Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1950-10-05
CHATTY
CORNER
Mystery Writer

can say that a prominent Swede
in Seattle is working on a novel
about a colOrful period of Viking
history when the heathens of the
North were being converted to
Christianity. He has been labOring
away on 1t for about eight years
now, and the end isn't quite in
sight. 1t seems he's doing thor
ough job and is busying himself
with much research. Here's hop
ing his. dream materializes soon,
for we are sure it will be a good
interesting book and push another
Scandinavian into the forefront of
the growing group of Northwest
writer's.
In case you are curious, you
might be interested to know that
he may be seen at a place fire.
quented quite often by Scandinav-
ians these days. Now no more
mystery clues!
another scandinavian American
worth keeping in mind in the art
business is Onward Sandgren, Un-
iversity of Washington Drama stu
dent, who has written a novel,
short stories and several plays.
Onward, son of Mr.. and Mrs. HAL
mar Sandgren, Hoquiam, is also
quite an actor. But he's too mod
est to admit any of these things.
Perhaps you wondered what be-
came of the Scandal FOlkdance
group from the u, which toured
Sweden this last summer Not all
of them are in Seattle yet and it
seems the leader, Gordon Ekvall
TRACE will be about the last one
to leave the old country. He's now
living in Stockholm, doing trans
lation work etc. One of the most
popular members of the group was
Bill Holm, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Os-
car Holm, 1431 N. 54th St., Sc
attic, who is now on his way home.
People raved about his Indian
dancing over there and we saw a
Swedish magazine article about
him the other day. 1t seems Bill
looked up a lot of old relatives in
Smaland, where he met cousin or
so very day and so that made him
stay put there longer than expect
ed. He also did an amazing thing
on the continent. He toured Ger
many and France and looked up
all the old locations for observa-
ton posts he helped set up as
member of the U. S. Observation
Corps, and found everyone but
one!
Other members of the North
west colony in Stockholm are
Cliff DanielsOn and Carlyn Ander-
son, two U. of Wash. students,
who - you will remember - wrote
many interesting articles for us
on Scandinavia last winter. We
got a lot of praise for running
them. Both boys will return home
later this fall. Welcome back fe,-
lows! They're reading this in
Stockholm).
Members of the Norwegian Com
mercial Club in Seattle are talk
ing about giving fellow inmates"
of the Swedish Businessmen's As
ISOLATION a shellacking in the tra-
ditional golf tournament between
the two. 1t seems the Swedes
have been getting all the laurels
in recent years. The two clubs
really get together and show each
other a good time with both sides
often poking a lot of fun about
their respective ancestry. Tut, tut,
such rivalry! Anyhow the two
clubs are about the only Swedish
and Norwegian organizations
maintaining steady contact in
these parts. Not even the Left
Erikson tests seem to stir up any
pronounced interest among Swedes
any more, that is officially.
though they go to the tests.
Don't you think the Swedes and
Norwegians should establish better
laisson? What do you say, Bjerke-
seth: