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The man who is
by the
women of his country
THE MASTER OF SANTIAGO, and Four Other Plays. By Henry de Montherlant Routledge and Kegan Paul. 275. 368 pages.
W
were
Con-
TOMEN hate him. They
invariably Most of his fellow. vincing. Meatherlan! now lives a well-to-do bachelor in a dat countrymen dislike in Paris overlocking the Selne, him. But, when a poll was
HUGE SLUGS
taken the other day to de- Had he married it would have
in defiance contemporary been French author would
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121
cide which
22
23
most widely read
in
124
year 2000, he got
votes than anybody else.
of S OWNI Before the was he be teaching.
novis which trated Wis.c the
women with sweeping cynicisin more and
.hem in exhibited
declared humiliating ligh. He that they lived co sensation and a mania for happiness. they the parks,
a
FEW days ago a friend of ours who raises dogs speaking about the
one takes with a gamble litter. "You think you're selecting the best puppy from the litter for yourself," he told us, and within two years you find a little mate- which you let go--beating your dog at shows."
Because picking a cham- pion as a pup is such
friend had gamble, DUT
one of his
ACROSS
3 Smirked (B)
launched a project to leasen the guesswork. He's photo 76 graphing every pups at regular intervals. "When the dogs are grown. and I know which turned out best." he said, "I plan to check the pictures to find clues which showed up in the puppies and should have tipped me off to the best."
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it
8 Habit 16).
9 Telephone worker (E). 11 Renown (8). 12 Wearles (4)
Insurgent (5). Choir (5). Design (4)
I now this proje 22 Baskets (9)
a grot examol24 Reached (8)
of the truth that picture taking 25 Zeal (6). templements all the hobbies. 26 Last of words (8)
you'll da
man welk peturcs 11 b 3.8. milway fra pleas Show 4 of ran and hear him av
MODEL BUILDERS
Đ
Mide bu id
particular. And photography Jart.nating adjunct to the hobby. Not caly run they keep a camera record of the model's progress, but it's ef'en p.ssible so incorporate the
Helike re Anished model in
לד,
and duplicu.e a real-lif: soone
miniature in pictures, Many a hobbyis`. 1c0, Ands photographs make posible collec- lons which w, hou the camera
lens coun
iers could never be ass:mbled I's easy, for example, to become engrossed
JFJ
in
arch.reclure-kay,
18th century homes
But it
25
DOWN
1 Opportunity (5).
2 Attendant (5).
4 Native force (4).
3 Calms (7).
5 Trim (4).
1
Withdraw (6).
7 Constraint (6).
10 Urged on (5).
1 Commenced. (5)
15 Cleansing business (7)
16 Jumper (6).
17 Military display (6)
20 Lure (5).
21 Lending
22 Seeds (4)
23 Close (4).
money at excessive
interest (5)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD - Acruss: 3 Unwashed, 7 Rouen, irritate, 10 Ornate, 13 Diocese, 15 Dead, 17 Experts, 18 Distant, 20 Idle, 21 Tarment, 28 Roster, 27 Audacity, 28
Down; Brood, Avert, 29 Eventual.
2 Guano, 3 Unite,
4
Arid, 5 Header, 6 Dreads, 9 Re sent, 11 Rigid, 12 Acute, 14 Ex- tort, 15 Deems, 18 Atene, 18 Dilate, 19 Sledge, 22 Royal, 23 Ether. 24 Trite, 25 Scot.
THIS DREAM MEANS:
isn't possible to buy up and bring | ase
So the "celinee- home houses.
A or pictures the de'ails of the
homes
and has
in which ne's interes ed
bis collection cred
a photo album.
in a
Nature lovers, tor fascination
And added their hobby
throug
the medium of pictures, Close-up shots, enlarged three or four times. often reveal details which the eye alone might miss. And
even u simple folding camera may connected nteresezpc f making pho c- micrographs. K's a premise job, co be sure, but the results worthwhile.
10 a
2.0
Dreams often
疆
slice
from
your
past (you have
lived out East)
dramatise
to
your present feelings.
and
that has hap pened here.
YOU SENT US THIS DREAM
YOU WERE ON YOUR WAY
THROUGH NARROW MUDDY STREETS WITH A VERY
HEAVY RUCKSACK, YOU SPOKE TO TWO OLD CHINESE WOMEN
WHO PASSED BUT
THEY DID NOT REPLY
Gema að Vinoditis,
Ploughing through наг- TOW, muddy
heavy rucksack ecems to symbolise that you streets with a have taken on a task of some difficulty.
In this dream the Jap symbolises aggression and the two women the victims of that aggression. You mute old Chinese
helpful, presumably--but are trying to communicate-to be -John van Guilder |they do not seem to appreciate your intentions.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
ARS.A-MCLIMBER ENTERTAINED HER BRIDGE CLUB ON WED... AS
USBAL A MOST ENJOYABLE OCCASION.......
"COME ON,
SHAKE A LEG
Y'GOT TEN
ORDERS T
D'LIVER!
ARWALLINGTON R.SAYTA RAS ACCEPTED A POSITION WITH ME ELITE MARKET
AND VILL LEARN THE BUS- INESS FROM THE GROUND
UP
ALL OBT OF TOWN VISITOR, VILO WILL BE WITH US FOR SOME MONTIE, SELASIE HIS BAGGAGE BLING A NICE COMPACT SET OF BURG- LAR TOOLS.
Home Town News
HAVING RETURNED TROM TALIR, BRIEF MONEY- ¿MOOR. MR AND MRS.GRAFTON D. SPONGE ARE RESIDING WITH THE BRIDE'S PARENTS UNTIL A POSITION WORTHY OF MR. SPONGES TALENTS PRESENTS ITSELF.
MR. JOIN R. RISKIT OUR LOCAL AUTHORITY ON HORSE-TLESÁ” MADE. AN INVESTMENT ON TBSS. WIKI HAD
CORETNING TO DO WIN A AKCING
COPR. 1951 KÝ GENERAL FEATURES CORP. TH-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
ADS.J. BATYLLANE LE VISITING HER. DAUGHTER. AREW. RABBIT. AR W RABBIT IS VISITING
COME FRIENDS OF ST
This extraordinary character, had Henry de Montherlant, was born Walking in
T
Paris in 1896, an aria.ocrat, seemed to him "spineless cre ch, proud of his birth-watches hung on their lover's arms d. however, preven: him like huge disguised slugs."
1:cm
up The faraily states so to be free to roam and co wha he liked.
on
ΤΙ ΕΠ
Their influence
WAS disastrous: "A man cannol walk straight when he is arm 15
Ara arm
hated
shit
De Montheriant... by a woman. Artist in Mariette Lydis.
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.
reviews the NEW BOOKS
frotball, What he liked was unding he hundred yards). bulagharg (like Himingway), he Islamic East (cn model with the woman he loves" Pity what I wished for him.
for Women is the novel in which bull!" Law (nes If Areblas ence be there thoughts are mcs: plainly
the army stated. emplated joining
It contains many ingre- the 1914-18 in Algeria). In
d'onds, but scarcely war he sad a fine. record; was
WIDEN. bidly w.unded
Bravo
During the wor, Menih:rian', The Army, Was pls for rejected for
WAS CUT- Women repaid his con- slightly wounded as a tempt with halerd.
respondent, worked for the Swis Red Cross and earned disk in He was a hedonist. accuse
one who wrote hat Valling Spam as a bay of 11 France as both of being a libertine and of
Mintherian feli in love with the Germans haled the spin- I bating women. "Every time
bull-fighting. A Burgos, aged 14 deur of force." It was no time go Engaged to a girl." ha say!.
long my future wife Tolstoy's he killed his #s: bull. Fifteen for such effusions, Journal and that ef his which years later he was badly gared After the war he enquired
in a fight a: Albace. gic my pictures of the Russian
the Pars s'age with a play about A French women's magaz. French author's
mixcries), maried
collaborators ( very Read 1 old her. "You will made no attempt to disguise is touchy subject) and another, The find in this Gospel of the En emotion: "That poseur Monther-
Master of Santiago, geged all the rearons why we laat has just had a hornthrust in Spanish Ca holicism. should not marry."
exactly
the
THEN YOU ARRIVED AND WERE LOOKING DOWN STAIRS AT A JAPANESE OFFICER WHO GRINNED AND
HAD A SWORD
stomach. It was
about
H: reported proudly that the fire-night audience at this last pisy went out haggard having followed an author they did no like who had fought them as you of
fight a bull, with a play which they understood damn all, and a chararer whom they de-
ested."
Catholics were indignant that Montheriant, on unbeliever, should write en religious themes. Nor were they appeased when had "a Moncherlant said he Christian ven," particularly as he seemed to be mere a Calvinis
hen a Ca.holic.
The Master of Santiago, which ran fer 600 nights when it was
Despite the Jap's grin and flashing sword, you look down arst produced in Paris in 1947, on him from above; you feel yourself to be his victor.
In a
s usually regarded as the best The dream suggests that you now feel yourself willing to post-war French play. make sacrifices to help others. In the fight against aggres-daughter sacrfers hirself to her ston and evil you are winning, but you are not sure that your father's insane religiosity. efforts are appreciated or righly understood by those you are trying to help.
"YOU KNOW A PIT...
ALWAYS MAKES ME ILL
BU
EMP
STARRETT
...BUT-BUT..
WHAT CAN I DO? THE
VATER DOESN'T AGREE WITH YOU NOR THE FOOD...
MB AND ARSTJ. A SLOVEN SPENT A "
FEW DAYS AT THE ALLERTON HOISE IN BUTTE.... RETURNING RE OH FRIDAY...
ETC. O
MRS. ELMER P. PLIGHT OF PEORIA IS ENJOYING A PROLONGED VISIT WITH HER DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW, MR. AND MRS. WILL B.SORROWS.
{SAYS THE CHAMBERA
MAID, "SVE SEEN PIGS THAT VERI
CLEADER ∙IN THEIR
HABITS!
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AR. AND MRS. GEO. W.STAGGERS ENJOYED A DE- LIGHTFUL MOTOR.
TRIP LAST WEEK-
EID. GEORGE. REPORTS THAT THEY TOUND MANY ODD AID STRANGE NEW BITS OF SCIVERY DIE TO HAVING A TEN-YEAR-OLD ALARA
FATHER AND SON
No Man's Son and Tomorrow The Dawn, a patr cf plays also in this collection, show a fa ne: (collaborations.) sacrificing his son (Rr.stance) es re-insurance against an Allied victory.
Eh as novels: er dramatist, Mon.herlant has no signißcon: public in Britzia. But anythe Anouilh who thinks tha; with and Sartre we have heard the last ward in French pessimtem should turn to the theorical fanaticism of The Mester Santiago, Will appear on a Londen stage? Probably not. We hike our wilers to compremise a
cf
le with public taste. And compromise is a word unknown to the lonely, arrogant and belli- gerent Monthertant, who says: "One must publish as И cne were understood, as if one were liked, and as if one wer dead."
ANOTHER KIND. By Anthony West. Eyre and Spottiswoode, 12s. 6d. 351 pages.
steand
NTHONY WEST'S
novel exhibits the defects of one who feels that, with no un- due delay, he must consolidate the success of a first novel (One Dark Night, macabre allegory and publishing succoss of 1949).
It exhibits, too, West's intuitive acquaintance with human ftally sin is original and, probably, in- curable. And his gift for tu- sinuating, rather than stating, a dreper secondary meaning with- in his narrative.
Failure of the book (in spila of these qualities) springs from the fact that 's back is brokers. West begins by writing one novel, and finishes by writing another.
Waller, his hero, deserts his wife for a (highly romanticised) prostitute. Then sets up house in the country with the two women, who share home... and minle with touching- amiability.
Abou; pagé 140 there are algns That the author is tiring of this placid. domestic triangle, 'Sud- denly the bewildered reader in plunged to social revolutiei and divi
Mures undefined),
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