Don't apologise,
Mr.Brooke
HE GOOSE CATHEDRAL By Jocelyn Brooke. The
Bodley Head. Os. Gd. 186 pages.
HIB book is partly "true" and partly fiction-how much of one or the other is a matter of no conse- quence whatever.
It is not quite a novel, yet hardly an autobiography. has neither beginning, middle nor end. It is slight and ayward, sensitive to mood, indulgent to fantasy, and sclosing robust vein of humour.
The Goose Cathedrul""
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stly readable and possesses
own kind of unity. You will
st underestimate the skill which
as contrived that unity.
With rooke
an
air
of apology.
puts himselt
ntre of his own
in
the
Bf-story-
the Nanny's darling who be mes the victim of a bad pre
Sir Neuman had many brushes with the
great-with Curzon, who disliked the_typo- graphy of his book so much that he threw it across the room; with Asquith, who at least agreed to write his reminiscences a big cheque Buttered to the carpet at
A
were
the right moment. Arnold Ben- nett was hooked at a party at H.G. Wells's he and Flower dislike of the com-
which shares pulsory gomes romfind at these parties.
The Dynasts, said Bennett. was the greatest book of the "Oh, no, Arnold," generation.
really.. anid Wells softly, "not You really believe that the
work written in
Wives' The Old lifetime is .Tale."
CBOOKS ardatest
by
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
becomes squadron Brooke
ratory school,
tle
nd
the delicate
bathing prosperous, boy who ates has a genius ter finding leader
A#
for
11
ro
wild flowers,
no
writes
bad
ani amusement and alarm.
symbolises the triumph
Bert he
fat,
A the RAF. the youth regards him with a mixture of
ays feebly at being ES, MRD.
hust-
re-enlists
After the war he
the Army.
nfected master at rather an affected gesture? E. Lawrence had done it fore him.
exu-
what
ta
"the
A rich hoard of anecdotes,
LIAM
Mr. FEYZOLLAH BRINGS OUT THE SILKS
By EVELYN IRONS
Vienna.!! wore Д thick Wool Jacket
Na dove-grey dress checked in red and green.
salon in the Karntner- strasse, Vienna's Rug de la Paix, dress designer Hadayat Feyzollah showed some of his latest models.
our
of
STRAIT AND NARROW. By Geoffrey Cotterell. Eyre and Spottiswoodc. 10. 6d. 416 pages,
A
of
its central
man OTTERELL is
talent, an alert and know- on the novel Bert ing performer
illusions In life with
excessive no of the brush, the unscrupulous, about the human race. If this the tough. Being at cart a present novel must be judged a Brooke has always disappointment, it is not on ac- pessimist, known-and hoped that Bert count of any undue sentimenta- would win.
And
ROOSC cathedral?" A lifeboat station built in the Gothic style on a desolate stretch of shore near
Brooke Folkestone. texture of fantasy round it. It acquires meaning in his imagine tion representing the oddity of life. It even haunts his night mares.
ichard Torrent, Agure, is a cold flah, absorbed in
weaves a w
But if Brooke treats himself th a kind of tentative dis-
what with pproval. rance he pounces on charac- TO EQ richly comie na Ted papoc, "the last of the Eng-
Behind the oddity of things ia Eccentrics," Mrs Bugle, the
there is
something frightening. erplorn landlady, and pbave
"Pussy" Wilkinson and his To grapple with it successfully,
one must be tough-like Bert. FER, Berit
Ilke an
BAY is a perfect period JUST AS IT HAPPENED. ece, u Agure cut out of the
By Newman Flower. Cas- neties who looks
16s. 274 pages.. sell. He enter- derly choir-boy.
refined UT of a long, busy and enjoy
able fe as a publisher, Sir gives notably less
by Newman Flower has complied these jottings, which have few but plenty of pretensions interest.
ins his middle-aged lady lends ("the sex") to a-parties; Oned parties for quaintances. rrifying
rening,
mous
AL these, climax to the Pussy will give hla imitation of Sarah
career at the Bar. His single lapse from virtue, his one brush with the warmer emotions, 18 scarcely the noblest of incidents. A fugitive in Holland during the war, Richard seduces Annetje who the Dutchman wife of shelters him--and is killed by
the Germans.
After the war, Richard's wife invites Annetle over. Nancy Revelationa occur. Nancy realises that her husband has
Mrs Edith Sampson, first negro to be appoint- ed a member of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, arrives in Now York by plane from Chi- cago. A lawyer by pro- fession, she is serving a8 an alternate delegate at Assembly. the General
been Annetje's lover; Richard Mouse Scares
that Annetje's little boy is his son.
He tells the story of Thomas Hardy's miserable first marriage trnhardt.
"I Poor Pussy! Life-and-Bert to a woman who boasted.
bcat my husband every morning either.
with a rolled-up copy of The Times."
ht
ve sad surprises in store for but only m, Bert, whom he had bought at of the Army, steals oney
and takes refuge with ussy's rich sister Moira, whom
entually he marries.
0
Soon Pubsy is selling Action, blacker black shirt and
"One must do ger-nails. mething for one's country," His country
does something r Pussy. It interns him in e Isle
of Man. After that, thful to the traditions of the neties, there is nothing for at conversion to t:a testbed
Romon Church.
Do
Gorilla
So desperate in the plight of unemployed actors in Vienna that successful stor Hilde Wagener, playing the lead in the produced German recently comedy
von "Hauptmann Koepenick" at the Burgtheater,
frequent charity
Cocktail dresses and Jacitets has started an appeal fund for
A them with
shows.
silk.
thick French dramatic strapless
cvening in Italian gown
royal blue velvet. Frothing dance frocks with three-layer skirts using dozens
of yards of organdie
Hots and taffeta.
feather light Austrian feli in extreme Paris-inspired designs.
We
I
по
.
Thirty-eight-year-old Hilda,
English, als talking vivacious
make-up, said: wearing
the "These are hard times for theatre in Vienna, Many are Those with engage. workless. ments earn little. Top salaries are around £24 a week, PETROL AT 4.
a collection MOTORISTS In Vienna
Difficulty
gat
a petrol ration. It may be gallons a month or it to the
Sald dark Peralan-born Fey-
two years zoliah: "For have been building up our old exports of Vienna fashions. have just bad touring Scandinavia.
materials. The best silks six and even some of the best may be 20, according wool fabrica-have to be im- size of the car and the priority
And
are rating of the owner. Rationed ported.
petrol costs about 4s a gallon. Emited by currency laws."
Top price for the dresses Faw was £48, Average was around £20.
imports
But there is limitless pelrol to be had at any garage at double the rationed price,
Viennese motorists complain Who in Vienna can afford bitterly about garage charges. these prices? The answer- Charge for a small car is 45%. wivca of occupation officials 6d. a month-more than double with favourable currency ex- the rent of a working class flat. change- Profiteers' familles. Garages refuse to accept cars Not the old clients of the great, unless the owners agree to pay wash for them. Viennese dress shops, for most for a weekly
now.
of these live more modestly And, said one motorist, petrol
the siphoned from
tank regularly.
THEY PLAY THE POOLS
[VIENNA FLASHES:
EMPTY THEATRES
THEATRES In Vienna are
red
V roofing of
a tlic
Re-
ancient St Stephen's Church, burned by Nazis, is going ahead: Cardinal Innitxer appeals to Viennese to "buy"
(yellow, grey, black or brown), price 1s. 6d. This covers cost of one tic and of fitting it to roof.
Passion of many Viennese the football Both men and women throng local football matches.
Orchestra of unemployed plays outside the musicians ruined Opera House: audience gathered in the street pay 44. for programme.
TOP OF THE WORLD. Bvpecially-designed house, Grapez charge of 7d. for the rebuilding workers-playing
Hans Ruesch. Gollanz. 9s. Gd. 236 pages.
pools.
Tis a situation full of tense
THE possibilities. But, having stated
gorilla, half empty. Most of their Cuy, London Zoo's
Q carry for the space
a hundred of
strong advertisements who at five-and-half is the theme, Cotterell abandons it
that for which means which he devotes to re-enough to wrestle
a six-foot spot,
show parties of theatre calling Richard's prewar story
keeper to the floor in seconds.this in that interval we lose sight of
has a feminine falling. He is goers can get seats at reduced rates. But the two opera houses the main clash. When it comes
afraid of micel Into view once more we
This weakness of his was are packed. longer care so deeply about it.
discovered when he refused to To the price of my ticket in that Cot-2150 My Impression is
move from one to another of the second row of the stalls- tell does not care so much
the compartments
98.—was added a in his lust under
and other titbits offered by of the great
Opera House, Overseer Arthur Budd and home of the State Opera, homb- to ed and burned in March 1945. Head Keeper Smith failed move him. move
Each night two little fir trees they Guy sulked and when
Opera House top of the and study. When she died, he found THE Eskimos are the happiest
red and two buge manuscripts in
people on earth. They eat went into his enclosure
They were room. One was entitled, "The anything, provided it is meat attempted to play to get him are brilliant with
Korilla White fairy lights.
put there by workmen in cele- Pleasures of Heaven and the and raw. They lend their wives next door the young
of the completed job Pains of Hell," the other, "What freely. They do not moan about loves a game-he became more
of reroofing. But it will be I Think Of My Husband." Hardy the pressure of the population obstinate. For more than half-bration
cean-hour they
three years before probably burnt both.
on the means of
the gutted building reopens for They solve
opers.
in Vienna-standard lamps with of statesmanlike thoroughness,
This Eakime novel makes a another move. Head
a bright-eyed Not more than a dozen peu- bamboo cane shafts which can crowded audience be tilted at an angle for read- strange mode of life come alive. Smith showed
de-mouse to Guy. The gorillaple in the One of its big moments
his grunted in alarm and quickly wore evening dresses or black ing. scriben how a man cats
Tho rest were in day (World Copyright Rewroad-London frozen foet. I still do not see why retreated to the next compart-ties.
clothes. One, man in the stalls ment. Eskimos are so happy.
So that he need never meet h's wife, Hardy built a separate stair from the garden to his
her
Sir Newman takes the story of Cassells back to the daya Stevenson and Rider Haggard; almost, but not quite back to John Cassell himself, the young
who be temperance reformer enmo A publisher on moral grounds,
sustenance.
tried with
DO
the problem with me the keepers thought of
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WALTER PIDGEON VOURSELF./
Keeper
Oft
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UP TOO LATE.
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