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A GROSS YOUNG
YES!
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1951.
MAN?
but his diary becomes the Book Of The Month, 155 years after his death
BOSWELL'S LONDON JOURNAL.
370 pages.
T
Heinemann. 218.
THE Book of the Century," say the publishers, For what with an enthusiasm I understand. were the chances that, after close to two hundred years, there should turn up an unknown book by James Boswell-and that this book, the diary of his first year in London, should exhibit his talent in full flower?
The Book of the Century? It lo, at any rate, "The Book of
the Month"-and the Year,
by
GEORGE
This young Scotsman of 22 MALCOLM THOMSON there come to life for you and
puts pen to paper and do!
me
A British Crossword Puzzle
POPULAR MUSIC -
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
From Scotland, Boswell's THE 2atest wax-from-musical futher, Lord
album by M-G-M, "Pagan Auchinleck, hasi
Love Sonst." features Howard bren,watching his son's doings..
sing- But Loud Aucifinleck is not im-Keel and Esther Williams
Johnson, "an anlding about all the romance of the South Paelle which the GIs of pressed by dominic who keepit a school and ca'ed it an Academy." He packs the lust war somehow missed. which are loady climbing into Dutch university.
the hit ist, including "Pagan his son off to study law in a The album has some fine cons Love Song," "Home of Singing Bamboo," "Why
In Love So Crazy," "Singing in the Sun." "Sea of the Moon" and "Tahiti."
A
visit last devout
to St.
Paul's, a serious talk on religion with Johnson, an encounter with much for a street-walker-so good resolutions!-- and this very agreeable, very mnd young man is off to foreign parts.
"Ink Spots Vol. 1," a Decca album, contains eight tunes by quartet, noted for the Negro their sweet-style arrangements and talking choruses. Included In the pet of eight recorda is HOW TO BE A CELE their first big hit in 1939"If I Other songs in the BRITY. By Milton Shul-Didn't Care."
by group are: "Whispering Grass," "Do 1 Worry?" "Java Jive," "We Three,"
"I'll Never ""Maybe," Smile Again" and "Until the Real Thing Comes Along."
His year in London has not It has produced been wasted. one of the most fascinating of Covent only a place where he is to the Plazzag of
East English classics. the receive orders from the Garden in the year 1782, taverns of the City, the routa India Company. Not so Boswell! House, all in a flutter at having at at Northumberland
one last
got to the place which I St. James'a Park, where the Guards
and was so madly fond of mity watch
commission in sigh for distinguished a corps and
evening scrape acquaintance with obliging servant girl.
the shades
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the
He finds lodgings in Down- as ing Street on terms so advan- fall tageous that he believes them an to be "very strong proof of my
being agrecable": he sees Let me say plainly this Box-eights and in a couple of days well is D. gross taking his pleasures where can find them, and paying little
possible.
young
man Wolly unhappy for want of
he
as
and far
Which he describes all too frankly
ing words that have so using
American in appeared only
There he struts, cocking his rolling a lustrous eye. beaver In spite of his impudent nose and foolish smile, he has indefinable impress of
"
kind this
of
For Borwell For nisery issues immediately In misery action. We and ourselves e- broiled in the first, of many unrefined episodes, which have
their climax the tragi
with Louisa, * comic affair young actress at Draty Ixtile.
the
talents.
The
*-
with and Justy
"FOT
look
amour described He has come to conquer Lon- elaborate artfulness don and certainly to enjoy it.. 18th century freedom, opens in
At the most genteel style: It is not his first visit. 18 he had fled south from the my own part, Madam,
Glasgow upon ethics classroom
with a University Catholic actress and a disposition to join her church.
of
of
sir!"
that
On
the adoration of the of the Roman Supreme Being as one
strong greatest enjoyments we have
Sir what do you think of the Scriptures?" etc., etc.
Need 1 say
it does not sy tong remain very
this lofty Comes
when મ day Sent to reason with him, Sir plorie?
Boswell reports: "I really con- John Pringle, ex-professor Moral Philosophy, pointed out dueled this affair with a manii- that a change of church would ness and prudence that pleased whole at
very much. The the Bar. me. ruin his prospects
the expense was just 10s." Young Boswell spoke of
of his Immortal soul. safety
soul, immorial "Your exclaimed the indignant pro- fessor, "Why, anyone with the smallest spark of gentlemanly spirit would rather be damned than Rive his to all eternity
trouble relatives so much you are doing now!"
Dut on this London, different, he will Guards officer and an Episco- A devout palian. He detects
train in himself, "I shall cer- lainly be a religious old man." where Edinburgh, Leaving the chairmen seem to say "God Boswell!" prosper our noble
second trin Boswell's aims
become
as
two
Alas, it is not the end of the story. Louisa, for all her high- flown talk, proves to be the of disappointments. bittercat
had lent her Boswell Kuineas. Who will blame him when he asks the money back! Louisa pays up, thus causing the young Scot a minute of shame. But not more. It is hard in- deed дге
10 dent so stiff an armour
To of self-esteem.
speak Is a seriously I think there blossom about me of something distinguished than the generally of mankind." Nor is his instinct wrong.
to
E
more
The absurd, rake-helly youth is a man of ability and charm-- or he could not have won the Johnson after so heart of Dr fellow-countryman, sailor so lacking in the aner short a niego-and of spirit as feciings that he thinks London well.
as he passes, he travels with a young
A
&
Now shingles:
Caricatures mar.
Reinhardt Vicky. Evans. 108. Gd. 215 pages. NO, Shulman does not tell you how to achieve farse. conduct a who
of the great or lightning lour
Lisa Kirk sings her best pair once-great-for, sad reflection laurels human glory, the
time with of his of songs in wilt on some
"Gotta See Ya Once More" and already notables. Is Boyd-Orr all Boyd-«Ja-Da" (RCA Victor)....Artie Orr was?
Shaw's orchestra has a tuneful two instrumental
with sides Serenade in Blue" and "Autumn Leaves" (Decca)....
on
some
in the company It is a tour
not over-reverent of an alert, mind, with an ear for a phrase and sufficient courtesy to retrain from being witty at the expense
Jo Stafford adds to her "Star- of his subjects.
allots catalogue the standard Shulman Unselfishly, the best remarks to the celebri- dust" and the new "You Don't ties. Sir Ralph Richardson, for Remind Me 30th very listen- able (Columbia)....Jack Fina "An In awarded: exomple
some good old-fashioned A bos Is silence. actor's
canvas person coughing is like someone ragtime piano in the playing of "Baltimore Rag" (M-G-M).... throwing ink blots on a page." -(London Express Service)
DAVID C. WHITNEY.
{HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT-
Revered Vorabiles
YOU HAD TO MEETING ADDRESS OF WOMEN BUT YOU JUST COULD NOT STAND
UP
-THIS DREAM
MEANS:
You feel at a disadvantage with woman; they are too much for you; you just cannot cope. When you face sharing your life with a woman-symbolised here by the wedding core- mony you feel smaller and smaller, and avor more impotent. Your wifa's friends soom just os
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHY, YES, I KNOW WHERE IT IS....
I SAVED IT
FOR YOU!*
"}
DID YOU HEAR THE DIRT ABOUT.. JOANS.. ...IT SEEMS SUE,
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16
15
20
Idie talk.
5 Separate.
6 Dird.
9 Go.
ACROSS
10 Indian potentate.
Jr Vapour.
12 Unsubstantial.
13 Experiments.
10 Word of honour.
18 Seaman,
20 Hereditary class,
22 Contest.
23 Negotiate.
25 Droll.,
26 Idco.
27 Respond,
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28 Mount.
29 Property.
Teutonic,
2 Quell.
3 Fing.
DOWN
4 Having a preference.
5 Legislator.
6 Hard coating.
7 Precise.
14 Pudding ingredient.
15 Judgment.
10 Penetrated.
17 Love affair.
10 Garb.
21 Approximately. 24 Children.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Spur, 7 Cower, 8 Oval, 9 Gail, i9 Certain, 12 Ebbs, 15 Igloo, 18 Sied, 19 Prone, 21 Allen, 22 Lles, 23 Trend, 20 Bond, 20 Average, 30 Rely, 31 Aura, 32 Usher, 39 Guys, Down: 1 Towel, 2 Fertile, 4 Piano, 5 Role, 6 Barb, 9 Gild, 11 Agent, 13 Boos, 14 Seed, 16 Opine, 17 Lamb, 10 Sig, 20 Redress, 22 Levy, 24 Rally, 25 Agree, 27 Onus, 28 Drag.
AND THAT YOU WERE BEING MARRIED BUT YOU SHRANK AND SHRANK AND COULD NOT SAY A WORD?
big and just as formidable, and they are not on your side.
When you try to explain yourself to thom~~- symbolised by the would-be spoakor addressing them you are a frail, willowy man and you buckle up on the table; you fall flat.
You are in need of advico-more advice and encouragement than can be given horo,
" I DON'T WANT
TO HEAR IT...
NO SCANDAL.... PLEASE
A simple, story-telling snapshot like this apponia bocause it
plotures a
Sour
situation everyone understands. WHAT MAKES: A PICTURE?
one of of a situation which anyone can EVERAL weeks ago
acquaintances tried to easily visuallas. And it does so pin us down. "All right," he said simply. It adds up the elements a of the story--firetruck, small aggressively, "What makes good plcture good? Why is it boy, friendly fireman-quickly, that two shots of similar sub-, without distractions.
Tha: last is an important point. iccts both in focus and correctly
You'll notice no attempt bas exposed, may be as far apart na
been made to show the whole the poles in arousing interest?"
fire truck. It could, of course, asked a have been included, but what I confessed ho hod puzzler. "Let's put it this way,"
it havo would
added? Not a began. "Suppose someone's thing, alace, as long as enough of telling & story. If it's a good the truck is visible, po, that one story you'll pay attention, it it's knows it's a fire engine the story a poor on you won't. And even is complete in itself.
good story can be murdered when it is poorly told. So, if the story teller hopes to keep your interest,
he first must have something well worth telling, And he must teil it well,
д
are in
"The same thing is true of pictures. The pictures that have the widest appeal are pictures that say something to you- shots which tell you something about the people who them
which or
convey the feeling of a place or situation.
And secondly, these pictures must do his well. They must make clear nt moment's glanCY just what they try to convey,"
this
showed my friend the plc- lure used with this column, Not a great picture, I frankly ad- mitted, yet one with plenty of appeal.
It seems to me to prove the point. It tells. at a glance, of u terms small boy's pleasure. In
The fact is, that including the whole truck in the scene would have meant moving the camera farther back from the boy---and the boy is the key to the plcture.
-John van Güllder
Lorton press Berotce.
It Can't Happen Here
By KEMP STARRETT.
"HA, HA! WHEN I WENT OUT TO GET THE CAR. AND VIAT DO YA*KNOW, I FOUND SOMEBODYS BUSTED A FENDER AND
THE BATTERY'S DEAD?
OI, WELL...
WHEN YOUR SEARCHING ANXIOUSLY FOR A LAST MONTH'S NEWSPAPER..........
'HERE'S THAT. FIRTY I OWE YOU, DOC/
MEMBER, FOUR YEARS AGOS
AND WITHOUT EVEN HAVING
TO ASK OR HINT FOR IT!
"SURE, YOU CAN SWITCA
- TO YOUR DOLL-SKOR/V
DONT AUUND Z
WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THIS SITUATION IS AS DHONY AS A TOUR-DOLLAR DIAMOND DOG-COLLAR....
"SURE, MISSES! 15E RIGHT
OVER *** DO YOU YOUR YOB RIGHT
AVI
COPR. 1944 BY GENERAL, FEATURES CORP. THE-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
IF ANYONE THINKS THIS COULD HAPPEN HE'S AS CONFUSED AS A WEATHER FORECASTER..
*I'LL TAKE
THESE!"
'I DON'T CARE FOR
ABY ICE CREAM OR ANYTHING,
THANKS,AUNT AGUES?"
AND POLITELY
TOO...
CAN YOU IMAGINE
THE VERY TIRST PAR SUR TRIES ONl.
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