BWAOITHOS
PROSE FOR
ANY persons would like to be
Mwaters, but not so many are
Stimulus-
sales
MARAIN OCTOBER 25, 1957 PRIZES
his candid ideas on
wining to write,” which means as not been confined to any of prose for prizes:
part of the world,
*
subject publicity
nothing
and "As often not," he said, "the literature.
has
with
à rule, to sit in sackcloth and toil publishers in many lands have in-prize is won by an established
which writer who happens to have a one To me, these opanions, which Mr. for long hours on end before a troduced contests" in typewriter. This is no origual money prizes and personal fame go book contract with his last publis De Voto has likewise expressed in her. When it isn't, and usually a recent editorial in The Review. observation, but it is timely when to the chosen ones..
urize novels” are mooted
when it is, the prize goes to à book were a comforting reflection, and While the writing public may be There have been the Femina which has some surface novelty of will be to many who like to feel in the minority, the reading public Bookin selections, the Tait Medal subject matter, setting, or technique that excellence comes with labour. Foto-bas Prize in that can be exploited and is also If this is true, and Mr. De is nearly as large as the public, and and the Hawthornden one of the most popular forms of Great Britain, honours awarded safely imbedded in the more genial had many years of experience not only as writer and editor but as a reading since ever Samuel Richard for herary merit exclusively. In sentiments.
miversities "But, I asked him, “"aren't the professor in various --son introduced the downtrodden the United States, the Harper con-
-still true craftsmanship Pamela, who rose triumphant over test, and the Atlantic prize have American contests intended to en- then
steady reward, every difficulty, has been the novel been regarded by some critics as in courge new writing talent, and receives its
ot achieved This widespread interest in novel tended to bring forth "best sellers" don't they induce many writers to and greatness
merely by stunts of writing or by reading probably gave rise to the rather than literary lights, al emerge into the open ?**
"Harpers at least does not con- the mellifluous after-effects of competitive prizes offered for merit though the publishers would by no
Instead it re- in noval writing. Prizes and literary means object if the best seller were fine the contest to first novels, and winning a prize. merit are not essentially related, also a literary gem!
Two striking results of contests but prizes and publicity are de- finitely related.
In an age of have been noted by Bernard mass production in motorcars and Voto, editor of the Saturday Review book publishing, publicity is a of Literature. I asked him to give
THE
WORLD GOES BY By "ULYSSES"
ERE are some strange stories ty minutes after the
Here are some strange stories he evacues at t
the world:
ford, an
youth
By Dorothy Desmond
there is no restriction as to setting mains true, as Sinclair Lewis re- or theme.... The art of fiction ports Mary Heaton Vorse telling a continues to be served by novelists group of young would-be writers art of who have to learn their trade by back in 1911, that the the accretion of experience and writing is the art of applying the skill in book after book, and are seat of the pants to the seat of the withheld from such contests by chair.
on
loyalty to, contracts with, and ad- The business of writing is hard vances from, the publishers who work and has neither the melodious Government stick with them through the long medium of the musician nor the
drudgery."
colour of the artist to attract. It During the mopping up" process, “Then can commercial fiction pro- must win by letters in black two Moorish privates entered the duce good literature, or is literature white. Yet perhaps it is a good eness killed Kenneth Bam-house that had been used as com-ja thing apart from the sordid touch thing that nothing can make good of commerce or the prize contest?" writing, good novels, good li year-old Melbourne pany headquarters by the enemy.
"No masterpiece has ever been terature except good writing, good On the table of one room, littered
discovered by a prize. contest," novels, good literature. Publicity with papers, stood a telephone.
Suddenly it began to ring. The Mr. De Vote insisted, “and no even does not make them so. Prizes do Even a well- Moors looked at each other doubt-moderately good novel will go un- not make them so. He died, without regaining con-fully then one picked up the receiver published if left to the simple com- sold public cannot make them so. petition of publishers. The public Time, the old man with the scythe, the bookshelves sciousness, in hospital four days and said: "Hello?"
Madrid can better exercise the difference of walks among "This is the War Office tater
speaking” said an argent voice at opinion that makes literary reputa- reaping all that does not obey
tions, if it is not misled
a fundamentals of good literat Indian fishermen at Chouhaddi in the other end. "Who is there?"
as- "A couple of Moorish privates the Sundarbans, Bengal, were tounded when they "hooked" a tiger from Tetuan," replied the Moor, banging down the receiver with a cub.
He stood up to offer his seat to woman in a train and fell through
open carriage doorway.
Lines with live baits were laid in grin. a shallow creek by villagers, the ends being tied to trees ON thei
bank.
A thousandth chance" saved a stockyard worker Berialia,
In the evening when the fisher-toria, from death. men went to collect their catches! He was charged by an
they found a tiger cub firmly hook- bullock and imprisoned against ed on a line. It had seen the baits 'fence post, with one hon stickin floating on the water and had snap-into the wood on either side of his ped at them greedily.
The cub was taken back to the village and will be kept as a pet.
**
A singing competition for canaries is to be held at Frankfurt on Main, on January 10th, 1938, it
body.
The man waited calmly for the bullock to draw back for another charge, then scrambled, unhurt,
afety, over the
Some
Gerced by the Chairman of tors or
the Union of Canary Breeders.
but Mr
Germany is a big exporters of chemist
letters to edi
for a hobby, retired spends most
and much importance at of his time going to court. taches to the Canary Championships He has been the complainant în which are held from time to time more than a thousand lawsuits and is the best-known figure in the local “Skipper" and another big grey courts." nurse shark in the Taronga Park Most of his cases have arisen (Sydney's Zoo) Aquarium are on a from the non-payment of rent or in hunger strike.
connexion with repairs to several Ordmarily each of the sharks eats properties he owns. He is said to 5 lbs. of kingfish daily, but now they know more about the property law swim around the food and refuse to than any lawyer in Yugoslavia. tonch it
The sums involved in his suits are "The same thing happened about never more than a few pounds but this time last year," said the Secre- Mr. Panitch has won about eighty
Mr. H. B. Brown. per cent of his cases. did not eat
ain for
General Varela's nationalis
Rain caused a fire and destroyed een a farm building at Hohengoehren, rike but Germany.
not At arst the fire was attributed to incendiarism. Then it was discov- ed that a window had been left army open and had let in water during E
rainstorm
The water
ent on to a hearsi about thir-lof time which started the fire.
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JAPAN'S POLITICIANS
FAIL TO WIN HAN FU CHU
Military Operations Quickening In Shantung
SHANTUNG TROOPS
MOVING NORTH OF YELLOW RIVER
Peiping, To-day.
-FRESH-
MOBILISING IN SPAIN
Valencia, To-day
To meet the menace of fresh Nationalist troops released from the Asturian front, Valencia has ordered the immediate mobilisa-
The possibility of a political arrangement to ton of all men previously declar-
remove Shantung from the scope of hostilities, has passed, according to reports from Tehchow, which show that after a two-weeks lull, military opera- tions there are quickening.
Sharp fighting east of the Tientsin-Pukow
ed unfit for military service. Trans-Oceniž.,
FRANCE'S AIR
Railway has resulted in capture of Mayaowu by FORCE CLAIM
Japanese troops advancing from Linghsien, and the Japanese believe that the southward driv against Yucheng has thereby been facilitated.
Meanwhile, a large force of troops belonging to General Han Fu-chu, Governor of Shantung, are reported to be moving north from the Yel- low River to Lingyi, just east of Mayaowu
They were subjected yesterday to heavy Japanese bombing from the air Renter
NIANGTSEKWAN FIGHTING
Taiyuanfu, To-day.
SHANGHAI MAN'S SUICIDE
500 P. C. Increase In Striking Power
ALLEGED
MANCHUKUO TROOP MUTINY
Shanghai, To-day
Two battalions of Manchukno troops in Eastern Jehol revolted at noon on Saturday and killed their commanding officers who are Japan- ese, according to the local evening papers last night.
The names of the battalion com- manders are Majors Osaki and Mat- suwia
After the revolt, commander assumed
the
two battalions which have effected a junction. They attacked a Ja- panese barracks and fought into the night Volunteers later arrived as reinforcements and succeeded in
The claim that the offensive power of the French Air Force has disarming the Japanese been increased 500 per cent. since June, 1936,
Three Japanese officers ins the made barracks were killed. The mutine by ML Delattre, a member of lers lost one platoon commander the Chamber Air Committee writ- thirty men, and the rest of them -addi- retired to the forest ing in the "Oeuvre.”
He vigorously answers the critic- tional arms and an The probability that Mr. Normanism, based mainly on the French ternational News G. Harris, well-known Shanghai defeat in the recent Istres- business man, committed suicide by Damascus-Paris air race by Italian jumping overboard was put forth machines, that French aviation is as an explanation by officers of the decadent.
THEY HOLD HANDS IN CLASS
Schoolboys Wed Girls In Secret
ss. President Hoover for Mr. Har- The French Air Force, he says, ris's disappearance on August 30 as is second to none in the world. the ship was nearing Shanghai. The fact that the Italian machines Three divisions from the An inquiry conducted by the took the first three places, while South were despatched to Niang- officers, led by Captain George the leading French machine was tsekwan Pass yesterday after Yardley, master of the liner, dis only fifth, gives no indication, he noon, where the Chinese troops closed that Harris had been despon-adds, of the comparative power are in need of urgent re-inforce dent since he left Manila after the machines actually în service in ments, according to a communi- Jeaving his wife and daughter there the French and Italian Air Forces. ried is the latest role in the
"The Italian machines
co
- King-
"Boys and girls must not get mar
Travelling companions and friends,
were educational high schools of que issued this morning.
The troops north, north-west and one of whom was his roommate on built solely to enhance the prestigeport, Tennessee the State that east of Taiyuanfu have so far sue- the Hoover, told officers at the of Italy and her leader," he writes, notorious for child marriages. -cessfully prevented the Japanese investigation that Harris was afraid "They had no qualities which our that he would not be able to get General Staff insists on and our advance on the city.
back his former business connec-technicians provide.
· One division was ordered to ceed northwards to make contact tions in Shanghai as he left with- with the vanguard of the Eighth at obtaining permission from his
Route Army
Despatches received from the eastern front report Chinese sue- cesses. Our Own Correspondent.
JAPANESE WAR MATERIAL CAPTURED
superiors.
VULNERABLE PLANES
"To begin with, they were three
Last term teachers noticed that many boy and girl pupils held hands the classrooms and left the schools arm-in-arm
There was an investigation. Then Mr. Ross Robinson, superintendent
There was no indication that Har-engined machines, and the French of Kingsport's schools, announced to ris might have met with foul play General Staff has always rejected three engined machines, for they
are extremely
His cabin companion: discovered that he was missing a 400 and alarm
and feari
the
night
called
A minute searc. of all parts
for
They verything,
n
S
mitītar
Taiyuanfu, To-day
military ship failed to give results, and Har-been sacrificed for speed Bivion A caravan of over 20
trucks, loaded with war materials ris was given up for lost. belonging to the Japanese were
captured by the Chinese near Yen- THOUGHT MAD menkwan Pass during an ambush
states a military despatch received BARONESS WAS
here last night.
The Japanese
sudden attack, half an hour.
were forced to bered by the
Correspondent
PITCHED BATTL
Taiyuan,
that th
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offensi pitched
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stocratic guests lounging on famous Budapest tittered with they first cabaret act
woman hurried
ches from
and down
the scandalised teachers that eight school couples were secretly wed
The husbands were aged from Seventeen to eighteen. Some of the brides were only fifteen.
"Disgraceful, and it mustn't hap- announced Mr. pen any more Ross. Any pupils marrying during
a military machine should be his new term will be expelled in- stable above all things
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National Theatre
3
London is one of the few car pital cities of Europe which do No-one can say with any cer- not possess a National Theatre, titude what will come of to-mor-and till the other day it had been [row, but it is all too obvious that supposed that all friends of the Friday's meeting of the non-in- English drama thought that this tervention sub-committee wiped reproach should be removed. But out the major portion of Wed-recent events have shown a di- nesday's appreciable gains and vision of oaimon Steps have that the severest loss was the been taken by a body known as all-important one of goodwill. So he Shakespeare Memorial Na ittle was officially disclosed of tional Theatre Committee to buy Friday's four-hour meeting that a site and go forward. But in- the point of conflict has the ap- stead of acclamation from all pearance of being no more than sides, there is much criticism, la quibble. It became apparent, and some active hostility.
however, both from the Italian This undeniable check must be communique on Saturday and the attributed to delay. The Comunit- announcement that British pa-ee came into being as long ago tience was wearing thin, that as 1908. One difficulty after au- the separation of the two view-other prevented action, and the points was graver than was ad-outbreak of the World War and mitted in the authorised com-he confusion which followed the munique. Both London and
var imposed further delays. In Rome, indeed, in all but plain the interval the rise of the Old language, confess that the cleav- Vic, which has devoted itself to age is fundamental, Italy by serious drama, has done some- foreswearing any intention of hing to fill the gap; and a new making further concession and veneration has grown up which disclairing responsibility for looks askance on any movement breakdown, Britain by two Mine porn so long ago as 1908. isterial speeches the signifiernee
But to admit that the commit- of which could scarcely be lost. tee which has at length munched
Sir Thomas Enskipy it is per its plans is not fully representa missible to pass judgment upon tive of the drama to day is not to the basis of a brief summary, be admit that its scheme is not a came the blatant Imperialist, good one. The defects of prating of arms for dignity
commercial theatre, which defence of prestige în a mammer so apparent in 1908, are not less which we thought had long pass-apparent to-day. The difficulties ed out of fashion. In another of affording facilities for the speech, ealmer, but no less indi-production of the best drama, cate of Government temper, Sammel re-armament for the special betre where plays will be produced then There is need for a ther
nefit of the Italian Government not with a view to getting the Nyon appear to be in the blood biggest box-office receipts but just as badly as any supposed with a view to the finest results Italian diplomatic triumph has that playwrights, producers, carried her further periment. Wher
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