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THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUN DAY MORNING OCTOBER 16 1932 In the Field of Modern Writers Art and Literature Activiticsin Utah Artists' Colony St GOOD GOES ON UNIQUELY INTERESTING SHOW Leading Give Mind Thinkers to Vital Issue a "Oldest House Union selection from the William Parkinson exhibit interpreting Utah's first homes Pair of Manhattan Of peculiar interest to the Utah This Sequel to Pearl Pulitzer Prize Book Continues Lffective Portrayal of Contemporary China Ey HOLLIS EONS By Pearl Buck Publisher The John Day Company New York pEARL BUCK sees deeper tnto the life of China than Is given to many of the foreigners domiciled on Its shores for a time Her Intimate knowledge of Chinese civilization and understanding of Chinese character manifest In her memorable book Good are In this continuing chronicle of Wang Lung's family again and equally ro her ability to present a story vividly is not so profoundly moving a story as that of Wang Lung the elder and his love for the land whose appeal was its deep humanness Good Earth" was occupied with the peasant and his struggle with the soil with rewards hard won Here the theme develops Mrs Buck's concern to show how with these gieat families risen from the soil the processes of decay set in within an early generation Very largely is the story of the youngest of the three born to Wang Lung the peasant become land owner and his silent the tall black browed son whoso fiery spnit and fierce look won him title of Wang the Tiger as he rose to be a captain under the old soldier he had joined after he ran away fiom home when his father took as concubine the young slave Tear Blossom whose gentleness hnd stirred the son's heart Then Wang the Tiger foignt all gentle ways his ambitions set on becoming a great lord or war Because the old general had grown slothful and reluctant to war Wang the Tiger gathered a band of the best and stoutest of his men and biding a proper time broke away from his chief going forth to conquer and make himself ruler of his own territory In his rise to power Mrs Buck has dealt with a recurring aspect of Chinese life as tha land has been ravaged and torn its common folk taxed and despoiled by tha constant strife of these lords of war Wang the Tiger practices no banditry robbing and killing wantonly He purposes to be Just in his dealings demanding only such revenues as support of his army requires and holding firm rein on his men's lust for loot and women He rids the rich district which he chose for his own of the cruel and ruthless Leopard who had picked the peasants clean and establishes himself firmly In hia place At the outset of his enterprise much silver had been required and so field by field his shsre of the lands so hardly acquired by his father was sold Wsng the Tiger caring little if only his military success were achieved And thus It Is with his two brothers the eldest called Wang the Landlord because he left the land to tenants and lived as the gentry sold his lands little by little to pander to his love of luxurious ease and lustful pursuits His sons except one who preferred death to a life and the poor hunchback left to the care of tender Pear Blossom cared only to follow pleasure The second brother avaricious giasplng and cunning merchant turned Ms fields Into money and so though Wang Lung knowing his death near had said you sell the land it is the end" his vast lands were dispersed Wang the power increased as a war lord yet his satisfaction was tempered The woman whom he had loved and trusted betrayed him for memory of the man from whom he had taken her as spoil But more than a woman he had desired a son In whom his greatness might be perpetuated He takes other wives unloved and son Is given him In this beloved son brad to take his father's place there Is no liking for war end for power his thoughts turn to the land In him the blood of Wang Lung and O-lan is renewed At the end he returns from military school to confront his father In the garb of the new army the revolutionary army and the stricken Wang feels his son too has betrayed him The fact that the boy has chosen to return to his father has an import Wang does not see and which Mrs Buck will deal with further In another book Thst this Is but a second chapter In presentation of her broad theme Is Indicated The full canvas which she plans will be a rich end Impressive work of great scope and significance In tha Interpretation of China of today OF AN ATLANTIC CROSSING LUXURY LINER Bv Gina Ksus Publishers Rey Long and Richard Smith Inc New York HERE Is a novel by a foreign author who has been accorded superlative praise by her own countrymen and a novel so very good that on wonders why wt nave not heard of tha author before this She givs a sincere and vivid transcription of life Tha scheme of concentrating the action of the story almost wholly a board ship has been employed by several other novelists recently But generally such action is confined to on social level Whereas Involves first second and third class passengers In its series of correlated happenings To the eternal triangular problem too Frau Kaus lends different aspect Her chief character is a young Get man Dr Thomas Wohlmut a specialist at Klssengen where the wealthy take the whose wife elopes with a rich American ShortwelL The doctor drops a revolver Into his pocket and pursues the pair Just missing them fh Berlin but learning they have engaged passage for America on the liner Columbia He cannot secure passage as nls passport not In order end is In despair when luck brings him in contact with a friend the phyaician for the Columbia A domestic crisis makes the one as anxious not to sail as the other is desirous of sailing and quickly arrangements art made for Wohlmqt to substitute for hi friend Clearly there are possibilities for drama in the situation but It is not at all the obvtoua thst happens Wohlmut has come for a reckoning with hla wifa and her paramour but having assumed an obligation aa a doctor hla duty Intervenes In the strangeness of his contacts as a doctor with high and low and the engrossment of the varied Incident into which ha is drawn he gains a broader vision a deeper understanding of humanity Intricacies of the human heart are opened to him his special problem becomes lees cataclysmic he learns how let and go hia own way Among the notables on board are a Greek-American billionaire whose Interest In German shipping starts a frenzy of speculation spreading through the ship one of those American statesmen with a love of being photographed a German prlma donna whose star Is descendant and who hopes for new American triumphs There is the beautiful and penniless Baroness von Mergenthelm traveling In a luxury stateroom for a purpose and her drug-erased brother In a third-class cabin the nun-like Sister Martha whose Icy asceticism hides a secret These end numerous other types of humanity appear In the cross-section of life which Frau Ksus exhibits in this penetrative human and absorbing whose dramatic plan can be compared with tha fascinating losing not at all In the comparison ROMANCE IN COLONIAL AMERICA THE CHARMING SALLY By Jdtud Hsrt Lovelace Publisher The John Day Company New York i Maud Hart Lovelace who dealt so successfully with the early American scene In her first two novels has gone back to pre-Ilevolutionary days to revive for us the story of that group of London comedians w-ho across the In 1752 the llallam company claimed by some to have been the first theatrical company to perform In Colonial America Mild-mannered Lewis Ilallam his stately dame the small Lewis whose name was to become better known In theater annala the poet Singleton jovial paunchy and dimpled Malone each is brought to life In these pages With their adventures and hardships in a new world that welcomed strolling players not too kindly Is Interwoven a tender romance that began with fust meeting of the elfish redhead Meg of Drury Lane and Quaker Joel taught to regard players ss a loose lot a devil's crew Joel the business which brought him to London from the colony In Philadelphia completed had engaged passage In The Charming Sally and arrived to find the one cabin which he was to have by himself overcrowded with a London party He swallows Ms age at the double-dealing since Ms haste to be home will not wait and discovers such kindliness and fellowship among these other passengers he must perforce alter his Ideas concerning players Then at Portsmouth Meg comes aboard and at once heart Is caught In her coppery curls He ants her player though she is but she will not let him tell his love nor share with him the secret that has sent her fleeing from London the thought of which fills her eyes with terror When they land st Willlamabuig the appearance of a young gallant Mr Greemy Valiant upon whom Meg smiles since on such as he and his fi lends the Dallam future depends Is cause of misunderstanding and Joel de paits for Philadelphia without a farewell But there comes a time when Meg her sen ft a secret no longer sends for Joel building on hia love and h-s storting character and entrusts to him a precious treasure a second Meg whose tiny hands are In time to bring them together again The stoiy has not the significance of Mu Candlelight" but It is nevertheless a tale of chatm and Intel eat well and per-auasively told 4 A -e- A Of re i A TRArP reuses of war The relation of superior cultures possessing also superior power to the so-called backward peoples the race problem thoughtfully consulted by Andrews the Influence of the Press in a fair minded article by Fred-eilrk Libby fear and Its paralyzing effect in an impressive chapter by Wickham Steed The Hindu Muslim sits uatlon In India tariffs migration the economic occasions of conflict In the Far Last national monopolies of raw mutenal these and many other pertinent problems are piesented clearly along with suggestions as to what may be done The chu merit of this wotk Is that It does not present the war problem as one which may be Isolated finm the chief problems of civilization Peace is a creative ta-k A Johnson strikes a chai acteristic note when he makes the interesting claim to which he adduces consideiable evidence that "all influences mimical to the realization of social jus-tic are influences dangerous to the maintenance of peace Unquenched Youth Speaks in Record Of Ripened Life By HFLEN GERHART FULL HARVEST By Charlotte Prentiss Browning Publishers Dorranc Co Philadelphia In her 96th year Charlotte Prentiss Browning has finally taken time to roll back the pages of memory and write the book she has always meant to a book that hs In It the breath of yesteryears and the spirit of eternal youth She does not consider the story "autobiographical but merely a collection of rambling reflections" as she takes us with her through some of the more Interesting Incidents of her varied peisonsl experiences Her observations are written in chatty humorous snd Intimate way What thrilling and colorful strata of life she has-been permitted to Uvt through and write about from the days of the old stage coaches to this of swift motor cars She brings us human portraits of those of the long ago who took the time to live love and work In leisure Her personal recollection of Coopers-town New York Include real fact concerning the great writer James Fenl-more Cooper son of the village's founder Mrs Browning was born in 1837 while Mr Cooper did not die until 1851 see through her eyes the much mlw understood man who left us the Leather-stocking Tales and other early American itorlea She also gives us intimate details of many other famous people and of Incident which occurred in this locality making us wonder as we thumb tha pages why haven't heard more about Cooperstown long ago She Informs us for instance that baseball wu born In Cooperstown Her book Is a book of beautiful friendships and glorified love for this charming person possessed the gift of friendship She count numerous distinguished people among her acquaintances President and Mrs Hoover are numbered among those who send birthday tokens to this delightful old lady And facing Ufa still with seat and Interest though so near tha century mark she says Tv no mind to grow old even If I must age outside" she sums up our present apeed and mode of living "Truly this It a wonderful age I have lived to see" The Costs that profits ar assured to reestablish whatever plent the Inadequate government forces msy dismantle On of the most serious evils of the law In Mr TUlitt's opinion Is the demoralizing effect created In political circles providing as It does an ideal mean of barter with the underworld trading honesty for ballot controlled by string hald firmly In the grtsp of gang leader and boor dispenser And he opines America Is a harder drinking nation today than before prohibition Many of tha leaders of the nation ar noted in thtir reversal of opinion on its question numerous former dry and ardent supporters of tha movement cl-arly thinking counter to their beliefs of pre prohibition days Among State With tha four picture aelected by tha judges at awards In tha professional class In tha art axhlblllon held as a part of tha 1932 state fair the art department ha added to Its permanent collection paintings well representing the Individual talents of the four artists honored First award went to the "Symphony" by Mabel Frazer a canva of arresting them strongly handled that claimed a large share of attention among patrons of the exhibit and which Was reproduced in the Tribune recently jf fsPalir Lt By JACOB THE CAUSES OF WAR Edited by Ar-thur Porrilt Publisher The MaiMIl-Ihii Company New York The best little volume on ths causes of war that has come to our notice in recent years-sui alter a cartful reading is our verdict on this symposium on ttie economic Industrial racial religious scientific and political Influences tending to make for war or peace The book is more than a symposium by individual contributors It is a group effort as well The various sections of the book were prepared by men of international fame for the World Conference of Intei national Peace Through Ie-ligion Ihe-e reports were then submitted to the Conference for constructive critlcLMn The sections of the book were revised by their authors In the light of these suggestions and may therefore be said to represent the Ideas of the group as a whole as well as of the individual i iters Authors of the various sections were chosen because of their expert know ledge In the subjects assigned to them We are thus presented with the careful roneluslons In brief compass of men like Sir Arthur Salter Sir Arthur Thomson Alfred Zimmern An-dtews (Gandhi's biographer) Frederick Libby Henry A Atkinson Wickham Steed and others It is a book that gives moie than a tec hntcal discussion of the causes of war It leave a deep impression that the transition to a better social order must be also the realization of a world at peace instead of the suspicious thieat-ening world we now have It gives us a dynamic conception of this "highest and hardest task men have ever the creaUon of peace "The Cause of War" Is to be highly recommended a a guide book for group delrlng to give erlous studv to this most Important problem in all it ramifications They will find here an analysis by Sir Arthur Salter of the Intertwined political and economic PEARL BUCK (Vortrslt br Arnold CHnths) Looking At THE TRICE OF PROHIBITION By Malvern Hall Tlllltt Publisher Harcourt Brae Si Co New York To the ever growing munitions being piled up against tha federal prohibition law add an analytical study by Malvern Hall Tlllltt who turned from ardent dry to bitter opponent of tha nation's liquor law as administered Mr Tlllltt first mad a study of prohibition In 1922 snd wrote In favor of the experiment at that tlma But Ha writes thst there are 219 000 speakeasies In the United States mor than the number of saloons operating In wide-open days Bootleggers he lists at 200000 He contends that all figures here presented are conservative and uses estimate and facta compiled by all agencies favorable or unfavorable to the dry law as a basis for his contentions The national government expends annually net of $43000000 In an attempt to enforce the statute end In addition loses an esimated Income of one billion which could be collected through levies against legalized liquor trade 7 ha states as well pass up another $20 OuO-000 In revenue he writes and the cities of the country forego $23000 000 In licences and fee Imprisonment for violation of tha dry law now stand at 170000 and loss of employment by number of Job estimated at 700000 Besides tha financial side of the controversy ther is the charge that Insanity caused by alcoholism has Increaa-td 22 per cent since enactment of the law and an Increase of 105 per cent In divorces blameable to drink In the II life of the prohibition ltw at he sets down the loss 1300 killings have been reported and 2500 or more death attributed to wood alcohol and denatured alcohol Mr Tlllltt declares that each time tha government raids a still and dismantle it taking credit for working toward the objective of tha law at least one mora still Is erected and that no matter how diligently tha dry forces try they cannot keep up with the movements of leaders In tha Illicit trade They ar too well organized he believes When an employ of the bootlegging interest Is arrested he I assured of counsel If found gulity Is paid for serving time hit family I amply provided for by the higher-ups when Is released he Immediately reenter the trade knowing they will take ear of him Operators of liquor businesses provide In their highly refined budget system for the seizure end closing of stills their operations based on such principles Utahn at Playwright Mrs Glsdv Bennlon of Washington formerly a resident of Salt Lake City is tha author of two one-act plays that havt been given presentation at tha Hina end Eliot Junior high school In the capital city Tha play were praised for their literary quality by Dr Abram Simons chairman of the board of education of Washington who hRs also read some of her declaring them possessed of "high spiritual and poetic quallLea" Crime Tangles to Test Ones TFifs THE MAN WITH THE PAPER SKULL By Dwight Marfield Publishers Dutton Co Inc New York Beginning with a boisterous crowd surging on Broadway this swift paced story is so packed with Incident Its pages so congested with figures that one gives up about half way through the book any attempt to remember who It ail happens at the midnight party banker Samuel Pullin gave for tha beautiful Vanltie dancer Adella Ryanne onca Della Ryan of Tent' ave-noo at his luxurious apartment which assembled as varied an assortment of characters as New York might furnish A half dozen at least of the guests would have had ample reasons for making away with the host none more than Officer Danny Ryan who on a tip that a hold up was to be staged burst on the paity with his squad at a critical moment to hv a murder committed under hts vary eyes as It were Ryan's arrival to timed as to find hla daughter Adella In a compromising situation he too comes under suspicion of District Attorney Brent who ii promptly on the scene accompanied by tha rea headed reporter dubbed his aide" of whom Mr Marfield readers have heard before Yes a Gall McGurk itorv and Gall looking on at the night's further events sees muth that Brent and hla underlings overlook and pins the tag on the unsuspected criminal befor the heterogeneous group of guests gunmen and cops are allowed to leave the apartment Mr Marfield furnishes fair measure of surprises during the sorting out of the odd elements mixed In the yarn PAWNS OF MURDER By Mrs Wilson Woodrow Publishers Ray Long Richard Smith lnc New York Oliver Donne theatrical producer of odious repute is murdered in his office ebov the theater where a new play i In rehearsal and It locka aa though pretty Marjorie Mason a society belle with an urge for histrionics Is the person who had anot him At any rate it aeema Marjorie was tha last person to see him alive and her thumb print Is found In blood on his desk but Marjorie who has a complex that lends her Into a panic at sight of blood cannot remember what happened However the fact that Donna had given another actress tha pert he had promised Marjorie Is haraly adequate to dictate murder as you'll agrea with Haywood Atchiaon her guardian lawyer and bon vlvant who informs Inspector Carney he'll break him If he dares connect hi ward with the crime There' Larry Thin Donna'a assistant who palpably had no lov for his employer Nancy the night club hostess or Ealvl hi partner In Tha Cloven each Fair Awards Joseph A "Solitude Trail the second awsrd is on of the simple landscapes which this populir water eolonrt render with poetry and charm showing an Inviting path leading under the coolness of aspens and pines "The Aspen by Rose Howard Salisbury is also an aquarelle an excellent study of tree form and foliage and painted with fine understanding of her medium The fourth lelertion Russon's agreeable "Study In Yellow" a small oil portray a sunny tree-filled landscape whose yellow field give title to tha pk tur 'Solitude Trail' the Joseph A Everett aquarelle chosen as one of the purchase prizes public will be the exhibit replacing the Larsen sketch collection at the New-house hotel gallery Sunday This new show piesents William Parkinson i young Utahn who has been painting for several years but who is having his first one man show His friends who hae not seen hi present subjects will find a new Parkinson recealed as well as new themes This unique collection of 22 canvases In oils is wholly western in character depleting the old pioneer homes of the Salt Lake valley In the city and adjacent region Mr Parkinson has been working on thl project of recording a phase of Utah's past for some eight monthi or more and has done some extiemelv Interesting things These picturesque old log cabins and adobes are very paint able subjects and have a pictorial as well as histone value Mr Parkinson whose birthplace is Hyrum has had hts art training under A Wright almost entirely studying with him six years til the art department of the college and receiving his criticism during the years since The young man pursues his avocation In-defatigsbly spending most of hia leisure hour sketching and painting He has developed good draftsmanship and Insight Into the fundamentals of form end composition Freshness of color and vigorous spirit mark these pictures of homo built by Utah settlers which should prove of charm to many In his large canvss "Morning In Murrey" the effect of crisp cool sunlight Is dominant and there Is refreshing atmospheric quality A charming Intimacy pervades thl picture of the reddish-brown house with Its small lean-to Its flanking flowerbed beside a grass-grown lane The tiny plnk-walled adobe cottage over which great locust and box eiders lean proectlngly Is the "Oldest Union" one of the homes built Inside the old fort a rhythmic agreeable composition A field of purplish blossom fills the foreground In a version of one of old homes sentineled by two reaching poplars In the "Alfalfa In Bloom" "Tne Broken Apple Tree" gUes another of Union's adobes set In a lonely field with view of the encircling hills and "Locusts" sncient trees sheltering i gray two-story house gives wide vista of the valley beyond with a motive and opportunity not to mention faded shabby Mire Wesley the stenographer announcing herself aa Donne's wife Any of these may be the criminal and a little later when life is attempted Just after she has uncovered In office evidence of his blackmailing schemes esch on 1 suspect In thl second affair As a matter of fact Mrs Woodrow ha given a clue to the criminal early In the story which the astute will not overlook and they will probably be away ahead of the clever Atchison In solving the perplexities of thl Broadway murder mystery Anthologist's Work to Continue After Death In August occurred the death of Dr Frsnk Davis of Fnld Okla who had successfully conducted for a number of years the assembling of the best of the fugitive vers appearing each year In tli newspapers thereby contributing a work of value and giving encouragement to budding poets At hi request hts widow Athie Sale Davis la continuing the preparation of the fourteenth volume bf such terse on which he was at work at the time of his death Closing date for the receipt of manuscript for this fourteenth anthology la December 1 according to announcement by Mra Davta XMAS MEETINGS Be They BOOKS or CARDS Now la the Time to Select Hold Them for You DESERET BOOK COMPANY 41 rtst 80tTT1 TTWl'tg SONNET By Maud Chegwidden If I could die In beautv as thebe trees That fling sucholden glory to the aky That shower crimson on oa passeiby And spread a russet carpet at his knees If I could so emblazon eie I cease A sorry world with glowing tint and dye That would enrapture both the heart and ej And give an autumn bemson of peace If I could die in beauty then my years Of barrenness and drouth the mils of scorn The bitter tempests with their nun of tears Would lie foi gotten passed as yestermorn For well I know that denth and inter bring The mltacle of greening budyof spring 4.