| Show s Art and THE BALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING MAY In the Field of Modern Writers Completed C W A GREAT ELECTRICAL GENIUS SEEN ON HIS HUMAN SIDE By MARJORIE PAR MELEE THOMAS A EDISON A Modern Olym-pla- n By Mary Child Nerney Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Inc New Yerk-CA'“Jeve himself had only played with thunderbolts this man had tamed them” Thus the author of a new biography of Edison spoke of hint as she first went to hia laboratory at Orange to sort file and preserve old manuscripts Her book is the picture of the man Edison as she learned to know him end bis Ufa during her two year of work In close contact with the put history of his schievements end with the vital personaUty that wu the man himself Miss Nerney called her office on the top floor of the laboratory building Tha attic of Olympus" from there aha watched and atudied the “Modern Olympian” as she chooses to term Edison She talked with his assistants knew his “ family and saw also the many friends who came to visit him and from this Intimate knowledge she hu drawn a -picture ef the great genius with the emphasis on “the Old Man” as human Pub-lube- ra yi being California Desert Painter at ©gtlcii Quite a large portion of the work accomplished by Utah artists under the national C W A project hu been placed it' is announced by Miss Helen Sheets chairman of the Utah committee functioning under the federal organization nd the remainder except for epecifie pieces that are to be pieced In state offices will be turned over to the Utah Art Institute for the state’s permanent collection f The four mural panels executed by Edwin Evans for the Veterans' hospital in Salt Lake have been set Florence Ware's large pictorial map of tha city la to occupy a prominent space at the public library where also nearly SO of Carlos Anderson’s drawings of historic buildings of Utah " most of which hav been destroyed will hang as a pictorial record of the put The large mural painting designed by - Trent Fletcher for a children’s library is to be placed in the children’s room of the Cache county library Logan Thu children’s room is a continuing community project of the city’s Business and Professional Women’s club which' Or- ganlzation will formally dedicate the painting' in ceremonies to take place Sunday at 4 p m Professor H Reuben -Reynolds of the U A C Is cooperating with th club in arranging the program THOMAS K EDISON WRITERS OP ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST for this affair Projects as yet unfinished In Utah-s- uch as the work that is rapidly advano Jng on the Lee Greene Richards murals for the capital dome and the statue of Chief Wuhakie strong Utah leader and one of the Three greatest Indian figures of American history which Mil-lard F Malin ia executing— will be completed Miss Sheets said All of this completed work is to continue the property of the federal government but will undoubtedly remain permanently where It ia placed ' The committee In charge of this C W A art work hu been transferred to the F E R A with headquarters established in Salt Lake Mias Sheets said This movement for the forwarding of art interest throughout the country may become a permanent matter according to Information received from Edward Bruce secetary of the national committee she added ’ - Miss Caroline Parry painter and aculptor is to give a talk on ‘‘Phases of Modern Art” at the Wednesday meeting at the Art Bern beginning at 230 p m This will be the lut of the Wednesday afternoon programs for tha seuon They ere to be resumed in Sep- tember - for the occasion will be members of Chi Delta Phi sorority and the Elks Ladies Hostesses I "Russia Youth snd the Preseni Day World” a new work by Pf Frankwood E Williams author of “Adolescence: Studies in Mental Hygiene’ is a late May title of Farrar it Rinehart It is a consideration of American youth as related to various European youth movements - the papera Just dropped off to almost nothing Then too congress wu behav- ing itself for a abort period and that hurt the news (Course it helped the country) Insult when he first arrived awhile beck ho wu a sort of a life eever lbe sliver question w a a pretty good there lor awhile I am about like a Jot of others I don’t know Just what silver being made a money will do to US It Viul keg era f eems like it ought to help But that’ what we pay those birds in Washington ten thousand a year for is to argue over auch nonsettleable things Money end women ere the most sought after and the leut known about of any two things we have Now going off the gold may have bean a necessity and I guess it was tho best thing for you can’t stay on it and hive all these other nations off for they gang on you add take it all away from you- - You see they get ahold of our paper money and it says payable in gold Well we always knew it said that but we dident try to make the government prove it every time bill But we got ahold of a thQ Europeans very time they go ten-doli- yian the Maligned Khedive” is a biography of the month from Dutton It is by Pierre Crabltee author of "Gordon the Sudan and Slavery? Ismail first Khedive of Egypt wu friend of Gordon Judgo Crabites hu reopened the case of Ismail to give him justice Myron Brinig hu e nW Slngerminn novel almost completed for Farrar Sc Rinehart publication It is to deal with “Ismail POSTHUMOUS STORY OF JESUS’ LIFE BY DICKENS IN COVERS Tha adventure of perhaps the greatest literary discovery of our time reached its climax on May 18 with the first book publication of “Tha Life of Our Lord” written by Charles Dickens for hia children more than eighty years ago “Tha Lift of Our Lord” the most widely discussed book of modern literature appeared in serial form recently in The "Salt Lake Tribune A particular interest Is attached to the -- June titles echeduled by Dutton include "Striplings” e first novel by N Warner Hooke that hu been praised by English critics and public It is described as delightfully different refreshing and outrageous and you are left to wonder or woman whether the author is A book on “The Money Muddle” has just been published by Knopf In it James P Warburg the President’s banker appointee as financial adviser to the American delegation to the economic conference of 1833 explains what hu been done in monetary questions since 1933 and discusses the whole recovery - ' program Michael Singermann The author hu been spending some weeks in California and Taos “new” Dickens book according to collectors of first editions who point out that never before in the history of book publishing hu e posthumous work of a great author appeared in print so long niter his death “The life of Our Lord” moreover Is the second book by Dickens to ba published posthumously the first being “Edwin Drood” Charles Dickens wrote “The Life of Our Lord” between 1846 end 1849 He did not wish It to be published during hu lifetime When he died the manu- “ShortStories by Sir Welter Scott" with an introduction by Lord David Cecil and "A Book of Scottish Verse” edited by R I Mackle are two titles just added to the World’s Classics series issued by the Oxford University Press The latter contains poems ranging from the thirteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth “German Short Stories selected and translated by E N Bennett is a third title of the month All the stories are early nineteenth century teles "Three Plays” by John Dos Ptssos a group that includu "Tha Garbage Man” “Airways Inc” and "Fortune Heights" was published this week by Harcourt Brace who also brought out his “In All Countries” u Dr William Beebe whose newest book “Half Mile Down” required a last chapter went to Bermuda to secure material for it in another deep sea exploration in his Bathysphere It will be published by Harcourt Brace r Harold Bell Wrlght’a autobiography “To My Sons” is to be on Harpers’ fall list Mr Wright hu been helping to solve the unemployment problems in southern Arizona until recently when he moved to California where he hu purchased a farm at Escondido u OOMcIntyre Write- sAbout the New York of Days and Something Zoos Theaters and Whatnot Eugenia Smith their clutches en aocne of our dough they took that inscription on thare m and our “payable in gold” serious trees ury had to shell out the hard money and they took It home and plant-a- d it in their treasuries or under their feather beds As far ea getting tha stuff back it was just Dlllmger to us You can’t stay in a game where you are paying off tha dough and the others art paying off in L O U’s But on the other hand lowering tW price of the money from a dollar to 88 cents dident have quite the effect that the economists thought it would They had figured that it would raise cents on tha dollar Well Jirlcts forty one of those theories that just worked fine with a pencil out dident work with money 1 can sit in t grandstand with a race programme and a good sharp pencil (well I hav even dona it with a dull one) and lean writ down tha winning horse and what ht ta thinking about as he crosses the line but the minute I walk under the stands r bill instead and reach for a of a pencil that horse just seems to know it and runs differently And that’s one of the drawbkek to a his work is entirely with a pen- ell but the minute that pencil is traded for coin of the realm and the dealings are with somebody else and not just with a tablet why life take on an en--' tirely different outlook It's like driving a car If you art' the only one on thstreets you ere like the prof with the pencil You can hive things pretty much your own way But when they commence to coming from every jvay 4 puking Jog toe I prof-less- Michael Arlen hu promised his publishers Doubleday Doran & Co a new novel for autumn publicationTThltitla he announces is “Hell Said tha Duchess: a Bedtime Story” Also Mr Arlen tells that “Elizabeth” hu a new novel almost finished script fell to bis sister-in-laGeorgina Hogarth She guarded It until her death and then it passed into the hands of Sir Henry Dickens with the admonition-th- at it should not be published so long any child of Dickens lived Just before the 1931 Christmas holidays Sir Henry last of the Dickens children died the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident His widow and ' children by a majority decision voted to release for publication the manuscript which for so long hu been held ae a precious family treasure j five-dolla- - - u - hat SATA DESIBED OREGON HISTORY “The Soul of America An Oregon Iliad” by Mrs Eva Emery Dye who an accurate inhu won recognition terpreter and chronicler of far west history is a title of tha moment published by The Press of the Pioneers The book hu to do with the great migration ef 1844 into the Oregon country and th building of thi commonwealth beside the western sea It is illustrated by Jes-‘ sie Gillespie ' Sven Hedm’s “A Conquest of Tibet” hu been postponed by Dutton's from May 28 and will be published in June i r - Everybody went to Hammersteln’s Monday afternoon ’ George M Cohan Issued hi weekly press sheet “The Spotlight” All the movies were on Fourteenth street (long with the museums r The Sixjy club wu the weekly dance event 1 u eun-up ' v The World’ Sunday metropolitan see-lion wu th New Yorker of that day Nelli Revell became thq first woman ’ theatrical press agent Sima Silverman grabbed every check Diamond Jim Brady wu th most com splcuoue first nighter West Seventyeecond street wu a select brownstone front residential area Rub Goldberg gave chalk talks in: vaudeville a state legislator Jimmy Welker wu at every after midnight event build ing his fences Arthur Hopkins wu considered th shrewdest producer of smart shows Willard Huntington Wright wrote a column on th Evening Mail The Hotel Manhattan wu th quietly exclusive luncheon place Jack’s didn’t begin to boil Until 3 e mt Ben De Casseru wu it Joe’s every ’ v The Metropole hotel wu th core of the Tenderloin Werba and Leusche'r were the leading ' ’ musical comedy producers 4- - i Irvin Cobb wrote a column on the Eye- ning World ( H L Mencken is the favorite arrival at the New York port lor the ship news scribes He never fails to uncoil e humdinger for th news hawks Mencken hu been too long a newspaper man also to he Coy about lacing the battery of cam--' ru He makes himself agreeable talks on any subject suggested and u a result always gets a good break Courtesy jiao pays among tha interviewers ' Lillian Russell signed with Weber and Field for $1450 a week ' The Knickerbocker hotel bar wu the-todrinking place Tha Globe installed a sliding roof Flo Ziegield’a office wu under hie Inc) Clara Lalser author of "Jean de Recks and the Great Daya of Opera" ia now preparing material for a biographical and critical study of William Ellery Leonard and hia worju Miss Leiser ia anxious to get in touch with anyone who has been associated with her subject— friend or enemy pupil or colleague— end anyone else who may have pertinent information about him Her address ia T Park avenue New York City Elias Lei-ser ta e former student of Mr Leonard and hu his authority tor such a work Times h girl hangout Con-cerni- Christie MacDonald wu the toast of th Rielto— Elmer Davis wrote editorial on the h worn-seate- Syndics ta ne I wu a New Yorker When— Doraldino wiggled at Reisenweber’a College boys went to Thirty-eight' street Bustanoby’i Rennold Wolf wu the ewifest wit In ' town ' Earl Ckrroll wu writing songs for a advance! street wu Tom Heatey’a at Sixty-sixtth ace night spot The first cigaret fras smoked publicly -t at the Ritz r Bartholdi’ wu the chorus boy and corner ho man living can tell Just ex- actly what will happen and it’s the asm with money ' You can take 40 cents off the American dollar in terma of foreign money But the old boy here at home tbet’a not going to Europe still thinks its a dollar You can’t sit with a pencil and figurt what a man with a dollar will do with it About the only way I see for prices to go up is ' for more people to went eomethlng and the only thing that I know of that every- -body wants more of ita money and at long u the people that have already got it ere going to hang onto it about the only way of getting these others any is to make ’em some Course the question arises “Where can you atop” WaU let the boya with the pencils and tha senators with the ? d trousers figure that out (Copyright 1934 by the MtNaught ‘ By-Go- ’ n u ' ’ glhla Eggertsen Sorensen e well known Provo poet contributed e sonnet sequence end elso e short story “Black Dusk” Other stories ere by Katherine Grow Mildred Tobler end Editor A one-aplay “Be Gener&us Scotland” by Gtn Clark articles by Cecelia Jensen Milton Nelson Harold Christensen and John R Talmag e with verses by a number of student writers make up the contents Do About Silver? And Adds Let the "Senators Figure It Out” j j Oil by Harold "Weaver Now in Hotel Ben Lomond' Gallery THE LITERARY ALMANAC u Dil-ling- er Desert Rain t u Will Rogers Asks f? gray-gree- Edi-eon- ’s u “- ' ASPECTS OF MODERN ART TOPIC OF' TALK tut Well all I know is Just what I read papers Well air you know dropped out there for awhile and 4 4 ‘ii - ( fa the v $ -- OGDEN— Harold Weaver an artist more familiarly known “Buck” Weaver whose small but choice exhibit of 18 small oil paintings and sketches i now at tha Hotel Ben Lomond hu lived and painted in Arizona New Mexico and California Hu work wu presented during the week at a reception given at tha hotel under the sponsorship of Mrs Joseph E Evans and the many friends made during a visit of the artist several years ago with Mr and Mrs F G Ruthrauff called to welcome him A number of Mr Weaver’s subjects in the exhibit were painted in Utah or Nevada Hia technique is fearless em- phatlc and expressive of the freedom of hia outdoor life Hu simplified compositions suggest the influence of Maynard Dixon The painting “Desert Rain" which is reproduced and ia illustrative of hu technical strength won much favorable comment in a recent exhibition by California painters and sculptors at tha Los Angeles Museum One of the most striking pictures in the collection shown is “Dry Lake” done in tones of gray Another is a scene on the Colorado river near Cameron Arlz in charming pastel tints Against the gray sky the mesa rues with of ugebrush and a lone road "crossing the foreground “Nearly Night” a Las Vegu bit and “Rainstorm” are again in the gray tones Me Weaver so frequenUy employs the latter marked by Interesting cloud effects and the driv' ing sheet of rain ut Mr Weaver wu born in England has lived in the west for 30 years He well ' is at home on the cattle range as in the studio and is on familiar terms with tha Indians speaking the Navajo language u &&&& u yft 1834 ' When Edison began his work the world wu a perfect setting for a series of great Inventions and America the author points out “wu v land of contrasts— Sarah Trousdale Mallory formerly of slavery and the Ideals of democracy - poverty and the gold rush Emerson and a writer whose poems have sp- - -Ogden Mormonism table tipping and IntimaIn The Tribune has been a frepeared tions of evolution Margaret fuller havquent contributor to magazines of verse ing a herd time accepting the universe Poet Lore Poetry Worldand to such and Edison coming to make it over” Th manner In which he did mike it over ia —The Delineator She has a gift for concise utterance brevity being a characwell familiar but her book also shows teristic of her verse Which is very frethe manner of man who did the things quently in tha form Of quatrains A responsible for the greet change Three women greatly influenced his flashing humor enlivens her work and a sense of the ironies of life “Lessons" life: his mother wise enough to guard which appeared in Poet Lore is one of hie early esgtrneu and eccentricity from her discoveries: destruction by ordinary routine his first wife whose interest end knowledge An altar candle burned lilently of his science wu his Inspiration to' conHolily tinue and the wife of his maturity That it should glow alone whose weilth and social position gave a Tor me background fitting for a great man and I closed the door so none whosa devotion mada his test years — Could see peaceful Each wu a great power in building the life of the man and of ' each w art given a small but clear k It flickered out went And t i picturt Details of Edison’s scientific work are “Vesta” Recently appeared in The Desot given but the bold dynamic ideu which leavened new industries and an- - -- lineator Mrs Mallory who ia now a resident of Laramie Wyo is preparing tiro arts are traced in their beginnings for publication a collection of bar poems by this msn who said “No experiment which may appear in the fall Mise EuIs ever a failure It always proves somegenia Smith an artist of Ogden a group thing” His great energy which carried of whosa block prints was shown at tha him through weeks and often months Art Barn quita recently hu done th of strenuous labor on the project In illustrations for the text with artistic hand shows him to havs had that ear- -' mark of genius the ability to play at understanding Below is reproduced her his work This wu what made it posstrong dulgn illustrating “Lesson” sible for Idlaon to over 6000 ipecies With tha initial appearance on the of plants and vegetable fibre in search Brigham Young university campus of of a lamp filament and then to discard Young’s Pioneer a new outlet of exthem all for a manufactured cellulose pression by the Y’s journalism students Edison's sense of humor is proved by The magazine been established 'hu Quotations of his remarks and his farepresents two full quarters' work on vorite anecdote and frequent reference the pert of staff members snd contrib- is made also to his “emergency vocabutitors The magazine is sponsored by which wu end terror the delight lary the journalism department under the of ell around him” He cared so little leadership of Professor Harrison R Merfor money that when urged to accept rill the editor of this first issue being extra dividends from his company ho - John R Talmsge of Salt Lake City repeatedly refused When the directors Tha insisted on giving him something to the ' a namd Young’s Pioneer wee chosen being symbolical of the achool and utonlshment of these men to whom life the spirit of pioneering it represents meant largely money he said they might Tom Eastmond of Provo and Margaret give him some cigars So lor many years Tholen of Sandy designed the cover e the General Electric company did send theme of educational pioneering end the him cigars instead of the added money ia by Daryl Huuh - Vir- frontispiece they thought he had earned Edison's ideu or his theories' of the lists and abuses of money his critical judgment of music and musicians —thus and much tlsa ia woven into the -story of hie struggle and accomplishments all adding their bit of color to make the "whole view of the men inter eating and human White many ef inventions were to make 111 easy and beautiful yet he watched prosperity give way to breadlines and he wrote to Roger Babeon: “Something more then the money machine is out of gear 1 do not pose a preacher but let me tell you that if there is a God Ho will not let us edvenco further materially until we have caught up spiritually A fundamental' law of science is that alt forces must ba kept in balance Whan any forca goes off at a tangent there la a amash" The author engaged Secretary of Historical Research for Edison's laboratory wu a woman of insight and her book proves her ability to make real and vivid a man whom many hav before Block print by known only a scientist MThat’U 20 At tha Polk school on Friday afternoon a silver tea wu given sponsored by a committee composed of Mr Lawrence Clayton Mrs Frank K Bartlett and Mri Joseph E Evans Its purpose wu to raise funds for the purchase of a painting for the school’s collection The painting to be acquired is a Bear river landscape by H Reuben Reynolds of the art department of the U A C Logan Former Ogdenite And Art Director Comes for Visit OGDEN—Mrs Frederick G Ruth-rauwidow of a noted western artist formerly of Ogden and director of the Hotel Ben Lomond gallery viaited in Ogden and Salt Lake lait week for the first time since going to California to make her home more than two years ago Mrs Ruthrauff who arrived from Los Angeles Wednesday is now executive secretary of the California Art club of Los Angeles one of the oldest art organizations in the west and is enthusiastic over her work “My position which I have held for a year ia very congenial” Mrs Ruthrauff said “I live at the club a handsome building in Hollywood presented to the city by Its former owner Alena Barns-d- a 11 a wealthy woman with the stipulation that it be used by the club for 19 years free of rent The club has been housed there lor six years “The club has a membership of 280 187 of them being painters with 80 sculptors and the remainder lay mem- bers 1 am the contact person between artists and public We have exhibits of artists known nationally and internationally Monthly luncheons are given end an annual press luncheon the last one held a week ago with Anne Morgan well known New Yorker 'guest ff u speaker" Mrs Ruthrauff expressed her pleasure While in meeting Utah friends again in Ogden she and Harold Weaver the at now western artist whose works are the Hotel Ben Lfemond gallery were guests of Mr and Mrs Joseph E Evans Mrs Evans is carrying on Mrs Ruthrauff’ former work at the gallery SUNDAY EDITOR TO ADDRESS BARNACLES Wald M Condon Sunday editor of The Tribune is to address a meeting of The Barnacles writers’ group of the Ar Barn Thurtday at I p m He will discuss short stories and th opportunity now being given writers of the Tribune terrir tory in th Sunday pages of Th Tribune The president of The Barnacles hu extended an Invitation to attend the meeting to all interested In short etory writing ONE “NEW DEALER” The Unofficial Observer whose examination of “The New Dealers" wu the April choice of Th Literary Guild uys of Miss Frances Perkins “There have been few more delicate jobs of murder than what Miss Perkins did to the steel masters at the first open hearing of their eode" ' - i Is probable they scarcely ever see other 1 often wonder if others get ss big a sections oj the town kick out of their home town paper as L Any transplanted towner in the city who Short shavings: Rachmaninoff hu dou not subscribe for the weekly or insurance on his famous hands dropped ta a treat daily missing grand reading So hu Paderewski i Karl Kitch‘ en is said to be the only newspaper man Another little joy in this business of that is confidant of both Mary end Doug living that so many of us miss is an oc- Louie Bromfield wrote a etory crosseuional visit to the zoo I find that most adults are reluctant to make a visit but ing to Paris recently that he sold lor Paul Yawita ssy Tallulah $8000 when persuaded they are invariably glad Bankhead and Lord Napier AUington inthey mad the Journey There Is an unspired Michael Arlen’s novel “The Greed explainable quality about crowds in the Hat” zoo that no other crowd has Perhaps Kelcy Allen critic lor “Women’s Wear” hu not missed e New York looking at animals gives them e conAll the rumors sciousness they do not otherwise express -- - first night in 11 years that Oscar wu to leave the Waldorf on Anyway a yearly visit to the zoo should account of the waiters’ strike proved be a pert of toe routine of every Ameri-et- a the Nut club in without foundation family the Village gave a celebrity night to end The theater had a really astonishing all celebrity nights which wu a grand season considering Its plight last year Frank Buck 1s to tour the Idea when the 16 legitimate theaters diminu-endoe- d country in personal appearances before to tlx The moat satisfying eveJimmy hiking back to the jungles Walker hu confided that he may come ning in any theater to my notion wu In He’s frightfully home any time now attending Henry Hull’t performance in “Tobacco Road" homesick what with the desertions of Americans abroad c Four Paris hotels Very few people ever explore of standing are slated to close June 19 aectlon of New York known u GreenSix year ago they were tuning wich Village thoroughly Most visitors ' away dozens daily The circus did not do th business at the Garden this just see th daffy cafes end the lunatic r waffle parlora A Charles B prowl through year that it did last the narrow turnings of put of the way Driscoll is being contacted for a specstreets brings on surprise after surprise Walter Chrysler tacular pirate film There are nookg alleys short streets and Jr hu e book of verse on the fire such that re u interesting a may be founin London or Pari Even the peo--‘ (Copyright' 1934 McNaugbt Syndicate Ine) file m toe ttei teem bit foreign end It thatl two-hou- i |
