Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MARCH Art and Literature IN THE FIELD OF MODERN WRITERS J It Happens in England Hopelessness Underlies Storm Jameson's Novel Dealing With Fascism As It Might Dominate England By EE HOLLIS IN THE SECOND YEAR By Storm Jameson Publisher The MacMillan Company New York City of a Fascist regime in England is the meaning of Storm SECOND year title "It can happen” theie Miss Jameson seems to believe and she pictures with vividness what life in the tight little island may be like when it does happen She sets the period indefinitely “in the future” but not very far somewhere in the "forties” Her task has been similar to that Sinclair Lewis assumed with respect to possibilities in America bu whereas Mr Lewis wak not without optimism Miss Jameson is despairing If Fascism gains control in England hope is lost It was the depression that began in 1937— more than anything that had gone before— which brought on the revolution that raised to power Frank Hillier Fascist leader The Labor party just returned to power in 1937 had promised everything to an alarmed country but had been able to do nothing Fear of war spread country-wid- e strike rioting started and a threatened But the revolution had been without bloodshed general ostensibly — a few communists shot labor leaders beaten thinking liberals and socialists who found themselves in opposition to the new National State party filling the “training camps” were hardly regarded and these matters didn’t get into the news often Of course stories of intolerable conditions of floggings and deaths were told in the foreign press but were discredited An English professor in Oslo University Norway whose crippled arm would have prevented his entry into the struggle even if his distaste of war and his liberal tendencies had not is the narrator of events He had come home to visit his sister to see at firsthand what is happening to England Andrew Hillier distantly related to the Fascist dictator also brother-in-laof General Richard Sacker commandant of the 1600000 National Volunteers — in the guise of Fascist clubs trained by him for just such a moment — whose success in handling the riots supported by the police and Air Force had been chief factor in putting the leadership of the State into Frank hands— at least that is Richard’s belief And Richard Hillier’s best friend for many years has no jealousy of him he is a fighting man not a His Volunteers are his pride and they are ready to follow him politician blindly Now Prime Minister Hillier urged by the swinish Hebden Minister for Air and the bankers’ interests plans to reduce the ranks of the Volunteers having fulfilled their purpose they are to be pushed aside—doubtless Richard too having passed his usefulness to the dictator A leader “needs violent and tinscrupulous men when he is struggling Afterward they embarrass him” If they won’t be ignored they must be silenced There is no actual treason in the "gambler’s throw” Richard attempts to save his position he feels that the Volunteers are needed by the Prime Minister— “If you’d made up your mind to cut our throat and I tried to take the knife from you is that treason?” he asks Hillier as he is arrested But Richard’s steadfast loyalty is not to count It is necessary to the dictator to rid himself of Richard and the expense of the Volunteers and the general faces a firing squad His wife becomes a suicide and Andrew who has been dragged into the scheme through his interest in discovering where any hope lies for England is forced into exile As he makes his way back to Norway his spirit is hopelessly wounded his liberal ideas confused w Hil-lier- ’s he has lost both his worlds the old England he had loved is gone the new he cannot trust even the safety to which he goes holds no comfort Through Andrew’s mind Miss Jameson presents her characters some-- ! times with ironic touch and often with penetration as with Richard and Hillier — the personal motives loyalties and hatred behind events well transcribed — though some of the minor yet significant figures are hardly as credible The best European dictatorships have of course been drawn upon for Miss Jameson’s version of England “In the Second Year” and one may not be convinced of her prophetic insight but as a novel “In the Second Year” has dramatic force while it is keyed to a despairing note there is a hint that the author holds with hdr philosopher Tower: “I don’t believe the Dark Ages are returning I believe in the English” And “the successor to the old 1 advise young spiritual empire is the new one of international socialism men not to put their trust in earthly leaders but to cling to the one true faith That is the eternal infallible debt of man to man” Ordinary Folk of Maine OLD MAN GREENLAW By Kenneth and Rinehart New York City Payson Kempton Publishers Farrer with no little skill and understanding a group of the village on the Maine coast Kenneth Payson Kempton’s first novel Is an entertaining comedy drama not profound in its psychologic probing nor 'with any intent to be Yet it is clear that Mr Kempton really knows his simple Maine natives their habits and speech and thought appreciating their honest virtues as well as their coarse faults and failings In telling their story he has aptly couched it in their own simplicity of language the salty Maine idioms and village colloquialisms flavoring all the talk Mahlon Greenlaw who liked having a secret from the community but hardly knew what to do with it is of course the center of the story the while through his mind one 'learns about its numerous other characters as varied as the Maine coast affords—such as Albert Tyson whose sawmill was across the road from Mahlon’s garage but who insists on keeping planks piled on a jut on the other side so that cars cannot get up on the right side of Mahlon’s gas pump and Zirty Read helping his friend Mahlon to build a lobster boat and then trying for a year to figure out whether it will outrun his own It did and Ziny couldn’t get over the shock More important there Is Juny whose johnnycake suits Mahlon and who had stood Mahlon's tossing and turning for thirty years— Mahlon is hurt that now she decides to have twin beds Too there is Bern the mysterious whom Mahlon found hiding the night the poorhouse burned down and sheltered for a week in Vance Lyman’s boat in his garage because Bern was afraid The secret was wearing —Mahlon couldn’t seem to persuade Juny she needed to take it easier and have a girl to help her Then young Albro discovered Bern — just as Juny’s illness intervened —and fell m love with her So Mahlon takes on an assistant in the garage That turned out well— Albro was a good boy only inclined to drink too much— but After Juny died the pastor thought soon he finds his family enlarged Mahlon ought to marry again since Bern stayed on It seemed a good idea and Mahlon got the new teeth he’d been promising Juny to get for several years — but Bern married Albro instead Which brings other complications and there comes a time when old Mahlon saw that he had to kill a man only he put it off too long Old Man Greenlaw is definitely a personality with his racy humor his shrewdness and tolerant taking the world easily He enjoys gathering with the group on the grocery store stoop where the bottle of “Tiger Lily” passes around with the talk of town affairs interspersed with smuttiness and coarse wit These are ordinary people human and natural' and Kempton deals with them simply and naturally without providing them with Freudian complexes and his book makes agreeable reading PORTRAYING Sixty-year-o- ld good-natu- re Romance of ‘Foreigners’ in Peking THE MAKER OF HEAVENLY TROUSERS By Daniele Vare Publishers Doubleday Doran & Co Inc Garden City N Y Vare an Italian diplomat and author was a representative SIGNOR Daniele In country Peking during a number of years in which he gained an intimate knowledge of Chinese life studying the country’s history and folk-lor- e its ancestor worship traditions the local legends and customs the superstitious beliefs that still hold the people in thrall His stories of Peking have found favor in Italy but “The Maker of Heavenly Trousers” is his ifirst book to be published in English Its story is of an Italian writer domiciled in an ancient Chinese house once the temple of Hsuang Lie Sse outside the diplomatic quarter of the Tartar City near the Great Wall a neighborhood where “Young China with its Mauser pistols and inferiority complexes” has scarcely penetrated of the “Five Virtues” the worthies who presided over its domestic arrangements emd of Kuniang (meaning “girl”) motherless daughter of Signor Cante employe of a Chinese railway absent the large part of the time “down the line” so that Kuniang’s upbringing is of the most haphazard As a child her playmates are the small members of the family of the Five Virtues and the son and daughter of a'Russian family whose way of living is extremely casual These seem to have been her only friends until on her mother's death and the suggestion of Exalted Virtue Number One “boy” she became an inmate of the Hsuang Lie Sse and in due time the author s protege The early chapters of the story are delightful with something of autobiographical flavoryparticularly the incident of transference of the tailor’s sign which gives the authoBjthe title of “The Maker of Heavenly Trousers" There are abundant entertaining anecdotes of the Five Virtues the dom- ineering Old Lady who “causes most of the troubles that come upon the family” buying expensive raiment not for life but to wear when sheau-is dead and paying storage on the enormous coffin she is to occupy of the thor’s experiences with Chinese merchants and of the way in which the d child Kuniang a very individual creature at once innogawky cent and wise grows into his life and assumes importance With the narrative’s progress however and the appearance of the enigmatic Elisalex a tarnished Russian aristocrat an element of the bizarre enters: and with the entrance of Paul Dysart young American who comes to China knowing he has nv more than a year of life there develops a curious fantasy which TW$hes the life of Kuniang and menaces the romance between herself and her Dsnefactor The episode of the great abbot from the Mongolian north and thedream lif£ he creates for Paul out of dark and tragic material is far too fantastic for plausibility and adds nothing of to the novel ARTISTS’ COLONY ACTIVITIES IN UTAH Notable Work of Utahn Beware That Wily Salesman Bringing ‘Better’ Bargains More Than Baffler Sayers’ New Novel Has Rare Quality THE RUN FOR YOUR MONEY By E Jerom Ellison and Frank W Brock Publishers Dodge Publish ing company New York City “Dedicated to thtf millions of victims of the rackets described herein witb the hops that this Investment will pay dividends" this Interesting volume la an attempt to open the eyes of the public to the biggest racket of all tha nonviolent swindling of Mr Average Man Reading the volume one smiles bitterly as a rule remembering tha time one “bit” and was bitten The authors begin by pointing out that nonviolence rackets aim to main tain a close resemblance to legitimate business often they keep within tha letter of the law sometimes tha very laws made to safeguard the public an as a shield to the racketeer Thetare-les- s busy average man or woman eager to get a bargain unwilling to betray lack of faith In any imposition offered Is a ready victim to the smooth swindler In all lines of business That swindling has Invaded all lines of business Is only too evident Tha selling of gold bricks or waste lands obvious and familiar as this form of swindling is is not more apparent than many of the schemes used every day The hordes of swindlers move across the country taking an ebsy and luxurious living from ths bewildered widows unemployed heads of families in search of work bereaved families business giants meek shopgirls but most of all from tfa wage earners salaried workers tradesmen and housewives The selling of furniture furs diamonds pianos automobiles by repre senting these articles to be real sacrifices on the part of a real home- owner when they are merely shoddy goods bought cheap at a bargain for this very purpose the insurance rackets of which there are legion swindling stock market deals that catch millions by persuading owners of honest stocks to "switch” to something “better” offering nonexistent jobs to those who pay a cash bond fleecing the amateur who thinks he can sing dance act or write myriads of real estate deals that leave the buyer with nothing but worthless deeds— or even less offering space In fake encyclopedias or pf publicity articles in fake mAga-binthe charity rackets In which 3 per cent may go to charity and 97 per cent to the collector lotteries every conceivable scheme to take money from legitimate buainess and turn it to the private uses of unscrupulous salesmen is used successfully and openly clear across the continent and back again And the public still buys and still pays Experience teaches nothing The only way to “get” these racketeers the authors point out is through the cooperation of the public and the Better Business bureaus of the various cities The bureaus are ready and eager to help It Is Mr Average Man who must make help possible by scrutinising every offer of a bargain or a job every appeal for help and byrt-- f erring any attempt to swindle to the Better Busineee bureau of his city If the public would learn never NEVER to pay out a penny except to established and reliable businesses without full investigation the biggest racket in the world would be stopped -- O W B GAUDY NIGHT By Dorothy L Sayan Publishers Harcourt Brace and Company New York City From the appearance of her first novel of mystery and tha arrival in the rank of the eleujbing experts of her Lord Peter Wlmsey Dorothy Sayers has been acclaimed not only for her Inventive genius but also for tho distinctive quality of her writing She has attained unique position among writers of detective fiction and “Gaudy Night” will strengthen her elaim to It This Is somewhat unusual In detective novels even the reader never intrigued by following the Intricacies of crime and pursuing the elusive villain will delight in Miss Sayers' new book Much stimulating talk and many fascinating ketches college women types will the fan who demands "mystification and excitement will also find It hors within ths precincts of learning even before the delayed entrance of the aristocratic Peter The book Is likely In fact to prove one of those items for all en’s college of Miss Sayers’ own erection the "Gaudy” meant a sort of reunion of old grads The strange events recorded began in a way during its celebration with the finding by Harriet Vane of that ugly obscene drawing not at all the sort of thing to be picked up in the quadrangle of a women’s college which depicted an outrageous attack upon some person “clad in cap and gown” Harriet Vane who since leaving Shrewsbury had “broken all her Old 'Tragedy of Winter Quarters' One of Avard Fairbanks' First created to become a part of the adornment of the L D S display In the Hall of Religion at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago Avard Fairbanks' finely moving sculpture “Tragedy of Winter Quarters" has achieved much wider recognition Recently exhibited in the Architectural league show in New York City It has drawn the attention of the editor of Arts and Decoration New York City in which magazine it will soon be reproduced Mr Fairbanks is now completing “SAVE A LADY” By Wilson Collison Publishers Claude Kendall and WjJ- loughby Sharp Inc New York City Come to Salt Lake Coming very shortly to the Art Barn gallery under the sponsorship of the Junior League will be a collection of rare portrait art such as Balt Lake City has never before enjoyed— an exhibit of portraits representative of the painters of the Seventeenth anj Eightenth centuries which includes such famous names as Romney and - Raeburn and a majority of the canvases coming from the Metropolitan museum This extraordinary opportunity to become acquainted with some of our finest portrait painters Is afforded through the courtesy of the College Art association New York City and the efforts of Miss Helen Sheets of the Junior League art committee through whose activity Salt Lake City has been privileged to "view numerous other Art lovers of the fine collections community must again credit the League members with an effort that does much to foster appreciation of fine art in Utah In the group of nearly 30 portraits which are scheduled for display April 13 to 25 are American English Italian French and Flemish artists Light fantastic but interesting little story of a runaway heiress and three hoboes “Save a Lady" is a pleasant evening's reading There is nothing very deep or important in the book and the moral: that bums are better men than they're supposed to be may be open to debate but there is no need to be too critical of a story obviously meant merely to amuse for an hour Running away from her wedding when She learns her husband-to-b- e loves another woman Nella Arden finds herself in $30 pumps aqd $1500 wedding dress wandering along a stormy road without a penny in her hand She meets up with Eddie the most likable of all the characters who has just staged a holdup after several months of going straight Eddie quick with sympathy takes the “dame" to the shack where he and his two hobo chums are living include Consequent developments murder and abduction charges some amateur detecting by the hero lone of the hoboes) a transparent love theme and some rather shallow conflict between members of the improvised home All quids happily of course With the heiress making a good man of the handsomest hobo and everyone living happily ever after according to his lights among them James Northcott Sir Peter Lely Thomas Phillips Gaspard Brun Trabcrsi Madame Vigee-L- e Louis Lenain Caspar Netscher“John Singleton Copley Joseph Badger Gilbert Stuart's portrait of George Washington will be an outstanding item - - V'vAfl ' ' y& V’ L- -' I I’fe i 'I'-- nvAI r ! ! this theme in heroic size which be erected full-leng- th builds slowly to Its one big climax The story ie concerned with the lova of two men of opposite types for the beautiful' widowed Stella Shenstone of Stonehill mistress Domineering and unscrupulous Richard rough Heron of Rush Heath desires Stella and will take her by siege if he can win her in no other way Stella whose marriage had taught her distrust of all men laughs in defiance of his suit and becomes withdrawn from the world in consequence of his attention for the other gallants fear Richard and the women resent the proud and lovely Mrs Stella Then comes the student John Flam-- a bard new master of Chevrons and new also to this rough Sussex country Last of a line of g Flambards this gentle philosopher is looked upon by his neighbors as a fool Inexperienced with women he meets and loves the beautiful widow This brings upon him the jealous hatred of Richard John whose firmness of character and conviction is misunderstood by others refuses to be drawn into a duel with his rival This of course in the eyes of his fellows is a surrender of his manhood and playing on their emotions Richard stages the final humiliation of this gentle soul With results not exactly us Richard had hoped for Stella realize John’s fineness -- and true love wins While the wicked Richard pays for his sins at the hands of a wild girl Scarlet Yorke g hard-ridin- Bits of Philosophy epigram is a short cut to a sneer Being different is the hardest part of being good i Hell is just the recollection of something a fellow would like awfully well to forget A -- By Warwick beeping Publisher Robert M McBride and Go New York City This romantic novel by Warwick Dtcping is rather disappointing to the reader who admires the depth and sincerity of some of his other Tilings The scene of this new story is rural England in the early Eighteenth century There are some fine passages descriptive of English country life which do much to lift this book from the hut the story Itself is commonplace slight One feels that while this Is rich material for a short story of quick dramatic values when worked into a novel it loses Interest as it hard-livin- fr Some people but lots of us someone tries badly need to - I have a sense of humor still want to fight when to tell us something we know Nephi Jensen Content Abandoned STORM JAMESON pAymc VASE ties and half the commandments” as well as winning fame as detective novelist had herself figured— as Miss Sayers’ readers know— in a murder trial wrongfully accused of poisoning her lover Lord Peter had saved her had determined to marry her and periodically repeated the proposal which Harriet as regularly rejects unwilling to draw him into her shadowed life and not at all sure of what she wants Also she was his assistant in the solving of another mystery as told In “Have a Carcase" t So that now wherf? Shrewsbury is upset by continuediVianifestatlons of’ vicious evil the work of “a cross between a Polter-geiand a Poison-Pen”writing scurrilous notes mutilating manuscripts defacing and destroying property and like capers Harriet is persuaded by the Dean to come back to Shrewsbury and give her clever wits to aid them in running down the malefactor the publicity to follow calling in an actual policeman not being likely to reflect credit on the at Gaudy college Having herself Night been a recipjent of one of the nasty scrawls Harriet consents but her investigations and nocturnal prowl-Ing- s of the cloistral halls only serve to reveal what sort of “very odd things could crawl and creep beneath lichen-coverstones” The persecution continues directed against both students and instructors — the Dean feels “a nice clean murder” would be less obnoxious— and Harriet is led to dismaying suspicions When a narrowly averted suicid results she calls on Lord Peter's aid With her dossier of the case before him it needs only one extraordinary faculty dinnerparty for Peter to pounce on the significant clue under the prejudices that ' st ed By EDNA S PARK BY MARRIAGE CONQUEST In an argument silence is the better part of valor - jf - to com-pani- or cheer v is’ the Mormon pioneer Florence Nebraska where in cemetery at it will commemorate the vjorthy struggles of those who succumbed during the severe winters on the frontier and were buried at Winter Quarters This piece of sculpture and its "New Life and New Frontiers" claimed the admiration of visitors at the exposition exciting much commendation for their power of conception and competent interpretation An -- Creations Among Current Fiction Titles Portrait Art Will b ©f readers The title has no reference as might be thought to gay and hectic nocturnal diversions At Shrewsbury the wom- Exhibition of Rare Ar- : attract them but self-assur-ed 20-fo- ot long-legge- 22 1936 The international aviation boo' prize contest a joint venture by Hamixli Hamilton of London ami Doubledav Doran in America has been canceled due to lark of manuscripts considered by the judges worthy of a prize obscure it And while he is substantiating his theory and saving her from an imminent death Harriet gains a new viewpoint on Peter so that the matter is concluded no more satisfactorily for Shrewsbury’s faculty than for the noble sleuth himself Possibly the fans may find its over 450 pages too long to wait for the solution but “Gaudy Night” for the majority of readers more than compensates with Its delightful charactiza-tlon- s and conversation for any delayed action Values By CHRISTIE LUND You say you know me Yet There is a part of me You do not know I hide it well As one hides precious things From children's reach I am not cheating you— Why give you Dresden china When you appreciate as much Pjain kitchen crockery? Irish Prize “Wind From the North” by Joseph O'Neill has been awarded the Harms-wort- h Prize for the best work of imaginative' prose by an Irish author during 1934 The award is made by the Council of the Irish Academy of Letters The 1933 award went to Lord Dupsany Mr O'Neill's most tecent novel “Land Under England” published last year by Simon and Schuster Inc has received much favorable com- ment The Bookaneer Sapt Here Is a Thought ‘ On Giving It oiten happen that you want to give a little token o( esteem and appreciation to a friend loved one Books giiti or are ideal for such oc- - |