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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING JULY 15 1934 Art and Literature In the Field of Modern Writers Activities in Utah Colony 'PROVINCIAL TOURS Illustrating iWorli of Former Utahn I I Her Cheerful Witty Recounting of Experiences in Various American Cities a Delightful Illuminating Document By IIOLLIS THE PROVINCIAL LADY IN AMERICA By Delafield Publishers Harper and Brothers New York City IN NO sense'the usual sort of critique of American Immaturity and crassness with which so many of our literary cousins from across the seas are wont to favor us after they have gathered up American shekels on lecture platforms the impressions- recorded in Provincial diary are calculated to Inspire appreciative chuckles ratheothan resentment This Is the same whose pointed observations on the life of English Devonshire an4 of Lon- aides of tha--oceana-talklng- Record Reiives Glorious Days of Theater By I- A JUDGES WHATEVER GOES UP By George C-Tyler in Collaboration with Furnas Publishers Bobbs Merrill Company Indianapolis have always with us those to whom the old is dear and the new disgusting Nowheit dq these find m'ore pleasure than in reviving the departed glories of the now decadent American stage But George Tyler presenting fog us bis- turn of the century its moxt glonou period largely escapes the exaggeration of which so many old timers are guilty albeit he is by hts own confession an publicity man It a very difficult thing to exaggerate with names like Duse and Skinner This book 1 first the story of a bad boy who lan away fiom hi smalltown Ohio home to knock about the west -thn non too civilized -ax a tramp Hi instincts for gambling lux eaily experience leatmng to look out for himself along with an inborn love of the stage gave him ju't the right qualifications to become one of leading- theatrical producers with Liebler and Company In hix thirty odd years as a member of this house Tv-ler became intimately acquainted with many of the greatest cglebnties of th theater both gt home and ahrnad Viola Allen Charles Coghlan Wm Crane John Drew Eleanora Duse Mis Ftske Julia Marlowe Lillian Russell OUs Skinner George Arluw Jeanne Fagels Allied Lunt Lynn iontanne these and many otheis fI0m Jambs Neill of "Monte Cristo" fame 1o th delightful Helen Haves flguie in the anecdotes in Tyler a pages famous names and giand old plavs biilliant successes and disastrous failures in the career of one who wax attracted to th theater as a gamble and remained devoted to it ax an ait One of his greatest successes ax the older generation will recall wax Christian" with Viola Allen as it brll- Adventure Her light barbs are aimed at common human foibles bores and egoists are as likely to be English as American The Piovincial Lady is quite though failing to persuade "General Clarence that a few months' visit qualify one to writ a book about America She has attempted no more than a report of her encounters with American hospitality and a exploratory tour that took her as far west as Chicago and the world's fair and included Cleveland Buffalo Boston Washington Philadelphia with an excursion into Canada If the lad 's demure maliciousness onte deserts her and a touch of venom edges her tongue or I should say pen it is here In Toionto when she meets the child prodigy Minnie and her impossible parent ileaily malice is justified It is apparent the Provincial Lady might easily have been put off this American trip friend husband supposes American scheme would mean turning thing upside down and too what happen to young Robin and Vicky with mother thousands of miles away' and literary American aboaid ship encouragingly reports that English authors in New York if popular invited to cocktaU parties two or thiee titnes daily if unpopular are obliged to leave the Country The cocktail parties were the order for this gracious visitor and in spite of their fiequencv and effectiveness ceitainly to be disapproved by tribulations of packing and unpacking with heart-weaung damage to best clothes freezing in Pullman after warnings that all American trams are overheated inevitable tea fur the English lady when it js one of her dislikes and recurrence of Adverse conversation (when she read the book) little doubt is felt that the Provincial Lady found her tour in the main enjoyable True she might1 have missed that one great obiect of her coming to a visit to Aleott House had it not been that Alexander Woollcott approved and is occasionally ovei whelmed by such peisonalities as the pondeious president of the Little Thinkers of Boston of them reallv Deep and Profound not like Darwin or Huxley But they all like to and to ask themselves questions Nor was she fated to escape that nemesis-like person Katherine Ellen Blatt this case bane of visiting celebrities who will right uninvited who writes for the magazines and quite a feature of describing English She has a great deal to say requiring no answer she is just crazy be told whether I know her close friends Ellen Wilkinson Rebecca est Nancy Astor and Ramsay Mar-? Donald Frantic impulse assails me and I say No but that the Prince of Wales is a great friend of mine Is that so9 returns Miss Blatt quite unmoved She herself met him for the first time last summer at Ascot and they had quite a Mrs cheerfully honest gently spiced account giving the unthinking bystander a new idea of the lecturing experience with its satisfactions and dismays necessities for being gay when one is vastly in need of sleep of being pleasant to boies when there are charming people one wants to talk with is altogether agreeable In fact one secs Mrs Delafield was an admirable guest appreciative of hospitality charmed with her hostesses gracious to strangers interested in the American scene Probably'her declaration as Rob-eit meets her boat at Southampton that she will never Jeave home again ag long as she lives is not to be taken literally One hopes not t-T I Mystery and THE MAN WITHOUT NERVES Bv Phillip Oppenhetm Publishers Little Biown li Co poslon Reegnt disclosuie in the financial woild have led people to look somewhat askance at bankets yet it is hardly likely any would be suspected of such shenanigans as Mr Oppenheim attubutes to his bank manager Mi James Huitt as coldly coned an official and as lias-tilv coldblooded a scoundiel aa one would look to meet 111 the ranks of American racketeers And we aie not giving away Mr Oppenheim a seciets by naming his villain after all no accustomed reader of detective fiction but would know immediately all 1 not what it seems with this resident of suburban Sandy ayes the impeccable manager of Mi Huitt 1 a man of unshakable nerves Even when the group in the going up to the city heard of the picsumed suicide of Sam Jcs-son one of Sandvvvaves' social circle their partner at bridge and golf Mr Huitt managed to preserve hi composure and his counsel though he could have lold the truth being Jesson's banker about the financial difficulties hinted at in the letter Jesson had left ft Neither for young Tyssen so gager fo get the tacts about this affair as material for the novel he is writing will Mr Huitt breajf his silence As a matter of fact this voting stranger with his insatiable cui losity and odd nocturnal habits seems a bit of a nui sanre tn Mr Huitt To his fuend Anthony Sarson too when the peace of Sandvwayes is further upset by a mui-der and Anthony finds it difficult to explain the which kept Inin out all night Tyssen cunositv pioves exasperating Anyway what the devil dues the fellow mean tiespaxsing at night on ttie golf links and making pei-fect non shut then pietending play tilh his usual skill and ingenuity Mi Oppenheim furnishes plenty of incident to tease the leader along however Re iv spot The villain right from The fust Plausibility may be lacking in Man Without nevcithe-less it will keep your interest alive THE WILD BUNCH By Harry Sine lair 111 ago Publishers A Burt Company New ork City Here is a collection of 11 topnotch yarns any one of which the lover of real western fictioa wilLfmd 1Q bis tasie Not only does Harrv Sinclair Drago show a knowledge of the western coun-tiv but he manages to give to lus character a plausibility that the actors western-adventure stories too oftan lack Moreovei he has a talent fog devising novel incidents and his plot develop unexpected twists and turns Diagus fiction measuies up agreeably with the product -of such w- rtei -as Ettgetie Man love Rhodes or William Patterson White The yarns assembled here have appeared mb magasmey Mr Drago leaders will be glad to find them again in book form Nevada desert and little mining towns furnish Ihe locale foi most of the stories with the Cheyenne basin and New Mexico figunng as background for some of the episodes There aie bandits these pages but Mr Drago aie not altogether the Usual type as wiliess the gallant 'piriled Doc Munday of "Nailed losing life for the sakemf a humane deed but with his gesture giving another man strength to turn from te'mp-tation Old bandy legged Nez Smith bank robber of the title story is a dif-ferMti' brand of ro'cO'UTdTobr a bank and shoot down a traitor cold blood but he knew loyalty and he tossed awav his freedom fm a few wild broom-tail'" of the Ow hoe Paidnets of the Malpais" tells of old Dad Kurnevs unique vengeance for the killing of his aged bin 10 and in Pieciou Than a man takes desperate chances to learn the depth of hi GYPSY AND CIRCUS FIGURES study by Herman Palmer noitt New York gallery Herman Palmer la former Salt Laka aruit who long ago won a reputation for himself as an illustrator purlitulailv for his animal portravals has an exhibit of lus studies of animals at the Leonaid gallery New Yoik Citv at the present time These drawings aie in the main studies of the great blast liens tigers leopards and oil trs -made in the zoological gaidens uf the countiv and abioad as well Buds ot dogs ate his subjects also Mr Palmei a native of Faimlngton Utah began his art study manv sens ago under Mahonu Young He wa well known as an illustrator betoie he became a 1 evident of New Yoi itv lie i he has lived for a numboi of cai- His woik lafiequenttv found in the ina0-lines Concerning the present showing Flis-abeth Luther Cary of the Niw Yoik Times says of his zoo inniatis appear in the exhibition all compact of individuality every pose inconceivable as belonging to another and their cx-'fflinxrydrcp or a ake 'martm-jp-ei calm filled with the inheient dignity of their indifference to all humamtv The studies combine unusual authority in diawing with a deep undei standing of his subjects according to CaHvle Burrows Herald Tribune art critir who adds the same time hi work has an artistic -ntegntv such as one finds in the similar works of Delacroix or Barye Mr Palmer brings out the significance of physical form and character sometimes With marked deli cacy at others with a firm nd vigorous quality of line tr Work by Sculptor Of Utah Attracts Visitors at Fair I A wo mastei pieces of atatuuiy lend beauty to the exhibit uf the Chuith of Jesus Chut of Latter day Saints in the Hall of Religion at the Woilds Fair in Chicago One entitled pio-neeis rational he savS that for a long long tune to come only heie and there an exceptional individual will continue to defy Natum and so live as to earn years beyond seventy five And that the de-grneialive diseases will maintain their tiaditional roles Nature is still 011 the job If however one 1 lealtv desiiiuif of extending hi life span hrvimd the the way is pointed pql this scientist whey has gone nvVr tht path himself Dr William cites hismten case not only to authenticate himself aslope who need not fpar the taunt heal thyself1" but also to prove the efficacy of the advice he offers A a diagnostician said limited him to 15 possibly 20 year of life if he were extremely careful At 70 another expert told him all" he need feay in another thirty years as an "act of God In the meantime he had taught himself how to live We have had many books to discuss the subjects of diet and health none moie variety or entei tainlnglv Dr William is no food faddist and he knows his vitamin' If vnu are rieiiding hetc ccn Fat Life nr a Lcsng One up rerommend vnu read hi chapter under that tit If you would know how to make that longer life richer turn to his chapter on Life Giv mg Hobbie" SHADOW ON THE WALL Bv Bailev Publishei The Crone Club Inc by Doublcday Duian and Co Garden City For the first tune the highlv individual Mr Reginald lortunes activities as ci ime investigator 111 the capai ilv of special advisoi to The1 Yaid or hi fuend Lomas its clucf have been cx ended to book length Needle to sav Mi Bailey lias dune well bv Ins dtUiuvt pasing betoiehima puttilv tangled a puzzle as supplied lately dune tictiun Its sui cession of appaunth wholly uniclaled deaths keeps Mi loitwncs peLuliai deductive instinct actively engaged for some time and one suspects om ami-chair sleuths will be completely baffled That fantastic impish old creatuie Lady Rusnav insisted young Mrs lv her husbands plane dive and crash weie not accident But Reggie suspected more than amouis and jeulou behind them and his rmiositv took him to Lady Rosnac ball to he fmttirr intrigued The hostess was attacked and hoi diamond tmi a stolon which tneft she red haned Alix Lynn her granddaughter nianifoslc'd dislike of the police and the gossip Beitie Lu 1 1 -oil was jjjjshediuit Pi wjndnw Wha could alt this have To do with the Poviitz deaths Why had Luttrell gossiped about -inond the coming statesman his ambitions hxs altraitiun for Miss Lynn hi affair with Molly Mai no who came In the ball under the influence of mot phi i7 Reggie confesses whu lsn helped when Molly dees someone exchanging her morphia tablets for heioin the very night Osmond calls on her Reggie hasn much to go on -a grotesque shadow on lie wall an odd perfume those heroin UbieLs some anonymous but soon his tactic" which ruiicein diessniakers lipsticks drugs reap rewaid A pistol shut barely misses Reggie when he goes down to Langton Paik-someone ppt ponon in Cupid banana Lady Rosmiy thinks intended for hoi a dead monkeyjidded to theexhibit It a nicely inaged set Bf1 complin-tionx which keep you thoroughly mystified until the moment Mr Bailev candidate for the mantle of Sherlock Holme scores again enjoyevery minute of it though you may grow a shade tired of Mi Foi staccato manner and oblique statement 11 1 ii BAILEV To 5ncP melodrama and thrilling action Mr Diago piovides abundantly and theie a rough humor in the talc of how Old Man son pioved him-lf a rhip off the old bloik giving angwer to the querj Luck a Iadv And one stoiv at lea-t "I lie Stuff of a Man" he doesn fail to touch the chords of the beait bhuk of taindlni il -bv eight im I ic 11 that thrv i amp in rbrdgf not 1 one dav theie was a fire nn th" rst floor -which had vaned add dramatic consequences ompton Markenz a'S that one finishes it "with the feeling that the book wiote itself Peggy Bacon 1934 winner of a Guggenheim fellowship will be on the McBrid autumn list with book of thirty five portraits of distinguished Americans The victims of Miss brilliantly niafauuus style include President Roosevelt Mayor LaGuardm Rexlord Bincla Lewis HeyWOoCl Broun General Johnson Ihe collection is to beai thp significant title Otf Willi Their Heads' Itre Crowr'l fill li't includes "Men-dpi" nhn A Hnah a biography InSrhima Kaufman evaluating both th oi a and the murical sides of ihe greet Ttje au hoi is himself a mu-man CIRCUS By Lqdy Eleanor Smith Publishers The Bobbs-Mer-rill Company Indianapolis IN SEVERAL novels Lady Eleanor Smith has definitely revealed her nar-rativptalcht a gift for reinvoking the color and romance of a day that is past for investing with glamor the life of nomadic peoples gypsies m-rus folk ballet dancers With Wagon" her first effort she pictured the showiness and glitter and sordidness of the life under the circus tents in the barbaric color and fierce passions of the Romany world turning frdm this tn depict the romantic history of a celebrated ballerina This piesent book is a collection of short stones in many of which melodramatic show world is again the background circus performers gypsies the pitiable creatures of the sideshow her characters As vividly colorful and romantic as hpr longer fiction thoseiiieidents-d- not carry the sense of actuality that inhered in her novels hoWever exotic the life she pictured In fact more than one of these stories are sheer fantasy in which the grotesque the supernatural the sinister are elements her imagination playing boldlv with curious fancies Such a one is in which a timid neurotic young man mania for the pantomime grew until his imagination created a hideous thing jout of the motley of the pantomime cat Whether this cat is merely illusion an evil force imposing itself upon the mans mind or a maniac in animal' garb one quite knows only the- horrible mesults are clear Theie aie others that leave confusion as to the intention as which revives the old spirit of melodiama in the theater in such effective manner tlut ona js-carried alou gw ith-Ah a-id esMuntri--t hedeowue tfamTfr Ameiicau desert ment brings him up with a shock is an impressive story of two Russian acrobats which makes vivid the eirt-us backgiound but the vampne proprietress of the sinister Circus Brandt in the title story a particularly grisly episode leaves us doubting Where Lady Eleanor deals with things supernatural she is least stircessful the eerie atmospheie necessary never quite comes off the ghost of stukes us only as a thin imitation The pagan gypsy child of Ilurdy Gurdy" who rescued from her vagabond life by a very pious aunt suffers in the confines of respectability until she seeks diastic measures to escape is one of the most convincing characters of the stories and the of a Strong Man" mterts with its poignant portrayat of phase of life that holds infinite sadnessr and are stones quite removed from Lady world of gypsies and showmen -yet it is a gypsy girl who brings release Ahe- disappointed betrayed tiusban irs fHrrrch 1 a ify 'or the London flat in reveals a deft touch of showmanship however it is otf stage This collection suggests that Lady Eleanor does not work quite as well within the frame of the shoit story her talents require bioader scope Yet no one of the eleven tales fails to catch the intei est and some of her finest qualities characterize the book at Winter Quartei-" has been on duplav foi seveial divs Its 01117 pa 111011 work LiTc has uiPhTlv been placed in position at the south end of the exhibit In this ginup the sculptor Professor Avatd Fairbanks of the division of fine aits in the University of Michigan has created figuies Which sy rubolrre one-of the great truths that has so often been met bv the human the struggle of man against Death In addition to ha association with Michigan university Professor Fairbanks holds degrees in Yale university the Umveisilv of Wash ington is a Fellow of th Cuggenhem memonal foundation and member of the National Sculptuie souetv In the first piece of statuary visitor to Century of Progress see the fathei and mother with their child in the open grave before them There- is grief butjiot despair A con" vTction oTlhe truth of the religion sustains them One hundred yean ago the Mormons weie frontiers- The sculptoi in the companion piece has charac tericd M01-monism which at present is still on the fiontieis A century ago the pioneers conquered the desert todav they are in an intellectual and spiritual sense In the female figure the spectator feels the refining uplifting influen in the expression of purity and confidence as she looks forward Pure womanhood id the-inspiralann ta the strength and courage of conquering manhood New life and new truth com'e into bein' a they TdmOBfTJhgJrqntiers every I human progress erably by the use of the elbow And will go dn doing so he adds Rtgaidless of good advice life insuiance statistics medical evidence the average individual continues his oveieating and dunking with but st -dollar and some odd cents his pocket He managed to interest Eilarigpr in it rehearsal and the play was a tnumph fiom it opening smashing the record in Washington and fiom opening night in New York going house afue" In hi own eoloi ful language netted ux something over half a million dollars befm we wer through with why when Hi company opened In Boston the next year thar was a douWe Hne- -three -tfmca around the block waiting for the box-office to open and the treasurer of th theater fainted from overwork For year I been telling -myself something like this was going to happen Id hern putting my chips on Number IT so long Id worn a hole in the cloth and I honestly don think I ever more than half believed it was actually going to turn up And now the croupier began pushing all the money on the table my wav It was weeks and month before 1 could even live sociably with the idea that I wain somebody else I didn know what to make of it But my ci editors did You bet thev did! Many readeis will enjoy this history those of Tylei generation became they can sliaie so many of his happv memories those of a later dav bee an" he re-taljsjhrills thev wish they could have enjoyed The leviewer will pre- ne tn point out only one defert it one pt have the quiet ilch mellow tone would expect tine of long expet 1-ence to be able to give that i somehow' covered up the lively popular magazine style the book assumes Booth Tarkmgton writing the foreword say: Tyler's vivid record bear historical significance already though Jhe great dSTthst fa its happy theme uonly Respite Let us pause a while Here under this star The eailh invites us The goal is far Let ux partake of beauty Nnw while we may The brief delay Baron Cooke in the New York Sun NOT LAMB" Through an unfortunate ovpr iqht a recent issue of Th Tribuna hook pag announced Caroline Lamb as th author of the Pulitzer prize-wunning novel "Lamb in Her which of course was the work of Carolina Miller oL Baxley Ga Charles Morgan author of the distinguished novel Veri Bmwmrwnote "TStSmenr of Youth5 won wide attention and Winifred Holt-by author of the delightful satiric Mandoa1 will each have nw novelj on the mV) list of MacMillan Now Is the Time for I A Officers to Read the Books Selected for Their Reading Course Sfcart with GUIDE TO CIVILIZED Price $200 Plus tax in Utah DESERET ROOK COMPANY 44 Eat on South Temple St r' I The Literary Almanac General Topics earns peilnps an aim determination mikes them come to Me Fmphi is is plarrd at on physical ycellhcmii a a qualification for success Proper eatujg and sleeping as well as exercising may well plav important parts in the rise or tall of a man WHY DIE BHOKE YOUR TIMf Bv Hemv Smith Williams Publishers Robert McBride and Company New York City Why indeed! And who would provided he knew the secret of long life7 The majority of humans seem to have little desire to hasten to the last gum tendezvou Though one finds not much to sweeten existence here he is not likely to turn a welcoming face to the old geu tleman with the scythe Dr William himself having bcfoie reaching his maturity been handed his death wairant refused to accept it and detei mined to client th Rc-n-i 1 ct a Dr Wlliam' hows tai -e pm-rentage of men rnrrmit mvnluntarv sui ride He firmlv hr'iev in the truth of Ihe nld Homan 'av mg men dig their mi gravL with their aided consid Books on HOW TO SUCVFFD IN LUF Bv Cirn-villc klrrrr Piibli'her Funk and Wagnalls Co New1 Yoi Citv That a deluge of honks on how to ton duct one Oife ill be precipitated on an ungrateful public each year is one of certainties That among such hooks there will he one worthy of sppcial men tion is not 0 certain Grenville Kleiser qualified for that mention with to Succeed in Life" Not a startling departure from the accepted standard for such books this one however has presented the old formulae in a new and pleasant disguise The aged aphorims have become pithy and delightful epigrams 1 True success is the result of right doing based on right says the author in his preface This terse sentence is the keynote of the book The first and most important reouire-ment for success is tint one chill know how to plan well Surer Kir sei hold' dim ay much to int llurnt preparation a' tn kiltrd workmanship The qiiF'tinn n'f planning i dealt witn it nme length and with undei 'landing Dreaming is the first step in plannmg 1 idm hhI Si hoot mg Ifoi vec nrk bv Mami 1 1 1 1 1 I) hamhcrlm caplam of the It mpir tram and rnnvdrred one of Amciira' miiUanding horsemen fa on the fall Jist of the Derrydale Press' "Ladies and Gentli'tnf'n" fa the tentative title of a book bv Branch Cabell which Robot MfBtide A Co bavd placed on the fall list invtead of the spring list as usual PSrhaps because Mr work displays an October sharpness in attacking certain historic characters whose reputation aie rooted in proverbial error 'Among these are Penelope Allan as Pocahontas Washington Sir Galahad In the late SutiiineivDoubledaytrDoTan plan publication ot on the Dole" the play dtamattd from Walter Greenwood g'vm and live lv 'toiv of the un-emplovod whuh I i been winning vuc-cc a a 1 1 1 Eng and the iter 1 Dr ign for 1 1 ru if th" intr gu mg I nf Gnv Porm nnv cl rh is jil't being publi hod bv Dntmn It is the Story of a paitlcular staircase in 1.