Clinton News-Record, 1953-10-22, Page 3THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1953
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Literary critics are touchy a-
bout authors ---particularly beginn-
ing authors -who write their books
in a style designed to attract the"
film producers, Book writing is
a craft. Scenario writing is an-
other craft. The two have no
common meeting place. When a
writer is producing a book he
should level his sights toward a
good story for people wlio read,
not for people who take their lit-
erature in poorly digested portions
from the screen. Anyone who
does less than this, the critics aver
(perhaps a bit smugly), is not
contributing as much as he might
toward elevating the degenerating
to
s a lord of our prose.
' One may well say that Balzac
wrote prolifically for one purpose
alone—money. But Belzac was a
master eraftsman who made peo-
ple like his racy novels, just as
George Henty made the boys of
the last generation like his kind
of adventure yarn. Neither wrote
for a market. Each created one
for himself. It is undoubted that
Hugo's "Les Miserables" and Mark
Twain's "Tom Sawyer" would
have been different stories indeed
had their authors been able to
look beyond the merits of immort-
ality toward the ephemeral glitter
thei
and wealth of film s
Oscar Olson, a Royal Canadian
Mounted Policeman who wrote
Ryerson's new "Mountie on Trial"
as his firstnovel,admits he slant-
ed adm t
it toward the motion pictures.
It is a pity this Ottawa man went
to the trouble of rewriting the
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story eight times in seven years
for such an end. Hollywood spoils
most good novels, but Mr, Olson
spoiled this one for them,
It hasmuch e• f
t of the raughn ss o
a first effort, and a good deal of
the implausibility and contradict-
ion of character which comes from
trying to do too much, with too
little.
But "Mountie on Trial" is saved,
to my mind at least, by the in-
teresting background atmosphere
of the RCMP at work, patrolling
the desolate Northlands, chasing
killers, saving lives, and, perforin
ing routine duties of the service.
I am sorry Mr, Olsondid not
make his service the theme of his
book. He could have done some-
thing really worthwhile to place
on the bookshelf beside T. Morris
Longstreth's "In Scarlet and Plain
clothes" (a history of the mounted
police) and a few other .books on
this fascinating subject,
The story is about a mountie
who is framed and sent to penit-
entiary by a man who thought
that would be a good way to get
thelicem lonely an s ton lY wife. There
is a remarkable development to
the plot, Posing as another
mountie—one who has died un-
known to the authorities—he re-
enters the RCMP (even though
the other mountie had been a de-
serter)— and eventually exoner-
ates himself and regains his wife,
who didn't really want the other
fellow anyway. It is admittedly
an ideal film plot, and for the
author's satisfaction it is only fair
to say that many a writer's tri-
umphs have been staged on the
screen rather than in the book
shops.
Sergeant Olson was born on a
Saskatchewan homestead and has
spent 24 of his 46 years in the
RCMP. He is already at Work on
a 'second book. It might be a
good one if he can be prevailed
upon to write a book instead of
a screen play.
Another Hook — the
re
vised
standard version of the Bible—is
meanwhile the world's best seller.
Since the first printing just a year
ago, 2,500,000 copies have been
sold. The late Margaret Mitchell's
"Gone With the Wind" came near-
est that record for the first year's
sales with 1,375,000 copies in 1936.
In the four years since Sheldon
published "In His Steps" the fain�
ous book has sold 8,000,000 copies,
making it one of the world's four
best sellers. The Rev, Mr. Sheldon
never realized any great financial
return from it, however. He never
bothered to have it copyrighted.
Regarding the former version
of the Bible, a group of diligent
gentleman spent three . years Com-
piling some interesting statistics
which now, of course, will have to
be revised as well. They discover-
ed that there are 1,189 chapters in
the 66 books comprising the Bible,
It has 31,173 verses, 773,692 words,
and 3,566,480 letters. The Book
in the middle is Micah and Nahum
and the middle chapter is Psalm
117. The shortest verse in the
Bible is John 11:35. "Jesus Wept",
Dr. Tyrone Guthrie, the Eng-,
lishman who produced the
Shakespearean drama festival at
Straford, Ont., last summer,
thinks that the success of the
project only indicates that Can-
adians feel a need for national,
self-expression, some conscious-
ly, others half -consciously.
He thinks Canada is far from.
maturity in a theatrical sense
and that it will be many years
before this country can support
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professional theatre, He thinks
and with good reason --- that
in Canada the theatre must be
taken tothe people since the
people are so far :from the few
embryo stage centres of .the
country, It Is quite startling to
realize that in Canada, where
America's first play was writ-
ten and produced (Marc Les-
carbot's "Neptune's Theatre" in
Nova Scotia in 1615), that more
than half the patrons of the
festival in Stratford were from.
the United States,
The former police chief of
Russia, Lavrenty Perla; was
said to have made a miraculous
escape from the Soviet high
command, with which he had
fallen indisfavor, when he para-
chuted into Spain. It was not
'with a little irony that his re-
puted point of landing turned out
to be the grain and cattle coun-
try of Mancha in. central Spain.
It was here that Miguel de
Cervantes famous DonQ uix-
ote waged his fictitious war a-
gainst all that was false and
improbable. Cervantes was a
lifelong champion of the sub-
limity of nature and truth, and
he might have felt a \great sense
of destiny had he seen the not-
orious Communist leader drifting
from the air into his sacred pro-
vince of La Mancha. The Span-
ish author was a moralist (he
wrote "Moral Tale" in 1613) and
one may well wonder what in-
fluence he had on Beria. Doubt-
less, very little. Cervantes and
William Shakespeare both died
on April 22, 1616,
The Lyceum Theatre in Ed-
inburgh has presented some-
thing a bit unusual in Shakes-
peare. Jean Vilar's national
theatre of France has made
something of a triumph in the
Scottish :arts centre with "Rich-
ard. II" in French. Monsieur
Vilar has changed Shakespeare's
approach slightly in that he
looks uncertainly on the weak
but rightful king of the play's'
beginning, while he shows the
Same doubt for the strong, utur-:
nerous king who attains to the:
throne by the end of the play.'
This May be due to this direct-
or's republican skepticism of
Monarchy itself,
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