The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-05
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cheerful ending. II ~ the story of
a lio told by "a man Of the NILS
which casts its shadow over several
lives. There ia. u double plot IN
that the lives N the father and
the mother Of the girl heroine ana
tho boy hero are IN the limclight
throughout the story At tho apex
of tho eternal triangle IN Gabrilla
Bakcr,% the grl from whose nam,
the title is taken. Tho beauty OF
the hin country and It's quaint Gus
toms arc woven into the atmosphere
OF the novel, furm'rg an effective
setting for tho dramatic plot
There ~ more truth than fIc-
ton In the book Tor the frame
work is built from real tnciednts IN
tho tragic Bald knubber feud. ln.
llke Harold Igcll Wrights novel ui
O1arklnnd, "Thc shepherd Of ia,
INNS" and probably with more
truth to real life, Mrs. Doing did
not picture the muunthincefa a.
crude beings with no vcsugcs OF
culture or education, she wrote oi
OZARK me as n ls-or was at the
period Represented not ~ the pop
ular Imagination conceived II to b".
She did not n'rturc the "hill billy"
product OF tho Ozarka but Instead
pictured her main n'characters as pos
scssing the strength. individuality
and originality which she believes
are ofton cultivated by the environ
mcuts of the hills. Mrs Doling in
sista that exceptional ana unusual
people are to be found IN OZARK ru-
raj ncighborhoods and mat educa-
ton and culture are not 80 rave ts
common belief would imply,
Truthful Interpretation Stands out.
This instinct for truthful intor-
pretatiOn In Mrs. Doing should be
"a matter for congratulation TO Okla
homans for It argues that Mrs. Dol
ing In her new novel VIII paint oh
lahoma with truth and symplthS
and without "A horde of the sdllop'
ing cowboys and blood thirsty ir,
dians or wild and woolly west
touches which most writer's OF nov
els OF western life seem to consider
Indispensable Mrs. Dollng has al
ready completed ten chapters OF the
work. Tho setting is tho osagcs
and practically all OF the action
takes place there. The beginning OF
| the story IL placed some 20 years
| back. The book to- DO has not ye,
| been "christcued" by its mother
as Mrs. Doling ~ OF tho opinion that
"A title should bo chosen with care
and that n book should hc given =
suitable ana proper name that VIII
catch both eye and ear and attracl
without giving away\the secret o'
the story,
Likes to Write Of Oklahoma.
Sooner tDnd has been selected d.
Mrs. Dolng as the setting for hel
~. ~ hlr lntn fOl
the faircst daughter OF the west
as our state song puts II. II believe
that u writor should specialize ant
that the author who wandcrs ve"N
far from his own dooryard gets int
| dCop water. | think | could no
write successfully of the stock eX
change and that | would fall by IN,
waysldc In aHmptine a Jopanes'
story, oklahoma appeals To mo anc
my only fear is that | can not dc
justice to this splendid country
where the hand of providence has
rested so wonderfully II is convic
ton with me that oklahoma has un
limited resources for literature a.
seemingly in all other things. | an
especially fond of Tulsa and wish tC
finish my days here"
started Literary Career as RcpOrtcr
Mrs Doing was born in salt LAX
CITY, Utah. and carly In her teens re-
moved To Springfield. Missouri. Sh'
entered upon her duties as cour
reporter at q years of age, and wa
tho youngest female court reporic
In the United States. II was Will,
In this work she took the court re
port on nm outbreak resulting from
the old Bald Knobbcr foud, rhi
experience later in life prompted
, the writing of "Rrilla.' Mrs. Dulini