Show 1" THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING In the Field of Modern Writers -- vi English Novelist Writes a New Type of Christmas Story Placed in Contemporary Setting and Novel in Design By E E HOLLIS- - CHRISTMAS TREE By Lady Eleanor Smith Publisher Bobbs-Mer-r- lll Company Indianapolis Ind HERE is a booh so different from Lady Eleanor Smith’s previous one might almost suspect it had been written by another person It reveals an entirely new facet of the author’s talent Her interests are not altogether In the past picturesque and glamorous as the earlier stories suggested she is a been observer of the men and women the postwar era has developed InAplace of the circus folk the wild Romanies or colorful stage personalities of yesterday of “Red Wagon” “Flamenco” or “Ballerina" It is varied types of London society of today that her pen portrays The structure of her book is wholly different also Instead of the narrative spanning the long period of a life it is but a few days out of the lives of her people through whose incidents they are revealed As the title im- Christmas-tim- e in fact rather a number of stories Elies the story is of the together by a novel device The tired spinster Miss Heath in the! department of a great store handling Christmas trees during the rush hours of Christmas Eve has time to view her customers but casually Afterward telling her roommate the gossip she recalls several of the tree buyers and romantic Ethel fits stories to their personalities “Some people have all the fun” it seems to them But the author’s concern is to disclose the actual truth about these “seven characters in search of a Christmas tree'and the tree’s significance for each — which never is near to the women’s envious surmises! For instance the young Fenwicks — quarreling “like cat and dog” it seemed to undiscerning Miss Heath — are devoted lovers differing only because Peter wants to The tree was to be a special spend more on Dinah than they can afford occasion for them their own party They spent so much of their time in other people’s homes being charmihg to everyone — that was the price they paid for happiness They hated feeling like parasites but it was worth anything to have each other They were too poor to marry and have children but they had loved each other had wanted the children so thej had dared — and they are delightful There’s the elderly lonely ffgrtnan teacher decking her tiny tree to make her poor room seem like the home Stout Lord Penarth— far-aw- ay a joke to most people only his wife had a perverted sense of humor — didn’t buy his expensive tree and decorations for the house in Belgravia it went to a hospital room where the plain little woman who really loved him adored it The grand tree Mr Brodie bought wasn’t for his grandchildren — he had none and he hated Christmas But the scathing words his secretary dared to speak brought cheer and happiness to a Children’s Hospital while Mr Brodie’s belief in his own magnifi- cence is restored The pitiable Felix hoping to please t a dazzling film actress and having his high moment obliterated by her selfish indifference the tragic Russian like a ghost from the past whose stage party failed when the honor guest refused to appear the ambitious maitre d’hotel whose great success has an are others in this group the threads of whose lives are in a way entangled Lady Eleanor weaves them all into a story that has color and romance and fascination and ironic contrast but little of the conventional spirit of the Yule season Even the wedding bells that peal for its ending have an ironic tone ( anti-clim- GLORY 1933 Activities in Utah Artists' Colony Vivid Impressive ax SHEER FANTASY STUART’S LATEST By Francil Stuart Publisher The MacMillan Company New cy at her feet With the beginning of his campaign in the Far East where cloaked as an international transport company he has established a vast air fleet which he turns against the Occident the story becomes too fantasic for any credibility and its symbolism confused The blind nightingale belonging to the Chinese War Lord who is the general’s tool perhaps symbolizes the sorrow that wrings the heart set on triumph as that which sends Mairead having learned the emptiness of her mad dream of glory back again to the woods of peace Mr Stuart’s book which has the fine poetic quality of writing that was found in his others seems to say that neither saint nor conqueror can lead these tragic outcasts of a world that has lost ita belief in heroism and in sanctity FUN AND FINANCE IN A NUDIST COLONY ll LIVING By Elmer Davis and Guy Holt Publishers Showing Utah’ Painter in Nor Art Expression Book Gives Report r OivWar Business JiK'i SLANTING LINES OF STEEL By E Alexander Powell Publisher The MacMillan Company New York Having had the advantage of being present in the theater of war almost from the opening acene Colonel E Alexander Powell has here retraced his adventures detailing with extraordinary vividness incident witnessed during his day as a correspondent jsadding up and down the continent from the channel to the Adriatic sea beEnglish fore America’ entry Sometimes Colonel Powell was privileged to see the drama from the wings and once or twice Just managed to eicape being caught in the fall of the curtain Whfn the great story “broke" in 1014 he was of tne crowd of writer avidly seeking opportunity to “cover” the show and his qualifications gained him a proposition from the New tfork World which with his first dispatches telling how the silver Zeppelin brought death to Antwerp on a night of that early August was promptly turned into a definite contract Colonel Powell chose Belgium as his field knowing 'Paris would be overrun with correspondents and he desired to reach the front promptly Sufficient effrontery and impressiveness will help one to go anywhere he says Perhaps it was effrontery to address the king disre gardXlg diplomatic proprieties yet his letter brought about the mission of Mme Lalla Vandervelde to America which engaged the interest of ils women in Belgium’s cause In return for this good office the obstacles to his going to the front were removed and as a result he became an unofficial liaison officer between Antwerp and Washington during the time Minister Brand Whitlock was ahut up in Brussel Colonel Powell had a ringside seat for th engagement when Belgian forces attacked von Beseler’s army on the Senne and in his absorption in the drama escaped only by a hair’s breadth being captured by German uhlans He carried an urgent message through the German lines to Whitlock in Brussels evading by a reckless dash General von Bissing’s orders against his return to Antwerp He stayed in that city during th terrific bombardment — typing his dispatches to the sound of German shall —and witnessed its hurried evacuation It was then occurred the incident which drew censure from certain member of f 1 state department when the ! 1 ” I4 i y wr th York who has been cited as possibly the most important of FRANCIS STUART Irish writers today seems to become ever more immersed in the world- - of fantasy and removed from realities In his first novels “Pigeon Irish" and “The Coloured Dome” which claimed so wide attention and earned strong praise his intensely spiritual philosophy was developed through real human drama But with “Glory" except in its beginnings it is an unreal world that he creates its characters for the most part stand simply as symbols having no actuality whatever and you cannot believe in their impulses The impelling thirst for glory is a central theme of the book and it presents Mr Stuart’s protest against the hard materialism rotting this modern wbrld It is through the powerful General Porteous head of transcontinental air lines that he says: “The world is no longer going to be ruled by governand all who can’t adjust ourselves to ments by empires but by machines civilization are going to be outcasts” Yet it is the austere a machine-mad- e general who symbolizes the cynic— conqueror scornful of the world its its hypocrisy its faith in its empty civilization” The young girl Mairead is Mr Stuart’s representative of the tragic generation outcast from this smug civilization symbol of the handful in whom reside “any beauty any fire any real freedom” She is daughter of one or the slipshod Irish gentry the Irish folk whom Mr Stuart is skilled in portraying because they are close to his heart The father Mike O’Byrne whose chief interests are horses and racing lives in expectation of some major event finding it when an international company buys seme of his fields for an aerodrome Mairead who had lived a lonely life managing the decaying house the one servant Jenny and her chickens is immediately caught up in the excitement of the air enterprise drawn away from the spiritual adventure on whose brink she is trembling through the influence of the young mystic De Lacy her neighbor Seeking the meditative life he has built a hermitage in the woods a secret holy place The simple Mairead is taught flying and feels the- fascination of the huge aerodrome’s mysteries even while sensing She faces her destiny when General Porteous chooses its cold materialism her to pilot him on a flight whose goal is the domination of the world He recognizes in her the desire for glory the thirst for triumph and the passion that has gone from him she inspires him to a determination to lay the world BARE 31 £ LONDONERS AT CHRISTMASTIDE — DECEMBER - ?'' A ' " " - 'A "v' ‘ V r'v v ' fr - v f ' v lX Clay model of Civic Service trophy created by Paul Clowes a Salt Lake artist Having' established himself as an illus- colo- nel Consul General Dledrich having fled broke out the American flag over the consulate for the shelter of the Americans remaining This bold but justifiable action was to cost Powell his appointment as military observer with th Italian armies when on America's entry he promptly returned to serve under his own flag But in uniform he was to spend his time at Plsttsburg at Camp Lewis and at “A P O 714” the school of the line at Langres Colonel Powell has a most readable often impressive graphic style his pages are continually absorbing particularly the early chapters of his Antwerp experiences his call on General von Boehn along the French lront in the air raid at Dunkirk with Italy's lighting forces on “the roof of Europe” A peculiarly vivid passage is that which pictures the sight he viewed from a Flanders hilltop the German Juggernaut rolling over the plains of Belgium von Kluck’s invading army It is not all war however amusing anecdotes' are plenti- ful is not a virtue no- ticeable in Colonel Powell’s book but he ia honest in admitting he is just as desirous of recognition “as other men" and surely he deserves it for a book that does much to expose this "senseless business” of war STUDENT ARTIST’S PICTURES INTEREST On of the most promising students of the University of Utah art depart- ment Donna Day has been continuing her study at the Parry Studio of Fine Arts where she has recently presented a very interesting exhibition o' ter work which demonstrated her ah in several mediums of expression group of pictures was also show Lion House Center under t vision of Mrs A L Beeley Miss Day does some excellct work in design that is quiteoriglnal her masks being striking and the dancing figures effective She has several small landscapes in oils that show this strength in design One particularly pleasing subject is of the valley at night set w’ith points of brilliant lights Her studies of trees are especially nice in treatment and an interesting Industrial theme gives S glimpse of the factory district She uses water colors with considerable deftness and there is an imaginative quality in her impressions of a wet night on the street with the pavement reflecting the golden lights from store windows or a stormy day with the crowds scurrying along under umbrellas An effective arrangement of flowers against a copper plate which has a ldvely tonal harmony of soft browns and tans and copper shades with a hint of purple shows her skill in still life painting and her small drawings give an Idea of her sense of composition and form Miss Day has taken her varied examples of creative imagination to California for showing but it is likely they will be shown again at the Lion House Yfcv--er- al f k ' £ vvT V' v - ' ' BLACK HAWTHORN By John Stephen Strange Publisher The Crime Club Inc Garden City N Y Around the beautiful “black hawthorn” jar which in 1855 the firit Waterman Gaunt had brought back from China clung a tradition of death The family in the great mansion on Stone Haven point scouted the legend of this “curse of the Gaunts” yet none would break th seal on that jar purported to hold the ghosts Of evil The Gaunt past was the mansion built by a fortune gained in the opium trade and the first Waterman rumor told had been murdered by the brother whose home he had despoiled The second generation united the families again for strangely the daughter of the murderer had married the son of hi victim Now Hetty Gaunt controlled-th- e great Gaunt steamship lines exceprfor the minor share held by her nephew Daniel Minton head of the company Th matriarchal Hetty held the whip-han- d over her children— Waterman 111 at whose judgment she scolfed the dipsomaniac Edgar and his hateful wife Elvira th sweet devoted Nancy Carey the younger son whose artistic urge she held in check and the vivacious Susan ever on the verge of revolt— and dominated their lives ' Then Hetty dies suddenly as her husband' also had died presumably of heart failure but the undertaker finds that small wound in her left side made by an instrument so thin it had not drawn blood Disclosure of the fact she had secretly made a new will the night before her death throws suspicion upon the son who had prompted this act but a third tven more audacious crime follows precipitated Detective Potter realizes by discovery that the seal of the black hawthorn jar has been broken Have the forces of evil been Released to work out the Gaunt curse? Matter-of-fac- t Potter is not to be misled by any legendary curse the secret lie In human hands A piece of charred cord an old book two wet bathing suits are clue that involving everyone in that old house and' several outside it finally lead him to the criminal Mr Strange has constructed his yarn with skill providing all the elements of suspense of and breathless incident of romance “Black Hawthorn” is bound to be pop- ular NAME FOR THE FANS Judging from the reports at crime story critids Peter Hunt newcomer in the field with hi "Murders at Scandal House” ia a name the mystery addicts Will Cuppy says o this will remember first book that "believe it or not here’s a mystery for grownups" and another declares it’s “a corkar of a Yarn” all and about “a hellion mother-lo-lgw- " murders in the Adirondack t Rosita Forbes whose book “Eight Republics in Search of a Future" ia a recent Stokes issue is now on a lecture tour of th country telling of her recent 20000-miltrip in South America THUNDER SHIELD By Frederic F Van De Water Publisher Company Indianapolis Ind Going back into the annals of America’s history Mr Van De Waterhas written a vigorous telling story authentically colored of the days when the white man’s conquest of the western frontier and encroachment on the redman’s hunting grounds were contested by these first He has done much more Americans than contriva a stirring narrative bis novel constitutes a fiery indictment of the white man’s treachery and ruthless- ness in dealing with the Indian His story ia based on an outworn form Hiram Shaw a lad of 12 lost from a wagon train is made daptive by the Cheyenne and becomes the beioyed son of s chieftain Thunder Shield who sees him as the incarnation of the son he has However the story is given inofirned new treatment: Mr Van De Water deals with Hiram’s problem as youth and in manhood torn between allegiance to two races between his white instincts and Hiram's love for his adopted people father had treated him cruelly and in truth he had not been lost but abandoned with his dying father and a small girl whereas he received only kindness and love frqm the Cheyennes His loyalty belongs to' them and he burns with hatred for the injustices to which they are subjected yet he cannot forget his white blood nor the little Linnet who had been hia companion and who had been returned to her guardian Tha atory shifts between the Indian camps th new city of Denver in the ’60s and follows th United States troops on Indian campaigns Ijs characters both Indian and white' are strongly drawn and the pictures particularly of Hiram's earlier years with the Cheyennes gives interesting descriptions of Indian customs beliete and rituals It 1 a long bitter record of dishonored treaties of unwarranted assaults retaliatory warfare and futile sacrifice which comes to Its thrilling climax with th historic episode of the Little Big Horn and the course of Hiram’s tragic life is a vivid thread running through it Love -- for Linnet leads Hiram to give up hia Indian friend he becomes a private in Custer’s Seventh cavalry and a whita" enemy brings shout the crowning tragedy of hi life—he is separated from his white friends and ha lost the trust of the Indians but it is as Cheyenne warrior that h die For his full and vivid account of Cus- - g ter’ last campaign while it differs in some point from other stories Mr Vsn De Wcter has various sources Custer s own story among them Little Brown & Co have announced a special edition of the first three vole "Memoirs of umes of the Prince von Bulow” which Is to heIs sold exvolume only In sets The fourth with Von cluded because it desls early years less' Interesting to Bobbs-Merri- ll trator of distinctive gifts and an interpreter of the west in paint Paul Clowes now emphasizes his amazing versatility by proving an unexpected ability to model in clay The small piece representing an aged Indian and his pony that he has recently executed for the Salt Lake Advertising club as its civic service award has an interest quite outside iu worthy purpose It reveals Mr Clowes' broader artistic talents and marks the fact that bis instinct for characterization even-ia medium entirely-neto him—this being his first attempt at working in clay— is In this group he strong and unfailing has expressed the trails of both man and beast the Indian qualities of endurance d and the sturdiness of the shaggy desert pony while the piece as a whole suggests the desert atmosphere His understanding of anatomy always a characteristic in his animal paintings is In this initial effort to again evident express himself in clay Mr Clowes has shown an aptitude unsuspected and one his friends will hope to see developed rough-coate- further The group stands about six inches high from surface of the base to the crown of the Indian's head and will be cast in bronze Mr Clowes' merits as a painter of western theme ia well known some of his splendid interpretations of early range days decorating the Ogden stock show buildings and his Vanity Fair sketches of western “dude ranch life caught the fancy of eastern critics E Ernest K Lindley Washington correspondent for a New York newspaper has written the history of "The Roosevelt Revolution” which is a book of the The moment from The Viking Press title is Mr Lindley’s it appears whoever else has used it since it was announced by him as early as th first of September Two young publisher recently connected with large companies have formed the new firm of Reynal and Hitchoock Inc with New York office They are Curtice Hitchcock of the Century Company and Eugene Reynal president of Blue Ribbon books Vk four-volum- " '' Bu-low- ' f'v yjAifr-- American readers e Bobbs-Merri- Company Indianapolis Ind within yourself a sneaking interest in this growing cult of rYOU find or if circumstances have compelled you to study the question of where a man might hide himself successfully from the public you would do well to read Messrs Davis and Holt Perhaps you need no answer to these questions but read their book ahyway for a couple of jolly hours’ entertain- ment You will be in entirely competent hands - Mr Davis who introduced “Friends of Mr Sweeney” to readers is a past master and Mr Holt lends able assistance First we learn of the difficulties of young Eric Hale whose past service as member of Mr Hoover’s commission hasn’t at all fitted him for his present post of assistant to the president of R L A to which he has been lured by the suave optimist Mr Wilford Glaive An entomologist pure and simple (very pure and simple) Eric is as a helpless infant (Aunt Hester was right) in Wall street But Alida and Glaive’s proposition had struck him about the same time Money he must have to keep Alida otherwise he wouldn’t have known what to do with Glaive's $12000 a year So here he is— those transfers of stock Glaive has left him to sign seem all wrong but he isn’t sure and Miss Crosby the one person who might have helped has resigned Alida has said she will marry him in September but first she must go to Paris and Eric can’t Goodness knows —with not quite detached— Eric reappearance of James Roper Alida’s tries hard enough— the results that fistic battle at the dock and consequent tabloid headline “Ex-Ma- te Socks Sweetie” with the humiliated Eric’s flight "Which brings us to Paradise Park and Nudism The fleeing Eric encounters further mishaps on his way to a Canadian woods retreat and arrives within the walls of Dr Milo Moyle’s nudist colony via the limb of a tree minus all but his bruises socks and shorts—not quite strictly "in costume" In the colony’s secretary whom should he discover but the friendly Miss Crosby who proves efficient aid in critical and embarrassing situations opening the Puritan Eric's eyes to more than one fact—to see that “Nudism is ail right if you can take it or leave it alone” Fact-Findi- May the New Year Bring You Less of the ng 4hA£OfliithiQC&£iQl7 dMjjiAis Stop the pain with "Ben-Gay"it penetrate? ' — deeper stays in longer I When yon are In pain seconds count skin “Ben-Gay- ” penetrates-through flesh muscles directly to tho spot of tha pain and stay in until the pain disap-peahas a faster That’s why hypoiensitising (pain relieving) action than Its many imitators If yon want sura fast relief put the hyposensitizing to and antipyretic action of work— rub it on generonsly and know quick relief Bo snro to look for tho oiftho cover red “Ben-Ga- y Worries — And More of the Joys of Life rs “Ben-Gay- ” “Ben-Gay- Jacket design for u Slanting Lines of Steel nudism sqems proper subject for mirth pnd what with Eric’s distracting experiences persuasive Dr Moyle's Code for the Federated Nudists of North America his efforts to bring it under the N R A and the pursuers of Eric converging at Paradise Park they extract plenty of laughs from it Its I Deseret Book Company ” SUB FAIN AWAY WITH BAUME'BEH-GA- c IT Y |