The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 74

i Mll 1 1: pot Clyc10 Soiyii'7es Has Enjoyed Eveli7yMinute OW should you 'like to try out a painting you fartcy in your own home for a while before deciding for a small rental fee? Maybe try out a couple or so? That is one of the art -services the Junior League is planning on its winter program at the Art Barn Its forecast of coming monthly events is comprehensive and promises to stir pus any former endeavors It is bringing the Barn Into plain sight as a mecca for the artloving-public Not generally known is the fact that the League not only goet out and secures its exhibit but finances them as well 4 By 011210 Grath 'CILTDE SQUIRES got one of his heartiest' laughs duzint his recent August trip to his waive Utah One of the country's well-known artists book and magazine 'illustrators friend of and coworker with faraous namesand editors he la-still keen on the job' I I It has been 14 years since his last visit The laugh had to do with a recollection of a cocky derby-hatted little peanut vender who tried'to peddle hicwares outside the Utah theater many'years who nearly got the Squires Sears school of illustration thrown out bodily from its two jammed rooms in the Templeton building fp 1 Inam youthful Squires not yet 20 and his chum Jack Sears EVVLY done over the gallery is fresh and colorful Announcement is made that from now on the regular gallery exhibits will be open Sundays from 2 to 10 pan and Tuesdays 7 to 10 pm and that the public is cordially Invited to drop in Arts group of the League includes Mrs Allen Quentin Howard chairman Mrs Owen A Covey Mrs Jane Gordon Mrs JH Firmage Mrs Harold Steele Mrs William MacArthur Story Mrs Richard Mu Inner Mrs Emerson Sturdevant Mrs 01- well Miss Alice Dick Mrs Arthur Pett Mrs Howard A Price Jr Mrs Scharf Sumner Mrs Howard just returned from a Los Angeles convention of western art museums directors association is enthusiastic over interest displayed in Salt Lake's shows bad returned to Salt Lake from art studies- in New York to earn enough money to go back to York for another stretch of study i I 1 "I worked for an engraving company days and taught the evening classes" Laid Mr Squires "Jack made cartoons for the Sunday Tribune and taught day We snatched models from among our friends the university crowd social and even directly offthe streets One night we dragged in the peanut vendor who incidentally sold out his entire huge basket of stock to our students They shucked the bushel or so of peanuts an over the floors and when the janitor came in there was 4 44 4111111u' 11PrParl Recent Salt 'Lake "visitor was artist book and magazine illuntrator long Utak York native bt New Squirm resident set up his freelance Mrs Allen'Quentin Howard chairman of Junior League arts group promises shows of interest go HE owner of one of the finest private collections of old masters in America" she said "has offered to send up selection of his best paintings for showing at the Earn It will be an exceptional opportunity" General projects include tours of homes country and city owning fine paintings Mrs Sturdevant in charge a rotating exhibit under Mrs: Mulliner at West high VVIIILIC atilt la the early 207a Stink' es' studio in New York Human in 11 1 terest pictairee were his special" ty---stillate--and in no time be was illustrating for Life- Judge Pictorial'McCalle Harpers Col- I lien Delineator He illustrated Kathleen Norris' "The Younger I Generation" and knew the i t-iz late Charles Dana Gibson when 1 that great artist bought Life i I took two-page spreads and Christmas covers from I me" Mr Squires- recalls "James 1 Montgomery Flagg and I were I is doing portraits these- days' Other I know are John La Gatts Pruett Carter 1 Walter' Biggar Dean Cornwall 1 f-a'I and Harrison Cady's 'orate strip "Peter has I mad him a -millionaire And I 1 -2 have the distinction of having I i paid the noted actor Fredric I March 50 cents an hour to poise p'c-p4-4! -1 for he had come to fame" 't 1 '04 IN November will come the Hatfield oils 20 paintings by artists Such as Richard Haines Jean Ames Oscar Van YoOrig Loren Barton and Dan Lutz January will see contemporary Mexican art with Federico Cantles work In rebruary Carnet-On Burnside American watercolorist will have a show together with those of LeConte Stewart and Alvin Gittina of the University of Utah In March will be Seen work of a group of Santa Barbara Cal artists Along with the monthly shows Will be a winterseries of modern art work silk screening art tangents Open to any study group 4 Camera Art have added to their cit3r's list of artistic achievements Their color transparencies thave been chosen among those in the first elimination to be shown on the outdoor screen at the California state fair at Sacramento in September They were chosen from among the hundred shown at the ninth annual North American International Salon sponsored by California State Agricultural college and Sierra club of Sac ramento The four alv John Brennan two selections Mrs Decker one Mabel R038 tlitro Wayne' Smith one The screen- will be erected above the great patio at the fine arts building at the fair Nationally known color photographers making the selections were Fred Bond Los Angeles Charles Green Richmond and Edward Miller Stockton Cal e'79 IN September the show will be that of the winners in 1948 annual exhibit in Los Angeles and vicinity in oils watercolor and Sculpture It will include work by Rico Le Brun Eugene Berman and Howard Warshaw In October under Mrs Firmage the rental gallery will flourish 11tah's leading artists will send of their best and sup port the project heartily A small rental fee will be charged t(v 1 4 1 F01IR Salt Litke camera fans elieve ake AC eaiity Hh Useful Tool Right Hands In 4 Robrtion In it was an illustration in Success Magazine in 1909 which brought Squires his greatest recognit1on-111er Gift" I did that today" he says "it would be dubbed sentimental It showed a young father look-lug worshipfully at his sleeping wife and newborn baby It was human though It touchea a spot Every picture of mother Ind child I had seen omitted dad 1 and so put hira in mine" Right away came a flood of letter asking for copies They came from doctors and hospitals 1 and the general public and from at printmaker demanding to I make copies The copies sold all 1 ever this country and Europe with hundreds at a time in New York windows mapped up daily 61A Yard of Railed" and "September Morn" never created ouch a 1 1 fuore It still Is selling Its ar- 1 1 tist ii AUL a little dazed "I never quite got my our he said "I have a eonstant reminder in my home at Great Neck Long Island which built whims the royalties came By Frank and feel a sense of bewilderment when he looks about him and finds the object in his own home strange But when a writer an make even a few readers feel that way then fellow craftsmen be has written a story "Ber Gift" Squires' colored magazine illustration of 1909 which made a spectacular record in reprint sales And it's still selling I 1 Cartoon of CI de Squires eall on magazine ediOra By his chum Jack Sears adyertising illustrations have been added to his magazine work MThile in Utah he was the Salt Lake guest of Dr and Mr George i Thomas 1517 So Temple and of Mrs Nora Eliason't Logan his sister-In-law love at first sight I was 24 earning money then and could afford to let married" Two now grandchildren come back to the Great Neck house to visit The Squires easel is still busy Highgrade easel is still busy Highgrade ORN on Canyon road Salt 1Squires was selling his drawings to newspapers at 14 "1 married the prettiest girl in Logan" he says ay "Elva -Ellasom Met her on the street Elliman Met her on the street TRUERS are fond of using the word ilV lusion In a sense it is the stock in trade of the writing craft especially fiction writers They all try to create an illusory world in their stories which will eause the reader to lose himself in it so completely that he will forget the world of reality Nor is this confined to the writers of "escape" fiction So-called quality writers try to achieve the same end by making the reader lose himself in the mazes of the mind A great many fAct or article writers seek to create an illusion in the mind of tfeir readers that they the writers know their stuff when they don't HE best teacher of fiction I have ever known Arthur Sullivant Hoffman the famed editor of the old Adventure magazine which thousands of elderly readers still swear was the best fiction magazine of all time- Wrote a book once devoted to the proposition that all story writing technique as such was ut terly valueless and that all a writer needed to know was how to create an illusion of real ity that would hold the reader to the end of the story Sounds easy but the trick is to avoid the thousand and one pit-falls which can break the illusion Only once in a great while will the average reader come to the end of a story iLLUSION is all right when applied to what a writer does But when he applies it to himself he is in a bad way Then it becomes delusim A writer who for imaancecari turn out a perfectly cornzpendable confession story will suddenly discover that nothing short of Ladies' Home Journal is suitable vehicle for her genius Believe me that is no isolated possibility Nine times in ten it is sheer illusion ORE pitiable and deplorable case is Am where a writer of genuine talent is seized with the delusion that bumps in his own mind constitute a road block for his genius and gives up 'I have in mind one such writer whi possesses one of the keenest and most penetrat ing minds in the state who has had one very commendable book published and hat written a great deal more of interesting material but who cherishes an illusion of unappreciation which is slowly strangling a lively and ver tattle talent Illusron like a -sharp-bladed knife Is a useful tool but a dangerous plaything By Maude Robinson bt" 1 II I 1 li I 0 -r I I I 1 1 i I By Maude Robinson I which was widely discussed abroad is just now produced on this aide of the water with considerable beating of drums by the'literati A pestilence in Oran a few 'years ago provided his theme He deals with its impact upon the lives and character of its citizens There nothing of horror' in the pages rather the calm abstraction of a doctors' clinic It is a visual report on what happened with no delving into secret chambers of heart and soul The author relates happenings with no explanations In this land we already know that men and women i live and work on doggedly inthe face of trouble and adversitY It cannot be news in France That people will put egotism aside' for common welfare is 'a bright thread running through the tale (Alfred Knopf New York I New York) CALD WIC LL ILIikeeps to his pace His tenth novel "T'his 11Vrittein by a master's hand i With- his -Tod's' Little Aure" dubbed fastest selling book in the bas I passed the four million mark i with Road" a I ekes rtmserurt he has made his Lplac4' That he chooses ia pao- I I pie and his backgrounds among I the-underprivileged uneducated I submerged Is merely an Incl- 1 dent He could do equally scathing workAmong the higher I levels of society- His human life 1 Is not gilded down' to 1 brass tacks It is diatinctly'raw I and eatrthy disagreeable But there it la It may be an unrealized pity for his book people that gives 1 2 I NI A IV ILLikeeps to his pace Ills tenth i novel "This Very Earth I le writtein by a roaster's hand With- his -Ic'cl 't Little Am" dubbed the? fastest selling book in the has passed the lour million mark with Road" a I close runnerup he has made his 1 place That he chooses xis peo- I and editing worse in book form About Obbbie Bunn they have read in the past year is The Horizontal Man' by Helen Mysteries today are not so good as before the war with writing and tharaeterizstion a bit better but plot they prefer novels in maga zines short stories Ellery Queen's mystery Magazine and the Saturday Evening Post pub lish the best mysteries" 1 A thf IN "The Song of the Green I Thorn Tree" author James Barke has written the second at a planned four-volume novelized treatment of the life of Scot- I land's great poet Robert Burns This volume deals at length with his love-making which was ex- tensive and at the end has him on his way from his native villoge to the greater glories of f' Edinburg Parts of it are ex cf bestserler nst ellwas book reporter men Possibly do i Justice eon only point" Alt! lib Lilt Litt I his PhDfrom Harvard and is a recognized scholar in the field of sociology He spent three years as rural sociologist for the 8 department of state at the American embassy Mexico City Nobody is better equipped to present that country to the world He finds that great nocial -problems still are to be met south of the border The country has great mountain ranges and arid wastes 'illiterate peasants and highly cultured urban -conununities a beautiful and modern capital surrounded by primitive not enough arable land to supply those who till the soil For centuries the Mexican peasant has had to struggle for his bit of 1 land 'Me author deacribes the various social mysterns through! out the centuries 1 The revolution of-1910 which marked a turning point In Mexican history is a process still of major importance is the breaking up of great feu dal estates' And only of late years has there been- concerted effort toward effecting ideals fought for landless -schools forthe ignorant freedom from -tyrennj and oppres- slon and 'democracy 'In government The book is valuable to the casual reader and to the seeker for facts and data Written by an expert (University of Chicago Press Chicago) Caldwell- his power of honest delineation He never pulls Puziches ft may not be the pleasantest thing in the world to read in this latest story about Nobby's treatment of his wife but it is mercilessly dcsne Nobby a bullying 'worthless gambling ne'er-do-well who lives off Dorisse's father beats his wife and the reader feels every picture of Dorisse the weak-spined kind which clings to -its man through torture abuse and insult is something to remember Chism Crockett her poor white of down south who hates farming has sold grand- pa's place when Chism'a wife die-and moves to town Ex-i cept white-bearded grandpa decent and helpless everybody goes to destruction because Chtsm Is slack in his duties as a father There is Vickie waitress in a cheap cafe and promiscuous: there is young Jane in high school the victim of an older man: there is little 'Jarvis aged 12 who Chism decided was to be made a man through corn whiskey and worse At the end there is murder Not pleasant reading but gripping Perhaps an Erskine Caldwell perfectly composed and written novel is is this does more in the end for the weak and baffled lower levels of humanity than a dozen reformers (Duel Sloan and PearceNew York) Rural Mexico -DORN in 'Mexico and reared 141 there by his American parents Nathan 1 -Whetten had tremely moving but for the ordinary person unfamiliar with the way Scottish dialect looks In print It is bound to be tough going (tfacmillan New York) Sale 50 to 75 off 50 to 75 off ID 103 1ZdAill SSll iGeorgiona up Plifaxs HUTCHINS vatne to fame for two rya sons' years ago She was -a sculptor of ability and she was the wife of the youngest uni versity president in the Robert Maynard Butchhis now -chancellor of Chicago II Now she has turned to writing andwe wish- ahe -had stuck to sculpture IS bound to infuriate simply cause it is written in a breath-'less style with sentences from half to three-quartera of 'a page long IT t'l I Mn Hutchins sprinkles a few periods arotmd we for one firmly refuse to be 'so harassed Two -chapters left us- uneasy lour had -us calling for aspirin and a darkened room Tired out that was the trouble with us -Aa a sculptor the author proved Imr originality and talent Her 'hovel' told 'as a young girl's life and development As st story of worth' In terest suld keen observation if translated into readable prose A forceful' genius she probably faced down the publisher's editorial critics? (Nevr'Directions Norfolk Conn) Amin Storm EXABIPI2S--- 'Regular Men's Fitted Cases 900 to 3000 Writing Cases 750 to 2250 Albums leather 500 to 700 Albums wood covers 350 400 500 EYear Diaries 250 to 400 Fountain Pens and Sets Good Housekeeping Baby Books 300 Books FictionChil- dren's etc 100 to 350 0W ILAP 350 COO 500 3 00 OOOOOO 80 be 1600 tO 350 RRggllrr EXAMPLES-: 1C3e9 CZe9 L47 C3c to 147 MALI' PrLICE C3e9 CZet 147 0 I I a Pae 3 for 100 OC OOOOOO 3 lei 100 inston hurthill As to Mystcry Toles- CIOLUMBIA university press k1 recently polled some thousands of authors critics teachers librariarue booksellers and as to 1 their comlibeite preference as mystery story readers Hero aro some of the results: "They read sus average of 42 mysteries per month the author's name is the most Influential factor in selecting a book and they prefer the detectioncum-character-and-manners to any ether type the mystery tr- AU SI Mot No No licelloogoo No Sof look SA MOSE SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMASII oat No No licelloogoo No Itofloodo SC SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMASII he Plague Al Al kokstooso SAM etb DESERET- 0001(- "The Boole Center of the intermountain West7 44 East Southk Temple Salt lake aty 10 Utah DOSTWAR writing In France i said now to be greatly In- financed by one Albert Camus Hja 6m rb Datt WU' SundayAu 2Z 1943.