Show rs Sophistication Decried By Speaker J With the same original witticisms witticisms witticisms witti witti- interesting stories and unusual unusual unusual un un- un- un usual speech figures which have made him famous throughout the world as a dramatist Channing Pollock drew an almost capacity crowd to Kingsbury hall Monday night For more than an hour houi the tho public listened attentively to his discussion of Does Modern Literature Literature Literature Lit Lit- Represent Life 1 Post war literature does docs not accurately interpret life exclaimed exclaim exclaim- ed the Master Minds Series' Series second lecturer But recent best sellers' sellers show the trend is now towards the idealistic and the truths of life Enduring literature not only represents but also comments upon upon upon up up- on life As represented by modern modern modern mod mod- ern realists living is pretty raw and feverish These facts of life represent only those which may be seen by the camera eye but the truths ruths of life are arc much deeper and may be seen only through the eye of the real artist There is far more truth in the works like Peter Pan than there is in all the realism of Sherwood Anderson and Theodore Theodore Theodore Theo Theo- dore Dreiser a CIa newspaper man who lost his blue pencil Mr lir Pollock was strong in his denouncement of the sophistication tion of modern authors He said this was only the attempt of shallow shallow shall shall- ow men to be sapient daring and an sensational There is enough dirt and filth in the world that we do donot donot donot not need to pay to have it hauled Sophistication Sophistication-P. P. on-P. P. P 2 u Sophistication into the library at three dollars donars a load If our civilization is a represented represented by advertisements that every every every ev ev- ery woman wants to be like the tarnished lady it would not last as long as a dog with tallow legs chasing an asbestos cat through hell Since Emil Ludwig wrote his bi biography biography biography bi- bi of Napoleon the world h has s been filled with little men trying to I take giants and shrink them to their own size to make the world safe for the tIle speaker observed New Art Better Mr Pollock believes that the type ype of recent best sellers shows that literature is eschewing the unpleasant and sensational and is I returning to th romantic and ideal ideal- Margaret Mitchells Mitchell's Gone With the Winds Charles Morgans Morgan's George nas na's The Last Puritan are examples examples ex ex- amples of fiction Around the World in Eleven Years They Walk Valk Walkin in the City The Flowering New England arc are representatives of non Parnell Winterset Vinterset Pride and Prejudice Dead End Boy Meets Girl are rec recent nt dramatic dramatic dramatic dram dram- successes |