Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 8 1838 Art an d Lite rat ure COMMENT ON THE BOOKS OF TODAY NEWS OF ART WORLD AND UTAH ARTISTS Additional Notes of Interest in Art Exhibition at Capitol Midwest Assembly And Other Voices KANSAS POETS Foreword by May Williams Ward Publisher Henry Harrison New York City This anthology of Kansas verse-wr- it ers is no more selective than the previous state collections that have come from this publisher ' Mr Harrison’s purpose is to present a cross-sectiof what is lieing produced by Kansans to rather than choose only the best as previous Kansas anthologists have done notably in "Sunflowers” (1914) and the "Contemporary Kansas Poets" (1927) the latter edited by Helen Rhoda Hoopes Of the 63 writers represented in this volume) very few perhaps are well known outside their state although a long list of “acknowledgments” given indicate that many of them have ap peared in the poetry magazines Searching through the pages one finds not much ejcpressivq of the breadth and freedom of spirit the racy individualism that Kansas’ broad plains and “wide tall sky" well might foster There is technical understanding and occasionally the eye is caught by a freshly turned phrase that impresses Here and there is a writer with some- on of the Life and Work of Sarah Carmichael One of tire State’s First Literary Producers By MARY M ROOT part of essay on "Sarah Carmichael: Pioneer Utah Genius”) There must have been nothing petty or mean in a personality that could lympatRIze With and love nature and man aq Sarah Carmichael could Evidently she had risen to that eminence of and true vision that she could feel only regret for that which In man is degrading Her poem "Sorrow" conveys this Impression: (Second “There are many tones of sorrow But its saddest voice to me Is the mocking laugh that triumphs Innother’s agony: I could weep for those ivho suffer But the souls that woe can please— Whose joy is wrung from others’ pain — I pity pity these There are many tones of sorrow Poured upon the chords of life— Murmurs of its ceaseless changing Murmurs of its restless strife But to life till pity's pleading Changes to a mocking hisS— Till feeling withers to a sneer— Oh! Father spare me this” Miss Carmichael had a superb originality Everything she touched she could turn to magic The commonthrough place becomes transformed her genius into a delightful romance us a rapturous surprise To giving her for example thd mines that were being developed in the west were far from prosaic or insignificant She refers to them in several of her poems Mines”— dealing directly one— "The with them One of her greatest achievements however is "The Stolen Sunbeam” This poem Is a mythical highly imaginative explanation of the sinister power of gold It tells how Satan the Evil One chagrined that the sun was attracting the world to God rather than to him who operated tn darkness snatches a sunbeam and buries it withHer description of the in the earth get is stupendous: “He stood on the height when the sun went down— He tore one plume from the day’s bright crown The proud orb stooped till he touched the brow And the marks of that touch are on it now And the flash of its anger forever more Burns red when it passes the west- ern door! broken feather above him whirled In flames of torture around him curled In broken masses of quivering light Oh! More terrible was the shock When the burning splinters struck wave and rock The green earth shuddered and shrank and paled The waves sprang up and the mountains quailed! Look on the hills— let the scars they bear Measure the pain of that hour’s deThe A spair” solidifying finality with the last lines: is Impressed The powerful "Night After Battle” yields an even more vivid emotional experience It is a description written in first person of a wounded soldier’s sensations and reactions after a Civil war battle when he lies “there with the dead” and the dying "while the d earth reeled dizzily over the sun" She speaks in this poem of "sullen moments” that "crept away with a noiseless ghostly tread” She speaks of listening In the silence to the “low drip drip of a heart that was and she anticipates weeping near” "relativity” In the lines: black-browe- "I hath Such poems as “Moonrlse on the Wasatch" teem with beautiful metaphors and similes In this the twilight stars are compared to "baby eyes" and as the darkness increases skies are described as “bowing with their wealth of light” The reverence which the beauty of the scene instilled in her she expressed in these lines:' held her breath and waited there An awed enthusiast at the shrine of prayer Like a pale devotee whose reverent "And nature lips Stifle the breath that bums her fin- gertips” SWELLING REDUCED Short Breathing relieved when by unnatural collection of waabdomen feet and legs and pressor above ankles leaves a gent Trial parkage FREE And earned ter in When C OLEUM Ppt MEDICINE S73 COMPANY Atlanta Ga &:? A2& V the strong deep pulse of Time quietly steadily throbs Though its breath is shortened to laughter’s trills or drawn to the length of sobs Yet oh! the fathomless grief that surged between two shores of $ If i know-th- at After a very successful opening program and a dinner meeting at which the enthusiastic interest promises definite developments toward a wider usage of the state's artistic talent the Utah Art Institute’s exhibition In the capitol corridors enters on Its second week with a series of lec- tures to be given in conjunction with the show Sunday at 2 p m a talk on “Crafts— the Story of Cooperation" will be given by Mrs A L Beeley followed by a lecture at 4 p m by Professor Calvin light a century's pain compressed and coiled up into a Seemed like Not only did Miss Carmichael dls- -' play a unique imagination tn foer treatment of old subjects and in finding new points of view but she also reflected it in her choice of novel situations For example she took the old Biblical story of Esau and Jacob and Instead of taking up the conventional viewpoint presented Esau’s side of the question in her fascinating "Esau's Petition’’ "The Hebrew Mother”— the reaction of a mother who is sacrificing her child — Is equally original and is more aramatic "The Guerilla’s Wife" is a surprisingly unusual narrative "Sixty-fou- r is an acand Stv-five- ” count of the New Year's appeal to ' Old Year for a blessing: "Amputated” a soldier’s farewell to his right arm and "Lacheon’8 Lament” extraordinary In its sympathy for the redman in pioneer age when the general attitude was "the only good Indian is a dead one" The tatter poem is the dirge of a chieftain over the loss of his stolen daughter mourning that she "lives but comes not again" Great poetry we observe is often born out of conflicts mental turmoil problems of maladjustment Whether it is the genius capable of producing the poetry that finds itself out of harmony with its environment or whether It is an unhappy situation that impels genius to production is a question Probably the two factors fuse to form a magic coalescence Such a process is clearly distinguishable in the life of Sarah Elizabeth Carmichael Williamson Her tragedy we have already mentioned Much could be made of it by a high class novelist She herself recognized it to some extent Heyburn Art Show Opening to Public Sunday will be opening day of the two weeks’ showing of Hcyburn's fourth annual art exhibit announces Superintendent J M Whiting The exhibit is open to the public every after- noon from 2 to 5 p m and every evening from 7 to 9 p m On Tuesday Albion State Normal will inaugurate the five evening entertainments with a program of varied talent Including music dancing and dramatics The Heyburn women’s clubs will be hostess to club women of the district on Thursday evening while teachers of Minidoka and Cassia counties are invited to be special guests Friday evening when John Condie state superintendent of public instruction is scheduled to speak Mrs John Hayes of Twin Falls president of the Idaho Congress of Parent-Teach' associations will be the speaker Tuesday evening March 17 The Orpheon quartet a Northwest Assembly lyceum number will close the evening programs with an hour’s entertainment on March- 20 when people oK the Heyburn community are especially invited Mr Whiting reports that the exhibit will surpass those of former years In quality 1 I ‘ light presaging the " This picture revealing Mr Evans’ characteristic vigor and impressing with Its feeling of space arrived too late for cataloging Professor Fletcher a foremost representative of the modern school contributes three arresting examples of his method the “Corner In North Logan” Intriguing in Its arrangement and subdued color harmony His "Cat on the Flat Roof1 is a composition whose rhythmic sweep claims study H Reuben Reynolds Is another modernist who engages the Interest his boat study “The Evalu” though it has been shown before a worthy member of the exhibit Three noteworthy landscapes attest Gordon Cope’s power to evoke atmosphere and to record the essential qualities of the scene One woulji find difficulty in choosing among the three but the version of "City Creek’’ in ' winter reproduced is new to us H Wells Culmer son of one of Utah's earliest painters who has not often been a contributor to these annual exhibits furnishes an impression of the "Grand Canyon” that captures much of Its changeful color and its awesome mystery w Among the group of etchings drawings and sketches the "Central Park at Sunrise” with its misty atmosphere and fascinating reflections and the "Surf” by Donna Day are most agreeable items Miss Day Is now a student at the New York Art Students’ League but has contributed before to these shows The block prints of Eugenia Smith Upwton homely subjects treated with becoming simplicity claim inpeculiar pallid storm well-plann- night” "That severed light In the earth grew cold And the diction of mortals called it "Gold" AV well-pattern- Fletcher of the Utah Agricultural college his subject "The Influence of Business on Art Education” A third lec- - '0 ture is to be offered at 8 p m Miss Mabel Frazer being the speaker and discussing “The Function of Art In Modern Life” Much interest among visitor to the show has been centered in the large architectural exhibit and the display of landscape architectural designs" which are a novelty in these Institute shows Architects of Provo Ogden and Salt Lake City have contributed One of the unusual features of the display also introducing to the public a number of new artists in this particular field is to be found in the fine collection of photographic art Here is to be seen not only some exceptionally artistic landscape Impressions of cloud effects the capitol rotunda but there are several very interesting figure studies and portraits "The Old Doctor” and "The Connoisseur” by Frank Roshnell being especially good examples Among the 'oil paintings a salient canvas is Edwin Evans' impression of "Approaching Storm” showing a wide vista of the valley and the mountain range a somber blue under the heavy cloud mass gathering its force as if about to break in wrath upon the earth The foreground harvest field’s contrastfhg yellow has dulled in the terest There are several things of moment by leading artists that give Importance to this exhibit and also numerous gratifying exhibits by our younger people denoting advancement of their capabilities Too Late to Tie Dead Man’s Hands? testant enough at least to reconcile to their children’s existence the If they will pardon me the terms weak-witte- d and shameless parents who cared so little for them that they could assume 'responsibility for them under these (Continued from Preceding Page) It among his vsduable animals or permit anything like It Apart frem the tragedies that are well commenced in the beginnings of these forlorn little lives some 60 In all tragedies that will trickle on down through ajl Toronto’s history for all time to come there is the Immediate tragedy of those who fail to win Only one family and it looks now as if it might be the aforementioned family of the 17 living dead and expected children will be enriched For the others the former difficult conditions of their lives will continue the crowding the insufficient relief the slums and the privations— WITH the added complication of these poor little sons and daughters who must eat must be clothed and educated somehow and who didn’t come along fast enough to win the prize Now there are sensible men and women in Toronto and there are laws Why don’t these good people get to- gether to break that Millar will? Why don’t they study its other conditions and come to the inevitable conclusion that the man was not responsible for what he' did? And then why don’t they divide that money giving a greater share perhaps to the family that in squalor misery struggle sickness death ip calculation hAS deliberately produced the largest number of these precious little helpless creatures and giving every other con cold-blood- -- ‘ conditions? There is money enough to make all these families comfortable Why let bachelor this sardonic and have the last laugh? Wills have been broken before Honest and Intelligent Judges are capable of passing upon this least sane of all crazy testaments and closing this small dark chapter of Canada's honorable history In a fashion that will help to wipe Its Injustices from the public mind make life much easier for several 'broken and exhausted women and defeat the facetious Mr Millar in his dishonored grave Won’t somebody before next October study the Millar will from the standpoint of his capacity fob any responsible legal action at all? This will is quoted as containing other preposterous clauses such as bequeathing race track stock to a church and brewery properties to prohibitionists But these whims might be accepted with only a little surprise that any man could choose to make himself undignified In the eyes- of posterity Most of us hold dignity dear especially in dying Dignity is one of those things that make those last moments serene “my affairs are in order those who love me and who corns after me will havs no quarrel - Art Barn Offering Attractive Show Several matters will reward the visitor to the current exhibition at the Art Barn in which Miss Judy Lund state director presents some of the work done under the federal art project together with the paintings of other artists Edwin Evans is seen here with two of his charming foreign themes in water colors and a dominating canvas Is his oil "Deer Creek" showing an unusual rock structure The “Mann-lein- ” a small picture by Lee Greene Richards is a portrayal of a boy intent on the study of the forest mushrooms that has much charm and J T Harwood’s Interpretations of winter mountains lend pools' and snow-cla- d a feeling of enchantment The "Ebb Tide" by Cornelius Salisbury employs sea and rock and clouds in a very Interesting pattern a picture of soft tones and quiet soothing feeling The large landscape by Elzy Bird In which children in a cabbage patch give a note of human Interest is one of his most personal Interpretations and has a warm intimate quality His decorative Illustration for a fairy tale will also claim notice Howell Rosenbaum has done some rather bold modernistic bits In water colors employing something of an oil technique to gain strength Joseph A F Everett’s sensitive winterscapesof studies Henry Rasmussen’s small old houses and cabins William Parkinson's Interesting records of “The Old Sabine Home— 1862" and other Brooks’ small pioneer homes Maurice' exhibit which statuettes make up the Is to remain for an indefinite period thing new to say there are several sonneteers who work with skill and Nora B Cunningham is a lyricist who Interests with such incisive lines as in "Hermitage" beginning: Here is all my heart can ask Bright water and brown earth And while I have quietness I do not need mirth By MARY SWENSON I HAVE BEEN A PILGRIM By Jam! Sexton Holme Publisher Henry Harrison New York This is Mrs Holme’s third published volume of poetry She shows herself a very able technician in verse Her poems are neat — facile She manages the sonnet form welL Many of her poems are concerned with personal love themes — too many Her rhyme carries her when lack of depth and perception would let her down She Is at her best In the delicate lyric "Chrystal Spell” reading in part: I hear your voice like sounds heard under water I hear your voice but what Is It that you say? Like sounds through fathom on fathom of pale green water Like sounds through a fountain’s rainbow showers of spray Like sounds through a waterfall’s hollow silvery thunder Dim and muffled and drowned ‘X hear its sound A new novel by Patrick Carleton is to come from Dutton in April the title being “Saturday to Monday” which concerns the happenings of a dramatic d in the lives of a museum curator and a young bank clerk week-en- Grieving Girl By ELINOR LENNEN should the wind moan like a grieving girl Bewailing her distress at every door! Even the tree leaves fret their sympathy And grass is prostrate In Its mute regret Who wronged the wind? Who broke 1 her fickle heart Turned this way first then that But moaning night and day T Uncompanled untamed uncomforted with the disposition of what I havs left” the dying think in content And the dignity of ths family is holy too If we are to build family life into Its - Important place in the national scheme It must be on the supposition that children are welcome that men and women can find means right and acceptable to limit their numbers If that Is their wish that our most precious assets our living loving sensitive boys and girls cannot be produced like beef cattle at the fantastic fancy of a man who while living never made himself personally responsible for the happiness of any woman or any son or daughter Copyright 1936 Bell Syndicate I Inc) Relieve That Congestion and Clear Your lead Let "BEN-GA- Y" At the first sign of congestion rub “Ben-Gayon your chest You’ll feel almost immediate relief and at the ” same time sharp pungent fumes will clear your head as though by magic Its medication penetrates the skin and relieves the local congestion Relief is thorough and speedy Don’t let colds get you down— is at your druggist’s Baume “Ben-Gay- ” ” “Ben-Gay’s- RUB PAIN BAUME The only WITH AWAY "BEN-GAY- ” true Baume Anelghslque |