New-York tribune., 1922-06-25
A BoOkman's Day Book

BY Burton Rascoe

W." amy briCes WN"rt 81 90
mire more than that OF any
woman who has ever graeed
tte American stage. Her genius is as
irdifputabic as the genius OF lNcte
Guilbcrt or Charlie Chaplin; poss ioiy
she has not Che cultural range OF inc
ore or che uimetic accompi iianmcnts OF
the other. but she ls one OF the &c"
rcaf bur.esQue artists wc have had.
.hn Peter TOohey once said 60 me She
IA -vuls-i. sat can't ncip laughing az
her" II she is vulgar, so Us Johannes
Br.hms. she has more natural grace
+hsr any one have ever seen on the
.tacc EXCEPT PaVlova. Certain ef-
fcctr she achieves arc cNqpisite IN
their perfection. and they are as surely
works of art meaning perfection o.
,.,r..slor1 as Zine hr Keats. 4 chord
hv Havdn or brush stroke by
Cszanrc. If is conceivable that per
sou acutcIy sensitive 90 periecion
might ae easily weep over the art OF
Wf.s Rricc as 90 laugh over it. HAP
rilv. tho aiu and end ~ her art is 70
make us laugh.
Met Walter Kingsley, 70 whom rs due
.hc dubious honor % having been re-
.ronsb.c for fho suppression oi James
Hranch Cabclrs "Jurgen.' Mr.. kings
.|N. ..N .IIa I|A" '... .Aa. p
fr literature and owns one of the pest
nrivafo libraries N New York. lie de-
'.rcd 90 .cc a larger audience Tor "Jur-
COM ,rich he admired. and his expert
srro as publicity man whispered 10
hr, thai the one unfaiiing means OF
ending certain readers rushing 20 tne
talrs counters ie 20 get letter printed
do-ou-cfnc "a book as obscene Ihls
was dontlv mistaken notion Of dong
ais rartic-iiar author q good turn. ioi
Wr Cahcli didn't want The sort OF au-
d.encc that would Doc gained by such
means. and moreover the letter was
rrompilv ciipr-d and sent 20 the Soci-
ctv fof The Suppression Of wee WIN
q note rccommcrdi ing action against the
hooss
wr KINGSLEY has an interesting point
of ,ic,r. coming as 30 does from a man
whose profession is the exploitation 'l
rersonalities. j. is implicit in these
words of advice 90 mo: III ] were you
I'D cu' out an this stuff about people
YOU meet and lunch with. Anybody can
10 that Your laundryman could men
lion more name O. people ne 50" ID
week than ali tho rest Of you ieilo"s
nut together. 'iFc us your - 's.e%'
.-.rlors. That's what VIC want from
YOU ,s
& had ter with Mrs Christine Ladd'
Frankln. the psychologis'. who told me
-bovt her color theories. explaining
+naf there arc not seven primary colors
.- .be spcctrum. but only four-rcd,
yellow. Green and blue. THE reason,
.he said. chat Newton assigned seven
,,iors 90 tho spectrum was an 3stheuc
r-. scientific. one. The spectrum,
,ou,.ed in wave lengths. rs about an
octave long and because IN music we
have seven distinct notes IN an octave
Newton assigned seven tones 70 me
color octave
sinclair Lewis. Haywood BToun, Guy
HOLT and Thomas Royd came up 70 the
house in che evening Lewis was more
.sbdued than have ever seen him. re
I. usually excited talhaiife. never sun
ror r~0morf. he ie ono of tho best
.ratour entertainers / have ever seen.
.radv at moment 20 give burlesque
..a.ior. sermon or automobile sales
alk Bot tonight he asked If ne
might 20 10 bed almost as soon as ne
GO. into che house he slept for more
thar ar hour and when he awoke he
,1plaired that he had had lot-down
fgfor finishing his new novel, Bah
,ftt." and that he was going out 10
arizona next week 10 rest until Sep
tcmbcr
Brosr is writing a novel on his vaca-
ton. ard tc finds 10 is not so easy as
he thought % would be-. 81 figured that
.. could write 500 words day for a
ncvfpapeg could write three thou
sand words q day II ] had all day 10
mysclf And az the end Of thirty da~s
would have q 10000 word novel Bat
f doesn't sccm 90 work out that way.
Wo talked about methods Of writing.
and Broun is all for spontaneous cN-
preston. perhaps with a little pruning
here and there after "a piece is written,
but 40 stlaiuing after the right word
f-' hc recalled that be had expressed
49, view in lecture 81 Yale ono
me and after the talk William Lyon
phelps came up and said. How nice
20 .s D. I'm view OF what YOU have just
fod ue that we are to-day celebrating
the birth OF fIauhcrt' | told
flCm about 70 funny book ! had jusi
read. called. "ln Europe" by George $
Daughcrty, former deputy police
commissioner Beside this travel rec.
ord O. detective. Ring lardner's
suthcr BE- "a highhrow u is written ir
al seriousness, but It's unconscious hu
NOR D. priceless. ... BOYD. VINO ~
So Paul Newspaper mon and the Owner
q "a Look.hop. reports that 7. Scott
Fitzgerald s writing FOR the motion
pictures.
Before going 20 he'd read Signs
o. SANITY hv Stewart Patton. 10 is
reasonable enough treatise so lonG
- ho keeps 90 tho known facts oi
rsvchiatry. but when he offers gen
Civilizations about literature music
painting and politics he makes him
SELF riliculous. IT, has precisely fhe
absurd notions. gained hy hcarsay
about modern artistic tendencies that
are cherished hy pafarrapher on a
weekly rtrsnapcr llis elimination.
apropos of what hc vaguely terms
"futurisf ort' ihc ir rcFrr concrctcl
RolsheVem. ecX life. r-Ohihition and
American nervousness Invalidato tho
whole book for me. When come upor
obvious nonsense in what purp0rts @
lc scientific study ! become sus
piciols Of the value Of the author
theories even on those subjects about
which be is supposed % be informed
June ~
Wen. to the wedding this evening OF
Margaret Hutchins and John Peal'
Bishop. The bride was very pretty
and sall possessed and the bridegroom
carried oN hIs role wita what seemed
70 INC extraordinary aplomb. stam
mered all over che place when tina
happened 90 me. and / got so mNet
Lp with the ritual that ] was respond
irg out o. my turn Aftor dinner an'
abIf o. dancing q number of the glcst'
-.-cludlar Mrs. Elinor NNlio. Miss
Esther Murphy. Bishop mother and hi
sister. Miss Amanda Hall; EdmunC
Mileon ir Gilbert Seldc.. John Far