New-York tribune., 1922-10-22
The Bright Shawl
By Burton Rascoe

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oMEwHERE desk there il rubber stamp
which reads with variations Joseph Hegesheimer
merely painter Of surfaces Il generally re-
peatd notion that Mr. Hergesheer with appear
anc vocabulary Is that decorator his
merchant q anries and his vision the
who expresses himself with ols
II trues It happens not to be trn
moments reflection will remind every is familiar with
Hergeshemes work thai the
out And nothing we'll b more t
principal and immediate peoccupaon and centra
for an because abstraction
sster,o tangible visible is concept not ra.;t
distractions have oen las James Branch cabe
Of chastity n The Lay Anthony) atonement lin
Mountain Bioodl; ideal qualification lin Tbe Three
pnys an ideal Of beauty Inda Condon) an ideal Of
adventure n Java an ideal Of duty lin cyherea,
@The Bright Shawl Mr. Herseshemer theme an
service to ideal concept of freedom
These will And they are For Mr.
Hegsshmer Is dramat of concept and reality
Beauty Kenny de Goarmon said has existence there are
only beautiful things But beauty beauty may lie within an
id may be the substance Of that idea propelng npt
ing force sounng affecting directing what poetic
emotions the only emotions which automats and
danes Beauty as we know literature fate
idea II that is shattered bv crcum
ance call that beauty irony nges the puent high
prns poetic and decorative novels Mr. Hergesher He
relates us stories OF life with of
and dlusoned deas who family betrayed
regret that men were gods things migh differently.
This brings around the upon Mr.
hsgeshefmer style To this idio Ia far
from being perhaps Of his merits Il has for me
beauty IN itself: II is deecb nuances Of rich
adences descriptive u.s. so far as know
only which be gestlre BY this mean that Mr.
Hgesheimer has evolved which, by emphasis
pauses and deferred periods give not only
a me- as storyte his gestures changing facial
xpressions shoulder hrug is as if when
eaone hn we were listening to praced himself
knowing poised careful points MAKES aa Of the
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VS. see hn pause 70 nk an ash from his
still threatened vary with
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seemingly nearby starswe find sentence with
su regard for its coming abruptly
afer 70 the literal minded b addg ,u tor mon moment and wished
by
hesheier three slightly Of one find
connmendabe for he wishes to rive no th M
nscapabe In hne Herghens idiosyncrat e
sslon to the pleasure in reading him
something be ure the prose Meredith
the poetry of Browning.
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her highest the idom he has
along matter one must admit is to
listed among his minor story quxoc adventurous
young AMERICAN VINO devotes himself ideal
Justice He involves himself Independence h
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dered by the Chinese vermin in the Begin
ming by the dancer Havana symbol Charles Abo
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demands the shawl for mixed sreputable place An
o sends the shawl with Pillar sho av
eyes symbol Of the degradation Of his ~ m a aa @
nigh faith the Cuban his death b the sensual
e PERUVIAN and he is the last upon whom
Abbott pinned his faith Abbott ESCAPES to Anerica -
compromised himself In the authorities as an n
gator and potter with the story opens with All
m niddeaged mediatng cynicisn Of modern
young people and slipping his own youth which
youh niamed with passionate dean friendship faith
M IN love- and Jealous of honor In tho
a ae gradatn from present reality h aa snc
ana as smoothly managed beginning
c3 earth surveying himself mirror over the vase he sa,
Se soberness Of his attire by spot of red Moth
though could vivdn countenance that was d and
scored with lines that resembled The
' his upper lip faded and Of no account if he
acked ultimately the the face and
as ne was the threat of deaf -
AND so ends this roanra 4. a,.u
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