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WWT"1 History of Macabre Episode Horrifies Activities in Utah' 1 Artists Colony snr Modern Gallery Holds Work of UtahTif FH While Convincing 'A v i sjm WMWW X i HARRIET By Elizabeth Jenkins Pub- -' lishers Doubleday Doran and Company Inc Garden City N Y New York' Related in the simplest of prose in a manner marked by complete detachment as if the writer's own feelings were perfectly under restraint thia story yet leaves so vivid an impression of shocking horror that one can recall it only with a shudder It is tha account of an inhuman crime committed delib- fasherately in incredibly ion but it baa nothing to do with the usual story of crime and its punishment The atory of “Harriet”— repeating in its outline a murder of record in England of the Victorian period— shows how the thought ol murder can grow in the human heart under the impulses of greed and lust how apparently respectable men and women can conceive evil in such terms as to delude themselves it is right and they are absolved of re-- IULIAN GREEN’S preoccupying interest in the abnormalities the J least agreeable phases of human personality has led him down strange avenues He has given himself to penetration ol the dark Inmost channels of human consciousness of that world where the " mind escapes from the real world where “the illusions of desire ahd death” may be Just as real as “our delusive reality”s But in all- his a more repelexplorations Mr Green has scarcely discovered lent character than one of those forming the triangle of interest in this present book These are a sadistic mother a beautiful young girl and a young man cousin From a newspaper item telling of a suicide with this odd detail that “the young man after having put a bullet in his head summoned up strength idea for his book enough to wash his face in a basin Mr Green drew the Such a passion for cleanliness intrigued him to theories regarding the moral exaspects of this young man But in his story nothing of the fact remains hero in his cleanliness concern for meticulous cept that comOne could not indeed fancy his Manuel summoning courage to forea and a with bulging ftoop mit suicide This weak sensitive youth head whose ugliness even was commonplace is such a spiritless cowardly Placed by his parents in a individual one cannot even find pity for him employer bookshop at fourteen he became a veritable slave to an ignorant found he submitting tamely to his tyrannyrwhen it grew unbearable His exin writing in his little notebook words he never dared to say treme neatness and certain vague qualities won him the appellation of “the young lady” and he suffered without open resentment the insults and ridicule of shop boys When Manuel's parents died he was taken Into the home of his aunt the sinister Madame Plasse a woman whose “natural cruelty was tempered Her daughter only by a kind of verbal fastidiousness went in terror of her severity and the violent tirades her most had once been Madame trifling misdeeds would call forth Manuel’s father ’ Plasse’s fiance then had been won by her own sister In pique the 6ther had married Colonel Plasse whom she had Her contempt for thought ridiculous him had turned to antipathy and after his death her spleen found release in making the daughter suffer She found pleasure in tormenting Manuel going ven to the bookshop to taunt him with ugliness his inferiority to his father and allowing him no freedom at home Yet she has a strange love for the youth deeper than for ’whose existence she resents and when' Manuel through the inroads of tuberculosis becomes ill she gives him an - to-u- J re-le- d - se se ' se day-drea- ' COLORFUL TAPESTRY OF INDIA THE SINGER PASSES By Maud Diver Publishers Dodd Mead & Co Inc New York City Maud Diver whose novels have dealt largely with India has here ema modern picployed perhaps one of the best possible ways of presenting ture of that troubled empire as late as the year 1931 — through one in whom was joined the blood of English noblemen and the blood of Rajputs the aristocracy of northern India one thus fitted by understanding of both races to write the book that should express India to the Western mind Sir Roy Sinclair as readers of “Far to Seek” will know is son of that English baronet who shocked the County by bringing home as mistress of his ancestral estate an emancipated Rajput girl Their marriage was wholly But this cleavage happy and Roy had adored his lovely Indian mother of East and West in his heritage had brought him a divided soul he was pulled this way and that between contending forces The East called to his senses while his heart was at home in England To augment an income exhausted by death duties and increasing taxes Roy plans another book a symbolical novel of England and India to accomplish which necessitates another visit to his mother’s land and separation from his beloved English Tara and their children— a Tara fearful that India may reassert its dominion over him It is Roy’s purpose to create a book that shall throw light tn the varied mind of India ana he wanders over the land from Udpipur tathe Himalayas meeting and talking with members of all its varied worlds political and religious high and low renewing friendships and association with his mother’s people finding stimulus in his grandfather wise Sir Lakshman Singh Sometimes he goes in Rajput dress which allows him glimpses of “the sinister background of religious ecstasies and posturings” and also to discern the finer things of India hid from Western eyes He enters British official circles or mingles with the peasant of the Punjab All this broad experience affords Mrs Diver opportunity to present questions the range every phase of India and its problems Anglo-India- n of British and Indian opinion —and all with an air of authority though her own prejudices are often made apparent Every episode all Indian opinion she says in a foreword are based on actual facts actual opinions expressed It is a richly woven vivid tapestry she has prepared in which one gains an understanding of the complex forces moving in India In h eg one meets innumerable interesting many fascinating characters Mrs Eageg writes in an agreeable if somewhat florid style but there are passages particularly the romance that is part of the story of Victorian flavor While the incidents she describes have receded in the rapid movement of history in India since it is indicated in that last decision of Roy's to accept his “guru’s” mission that Mrs River has another book in mind to bring events up to date perhaps -- UNDER THE WALLS OF SAN QUENTIN TICKET By Ethel Turner Publishers Harrison Smith and Robert Haas Inc New York While prison life has interested a number of novelists as material for fictional presentation it has not perhaps been treated from quite the same y Ticket" —a title whose significance viewpoint as that offered in is that the deputy taking a prisoner out to San Quentin purchases only one round-trip y the prisoner gets a ticket” The story however is less concerned with these travelers than' with others whose days are lived under the walls of gray San Quentin Ethel Turner whose first novel this is Is the daughter of an employe at California's famous prison and for nineteen years the prison reservation i was her home- It is this familiar life she has pictured as background story telling of one who through her intensity of pity is driven from her prejudices to betray this group bf which she is a member The narrow limits of life for this circle of prison enffcloyes and their families! its monotony and its problems the constant unspoken dread of a riot such as frequently one reads about in the news or of the possible consequences should some dangerous convict escape—all this is convincingly shown without ONE-WA- Y “One-Wa- “one-wa- one-w- ay for-he- r - dramatic “Give me a The “trusties” are servants in the homes of the officials murderer every time" says Mrs Hawkins-- ra thief around the place was much lesrf trustworthy melting down one’s spoons and stealing the dog collars But gentle Wing Lee who had killed for his tong cut his throat in the Bourn’s kitchen The night of the school dance where the hangman in his patent leathers swung the little schoolmistress off her feet the prison bell broke into the music a “con” had made a getaway! The dance breaks up in panic the Captain orders “Everybody out” only Old Lady Bindle to take stays until “the last Jdog is hung” For days before an execution- is “lock-up- ” place tension prevails in the little community— jjnd always at Those moving eyes behind the barred airholes in “Condemned Row" to draw the fascinated gaze Miss Turner's chief character js Veronica Bourn whose father was a faptaiq of the guards Having just finished Ban Rafael high school Ye- over-empha- sis - - ‘ 4 A - I Art Director Leaves for Paris ‘U’ To Db Commission Leaving Salt Lake on Sunday for New York A B Wright head of the art department University of Utah will spend his third consecutive summer in art study in France He plans to visit in New York 2 City for a few days sailing On June in the French liner Champlain and will go directly to Paris Mr Wright will be occupied at first with a portrait commission having received an urgent letter from Guillot de Saix a playwright and poet of Paris This gentleman was so much pleased with a portrait Mr Wright painted last summer of one of his friends Gustave Caron that he insisted the artist must return to paint his own after the same manner He wrote also that several of his artist friends were much interested- which will probably lead to further commissions for Mr Wright Mr Wright plans to spend a part of his time in Paris at the Academie Montmartre studying with Jean de Boton and will also repeat his painting trips outside of the French capital doing some of the delightful landscapes old churches and village street scenes that Interest him c by Venn ' Fausett acquired by Whitney Museum New York City weak-minde- se his part takas ecstatic devotion Marie-Thereagainst the innocent frightened by her confessor into making known the “secret” of Manuel’s attempted lovemaking and defends him against the priests who bring accusations against her nephew’s morals When he dies sorrow impairs her JUL“N green health her reason for living seems Marie-Thereher injustice must feel pity for her recalling gone Even the It is during Manuel’s illness that his feverish mind crushed by and Marie-There- se weight of daily living begins those imaginary adventures— as hehim asecret had once played the “castle game”— which became for exit” to a “strange paradise” The story of this dream life in a castle where desire and death seem to govern displays Mr Greeps adeptness m Reading it in Manuels notebook creating fantasies of chilling horror “yielded to the charm of his tempestuous melanyears after Marie-ThereOne as a bird becomes dazed under the eye of a snake choly ' reading it here has somewhat the same sensation This newest of Mr Green’s pathological studies does not however The domigrip one with the conviction that followed his previous novels she when and is herthe with is girl Plasse power portrayed nating Aunt self speaking— and she tells a good' part of the story— appears a more nearly normal human being than is usual in Mr Green’s novels But this worm of a Manuel is hardly explained even through the allegory of his We m the Not even Mr Green’s very extraordinary castle of his dream romance gifts of writing and of insight have given him reality sponsibility The book’s final distillation of horror is in this rather than in the fact ef the crime itself This psychological aspect gives the book a power quits outside its sensational narrative that irresistible fasholds the reader with-thcination of a Poe tale The victim is a creature so pitiful to the ordinary mind as to intensify the horror Harriet Woodhouse was a "natural” but a mother’s devotion had made her life pleasant Her mother's second husband found the girl's presence somewhat of a strain so Harriet epent a month at times with various relatives willing to put up with her lor the boardshe was ing fee Though dressed not unattractive physically beautifully and with neatness Harriet had three thousand pounds of her own and a reversionary interest in two thousand more When Harriet “visits" the Hoppners a poverty-pinchefamily in a London suburb Lewis Oman the flamboyantly handsome clerk Alice Hoppner considers her own property is enticed by Harriet’s money and his brother Patrick married to Elizabeth Hoppner abets his scheme Lewis has no difficulty persuading Harriet to marry him despite her mother’s frantic efforts and immediately proceeds to atrip her of her small fortune When she is about to bear a child Lewis makes of her an invalid and brings Alice into the house as his companion Later Harriet is sent down to Patrick and Elizabeth who are living in a shabby isolated country villa With Harriet’s money Lewis buys a pleasant house in the vicinity Alice joining him as “Mrs Oman” Gradually Harriet and her baby are isolated by Patrick’s harshness in a tiny upper room treated as few people would treat a dumb animal until the woman has become no more than an animal and her alow death ia accomplished The through starvation and neglect dying woman is taken away lrom the "house at the last moment and a nurse called In sees more than the doctor who makes out the certificate of death Police investigation results and the four implicated are brought to the bar and convicted It is difficult to conceive of four persons of ordinary Intelligence so utterly without realization of the enormity of their crime particularly in the case of Elizabeth a gentle mother and devoted wife but Mis Jenkins' skill in portrayal has made it impossible to do other than believe In them "Landscape" e Marie-There- se Marie-There- -- d Seat at the ‘Puppet-Sho- ’THE PUPPET SHOW ON THE POTOMAC By Rufus Dart II Publishers Robert M McBride and Company New York City If the great Father of His Country could look today upon the “Federal City” of which he was the progenitor and sea what it has become naught but a vast disappointment would be his according to Rufus Dart who declares it is “almost nothing that he meant it to be and nearly everything that he hoped to spare it” The city of Washington’a design was to be not alone the capital of Government but the center of national finance indus- - Extinction of Game Birds Is Danger Author Points Out w’ try commerce the arts and social graces What Washington would find is nothing but “a master puppet” of which Big Business with New York as capital pulls ” the strings theatrically it is the and as to art Mr Dart grants it two distinguished pieces and the Lincoln “dog-town- Memorial Of a truth no reverence for the political bigwigs of Washington lesides in Mr Dart As he proceeds with his audacious report on the amusing “puppet-show- ” enacted in George's “Federal City” he observes no reticencies but unbosoms himself with a mordant humor that though he may tear sway the curtain before some pet idol induces one to share in his unholy glee even while gasping at his frank disclosures Mr Dart has little hesitancy in using names when he has a story to tell If he does occasionally refrain he kindly drops a clue for the reader so that one has small difficulty in identification Mr Dart as an assistant in a govern-medepartment for a period of years has had an inside seat at the show and his eyes and ears have been open He devotes a good bit of space anent the warm welcome given the revelations of the anonymous "Washington which drew the ire of the Honorable Sol Bloom to an exposition of the prevalent official practice of employ’ "It may still be exing travagant” he grants “to say that the Government of the United States Is entirely run by ghosts but the trend is in nt AMERICAN GAME PRESERVE SHOOTING By Lawrence B Smith Publisher Windward House New York CityGame bird shooting 'In this country ss we know it today is destined ultimately tj become practically extinct The best way to put this moment into” the distant future is to establish numerous game preserves This is the belief expressed by Lawrence B Smith author of several books recognized as author!-tativ- e in regard to fishing and hunting In Ms "American Game Preserve Shooting” “The ultimate outcome with regard to wild game” he says “will doubtless be that eventually it will disappear as it has in the past except for those species which can be artificially raised And at present there seems to be no obvious cure However there are some species of game birds (and animals) that have and can be reared artificially and can be used for stocking purposes and these will in the end be the ultimate source of shooting in America” There are numerous problems which must be solved before these preserves can be established in sufficient quantities Perhaps the most important of these is tha persuading of sportsmen truce Mr and landowners to sign-Smith points out that preserves can be established on lands with profit to the owner—as well as the sportsman of course —and without injury to that land providing that the sportsmen use it properly Private enterprise has a definite place In Mr Smith’s scheme of preserves but both state and federal governments should increase their activity in this phase of sports in the opinion of the author Smith’s The major portion of Mr book is devoted to discussion of the construction' and maintenance of preserves He urges that an experienced rfian— not one who has learned all his lore from books— be put in charge of preserves and kept in that position the year around if possible The legal side of the establishing of the preserves should be gone into thoroughly he says The laws in the various states vary widely and there are numerous restrictions which should be understood clearly before work is started An entire chapter is given to the most important parts Of the preserves coverts and feed patches Succeeding chapters give instructions for the proper raising of pheasants ducks and quail Vermin control disease and sanitation flighting ducks and driving pheasants are also dealt with briefly but thoroughly The book has a number of illustrations and an excellent appendix a SPRINGVILLE’S ART EFFORT RECOGNIZED SPRINGVILLE2— That the annual high School art exhibit Regaining recognition in many parts of the United States is shown in an article in the May issue of the national American Magazine of Arts The article explains how the art project began how it is carried on and the extent to which it has grown The author also commends the school for its efforts in maintaining the project She is weary of San Quentin’s ronica is planning to go to Berkeley where even “a new station agent is a sensation” This young-- " agent a gay likable chap teaches her love yet not for him can Veronica But this sensitive girl scorning a friend who give up her dream of college could break “the one ironclad law of the village the law whereby the comconmunity preserved its very life” by putting herself on a footing with a vict is drawn into a more heinous breaking of the rules the despair and pleading in a young prisoner’s gray eyes working upon her pity and her emotional nature so that she lends herself to aid his escape While this climatic incident in itself seems implausible Miss Turner handles it very well Veronica’s reactions being made junderstandable and the The book’s descriptions situation in which she finds herself neatly resolved the author has no speof conditions at San Quentin is quite unprejudiced cial plea to make she merely presents conditions as she knew them and her povel as a first effort is to be commended limita-tionsLal- ife Merry-Go-Roun- “ghoat-writers’- that direction” That men of marked intellectual gifts should play literary “ghosts” for these public heroes — as for instance the hero of “The Iron Puddler”who was Labor Secretary under three presidents and won a few LLD’s because of the welcom-- ‘ at the ing address Eucharistic Congress— is Mr Dart comments "one of the ironies of this particular stage of our national life and may be another of the deadly things the matter with it" Mr Dart's pages crowded with lively anecdotes and pictures of the great snapping and crackling with a crisp wit will furnish plenty of entertainment and an insight into how the strings are pulled for this The author has ‘'puppet-dancing- ” the courage of his indiscretions Ocean Floor Gives Up Last Clue for Ingenious Puzzle THE LESSER ANTILLES CASE By Rufus King Publisher The Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Doran A Co Garden City N Y When the liner Venezuela docked In New York bringing back the survivors of Lawrence Thacker’s yachting party wrecked on a coral reef off the Lesser Antilles chain Lieutenant Valcour Rufus King's famous detective was faced with a difficult problem as the sullen Lillian Ash numerologist and Thacker’s friend insists on telling her story of the strange disappearance from the yacht’s small boat of Thacker and his third mate Leighton Klein Miss Ash didn't believe they had fallen overboard It Is Clear the aristocratic Miss White-ston- e and her niece Erika ara in fear of something and as at least five of the ten in that boat were to participate in Lawrence Thacker’s fortune it seemed possible Miss Ash might be right someone had sought Thacker’s death When it develops the water in the water butt had been doped the lieutenant is convinced Yet why Leighton Klein? Valcour has a hunch the solution of the puzzle turns on the killing of Klein— and if you know this clever sleuth you know his hunches ere generally correct But how to solve a murder that happened thdussnds of miles away and the corpus delicti has vanished? Certain circumstances indicate that young Phillip Hasbrook a cousin of the dead man had allowed his ruthless temper to best him again It is not until the heirs including LeRoy Kinsman from up in the Adlrondacks gathered for the reading of Thacker's will in the apartment of Edmund Gateshead Thacker's intimate and askone of the bpat's ten and someone puts hydrocyanic acid in Edmund's coffee that the solution comes -like a flash to Valcour So fantastic is the theory however end so unsusceptible of proof that his wits are taxed to the utmost to bring the guilt homo to the right person which does not come untile that yacht trip has been repeated end startling incident on the ocean floor uncovers the truth It’s highly complicated plot of novel and amazing features which while it tests one's credulity considerable provides the maximum of mystification and is adriotly untangled Two native Utahns of whose noteworthy progress in the ert world their home state seems little ewsre ere Lynn and William Dean Fausett formerly of Price sons of Mr and Mrs George A Fausett of that city The brothers were students at Brigham Young university' but have been absent for some years from the state Fausett being the older of the "two was the " and left first for New York City where he continued his study at the Art Students' league his connection with the institution finally resulting In his becoming Us presi-dent For a number of years past Mr Fausett has been associated with Hlld-vill- e Mierre a leading woman mural painter with her working on a number of large mural jobs among them mosaic designs for St Bartholomew’! church on Park avenue mosaic and mural works In the Irving Trust building Wall Street large decorative metal medallions which adorn the exterior of Music hall and Roxy’s theater at Rockefeller Center extensive tile designs in the main corridor of the Nebraska state capltol at Lincoln He studied fresco painting at the Fontainebleau Art school Paris a tew years ago He has also painted with Miss Mierre a mural frieze for the lobby of the National Council of Women in tha Social Science building at the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago as well as assisting with paintings for many smaller churches and public buildings While Mr Fausett waa studying ad the Art Students' league he met end married Helen Wessells an artist also who is becoming prominent ts a painter of children’s portraits Following hia brother to New York a tew years later Dean Fausett studied for three years at the League and far two succeeding years won'scholarships to the Louis Comfort Tiffany foundation on Long Island Ha has exhibited variously in New York City also in the Corcoran gallery Washington D C He has appeared In the exhibits at the Whitney Museum of Modern Art which has acquired on of his canvases a vigorously painted rural landscape typical of the east its stormy sky being a stirring feature This "landscape” indicates the liberal point of view Mr Fausett hold toward art It is his ambition he says to become a mural painter as well sa an easel painter and etcher and to indulge in aculpture also as a “trail-blazer- interest ’ ' The Kraushaar galleries carry his work while the paintings of Ljflin Fsu-seand Miss Wessells are to be found at the Midtown galleries tt WRITERS OF ROCKY MOUNTAIN WEST - Announced by The Caxton Printers Idaho publishing coifipany for appearance this spring is “The Great Adam" the story of a banker of the West during The author is the depression years George Dixon Snell III a young Salt Lake writer whose first appearance in print was made the past whiter when a short story was published in Manuscript While "The Great Adam” will be Mr Snell’s first book it is by no means his first story He has been writing assiduously for a number of years and has completed several novels but this is tha first that has met his own critical tests i k BOOKS? 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