4 : PA(.A JEIGHT THE MICH1IGAN DAILY SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1929 { } 44 tuxedo we sll; qulitystyle ~3O - $35 - ~5 Copyright Hart Schaffner & Marx ThereueCnrealtoinCo. tuxedos we sell; quality, stle, perfect Iit; absolute satis- ,r O Tihey 're correct for the Hop- and epery other forma _event MAIN STREET AT WA SHINGTON SUNDAY MAGAZINE ANN ARBOR, MICHIG AN, SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 1923 Sage Advice TO Scri It there is any one thing that an aspiring young writer desires more l Ate. than any other, it is the opportunity to have a real heart-to-heart talk with a man who has "arrived," so to speak, in the field of letters and who is grac- ious enough to answer the inevitable { questions with the sympathetic com- placency of one who has gone throughI the same experience and who, in a fra- ternal spirit, listens to his inquisitor and answers him without a scowl. Hugh Walpole auring his visit to the University last Friday, left some excellent thoughts with those to whom he talked. It is a bit of advice that hits at the center of many of the puz- zles which confront our ambitious men of letters. It is just a wee glimpse into the mind and the heart and the soul of a true literary artist and car- ries with it bright encouragement to, those struggling minds that are con- stantly striving to express their thoughts and feelings in beautiful and expressive words. There are just three types of writ- ers, Mr. Walpole tells us. The first includes all those persons who write from, a purely creative impulse, who are so completely absorbed in the idea ?1 that they must write that they do so without regard for financial or appre- ciatory reward. The second type com- prises that group of individuals which feels that to be an author is a pretty nice calling, that it gives prestige and social position which are worth striv- ing for. The third type is a rather large circle of persons who have no genuine artistic sense, but who are Interview With Hugh Walpole JOHN A. BACON 't z TT( 1 '. i; a I, }t a I , i t t t' I; ' l° ; i !. deeply impressed with the idea that ....\:, they must present some great moral -:.: 4... - ....v.?',:;;:},:.:.. issue or a definite phase of political, * social or economic propaganda. I * "In the first group," Mr. Walpole said, "we find the true artists of the } type of Dostoevsky. These persons do' not need any suggestions or advice in -: order to feel the impulse to write. It is a part of them. They express them- .... .. selves regardless of whether they will I . L..........,...<:..:?.-.......:.:.:.. :: :. ever receive a cent of compensation or a word of praise or nothing. They > write for the love of writing. "recivean dea it row upn tem;HUGH WALPLE and they must put it into definite brains. They receive an idea from an the day. "To writers in this category," touch, that they thoroughly under- brain through months of conscious! gest that they do not lose the comnmon fin as beautiful a style as possible." and sub-conscious pondering; and it - is boru into the world a work of art." "Such artists," eredced nee they fail to continue their work long . A LF E RN enough. I have found it a general C R .G H IG truth that artists who continue to wr'ie ae away fond nd anrei-A return .to the music of Wolfgang wonld also be cut out in square blocks ated Thoe wh donot ucchopae Amadeus Mozart is like coming back cubist, if you will. Paul Rosenfeld either not artists or have lost hoeto nature. 'Whiceh rather puts me in calls this progress. I doubt it myself. too early in their careers" mind of a conversation I hadwith Although we seem to be doing it at On the other hand, in Mr. Walpole's; opiion inivduas o th scon cls-one of our pianists, Jan Sickesz by present, we cannot get away from na- sfcato utawasb nteaert name. He seemed inclined to believe tmre for any great length of time. As lest they lose the faculty which will the cubist art, the impressionistic, and we are creatures of the soil, so must makether wrtins poula andsuc al the rest of the modern schools, was we return to it. cesful Te pofssina srblrte result of our getting too far away Thus the utter relaxation afforded with one eye on tea purse and the oth- froin nature. Whereas in the days of he audence which crowded 111 au- e'r on fame, must keep In constant Mozart the typical artist 'was one 'ditorium to capacity Wednesday even- touch with the latest developrnpnts in glorifying the great otutdoors as the iug could hatrdly escape Comment. poular forms of writing, especially work of God, today our modern crea- Mozart; is eas iy covrprehnde due the novel, according to Mr. Walpole. tors tend tosit apart drinking whisy to hs sipricity of style; there he is He must understand thoronihvd, andsmoking cigarettes sublim". His advent into the field & subjects which are challenging non - I ree;HUmbAPLr sitting in a machine in mnsicae posIton definitely ended lar sentiment and bhigH n c~w the downtown sectIon of Cleveland a period Of poiyphonlic writing prob- around these necessarily more or les .yng Over a copy of Shadowland b havjng its inCpt'on wih PoleS transient sentiments, discovaries no which iustrated some of this futuris- tri a nd rpechin its pck during the oninions. ae art, I 'oud not help reflecting as time of Bach. Arin. members of the than d gronn !I genced up and down Euclid Avene One of the most remarkable child Mr. W ipole ncud s nwarvhi, shut in by massive buildings on either n isical prodigies the world has ever bgandists, moulmth f +cn srit- d tat this art must of needs be knowns b upreay in this respect irs who are absorbed in theidea t. of the new life performing bore is only thratene by Schubert and " + u ai,"hep cn t1 "nturty. Granted this life possily Bethven. At the age of didactic veti about the t'iws they was artificial, so It mst follow the three he oht thirds upon thekeys coneive to bethe ew crt reresenting a period of this sort Cniued on Page Four) Another of ti tions which or minds of the as story writer cc a plot. On th Mr. Walpole, t conception on the art of stor "One of the inexperienced said, "is that he on the plot. I whole story wil sonality of his his came on the ing rather tha characters. "Here is an plot should be "Take a woms room with tw think of the s of conditions n want one of th she could be al again, she migi remain in ord have to be alo or the other of might be marr and be in love and numerous the starting pC "Now," the "when once th simple way, w of the particip come real live beings living way the plot a,"ound the c having the lat set of circums lineation of th for great writ; brands other o: ficial." Mr. Walpole' aginative. Th in his stories less skillful w Imagination, w story, remains istic presenta and setting. In that con plained how it the imaginatio ists, but is vi "Oner of the Imagination is k"That is why! erican authors business whe England and o Incidentally, t why I came t- I"Furthermox all authors should spend large numbers h _-onts in other quiet pe time to think tions to run r "Another ws agination," he some close fr love. The a mind is alway whie a great feelings and stimulated in greatest hind imagination c inhibitions an general i a. 0 ive imaginatio "The best t tht it is done The q nn a despverri th ore."