Salt Lake Tribune | 1933-11-12 | Page 44

THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 12 Insuring aBY Happy Marriage KATHLEEN NORRIS Gentleness and Honesty Play More Important Roles in Marital Bliss Than Do Love Finances Affinity and Con- geniality La that art sent out from Washington They call it confidential lor its Just meant for those that can read Its called “Private” for there are only a couple of thousand different ones in Washington In this “Confidential Letter Racket" But they do mighty Will Roger good with em and you would be surthe at amount of fellows who prised whisper to you “Now I got this straight it come to me from a confidential letter There 1s only 11 of em sent out and mine was marked number one These people that sent this letter say they are friends of the President’s they are relatives of Mrs Roosevelt they raised Hugh Johnson who runs the N R A and listen they know the Brain Trust They knew em when they was just professors wasent called a trust and wasent noted tor brains So what they are telling you Is the real lowdown but dont breath It to a soul” Now here b what they said in thb week’s Letter “The tube has come to apeak the truth” I don’t know what they been doing all thb time Just lying I reckon But anyhow thb letter b going to be on the level “As we said before earlier In the Letter the time has come to tell the truth We hate to do it but lb so The Republican Party are secretly talking of entering politics again There b talk right here in Washington under our own noses that they are going to revive the Republican Party and here b something Nov and than aomaooa start a jue Monnaira among college undergraduates ar young persons generally under the “What heading qualities are moat desirable In a or a wile?" The answer are romantic usually and Imaginative proving nothing ex cept the guilelessness and youth of girls and boys jthe who write them In one recant contest lor example many of the girls wanted Jealous husband “who will resent my speaking to any other man and aome of the boys marlfelt that their Kathleen Norris tel problems would bo solved tf the lady were only rich s husbands and "ugly wars also In requisition and wives who were smart and amusing We all know what a girl has In mind when she atys she wants a Jealous husr band She means that she wants s lov-ta- g one one who will he deeply Interested In what she does she means that She fears 's all women fear her growing indlfferenco and cold- hue-ban- d h bus-band- hue-band- Whan girls say they want -- ugly men ®ey mean thoee physically unhandsome men who have strong hard fins faces rather than symmetrical ones Most women dislike a pretty man with a fins Skin and long ayelashas and curly hair Unless there la something rough some thing really jnriily In his appearance they cant stand him And so they requi-altkan “ugly man Ag for really ugly and Jealous men ho rl ever wants one no matter what aha says There art too many of them They are only too easy to find Real Jealousy In her mate not only destroys a woman’s happiness but her entity She beoomea afraid of this ridiculous and unreasoning partner of bars and her character develops in the direction of timidity and a tense of Inferiority Tor Jselousy— end you girls who art so absurd as to think Jealousy romantic might “welt make a note Of this— Jealousy In a Jealous husband doesn't exist only where there la cause or reason for it' It Is not only when you bava been Innocently coquetting with some handi some naval officer that Don begins to t shout and rags and throw things about" It b alwev end about everything BtaTy five minute too tong at ilia telephone amiably suggest the name of aome dinner guest or receive any confidential Utter and ha b off Into stupid tirades that bore you when they do got anger you and that waste and destroy the fin substance of married love la the and you wouldent get if m Com weeks ago 20 grownup By WILL ROGERS All I know is just what I read In the papers or what I read somewhere else or sometiAies what I hear but you dont hear much nowadays Its all practically the old stuff But talk about reading The other day a fellow handed me one of these “Confidential ‘ u 1933 Real jealousy in her mate not only destroys woman s happiness hut her entity She becomes afraid of this ridiculous and unreason- Jasbo” 1933 by the McNaugbt Syndicate Inc) (Copyright subscribe By O O McINTYRK Opinions: No snobbery b ao acute and cruel as that of the richest family In a small no chance of a stage success so quickly on the heeb of last year’s They are wise ducking their public for a sabbatical year before they became too With show bus toes confined fatiguing solely to New York th demand what b left b for brand new faces Constant change! - No man thrilling to Jumping races b a tru lover of horses or a true sportshorn— gentleness seems to have no part in her life And ao she starts Into marriage handicapped and wa her elders who would die for her happiness continue to feel that U the girl b pretty and has the right clothes and If the man b “attractive" and the wedding Itself goes off with sufficient snap all will be well You June bride of 1933 Just begin- - to women To love her man to like to share hb breakfast to have him admire her gown want her to meet him for a Saturday lunch telephone her during the day bring her a handful of flowers to know that he enjoya her conversation b interested In her point of view— these things all help to give a woman a sens of belonging to one special man loving him needing him In every way And mar-rlag- if we stopped talking about love and finances ana affinity and congeniality md all tha "Other a bsuTd elements that really have little to do with true marriage and concentrated upon gentleness and honeaty Xvea love as w generally Interpret the word has ltsa to do with married happiness than gentleness and honesty t man Wrestling U e Publbhers are thumbing down- - on soviet Russia books In the past three year 576 were printed in America aloh Most offered views that entirely changed before reaching the publics The real book on Russia I am told will show conclusively the experiment b a flop the lowest form of ath- letics Parsnips properly prepared ere among the finest vegetables Two best edited papers in the world: Manchester Guardian and Christian Science Monitor Sam Heilman b writing the smartest humor of hb career A consistent contention In thb column i that petieedogr ahoold not'bi on Joe the wo4 - marriage stands ar not lov at aL or excitement or aex or flattery tlty -t-hese thing drop away and leave ft tripped ana behold love drops sway with them or rather Jova never was there Thb commonplace all tha divorces and half tha existing marriages confirm and yet young lovers are loath to believe It and go on mbuslng the moat beautiful word in the world by applying it to the natural aex attraction of youth Its lova of flattery and excitement and change In a marriage baaed on those elements gentleness and honeaty too often have no place The condition U dishonest from the beginning there b no way of mak tag It come true The girl’s temper is ruffled when the money that used to be spent upon orchids and theater tickets must go to tha wetwash man the man misses tha exqublta endearments of engagement days the first ecstasies ah knew In hb arms Every woman knows from tha aga of 18 on but few men ever believe that the value of tha married relationship to the woman depends upon her mental and spiritual attitude toward the man Men ar not Ilk that That this b so U an atarnal mystery all mar- ried aome of them for more than’ 30 years held a marriage questionnaire And the answers to It would have surprised our college boys and girls who rather Ilk tha Ido of Jealousy and quick temper money beauty high aex appeal Tha grownups answers were along adherer lines' Of course all these answers were anonymous handwriting! were carefully disguised by printing It ws almost sad to see how often these men and women stressed the quality of gentle-nes- s Seven of the ten men ana right of the ten women thought gentleness the most admirable quality of all be tween married folk Isn’t that startling when one thinks how simple a quality gentleness b? Two more of the papers had “kindness on them and of 20 papers 18 had tot a second good quality “honesty Gentleness end honesty In these two words lies all the law of happy mar- - mitted streeb without muzzles Soma are harmless but too many are unpredictable They attack smaller dogs and there are unassailable records of vicious attacks qn children I have seen two innocent puppies ripped open by them and any dog lover knows the horror of such experience Police dogs are permitted entirely too much freedom in New York especially along Central park west and upper Riverside drive The best movie acting b being ddne petted girl prided herself on her tantrums her quick burab of temper her quick repentance substitute gentleness and for those old luxurious outbursb of childishness If you have been thinking It legitimate enough to slip a little charge onto a certain bill to meet an old friend for an exciting clandestine lunch believe now before it b too late that thb b tha road to trouble And husbands of 1933 and of all the years stop sometimes and think how we women love gentleness and honesty Think how we love your fab and open explanations of tha things you think and do lova to find you kind and oonaiderata when things go wrong and misunderstandings creep ta De Lesseps ruined a country and lost hb chance for glory because of a tiny insect that can be crushed between a child’ two fingers Goethab won himself eternal fame by conquering that same mosquito The parasite that destroy marriage are as smell as impalpable as moaqultoea ar Only honesty and ’gentleness can deal with them depends upon gentleness and honesty There b no element so dbturblng so agitating to the normal wife as to feel that her husband b deceiving her— about money about hb personal affairs about other women about anything It aab like add into hey bring and poisons every moment of her day And there b no other quality ao good In him that It consoles her tf be b not gentle A gentle man! Well generations ago women evidently found that those two words went ao wall together that they fused them into one We say It now in comprehensive praise: “He b a gentle man” Most men are not gentle and not many women are Men can drive cars and mix cocktails and bang golf balb 300 yards and shout at telephones and at laundrymen and at theater ushers and at children but they cannot seem to be gentle and mak tha world quieter and pleasanter for us all As toi women a few elderly ones are mild But tha rbing generation of girls la excitable athletic capable restless and almost never gentle Each one it trying to oubhrlek tha next with her laughter her radio her jars band her and bonking motor roaring (Copyright air-mot- 1933 Syndicate by the Bell Inc) Marie Dressier y May Robson Wallace Beery and the like A regard for the public upon which It depended ten years ago would have saved tha legitimate theater But that public has now been weaned away MervynL Roy b ablest of younger directors Some of the most cultured people in America live ta Arkansas Fannie Hurst has written best descriptions of the Ghetto Count on one friend ta every BOO when Rube poldberg aged 50 was bom oa the 4th of July His father Max 82 was bom on Washington’ birthday Hb uncle Adolph 78 was bom on Lincoln’s birthday Adolph’s son 50 was bom on St Patrick's day and hb daughter was bora February 15 the day the Maine was blown up Thb goes on and on until you simply would not believe it You'd think it was one of Rube’s you lose all your money And then don’t be too sure The nearest to a film epic b Walt Disney’s cartoon silly of “Three Little Pigs" We hope they do not turn out to be boars (Joke) Isadora Duncan as good as she was was extravagantly overpraised Rudy Vauee has consistently given the best musical programs on tha air gagsv ’‘BARNACLES ART BARN COTERIE TO MEET THURSDAYS The Literary 'Almanac ’ Lion Teuchtwanger has eo&ipleted a Departure of the Alfred Lunts on a year’s European Jaunt was presaagented as a deslra to get away tha first vacay The fact 1 tion and such the LunU are shrewdly Commercially-minde- d show people who have saved their money Invested wisely and saw Amsterdam ' - ? t " EmU Ludwig b soon to b Published - by the House of McBride hi newest book to be published by them ta mid- November deals with nma great statesmen of modem Europe— Lloyd George Stalin Mussolini £r land among them ' k a a Funk and Wagnalb announce a new department to be known as “Literary timed Digest Books which b to Issue only nonfiction including such aubjeeb aa biography travel adventure economic “ESQUIRE" ENTERS magazine I FIELD Devoted largely to masculine Interests rimed Its editorial pronouncements strictly at a male audience a new quar-- ’ torly magazine Fsquira has recently jmede lb debut Wtth a nigh percentage e editorial content ta comparison with advertising apace its comment ranges from economics to fishing to pugilism and pi Sports being a vital interest Bobby Jones Gone Tunpey Benny Leonard and Charles paddock are oa ' the editorial staff Its nonfiction contributions ar under such noted names aa Ernest Hemingway Nicholas Murray Butler Gilbert Soldea Fiction of masCharles Hanson Town culine caliber brings an Impressive list - Including John Doe Paasos Manuel Horn-roVincent Starrelt William McFea Dashtel Hammett Morley- - Callaghan Douglas Fairbanks Jr The field of humor b equally well furnished and the ff pictorial la “Night Club Era which Stokes is pub- llahlng shortly b Stanley Walker’ revelatory volume on “the madness" ta which some notable and varied personalities appear widely Among bright lights of Broadway the author himself b not unknown and hb comment b said to be frank and fearless and not impersonal James J Walker Texas Gutaan" Writer W inched Arnold Rothstrin ar some of the cheractera great'-Amerlca- ’ nor are men’s fashions neglected Only one': feminine contributor b allowed to enter —Audrey Wurdemann a protege of the tat Georgs Sterling and descendant of English poet Shelley— but her poetry a masculine wiLty ' t “Hag's Harvest" a new novel by J B Morton London columnbt which Dou- blcday Doran has just published tells ' of a long search for tha world's ugliest woman Tha two Englishmen find her In a cave In tha Caucasian mountains bring her home and bunch her on dat- -sled London ta thb merry tatire of modtrn fads and fashions I W Somerset Maugham! hew book of stories “Ah King" published already ta London will appear shortly in Amer- ' s Old favorites heard on the ranges and at cow camps and bunkhoiues tor many hav been gathered together in ?ears publications recently brought out by the Sam Fox Publishing Company i under title “Song of the Saddles" a book that will help to preserve the flavor of the West’s glamorous “yesterday" Stei- ling Sherwm a westerner himself has rounded up these cowboy ditties and with F Henri Kllckman a musical ai- -' ' thority and from the west also has edited them softening aome of tha edges of tha cowboy vernacular and in aome in- - ' atancea writing new melodies to the old Shoe 4 who Leva listened to soma - t As It Vsci to Be" typical western shack found - among Elzy Bird’s etching group g FRONTIER BALLADS TUT WITHIN COVERS lyrics -- Mww-- of th most promising of the younger artists whoa first professional exhibit was held last season Elzy Bird has done a prodigious amount of work thb summer showing a rare enthusiasm for the art he has chosen as hb vocations studying the etching medium with James T Harwood a masterly exponent of the art Mr Bird has accomplished a series of subjeeb depicting the development of the west which show a decided grasp of the technique of etching as well as to-telligenU conception of theme On ' ’ entertainer at Utah’s southern parks lodges or hav elsewhere heard these rollicking or melancholy airs aung to the accompaniment of banjo or ukulele or guitar will enjoy these the delightful T n books A second group “Bad Mad Songs of the Wild and Woolly West” contain ballads of those dashing hereto of the old days Billy th Kid Jesse James and their Ilk retailing their bold careers Mr Sherwta has had tha assistance of Harry Powell ta editing and reconstruct- - - with “The Buffalo Hunt" picturing the days when the Redmen ranged the prairies these etchings trace the advent of the trapper the caravans led by scouts Indian attacks “The Old Wheel marks the trail with the sad reminders of Its hazards “Into the West Beginning i ‘ -- ilw'iiWilw11 portrays tha covered wagon crossing the desert weary horse stragglers and drooping figures telling of th fatigue of the march First plowing the prospector apd hb burro the stage coach and dashing pony express follow then tha Indians “Moving On" depicted by th squaw with her travob and the coyote “mourner" closes the story “As It Used to Be" the little log cabin of the pioneer finest in b a drypoint and one of ofthetreatment execution and simplicity among the interesting series The etchings are shown with the current exhibit at the Newhouse hotel gallery which also has three charming examples of Mr Bird’s water colors landscape Impressions revealing a marked advance in hb painting the “Autumn ' Cottonwoods" especially fresh and pleasing in Us effect of sunlight Short shavings: Storm Beach b th name of a budding playwright in El Dorado Kan Voltaire made more money than any other writer who ever Dickens was next but both lived were shrewd in investments Geo Middleton’s timely play “Hbat Boom Blah!” b out to book form before proThe sailor expression duction “Rafty weather" b a Suffolk phrase indicating mist originated when French Rob Wagner mad attacks on rafts left th movie editorship of Liberty to devote hb time to hb sprightly Calif b magazine Script for which everyChic Sale b responbody writes free sible for ohanging the name of a hayseed from a Rube to an Elmer Simile “Aa changeable aa the Palace’s The famous rendezvous for policy" American tourists in Paris the Bankers’ Trust company branch b to close shortA bull fighter ta Madrid recently ly offered to kill a bull ta honor of Hatti The New York EveBelle Johnston ning Post going tabloid struck Park Row as profane as Duse doing a shimmy Goldje so long Ziegfeld's efficient secretary it now connected with the producer J J Vincent in the same capacity Zeppo Marx b running a Hollywood cafe as who isn't? They want Bing Crosby for a New York musical show Across from tha new Carroll show “Murder at th Vanities" waa the burGeorgs lesque “Slaughter at Minsky’s Sylvester Viereck b ta Berlin to tater-vle- w A socialite Hitler for magazine ' or-n- ' s -- His ica Doubleday Doran announce last “Sheppey" which opened In 1Londonawan-song his mdntiv Mr Maugham save to the theater It telb of tha effects of spectacular good fortune on a modest hairdresser Western Theme in Etching Among the several artisUo groups whose aspirations are being fostered by th Art Barn on b The Barnacles members of which are interested in fiction writing The organization was formed several week! ago and the following were chosen as a board of directors to supervise lb activities: Earl Kass Professor L C Zucker and Edward Mrs Rosalie May Lloyd b secretary and Mbs Christie Lund was named publicity representative Until recently the semimonthly meetings were devoted to discussions by those who had marketed their materials It was decided however that thb program did not give th members opportunity for personal activity and a new procedure-waadopted Tha meetings have become more Informal and bohembn In char- icier and atmosphere At the meeting to be held Thursday evening various phases of writing will b discussed such deaa characterization scription so that each one attending will find something of major importance to him There will also b general discus--sions and criticism of on another’s original work Markeb for the short story were taken up at the last meeting Refreshments will be served st tha coming meetings and a “penny pot" bps been set up to receive any donations members cart to make toward them All Interested in such literary activity are cordially invited to attend Thursday tha meeting bring held in the Attic gallery a s ipay-pipa- 0 psychology and books on current questions The first Ibt not to exceed ten titles 1 scheduled for the spring - Among the people I’m tired reading about are Lupe Velez Johnnie Weissmuller and Prinpe Mike Romanoff a FURTHER ‘NOTES ON ART AND LITERATURE novel of Jews ta modern Germany eul- mtaatlng in tha Nasi accession which has already been translated and will be published during the winter by The Ylk tag Press the first book of the Hitlerian era by an important axils It b to appear simultaneously In right countries the German aditlon to b published In V Some Opinions Some Short Shavings Some Personalities town ing partner of hers rlage There would be more happy you-diden- to our Letter The old Populist Party is coming back “the above of course comes under the heading of politics Now what can we tell you this week about money? Well we are off the gold standard Yes sir we are off the gold standard Some of our agenb got It straight We are off the gold Now that brings us to effect What effect will that have? Well lb generally whispered around hers among us that are ta on the know that since we ar off the gold we may go still further off but we cant tell you how much further till we receive 12 more subscriptions (Paid up mind you ) “Now that that settles our political and monetary system that brings us down to Farm Relief Well we can confidentially tell you that Farm Relief b a problem Course thb b confidential but Farm Relief b a problem Now that settles politics money and Farm Relief Taxes ws have some confidential word for you on taxes We have it on the best of our information that taxes will be relieved but not until after your death “Industry Industry has shown a slight gam since we wrote you last week but the expense of keeping tab on whether it made a gam has overshadowed the amount of actual gam “Labor We can confidentially report to our clienb that Labor b not laboring As to the cause of labor not laboring its generally rumored around here among our source of information that labor b not laboring because labor hasent got a Job “The Weather The Weather here in Washington has been yes and no “The NBA The NBA occupies the same building It did “The R F C We will have something to report to you In our next week's letter N?w remember subscribe to Jim Jasbos Confidential Letter If you take our Letter you will be the life and envy of the Party You will have all the dope at your finger prints (I mean tips finger tips) for remember we know all tha prominent men’s ohouffers Yours Jim has actual figure to show the original Four Hundred b now Eight Thousand On of Broadway’s worldliest press A agenb b named Alex Yokel thrilling mystery novel “S 8 Murder (Farrar and Rinehart) - Edward G Robinson’s wife aelecb hb pictures for New York has him ta most cases ten theaters exploiting Ylddbh plays Noel Coward's newest b titled “ConDon Marquis' wife versation Piece" Marjorie b splendidly cast ta the Geo M Cohan play Major Raymond Dickson Is honored by Irvin & Cobb in dedicating hb new mystery “Murder A' corking novel ot Day by Day" th Ozarks "The Wood Colt” by Thames Williamson (Har court Brace) Oliver Herford thinks Willb J Abbot is one of the world’s best reporters and W R Hearst b among the greatest ' that S Jay creative geniuses of hb period Kaufman calls the Broadway columnists “The Prince Mike Romanoffs of journalism" - i (Copyright 1933 Syndicate McNaught Inc) WRITER’S HOBBIES “ Stuart Palmer whose “The Puzzle of the Pepper Tree” waa a Crime club choice is said to possess a collection ot statuettes of penguins second only to Roland Young’s A cat called “Psmith" and a puppy that answers to “Pjonea" ar hb companions -- wire-haire- --