Show ?Tbc Simday Morning Salt £akc March Ttibunc- - i Book Lenient And Deft ' Pulham I EZ Hollis ' Literary Editor M Pulham Esquire II v P Mtrqucnd i By John 1 Esquire another finely Pub- - prize-winni- ng Utah Writers Now Active -- Arbiter of Good Taste Writes About Children j Famous Burma Highway By Eileen Bigland The MacMillan New York City In Rangoon with sion to travel Into - ' the famous Yunnan-Burm- a Publisher Company a commisChina over high- way Eileen Bigland — as those who have read her previous travel books would expect — would not accept defeat She was told it was impossible unthinkable no woman could travel this military' highway in the midst of China war “alone” But Mrs Bigland persisted and finally she was granted permission Not only this she' was to ravel as guest ©f the China government with an ammunition convoy! This mark of favor however did not mean luxury travel Her journey in a government bus was a nightmarish succession of mishaps that would have taken the tuck out of many a tougher person—landslides breakdowns no sleeping quarters no food and incessant rain not the worst encountered For a good part of the journey the bus meant only for Mrs Bigland and her companion — little' Miss Wei called "the dormouse” because of her capacity for sleep’ and the galvanic Joe Chow—carried a steadily diminishing group of surveyors picked up on the highway where their own truck had broken down Peaceful Lashio beginning cL this romantic tragic ribbon of road linking Chins with the outside world gave Mrs Bigland a sense of homecoming that persisted to enable? her to enjoy a journey most would have looked upon as a period of utter misery This feeling received a severe setback at Mangshih In whose filth and poverty she suffered an attack of fever but Eileen Bigland had set out to solve for herself the Chinese paradox to study the philosophy that made for "serenity of spirit” in the midst of misery and war to know the China of the people t Through her mode of travel giving contact with the lower classes the real friendships she formed — with such as Ching handling their crazy bus with expert ness who carried always a flower in a chipped ceramic vase — she has done this and her "Into China” Is one of the most note- worthy accounts of the troubled fever-strick- en ’ China of today Written In her spirited engaging style with pictures of Incomparable beauty beside scenes of misery and horror climaxed by that terrible interlude in Chungking learning "the colour of sorrow” her book 1s absorbing Not until she has reached Hawar-ravag- " By noi does the Chinese puzzle begin to fall into place as she sees in the cactus with one brilliant flower a friend has given of China’s age-ol- d her a symbol "Like the cactus philosophy- China would always flower” i — — —— mm— — a—m — New Books Added At Public Library The following books will be added to the public library Monday March 24 1941: ' MISCELLANEOUS Principle of Retail MerchanBar— dising Betten— Upland Cam ShooUnjc D Poneina — Kabloona Dodd — Ambassador Dodd’s Diary Douela— I Rode With Stonewall Pa raon— Behind Cod a Rack fieri eke —Complete Guide to SoiUeas Gardening Grant—Netr Burma Hearn— jungle In the Clntida Hemtrtrka— Gar Acetylene Welder’s Handbook — Profitable Poultry Keeping tnandei — History ot the Expansion Of Christianity Lolxeaux comp — Library on the Air Mclnnle— The War Toward Freedom Nehru— Perry — Around the World Making Cookie — Polk Prai‘c of Printing Bowdcamacker— Children of the Family — Golden Cate Rlesenberg Fechrish — Red Letter Day Modern Police Work Pkehan — B medley — You're Only Toting Twice ' a Green lele Smith —— Many I Have a Book Stewart Trew — Hints for Artist Waley— Translations from the CM- i BUelJ-A- rt of Practical THnklnr Whitaker— America to the South Riddle of the Reich Wijllama— I son — Landscape of Rural Povar-r- o Bread and Creek Water ' FICTION Bailey ——Blue Cloak Bentley— Mr Marlow Chooses Wins Bullatt When the Cat’s Away — Sweerwtakea ‘ Greenaway Harris — Richard Pryne Hutchinson — He Loosed for a City Jsron —Two Alone Rescue Malgret to the Roots Grow the flmenon— Emily Post Publishers Funk and Warn alls Co New York City Emily Post long accepted authority on correct social usage steps from the merely adult prpblems of what tb do and how to do it in social intercourse into the realm of family relationship in this utterly charming book "Children Are People” — 7 Holding out as bait to parents that most desired possession "an enchanting child” Miss Post explains in detail how such a child can be made from almost any childHmaterial providing the parents begin "the day he is born” and continue with unremitting love and understanding Mam requirement naturally- enough is that parents remember that children are people They may be small ana young and of little experience but they are certainly a parent’s equal in every sense of the word Such an attitude discourages shouting and yelling slaps and shakes and all the other haphazard punish ment that make a child miserable — and his manners worse" As to manners they require some definite training to be given from the time the child first meets a situation That is when he starts to feed himself he is to be? taught to hold the spoon correctly and so on As children are apt mimics good manners in- the child naturally follow if the parents have good manners themselves Diction voice poise walk dress all are treated so delightfully that even a child can understand the suggestions and follow them As an aid to parents who want to prepare their children for social success the book-i- s an unusual contribution O W B -- ed j i - ’ Proverli Book Editorial Book "The Triumph (of the Teapot Poet” titles a new book aet for April publication by Wings Press In it Stanton A Coblentz makes selections from his editor-via- ls for several years' in response to requests from readers of this poetry magazine i! i Riddle in Jade ' By Clyde B Clason Publisher The Crime Club Inc by Doubleday Dora a and Co Inc New York City One can always depend bn a Clyde B Clason concoction to keep him guessing to the very last development and thoroughly engrossed With this fascinating affair of the Vayne jade he has outdone himself Theocritus L u c I e n Westborough white-haire- d scholar whose mild manner and insignificant appearance suggest anything but j Burton Stevenson ls preparing a' "Home Book of Proverbs' and Proverbial Phrases” for Macmillan publication this fall He has been doing research and collecting material for the past ten years Mr Stevenson is the compiler) of such anthologies as "Home Book of Verse" and ‘The Home Book of Quotations” Caroline! Slade’s new novel “Job’s House” is a March re- lease of Vanguard Press and tells of two who by giving up their home find a finer spiritual homo in which to live Miss Slade is the author of “The Triumph of Willie Pond” ’1 — “Fortune— Own Hands’ is a book to Interest the layman Mrs MacAdam began her business career in San Francisco selling insurance in the pe- ‘ Green and Co New York City To music publications employing his device of the Arrow system of score reading Albert E Wier has added the second volume of Richard Wagner’ "The Ring of the Nibelung” giving both English and German texts of “The Valkyrie” with prefacing synopses Of the scenes In two pages also he offers an analysis of the motives of both “The Rhinegold” and “The Valkyrie” before proceeding to the music with the arrow signals pointing its structural plan and circled numbers identifying first appearance of each motive and its repe-- 5 titions Mr Wler’s excellent compilation of piano selections "for the leisure- - hour” is comprehensive and made with a view to satisfying the tastes of the majority It Includes classic romantic modern and salon compositions excerpts from favorite operas and ballets with also dance music of standard type Composers of all juntries are represented the collection designed to embrace a wide range of musical expression melody being the chief attraction Pianists who play mainly for 'their own enjoyment will find it a stimulating selection Woman Realtor I Fortune tn My Own Hands By M V B MacAdam j Pub- -' Usher Christopher Publishing -House Boston Written with the view of helping young women contemplating entry into the real estate busi i I riod before the earthquake disaster She takes one with her through ups and downs in both the insurance and real estate games this activity preceded by a brief career in the theater and on to her great adventure the building of “The1 Brockle-bank- ” Well kpown in California and a success in the lines April Date Set For Issue Of Utah Guide Dale L Morgan state visor of the Utah writers ect of the WPA naa announced that the Utah contribution to the American State Guidebooks ia now after many delays in the hands of the publisher Hastings ' House New York City and is for appearance the first ' scheduled week in April The Index to the Guide last portion of the work to be completed was :sent forward last week Thia most Important work of the writers’ project The Utah Guide has been awaited with 'interest that is widespreadr-Ws-val- ue not to be overestimated by anyone interested in Utah history and development ‘The volume will offer according to Mr Morgan the moat complete and accurate history of the state ever compiled and ia written with the uppermost in the minds of the numerous authors who have contributed to it k - - Compiled and edited by Preston Nlbley under direction of IDS church presiding bishopric Publisher Deseret Book company Salt Lake City The field of fiction offers no tales more stirring and dramatie than these "Pioneer Stories” true accounts of Incidents and adventures in the lives' of the settlers of the intermountaia -area compiled by Preston Nibley under the direction of the pre- siding bishopric of the LDS church Nearly all of the stories are first hand accounts related In the very words of the principals taken from journals or’ personally written during their later years foreword relates that the collection is published particu- - -Jarly for the young people of the church gndTn keeping with this thought many of the tale concern pioneer children and youths their heroic deeds and daring accomplishments But the interest of the collection will know noJJmitations of age or of religions filiation These are stirring stories of a historic and romantic era and present a picture of pioneer life and customs-hardshi- p and courage not found in' stylized historical records of Publisher Wilfred Funk In& j ? New York City Into a staid college town the unheralded visit of an old lady carrying a paper 'of Importance to several of the community in- even troduces tragedy-sensbefore it develops by Lace White a not too (elderly spinster who is one of the most engaging and astute of our fictional female sleuths ‘ This well-brperson has just received an imperative call from her former chief old Dr Gregory’ college' head For if seems something sinister had raised It head ’in Redding even before the aged Mr Bristol's coming Its beginning lie-i- n seems-t-o the Gregorys’ opposition to their handsome son’s marrying the Foncannon beauty illegitimate daughter of the scampish brilliant professor whose derelictions had outraged the town He had left this daughter of mysterious birth amply provided and Martine by brains and beauty had won her way except with such) as the Gregorys The prompt death by poison of e Mrs Bristol servant of Martin Foncannon sets in train strange events ' involving a famous concert singer and the college-hea- d with Lace following her “hunch” —her detective instinct hampered by her humanity — to the discomfiture lot Redding police ’ ed “ et the criminal Investigator whose shrewd' deductive instinct has been proven in more than one baffling case is a famous Roman authority but also knows all about Chinese jade That’s why the little green-veine-d Taoist goddess the Jade Maiden with broken crown In Mrs Nicholas Vayne's fabulous jade collection displayed for the cause of charity intrigued him Curiosity being bis besetting sin- Westborough wants to know why this little figurine - interests handsome war correKerry O’Connor spondent back from the Orient and bland Dr Liao visitor from Peking as well Particularly he ’wants to know after this “Goddess of ‘the Green Shivers” is missed and grasps eagerly — even to forgetting his charming hostess — at Jocasta Vayne’s invitation to her Chinese house to watch the suspected O’Connor There a re members of4his screwy household he could bear to know more about and se- - v hostile Indians who bitterly opthe appropriation of their hunting and grazing lands byrethe — ' white men In this group-aseveral moving accounts from s the lives of the late Anthony W 7 'Ivins pioneer and colonizer of southern Utah and Mexico and ’ Jacob Hamblin frontiersman In-- -dlan missionary aqd interpreter Other stories concern the Mormon migration from the midwest the settling of the Salt Lake va’lley and the’eariy settle-- ' ments throughout the area and California All are Inspirational yet convincingly and engagingly told'-alivwith that rlngnjf atithen- tlclty which distinguishes the first person narration of actual events— T C posed ) Past Range Problem ‘ m Rim of the Desert By Ernest Haycox Publish ers Little Brown Boston- ' li lt’s the old struggle between the cattle kings and the "nest-er- s” for the free range land that Ernest Haycox turns to as theme of his new jadventure story No waiter dealing with these troublous days op the range has pictured them with 'more vividness or credibility than Haycox he seems to have made the Old West his own "’’Rim oL the Desert” tells of the long Texan Jim Keene drifting across the desert from his home state with the hope of escaping the pattern of trouble which his gun expertness had fashioned At least be thought it was peace he wanted but when in Prairie City be found a girl at dying homesteader’s - S con-- v daughter caught! in this auto-cratie the brutal Grat DePard Keene settles down in a prairie soddy near the little store she has set up at the crossing of the trails and espouses the homesteaders’ fight And the ruthless DePard finds he has reckoned 'without the facts — while Keene too learns that “the fun’s gone out she followed her story should be of value to other realtors In the preface she says she is running the risk of being called “egoistic” and even for autobiography the story does contain too much “I” and “My" But her experiences have interest recording with her success some extraordinary crookedness practiced against her When her grand apartment hotel The Brocklebank is taken from her by fraud she doesn’t cloud the book with accusations but merely outlines the procedure Her "Alphabet Creed” appended constitutes a good course in salesmanship and an educa' tional feature for future business people — D M B of riding ” - ! e I) I H Published Plays March Issues of Random House j include the book form of “Arsenic and Old Lace" and My Sister Eileen” two of the biggest comedy hit of this 'season on Broadway with also Moss Hart’s “Lady in the Dark” another fai vorite1 i you go you'll about Jaa Valtin’s astouadiog autobiography Nothing tike it for sheer dramatic power and literary force has so affected America's emotions since UafUJTom’t Cmbi set oL the spark that started the Civil r War Here MfinC than a book- - It is a— Everywhere i: hie-llUi- int rank! - flflflP n75 Josephine The Heritage of Hatcher Ide- - -Booth Tarklngton At tM Fulham Ciqulro John P gBO Marquand Cheerfulness Breaks lu Angela ThlrkqU Miss Hartrsaves Prank Baker H JW i! - 2 ©7' the Dim Lamps Nathan Scbachner 'j ytlchard Pryne 1)60 By - Cyril Harris In a Geldra ReflecUoa ys Carson McCullei ’ j Charis Wilson Weston who contributed the text to her husCali- band’s pictorial volume fornla and the West” is a daughter of the 4ate Harry Leon Wilton well loved American novel- Mark’s Own Sarah i j Atherton! tji pages is true! thaa an amobiopraphr- - h 11111 a rentable combinanon Conn of of the adventure of T Mou Cruto and the torture of Toe-- f oyflM4 all in ooc! An no-- It than a lows MflUC U It E forgeetabln emry tain of modem lets set in the harrowing dangae out world of today! thnUto for March Hilton Head soocal dommem of (bo thso a oovsL Every word finnC llUlLC of its more than Ml Novela All-St- ar Good Humor Man By George' Price Publishers Farrar and Rinehart New York City Together with a diaristic record” of the hign" moments astounding but unauthenticated in tha career ot a favorite cartoonist George Price —- yoii know him from The New Yorker Saturaay Evening Post the original Life other magazines — you get some 224— consider that 224!— of his best cartoons Could you ask for more for a full evening’s hilarious entertainment? ist the west' Many of the stories concern the pioneers' experiences with 11 P’i-ha- ia Famous Father -- one-tim- Loads of Fun superproj- Pioneer Stories t sixteenth novet of crime and mystification ng Hear Heroic Tales of Past ' Profile In Gilt t Nolan Covert Jeannette By who in Mignon G Eberhart "Speajc No Evil” offers her f NiblcyG roup s Clever Sleuthing i ness The Valkyrie (Die Walkure) ' Edited by Albert E U’ler Piano Music for the ( —— Leisure Hour Compiled and Edited by Albert hog-calli- i Reviews in Brief of Recent) Volumes on Music And Diverse Miscellaneous Matters — E Weir Publishers Longmans ’ crets that lead to that double murder in the ft at ot mysterious ' Madame Wu - Green Shivers rs I 7 i Another ‘Willie Pond’ Children Are People Spee ! i story-tellin- Story-Telle- with relatively unimportant details but it makes good reading for those interested in what goes on behind the scenes in this field of broadcasting Although radio plays such a vital part in news dissemination it has not always done so NBC and other networks early faced the problem of gaining access to reliable news gathering sources Excluded by the'agencies already in the field radio had to uncover its own means of getting news Schechter at NBC together with Lowell Thomas John B Kennedy Walter Wlpchell and others summoned up all their in- - j By Mlgnon G Eberhart Publisher Random House New York City With a luxurious villa on tropical Jamaica as background Mlgnon G Eberhart’s newest fabrication of crime and bafflement poses as neat a eet of questions for her C I D inspector as she Clever and has ever evolved rarely Intuitive as Inspector Paul Friker is unemotional as he remains in respect to the lady sus- pected of murdering her husband one doubts the lovely Elizabeth would have escaped had she not had a champion in her hus- - ' band’s friend the English yachtsman whose stay in Jamaica came to' seem so mysterious No person ever more richly deserved death than the wealthy dipsomaniac Major Robert Dakin whose cruelties Elizabeth had endured for two years of marriage - Then she had written Dyke that she would have to end it some way— and that letter become! an important thread in the web that entangles her when Robert is shot in the Study adjoining her bedroom whose only other door is locked But there are others in the house— Dyke Robert's heir ' the shrinking Charlie- - the secretary who had feared Dakin Ruth the efficient executive coldly accusing Elizabeth — afid each had reason for wishing Robert’s death That curious lucky piece the familiar monkey trio vanishing almost before it is seen — how should the inspector recognize its importance? But someone did and when it is found another knows the murderer and knowing it is lost So Mrs Eberhart builds up the atmosphere of dread and suspense which is an inseparable part of her stories and to which the setting lends Itself admirably Mabel Harmer (Mrs Earl W Harmer) continues her successful attack on the education and trade journals and ' seldom a month passes thgt she is not represented in some one of them The March number of Electrical Dealers carried her article "Never a Dull Season” April issue of The Mining Jour-- ° nal of Phoenix Aris will contain her story on "The Elton Tunnel" and the same month’s Issue of The Instructor U to include her story ‘Ton I and the Easter Rabbit” In May she will be represented in The Grade Teacher with "The May Day Pirates” Mrs Harmer is a member of the Salt Lake City chapter League of Utah Writers i From Washington ' In the April number of Story Art Mrs Gladys Bennlon a former Utahn now residing In Washington is to be found with an enlightening article on the art g of for modern children Mrs Bennion is now directing a radio program for the National league in the capital city t Guest Traveler on China’s Speak No Evil r i disaster the sinking of the Graf on - the - spot broadcasts from war-tor- n all aro capitals daily and vital Jobs for Schech-ter- ’s special events department When there Is nothing startling to broadcast It is Schechter’s job to think up something and he has a long list to his credit: Broadcasts from inside the Great Pyramid singing mouse contests tournaments and equally unimportant Jet enter- -' ' tabling stunts That many of thebe broadcasts hardly seem to merit their lavish outlay of money and time ia perhaps a Jault of a new science which will outgrow them Certainly with men as Ingenious and effervescent as Mr Schechter to engineer them they should Imi prove with time genuity and by appropriating stories from foreign papers by extensive use of the telephone and Hither means managed to produce an approximately adequate fund of news forI listener consumption Then in the early ‘thirties came - the rapprochement between the press and radio after which all was cleat sailing Today the news bureaus of network and individual stations are accurately cooperatively part of our country’s traditional Institution of a free press i But radio being the uniquely personal medium that it is has other functions as Y'elU First-- ! hand descriptions of such momenj tous events as the “Hindenburg"' that seem to cover the entire field as far back as the early twenties It is a popularized account spiced Criminal Record Reaches From Exotic Island To Various Crowded Spots of Mainland - -- i i day-by-d- ay Bo-jo- ’s Into China well-know- ’ f I AJ A Schechter is director of news and special events for NBC and for over 10 years has been' n on and off the microphone for his nose for nfws and an uncanny ability to be where important things are happening When nothing of importance is he manages to happening “dream up” stunts that make t good radio In fhig bookhe retells experiences in the broadcasting of the news and stunt programs e L f Reviewer George Snell commentaries on opinion in Britain and France at the start of 1940 British opinion was practically unanimous that Germany-wa- s approaching the end of her re- -’ sources and the French were devoting much of their attention to the question of what sort of would grant to a ' peace they vanquished Germany Britain was convinced that Germany was waging a “phony” war until-thrude awakening in April when Germany launched her blitzkrieg attack on Norway But even after that attack the French still were complacentt the premier himself claiming that the German move north was in fact a victory for the allies because it compelled Hitler to spread out his forces over a wide front In addition to the month-bymon- th commentaries divided to cover all the different countries in the world there is' a chronology for the different countries a number of ' excellent maps and a fine index very valuable when one 'uses the book for reference H F K and lUhrn Little observed Company Boston novel John P Marquand pursues his merry way expertly dissecting the New Englander to aatirize his foibles his inhibitions his general “it u ffl nes”— a n d New i England takes K and likes So will everyone 'else except perhaps? the Bo jo Browns or clever Bill Kings This Is Mr Marquand’s third exploration into the New' England character his "Wickford Point” being a merciless portrayal of the deterioration and decline of an old family Thia Harry Pulham might be the portrait of another George Ap-le- y protagonist of the Pulitzer “The Late George Apley” only of this new generation with today’s forces making assault on the shell of tradition encasing him It Is true Mr Marquand’ "IL S' M Pulham Esquire” Is In the New England pattern nevertheless his experiences might be thoee of any man shaped by his uk surroundings by family tradition without the inner strength into his life-Bi- ll being a radical quite right and suitable to break the mold into which he vwho didn't really "belong” and Once though Kay had fallen bard for Harry’s friend Bill-o- nly has been forced - His likeness ''didn’t want to— and became hla has undoubted authenticity Bill had shied off from marbest friend Out of Harvard Despite Mr Marquand’s asHarry naturally goes Into the riage Later he finds her evn more attractive as his best severation in his foreword that father’s firm becomes a bond his Bo-j- o Brofen resembles none friend’s wife and Kay skirts dansalesman barely settling in howof the college athletes he has ever when the war breaks Harger With unerring skill Mr known it is likely that blusterservice — Bo-j- o ry sees front-lin- e Marquand deals with these affairs which threaten the marital ing egoist who was the "leader” gets no farther than training in Harry’s class at Harvard will camp his skill needed of course partnership become boresome for be found a perfectly recognizable The war did something to Harry both parties while the domestic scenes at the Pelhams are intype It is assembling of — it reveals him to us too —and several of his almost forgotten at home again he refuses to go comparable It is Mr Marquand fellow classmen to plan their back to the firm who knows that it is the trivial Twenty-fift- h Reunion— to bully is an Interval in a New things that make "home" that fhere York advertising firm with Bill( them into expressing class loylittle moments lived togejjier --Marvin where he mf-ecreate a bond between two peoalty by working to make It the Myles best ever Bo-j- o getting the hon- a smart business girl whom he ple — perhaps that Is what ors as instigator of course —that Is to love even aftef he has marlove is Harry thinks —"not pasaets Harry selected by feo-j- o for sion or wish but days and years” ried Kay Motford with whom he class biographer to the remiA romantic at heart Mr Marhad grown up For' the wise Marvin after Harry called home niscing that forms the book — quand presents his characters not at all the story for the class bis father’s death is caught with the touch of the realist ' by biography however up again In the old life sees they are true and familiar HarHi reminiscenses go back to there is no' possibility of herself ry may be "stuffy” but he is St S within! exclusive boys fitting into the pattern Kay likable and worthy — would Mar-— school where the molding procvin have loved him otherwise? unpopular in their dancing school ess began through his" Harvard and Mr Marquand himself has a days has now grown desirable and the marriage is regarded as period in which Bill King came sneaking affection for him Brown A ( monthly events and “ j Schechter with EdBy ward Anthony Publisher Frederick A Stokes Company New York City - j A- - reference and there it will find its greatest use It is interesting also as reading in current history because it covers a period which has seen some of the most astonishing occurrences in modern history For instance it is with wonder (in view of what happened afterward) that one reads the "H M ' I Live on Air New York City This is the third Living Age annual covering events in the world during the past year not' only from a chronological standpoint blit also as comment and interpretation The work is excellent as a John P Marquand author of hi Treatment Bj The World Over in 1940 Edited by Leon Bryce Bloch Publisher Living Age Press D3 Colorful Recital ‘Mike’ Behind 7 World Events (Schechter Presents Put Into Fine Summary Of Official Doings Modern Bostonian New Mark For Mr Marquand’s Satire 231941 S)?l " i hsdH nnne lUillo record of undercover untie a oo that no newspaper no mega sane no radio able to reveal! mMaiu — Out? 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