| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING In the Field of w Mod ii fr -- e 1 rf Priestley Deals Ungently With English Newspaperilom's Dalhlioo Methods Scores Industrial System-- All in Pleasant Humor the sensational publicjtyactics adopted by the mod- particularly its amazing way of creating heroes at an hour’s notice and as promptly obliterating them and joining with it a realistic portrayal of the acute contrasts in social conditions today J B Priestley’s new book is imbued with that infectious humor and broad humanity that impressed American readers in “The Good Companions'’ and “Angel Pavement’’ two books that gave him importance among English novelists “Wonder Hero’’ gives us garish night clubs and champagne in place of English inns and old ale but the same mood of gcmol humor prevails Charlie Babble who to his bewilderment finds himself elevated to the role of a national hero was just a nice young chap a "sound specimi n of Bfitafh’s industrial population" — you would find one like him on anv football tfam "the very muddy one probably known as ‘Ginger’”— until the fire at'tlie A C P plant where the explosive "coaleen” was manufactured and where he was on the night shift Then the Daily Tribune decided he had prevented an explosion and thereby saved the whole town of Utterton from wreck and made him a "wonder hero" It's all because Kinncv the Tribune’s chief feature writer sent out on a heart interest stoyy that had gone sour on him needed something for a "splash” headline And Charlie disclaiming any heroism daren't for his job’s sake reveal that actually he time-wor- Wdi ' One of Sidney 1 t individual d rail nig ' West" By MARJORIE PARMELEE FROMpPHARAOH TO HITLER Publisheis Bernard J Brown solidated Book Publishers Inc itable in the covering of such a mass of material Later chapters as that on "When the Comstock Made History" or of "Not them Camps and Vigilantes" or “Turbulent Tombstone" and that dealing With the dwindling army of prospectors are In the account especially fascinating that romance vanished is a rainbow brightness John Fisher has to tell that dims under the light of reality—this is what a novel than a character in this novel “To Dream Again” is however less a vividly set backof one individual against study-aimpressive study of well sketched number a whic'tfmove scenes through ground of novel min The elegant and picturesque old gentleman Hubert aColeman of among much figure the passengers on the Acarnama bound for Hawaiithewas interest of the ladies interest to the ladies— always Hubert had attracted back in the romantic days of King -b- ecause he had lived in Honolulu the flowdy common Hubert’s first wc-n- ot court Kalakaua and his merry of one of Hono a been daughter Ada of today who had the money-h- ad to tell of his lulu’s wealthiest retired traders— what stories Hubert had races father-m-lawgrand hospitality and of the gay times at the Hubert But as the Acarnama nears Honolulu the glib entertaining and of knowing so full glamor island those days falls silent remembering 'for himself a this return as a critical moment in his life He had builtallupthat was painwit and bright shutting dream world of memories lovely he to rent ful or unpleasant in that past Is that veil of illusion to be truthis knew face again the real past to face the old friend who knew the of Hubert s all his shams and poses and had exacted a promise that because cowardice had never been fulfilled? of the Mr Fisher carries us back then to picture the glamorous Hawaii of his own confident Hubert ’eighties the young English un drifting ln charm and engaging manner but indolent impractical of the shy Lilian certaintv of the quiet earnest Wolfgang Bauer his friend charm whom Wolfgang loved but who surrendered to Hubertshated ’! she while even careless his fascinated by cynicism had attracted and held Robert Strangely Lilian’s gentleness and simplicity whom he had dallied He despite other more vivid women with Charlie Meares had been obliged however be fair to her and the wealthy w and even with the disclosure of to accept this undesirable as a had that dubious emsode in which Hubert’s conceithadandstill loved him through She remained loyal had Lilian him involved tragedy for her The those wretched years in California which had ended in Nick a queer silent little with to back England shocked Hubert had fled Hubei t could put child he was never to understand Essentially unchanged back to his dashing early all this California life out of his mind and look love-affa- ir and a devoted Hawaiian days— "Bright days and a romantic failed Lilian and had he as even Nick fails He his was story” bride that the promise made to Wolfgang is never kept comsucceeds Mr Fisher very well in his presentation of the selfishhimself to face have he moment reahty a may placent' Hubert fearful for sketched Yet with all his friend’s eyes and the island setting is brilliantly at least for the present its fine qualities the book fails of moving power reviewer ’s and particularly Virginia City’s palmy days appears the name of "scholar and boin Goodwin Charles writer” then editor of the Enterprise fcii ith Dark Doings ConChi- - anti-Jewis- h e son-in-la- CHEER FOR INVALIDS Frank Scully unofficial doctor to the finvalids of America least for 16084 (at say Simon and Schuster publishers of hgs “Fun in Bed or the Convalescent’s Handbook”) has left "The Bedside Manor” his villa at Nice to pay his first visit to America in 15 years of them by subject” He criticises tbe Jewish national com- arplex and tears to pieces some of the Hit The Literary Almanac "Bale Living" Ls the title under which Elmer Davt with Guy Holt as coadjutor turns his shafts of wit against the nudist colonies in a novel which are publishing Mr Davts is the author of “I'll Show You the Town" "The Keys to the City” and other titles fall list includes The Bobbe-Mernsuch intriguing fiction titles as "Oil for the Lamps of China” by Alice Tisdale Hobart “Bare Living” face ‘qua treatment of a nudist colony by Elmer Davis and Guy Holt and Irvin Cobb's first mvs erv "Murder Day by Day" Bobbs-Merri- ll A September book from Putnam's is “Dock Walloper” the autobiography of Richard J (“Big Dick" to you) Butler— an original living character right out of told and rot to be Hell's Kitchen it MuiH'"'J "n with Baron confused V dor Horn oi C unt d- - Trtnelou )!j i Lutrcc dc Snne He has hid Driscoll of the Nr v Dboratio’i of York Herald Tribune For unabashed lrankness Rousseau's "confessions" have nothing on Butler's memoirs so 'tis said r Jo-ep- h "Frst to Go Back” a BobbsMerr-i- l book is Irina Skariatina's account of her return to Soviet Russia telling what she saw and heard and learned Shp is the first Russian aristocrat allowed to revisit the Soviet States "With My Own Eyes” Frederick Palmer’s record of experiences as a war correspondent since 1897 is another important title Jacket design "The Bishop of Havana" is a first on the fall list of Ives novel appea-in- g Washburn which no less a critic than Isa Glenn has commended for “its charming lack of the modern morbid disavowal of human hope” Pendleton Hogan is an author she says who believes in Romance! for the John Fisher ' Douglas will have a thud novel" pioh iv'd before Cm if mas bv ’rc- - nu- - Jeopard a Mi'f i I! ’ r'i Llod i-- C t i! in ccurt'v Be Intern D ‘ o Dr ’ J i h lop - E- - "H ‘v "M i "’i ioigh Doen1 died Maturity" and "The Flight to Free- dom” -g )V" Kr ' f 'n ’ novel "To Dream i '£9 Hh k t'ffi 3 Again ” RICHMOND ACQUIRES FINE CANVAS WEST 1I1GII SHOWS GROUP guments and fallacies by which Jews uphold their claim to nationhood Fina’-he says “The answer to the Jewish question can be found only if we lice our mental vision from words and symbols winch tend to arouse our emotions and interfeience with rational consideration of facts and circumstances winch form the reality of our everyday live Steam power elcctncity and the radio have brought humanity so close togetner that notmng in religion race or national concept can cause it lo become separated” y Bv "What is a Jew?” is the very perinont subtitle of "From Pharaoh to Hitler” a really interesting discussion of a mol The Jewish pioblem is timely query solu-toa practical proMem challenging a and very clearly Bernard J Brown His presents and argues the question without bia discussion is decidedly It is not neither pro nor a history of persecution nor of Semitic Mr Brown is a lawyer achievement and lecturer and has given much attention and careful thought to the subject and in his book looks at the question from every old angle and many new ones Is Judaism a race a nationality or a religion? This is not easy to answer intelligently The answers may be changthe ing as modern thought changes but question is ever present in the world today and demands the attention of all thinking people Mr Brown himself says truth led me down "the search for-thdevious roads traveled by the Jewish people along the lanes marked with facts and legends of the past to the crossroads which perplex us todav a fid make me wonder which path will be taken and where It will lead tomorrow" The book discusses the religious beliefs the outmoded customs the mistakes of Israel the historical background and modem problems Mr Brown declares "The upstream struggle is not in reality a struggle for the preservation of great principles or doctrines against which the Gentiles are arrayed but a struggle for admission into the social community of the Gentiles with the privilege to still remain the chosen people An upstream confight should not yield to such trivial we In our upstream course siderations have brought with us a childish notion that an adverse reference to one Jew is intended for all Jews and is actuated " by a dislike of the Jews as a people Thus the author contends that many perhaps most of the bases of misunderstanding are trivia issues with no important bearing on the question and he concludes "It is now our duty to dicover if we can what falsehoods and what deceits are being imposed upon us bv others what there is m us as Jews of true value and of worthless dross In the progress of Kis argument Mr Brown says: “I have followed the course of a lawyer seeking to establish the claim of his client to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness" his hope bea jufor ing that every reader will be as unhin"without passion or prejudice dered preconceived notions on the pseudo-inspecto- self-assur- ed home-builder- of Nevada ago imsicaU ty Mixed well-earne- d cannot be recaptured who ended his days Jq Salt Lake City "an uplifting and corrective force" Salt Lakers who recall the beloved Judge Goodwin will read with interest the amusing incident of his association with the young Sam Clemens and their lunches in Six Mile Canyon Mr Wilson’s volume which might poihap£ more fittingly be called "Into the West” deals little with the vast train s who followed of peaceful the pathfinders but it gathers together ax perhaps no other book has done those valiant adventurers of all types whose mighly deeds wroughtethe history of the ueriod In parts It is a someleft umecorded what coloilets narrative shipped to essential facts but that is perhaps inev- Books of General Interest Bv J THE HOUSE ON THE MARSH Jeflerson Farjeon Publishers LinDial Press New coln MacVeagh-ThYork Having found for him a protective woman mate who appeared in "Ben Seeslt Through'! J Jefferson Farjeon is giving his extraordinarily busy tramp heio a rest Here he relates the weird and terrifying experiences that befell the gentle and quixotic Heniv Mojle who had reached fifty without catching up with adventure and then one scarcely period supplied all he had missed Henry who really loved quiet and fishing was wont to spend his yearly holiday from the business of wood pacing in an isolated cottage on the bank of a river that when the tide rose made the little house inaccessible On this occasion the arriving Henry almost at his very door wrecks his Morris-Oxforto save a cat and coming to thereafter finds himself in the company of an unconscious girl and a dead man Puzzling to say the least! Even with a dislocated ankle Henry manages to get the girl into the house and to bed—and makes another discovery Someone certainly not another fisherman has left in his unoccupied house a top hat walking stick and immaculate pair of gloves Shortly this elegant "someone" turns up so does a lovely nymph in a green bathing suit In fact quite a number of persons not so pleasing seem to find a strong interest in this house on the a marsh a disappearing black man r with a beard among them Eerie and mystifying happenings follow on each other’s heels and the elderly Henry with his ally Monty withstands a siege thaf threatens their elimination before the police arrive belatedly to discover the lodestone under the brick doorstep Mr Farjeon’s whimsical humor gives a comedv turn to alarming events and altogether "The House on the Marsh" is one of his most satisfactory yarns THATthe be recalled youth and islands of memory have v ie prod need in " Out of the n Henry Holt and Company Fletcher's' - ’ n W IN HAWAII OF THE EIGHTIES dreams of the mighty mountain men breaking the paths into the w ild places trapping every Important stream over every and making their wav mountain pass: and accompanies trad ers orr the Santa Fe Trail and the huntHe ers who exterminated the buffalo follows the trails of the Mormon hand to the rails and the covered wagons Northwest joins the rush of the and the or spa ways by land He l ides long caravans of emigrants with the dashing pony express and lumbering mail coaches shares the excitement of the days of the fabulous Lode the fltish period of Vngtnia City California Gulch and Leadv‘ ille counts the notches cm the guns of bad men" or the fearless officer who in hard frontier towns Hardlv a name that- is known or figure piominent in the laving of the foundations of this Western empne from Tao- and Tucson to Fort Walla Walla from Sacramento to Abilene js emitted Wilson's narrative ' But fioih Mr less familial m characters thue aie the annals of the West of whom vve learn— ar thaFMames Pattie tiapper ill the 1820 s who saved the Mexican governor's fair daughter from the Coman-che- s but declined to marry her The luckas well as the owner if less prospe-'o- r famous gc’d mines the humble cowhand driving longhorns on the Texas Tiail as well as Kit Carson and the famous Indian fighters are all pait of the great pageant of American expansion A prodigious amount of research has gone to the making of this volume in assembling its wealth of data and hisA good share of its tone Incident stories are well taiown to leaders of western history but niSherous less familiar tales have been gathered up by Mr Wilson in his indefatigable labors Every route taken by early travelers west seeking furs efr gold or adventure or new homes has been carefully traced and few significant episodes are Corn-stoc- eai-ie- - ! tit s 1 Bv the time Chapter Nine with the apropo title "A Frightened Bankei we weie positively ill with vvoirv The sheriff was suffeiing untold unkindnCs at the hairrik ot DeLsa’s bi other Bob The whole countv Was against him hut he was working hard to solve anv numFascinated vve read ber of mysteries cn through "An Astounding Charge" and "Sawed Off Shotguns " Here w e weie forced to the conclusion it was The undressing process bedtime us th'iough two chapters and we must admit we tore one of our moie intimate articles of apparel quite badlv while Dove was being shot at fiom am bush ' In bed Ve finished the tale right through to the last quip The last chapter was especially good We read ih again Yes the vindication of Dove was all vve had hoped for Stretching back the on the prllow we thought over Decidedly it was different ve story noted without regret the absence of all characters most western the We remembered how stories present worried we had been in Chapter TwenWe recalled with pride that Frank —ty mb r y a Sail Lakei "This” we said “has been a real evening” as we drifted into a sleep which was dotted with cowboy fighters smoking guns and a very interesting local author who had made good i can He goes with ' had been asleep So this nice young mechanic is taken up to London for exploitation bv the publicity-avi- d paper is lodged expensively at the luxurious New Cecrl Tribune's (the proprietor is a director and the hotel needs publicity) where also af the moment is Miss Ida Chatwick "Miss England-papers in movie bpauty contest winner The two are ballyhooed in the presis appearclubs etc reels broadcast from the ame station appear at theaters night Charlie forced to attend” Lady Catterbird's cocktail party is trapped by the amorous hostess and in misery at Queen’s Hall where he is to say a few words for the chief’s League of Imperial Yeomen he is saved by the monkeyfaced reporter Hughson the one human being — besides Ida — to whom he can cling in thre mad world The letter Hughson brings provides Charlie the way of escape and the transition’’ from this falsely glittering London to a North of England shipbuilding town "knocked flat” by the depression is Mr Priestley’s occasion for sharp criticism of the industrial system Once hustling and prosperous redunSlakeby is now a decayed forlorn town "Them yards at Slakebs Charlie’s dant” the National Shipbuilding Securities had said explained uncle expert engineer who had been out of work nearly six years “There’ll We’fe redundant that’s what we ever be another ship built here lad are” And Charlie is glad of the Tribype’s five hundred pounds that enables him to relieve the situation send- ing his undernourished aunt to a sanitarium to recover Meanwhile London has forgotten the “wonder hero” the Tribune uncaring that Utterton had been saved ba rely'r c c alls younjf Ti a b b 1 e "CIi a rl ic learning what he has suspected all along that the real hero is the Communist refugee whom he had sheltered seeks recognition for him and is told not to make himself a nuisance the Utterton story is dead The provincial beauty Ida disher covering the prize didn’t get from into the movies has dropped ' sight and a tawdry hack street boarding-hous- e yields her just in time to Charlie’s persistent search have been expectations High groundless but these simple honest " folk of the workaday world are not and Mr without their courage while commanding no Priestley in their Erovidential dispensation fairly with them His criticism is reserved for a different aspect of society the smart West End crowds Publishers OUT OF THE WEST' By Rufus Rock-wel- l Publisher The Press of Wilson the Pioneers New York Through these pages passes a long preand heroic figcession of picturesque ures as Mr Wilson tells of the men who won western America from its original inhabitants who pushed the frontier ev er westward from the Mississippi — all that hardy band which pitted its strength against the opposing forces of the wilderness and set its cunning against the hate of the Indian for the usurping w hite man Mr Wilson tells the full story of the conquering of the West in a book lull of stirring interest for any Ameri- ’ SATIRIZING Activities in Utah Artists' Colony ity Men of West’s Pioneer Period Recalled LARRUPING LEATHER By Frank C Robertson Publishes! Ives Washburn Inc New York "Dove Smith had a tough proposition on his hands when he was elected sheriff county seething with trouble and he had a rotten reputation among cate "Herei!-'tlemen”" read the blurb said hopefully “is just the thing ve want " Dangling from a street car strap on the way home we read opt without dtficultv the first chapter Deba the heroine had come upon the sheriff while he ws engaged in a most amicable conversation with autiutlvv whom he was The supposed to have been arresting criminal to our chagrin land the annoyance uf the pmtly man who had been reading over our shouldei h was set free just as the conductor announced our stop “This will never do" we lemarked hastening home to dig into the second chapter "auspiciously titled "Wanted Men" But alas no murders! We lead on It was an interesting story but wheic were the brutal slayings? Chapter Six to our great delight furnnhedt' us two murders "Splendid" we cued" clashing madly on' From that point look changed every chapter contained We lead on at lea-- t one killing Jiy E E HOLLIS By J B Priestley Publishers Harper and Broth- TO DREAM AGAIN By John Fishec f 9 ® Utah Manufacturer Of Westerns Does Another Good' Job 1 WONDER HERO ers New York 3 1933 Kit ana JLiteratur e A SOCIAL CRITICISM AND SATIRE S SEPTEMBER 24' JOHN BARLEYCORN: Lee Greene Richards’ splendid laige "Building Castles" an unusual development of the pioneer theme has been purchased by the North Cache high school at Richmond Utah and becomes a feature of its permanent collection Many will recall this painting which has been a salient spot in several general exhibitions in Salt Lake It is to be hung in the auditorium of the high school building A collection of about fifty paintings representative ot ten or more artists has been hung under the direction of “Mrs Alice Merrill Horne at the West high school where it is to remain during the fall oil His Life and Letters By Dan Poling Publisher The John C Winston Co Philadel- phia Employing the same powerful weapon which has been so often turned upon Prohibition and its advocates by the wet ranks Dan Poling has fashioned a satiric and amusing history that should provide good artillery for the defendant controversy in the continuing wet-drDr Poling as leader of the Allied Prohi- bition Forces is nationally known a courageous speaker who has an equally strong sense of humor His book meels the attack of the wets in decidedly unique manner with a good humor that Its lends appreciably to its arguments and benevportrait of the jovial smooth olent Falstafflan person of John Barleycorn is drawn with a subtlety that even the old gentleman’s best friends cannot escape and which only the poorest of sports can fail to enjoy Dr Poling first presents the Honorable Exile recalled to address a joint session of the House and Senate — a quite friendly assembly fc is clear— grandiloquently place promising that returned to his old in the life of the country he will balance the budget and solve the depression problem pay ail taxes himself employ all the unemployed save toerring Iced youth in fact will be the Moses America to the land of New Prosperity But he ignores the questions of the old lady in the gallery who wants to know Euwhy he hasn't "done something for all on carried has he where rope" through the postwar depression years and "now your fi lends are so pnepci ous that they can't pay us their debts" Thereafter Dr Poling presents ths "friends of the American home’ venting the several places where there is discussion of his renewal of full participation a in the country's life He calls at and for the pleasure of his old comrades reviews his entire career from his origin down to this "irrelevant term though painful episode" (is he Prohibition) He talks at a convention cf labor gallantly meets with the ladies federation to discuss "preservation of the home" attends a medical conference where such authorities as Dr RayDr mond Pearl Pr Howard Kelly Haven Emerson and other famous ones Mr decide that only an autopsy on matBarleycorn can really "settle the ter” gives the commencement address at old "Keeley” College He is in fine form at the national convention of Ameris given a hearing at the ican veteran Ministerial association gives a "pep" talk to Tech footballers that has a rough finish and debates before our Canadian cousins John loves to talk and always privileged to talk it is his own words that convict him and himself that adds the most telling lines to the satiric port! ait In which Dr Poling has accomplished his genial way he has produced a cartoon as devastating as the Rollin Kirbv sketch labeled "Prohibition” over which the wets have made merry Jack Gallagher's numerous illustrations are quite in tho spirit of the text " y ’ super-speakeas- y “I” ART HEAD IST HOME FROM EUROPE Returning during the week from a three months’ sojourn in France A B Wright head of the University of Utah art department reports a most successHe has given his attention ful summer this year largely to portraiture working in Paris chiefly in association with such noted artists as Jean d Boton and Lue Painting excurs or bread-earne- r were left in Paris for the winter exhibition at the Salon d'Inde pendants Several portrait commissions were completed by Mr Wright during his slay and he has since his return received a letter expressive of the cordial approval accorded his work the writer saying in part: "Besides the likeness and art qual-itit- s both Mr Caron and Mrs Kraft appreciate the general attitude and the xpritr— one might even say spirituality — given by you to these portraits" c YOUR FAVORITE MAGAZINE is Available on Our Let Your Magazine Secretary Us Be Sub- scriptions for You and We Can Match Any Legitimate Price er Offer DESERET BOOK COMPANY i Auve-s-sur-Oi- ( Stand' Well Handle Your Max-milia- n however Mantes and accomplished a number of landscape portrayals and he brought back with him portfolio of sketches and pastel studies The majority 'of hi finished vaiwases STORY So great has become the Interest in the new short stories published by the magazine Story since its importation to America some six months ago it is now to appear monthly instead of every two months the October number being the first monthly issue- - With this change the price is also reduced per copy although the annual subscrip- - r tion rate for the 12 copies is raised George Cronyn formerly with the Atlantic Monthly has been added to Story’s staff as business manager "We believe writers as well as readers will welcome the change to more frequent publication” says the editors Whit Burnett and Martha Foley "One of our biggest problems has been to find space for the large number of good stories sent us” In the current number ten writers are represented three being instructors m English literature in our colleges Alan Marshall of the College of the City of New Y’ork contributes a story of a New Hampshne village untouched by modernity R C Woods whose “O'Bannon's Bees” achieves its effects by a musical phrase Ls instructor in a San Francisco iolleget and Frederick Scribner who teaches in Greenwich Conn writes of a "Man’s Day” dealing with the differences that arise when the wife is the Theodore Pratt's contribution is a story of native life on the of island Majorca which he was recently forced lo leave because of a tritical article H E Bates Evelyn Harter and Malcolm Lowry are among the other writers represented 44 HAST ON SOUTH TEMPLE |
