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ew Jldic i 0 3 1 is Fair 1 071 aies 6XXL10 lS 10 Lenieinia For Utah it's "Hi Ho we're off to the this Monday and every day from then on through a spectacular summer until Sept 20 The formal opening of the Utah Centennial Exposition at the fairgrounds is a trumpet fanfare ushering in a complete Centennial program crammed with brilliant events At the summer-long exposition there will be exhibits and amusements to attract the artistic the musical the home-minded and the the youngsters and grandpa dad and mom There will be shows making Utahns proud of Utah and its achievements in the arts enterprises and great businesses of the state The farmer will be proud of Utah's fruits and vegetables in their season the thousands of out-of-state visitors will admire and covet Utah's craftsmen and women will show handsome wares Hard-working committees and the Centennial Exposition commission during many long months have carefully fitted together the pieces of what is not a picture puzzle but a tapestry picturing to Centennial visiting hordes Utah as a producing state a state of great scenic beauty vast stores of mineral wealth as well as man power and of triumphs artistic as well as commercial 1 Gate-Crashing patrons at the exposition when the ribbons are cut Monday at 5 pm will find 40 refurbished buildings packed with interesting and educational exhibits free to the public There will be special attractions in the industrial hall coliseum theater grandstand art gallery and Midway This first Centennial week with 15 more to follow "will be packed with events The Intermountain Kennel club show on Monday and Tuesday will sponsor Centennial prize winning dogs from all over the The rabbit show will display between 500 and 600 rabbits all contenders for top honors The art show will be divided into three and sculpture by Utah artists a display of Indian aft and a display of the permanent state fair collection of paintings and sculpture In the Floriculture building the Utah Rose society will hold its annual show A complete exhibit of home arts needlework home canning and baking hobbies etc will be put on by Continued on Pasre 4 Column 4 1 ''J -A Ue i fpje i Readers By MAUDE ROBINSON It was through no choice of her own that Agnes Newton Keith has led a life of adventure Her Below the Wind" tale of a young married couple in Borneo made an instant success Now she has done something epic Three Came Home" In simple restrained style Mrs Keith tells of the three and one-half years she her husband and little son spent as Japanese prisoners of war In Borneo Nothing but supreme grit determination and enduring rage plus a mother's resolve to bring ber child through the horrors filth degradation and starvation of that prison camp would have ended with them alive when at last the allied planes swept over the region Through all this often heart-rending story there is still a flicker of the sense of humor which is the author's dower Stay-at-homes should read as a "must" the unbelievable facts of a Japanese prison camp for human beings which would have been spurned by any of the animal kingdom Born in Chicago Agnes Newton went to college was nearly killed by a maniac while doing newspaper work in San Francisco and was invalided for many months She married a school friend a young Englishman Keith conservator of forests and director of agriculture in North Borneo Their son was born there in 1940 The Japanese arrived two years later Husband and wife were kept in separate prison camps The gaunt starved Keiths came back to America to recuperate and now it's back to Borneo again for them where Mr Keith resumes his job with the British govern- meat ('Three Came Home' by Agnes Newton Keith Atlantic-Little Brown and Co Boston) Vermilion Idwal Jones usually a dab- bier in pleasant but unimportant tales of Parisian romances and children's stories has written a major American novel "Vermilion" a three-generation tale spanning 100 years of California history with brief excursions into the mining districts of Cornwall Spain and China The story concerns the Cope family developers of world-famous Five Apostles quicksilver mine From the time of Pablo Cope the rugged founder of the mine through his son Roger a weakling with a penchant for beautiful women and Roger's son Valentine whose passion was fast horses the family steadily declined Overshadowing the central characters is the sprawling Five Apostles mine shaping the destinies of its owners when its thick veins bled rivers of quicksilver the mine became 'a throne room where LAKE CITY UTAH SUNDAY MORNING JUNZ 1 1 i S'8 SALT £Lf I ssfc -V- i i 7nryi SECTION NEWS HOME FEATURES DRAMA BOOKS MUSIC yrpr i ams 'Nj-u fe 1 I 1 I 1 'iKVKTJi4r-- 1 Mary's little lamb never had such an interesting I Jean South wick of Cedar City "Miss Utah for background as has thislambkin held by Donna 1947" Centennial attractions ceitainly do attract the world paid homage to the fabulous Copes What happened when it petered out Mr Jones relates in gripping style by Idwal Jones Prentice Hall New York) (Staff Piioto by Carl Reynolds) torrid "Forever Am- of TOP SHELF DRAMA' By IIEDDA IIOrFEE HOLLYWOOD About one-fourth of my fan mail comes from people asking advice on how to crash Hollywood It comes from those who have "wonderful ideas for screen stories" from others who're convinced that acting is an easy way to make a living from many who're sure they can write better tunes than those you hear on the screen from others who want to be directors producers designers make-up men and yes even film I columnists As Jimmy Durante says everybody wants to get in the act Hollywood is partially responsible In our supersales campaigns our frenzy for publicity we've painted our town as a goal to end all goals We've pictured it as a place of beauty queens and Apollo-like men a place of fabulous fortunes and opportunities and fame thafc surpasses any king We've beat the bandwagon to whose tune the public has built our stars into demigods Furthermore we've let it be known that the motion picture industry is constantly searching for new talent No wonder half the world flocks here and the other half makes plans to get in Sober-minded men in the motion picture industry have grown alarmed particularly over the youngsters who come here seeking fame and fortene only to end in bitterness and frustration No Bed of Roses "Those Cinderella stories of overnight success in the movies" Douglas Fairbanks Jr told me recently "are disastrous They mislead people For every person that skyrockets to fame and fortune there are 500000 who don't make the i grade" I asked Bill Grady who's been head of talent at Metro' for 15 years what he considered the unknown actor's chances of cracking Hollywood "About one in a million" he replied "And I should know because I interview about 500 people a week-AVat newcomers don't understand is this: In this town they're compMigwith--' more than 13000 experienced players If I want them I can press a button and have 5000 people on any set tomorrow All have been before the cameras many times before Naturally I'm not taking any chances with newcomers when I can get all the actors I need who've proved that they've got what it takes -'v- "'So my advice to anybody wishing to become an actor is this: Get experience and plenty of it Stay right in your home town and "start working in the nearest little theater Then move fnto New York for more stage experience If you're good on Broadway you'll be noticed by someone who'll recommend you for a movie job "And another thing" said he "don't depend on beauty getting you anywhere Beauty need not be a handicap if a person accepts it for what it's worth But in picking actresses I don't give a whoop about looks if the girls haven't got something between the eyes meaning brains" Apprenticeship Sam Wood who directed such notable pictures as "Goodbye Mr Chips" "King's Row" and "Our Town" says: "I believe in people working for what they get Hedda A man who wishes to become a doctor for instance has to devote seven years to school alone Success in any profession requires much time and training Acting is no different From the beginning I wanted to be a director not an actor But realizing I'd have to'understand acting to be a director I worked as an actor for a long time just for the experience 1 Ctal -l PTinlc prs mum Forel For that golfing husband brother friend or sweetheart who has been bitten by the golf bug and everyone but himself suffers is Ford Banes' "Right Down Your Fairway" It is a book of most amusing full-page drawings showing the golfer and his family at all sorts of strategic or even tragic moments The captions are as funny as the pictures (A Barnes and Co New York) A Second Look A few years ago it seems that Edward Faulkner upset the farmers of six continents when he published "Plowman's Folly" His idea developed through 25 years of experiment Mr Faulkner's revolutionary theory anent the use of a plow is cow followed by "A Second Look" in which be reexamines his former ideas He has visited experiment stations farmers and soil and now Continued on Face 2 1 Who Who List A list of authors who late- ly have contributed to Hollywood's output reads like a literary Who's Who Aldous Huxley i Robert Sherwood W- Somerset Maugham Mil-len Bra nd Samuel Hoffen-stein Simuel Schillabargeri George i 1 Marjorie Kinhah Rawlings Mackinlay Kantor Gene! Fowler Ernest Hemingway John Erskine William Faulkner Dalton Trumbo Ludwig Bemelmans! Pe-arl' Buck John Stein-f beck Clifford Odets i With this brainy brand of typewriter pounders inside Hollywood's gates screen plays ans taking on new luster Writers as well as stars and directors deserve credit for the 1x office success of such pictures as Best Years of Our Lives No- torious" "Sister Kenny" "It's a Wonderful Life" "The Kill-era" and "The Yearling" rect "The Harder They Fall" with Robert Mitchum already set to star Other Notables Charles Jackson whose V'Fall of Valor" and "The Lost Weekend" were bought by movie moguls left New York when Hollywood beckoned and sta'yed long enough to complete an idea tentatively titled Common Sin" Frederic Wakeman arrived at Metro to lend a hand on "The Huck- sters" Sholem Asch will shortly begin dramatizing his "East River" Even Kathleen Winsor has contributed what the studio calls "invaluable ifcivice" on the picturization By JkDCLEOSE GOWZB HOLLYWOOD The lush era is passing when all a so-called "scenarist" needed' was a swimming pool or-beach umbrella a bottle of Scotch and an unharnessed imagination No longer can Ben Hecht crack wise as he once did that when he sat down 'to write in- Hollywood he "put on a sport coat and took off his brain" Many of America's greatest writers men who formerly swore they'd never dip a pen for the flickers are members of the film colony today Sinclair Lewis Came Hollywood's eager interest in filming popular books has attracted a small army of their authors Sinclair Lewis came west to dramatize his own "Cass-Tim berlane" and remained tto collaborate with! Leo McCarey on an original story "Adam and Eve" Budd Schulberg no sckner completed recent novel "The Harder They Fall" than he found the film rights gob- i bled by RKO and himself under to write the screen play The book will be published by Random House this summers and is expected to exceed in popularity-Schul-berg's previous work "What Makes Sammy Run" Edward Dmytryk will produce and di.