be awakened ih the community “The art should be made a fundamental thing in community life" Mr Martin said “and ways should be devised whereby the young people of the community may utilize the creative talents that have been developed during their school life Nourishment for the cultural Instincts is as much a necessity for community progress as development of Industrie and commercial institutions to supply physical needs” Ralph Stackpole noted sculptor who ie guest instructor at the college and Miss Mabel Frazer of the University of Utah art department offered concrete suggestion for the utilization of art talent in the tresco decoration of walls of public buildings religious and educational Institutions in the- - state Decision was made by the group that such opportunity for discussion could be continued advantageously and a committee was named to work In conjunction with the board of the Utah Art Institute in promoting plans Calvin Fletcher head of the U S A C art department was made chairman and as his assistants Miss Frazer and Cornelius Salisbury head of the art department of the West high school were named Idealism Mingled With Melodrama WHATSOEVER? By Daniel Soot Publisher The Southwest Press Dallas Texas Her is a book that defies one to classify it as the utter melodrama which it is in so large-par- t It presents all of the stock characters of melodrama and its events for so great a part are such as are the property of our thrillers staged In a city’s underworld rather than In a quiet Texas farm community' With ull this astonishing maze of incidents involving a gang of dope smugglers and kidnapers there Is intermingled a vein of optimism and homely philos-ops- y a cheerful humor and tinge Of polly-anna-l- sh sentiment to make a quite unexpected mixture Besides there is Aunt Em shrewd and kindly and energetic— a trifle reminiscent of “Ma” Pettinglll but yet herself— a childless widow who mothers her neighbors who relates the story of her amazing adventures and the tangled affairs of her friends with a gusto that succeeds almost In convincing us of their credibility Aunt Em is a person delightfully human her faith so real that on is almost inclined to believe all shs tells us She taught that “whatsoever y shall ask In prayer believing ye ehall receive”— but ehe did not elt down and wait for the answer however she went into action herself She met emergencies with the weapons at hand as well aswith prayer In spite of its melodrama Its use of time-wor- n material its outmoded idealism the author Injects into his story a freshness of spirit an understanding of human frailties and human needs that make the book worth reading General Utah Show Next at Art Barn For the summer months the Art Barn gallery will ba occupied by a group of Utah’s own artists many of the leading njames in the art colony being represented The canvases were hung during Ithe week replacing the Olaf Mollerf exhibit that has been pleasing patrons for the past two weeks Paintings In water colors and oils sculpture and pottery will be included in the new exhibit Lee Greene Richards J T Harwood Edwin Evans Ranch 8 Kimball Gordon Cope Joseph A F Everett Frank Kent John Evans La Von Vincent Millard F Malln are among the ex' hibitors The Bookaneer Saw Read Pioneer Stories and Get the Pioneer Spirit v-- - |