| Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING ' MAY 20 1534 Art and In the Field of Modern Writers BATTLEFIELD OR JAIL ' v— JT Artists Colony at Art Earn Interesting Diems in Group — Activities in Utah Fascinating Isles Of Pleasure Lure One to Set Sail Life’ a BattlcficldjGraham Greene Asserts and His Noyel Suggests That for Many It Also Becomes - a By E - ' Prison BAHAMAS: — EHOLUS— i Graham Greene Publishers Doubleday Doran and Company Inc Garden City N Y Man Within" appeared some lew years ago literary rfEN “The pointed to Its young author—who by the way Is a cousin fcf the beloved Robert Louis Stevenson— as one of whom cognizance must be taken and with every succeeding novel Graham Greene has offered this opinion received affirmation With “It’s a Battlefield" Mr Greene again claims attention It Is a gloomy view he presents but it Is done with such skill and effectiveness tfyrt one finds the IT’S A BATTLEFIELD' By £ K t V’ Y - s i s t ’ a ‘ :o book absorbing In a quotation from Kinglske Mr Greene indicate his theme: “In so far as the battlefield presented itself to the bare eyesight of men it had no entirety no length no breadth no depths no size no shape and was made up of nothing except small numberless circlets commensurate with such ranges of Vision as the mist might allow at each spot” guch is life’s battlefield Mr Greene says each group fighting itsjittle war In ignorance of the general action With deft artistry Mr Greene has portrayed that small circle of the battlefield on which the conflicts of his chosen characters are carried on a little section of life showing how one man’ defeat in the struggle involves others in ruin It is set in modem London where Jim Drover a busman ft quiet stupid sort has killed a policeman and is under sentence of death But Drover is no murderer There had been disturbance at a meeting in Hyde Park the police had charged the crowd Drover believing his wife in danger from a policeman’s club bad struck with the knife he carried and the man had died His act had nothing to de with the class struggle had been only a protective Impulse The knifeaa just an ordinary knife used for cutting his tobacco probably But the deed involves many in its effects The new Commissioner of Police wishing himself back at his eastern post where duty was definite uncomplex was through with the Drover case Justice he left to judges juries the Home Secretary his business was “simply to get the right man with the Streatham murder the Crowle the Paddington requiring his thought why must the Home Secretary bother him for a report confidentially on what effect a reprieve or execution of a busman would have politically? Politics isn’t his job either Bfeyond the Commissioner it reaches the great newspaper office to Conder of the many personalities into the “party meeting" where strife over leadership makes the' signing of the Drover petition a perfunctory gesture and relegates to the background anymore serious effort into the luxurious pink bedroom of a “pink" Socialist the drawing room of a determined benefactor Kay Rimmer hard casual little beauty and Drover’a sister-in-la- w couldn’t introduce the petition into the match factory— the manager wouldn’t like it he’d sack her and she had to live though she was sorry for MiUy To Conrad the brother who would have given hiav’brains” for Jim’s strength it brings an unrest that conflicts with his loving concern for Jim For Jim had said “Take care of Milly"— frail Milly whom he loved as well as Jim And Milly who loved Jim but has sudden realization that when he comes out of prison she will be 45 all joy or passion beyond her in very fear gives herself to Conrad Yet for both pleasure turns to bitter ness Jim Drover when he hears of the reprieve that will mean 18 years in prison attempts suicide Conrad is more successful and finds release from his misery For all it is a losing battle Mr Greeen seems to say although he is never insistent Perhaps that last moment with the Commissioner implies' that defeat is only because of cowardice victory is to those who face the battle with forgetfulness of private ills There is vivid drama in Ms Greene’s picture and these people interest some of them in their weakness and longing for life claim our pity - r iT ' as ti "Sabbath Morning” vas Left LJzy Bird’s never-endin- men” All the round of farm labor plowing planting harvesting feeding of stock milking is seen all the homely tasks that made the farmer’s day that began long before "sunup” and for many a farmwife at least did not end till late evening For Becky Toler for example there was the darning to do after the "men folks” were snoring in their beds doilies to be embroidered lace to be sewn on intimate arUcles that couldn't the men were be worked around! The story is that of the Toler and the Ogles—Becky having been an Ogle— farmer! of the "Big Bend” country of Washington state and told with the simplicity and in the vernacular that Len Toler himself would have used the narrator being Len’f first grandson whom an adoring designed for a preacher but who had in him the Tolers and as same love of the soil these Ogles who helped to transform the wild untilled Country of Washington into prosperous towns and rich farmlands Len and Becky Toler came es a young couple In the wake of Becky's parents Cephus and Lila Jane Ogle into the Big Bend valley in "the early days” Len noting the wisdom of the aagehens selected his homestead In the bottom of a huge “draw” ao that the wells on the Toler farm were inexhaustible supplying neighbors in all directions And Len prospered When a rheumatic attack-follo- wing strangely enough the Keely "cure” (it seemed Len drank too much for his own good) Grandma Ogle forced him to take— compelled him to the use of crutches and the children all were married he could afford to buy a home in WaterviUe turning over the farm to a son-in-la- Mr Burks’ simple undramatlc narra- tive of his people embodies ell the history of the development of a new country the "county fair” and Its rivalry coming of the telephone the railroad the automobile difficulties of education' war rumors— the story coming to a close with the young narrator’s response to the nation’s call when war is declared His people are as against Germany real as his facts into-exciti- ng d SONNET TOTHE MORNING STAR ' By MARIANNE W JENKINS O crystal distillation from the wine Of sleepless sorrow gathered in one fair Effulgent drop against the darkness where O divine a Already dawn advances True-tondenial of black fears of mine bade me tremble and despair That night-lon- g O promise for tired eyes tired eyes that stare Too lon into the dark without a sign ed ' O Morning Star you are my sign Young light Withheld by sleep from other eyes descends In fullest clearest radiance to me Now in my sorrow Hope shall claim her right And bitterness her rule of anguish ends You tra 0 Morning Star tranquillity it 'ti j -- W nw iv I ‘ - ' 4 W r th - -- w (&'--' V'‘ij ft Books of General Interest DANGEROUS THOUGHTS ON ’THE ORIENT By F R Eldridge Appleton-CenturCompany New York City Probabilities that the public with only a very inadequate idea or none at all of the actual conditions in the Orient or of what the Manchurian issue is all about would be carried away by sentiment rather than guided by reason in respect to the far eastern crisis prompted this discussion by F R Eldridge of what he regards as "dangerous thoughts” that may involve America in a conflict that doesn’t" concern her Mr Eldridge a former chief of the far eastern division United States bureau of foreign and domestic commerce who spent many yeefs in Oriental countries 1 en the side of Japan In the present controversy Considering that the league of nations in asking sanctions against Japan was "ruled by opportunism rather than justice” and that all Japan desires is “order safety and progress in the Orient” Mr Eldridge feels that this power of the far east has been made a He has set forth ber case scapegoat very fully in this volume summarizing in concise chapters her present environment and her relations with th world particularly with America China and Russia Mr Eldridge says that while Japan has imitated “the ways of international deception which we call diplo- macy" and learned that things are settled by force yet the wars she has fought since she was forced into the comity of nations have been fought not on the old principle that "might makes right” but that "might rights wrong" Thus she saved the weak Korea from Chinese aggression prevented Russian domination In China reclaimed from Germany what she had taken from China and returned it to bet neighbor Now she feels that she has returned Manchuria to its rightPublishers y d ful rulers Several chapters are given to a cob densed study of Japan's cultural heritage to her commerce and industryji relation of labor and capital He then proceeds to a comparison of China's world relations with those of Japan and in concluding chapter warns against altruistic interference in Japan’s strugMr Eldgle in economic ridge has no faith that the aalve of pacts snd treaties can avail when the disease is economic distress The book claims attention as coming from ona who baa been in th position to study far eastern affairs at first-han- d e THE OF EXPERIENCE VOICE Publishera Dodd Mead Anonymous A Co Inc New York City Put into printed pages the dally coun-son all the problems of human existence which has com over the eir waves from that friendly philosopher th mysterious "Voice of Experience” may be shorn somewhat of that delphio quality it wears as it comes out of th unknown Set down in black and white it lacks a shade of that profundity which clothed it we find the commonplaces w have known For it la practical tommonserua that the author brings to the solving of human problems and a sound psychological insight gained through a wide experience in social service work in close association with th upper strata of society with professional persona of nota as well as with many of life's dereA quarter century of study in licts the field of human amotions is the foundation for th Counsel ha has to offer on th questions that pour in to him from his broad radio audience men and women of all classes questions ranging from marital difficulties psychological inadjustments the wickedness of intolerance false humility th lessons of adversity to love problems juvenile delinquency th disciplines of the spirit Fifty chapters cover a soop thatahould give an answer to almost any problem that confronts th modern Jndmduii- el - play--wrig- ht re' J n 2 ’ 1 L ’ es "ANTHONY” IN aug-ge- at t VOLg The editioii of “(Anthony Adverse” in the Dutch language is to be in three volumes according to Farrar and Rinehart American publishera It will appear In three separate seasons the first “The Little Madonna” coming in th autumn tha following two for publication in 1935 - -- -- m ' lncont--patibl- NOT QUITE ALIKE E Arnot Robertson a Doubleday Doran author who baa recently been visiting in New York find amusement in the differing national ideas of courtesy and says it sometimes causes embarrassing momenta “In England” aha says “the rules are that you mustn’t ask a comparative stranger any question that remotely curiosity to know who he is or what he does for a living nor anything - to do with his private life Here 1 gather you also don’t “ask’ these things on first acquaintance but It la polite for the stranger to volunteer more about himself than we do generally which as a matter of fact I think is sensible— why should 1 have to go on making a foot of myself about stars to someone who might just aa wall say at the beginning of the conversation that he is a professor of astronomy? — "Anyway her one seem to be able Germany to assume that th other person will be Following this varied show the Calitoo courteous to b bor4 by facts about fornia water color exhibition will hold one’s self while at home It is politer to th gallery beginning June 1 while in assume that they might b bored And the Attic Room a group of 30 of Le Conte in France nice manner require you to Stewart’s etchings block prints and be so Interested in whoever you're talkdrawings will be on display The Art Bam will participate In ing to that you can ask them everything we can’t In fact it's almosfrude not to “Hobby Week” which is to begin June 8 it is announced by Mrs John Jensen “I remember when my husband and I were dining with an English friend In directing the art activities of the Barn th — A display will be arranged in the Crafts a small French provincial hotel Cellar to which adults who follow art patronn cam along to do the honors as an avocation are invited to contribute To maka ua feel at nom she asked m to which of these messiwra was I marexample of their work The cellar will ried and how long had’w been marbe specially draped and lighted for the All entries should be in the occasion ried suggesting that It was pleasant to be married was it not? She also wanthands of the committee by June 7 ed to know If w had any children yet- I said no ao she turned to my husband L’AKE SUNSET j with the most dazzling smile of admiraBy tion and said 'But one can confidently The horizon " await that from rn’iieur’ And then went Of the crimson iky off with an air of having finally cementWas dark ed the entente Which Incidentally ah With the flight had: we loved her” Of seagull winging Into the west THREE PLAYS: TOO TRUE TO BE pampered daughter of th rich enticed GOOD VILLAGE WOOING and ON by a gentleman burglar and bis accomTHE ROCKS plice a sprightly creature of tho servant By Bernard Shaw class to make off with a valuable neck- Publishers Dodd Mead and Comlace and on the proceeds enjoy life with pany Inc New York City “ them in far place The result of tho DAYS WITHOUT END By Eugene amazing escapade is realization by 'O’Neill Publisher Random House that wealth has tiq power to satisfy Inc New York- - City t the spirit Through the burglar the son -of an atheist’ who has taken Holy OrIn the preface to the opening piece of his three the bearded Irish ders unbeknown to his father Mr Shaw levels his criticism at the Church and it remarks on the querulous “ ' ' aentment soma of the journalist critics I deficiencies manifested toward this play Perhaps In “On the Rocks” a comedy of politics Mr Shaw’s thesis is that th killing the gentleman misread their attitude -- of dangerous people the social and it was boredom rather than resent is a necessity beyond question ment that mad the critics querulous " but that It must b done scientifically For as a matter of fact th reader is likely to be overtaken by a feeling of "Unfortunately” be says in the long tedium before b is through with Mr preface that expounds his theory and Intentions "the whole question la beShaw’— group however they are Vies of a sparkle with his lively humor deviled by our “Too True to Be Good" termed “a punishment expiation sacrifice and all ' political extravaganza” which brought th cognat tribal superstition which ar hammered into us in our childhood people flocking to the theater when by barbarous scripturists irascible or performed by the Theater Guild In the season of 1931-3sadist parents and a hideous criminal embodies a good deal coda” Th comedy in Its London presof Mr Shaw’s criticism of the social entation hu been applauded and it if system his main point being that if it to have New York production is 'unjust to the lower classes it is Between these two plays "Village even more a cruelty to th rich With which of course many would find it Wooing called a "comediettina for two difficult to agree voices” is no more than an entertaining Sketch of a salesgirl who proves her Th farcical plot has to do with a -- - Moser Florence Ware ia well represented and Paul Smith is found with some new oils One of the very charming things among the contributions is a study in watercolors by the young artist Elzy Bird It is called '“White Swans” and shows three of tha graceful birds moving on the water the widening ripples forming th design with drooping willow branches making a pattern across the delicate foreground in this composition On Friday a collection of nearly 100 piece of th work of Martha af Eken-staa Swedish artist of Pasadena Cal wills b placed on display for a short Madam af Ekenstam who ia time bringing her work from an exhibition jpst held in Seattle will visit In the city with Mrs Hugh McDevltt Sluri a sculptor and designer of art craft in silver gold copper ebony' end all precious metals having studied under one of the noted artists of Nuremberg cool-tone- d Plays Mitch Talked About feeble-minde- weak-witte- Swans’ con-cepti- yM By William Hinry Warner Publishers H C Kinsey and Company Inc New York d "White V THE DRAGON’S BROOD City China and her brood today a China torn by warring factions tainted by Communism infelted by thieving bands terrorized by continual raids is the scene in which William Henry Warner sets an appealing romance which he surrounds with exciting incidents in plenty Mr Warner explorer as well as novelist has adventured in the Orient and has witnessed China in the throes of revolution This first-hanknowledge of the land of Chinese practices customs traditions Its religious superstitions and ancestor worship enables him to erect an interesting background As heroine we have Mai Yeung who had toiled much of her fifteen years among the rice paddies of her father’s farm but the beginning of her story transports her from the farm to plunge her experiences amid the dangers of the city Her destined course perhaps was determined back ob a ranch in the Dakotas when Sarah another farm girl Ignorant of any life beyond the ranch’s limits wss Inspired with a desire to carry the gospel to China Sarah’s efforts were futile against a China wholly beyond her understanding she had been overwhelmed by it and in desperation saved herself by marrying a coolie farmer becoming absorbed by his way of life In teaching English and swimming to little Mel Yeung her neighbor Sarah had found her one happineas When by a lucky roll of the dice In a tea house Mei Young’s father won the money to reinstatehim with hia family joyfully he took his brood back to Canton to visit hia brother the wealthy lacquer merchant But the indiacreet tongue of his oldest son disclosing to an oily stranger on the boat Mel Yeung’s accomplishment In speaking - English brought immediate trouble The wily stranger bore the news of the beautiful young newcomer and her talent to the wealthy mandarin who desired someone untainted by the foreign religion to d son teach English to bis The mandarin’s proposal to purchase the lovely Mei Yeung is scornfully rejected but In the revolution that suddenly breaks out she falls Into his hands though the young Sing who also' has seen the girl’s budding beauty strives' to protect her while her despairing mother to save herself and the one small son the revolution has left of all her family consents to the sale In the mandarin’s household the poor slave girl is subjected to a wife’s jealousy and even worse befalls when bandits steal the heir But the author’s adroit plot leaves his heroine a genuine heroin ” " and a charming character with the jirom- jse of happiness before her Minerva K Tetcher ts pioneer can- V Novel of Early Washington Modern China Is Pictured HERE ARE MY PEOPLE By Arthur J Burks Publisher Funk & Wagnalls Company New York City What it was like to live on a Washington farm in "the early days”—before the coining of the motorized vehicle about the period the telephone lines began to web the country— days not o very long ago after all Is pictured here in such intimate detail that many a reader will in mental vision be carried back into childhood fancying himself again a little thaver following father or grandg daily larm father about his tasks or grandmother at her unceasing occupation of ministering to the huge appetites of th farmer snd his "hired ISLES OF JUNE By Major H MacLachlan Bell Publish-- i ers Robert M McBride nd Company New York City Linking history ilnce the time Columbus set foot on th Bahamas in 1492 with a travel narrative that capture much of Caribbean glamor Major H McLachlan Bell's book ia at once in - formative and entertaining The reader who thinks of the Bahamas In terms of steamer advertisements or of the city f Nassau will be pleasantly surprised ' at th extent of th Baha-maarchipel- ago which ia from just off the coast ' --- Of Florida to a point east of the south rn tip of Cuba There ar hundreds of islands in tha -- uninhabited atolls group many merely but quit a number boasting fair settlements New Providence island whera Nassau ia located : is ona of the smaller island — Major Bell (pent most of hi ’ In the "outer Islands” finding sojourn there a spirit of eas and peace mystery and beauty Friendly native and friendlier British officials make th traveler feel welcome and conduct him to pictur-esqu- e and historical places The conjure up many names from the pages of history— Raleigh Gilbert A Ffobishrr Hawkins and a acore of other who practiced gentlemanly piracy it under the British flag when the worlds 'was aflame with th passion for conquest and Protestant England was united against the Catholic' monarchies of Spain Portugal and France There Hung at the Art Barn during the week were other more sinister names linked through the courtesy of Mrs Alice Mei with the conquest of th Bahamas rill Horne a general exhibit comprising Blackbeard and Morgan also had their about 14 artists is occupying the main in loot of share the Spanish Main and ' gallery while a number of the pieces Morgan later with a “Sir” tacked before from the student exhibit are retained in his name governed th islands — the tearoom and on the staircase walls Major Bell includes a fine word picrepresenting the Salt Lake high school ture of quaint Nassau In hia book Its work Edwin Evans if having a return narrow crooked streets with their in- exhibition in the Attic gallery where verted cannon posts hold many places on will have the opportunity again to of interest to the traveler A chapter see many of hit delightful watercolors ia devoted to the rise to wealth occaAmong the exhibitor In tha main galsioned by prohibition In the ' United lery ia the Wyoming artist Minerva K States The Bahamas for year were Tetchert who has a new canvas depictone of th main sources of supply for ing a pioneer theme which shows her' the illicit liquor trade and fortune with a new quite vivacious sense of mounted there like they' did In tha best color This "Sabbath Morning" t American bootlegging circles It was revealing genuine imaginative one of the most golden spendthrift pepower is one of the most satisfying picriods Nassau had ever known The sea tures she has shown very agreeable in became tha home of men who had for composition and of strength in mountain 45 years been petty shopkeepers th forma ' It shows a group of the handwindows changed from ordinary glass cart pioneers toiling upward on a rocky to plate automobiles became aa plentitrail through the early morning men ful as telephone numbers mansions ’ and women having donned best garments in the skies Liquor was the ' grew One feels services Sabbath the tor ready stimulant something of the morning freshness in Parts of the volume contain data on th picture snd a renewed confidence of the costs of living which can be as reathese in people spirit sonable or as expensive aa one wishes J T Harwood’s large oil the fide viThere is an account of the famous Boot brant rendition Of “The Harbor of Nice" leggeri' ball that alone is worth the price has been removed from the Newhouse of the book and there ar quotations to share In thts exhibit Ranch Kimfrom descriptive writings by other trav- ball’s Striking “Hill Forms" a southern elers Major Bell however doesn't have Utah landscape is one of the group and to rely on others tor hia description hia there is a Mary Teasdel canvSsj’The pen is facile and his powers of observaSea” A portrait by Irene Fletcher a e keen travelers will J H Stansfield landscape one of Lee tion find "Bahamas: Isles of June" a delight Greene Richards’ Interpretations of tha and those 'able will probably start packBear lake scene and two of Bessie Alice ing the moment they lay the volume Bancroft’ flower designs also art here aside with on or two canvases by Verla Blr-rel-L A new French subject by A B ' RULES OF COURTESY Wright is an important item in the show and a recent landscape study by Henri AT HOME AND AWAY' - adeptness by “selling herself" to th man of her choice This latest dramatic product of Eugene 0’NeiU’i exploring mind whetever ' th feaction to lta visual presentation— and there has been diverse commentary on the stage performance given by th Theater Guild in January— make inter- eating reading and th questions It pro- yokes are fruitful of discussion Th theme of "Days Without End” Is' leu complex than in most of O’NellTt plays but is still involved with the sex motif Mr O’Neill deals with religious doubts a roan’s straying from bis faith his spiritual unrest and bit return to surrender himself at the foot of th Cross the Issue being Complicated by strong sex angle Again in this play O’Neill has used the device of masks John Loving's evil second self ever at his side masked and invisible to others to leer and deride and lead the wretched man farther from the truth The man’s philosophy is confusing but this seif conflict is effectively shown A Book Is An Ideal r ‘ GRADUATION GIFT You’ll find scores— of t just the type for ap- propriate gifts for your Graduate— at the ' DESERET BOOK COMPANY 44 East On South Temple |
