Evening star., 1928-11-03

Friends of romance everywhere
mourn the passing OF George Barr
McCutcheon, creator Of Graustark and
for more than quarter of century
supreme in his own realm of sheer
fiction.
"The kingdom of Graustark sits in
sorrow, for its author is gone. And
Graustark does not grieve alone" says
the Atlanta Journal which adds that
"imperturbably he remained the oracle
of true romance and his creations
were woven of a sheer fabric OBTAIN
able nowhere save in the whimsical
entertainments OF his mind Tne
journal predicts that latter the worlds
monarchies have fallen in dust, Grau-
stark will remain, imperishable in its
bright romantic air"
"The glamour of royalty clung to
those volumes, and America still loves
its royalty" declares the Wichita Bea-
con. while the Little Rock Arkansas
Democrat believes that "every reader
was vicarious fine American marry
ing a lovely princess or a beautlfui
girl eloping with prince" Pointing
to the pleasure and JOY that many
have found in reading his books, the
Rock Island Argus concludes that "he
has succeeded in life who takes others
out of themselves and fixes their In
terest upon some stirring creation OF
fiction"
people do like to picture life as a
glorious contest between beautiful gods,
in which there can be much tenSlty
at the right moments, but in which
nothing can go wrong and nobody get
really hurt" states the Des Moines
Tribune Capital, and because OF this
interest the New Orleans Morning
| Tribune suggests that "even today,
when the books have lost their vogue,
many readers seem to believe, even II
vaguely, that Graustark, with all Its
spies and intrigues and beautiful prin-
cesses,. still exists"
everything he wrote had something
| of the Tilt of blithe courage in 1t. ana
that is good enough for millions OF us.
in the opinion of the Omaha World
Herald, which feels, while hes gone
now, and maybe he will be forgotten in
| 10 or Is years" that he Served his time
we'll" The action and romance In MS
stories also are attested by the Houston
| Chronicle, which remarks that "he cor
rectly interpreted the social life OF
America during the period when Roose-
velt was President and set the fashion
for the country; that McCutcheon
wrote romantically for a public TO
whom life was great adventure"
The Pasadena Star-News holds that
literature loses a shining light in his
| death"
with the present school of realism
In novel writing" says the Roanoke
World-News, "McCutcheon had no part.
| His gift was rather to interest and
amuse by romantic fancies than to
shake ones beliefs by the stating OF
complex problems" The Boston Tran
script offers the tribute: 'Mr. Nc
Cutcheon was clever literary artlflcer,
fully to be credited with an easy fancy
and an attractive style developed from
active newspaper writing, He deserved
| the popular success which his writings
brought"
THE author of these popular stories
observes the New York Evening World,
was one of the kindlieSt. most healthy
minded and genial of men. Without
| pose, patient of others enthuSlaSnlS,
possessed of an unfalling humor and
good nature--his generation knew no
better host and companion" The AL
bany Evening News adds that "Ameri-
cans to whom his writings have meant
real enjoyment will remember him long
and regret his DEATH"
Viewing him as one of a group OF ro-
| nauClS Wlitcle, VIC roit WoA va ACN~oN
Telegram comments: "They also serve
who tell clean stories entertainingly and
| wholesomely. The man who has just
passed was given the right to know that
no book of his ever pointed the wrong
direction to warped minds" The Flint
Daily Journal also notes that 'he pro-
duced realism but he did not do 1t with
the aid of debased and degenerate char
acters." The Cleveland Plain Dealer
suggests: IF they are not the books
that a wise father would recommend to
his son, they are books, nevertheless,
which few fathers would cross off a
sons reading list. For most fathers
have read some Of them and many
! fathers most of them, and with real
pleasure"