Immortal lover? But what
६
a bad mother!
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
reviews the NEW BOOKS
IMMORTAL by a hand as white as snow OVERS By Frances and very beautiful." The hand Vinwar. Hamish Hamil of Dante, it was whispered. bn, 158. 867 pages.
There must be more Hillary than Lovet Dickson's.. honest feeling has discerned, ¿
Yet, if the gure in the foreground does not stand out "TOTO" clearly some of the
missing
Mied background is in: the half-resentful friend- ship with Pobor Penso, the friendship, which would have been more, with Denise," who loved Peter, by, that time depd.
And this from Hillary's will: "As to whether I am buried or cremated it is immaterial to me, but as the fames have had HE
important thing Robert's views on the sub- one try, I suggest they might about the
runaway Joct were .cautious.
"Death,"
get their man in the end.” said, with the obscurity
bold and agile a spirii marriage of Elizabeth he
he was noted, "is to be caught in the net of rett and Robert Brown- for which
affectionate blography,
ls, not that it was life," antic, but it was
prac-
Abo
*
But after the wreath in
LOVAT DICKSON, born cident he wrote a furious por- trait of Home entitled Mr Australia 1903; educated Berk. the Medium. Home hamated, taught in Canadian the Brownings and and American universities; has Insulted persistently by been editor of Fortnightly Re-
view and Review of Reviews;| now a director of Macmillans publishers.
Janved Elizabeth from her Sludge
and her doctors. And it called on led Robert, who wanted to was
poetry and could not sell Robert. b do so in the comfortable fer of a West Indian auger ime. obert, too, had an associo-
with the West Indies. the form of blood rather treasure.
*WI
"Dear Mr Home” cried Filza- beth, "I am not to blame. Oh dear, oh dearm.
It Home hinted that if the hand of Dante had put the wreath on Robert's braw there would have been no trouble.
THE TRAP. By Dan Bil- lany. Faber, 10s. 6d. 380 -pages.
o say this is not, of course
For some time the matter. pretend that the morrlage
based upon anything but was not discussed between the doubt
immortal lovers. but when would have mutual love. It successful and, after Home married, Elizabeth sald: form and **Think of the
conjugal violence. Brat breathless scamper
floating about furniture Wimpole Street and Mr
room that night!" fett, rather commonplace,
W,
the
in an
Frances Winwar tells the story of this marriage old-fashioned, faintly pompous style, with occasional glints of shy humour, Now could we please have a year's freedon from Browning boolts?
born
Elizabeth, no more Papa, as baleful shadow in torner, of her conscience. more doctors to advise opium
*FRANCES WINWAR, to ban poetry: Miss row who wrote verses for 1900, Taormina Sicily, educated Blessington's annuals. I in New York, helped to found give her two years. You Leonardo da Vinci Art School;
mend your waya, Miss married, one son, ett. Take to reading a te of
HILLARY. A RICHARD history, for exam-
life by Lovat Dickson. Macmillan. 88. 6d. 202 pages.
d for Robert? A few dies "the ointment, but not
ah to discourage, one; whe-
ched breast forward."
brumed (bis back out Ttribution
THIS relicent book is a con- to legend rather It conveya Izabeth, for ́` muut" of their than to biography.
together, was a famous as much of Hillary as can be
HEVA
Once upon a tinte'there soda a poor soldier in- London'Rhérant Berché.
A British diamond Jubilee
SATURDAYUNOVEMBER
PAVIR BEST-SELLER ?
RECORD
HMIMI IT CAN'T MISS
FOR long enough
The philosophy is there. The Initiative in popular
•Thames Embankment is there. The
comradeship warthth of Fecorda has gone to there. What more is nooded
a. best-
DH
American singers. They to make this record
which it certainly will
havo_captured the listener seller with Bleek, smooth and bet [Bountiful discs. Tam glad to
report that this month the
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British lead the field. And so, I imagine, wil be
Not with the silky tones Noel Coward singing Josephine of the croonettes. Not with from his musical play, Ace of Clubs (HMV B 0940) -but the dash of the Phil Hor- Fises. The two records a different audience,
Here is the Coward version which, stand out in the
of the
har Empress and month's popular issues aro coarse, rather Corsican" laver made by three men who done in the inimitable clipped, would never admit to vocal preciso manner which har ambition: Bud Flanagan one of the tiresomeness of '' averago Killer of vocal the and Chesney Allen on the
talos. one hand, Noel Coward on
For good measure the fum, is; the other.
continued on the reverse side with Juvenile Delinquents.
Some years ago a record
"
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Other selections: NE of the Empire's ploncer lands fins issued ~m~~24.
Instrumental. Yet another atamp with 60 years of adven ture behind
it. The stamp appeared of Honry Hall's Haydi and who shall say no? This time Symphony No. 03 in IF Billany could have revised celebrates the diamond jublice band playing Underneath D. played by the NBC Sym- this novel he would no of British rule in Southem, the Arches "with vocal phony Orchestra (HMV DB
have improved it, Ho Rhodesia, a country rich
noted its lack of gold and big game.
chorus," This chorus was, 21014-6): not by any means a pruned some of ita This land was brought into of course, Flanagan and brilliant piece of recording-it la paler than it should be but the Empire by Ceell Rhodes, Allen.
# gives us a first glimpse of who went to the grammar But, afler
Cantelll, Toscanini's Now in a at Bishop's Stortford, school
new recording Guido the Italian
protege. His performance is at the Herts. Rhodes dug diamonds in of
same Bong currender Bil-Africa, and grew rich. Iany, then, a
(Columbia, DB 2725), the all times distinctive. Then be Ied Д PoW
ploncer position is reversed: Flana- Vocal. Soprano Victoria de killed in com-through
was column which fought its way gan and Allen "with orches los Angeles sings Hall of Song Lonely bat with abuilt the foundation of the tra" and rightly so. I can- from Tannhauser and
Sadness from Days of colony which now bears his not define what it is about in
Lohengrin-both in German- this record that is on HMV 21095. Full marks dazzling recording of a The Issue will last only four appealing; I only know that for a with an Italian months. Perforation is 14 and Flanagan and Allen sing superb volce, farmer is us it came from the price unused, 18 4
the song as no others could. his pen; a novel but more of JAA. пл autobiography, a glimpse of wartime England and war in Africa, the busput of a dis- gruntled mind and a sensuous
Dam Biślany
traitor. The Trap left in manuscript
temperament,
During the first few pages
action is held up by its shrill
of denunciation "kindly" caricature
of
→
name.
davage tribes and
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& PEOPLE
by JON HOPE
Today I have news from Mango Tree?" He is titular days, took to erading novels
of the Oxford
crudite Major Archbishop of Apamea, in from near-by library. He was
Swinton, Africa. And the book's 'tillet so
one "The fascinated by the general Sir Ernest working-class presented by Fellow of All Souls, the tank It comes· from his friend, T. Dark Light," by young Ameri- 4. can Bart Spicer--that he urged his London publishers to issue upper-class writers. "Rancorous? pioneer, whose Army career 9. Eltot:
The potamus can never reach it here. They acted on The mango on the mango tree, advice and already have an- Here la a post with strong other, story by Spicer, on the lows on how autobiography machines. Spender says detalled accounts should be written. Stephen
he wabightded us an gleaned from a series of good By God, I'm rancorous." He started
could not forget that, as a academic
photographs.
-"our
berd alive
in 1888 and his career-as, Chichelc ntric second-rater.
of Military History -nearly 40 years later, Sir The Cheeky schoolboy; the youth, he had lost the dole be- Professor lizabeth was a bad mother
cause of the means test.
Ernest Is now correcting spolled her little boy Pen, arrogant undergraduate:
dis-proofs of his autobiography him in long ringlets and Mr Hillary," whose outrageous What gives the book
delighted his RAF tinction however, is not its Publication has been" "delayed
And still, they come. For his knickers and repeated exploits
of eanir, childhood irritate him, book about the last days of One after another stale ill-temper,, but the vivid, because of his Maesa alifier comrades. sillier sayings 25
navy/o Captain.ju hers do. As soon as Robert We meet them. We have met an sinewy writing which brings The author used to write His own story, "World With Hitler, US.
convention, a
the darlly into which under thepen-amme of in World" (being published Michael Musmanno interviewed charge, he whipped of attitude, à
year) starts with his hundreds of: Gennians,' Includ~- ringlets. Little Pen, before from a Noel Coward film, with Billany married, the home Bunkyight-Fangthought, dater next
under-graduate days. Admita ing the one who used to cut "had reached the age of 18, pped phrases and eloquent that was shattered by a bomb,ghanged that to Ole-Luk-Ofe the author" is a catalogue the Fuehrer's hair, I am told
the troopship that took him to I should like to think he But, after all, Hillary
of errors, among other things" that, after reading Ten Days was Africa, the men he commanded. may change the title of his
Live"-coming early next brave, izabeth was' addicted to tragic youth, first marked and • DAN BILLANY born Hull bobiography. At the moment When Peter Cheyney was to
he calls it "Over My Shoulder" in the Bahamas he got mare dar-only the blindest fanatics tualism and attended a then --destroyed-by-sunt,...........He....1013;koda-strand...-hoy,--#p«
than local colour for a new will insist that Hitter stin That's one consolation, se of the famous American was the author of the Last prentice electrician, then on Who is David Mathew, thriller. Ho collected sun yes. dum Home, at which a Enemy, in which a generation scholarship to Bull University; author of novel-out this week stroke as well, Badly burned, anyway E DONNA ath was placed on her brow found its mirror,
tɖught Défafël Jointnál teng. called The Mango on the he was laid low for several
the father of two illegiti-
chlidren,
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