Show !OWN - : 4 ' ' - ' ' ' irKE SALT LAKE TRIBtristE81i1DAY MORNLNO 'APR - 1$ 1 1934 1 j" A In the Field of Modern Writers - - - 4 I 1 English Celebrity' — A ll distinct achievement Many novels have been written about the South Southern scene war daye but few have of with the authdritT and honesty found in this story of a Kentucky family and its dignified home Ridgeways In the bread canvas that Miss Renard has built she pays much attention to detallsto modes manners' and costumes 34 much More than ceremonies we know amusements wore their carriages what people how they felt and thought what influences nraued them we feel the current of life in movement in this story The simplicity and directness of her style is best fitted to the story she has to tell of five generations of the Hardisons from Joel who brought his wife over the mountains from Virginia to Fair county to found Ridgeways building it to endure and loving it passionately to little Joel Saunders a Hardison returning to it in 1927 and loving it even before be kheUr ith-ihome with something of the earlier Joel's passion William Hardison the first Joel's son was proud of Ridgeways but had not his father's love for the land his bent was toward the law his fine legal mind and Hardison sense of honor made him a successful jurist His oldest boy an imperious second Joel died in childhood and Grandfather Joel must slowness betrayed him less a pin hit h pes to Ben whose red hair-aHardison ) Yet Ben was sturdy and sound and riding over the Ridgeways fields app aled to him far more than books William's insistence on keeping the boy at school frettedJoel who wanted to prepare him to take the place pie-Ci- recreatee vil -- well-peopl- - ed s - -- - nd ? When Joel was suddenly gone things began to go slack at Ridgeway' Williem's duties as circuit judge kept him too much away a licentious over- seer made trouble with the spreading slavery agitation the Hardison negroes of active hostilities between North and South and rumors of the exploits of Colonel Ratan- and his raiders- - seeping--into little Fairville Bens imagination is fired An encounter with the ro- '— and his shabby but debonair soldiers captures the youth and mantle be is away without even waiting for a word of goodbye to William It is not with the conflict but with Its effects on the life of the corn munity and Beni life in particular that Miss Renard's book is concerned Ben's actual experiences as one of Morgan's men occupy btira few pages His return—crippled in body his spirit broken by inhumanities endured In ' a Northern prison camp—to an abandoned Ridgeways Judge Hardison haying been shot down by an enemy the negroes fled to Camp Nelson for their "freedom papahs" is one of the moving passages in the narrative With the problems presented Ben lacks the vigor to deal and sinks into apathy At this point the story becomes El- len's This woman not a Hardison but illiterate waif from a rover's camp - an coming to bring some comfort into Dens wretched life has a veneration - ' ' —- - " Li and love for Ridgeway greeter than In her sturdy acng any Hardisons: : of life her indomitable will her am ' -- -- - - bitibus years-lon- g 1 struggle to win back 14 rt ' t the estate where none but Hardison 146:0' ' ' rightfully belonged Ellen is an impremi ! sive figure It is not for Ellen to re' It turn the Hardisonsto Ridgeways but I I ' her hope is to have realization in the t fie Ca easSIOrNi granddaughter Noncie in whose beauty is reincarnate the lovely Louisiana t ' ' Ben 1 mother no glamorous South that Midge " I ways" depicts the while its early pages give a limps' of the spacious living 0 4ii 1'" of the house remains a symbol' Miss Renard ' : t - holds to her integrity throughout the book which moves at pedestrian Pace " 1 ' at time but always challenges the at tention and through her Hardison gems 'rations shows us the real South of the TRANCES RENARD last several decades - - ' 4 ' Hardison (Drawing by Ininossal ' " ' 'L --- NOVEL OF PROPAGANDA - - PARCHED Company New York California's fruit country and cannery industry furnish Arnold B Arm- strong basis for his bitterly caustic virulent novel which presents a view of the struggle between labor and capital today It is frankly propagandic Mr Arm- with no subtle shadings of meaning or of character drawing strong is on the side of the workers and makes plain that his solution of the issues tends toward communism However there is truth in his picture one feels that had it been painted in less taw colors It would have been iar more effective As a prologue to the modern story Mr Armstrong traces the past of the Tonto' valley when its naive and peaceful Indians were conquered by the Spaniards and Fray Serra and his Franciscans built the adobe minions Soon the great haciendados with their broad acres wrested from the In- dians made tractable under the blessings of the Holy Church felt the clutch with of Mother Spain too stifling the Californians became "a free people Mexico as protector Yankees set up the But shortly "money-grubbinBear flag in California and Tontos Creek ran muddy from the activity of the' rs If the precious metal disappointed them yet they appreciated this was fertile soil why should it be left to the "greasers"? Don Miguel Vasquez owner of the rich Tonto valley is one of the leisure-lovihidalgos who left all labor to vaqueros whose acres become the spoil of these Yankee interlopers- - He employs a Yankee lawyer to pro tact his rights! ' So it is - that Amos Caldwell disbarred in his native Vet mont within a few year- is possessor of most of the Vasquez holdings even -though the last Don Miguel dying an outlaw in the hills gives his title to the valley to the Rathbones an Immigrant couple who had befriended him Caldwell the "Pride of Tontos Valley" built up around the Caldwell canneries is dominated by Everett Caldwell worthy son of the crafty Amos He is builder of the great structure above his mansion on Floral hill damming Tontos creek whose waters formerly Irrigated the valley Now that water is sold for a high price He holds control of the railroad the banks the city council he owns the flimsy shacks known as "Slob Row" housing the itinerant workers "in the fruit" Most of Caldwell's citizens business men and their employes the farmers and workers as well as the roving laborers are dependent upon him and exploited for his profit The bizarre creature living with her idiot son in the mean shack below Slob Row is the one person Everett Caldwell fears Last of the proud Span ish family Belle Vasquez is now the town prostitute' sunk to her present shame through Everett Caldwell's perfidy Virtuous ladies of the town do their best to get rid of Belle and the Rathbones whose tumbledown house and outbuilding are eyesores Old Maud Rathbone and the spinster Hattie- -I cling to this remnant of the estate the old Don had deeded them and burn' with hate for Caldwell who has robbed them of the rest ' From one of Caldwell's famous blossom fiestas through the year to ' the next the story runs the wretched idiot Wally Vasquez who disrupted the' first creating I terrific climax for the last as instrument of a retributive is not without a cerain power and vividness but it is lustice tooThe picture high and some of its incidents are incredible ?refacing each chapter boastful radio announcements give an ironic note -- ' 2 ' ' - By c Ed for 7:c ani ate —IN 6401 sawrotkolootisg cbash a unit ph - sop ift and Alfred tillner made her' visit to Egyptmemereble George Curoonwho "had many qualities but little quality and was not made of the stuff that can be worn next to the skin" waa an Intl mate 6yet later his love frayed at a "trifle' her comment concerning him in Lord Rosebery a the Autobiography close friend was much upset over the rumor ot his engagement to her and thought ahe should have contradicted it and later when she was to marry Aiquith took occulon to vorn the home secretary referring to "Dodo" a lie tional heroine "supposed to be myself These and many other illustrious'figures are well sketched here there are pungent 'anecdotes related ' and the pages are full of pointed comment with Chapters owpolitios and the press kings governments the court the war And literature that make good reading is loosely put together and the bdok is one to dip into at random moments 'rather than to pore over lection ' - ' t - ' s21w! ::: Brittany" by Blatt& ::t ''' ‘ -- ! ? 4' ' Collett : 'I ::!:::: :! ::::4::! Wagner ‘s::::i-t:- - - - - ' - TRH GREAT PHYSICIAN Edith Gitlin"' Reid's Intimate blogra 'phy "A Short Life of Sir William Osier" has been published in an Inexpensive dition by the Oxford Ilniversity The edition eontaina it reproduction of Sargeante portrait of Oiler now at Hopkins where ha carried on bli real Work In medical education 4 QUESTING - - - 1 - lutoola ' "Ile lullten" the angel said And the rock is rolled away Why stand you thus discouraged' and in tears? 'There is no room for grief on Easter day" The stranger' tried n am too latel Too Ióni I tarried at the boisterous inn I who bad pledged myself to watch the Sleép Simply the pitYing angel spoke agsin °Gtos nth tht 51YIQUE la the haste et meat" 1 - - - I Ls A: - AMong the exhibliorsin the general ahow which has been hung at the New will be found house lots' gallery Blanche Collet Wegner a Berkeley artist-- and-- a newcomer in Salt take exhibits She Is represented by a landscape life study and one of the portraits of foreign subjects for which she is known Born in Vance Mrs Wagners bag adopted America as her country and bas for some years been Identified with She hu the California group of artiste studied with the Parisian- painter H Gann with Alfonso Grosso of Seville and in Americe has been a pupil of Clin ton Peters New York portraitist' In 1926 she bold her first eastern exhibition at the Ainslie Galleries New York City her work being received 'with favor --- She is a pleasant coloristand her Work shows individuality and keen ohservation The sincerity of her Portraiture is revealed in the "Girl in Britt tiny which she hu sent for the present show As portrayal of the peasant ktspe end costume the curious head dress and orb intereating Thet's h a - armed ammo Air iodic - Asidombannelitonell both Wahl a to lama Otatiaa ok — Int 11411114101111111 CI s el - I 1 r stl beauen And often Is his gold complexion dimm'd And euery faire from fake some time declines By chance or naturu chant ing course vntrim'd: But thy eternall Sommer &all not fade Nor loose poffettion of that --f- ere thotrowlk— Nor shall death brag thou wandilt lir his Aide When hi eternall lines to time thou growlt 'So long as men can breath or ' eyes can fee 'So long hues this and this glues life to thee --- Professor Lewis has copies of 154 of the sonnets in his collection Concern !mg the mysterious "dark lady of the sonnets the subject of so much discussion Professor Lewis declares that scholars need not waste time trying to determine the lady's identity There was no "dark lady" as a definite character She was but the symbol of one unfaithful to love and the poet made the girl of dirk She is mentioned in only complexion a few of the sonnets rather than being the theme as many persons believe Professor Lewis plans to Igt lin spend the summer in research work at Ow Huntington Library Pasadena Calif as he bee three previous summers He is now finishing the editing from original manuscripts of his work on 'Shakespeare's Documents" on which be has spent nineteen years It is to be pub lished by the Stanford University Press - THt CALAIS COACH By Chr- istic Publishers Dodd Mead ilk Co ttic New York Agatha Christie Who has periodically since' her perpetrationN of that grand crime "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" IPPeered with another adroitly contrived mystery yarn has never executed a better piece of bafflement than With this new puzzle supplying more than the usual number of suspects and strewing around a variety of clues to mislead the reader One of Mrs Christie's excellencies of Course is a literary manner and she also can create character which is all to the good Here she gathers a strilv log Variety of all nationalities M tiercules Poirot her renowned Belgian sleuth whose seltesteem has been amply justified finds the seine to his interest The Orient Express is stalled in a a snowdrift somewhere in Agatha when the Stamboul-Calai- s coach is scene of a murder As no one could leave the train clearly the murderer is still of the pally As a matter of fact there may have been two murderers possibly a man and a woman The victim is a vicious character much disliked who- claims to be an American Balnuek Ratchet but in whom Poirot recognises one Cassitti in concerned In an atrocious crime America The coach occupants Include the ugly and ancient Princess Dragomiroff the Hungarian Count Andrtnyi and his lovely young wife Mary Debenham a governess slim and poised and English an English colonel who likes her very much voluble Mrs Hubbard from America who has been visiting "my an odd assortment of daughter" and maids valets and others ' Every one is suspected and every one has a perfect alibi Too perfect thinks M Poirot whose questioning of the various individuals is conducted with a finesse you will en joy Discarding the clues of the scarlet kimono and the small dark man with th womanish voice hi "seelu the psychology" and arrives at the aolution before thetrain it dug out of the snow drift Perhaps the novel plot strew' - probabilities but you'll need to read it to - be sure and the astute may pick up the clue laid for in the fact the - coach Is full in- readers an - - Here :Mr Crofts reverses the usual order and when old Andrew Crowther flying the Channel to a sick daughter in Paris is found dead in his seat and in vestigation shows be baa been poisoned we are introduced at once to the criminal and learn bow a once honest- intelligent gentleman can be driven- by passionate desire and financial' Stress to murder and to justification of his deed Andrew Crowther pm and in was not long for this life anyway yet stubbornly refused to relinquish to his nephew Charles the fortune—to be Charles' inheritance—which would save his business and prevent his losing Una Mellor So cleverly Is this "wilful and premeditated" crizne plotted and care fully executed it seems than 'Charles isWhen his uncle safe from discovery dies Charles is in southern Frence Who could connect him with the crime? We see the developments ahnost en his encoun tirtly through Charles' eyes: tern with French his assurence of se curity the Incidents that rouse sudden doubts his growing fears then the knowledge that an accident he could not have foreseen has endangered the whole structure The second crime necessary to cover the first fiti sio well into French's their" be knows himself on the right track The puzzle Is its well constructed and convincing as any Mr Crofts has evolved—and that U saying x2oxl:Inlez2 much ' ' k : Excellent V -- :if:t em 1 N: : i 7 1 r r7 4-- w The - Book' - ineer says: NRAornolgit'A the person who resdri his Bible hill tiore piste of mlod the tbe4t one wbo doesn't sins at All ' 'I - eyes n strength and invigorating quality In hat landscape painting that ikeven more pleuing Some very ntisfyg new things are cAcrus By Laura AdainsArrher offered by-- several local artists 1 T Publisher Frederick A Stekea Comb HarWood's new version of "Harbor at pant New York " Nice France being one of the arrestLiterature about that strange tribe of ' Lee Greene Richards' "Por- - plants the cacti is extremely sparse ing items trait of Mt Hogan" loaned by the North therefore this entertaining book will be Cache high school hu that good painting welcomed by the ever increasing num one expects in his portraits Another - bets of cactus fanciers and collectors Few books are more profusely splendid study of the poplars of Spain-b- y B Ir Larsen will be found in the trated than this which bas one page of group and Howell Rosenbaurd Is offer vett and ink drawings to each page of Int a new landscape "A Winter Day" - print The illustrator is Sidney Armer The water eolortsts are represented by Each eictus is shown in Its natural babk Bessie Alice Bancroft who bee a recenttat the blossom' of the variety le Wed and the characteristic spines are ly completed flower arrangement and 'Verla Birrell's "Spring Blossoms" will frequently drawn in enlarged detail give variety to the Show Caroline Von The cacti of the great American desert Evers Henri Moser Irene Fletcher Wel are described in' a manner understand do Midgley Florence Ware J H Stan!) able by either the connolsmur or the field Carlos Anderson !tens OlsenM K amateur collector The reader Is told Teichert Calvin Fletcher are other where each variety may he found: in addition there is a wealth of Indian Utahne whose work is shown and one of F Luis 'Mora's striking Indian suband Mexican lore t9 add glamor and romance to the cactus ' jects Win be Included - counteredbefore—lt lumalways a pleasure to watch French's thorough careful methods dogged sticking to even the slightest clue until he has run it down and applying common sense to putting two and two together The inspector is no scientitio genital but he knows his craft and has a faculty for reading the truth of what is before his - : - WILFUL AND PRIMEDITATIFD By Publishers Freeman Willa Croft Dodd Mead and Company Inc New York This new Inspector French case by that excellent maker of detective stories Freeman Wills Crofts is built to a quite different design from those we have en 1 AMMEIMMINSIMMEMIEMEIMIEMENEW ' ticress litit11 - I By Orlando Rtgom the tomb is bars ' Of Him who died for sint Where must I seek Him now? tit what far plate? Angels have brushed His footsteps from the earth How can I sneet the Saviour face to face I who have proved myself of little worth" — ' ITAGtils Clemence Dane has finished the dr& matiration of her splendid novel about the time that 'Brooms Stages b Ala finished 'on-- pIpComebf Broadway a suctesrartistically but not She hu sone back to Eng financially land' having as she told an interviewer two novels ort btr mind ampaiman Imo doh ausamptHassaaolionfo you mal arab baboon lamosaad d tin Imam goo la dal laaposalhae boos MK asamaialasithes asti sob Jugo-Slavi- "Girl in ' - tire titled "Dennis" It has that depth of shadow and contrasting strong light that are typical of his work and makes an important addition to the Institute's col 77': 'I"'"'‘'' MURDERIN to-b- :::::: 1 Wig A Pair of Mystery Tales special project recently awarded Anderson on whkh he U tiow time pied is to aupply the government with an accurate pictorial representation of Brigham Young's block plan for the early pioneers a Successful type of sistenee" plan by which each household wu enabled to provide its own food and also the farming" plan originated furnished by Brigham Young is Washington has asked the Utah commit elaborete detailed pictures of these for use in the "subsistencen—Planning the government now has under way as one of its welfare projects for the unemployed a part of which is a "back to the land" movement Rockwell Kent's splendid gift to the Utah Art Institute is to be 'a feature of the show This canvas exemplifying Kent's bold originality and powerful expression is an Irish landscape with fig IVir :':':':t::::: ' Mak Yrua Vall Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more louely and more temperate: tough windes do thake the dar ling buds of Male And Sommers leaf(' both all too !hod a date Sometime too hot and eye of Ranch Kimball the triptych by Henri Moser and the designs for the capitol Also murals by tee Greene Richards several pieces of work done by' volun Wee ertista will be' shown - ' their Insanea k fart tat stammes oil 14111 Aaa Nary kin mil he fan Jab Monk Pro-tem- pt 'and - - COIsl iamaleboatasaal Obial ita a Famed basava Recent receipt from the British mu seum of a facsimile copy of the famous Eighteenth Sonnett by Profess' or B Roland Lewis of the University of Utah of Englishokdds an important item to what is the most nearly complete collection of Shakespeare documents in existence in One man's possession This rare copy WAS made especially for AW:UlloY theMuseum where he spent several months in Shakespearean research Written presumably during the period 15924594 in the great vogue of the sonnets wer never sonneteering "imprinted" 'according to the statement on the title page by the publisher Thomas Thorpe 'until the year 1609 when Shakespeare was retiring from stage tic' tivity after having produced 36 plays of which twelve were masterpieces The poems had probably been circulated in friends manuscript privately among his custom of prior to that time as was thethis volume the poets of the day With -Shakespeare's name was first wed on the title page Thorpe surreptitiously gathered the sonnets together and had two George Eld print them also engaging booksellers to dispose of the volumes In the original of this ' exquisite poem the reading is: AT LONDON 1 44 't TJ -- t &pub shas rar Imam pleakok Wu kat btax old at lausaftehale assion as - - ' solass stotaia dolma 1 Gladstone '- :- ewe mat al ng 2:- - h Ando Ana Sidliiammil Toihrold belattli oho an mot 8 gold-seeke- - lid OW - ladowe tom Assullswelos4 kap hokum do ism hops Arialagent dingo et fwesAtuddll k Coast Artist at Newhouse g" ' la '"oledusbeohl mil Mom flattelmoie ambito olio aid buy A Ition'am Atewithosorgortfa had 111 Nada abie obt lidiat Walsh A wesualtertak hos bel am aeqilw leArAosts OMAN I iatoolktip is punk A me is AreAl Nag EAU otaistAA WipmeAllhlesereposeliweatmlbAlloonikk isto wows win doe 111 nostook Noma is thewamitin awful soar Mattzer km balk pilitenfibes taltslot 6111 Now dal kerboomodf WS 164 Whis basun tom elm doe ono kw sum as kook morons lb bog dils ohm Ms Nike 4M711111111kilF1111211141EWifti Utah Art Institute are speakers to'be heard on the program which officially opens the show at 4 p m Informative placards have been providedPIM each piece of art detailing the history of the place or building or native type portrayed and marking the importance of its preservation for pos terity in this pictorial loin The blue the state tree of Utah aprueeirt painted by Gordon Cope for display among other portrayals of Utah's native trees portraits of Indian types inpaintings end sculpture by 14 F Malin Mr Cope and Caroline Parry are in the display with the historical paintings drawings and pastels by 1 T Harwood Edwin Evans Carlos Anderson Florence Ware - go dFollor orb ots thi Jolla) listsoode Aad imam Iso hold es Seattos Nokias& geethemo Awl elhal Ws odd omploss Amd lendehs tousmin dunk meg issisidS demourommtbsiolag Immo ipledoe 01 important historical character Is exhibition opening Sunday at the capitol when the entire group of art' works accomplished in Utah under the C W A project wM be placed on display Between 150 and 200 vleces probably will be ready for showing according to the Utah subommittes of which Miss Helen Sheets is chairman and which baa the show in charge Governor Henry H Blood Secretary Milton H Welling and a member of the t te) Ike wagibutdidde C I mom dos admen 4110 OThos sepasoey 110 "Ws &let Mlogrie abler banns History Theme in C W A Art ' - ohlybow Ncuct Wore Imprioord - I - The Glen siliPme grobannwooki SO Wan die dis Lord Rosebery and °there NO LondonN dinner table was complete without Mar- got Tennant she counted the influential One of her "devoamong her friends tions" was Balfour—the estimate she gives- of the Arlan it especially keen- - pavw ' visited Tbe SONNETS 6111( 0001111111$ kaaastaa6ta Maher tasSaa ass lam sham mai thine more pm Rolm I mod tvottomaisealkm kin Am peon Ab toff la woof Vs1 Am Ai mod odd twat 640 Imo lielholdeqpspotedassimbr issallisidoodbilk sudiaal seri And remora oleo be Emig Possallo ANA bedsit mast dam Mega in la rood I notables I SHAKESPEAltES brilliant little bird" Front She time the Torments went to London she was closely in contact with the political great Evert before-man- - id viloPti something noble in the expression of Margot Tennant's face" Gladatone's re assurance before her marriage "My dear Margot I think-yo- u would make an excellent wife to any politician— even a prime ministeri" An "obscure Vsittrh1 at The Glen (the Torments' saying that Margot and her sisster were "brilliant talkers" Dr Axel Munthe "an intellectual flirt of the highest order" likening her to "a ---- Lewis Collection pip elos hold 111111111FIEN Artists' Colony 71ssirdhololissowitiabousesumbe istemasehli Whig libido pm IC arl midi wineglass dynamo sailsomute myosin 4 Aitti di iii - - - her by Beim her husband's first wife "I think there - - - Activities in Utah a e 'Sonnets I i In her diaries to support her living recollections Lady Oxford gathers up again the faded garlands Offered in her longpealod of social success that tress ' - of "Shakespeare's never Be lbreImprinted" and right faisimile copy of 'original pages of the book Title-pag- MORE OR LESS ABOVT MYSELF By Margot Oxford (Countess of Oxford and Asquith) Publishers E P Dutton & Co Inc New York As a complementary volume to the candid Autobiography which caused a sensation in 1923by its imprudent comment and criticism Lady Oxford's present book of memoirs is likely to bring outcries from certain quarters sense it is "lesir rather thanl'more" about herself as pages are given to ims premions of men and women of nets with whom she has been intimately associated—estimetes revealing her pene trative inaight The "tongue Of the sem pent' Is perhaps not so much in evidence sa In the AutoblographY yet there are remarks and 'Incidents the' make one question her declaration that "1 would not consciously hurt a "fy And she is surprised when her "Irmo cent criticism?' Infuriate her friends A preference for the truth Is Margot characteristic not that she qtford'a vTould-- - emulateSamuel - Butler and 'know neither self nor friend nor foe" In its interests "I may exaggerate in narration" she says "but I am always accurate in fact' which no doubt le true: When she "cannot resist" telling the story of Lord Kitchener cheating at billiards in a Cape Town hotel as throws ing "a lovable light" on his character she prefaces it bystatincitwee:probr Stokes A Rare Sew Ailditions Extends Memoirs of Vivid Career Sincere and Moving Panoramic Portrayal of South From 1860's Down to the Last Disastrous Decade By E E HOW Publisher Frederick By Frances Renard New York Company S A FIRST novel Frances Renard' s "Ridgeways" is a Literature toJr' d to WITH FiVE GENERATIONS RIDGEWAYS: s - any prices ' DESERET' BOOK COMPANY 44 a Last on South Tempi 4 - ' |