Show A 6 "tHE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MOR'NING AUGUST D 7 1938 and Comment on Current Books and News of Literary Folk Known— lYct Unknown Charles — -- Reveal By W M C THE LIFE OF O 0 McINTYRE by Charles B Driscoll Pub- lisher the Greystone Press New York Following its appearance in serial form in the Cosmopolitan Charles B Driscoll’s biography of the late O O McIntyre popular columnist is now on sale in book form For those who did not read the magazine serialization it is the humanistip tale of the best known — yet perhaps the least known man in his field Familiar to almost everyone in the United States at least to many millions through his writings here was a man whose whose lovable personality whose eccentric phobias private-lifwere known tp onty a “smatixtiThr of f fiends McIntyre so the biography reveals lived a life that was asWange mixture of triumph and defeat happiness and sorrow health' and sickness Odh McIntyre's column “New York Day 'by Day” was-readaily by 104000000 people according to thauthor— people" who Became his unknown friends and yet it is likely that He ate at certain hours his whWng each reader's mental picture of this never varied he wrote at cerhighest-paiwriter in the world time hours his copy was sent eaclb varied 'greatly from the man him-el- f tain on Here was a man rich far week to the publisher precisely It was all this hodgefrom beautiful no- - longer young the minute of emotions as Who made mistakes in grammar podge this mixup it might be termed that kept the in fact and an error yet columnist and many congoing at fever-hewhose writings were perhaps more of him fearful that kept tinuously avidly read more eagerly sought and everybody that than those of any of his contem- everything gave to his writings a freshness a poraries McIntyre's weekly Income simplicity that made it strong Durfrom his column was almost $3000 13 years of his life Mchis ing the last the book reveals Despite never stepped inside the office wealth he had a terror of poverty Intyre the syndicate for which he wrote and feared that at some time his of He never had a secretary Mrs Mcreaders would desert him He had served as business manager numerous fabulous offers to appear Intyre Mcall Contracts over the radio and in the movies and negotiated his wife were boy and and Intyre all Because but he scorned them together He proposed to her of his dread of poverty it is ex- girl when he was 14 and when they "he plained and his inherent thrift were were married years later typed his columnar copy in single supremely happy and livedthey a life of apace with little or no margin and complete togetherness made corrections in it in red irik e d d of Courage Triumph Outwardly McIntyre's writings macked of the typically American small-tow- n a of rise boy who made good in the city a Horatio Alger-lik- e rise that still brings thrills to the heart of almost every true American for such rises are distinctively Yet as one reads Dris American coil’s words McIntyre’s rise was more than that much more It was a triumph of courageous tenacity oyer a spirit that was shy painfully sensitive and extremely wary of crowds Even when fame had come he still was unable to give complete approval to anything he wrote His rise is remarkable ta say the least because it was made' in the newspaper world which is notoriously hard on weaknesses What made O O McIntyre so beldved of his millions of readers? Among other things the author of his biography lays it to his unlimited capacity for remembering — and forgetting— along with and belief in the thing about which he was writing' Odd McIntyre remembered how the steaming teakettle sounded in the kitchen with frosty windows on a cold morning in the country how lonesome the one old horse looks In the big field as night comes on the mixed smell of apple butter cooking and that of wood smoke as the pot boils in the orchard and a thousand end one other homely touches that all of us in the 40’s remember particularly if we had our childhood in the country or small town So many of these memories tossed into his daily column mill gave to it a certain tang that small-tow- n in millions of O O called a “faint awak-'ene- d folk world-wear- y what nostala-gia- " A Forgetter Also And yet while McIntyre was endearing himself to his readers by’ reason of his remembering he was plagueing his publisher and biographer Driscoll by his- forgetting He couldn’t tell the datp when his first column was sent out he could e rot remember the date of his he had only "the vaguest notion as to how old he was when his mother died Along this line the writer points out that McIntyre was never a keeper He never kept carbons or clippings of anything he ever wrote beyond the previous month Still he was meticulous and systematic in everything he' did rpar-riag- r A M" JTA Adi'S DUVEETS Less V: 2 than : The Big Four Oscar Lewis "THE ANATOMY OF MELANCHOLY"— By Robert Burton 189 "MAN AND MEMORIES'”— By S ir Wm Rothenstgln 195 "THE HISTORY OF BIOLOGY”-- — By Eric' Nordenskiold Dnni-Sanra- t-- Tr -- U9 179 "WHY KEEP THEM ALIVE" 149 Paul De Kruif "THE WAY - 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published a Thank you God for everything sorts cause more real worry and small book called “A Child's Grace" with additional verses by Dr Ernest inconvenience than the actual fight- a series of photographs by Harold E Claxton 's ing It is illuminating too to find Burdekin illustrating Mrs The 28 lovely photographs of chilfamous prayer: that numbers of our young men are dren in every hour and mood of the in Spain and China “enjoying” the Thank you for the world so sweet day make this one of the most enwars to the fullest— O W B Thank you for the food we eat gaging picture books of the season Sr' 'V ‘ gave t'he children 'to the father With her first youth and beauty gone and her reputation shadowed by divorce she returned to the stage and was again an immediate success For the rest of her life she acted read Shakespeare’s plays In her old age alonq and wrote she was an intimate of Henry James and she knew Longfellow Thackeray Wordsworth the Brontes and hundreds ftf others famous spent one unforgettable winter there during the 12 years of her married life which bore fruit in a journal published during the Civil war and so populaf it was credited with swinging English sentiment against the south in In her late thirties she left her husband and of necessity her two children Although she accused him of Infidelity and her own life was Irreproachable the law of the time ( Fanny Kemble — from the portrait by Thomas Sully iq the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts ' ' Lea-tham- - Books Found on Current Fiction List Victoria’s her life nearly spanned the nineteenth century and in its interests and activities it provides a striking foil to Victoria’s Laugh and Relax own This book should take its place with the really great biogra-phie- HOW DARE YOU SIR! By Noei of the Victorian age Godber Publishers M S Mill Co Inc New York City The best antidote for the mental depression sometimes induced by hot and sultry weather income muddled politics repuzzlements cession and war is laughter Nonsense chloroforms serious thought And for those bent on testing the truth of the statement here is the of knowing how to make one’s home book to read If it doesn’t proapproach more closely to one of voke laughter there good taste and individuality as evi- is no hope— or prescription— for the denced by a verdict of approval reader over a century rather than a mere The g force is decade a combination of situations plus The various chapters are authen- characters One thing must be said tically treated by experts in their for the author Noel Godber:-- he respective Tines and the book seems never to have permitted his compilation of treatises by numer- characters to stagnate Nor is the — ous famous authorities G G reader lured into laughing by false pretenses His comedy always in Longmans Green are publishing a state of flux never becomes rouThe in early fall a new novel by Julian tine and hence dull reading R Meade southern author who an elements of suspense and imaginanounced his pride in his birthplace tion keep a good jump ahead from in “I Live in Virginia” “The Back the time Diana's diary is discovered Door" titles the new book with its revelations on femininity Enchantment for Collectors Of Antiques for the Home COLLECTING THE HOME Saylor FOR ANTIQUES edited by Henry H Publisher Robert M Mc- actors She Bride & Co New York were all was not educated for the stage but A new way of achieving that comat 19 was pressed to play Juliet beto all cause her family was in financial plete individuality which is interior decorators amateur and straits Her father owned the professional the summum bonum is Garden theater which was offered in a new profusely illustrat: heavily in debt Her debut in ed book "Collecting Antiques for Romeo and Juliet was an instant the Home" edited by Henry H and tremendous success and she saved the Thereafter Saylor theater In 416 pages of effective and dencver'free of debt was she though tailed decorative data Mr Saylor her professional life was a success offers who would story She earned vast sums of like to make of their surroundings five and For money spent lavishly more than "a machine years she garnered all the laurels something fq T living” authentic and unique possible in England and America information on furniture groupings She was presented at court and met — chan's not most of the interesting people of tables orrly the assembling of rugs beds and general necesthe age sities but introductions to the real At the height of her career she that may lie in these married Pierce Butler of Philadel- personalities elements of furnishing marleft and the Her stage phia For instance he traces the source riage was unhappy almost from the of inspiration for the designs of Hepplewhite Shearer and Sheraton He tells how the Virgin Queen tirWPA Volumes ing of oak furniture imported thousands of walnut trees from Italy to Come This was the birth in England of A late Publication of "Delaware: seventeenth and early eighGuide to the First State” coinci- teenth century furniture that has dental with the had such a marked effect on Ameri Delaware tercentenary with also can furniture of today "A South Dakota Guide” a flavorTo those contemporary periods of ful record of pioneer days and tie England Holland and France are present has been announced by traced the roots of American coloHenry G Alsberg director of the nial furniture Reminiscent of Ja federal writers’ project W P A cobean styles William and Marv announces Mr also and Alsberg Queen Anne are many of the "Whaling Masters” a handbook on fine old pieces Illustrated are the whaling industry in the Amerinteriors ican Guide Series which has been eled walls withshowing ofsimple pan1 early date pieces the Old Dartmouth published by —chests chairs beds and their ar Historical society of New Bedford tistic groupings Mass With the stated objective: "That a homeis pr should be an exten New Library Books sion of one’s personality re well-know- n Co-ve- ' theijr time Like Knew Many Notables e for August ' Passionate not easjf’for a woman of her type to settle down to the life of a provincial lady She was an ardent abolitionist and her husband owned a large plantation in Georgia She maintained by slave labor Philadelphia PRICE “Fanny Kemble: A start It was Emily Post has taken care of the manners of the older generation and they in turn have done their blundering best by the younger set but "most of the old rules of etiquette went out when the rumble seat came in” So says Norton Hpghes Jonathan of 1914 vintage and he has produced a “moderp guidebook for the young man about town who wants to know his way around" Not only will this book prove a boon to the said ypung man but also to his bewildered parents— even Sister may find in it a few good' tips It is easy to be popular says Mr looks and wealth have Norton nothing' to do with it the secret lies in making the most of what-onhas namely oneself Always knowing the correct thing to do under any condition makes one clever and smooth for "gentlemen aren't sissies but regular fellows who know their way around Podu larity and being a gentleman go well together— like ham and eggs" Practically every phase of social life is discussed in the language of today’s youth" There is even a chapter on Women all typed for easy classification of the latest “date" In a very frank discussion of "Pitching the woo” which translated to the language of an earlier day means "spooning” he advises the young man against asking a'girl if he may kiss her— take a chance "You'll either get your ears knocked back or she’ll nestle in your manly arms" Some of this more intimate information has been gathered at and from fraternity inquiring letters This book with its clever illustrations by Pclagie Doane proved of interest to the young man in our home and we confess we obtained a very new slant on several subjects We recommend it to all the young Joneses and those who would keep up with them Banner List STILL LIVE By F G Tinker Jr Publishers Funk and Wagnall Company New York City Thrills and adventures crowd upon sordid facts and discordant thoughts in this tale qf the war in Spain Told by an American aviator who went to South America and obtained a passport to Spain under a Spanish name' thence traveling that upset country where he SOME Armstrong author of Family of Actors Fanny Kemble was born In 1809 into a family famous for its actors Mrs Siddons the tragedian was her aunt and her father and uncles By EDNA S PARK GENTLEMEN AREN'T SISSIES By Norton Hughes Jonathan Publishers The John G Winston A Margaret aiit Man Etiquette EDITIONS AT With Thrills $re-Civ- Gives Young Distinctive DeLuxe ‘A Child’s Grace e This Handbook "bull-session- iw By ANNA MAY SMITS FANNY KEMBLE— A Passionate Victorian By Margaret Arm strong Publishers The Macmillan Company New York No matter how thoroughly we have learned that human nature does not change from one generation to another it conj§s as some thing of a shock to have it freshly demonstrated Fanny Kemble was in no respect whaever even remotely like a Victorian female ahe had many of the characteristics- - we like to consider typical of a modern woman and yet in an age of crinoline she lived a rich varied life with full scope for her remarkable talents Born a hundred years later she mighL-havescaped some fifths sorrow that darkened her middle life but she could not have found a society more willing to listen and admire Her life story Is like a fairy tale of a little princess endowed at birth with everything human heart could desire” She was beautiful rich highly talented well born and well connected so that any society she preferred was open to her ‘in' sensitive and strong telligent Against the background of il England and' waKAmerica her biography could not fadl to be fascinating if only passably written and Margaret Armstrong has oqne much better than that The bdak is alive and glowing the author iquite lost in should the subject which is be with any biographer lesKhan a Boswell 'The Life of O O McIntyre” is a biography of success that is almost purely American Driscoll has written it not only as a biographer but as one of McIntyre’s three or four closest friends Resultlngly it is crammed with human interest touches which make it doubly readable Co From Biography SgggL Driscoll’s Biography of 0 0 McIntyre Intimate Touclies on Rise of SmalU Town Boy to Position of Highest Paid Writer in the World D home-make- laughter-compellin- An Entrancing Bird Book n colo-nia- The following books will be added to fleeting a discriminating taste a the public library Monday love of the beautiful- - which man Miftrrllanemis kind in his best moments has been BUgh — Bligh and the Bounty Boulenger — World Natural History the book inspired to create” Carter — Parents in Perplexity — Crow is designed not for collectors but Master Kuna Dalze)l — Air Conditioning Furnaces and for the aid and pleasure of home-mrfke- rs Unit Heating A Delacroix — Journal of Eugene Delacroix Healy— Handbook of National Defense Mr not delves Into — Voice Your only Karr Saylor Speaking Le Galllenne— From a Paris Scrapbook all periods of furniture but explains Levy — Caroza and Frontiers of Legal PhelotL— Threafleyeni clent initiation Antiques for tbs Homs Tutein — The Sealers Underhill — Singing for Power ' Wright— The Gardener's Daybook Zechlin— How to Play With Your Child Fiction --— — Ayres —One to Live With to Charteris— War Prelude ' Flynn—1 Tread Softlv Getjerstam — Storevlk Howes— Murder at Maneuvers Rainy Dawn pottery wroughrlrotref Spain: spiral— The reader in learning about these creations— the social backgrounds the- - methods the aims of those 4vhoraUed craftsmanship to the level of the fine arts— gets not only a keener sense of appreciation and discrimination but a surer way -- By Miranda Snow Walton Foreboding winds foretell that night is gone In silent sorrow wakes the weeping dawn And over all the earth a misty cloud Is falling like the shadow of a shroud Hiding the pallor of the morning moon The grey c’fwn weeps that night must "die so soon ultra-moder- Hot Weather Reading THE PIPER’S fUNE By Joseph Macrae- McCord Publishers Smith Co Philadelphia Mr7 As in his previous books McCord handles a light plot entertainingly and “The Piper’s Tune” is good hot weather reading? After her father's death Caradad Vardell sold her Oklahoma ranch and following a sudden impulse came to Chicago to find Terry Can-tin- e who had played the role of elder brother to her during their “growing up" days Terry an ambitious young stock and bond salesman Introduced his old playmate to his new ones a gay sophisticated Caradad’s wholesome charm lot and honest clear thinking stand out In sharp contrast to the shallow pleasure-lovin- g group who dance with no thought of "paying thfe Gerta Greenway a smart young widow is interested in Terry and through herCaradad learns that in his efforts to mingle with the “right” people he has become dangerously involved financially Caradad who has always been a bit in love with Terry makes a gallant effort to save him from his difficult situation and the result while not as Issued and the origins of brasses mirrors Thinking Maktno— Floral Calendar of Japan clocks old laces tapestries antique Matilda— Odorl (Japanese dance) silver pieces Oriental rugs marMilestones in Medicine Moschua— Last Flowers old English pewter ShefNorth Carolina Education association— quetry field plate glass and china crock-er- y Century bf Culture Ommanney— Below the Roaring forties and and the er piper” Just Swedish-America- until the climax is capped by the intrusion of old Mrs Catwick-Phimpinto Diana’s land of romance Humorous situations provoked by the cantankerous old lady strewing the pathway of with pitfalls make up this highly seasoned comedy Athelstan Bunbury Silas 0 Biffbaum (Dumpling) American motor magnate Tummy Tickles Petter Snitchbury Mr Pip-so- n are names as unusual as the fascinating characters to which they are tacked— G G BOOK OF BIRDS By Mary scription of the nightingale “Wan- derer from a Grecian shore” or Priestley in his "Sportsman’s millan Company New York City Turgenev Sketches” waiting the hushing of contriRangng broadly through the finches the settling of redstarts butions not by naturalists alorje and nuthatches to rest but by literary bird lovers in all From Donald Culross Peattie iest- bits among ley’s private anthology of bird lit- - them ft naturalist’s embarrassing Ivory-bille- d erature-gTt- w to --such— dimensions experience — wit Gilberi White of the and such vivid interest that it had woodpecker to be shared with other "bird eighteenth century furnishes nuwatchers" who as Mrs Priestley merous items on the habits of are— fascinated by the flashing ac- - ousels - flycatchers widgeons— and tivities and songs of these feathered other members of the bird tribe citizens of our world without hav- the beloved W H Hudson of ing any special scientific concern course Robert Lynd Dr G Murray Mrs Priestley began her “book of Levick picturing the smart little birds" by noting descriptive pas- Antarctic penguin are others drawn sages that delighted her in modern upon variously It Is W B Alexanwritings but this occupation led to der whose “Birds of the Ocean” haunting recollections of other com- gives the story of the sea gull epiment by great poets and prose writ- sode in Utah’s pioneer history wood engravings of ers of past centuries— Chaucer 'sayEighty-tw- o ing farewell to books "When that birds by the English artist C F the monethe of May Is comen and Tunnicliffe lend enhancement to that I hear the foules synge" or the text so well selected by Mrs Matthew Arnold's rapturous de Priestley The Publisher -- Mac- had planned nevertheless brings a happy solution to her prob- she lem E S P Louisiana Voodooism CHIEN NEGRE By Nemours Henry Nunez Publishers Burney Brothers Aurora Mo Post-Civ- il war days in the delta country is period of this highly colorful story dealing with the degradation of free Negroes in Louisiana chiefly those employed on Mississippi packet-boat- s The white protagonist Is captain of a river boat Armand Gervais hating all blacks because of his father’s deserting his mother with a yellow girl exhibits a savage brutality In his treatment of his roustabouts — such viciousness as delights in seeing “a nigger churning in a that partakes of melodrama of the most lurid type The curse “Chien negre” signal for many of his acts of inhumanity paddle-wheel"- rebounds on his own head as Is fita beautiful octoroon The author’s Queen of Voodoo bombastic style quite accords with the implausible incidents which crowd his tale ting through Gibbs’ Viewpoint According to his publishers Doubleday Doran Philip Gibbs’ analysis of “der fuehrer's” foreign policy in his newly issued "Across the- Frontiers” suggests that Hit- ler’s conquests may actually be the key to peace rather than prelude of another war Julia Truitt Yenni has a new’ novel of the south in the hands of her publishers Reynal and Hitchcock for appearance in the late summer ’This Is Me Kathie” is a story of family life in a small Louisiana town |