Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER 24 1933 Christmas the Miracle of All Time BY KATHLEEN NORRIS Down Through thoAges the Unchanged Gldiy of Christmas Comes Once again the punctual calendar - to the eu n greatest feast and bring once again we sav to eat h othei Mo rv and (' ti r i stniiii1 llod bless you!" we say Perhaps these wolds autosometmatically imes without flopping to think of them meaning Any conventionalised wish or greeting is in danger of becoming mechanical but at all events we do say them and the merri ness and the tries Ing do bear their It u i poor frurt heait indeed that does nut feel the infection of happiness and brotherlmess on Kathleen Norrla Christmas day that does not expand In the warmthand generosity and kindness that wash acrosa the nation in a great wavt on December 25 We all know just how infectious what we call the “Christmas spirtt" is We all know with what determination we decide In November that this year we are really nut going to do anything for Chtistmas And we all know how insidiously how irresistibly the current creeps to our ankles uses to our kneel sweeps us away from all our bearings into very gloiv of buying and giving planning and deviating sweeps us into that old childish kingdom of surpuses and Santa Claus and tree in apite of ourselves! Perhaps ten million persons won’t have a good time tomoirow in America in lifeless live homes or loveless They in hotels and I lye additional holiday will only mearyto them a day of golf if they are Californians or a day of bridge and yawning and daytime nap if they are not and too heavy a dinner The streets and tha thops and the menu card will all be decorated with holly and bells and red ribbons but that will only add one more note to their general sense of discontent with life their sense of being out of it all But to a hundred million hearts and soula tomorrow will bring the brightest hours of the year In forty million homes there will be happiness happiness over smell gifts end unusually tender good wishes happiness in children’s ecstasies and the high spirits that attend an unuaually good dinner loved facea about the dining table and the flutter of excitement and hospitality and cheer that ie well described by the word “gala” Forty million gala occasions all being celebrated at once No wonder the very word Christmas sets one's blood to dancing and lifts one's heart) This la celebrating on a pretty large scale after all and although we don'H do It In the old peasant fashion with parades through the streets and holiday head dreSaea and much dancing in wooden shoes we have our quitter Joyi that are Just a deep However even when you list the gifts and good wishes aforementioned and the children'! delight and the family dinners you naturally do not touchthe real secret of Christmas It the gifts apit tree and feast had no other reason tor being than that we liked them and they were a sort of custom and people had always done it that way on that day they would not long survive No after a year or two or a dozen years the life would somehow go out One nation would of the celebration move It to another date Another nation would alter Us nature In a short while nothing recognizable would be left pt it at all Down through Not so Christmas the ages the unchanged glory of it comes untouched- - Hard hearts soften because of it troubled spirits find a few hours 'of rest and the old and the poor and the sick and the sad have their share in the general happiness that means pesce on earth and good will to men p It has become the fashion to say carelessly that the day of miracles is past Onje wonders what the miracle scoffers hires you? never Could Lloyd I think played characters he a hold of a beard somewhere perhaps worked in a barber shop but I anyhow have seen old pictures of Harold when he had on a beard I can figure how he got the beard but I cant dope out where he got the mucilage for 1 think there wasimes in those days had got hi forty million homes there will be happiness By O O MoINTYRE Something about Will Rogers fearfully Upsets pseudo intellectuals and a sprinkling of parlor pinks He gets in their long hair Everything he does grows increasingly irritating His gum chewing is a fraud his twang a pose and his scrambling of ithe queen's English a sop for the happiness over small gifts and and the high unusually tender good wishes happiness in children's ecstasies spirits that attend an unusually good 'dinner make of Christmas What Is their answer when we ask "Why Christmas'”’ tfon't ansrwer They naturally They have to hide their heads on Christmas For as Christmas the blazstands day ing inexplicable miracle of all time not - our own two thousand years of hlstoiy nor the four times longer history of the oldest nations present any parallel to it A peasant baby wiboTnand named Jesus and when He grew up He into some terpreted the old scripture humbla friends in an obscure oriental - village and was suspected of high treason and was executed as a common crim'-inal He never wrote his theories They were directly opposed to everything men called wisdom at the time They were opposed to revenge hate greed the acquisition of wealth and power They made children important and the sharing of your bread your coat with your neighbor They said weakness was strength and meekness the irresistible power and that he who would be fust among us all must be our servant There in that sentence is the living miracle of all time For ‘what name and what story comes next? If you answer hastily “Confucius’ or “MoI hammed" you will only tell suspected anyway— that you don’t know Confucius or Mohammed anything about Amuse ourselves at the Christmas table on eve bieaktast this Sunday morning 'by tring to name the person next m importance to Jesus Christ Under the banner of that beautiful name men have sometimes done strange They have buried it in ritual things it and superstition they have plated - Far deep m the gold He so hated from sharing their coats their bread with His holy poor they have taken the last penrjy in tribute from the needy and have said it was for God’s glory They have forgotten meekness and goodness and they that were hungry and sick and in prison But even the long ugly ages of abuse could not quench the truth and the power of what this unknown Carpenter so quietly said so many years ago Despite the tortures and the prisons the eligious wars and the long sickening stories of heretics and persecutions and oppressions that truth and that power remain in the very name of Jesus Christ me-wh- ridge-hopp- and healing ahd love and brotherhood still widen and deepen where that name The world when it speaks is found and the sneerlngly of the creeds churches sees only the hypocrites and the pretenders— they were there In His day too But behind them and under them and all about them holding together that tremendous innovation that we call “Christianity" are the millions who go on struggling toward the day when His kingdom will come trymg always to be kinder and more generous to feed the hungry and comfort the comfortless in His name And wherever they kneel in churches today they find Him find a reason and an answer to our troubled that questions discover His task for us is easy and His burden light! Tomorrow Is His day and their day The blowing horns the gifts and holly the' holiday and the feast are but the guinea stamp The gold of Christmas belongs to the kingdom that lies within each one of our hearts and souls (Copyright 1933 Bell Syndicate Inc) ' CAREERS DESCRIBED IIS BIOGRAPHY WORK OF BROAD ARIETY -- J The Literary Almanac d 1933 by the McNaught Syndicate Inc) Opinions of One Famous Columnist About Another Thus we do homage to the Christmas Child Who brought to us a promise and a light Sufficient to wipe out all fear and span The universe in love thou’gh long defiled With hatred and dark greed He asks tonight "Have we kept faith with Christ the sorrowing man?" e e e Robert Underwood Johnson has Just issued “Aftermath" a volume of “new poems at 80" as a supplement of his “Poems of Fifty Years" “Aftermath" contains pieces on a wide range i of themes e e e “Round Up” a collection of tha most celebrated tales by the late Ring Lard-tie- r has been published by Scribner’s in a new edition (Copyright ) By CHRISTIE LUND Christmas again! The hearthfires burning bright Gay tinsel shimmering upon a tree The ageless stars twinkling against the night And worship rising in each heart each knee Bent reverently before the Christ Child’s shrine Where gifts are brought more exquisite and rare Than any on that other night divine When shepherds offered frankincense and myrrh - 1 point CHRISTMAS SONNET the Great" Twenty years of furnishing the entire woild with laughs u not a bad epitaph on anybodys tombstone Especially w hen you have like him never resorted to smut of any nature It was a grand party the biggest thing I ever saw It would take me three columns to tell you who all wa there The list read like one of those “Who delinquent in their income tax” Out bv one of the orchestras I run onto Groucho Marx I say ope of the orchestras for there was orchestras for you to get out of your carl by another for you to check your hatlbv and another one to dafice by Why had eeiythiscouple their own orchestra well one I am talking about was Hawaiian and was playIng'“The Last Roundup ” Groucho suggested that a cowboy tenor voice would be just about what waslucktng in this whole musical setup so I joined in Now here is a funirw thing about those Marxes Groucho can play as good on the guitar as Harpocan on the harp or Chico on the piano but he never does He is really what I call an Ideal musician He can play but dont ‘In New Yoik when I was playing with Miss Dorothy Stone in “Three Cheers” he even tried to teach me to plav the guitar He would come oyer to rrry dressing loom before our two shows started and he would play and we would sing those old songs and so this thing was reallv nothing new we was pulling but it was new to the gang "The Last Roundup” Instead of us dying off why that just give us encouragement and for a half hour we totally ruined (musically) Mr Roaches party Course lots of folks joined us to try and drown ua out but' not us The next night Mrs Rogers end 1 had dinner over at Grouchoa and we took up right where we had left off only he played the piano that night T love to sing old songs and any time anybody will start one I am the loudest and if they wont start em 1 will myself But we did havens good time at Hals party and I believe everybody did end when he ia in pictures forty years I am going to go to another- one for him Roach say a he will hire- Groucho and me the next time But the songs we sing now will never become old songs No one will ever remember em that long - NOTES ON ART AND LITERATURE Goldsmith’s “Christina of Sweden” will be published December 27 by Dbubleday Doran Miss Goldsmith who now lives in England was born in Chicago and spent her girlhood In Berlin where she was an attache of the United States embassy She Is the wife of Frederick Voigt an editorial writer on the famous Manchester Guardian Miss Goldsmith’s first book was “Frederick just eat the buttons off his uniform get those two words stiaight employer and employee well whichever one it is that does the work v hy 1 was him Roach dug ifp the money and I ex pect sometimes w hen I Jiadent earned it tMaby alf the time ) Mi Roach is the man that makes the very fine comedies and "in the tally days he was the producer Of Harold Lloyd Harold was there the other night Our business or anybody business dont stable a better or tiner fellow than Harold Lloyd Everybody He is a grand Lke him young fellow that has not gone “anything” He Isstlt just Lloyd lie and Hal have always remained great friends Tipne is 4 great deal in common for Hal' is another that has not been led has w ue by the applause It w as the 20th a miversary of his'entry into pictures I think he entered pictures as a cowboy not because he was one but he had a Bull Durham tobacco aaok hanging out of his shirt pocket so the casting director naturally thought that constituted a cowboy in those days if you played in pictures at all you played a cowboy for thats all there was to em a cowboy running down a hill and- having a fight at the bottom Hal at tnat time couldent ride a horse especially down hill He has since learned and plays an excellent game of polo but in those davs he must have played the rancher whose daughter was stolen and he staved at home and pointed out which way thev went You remember theie vas always one fellow left just to ' ' Margaret when he would have to eat the mucilage AS Lloyd and Roach got to producing their own they mostly used policemen for characters They dident use horses for a hoise got more than an actor m those davs and you had to feed aNiorse but a man playing the policeman would By WILL ROGERS Well all I know L just what I read In the papers or what I run into here end there Been doing a little prowling around here latelv kind of broke out Mr Hal socially Roach an old emdont that ployer mean the guy that a Day Untouched When Troubled Spirits Find a Few Hours of Rest r Something About Hal Roach His Birthday Party and Songs Riverside Junior college laymen aided the author in preparing tha work itu-den- ts New titles recently released In tha Star series of reprints include: "gword of God (Joan of Arc)" by Guy Endore William Bolttho’s "Twelve Against the Gods” "Story of the Confederacy” by R S Henry “Tolerance" by Hendrik Van Loon "Cross Roads of the Java Seas" by Hendrick de Leeuw “Wolf Soleht" novel by John Cowper Powys ( " “Is That In the Bible?" by Dr Charles Francis Potter is a ntw'publicatlon by the Garden City Publishing company a book that gives a “human interest” approach to tha Scripture A second title (not a reprint) is “African Intrigue Alfred Batson's story of the military espionage and conspiracy in Africa which helped to precipitate the World war It is the story of a survivor of the expedition that captured the wireless station in Kamins Africa “California Deserts" which Stanford University Press has Just published is not a collection of prospectors’ talej nor yet of merely aesthetic impressions but is full of authentic inhumation concernit’s fauna and ing desert origins Doubteday Doran arc pubhvhmg "The m flora and other farts Its author EdIake” Dorothv Massinghnms which Katharine Hepburn is to Tier at mund C Jaeger corrects the belief that the Salton basin was until recently an the Ume the production opens on BroadAim of tha Gull of Carolina as held bjr way p'-i- i With the lives of nearly 700 Americans from Presidents Madison and McKinley to Hugh McLaughlin notorious saloonkeeper and political boss of Brooklyn and Samuel Mason desperado and river pirate comprised in its data the twelfth volume of the Dictionary of American Biography has been completed under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies There are 387 contributors to the volume which describes careers of statesmen journalists architects authois artists army and navy officers scientists merchants railroad builders labor leaders explorers and the fields of baseball chess and stock raising are also represented Among the well known families represented m the work— which covers the M’s only — are the Madisons the Matheis and the Marshalls the longest articles Madt-ao- n bemg those dealing with James fourth U S president Chief Justice" John Marshall and the lives of Increase and Cotton Mather iamous New EnAlso there are the Masons glanders of Virginia and New England the Martha's Vineyard Mayhews the Mariigaults jyvtruv’innriri’r’ has served five years as ' the Shanghai correspondent for the Consolidated Press has developed a lucid style with extraordinary descriptive powers un-as disclosed by the manner In which he folds the pathos the tragedy and corruption existing tn this exploited region The swift geographical changes’ are recorded depicting the cleavage of a nation the tumbling of dynasties and the elevation of war lords over the wreckage Actual events are of their predecessors recorded In clear and brief natratlves Mr Snow’s own personal adventures give to the book ta distinctive personality and his opinions concerning generals bandits ‘spies and statesmen reveal a keen sense of values “Far Eastei n Front” w ill gi e the t carter a grasp on events of cm rent end It is a jourpolitical significance nalistic achievement in which merit submerges its minor defect m EDGAR SNOW FAR EASTERN FRONT By Edgar Snow Publishers Harrison Smith and Robert Hafs Inc New York With the audden Invasion of Manchuria by thearmles of Japan the was once again turned on th'e Far East upon China and her millions of inhabitants upon Japan and tha ambitions of a nation forced to expand For the West to fully comprehend the BeEast seems virtually impossible hind this mystery which is Manchuria the ‘‘birthplace of conquerors” a stir- ring humandrama is being enacted It ia this- Moiv that Edgar Snow under-- t kes to telin “Far Eastern Front” Killed w ith the youthful spirit of author who is less than 30 soars old apparently found a productive '‘bunting” ground in the Orient He spot--lig- - Bill is everything he doesn't seem to be — according to their version But there does not appear to be anything they can do txcept cluster at Alexander Woollcott's gossipry and jeer Will Rogers irritates because he has confounded these hooting intellectuals time after time He always lands on top Everything he attempts has been successful As a monologist he received the highest pay ever dished out by that most extravagant of producers— Florenz Ziegfeld Jr He broke into every topnotch periodical when he had his fling writing for magazines His newspaper syndications included such a staid holdout agaiast syndication as the New York TimesN In the movies when his last contract was signed he received the biggest yearly sum up to that time When he took up polo he was able to beat professionals in a short time sniff It is the that hs yokel manners and backwoods whine do the trick Several weeks ago he went on the radio in the manner of a football announcer using tte state of the world as a symbol of a game He talked in a ratatat Graham McNamee fashion There was’ not a drawl in theentire broadcast Or a hesitation That broadcast in' 60 hours brought 95000 refor of his talk It quests printed copies was reprinted by such conservative New the as York newspapers s Herald-Tribun- e In Rogers’ career this sort of success goes on and on with constant repeats He can hobnob with whom he pleases call Mrs Longworth “Alice” and President Coolidge ’’Cal” because he is the best companion m the land He is in demand as a banquet toastmaster because no one else does it so well Above all Rogers' life has been as He never wrote or clean as a Whistle spoke a dirtyjine There is not one of South Caroling Mahans Meades and Meigs An array of cabinet officers and public officials includes notable names in early and late history of the nation Of special interest is an article on the physicist ’Albert A Michelson whose life was almost wholly devoted to the study Of light qid numerous other scientists who have made special studies in The invarious fields are represented ventors include Maxim brothers Hiram and Mergenthaler who and Hudson g linooriginated In J884 the machine type Educators and scholars are headed by Horace Mann Francis A March William H McGuffey of "McGuffey's readers’ fame and various university heads and founders Herman Melville author of "Moby Dick" Joaquin Miller and Brander Mathews are among the authors of greatest note Gari Melchers recently deceased is among the’ artists his story told by Royal Cortissoz Homer Dodge Martin and Francis D Millet are The newspaper field is repincluded resented by Milton A McRae of the Scripps organization and Charles R Miller NemrJYorW Times editor ip chief not neglected such names Women as Dolly Ktadisory Clara Marshall pioneer in medicine and Emma J C apostle of the kindergarten movement are here Names of the Indian chief Massasoit of Ezra Meeker and Alexander Majors suggest the variety offered on the roster direct-castin- as Mar-wed- It's all tiny black mark against him right to kid him he is quite a kidder himself but it is foolish to try to laugh him off He's as permanent as the JerAlso — and this may add sey Palisades to the irritation — he's many times a millionaire a Hobart Bosworth appears the doyen of screen actors This m spite of having reached his zenith in the silent flickers of 25 years ago Now and then he appears in the talkies a well set-uaristocrat with that stage presence only the old school actor reHe is past 70 but about the tains youngest looking man for his age on the screen white-haire- d The Tin Pan Alley composer who wrote "Goodnight Little GiH of Mv Dreams" should be forced to listen all day for days and days to “The Spanish Cavalier” from which the tune was either pilfered or there was a gosh aw- ful coincidence “The Log of the Bety Ann" is the c record of an Ohio river boy’s ambition to run an antiquated steamboat in the Pittsburgh-Cmcmnatrade at the peak of the Gasoline Age Frederick Way Jr bought the stern wheel packet while it was being patched up at the Galltpolis Ohio wharf He captained it quixotically and sometimes quite pathetically through low tides freeze-over- s and tne merman's Every now and then it would blow up or flounder in a But Captain Way had his shufmate fling roustabouts his mud clerks and varied Ohio river personnel about to cheer him on Only those who have spent their boyhood aucan the the river understand along thor's passionate loVe for it serio-comi- ti mud-ban- blue-oathe- d E H Merryman is Short shavings in charge of one of New York's largest funeral parlors Fay Templeton was born in Little Rock Ark 67 years ago Will Rogeis likes to read his colLioumn to his wife befere filing it nel Barrymore ha a pronounced limp “Where Do We Go From off screen Here” by Emily Grant Hutchings (Putnam) is great comfort for those who believe life and personality Survive physical death She was a pupil of Dr " James Hyslop Three hours after Lee Tracy was dismissed he ‘had four offers for Broadway stage stardom Simile: “Uppity as the New York state Ersktne Gwynne’s twin tax bureau" brother was killed In the war They were aJ'klike as two peas Ed Sullivan Broadway columnist was highly praised in initial appearance as an acEarl Carroll is appearing before tor women’s clubs flaying dramatic critics As many people visit the Empire Tower in the hope of seeing A1 Smith as in seeing the city from tfie clouds were Herbert Swope Imprisoned for 48 minutes hi a Pine Messmate street building elevator Kendall began his career as a mining Norman Pierce lawyer in Montana is known as "The Bachelor Poet of the Blackmail tribute ia deductAir” able from income taxes m all Euro-pea- n but not in America countries A Gladstone epigram: “A bounder' Fran-chidea of celebrity is notoriety” dresser Tone is a sedate Queenie Smith can whistle through Ted Saucier is among those her teeth who went on the wagon with repeal "Love Among the Haystacks" by D H Lawrence is bemg put out by the Viking press with a reminiscence by And for a rainy night David Garnett shudderer try “The Menace” (Little Walter O’Keefe was once BroVn) a telephone operator on the South Bend e Rudy Vallee (Ind) the most sued of the crooners Jumps at He fears a a touch on the back Paul Block's apartsubpena server ment is now in the next block to his Park Child’ Twenty-twavenue office icstaiirants v ill sell wine or liquor W 'h lerngnilion able coats are Liking a big drop' News-Tribun- o author of "Night Over Filch'Pond" Houghton Mifflin n a lnv tn know win critic-looking upon the book a a nv Merv story when it was intended as a psychological study of married life Cora - Ja'rett i k Ru-ia- -- n tCopy right 1933 Syndicate MrNaught Inc) a |