Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-07-29
NOTED NOVELIST
RETURNS TO
THE EAST
HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
ELIMINATES HIS AN
NUAL VISIT AND STAY
AT CARTER RANCH
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

AFTER several months SOlOurn III
the summer cline of Yavapai at
the Carter ranch, Harold Bell
Wright, the famous novelist is now
bound for the east where he will
spend the fall and winter months in
attending to business matters. The
novelist came here in the spring
and has devoted his time between
working on new book and motor
ing about the hills and paths OF this
county. Returning by way of Phoe-
nix, he was intercepted by news
paperman who offers the following
interview:
Harold Bell Wright is a student
of man kind and study in man.
kind.
Harold Bell Wright. author of
those novels that have been So
widely DIR, nratized of late, real cat
tleman, ranch owner, liver in and
lover of the outdoors, ceased Ie-
creating in Prescott the other day
and came to Phoenix, making this
the jumping off point in the west.
He's going east to see about his
new book, The Eyes of the World,
and his nine companies that will
take his plays on the road this
winter
interviewing Wright is thing
that must not be done with brass
bands, and red fire. 1t must be &C
complished without that knuckle
wiggling that betrays note-taking.
For Wright knows about those
games, and chooses not to be com
municative. interviewing Wright
with the general conversation like
'How's cotton in the Imperial VAL
ley is another way to fail.
Coming works of this writer will
severely scorch the present day
mud-daubers. Wright says so him
self, and he, of all this world, ought
to know. Let him say how bitter
is his soorn for the writer who
hacks out stuff clad in Indifferent
English, adorned with suggestive
passages, meaning nothing, but rails
ing agitation and smell-let him say
it, and there is the foundation for
his newest book
The writers of today are not in
terested in their work-in its faith
fulness to model-to life-but they
are intensely interested in how well
they Put it over get it across
slip it by
Some day boxing far away, I
would like to write about those
phrases. l would analyze them, and
show the readers just what their
common central idea is 1t is the
idea OF the writer who is not sim
cerely expressing what is truth
"A man who is so intensely analyti>
cal as Wright, cannot help having
deep rooted opinions on every sub
ject that comes under his notice.
That is one reason why Wright is
going to build a small edition OF
paradise for starving but earnest
scribes as an annex to his splendid
new mountain home on Santa Mont
ca mountain. He likes men OF ideas
to be about him. He employees a
Chinese cook, not because a Chinese
cook is better than white one or
a black one or part-colored one,
but just because this Chinese cook
is being with brain. He pals
about with cowpunchers, when he
can find punchers with egos. Failing
there, he would be just as apt to
take up with a baggage smasher, for
in baggage smashers there some
times occurs lode OF golden
} thought.
But take writers. Just imagine the
tremendous attraction they must
], have for Wright. Is it any wonder
J that he wants them about him? His
big cottage will have dozens OF
little cabins on its grounds. And to
these cabins will come the men OF
letters-some of them not yet
through their A-B-Cs-to work. un-
hampered by the crushing nearness
of life in the city, and they'll pay in
! the coin of their characters, which
} Wright will study, as he studies
everything and everybody else in
! this world"