C MAY END SUBSIDY
ORCHESTRA
and, MUSIC
common denominator of publie taste.
RIUS POPE" the
The LCC seem to think that will be helping the or- chestras by adding subalan tially to the number, of concerts that will take place in London, stands in dan- I cannot see the LCC series osing one of its doing
London.
stras. It is the
much more than take the place of other concerta that would normally be Pro- Philharmonic, moted by other bodies.
been subsidised
The LCC are
rapidly, de-
by
past few years veloping ar Blusion that n £150,000. Of providing the new hall and £100,000 has sponsoring a limited season
the London cach year they are incft,
the rest incalculable
rts Council.
o LCC will have
cert hall, where
sidive their own
all the major
king part. The
now troubles "Will the LCC ubsidy?"
hent it is impos-
w with certainty.
8 on in the LCC
Id
don's
bringing bencats to Lon- musical life.
They should stop day-dreaming, and examine the facts.
-(London Express Service)
SKILTY THE, CHINA MAIL) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1950.
ROSALIND RUSSELL STEPS OUT
Film star Rosalind Rumell visits the Stock Club with bar producer- husband Frederick Brisson, son of Carl Brisson, on arriving in Bow Yock from Hollywood. Landon Kaurava Bervion.
The
The richest Card of
HOLLING
DOWN. THE
¿LEA. By Oliver St. John
Gogarty. Constable., 16s.
$278/pages/da
BOOK S
HEY
may call ....Dr
by JON HOPE!:
~~Gogarty a chatterer,
he cries:
of all
to be made.
18
It would be highly desirable bied for brass-hats 5* everywherg -- to 2 At the beginning: hö” writes write with the cristal ciurity
of a Colonel Bernard Fergus No lasting slability may be son. There being only one expected as long de £5,000,000 Fergusson, we, must ask, there- persons in the heart of Europe, fore, that such chroniclers are divided against their will. Dublin recalling should set about their tanka
And his final sentence;
nations
Kathleen Noakes. Hut- chinson. Da. 6d. 238 pages.
When some people Dublin-the chatter, it is gossip. But Burgon's line. "A rose-red city minus heroics and personal West German Government twinny Mollvet. St.Josh'n half us old, as Timel"-that prejudice. And here Clay, cannot endure over the years dominates the book. For like some of his contem unless it is taken back into the Gogarty talks and he is Gogarty, the houses of the poraries, succeeds.
--family of European never in a hurry--he can expital are rose-red; even rose-
the shadows of tha With a painstaking thorough who believe that the rights of sometimes distil pure red are wisdom and pen it in
tenements. And Gogarty quite ness, the quiot-voleed general the individual are too precious
the tortuous pro- to, de submerged in the State. cesses that lead from the high Thus he leaves the ominous prose equal to the English often glows rose-red, as when describes of the greatest Irishmon.
hopes of 1945, through the blatus in Europe 1960.. -There is as much spent on bitterness of the intervening "Roling Down The Letiz
to this attempt to spell English in years,
the
WINTER IS PAST. By establishment the third of his autoblo-
Irish characters---Bus, Incolm of the present regime in West graphical excursions. In the
would Germany. Tax Telephon.... as Ireland he finds after a long clear the disgraceful slums of sojourn in the United States
totona and
He shows that at times the reiro the
DULL romance, but on. ho enthuses and fulminates standards of living to
include French-over-fearful of a' Ger. A
interesting guide book. about politics, drama, letters,
concert and self- many strong enough to threaten Mary Kingdom is a racing, in sentences that lope cleanliness, health
the security of France--were pianist and this is her love with the along
easy lyrical
as difficult to deal with as the story. It is set against a back- swing of the poet,
His characters are as usual- Russians. But for the fallure of ground of the Swiss lakes.
celebrities that have all attempts It four-power There is a trip to Galway the
Connemara, but
control of the post-war Relen is peopled Dublin:
Fortunately, the author likes from the days of the his record clearly lays the to show off her knowledge of gloomy Dean Swift, who left blame on the Soviet door-stop. Europe. Everything is his money to found a lunatic
geniously Introduced from saylum "to show by one say~ In his four turbulent years mountains to funeral customs. castic touch no nation needed in Germany, Clay had to make
NO. 3 IN THE WOODEN
the question The pioneers
brought into the
recommendation
a meeting of the
SHARE'
eling is that the kely
decide
heir attitude may d we discriminate ne orchestra? If to subsidise hall all new
the
buld
share
ilharmonie con-
con-
are here
CALIFORNIA
CINTIAMAS
* OF STATSWOLD '
IX-SHOOTER
SIX
went to
California
all Their
and new Adrian Boult it made it one of America's most
t to be conscious colourful States. ind that threatens
ayers,
the removal
of
Now, with a
gold-coloured
WAS
VERYONE
THE
who 81W
Ehat good British alm
"The Wooden Horse"-with Its exciting, true story of the most. remarkable P.o.W escape of the war-must have come
from it away asking the same question: WHAT HAPPENED ΤΟ THE THIRD MAN IN THE PLOT?
More
three officers
For you will remember there cowboys, was a third man. In the film he pioneers gold miners-they was played by David Tomlinson
and seemed to be little than comic relief.
He helped the other two R.A.F, offlcers, Bill and Mike. to dig their way to freedom from under the wooden vaulting horse, parked daily in the quad- rangle of Stalag Luft III. But the moment the had crawled through the tunnel to the outsida world Bill and Mike set out on their own.
They did not want the third along with them - the Alm
e IPO will do 100th
es not necessarily stamp, America celebrates the anniversary of Call- becoming one of the
*Indeed be-
as enough virility fornia
port to continue
steam, much as done for many
United States.
The stamp shows the pioneers
ntensified com with their cattle, a gold miner
Ill be engendered
orchestra enter-panning a
river, oll Merricks
otly commercial which brought wealth spurting and
tandards in con-
box office.
broadly
to lead to a from the earth, and oranges. hinted pretty why Perforation: 11 by 101⁄2: not. As David 3 cents (2%d.); Tomlin- unused, 4d.-J.AA. con played
Id
of musical
he
determining face-value:"
often the lowest price,
PHILPOT
ond
It
HORSE FREE
FIRST
By LEONARD MOSLEY
to be nothing him he seemed more than a brave and amiable ngs, with none of the brain for a dangerous mission.
Our
Tespect.
it so much," to Mrs Bernard many decisions. But the Winter couldn't pass quickly Shaw, who left her money to greatest decision still remains enough for me. teach manners to Irishmen and some say (they would in Dublin) that, in spite of all
his acumen, the man for whom principally Intended
#
was
failed touch.
to
おさせ
PEOPLE
sarcastic Here is the
luxurious
this year's publication
most official said frostily: "A British "The Consul wouldn't behave like that old boy." To. which the author Then come the citizens that Sassoon Chinese Ivories. This replies: "But wouldn't it bo' fun
would
work will cost if he did, old boy." call three-volume hia Arnold that Cards, all with a rare indi- £105. Only 250 sets are to be on the fall of France, Pierre
Bennett
the fece side of Stalog Läift 111, he talked to a Nazi official with out being unmasked.-
He had papers identifying him as a Norwegian soap salesman, and ho had documented background so carefully he made the 800-mile journey viduality that is as. Irish as the issued, from prison camp to Danzig in Liffey, but universal in appeal.
At the 24 hours all by crack express
author's request, the It comes as a pleasant sur trains.
book is not for sale in the prise, therefore, to rend third man's own story of the he was on board a neutral ship.
Within three days of escaping Republic of Ireland. * wooden horse exploit-and to He was dining out in Stockholm learn from it that far from being in less than a week beating the a fool be was probably the other two by several days.
capable of shrewdest and most the reckless trio, and definitely their equal in resource.
the
'Poles Apart N was without excitement of
Оп
the other side of the
a man
order- means of
of
sales topped 450,000 coples. Now the English translation is prom- leed for carly next year. It is called "The Big Show,"
Over in the Isle of Wight J. B. Priestley has just completed It is in the another novel.
of The Good Com- manner
Title: "Festival at panions. Fairbridge,
Clostermann escaped to join the RAF. He won the DFC, com- Is & collection
· Subject
manded a wing. The war over, Chinese Ivory carvings as he wrote a book about it. French bled
Victor Sassoon by Sir over a period of 12 years.
Paper to be used will be Irish Channel, where who does not have his registra hand-made: the volumes bound tion number off pat is in daily in half-vellum, with real gold
being regarded as lettering. Sentries Beaten danger of
an oddity and where
Man who composed that can- leen classic-"The Shooting of JOT. that Philpot's journey liness too often
dinariness, there
is always a Dan McGrewi still at it, difficulty. He was interrogated welcome for a book that dealt From his home at Monte Carlo, ALIVER PHILPOT makes it constantly on his journey north, with Curds. Especially a book Robert W. Service, now 77,, has
Novelist
• Family affair. plain from his narrativa He spent one night in Danzigby classicist, surgeon, one-time sent his publishers 100 new Daphne du Maurier takes time
sharing
Senator that he preferred making his
St. Oliver
pleces. Ilis name for them off from fiction to prepare book Gogarty aurcly the freedom break alone. Of the two German official.
richest, Rhymes of a Roughneck,”
on her grandfather, George. He climbed others, Eric "Bill" Williams and
aboard the ripest Card of them all.
Publisher? Cousin Peter Dovies. Michael Codner, he says mildly: neutral ship by anchor eable
O E. C. Bentley's army of "Temperamentally
were from the water, 15ft. from the DECISION IN GERMANY. admirers will be glad to know
Nazi sentries with tommy guns.
that the master has collected But, despite his modesty
"The Complete Clerihewa." Illus even ho
hals cannot
kido
into pleasure when he walks the Brillah Embassy in Stock- holm
(a week after winning freedom) and greets the newly arrived Williams and Codne with all the urbanity of an old inhabitant.
We
poles apart, and I feared we might indulge in the luxury of dispute and controversy route, which simply would not do."
What he also implies is that while they were trusting prin- cipally to luck, he had planned his escape as methodically na the Third Man planned his coups In the Graham Greene thriller.
Thirty minutes after he had on his fake Identity card scrambled out of the tunnel on
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
*WELLY'SCE THE RATIO OF
FOREIGN EX-
CHANGE IN DELATION
TO SHIP-
THAT WERE HOT MADE, AND IN. JUXTAPOSITION TO OUT-PUT,
PLUS, ER
COSTS..
*WELL, GOSH, WELL,
I HAD TO TAKE HER
а
bedroom
with
+
John
By Lucius D. Clay. Heine mann. 218. 522 pages.
How much has the public's taste altered since the beginning of the century? We shall soun trations are by G.K. Chesterton know: Two favourife novels of ..the Edwardian age "Love's Shadow" and "The Limit" AR from being accused of and E. C. B.'s son Nicolas.
chattering, American A first novel that will cause
are to make a bid for mid- General Clay will doubtless be a flutter at the Foreign Office la century popularity. Wilde know criticised for presenting an John Appleby's "Tin Trumpet at the authoress, Ada LeverROD, account of his stewardship or Dawn." It tells what happens well; called her "The Sphinx. military governor in Germany when a group of Balkan revolu- in the stilted style of an ad- tionaries make. their headquar Jutant
Instructing his orderly ters at the British Consulate, (World Copyright Reserved-London
Shown the script, a Government
Express Service).
• In "Stolen Journey," published today (Hodder and Stoughton 169.). | |200m.
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MY MOTHER VE ! BEEN FRIENDS
FOR YEARS.
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