The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • Page 165

Lake Tribune, Sunday, September 20, 1959 By Georje Dibble uth gat? attendance records Xiff quality of the exhibition 'has im proved steadily. Increasing support has come from young in both amateur and professional ranks. Best-ot-phaw awards wont to Ed'Maryon for oil "Moss Landing" and a wood sculpture "Pieta" by Warren Wilson. Of similai' quality is the P.vcPl- bv no, at Old Tenements" by Don Nishijima. The Dunlap, Gilbert Weiss and Kw-tn Net- Sector juxtaposing work" on the sev re task formed by Supervisor WaJls was ab) space potent a i but Th art buil dfestic redesign! I PreSC II a rran et into more elective uld down hangin diffi and WOUld ror bonn kept free from ice cream Comments Hijh Interest carries Anyone the Predsive "flutonwmts today', furniture has been eased somewhat through 'the qualities of upholstery.

In some Instances xvood ovedNwM employed. Notable furniture pieces include designs by Eero Saannen and Charles Eames. Epitomizes the Jet A handsome typewriter epitomizes the let age the role of compact traveler. A Thonet chair, taken for 'grafted because IS so casually employed, assumes renewed Seo Uyeness among patterns in the A console in period Fe itingly niodern The exhibit not con ned stncl to items produced today. Rather the adherence 1 th VG ftradlt ns desj does not seem at all shange therefore, that prime virtues are revealed by a Hitchcock chair a modern table -lamp or a 'set of antique scales A simple wood cooking spoon, inexpensive water tumblers and stainless steel tableware share honors with more expensive metal and woodcraft; the common denominator being effective design.

Wall coverings, textiles and wall SCI Ip llre Hcta Wilson, took the Utah State Filr Art Show. Offering a pme list totaling $3.000 in cash' awards and scholarships, Xavier University will sponsor a "Young America 19o9" artist show from Nov. Age limits for entrants extends from senior high school level to age 30. Works may be. entered in five categories: painting, prints and drawings, sculpture, ceramics and jewelry and must arrive no later tfian Oct.

195.9. Entry blanks may be obtained bv dirgctm.c: requests to the Department of Art, Xavier University, New Orleans, La. U.S. Poet of Obscurity: James Gates Percival Gem Slate's New Frontier Sun Valley Conference To Lure Idaho Artists "Idaho's New Frontier Art." will theme Third Annual Conference of the Idaho Art Assn. Sept.

25 through 27 in Sun Valley, Idah'n. Edgar Ewing. artist associate of the Dalzell Hatfield Galleries in Los Angeles, and professor of art at the University of Southern California, will be guest speaker. Mr. Ewing is the recipient ot 14 major prizes in 21 years for his contemporary' paintings, and has presented 19 one-man exhibits and participated in £3 national exhibits.

of the association will exhibit their paintings. Jn charge of the c.x- tirhit will be Mrs. Wiliiam Puggan, Orofino, Idaho. Members of her rommittet include Mrs. Sam Swayne, Orofino; Mrs.

Glen Wright, Hailey; Mrs. Ray Holmes. Mrs. Keith Evans Mrs. Mickey Marshall, Twin Falls, and Ray um, Idaho.

"Wolfe QiietMH-." by Christopher Hibbert The story of a general whose meteoric career during the French and Indian War added a chapter to tradition of Britain's eccentric military geniuses. Maj. Gen. James Wolfe was chronically ill and cantankerous, as insolent to his superiors he was inclined to be overbearing to those under his command. His senior crowded him into the decision that defeated the French at Quebec, and there is more than a suggestion that treachery contributed to his great victory.

On the other hand, he was courageous and energetic and it hft had not died so young he might have had a fateful influence on thft American revolution." 'The Uneven, Palatable Warren THE CAVE. By Robert Warren. Random York. 'The Cave" had been by almost any one JMse, it would have to be considered as a notable achieve- But one has come to so much from Robert perm Warren that the faults ft? "the novel are jnagnified, Perhaps nut of proportion, Ihe greatness of his repu- Ja'ion. Sometimes the motivation Hoosn't quite hold together.

Pomrtimos the characters JiU5t nr.c.s reality. Sometimes, li-'ougli not very often, the jiRrrative drags. But after saying this, it must Also he "The Cave." is powerful, dramatic anrl absorbing. The book fakes iis title from Plato's discussion o( "ths world as a cave" in which the prisoners see nothing but the shadows on the wail. But it is also the of a real cave in which a man is trapped.

Thus, in the latter respect, it recalls a sensational news event of Ihe 1920s Floyd Collins' entombment while exploring cave in Ken- lucky. There, however, the Self'Portrait, 'Act Moss at Best "Act One: An Autobiography. By Moss Hurt. Random House. 443pp.

Once in a blue moon a connoisseur of reading matter is lifted to giddy heights hy a bright on an otherwise gray literary landscape. "Act One" is such a gem. This engrossing personal biography and vivid portrait of the New York theatre is presumably the first part of a larger work. It is a delightful combination of sprightly prose, humor and exciting, improbable storytelling. Broadway Success As everybody knows, Moss Hart, is an eminently successful Broadway playwright and director, his latest dirccorial success being that now eg endary "My Fair Lady." Like many another penius, Mr.

Hart's beginnings were' humble and his climb up the ladder was Yet the book succeeds in avoiding the stereotypes of "up from the slums." And his early jobs and eccentric relatives are rfs warmly and colorfully portrayed, like characters in a Moss Haft play. His" first play, "The Be- Joved was written before-he was 20 a colossal failure. This proved to be just one of detours on the road to success RUles to Fame sjbry really gets into high'gear with the unfolding of the details of writing (and rewriting and rewriting) of "Once in a Lifetime." The play's success lifted him out of the harsh poverty of the Bronx, which he hated so wholeheartedly, to fame, fortune and personal satisfaction. From the beginning, act one of "Once in a Lifetime" was "a hit of vintage rare." Collaborating with already famous George S. Kaufmann, Mr Hart turned out an acceptable second act after much blood sweat and hunger.

But the third act, after a series of calamitous trial runs, simply defied (heir ingenuity. Kaufmann, who also was directing and acting in the play, eventually tossed in the sponge, but "the young author" refused to say die. Rewrites Act In a hurst nf genius born of despair, the ingredients of a good third act were finally stirred up during the exotic final days of the play's off-Broadway trial run. It was completely rewritten and polished, resulting 'in a breahtless "Perils of Paulin" typp rescue of the tottering play. Anyone who has ever suffered in the stage wings waiting for a cue or who has known the travail of actors and playwrights will alternately suffer and chuckle at the climactic turns of.

fortune of Mr. Hart's "Act One." If this comparatively obscure play occasioned so much emotion and excitement, one can hardly wait to read the backstage story of the writing, rewriting and production of the comedy highlights, "You Can't Take IMVitb You" and 'The Man Who Came to Dinner." with which Hart and Kaufmann I also collaborated, and "Ladv in the Dark." which starred Gertrude Lawrence. i KmphaHe' "There is an intensity, an extravagance, an abundant and unequivocal ratification i to the vanity and ego that can be satisfied more richly i and more fully by success in i the than any other calling." Mr. Hart writes. "Like everything else about i the theatre, its success is emphatic and immoderate." That is the spirit of "Act One." as exciting, as smooth i and humorous, as exquisite- ly timed as A Moss Hart- George Kaufmann play il W15 Piercing Soviet Enigma American Research on Russia.

Editail by Harold L. Fisher, University of Indiana Press, Bloomiiitrton, Jml. This excellent book consists of essays written by American scholars who are experts in their fields. The subjects range from economics to architecture and the book itself proves that there is a great deal more specialized knosvlcdge of Russia in Ihis country than is generally believed. As Philip E.

Mosoly says in his introduction, the "continuous and systematic study of Russia by American scholars "began in the second decade of the present century, and by 19H were three universities had chairs of Russian language and litoralum At that time I he emphasis was upon literature. Second place Since World War II. other subjects have attracted much more attention and Russian literature has taken second place. This was partly due, of course, to the deterioration of Russian literature under communism the treatment'of Pasternak is a recent and shocking example but the moving cause has been the emergence of (he Soviet Union as a great and dangerous world power. Research on Russia has, however, been besof by serious handicaps.

Harold H. Fisher points out that "(he denial of (academic) froe- dom by thn Communists has affected Russian research by Soviet scholars. Affeels Research "It has also affected Russian research by Americans through the restriction or prohibition of library research and field work by foreigners in the USSR. Individuals ami institutions interested in this field are doing their best during the present soft turn of the Party line to develop the exchange of scholars, students and but it will not be wise to base out- future plans on the belief that the Communists are being won over to our view of intellectual freedom and that their present policy will continue Indefinitely." If the Soviet Union is an enigma, it is because the Soviet masters have pre- it that way. Vet Jt la to the interest of the West to know what is developing and, thus, what can be exi pected.

"American Research on Russia" is a contribution to understand "The Crime of Oiovannl Venturi." hy Howard Shaw. Henry Holt and Company, New York. Whrn a large chain restaurant opened just a few doors from Giovanni Venturi's old and discriminating establishment in Rome, it New York Times Servirr NEW YORK, Sept. Is Ihe of host sellers he published Sunday hv the New York Times. Fiction: 3.

Kxoilus. Uris. 2. Advise nnel Cnnsrn'l Drurv -1. Lady ChaltPrleVj, l.ovr'r I.nwrrm'C.

The Ugly American. I.rrlprpr Burdlc-k. 5. anrt Olorlous PhvM- rlan. Calflwoll.

6. Doctor Zhlvagn. Paslprnak. The Cave. Warrpn.

R. The Art nr Uewcllvn Jones S. California Street. Bmrh 10. The Tents of Wlrkeriness He Vries.

Oeneral: 3. The Status Seekors. Pack- 2. For 2C Plain. Oolrten.

a. The Years With Ross. Thvir- 51.000 Inln In Real In Mv Spare Time. Nlckp.rson. Folk Medicine.

Jarvls. R. The Klements nf stvle Strunk and While. 7. Mine Enemy Omra Older King.

S. Hit-hard NMxon. S. The Great Impostor Crirh- tnn. The House of Barzun.

appeared he would have to go into bankruptcy. But a friend, the book seller, had an ingenious idea of how Giovanni could serva the same menu as the large chain outfit, and at lower prices. It was illegal, but alter all, Giovanni' felt he could not give up the fight to save his restaurant, "in the course nf this illegal enterprise, which marie rich men of Giovanni and his fellow conspirators, the peasant-stock restaurateur becomes interested in F.trus- can history and literature. Rending How Giovanni arranged for the chain restaurant to cook and servo meals for its tiny rival, anrl how the spirit of an ancient Etruscan king loads Giovanni to his ultimate triumph- makes for saucy and droll reading. Howard Shaw, whose first novel this is, has peopled his tale with an assortment of picaresque characters without whom Giovanni would have been doomed to failure.

Y.W.C.A. USED BOOK SAIE W.dn«,i)oy, JJ.JJ to m. to 12 Noon, to 5 p.m. 7 lo p.m. Y.W.C.A., 322 East 3rd South Letters of James Gates Percival, Poet and Geologist.

1795-1856." wlited by Harry K. Warfel. University of Florida Press, $2.00. During the 1820's, while Bryant's star as a poet was rising and Poe was finding himself (their first important books of poems were published in 1831-32), Gates Percival was famous as the first great American poet. Poems Published In 1S23, his collected poems were published in a handsome edition in New York and London, and his portrait adorned American parlors.

But, by the IRSO's, he was outshone, and he quickly palod'into obscurity. By and large, he was not sufficiently American in substance, or progressive in thought, or artistic. Today, his only poem to be anthologized is 'The Cora! Grove," which pictures an underwater scene of vegetation gorgeously varied in hue and in perpetual motion, although tranquil in mood. These 52 letters, say the editor, are sll of the important letters unpublished until now. Tell of Search Ranging from 1317 to the year of his death, they are full of Percivat's vain search for a livelihood which would allow him plenty of time to read and write, and of his complaints against poor pay and pay denied, and his intolerance of shoddy per- formance, and his family quarrels.

They reveal nothing about Percival as poet. They portray a person wno was amazingly versatile in literature and science, a perfectionist to whom Webster's "American Dictionary" and the exploitation of minerals in New England and Wisconsin owe much, and A blend of neurotic, schlemml and Byronic hero. "Eminent As Poet" The Inscription at his grave on the Wisconsin frontier reads: "Eminent as a Poet, Rarely Accomplished as a Linguist. Learned and Actute in Science, A Man VVithout Guile." This attractive brochure of 100 pages No. 1 of the University of Florida Monographs in the Humanities.

Dr. is an expert in American lilerature and the student will appreciate his IhouHhlful and sympathetic work as the cdi'tor The. Cat and the. Micp, by Leonard Mosley (Harperi. The fort of spy tale that only Hollywood ordinarily would dare to tell, but it is an actual account of events in wartime Cairo.

The principal character is John Eppler, German by birth, Egyptian by adoption, who was smuggled into Cairo to collect information about the British forces grouping around F.I Alamein in The ending is as neat a bit of deception as any screen- 1 writer could ask. resemblance ends. For Warren's man in the cave is far less important than the men ami the women outside. The time of the novel is today; the setting the hill country of Tennessee; the characters an amazingly varied assortment whose lives, Justs, hopes and disap- i are skilfully strung on the thread of the narrative. Warren is a master of the tel'-ing the il'.

luminating paragraph. He is also one of Ihis country's top humorists. When "he writes nf old Jack Harrirk who "had helled over halt ridges and up half thp hoot- owl hollows from Chattanooga to Nashville," or of Nick Pappy who, late at night, drinks whisky on the rocks and tries "to forget the note for S2.0M which Mr. Timothy Ringham held over at People's Security," the reader gets something to relish and remember. Writing like this not encountered every day.

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