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'm, MARCH_3O, 1930,
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'ROI gg New Novel Praised
Reviewer Says “Pure Gold” Lacks Epic
Plls qweep of “Giants Of Earth” But Is ity g
oawerful Novel, Nevertheless. ~
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puRE GOLD: BY O: E. Rol
. English translation by I
ort Erdahl ind the authoP
arper & gros., New Yotn
4 London, 1950 346 phges
o) Reviewed By
'JOS&J;M UTSCHEN
”BB will ~recall,
pivasé: " anience severa
. yublication of
) 880 |\\l,‘_” ¢ his best, novel
{;rsvt‘. I{_‘U‘l f farth,” a tale
g the Minnesota
P“mee;]'“} s had the field en
“"v'l;“,;_f d has ‘beeb
quwb,fi_ lahors therein. He
. l‘]rl,lie\ o 1 egian, though
ao‘lz;l‘m'd"“ in the English
: II;IIOH gis works, whie
Bitied as fiCtioM nossess great
e than is sually accorded
b type of liter iture. .Rolvaag is
fighl}' gaturated with lhe'at_
oo of the CO try he writes
it and 1 intimately familiar
b the life of those who have
ed that country Z'l’(blll‘a deso
pram-p into %-Inummg'gar-
To the reviewer, a Minne
g Rovaag's works seem
L !", jtself, a picture of life to
"extent lived even today. For
Norwegian has assimilated
BN oyl and Das retained. 10
sy an atmosphere strikingly
PR (i, and Rolvaas is engaged
Rreserving it for posterity.
“pure Gold” R lvaag tells the
B, ! the passion for go.d and
E avoc it © rought in the lives
Beo individuals, man and wife.
& and Lizzie Houglum, Nor
m,Amm“luma set ontstogeth
on a farm 1D Minnesota to
be their way in the world. The
bning is a very happy one, al
&t idyllic. Both work hard to
up the mortgage on the farm.
bn they will be independent and
qufficing. Once Louis brings
ge from town a shiny ten-dol
o sold piece, and this ingignifi
¢ incident is the beginning of
i ruin. The ten.do lar gold
¢ casts a vicious spell over
bm, instilling in their hearts an
bsistible passion for pure golds:
bm now on life is measured in
ms of gold pieces, Of course,
By succeed in getting more and
e, but never enough. - Severa
tes incurred through a bank
flure and worth ess mining
k intensify their passion foi
ey, Saving becomes a relig
g practice, In 1919, when .and
hes soar high, they sell their
Ju and move to town, each
b thirty-five thousand dollars
his person: Through a pecu
r concatentation of circumstan.
toth are found one day frozen
geath. The.r . clothes are 8o
by that the doctor orders them
he burned, and up the flames
B the seventy thousand do.lars
n and wife so re.igiously saved
s already intimated, '"“Pure
d” is not so great a novel as
iants in the Earth.” It lacks
epic sweep and the thematic
boration of the earlier work.
ne the less, “Pure Gold” is a
rk of worth and d.stinction. It
the quality of reality far
ve the average novel. - Events
ve with the inevitab.eness
racteristic of life. The miser.i-
B 8 of Lonis and Lizzie, their
sequent behavior, and their
ter end are so skillfu ly worked
t that the fictional e.ement is
dly noticeable. And who knows
t that Rolvaag has not given us
“Pure Gold” something more
| than the reader would be
ling to concede. After all, the
ality of miserliness is by no
ans limited to the fictional
rld, and the fate of the miser,
re often than not, {8 the same
befell Louis and Lizzie. Few,
any, of those who devote their
e to the accumulation of gold
er live to enjoy it. “Pure: Gold”
indirectly, a powerful sermon
inst that common :passion ol
I in all ages for more and.morc
Id. Its text might well be the
almist's saying:
o when he dieth he shall ‘carry
« ‘Nothing away:
I 8 weaith shall not descend
after him.’
EXPERIENCE NECESSARY:
Is it necessary for an author tc
Ve world.y experience in orde:
write a convinecing sophisticat.
book? It appears not, Daphmu
mbart, author of ‘‘Shard,” just
bished by Putnam’s, is the
ughter of Archdeacon Lambart
da niece of Lord Craven, is
Iy nineteen vears of age and
8 led a most carefully sheltered
€in the English countryside.
t her book is a truthful por
at of the decadent, blase young
oderns who inhabit larger cities
how they live and love and
k. 1t is the story of Jenifer,
thleen anq Vivian, two women
d 8 man, who are dilettantes at
V¢, and proud only of the fact
8t they are well born—and
ards, :
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AUTHOR AT FIFTEEN
The fiifteen.year.old daughter of
ehert Cushman Murphy, a mem-
Fr of the staft of the Americap
'\eum of Natural History anc
Uhor of “Bird Islands of Pern,"
38 written her first book, “Every
hich Way in Ireland,” which
ham's have just published.
lison Murphy trave'ed over 2,00:
lles through Ireland, had’ many
Scinating experiences and met
WOUs people. She is a member
f the Girlg Scouts of Ameriea.
Mary Austin’s Book
“American Rhythm”
In Revised Edition
- Mary Austin, whose “American
Rhy@@’; _has just been issued in
a revised and enlarged edition by
Houghton : :Mifflin Company, has
returned to her home in Santa Fe,
having completed. her course of
lectures- on - Folk Drama in the
United States at Ya'e University.
Whi'e in New York one of her
chief' econcerns was to render the
highest appreciation of Marc Con
nelly’s - “The Green Pastures,”
whieh she regards as the most
effective use of the ¥Folk method
vet seen in this country. Mrs.
Ausitn, ‘'who is one of the leading
authorities on Primitive and Folk
Drama, ag this is considered in
connection with the modern thea
tre,. mantains that Americans are
now in the most advantageous po
sition toward their folk material
of any people in the world., Al
the European nations, .she says,
have used up their folk tales in
pays and ' operas, but in the
United States there is an abso
lutely wirgin filed of Negro, Indian
and other native material waiting
to be used—enough, she says, to
keep us supplied for a hundred
years or more. Mrs. Austin thinks
also that the folk traditions of
Christianity are -~about to he
thrown open to dramatic treat
ment, as they have not been since
the Middle Ages, and looks for a
great revival of interest in relig
ious plays,
Arrangements have just been
concluded by Houghton Miff’in
Company whereby William T,
Scanlon’s “God Have Mercy On
Us!” is to be put into Braille. This
is the novel which shared with
Mary Lee's “It’s a Great War!”
the $25,000 prize offered by the
publishers in conjunction with
the American Legion Monthly.
Johnny Weissmuller, author of
the forthcoming book, “Swimming
the American Crawl” (Houghton
Mifflin Company), has’ just c osed
a contract to go to France this
summer for a number of exhibi
tion events. Somewhat later he
plans a'trip to Australia, where in
terest in agquatic sport is particu
larly keen’
What stand would Henry David
Thoreay . take on “humanism” if
he wera alive today? This may be
an idle question but nevertheless
Odell Shepard has a pertinent
word to say on the subject in his
introduction to “The Heart of
Thoreay’s Journals” (Houghtou
Miff in Company). “Thoreau's
‘Journa's’,” he maintains, ¢show
abundantly that this man, who has
been more quc#ed and - imitated
than' any other American save
Whitman as an exponent of “natu
ralism,’” of the abandonment of all
restraints in favor of instinct and
and finer in every way
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Muriel Harris’
Novel Acclaimed
Absorbing Book
By PAUL W. WHITE
United Press Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK. — (UP) — The
friends who twit you concerning
the graft that accrues to news
papermen simp’y don’t know the
ha'f of it. In addit‘on to the pub
lishers who, for instanee, simply
shower us with fifty-dollar bils
for enthusiastic reviews and ten
dollar gold pieces for merely “ade
quate” ones, there are others who
dispense such things as blotters,
ca'endars — and now a reading
lamp.
The lamp appropriatsly enough
was donated on behalf of a vol
ume entit'led “Sleep,” ‘written by
Donald A. Laird and Charles G.
Muller and published by John
Day. Dr. Laird is a psychloogist
of Colgate University who for
some years has been directing ex
periments in the fine art of s'um
ber,
As you might imagine the book
is replete with interesting data.
Rip eyisms include:
“Animal life dies much more
quickly from lack of sleep than
from lack of food.”
“There are people of whom you
can truthfully say, ‘He makes me
tired.’ Snobs or over-solicitous per
sons, for examp'e, actually induce
fatigue in their associates.”
“One of the means to overcome
insomnja is to have the scent of
perfunie in your bedroom.”
Muriel Harris” “The Seventh
Gate” (Harpers) is an original
and absorbing novel. 1t was chosen
by Hugh Walpole, Frank Swinner
ton and Sheila Kaye-Sinith from
the six hundred odd manuscripts
submitted in a $5,000 English Prize
Novel Contest, and it is not diffi
cult to understand why it won the
judges’ approval.
Catherine . 'roon, middle-aged
spinster, was hemmed in by the
trivialities and futility of her
middle-c’'ass existence. Together
with her sister she gave piano
lessons in the little house on
Pavlova Road where she lived
with Elsie and Mrs. Troon. Her
meeting with Dr. Arnold Risaleur
opened to her an entirely new—
and quite unreal—life. So intense
was her belief in this theory that
genius can be gained by the
proper directing of one’s sex im
pu ses that she is transformed
physically and mental'y. She is
young, beautiful, sought after—and
above all, acknowledged as a mu-
romantic indolence, was in fact
one of our few outstanding ‘hu
manists,’ subjecting himself
steadily to the discipline of a
strong will and to the tradition of
the ages, working out for himself
au ascetic rule which was in some
ways excessive'y strict.”
Florence Ayscough, whose “Tu
Fu: The Autobiography of a Chi
nese Poet,” has recent'y been is.
sued by Houghton Miff'in Com.
pany, is spending the winter in
Vienna. Whenever she lectures in
German she says she feels like
crying out, “See me dance the
polka,” but is gradually overcom
ing her embarrassmént. Her latest
lecture was given in Munich be
fore the “Freunde Rsiatischoer
Kunst und Kultur.”
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Eugene O'Neill, dramatist, and his wife, the former Carlotta Mon
terey, posed informally for this picture near Tours, France. The smile
on the playwright’s face bears out reports of friends who say that
O’'Neill is cheerier and in better health.
sical genius. Her destruction is
inevitable and, quite justly, i 8
brought about finally by her crea
tor, Dr. Risaleur, who loves her
too intensely.
The merit of “The Seventih
Gate” does not rest solely on the
novelty of its theme—or, rather,
the novelty of the application of
the theme. The characterizations
are deftly done and show pene
tration and comprehension.
Superiority of Girl
Of Today Settled
By Literary Society
That the old-fashioned woman
is not superior to the modern girl
was the decision of the Phi Kappa
L'terary society in a debate held
last Wednesday between four Eng
lish instruvetors of the University
of Georgia.
' E. M. Everett and D. L. Graham
Ifirgued for the old-fashioned wo
man.
G. G. Connolly and C. R, An
derson upheld the modern girl.
- The try-outs for the champion
debate and the freshman debate
will be held Thursday, Mzrch 27
were held Thursday in the Un'ver
sity chaptl.
Phi Mu’s Entertain
| Seven Chi Omega’s
| At Supper Sunday
- The members of the Phi Mu
sorority of the University of Geor
gia entertained the occupants of
the Chi Omega house Srnday
‘evening at supper at the Phi Mu
house. Those present were: M ss
es Mery Gregory, Emma Thomas,
Marion Reid Georgia Rice, Dade
Warfield, Mabel Oglesby and the
house mother, Mrs. Henderson,
| HUGE FIRE DEPARTMENT
ENID, Okla.—(UP)—Each of
!the eight firemen at Central sta
t'on here is six feet tzll. Their
combined weight is 1,740 pounds.
Assdciated Press Phato
PLENTY OF TROUBLE
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. —(UP)
—Frank Rdymond, 53, a night
watchman, nas had nis snare of
troubles. Several years ago he
lost an eye; two months ago his
house burned down. To recover
financ’al stability his wife went to
work in a case, She slipped and
her back was broken. Later the
cast had to be removed for an op
eration of appendicitis, Frank was
taken to a hospital for enacer, and
a daughter is to be operated on
soon.
Political Feud
Puts Drama in
Illinois Race
CHICAGO. —(®)— A npolitica’
feud, rooted deep in human emo
tions, has centered more than
ordinary attention or the off.
yvear primary ‘election in Ill'mo’s
" Gongresswomar * Ruth Hann:
MeCormick, daughter of Mar!
Hanna, and Senator Charles S
Deneen are the principals. Both
seek the republican nomiration
for senator, April 8
Deneeon defeated Med' 1l MeCor.
m'ck, late husband of Congress
wvomasn McCormitk, endine Mec
Cormi-k’s serate =service Soon
afterwards. MrCormick died.
Now his widow — energetis,
~nave--is serk’'ne to wrest the
honor from Deneen,
Re-entry ‘nto nolitics of James
Hamilton Lewis of Chicaen
whose pink whiskers bristled in
the serate a decade 200. has add
~d eolor to the democratic sena
torial ficht,
Oscar De Priest. negro mem
ber of congress from the first
Chicaoo district, is up for re
nomination, and the lists for
conoressiomal nomirations are
erowded.
Illincis has two congressmen
at-lJaree and there ave 23 who
seek the nomination. Virtuallv =
of the 25 congressmen seek re
nomination,
The state does not nomirgte
a governor this year.
American adherence to the
world court has come to the fore
as an issue between thoee seek
ing the senatorial mominations of
both parties, pushing farm relief
and tariff into the backeground.
Mrs. McCormick ard Senator
Deneen have stumved the state.
almost from end to end, and both
bring to the stru~~la an astute
ness gained in the practical
‘school of polities.
- BSerator Deneen has risen to
leadership in Illinois republican
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Viking owners are quick to
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always ready and eager to rec
ommend Oldsmobile and Viking
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Assuredly it takes more than
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And both Oldsmobile and Viking
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Brilliant performance—
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ATHENS, GEORGIA
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WINDER, GEORGIA
ranks against shrewd competi
tion. Mrs, MecCormick, after
yvears of academic interest, ac
tively entered the political field
two years ago when she w
elected congressmar-at-large.
Adelbert M:FPherson, Newton
Jenkins, and Abe Lincoln Wisler,
all of Chicago, are other candid
ates for the republican seratorial
nom’nation. !
i Seeking the democratic echoice.
|bes'des Lewis, are Harold M
[ Beach. Chicago; James H, Kirby
Petersburg: James O, Monroe
I(‘hicag‘o, and Louis Warner
| Chenoa.
BEATS LOW PRICES
. WINDSOR. N. C.—(UP)-—Wor
ir'ed over the stle of hi; peantt
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iiie ccunty farmer, advertised in
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|'n fast and his crop was ntarly
isold at last reports.
NOTICE TO PAVING CONTRAC
TORS
Sealed proposals will be receiv
ed by the Mayor and Council of
the City of Athens, Ga., at the
office of the City Clerk until noon
city time, April 9th, 1930, so
furnishing all material and labo
required to curb and pave Han
cock Avenue from its eastern in:
tersection of Jackson street to its
western intersection of Thomas
street and Clovehurst Avenue from
‘ts western intersection with Mil
ledge Avenve to its eastern inter
section of Bloomficld street.
Said pavement to be what is
known as one course concrete pav
ment and the curbing to be of
granite,
A bond of 50% of the amount
of the contract price will be re
quired of the successful b’dder for
Ithe faithful performance of the
contract. .
| A. G. DUDLEY. Mayox,
of controloverevery typeof road.
Continued economy that becomes
more apparent as time goes on.
Thoroughgoing dependability
over the months and the miles.
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If you wish to learn more
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among your friends who drive
them. Then come and see Olds
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Drive them and know whatthey
can do. Prove to your personal
satisfaction that each is a great
car—a real value—at its price.
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