| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING A r t a n d E it er a t hit e In the Field off Modern Writers Creative expression In the United definite impetus States receives through the annual contents sponsored by Scholastic magazine which encourages the students of our high schools to their best efforts in expressing themselves through' art literature and poetry of Revolutionary American Sketches Him as "More Royalist Than the King" Presents an Interesting Personality — —By E E HOLLIS Biographer MORRIS: Witness of Two Revolutions By Daniel' Publisher Funk and'" Wasmalls Company New York CONSPICUOUS figure during two revolutionary struggles and actively in many ways Gouverneur Morris earned perhaps more attention than biographers- have given him His was not a role of the first importance (Mr Walther says) yet he was one tn many important assemblies— the New York Convention the Continental Congress which quarreled and hesitated while Washington's "army of skeletons" froze at Valley Forge of the Philadelphia Assembly of 1787 and of its committee appointed to draft the Constitution His wai the hand that gave this document its final molding according to Mr Walther the Convention vas fortunate in having a member who "Could handle the language withVas much facility elegance and precision as Morris" There have been biographies of Morris Jared Sparks writing the first more than 100 years ago and in our own time Colonel Theodore Roosevelt " found him a subject of interest In 1906 also A Esmein published a monograph in France based largely on Morris's diary Mr WaUhePhas utilized the diary too and Morris's letters with very extensive research among documents in the archives at Washington as the bibliography shows His purpose has been to "make as objective a picture of Morris as possible" to speak of "his weaknesses and faults as well as of his strength and his talents" He has perhaps considered his subject too objectively and fails to give life to the figure heTfias recreated He attempts little psychological inter-- " pretation of Morris's rather paradoxical character but sets forth the facts gathered in his research and his impression of the man without probing OOUVERNEUR Walther Translated by Elinore Dennlston the roots of the contradictions discovered Nevertheless his biography is extremely interesting and reveals his intimacy with the times and his subject's place in the events attending the making of two republics Having studied for the law Morris immediately upon his graduation from King's college (now Columbia university) plunged into active life politics law finance society and all interesting him Brilliant full of confidence he drew attention his wit and elegance won admiration but his caustic and gift for ridicule were feared and made him enemies An aristocrat at heart and scorning the masses yet he became a Whig and gave devoted service to the cause of American independence while having only disdain for democracy Morris "occupies a place apart among American statesmen" Mr Walther says "He was 'an exotic' in a republic" and to La Fayette declared "he was opposed to democracy precisely because of his love for liberty" He held no civilized society could be maintained without an aristocracy That while at work drafting the Constitution h could advocate "monarch-ism- " is but one of the paradoxes of his conduct Despite a gift for' talking on both sides of a "question his opinion was sought— not always followed — -both in America and in France where he mingled with the aristocratic World —winning the favor of the ladies in spite of his one wooden leg— thesa aristocratic tendencies aiding to make his appointment as American minister to France "unpopular" An insatiable observer in France he was one of the authoritative witnesses of the revolution alone among the foreign ministers remaining during the Reign of Terror To this part of Morris's life Mr Walther gives more space than to his activities in the American period of revolution quoting liberally from his papers and letters Throughout the book Morris's own words are quoted and many illuminative incidents related to present the qualities of this brilliant and interesting American : d Far-wel- Cor-bett- credit THE WHIP HAND By Helen R Martin Publishers Dodd Mead and Company Inc New York It is the situation of the man under forty whose guardianship of a girl much younger proves a distracting element in his life that Helen Martin has employed in this r latest novel But she has dressed up the old theme refurbished its garments until It looks presentable end deceptively new although one finds some of its aspects a trifle absurd The Dagmar page convincing her wealthy eurmudgeon grandfather that she is the secretary he wants before he is aware of her identity is a blend of precocity and unsophisticated charm She easily wins the heart of Grandfather Page who had disowned her father and dying within little more than a year he leaves her his large fortune A wise men and knowing the utter worthless-nes- s of her parent he safeguards her wealth by appointing as her guardian the one man he trusts the Reverend Hilary but already of Hammond only thirty-siand popular despite his prominence quite radical views Even the old skeptic Page while disagreeing wit his religious tenets esteemed him as "not the softling which most of the clergy are these days" Dagmar is not to enjoy her fortune Grandfather had until she is twenty-fiv- e (eared she might "run wild" With sudden tvtalth but Dagmar having had to fend well-know- n d near-tragi- iuuers wauae jienaau xnew xorx Its theme the mad pursuit of riches that has obsessed so many American business men Charles Grant's novel is set in the depression period— brought on the author seems to say by this scramble for ever more wealth of these rich men It is greed of money rather than need of money that is compelling motivation with the majority of its characters exemplifying various types of these money-seeke- rs The powerful Jasper Ingram the ramifications of whose interests spread over the' country and whose resources were unlimited was ever in need of more millions for the expansion of his great holdsecretary ings His ted thousand-a-yea- r Homer Alspaugh also feels financial Ban where but pressure arrange Ingram a sixty million loan with ease Alspaugh doesn't know where to turn when a few thousands become imperative if he is to satisfy the constant demands of his selfish and shallow wife Marian to please whom he has lived far beyond his ind come with a luxurious home a car a Country Club membership a costly necklace In spite of all this the unsatisfied Marian bored with the dull Homer is infatuated with a handsome Spanish g is inspired marquis whose high-price- at Art Barn r shifting" Professor j 1 'ill ) ill player on a stage his figure in the V" 'lill con-seal- footlights casting a huge grotesque shadow on the cyclorama behind him It is an unusual study in perspective and well handled in light effect There is a crayon work lovely in design and workmanship landscapes in water color sensitively treated and several portrait studies that reveal a gift for reading of character An Arizona contribution that Is striking is the large wall hanging portraying Indian rituals the figures after the Indian manner soft textile combining a painted on-suggestion of the Eagle dance Corn festival and the War dance Other hangings with the desert plants as motifs also attract attention In the tearoom and the Attic gallery selections of the work of Salt Lake students from the --East West and South - high schools make exceptionally interesting showing in the group the very original and charming color designs by pupils of Miss Kent Olseri at the East-higbeing especially striking The arts and crafts collection in the upper 'gal- lery contains some extremely interesting work and the exhibit altogether is one that should attract wide Interest as a heartening revelation of what is being accomplished by the students of tht country Professor Seeks Drastic Reforms Jm 1 -- "Dusk at the Grove" a novel by Samuel Rogers has brought its author the $10000 offered jointly by the Atlantic Monthly Press and Little Brown and Company for "the most distinctive and interesting novel" the aim of the contest being also according to the "to make of it the story of the year" Announcement just made states that Mr Rogers' manuscript was selected from among 1340 submitted This is the third Atlantic prize novel and the first by an American author "Dusk at the Grove" is a modern story qf an American family the action set mostly at the family's summer home near Newport which is the author's Mr Rogers is the son of a birthplace clergyman and is now an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin specializing in French contemporary lit- gold-diggin- money-graspin- g PEASE PORRIDGE HOT' By Nalbro Bartley Publishers company Indianapolis Nalbro Bartley discovers a surprising new type of young woman whose reactions when confronted by the fact of her fiance's defection are somewhat different from those of the average fictional heroine and who meets a matrimonial crisis in equally unexpected man- ner She is- a person who having once come to a decision sticks to it When her husband suggests that divorce would be the advisable thing she declares: "We're going to see it through t Ninety per cent of divorces—or remarriages —are hypodermics to sideis both our step Marriage reality -discipline and our opportunity" Collins— a name worn for the Irish mother Maggie Collins who had been a circus performer— has been brought up and pampered by a loving grandmother Two weeks before the date of her marriage to the handsome Ross whom she worships she overhears his plans to elope with her cousin Linda whose dazzling beauty apparently outshone her own gypsyish charms She does nothing about it but turning for comfort to Jim Kinciid who had al- - y erature may-brin- ways loved her allows him to persuade her to marry him instead—while Ross makes off with Linda and the family's Bobbs-Merri- Trans Brasz well known California water celorist who has been painting around Salt Lake for a number of weeks and who had a show at the Art Barn recently has contributed one of his impressionistic figure studies to the exhibition at the Newhouse hotel gallery Afueii j - Ingram himself playing for big stakes and his affairs in critical condition is g harassed by a scheming actress' threats and at the moment of crisis his wife greedy for possession of gems whose purchase Ingram has denied her borrows a half million from a bank er who is his enemy This action coming upon discovery of- - Alspaugh's peculations completes Ingram's "ruin The one bright thread in all this coil of wretched despicable is the romance developing between an honest and charming stenographer sup porting ner enure family on the $30- - a week she earns in Ingram's office and the young idealistic son of her employer Tne story moves rapidly and rei illustrates the author's theme fhiirrh PROTESTANT CHURCH MUSIC IN AMERICA By Archibald T Davidson Publishers E' C Schirmer Music Co Boston Not as a history of Protestant church music is this book intended The author professor of music at Harvard university does not assume the historian's task but discusses at some length attitudes and conditions governing church music today and tht features of sacred " as opposed to secular style with a view to pointing out where reform is needed That a sound church music education 'is -crying need is his belief Professor Davison holds very definite ideas as to what music is suitable for church service and as to how and when it should be sung He would not to!-- 1 erste tht popular mixed quartets and malt quartets because "they emphasize tht personal element which is so destructive to tht mood of worship" Ht is even more opposed to the soloist even incidental to an anthem for the samt reason and he would hive the boy choir eliminated as well Ht holds tht mixed choir to be tht only effective choral made up preferably of organization Singers from 18 to 30 years of age As to the type of music Professor Davison deems appropriate ht says "The element most markedly held in common by music and religion is mystery jt follows therefore that only that music is ideal for religious exercise which is in its suggestion quite apart from the world of our every-dathoughts snd experiences" The validity of church music he holds is dependent on the completeness with which it abjures all personal and secular elerrtents Outside tht church htf delights in Wagner Gilbert and Sullivan Schumann Strauss even jazz but he would permit none of them within' the doors of the church Church music should be as essentially atr act of worship as any part of the service snd to be this must be free from any secular suggestion Professor Davison grants that his theories may seem idealistic and certainly In opposition to current practices in As to any most Protestant churches immediate prospect of improvement he is not hopeful— "The forces which alchange are a part of time one most fears of eternity" His book is meant to offer a practical program for consideration AMERICAN- WINNER - OF ATLANTIC PRIZE FOR FIRST TIME by a belief in her wealth She plans a divorce just as Homer to feed her extravagant desires has speculated with a sum of money that is Ingram's reserve fund end is nearing the verge of despair as the market crumbles PMIlilWM4Ji'lt'UMMwJB HUM a of the fundawell as understanding mental rules of art One of these executed in sanguine on charcoal paper is a study of a monk organist and has a fine spiritual quality It was painted at Notre Dame convent and is the work of an eastern student Betsy Dunn Another vigorously concello ceived piece of work depicts James Htyden Tufts this genial writer who long occupied the chair of philosophy at tht University of Michigan has since his retirement devoted himself to a closer study of the so cial mores ef Americans and tht contrlb utery forces forming our group morality group morals largely determining in dividual morals As an introduction to his discussion here he offers an exposition of tht term social morality and the sources for its study grouping tht factors that have made us what wt art under the three beads: what wt found here awaiting us what wt brought with us and what factors havt entered since Then he proceeds to analyze tht tie menu making up our mores: what Americans as a group value most highly tht American's attitude toward work and i I A money Jim though but the son ' of a has through some lucky speculations achieved a fortune end hopes through showering Collins with luxuries to win her to forgetfulness of the" other man But Old Man'Depression takes a hand Collins and Jim's wealth vanishes makes her adjustments to poverty with more bravery than her husband now despairing of ever winning her Even a Jim's decent job seems unobtainable humiliation and Collins' misunderstanding creates a baifier which piles higher as another girl an office worker and game little sport accords soothing balm to Jim's feelings further lacerated by Collins' accepting the funds which Ross is replacing Then the old lover returns glad at Linda's prompt divorcing - him for a richer husband and gayly Intent on recapture of his discarded love wisdom Just how Collins' guides her and how her reward comes must be left for the reader's own discovery The book is serious study despite its lightness of treatment but one may find difficulty in accepting the author's psychologic reasoning new-foun- d t at Newhouse STORY - One of the salient features of the May number of Story is a newly discovered story by the Russian short story master Anton Chekhov This is titled "A Carp's Love" and is a piece of'aatlrlcal humor dealing ridicule at a certain phase of Russian writing It was ntver included in Chekhov's collected works end came to light only recently say the editors of Story when it was found in the archive magazine" called of a Rusian-'litt- lt is William translator The "Splinters" ' ' Simonoff Rion Bereovici a son of the novelist Konrad Bereovici and a member of Life's staff is among the contributors snd tht writer of "Seventy Thousand Assyrians" the Armenian-America- n William Saroyan Is again appearing In addition to Wayne Grover a Salt Laker other making his first appearance ana young writers sre Gladys Schmltt Amram Whiteman 135 uniStory's editors announce that versities and colleges representing con-40 states submitted short stories in the test sponsored by'the magazine the man high quality uscripts being of unusually The winning story is to appear in the September issue of theof magazine stones Edward Nine is the number O'Brien- has culled from Story's contributions for his forthcoming anthologyto of "the best short stories" according a second announcement Congratulations are surely due Editor Burnett and Foreley for this new honor shown their markably successful magazine j f - -- yv- m p ':V SAGA' BEGINS Saga the Magazine of Real Adventure first number of which has recently on the newsstands is the fulfillment of an ambition long cherished Gim-le- t by Lowell Thomas author of "Old Eye" the life of General Smedley P Butler and other volumes Mr Thorns has always believed there was a plact interfor a publication "devoted to the ests of those hardy individuals who trek into the unknown place in search of gold and glamour and find adventure such a dogging their steps" Saga is journal and Mr Thomas istht editor irYEAB-OL- D EXPERT ton) a book by an author but twelve is recyear of age Sarah Bowes-Lyon- s (Coward-McCann- - 'The Javanese Dress" by A Franz Brasz 4eisurerisMTf)ereationnoVmusementr" cim aim i uiejuujkb ins comucLa and tensions of sex marriage and Ism-U- y All of this is presented thorough ly and temperately in objective fashion thst precludes any argument or accuse tion of bias and with no particular emphasis either in support or censure of In the chapany element considered ter on tht relations between tht sexes the basic conflicts and resulting moral dilemmas underlying the present unrest art studied in order to clarify the changt in sentiment that has been taking place end in respect to tht yielding attitude in regard to divorce ht concludes "Perhaps this is a safety valve which saves fundamental marriage from more changes" FcnAninllv lntArtintf and UTumlnflHntf are the chapters on the moral dilemmas of business and industry— stressing market standards of quality and price profit motive opposed to public wtlfsrt problems of competition perils of "big bust nasi" and tendencies toward specula tion- His view of tht Amtriean attitude toward property and wealth stakes in both public and private expenditures and he finds the expenditures for education and public welfare an aspect of democracy equally "as important as tht discreditable fads of corruption and graft in public Ufa" Moral problems in government disregard of law delinquency of youth and professional crime our attempts at vice control gambling prostitution and "tht unsolved problem o( intoxicants" art further aspects of tht social' morality Relations to other peoples discussed are considered as "some of tht worst aspects' of group morality" and his discus sion makes clear that the American attitude in several instances particularly where the Indian policy is concerned it not to be defended Professor Tufts compares public and ' private morals and indicates ha has discovered signs of vitality— "The Mobility of American society so adverse to firm settled mores is nevertheless a condition favorable to vigorous lift" Though "Wt have not yet reached tht stags for clear vision and grasp of social problems" he marks an advance in public morality g gardener one-ma- n GUILD'S MAT BOOK MacKinlay Xantor's ''Long Rememwhich is the ) ber" Literary Guild's May choice gives a full and realistic treatment of the faBut- the mous battle of Gettysburg book is as much a story of the town and three of its citizens as it is a story of the battle Mr' Kantor's story has high critical praise AMERICA'S SOCIAL MORALITY By James H Tufts Publishers Henry Holt and Company New York City This analysis of social behavior in the United States which comes with a timeliness to be appreciated by those concerned with tht present social crisis Is a discussion of the factors that have created the current moral dUemmis of the social group purposed to show how our moral standards have come to be what they are not to assert what stand ardi should prevail Nor does the author propose to place the blame the important fact to be remembered he vtrtlnia Ant kAln "that ttanriirrifl 4km selves are uncertain and in soma cases school show Californian Adds Nor Note adding a touch of modernity The canyas called "The Javanese Dress" carries a decorative interest and its warm but subdued key of color is restful Baskets of fruit deftly repeat the tints that appear in the Javanese gar ment worn by the seated figure The foreshortening of the girl's face turned over the shoulder seems not altogether successful but the long Una of the shoulder is entirely pleasing and the composition has a delightful simplicity Mr Brasz has lingered much longer in Salt Lake City than planned having found much to interest him in this locality painting in the city and adjacent canyons but expects to join Mrs Brass in New York shortly on bis way to Europe Analyzes Changes In Social Morals pictures Jn the high Among Current Fiction Titles for herself most of her seventeen years thinks the hundred a month she is al- flowed' far too muchsAny inclination to rebel she might hve entertained vanishes at first sight of her guardian She falls hopelessly in love with the handsome clergyman who uncomfortably aware of the tendencies of his feminine parishioners to "run after" their rector holds aloof from his attractive ward The methods Dagmar employs to win from him something more than a dutiful while deceiving the wary man :— attention prove quite successful— which is not unexpected—and are amusing enough That hint of mystery connected with the beauc tiful Adelaide and its effect on Dagmar's life seems rather farfetched however The course of the story introduces some ef the amusing Pennsylvania Dutch types familiar in Mrs Martin's novels to enrich it Stimulating Work Two salient : past-reachi- Artists' Colony W'Y f The display of this product of high school art students which is now to be seen at the Art Barn reaches surprisingly high level and is vastly creditable to the art teachers of the country who re training these young minds in expression art In the Among the 140 pleces-- of exhibit in painting crayon drawings pen and ink sketches block' prints textile designs mechanical designs color designs and other forms there are a number to be found indicative of fine per-- ceptlve sense and imaginative power as i THE HOUSE ACROSS THE RIVER By Elizabeth Corbett Publishers Reynal and Hitchcock Inc New York Having established her reputation as a writer of witty comedy and deft narrative concerned with real characters Elizabeth Corbett creator of "The Young Mrs Meigs" here turns to something quite different There is still the same concern with character and her light humor flashes through it but primarily it is a mystery story that she has written with the shadows of a woman's down to envelop her and involve her in a dark crime Hillport a western suburb of Chicago was a quiet place to which business men only returned to sleep Stee Powell said His friend Elliott Farwell an' architect had built a home there for his French wife Anne One of the few Hillport wives who seldom went in to Chicago Anne had been enchanted by the little "house across the river" a neglected cottage of picturesque charm" the only one on its side of the river But not knowing how much Anne desired it Elliott had rented the house From the coming of the new tenants the shabby "dissolute looking M Ar- mande and the apathetic middle-ageFrenchwoman presumed to be his wife unquiet entered into the happy Farwell household and suddenly Anne decided to seek solitude in a cottage in the Wisconsin woods refusing to let Elliott accompany her Stee Powell blames himself for this disturbance 'Anne having discovered the cottage during the visit at his own camp and cannot tell 'Elliott of that he has accidentally learned the despair that is eating at Anne's heart To the hurt and bewildered Elliott gradually comes a certainty that that secret terror of Anne's past which he had hoped forgotten has been revived he feels something sinister threatens Then the terrific storm that descends) on Hillport brings murder on itswirigs Stee's suspicions crystallized by a certain circumstance — and which disturb his own romance with the pretty actress who is Anne's loyal supporter—eeem to be shared by the police Even Elliott is beset by doubts as the case against Anne 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