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WILLEM VAN OTTERLOO
Van Otterloo conducts The Brilliant
Residency Orchestre of The Hague.
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LIFE
AMONG THE ECCENTRICS
THE GOLDEN ECHO. By David Garnett. Chatto and Windus. 21#. 272 pages.
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N the cranky fringe of literaturo and politics
It was absurd, of course, but for Mr. Garnett it was also delicious- this world of the cracknot fringe of literature and politics
at the end of last cen- tury and the beginning of this,
In places like Hampstead and Limpsfield, losing intereat when it was Ilved the Garnetts.
found; Constance, his
They were Edward the wife, who translated Rus- father, a publisher's render alan novelists and almost with a special delight in lost her eyesight putting Peace finding literary talent-and Tolstoy's War and
into English; and David. their little boy.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
Menace (6),
3 Glad (5).
Complete disorder (5).
9 Golf club (0).
10 Tower (5).
Wooden pin (5).
12 Relieve (4).
13 Melted (6).
if Carry on again (6).
18 Hard coating (0).
20 Fopa (5).
22 Cougar (4).
23 Played a part (8).
25 Diadem (5).
20 Quoting (0),
27 Best part (3).
(6). 28 Rips
29 Remained (0).
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Interfered with (8).
2 Opposed (8).
3 Sour (4).
4 Proposition (7).
Expectant (7)
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14 Pledge (8).
15 Mentally unbalanced (8).
16 Roguce (7).
17 Chooses (7),
I Closer (0).
21 Join (3).
24 Prescribed food (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Scum, 7 Harpy, 8 Able, Hits, 10 Trailed, 12 Slew, 15 Cores, 18 Moad, 19 Perl, 21 Routs, 22 Hank, 23 Evict, 28 Wren, 29 Average, 30 Edge, 31 Apex, 32 Baton, 33 Then, Down: 1 Bairn, 2 Apricot, 4 Chide, 8 Mass, 0 Glue, 0 Herd, il Loose, 13 Lark, 14 Wild, 16 Space. 17 Grow, 18 Muse, 20 Entreat, 22 Hive, 24 Vague, 25 Igloo, MI Rapt,
28 Next,
Nine To Five
MAY I
TAKE
DICTATION NOW ?*
THE DAY
IS OFFICIALY UNDER WAY. WHEN
THE OFFICE PIN-UP GIRL MAKES HER
GRAND ENTRANCE
AT
NINE FIFTEEN.
COFR. (11 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
George Malcolm ThomsSOZ
a body-
of
Around them were the martyrs of vegetarianism
Polish exiles The Nazarbeks had And liberty, like Joseph Conrad, strayed guard of 10 retainers who took auch llberties with the land- Russian anarchists like scapo and female population Prince Kropotkin, banished that thero was almost a mass-
completing the work political assassina like acre
the Turks. Stepniak. To these were added in due course the But there was no need to de- Russian Jew, David Soskice, pend on such foreign importa- whose imprudent passion the native acquaintances of the for eccentricity. Among for truth led him to cry Garnetts were Richard Heath,
"The Lamb of
Slain "Vive Dreyfus" one day in author
From the Foundation of the Paris with almost fatal re- World," Aults.
tiona
Chamberlain's effigy during the Boer War, and admired Edt- ward Thomas, the post, as ho fought against dyspepsia with nut cutlets and spinach sprink led with plasmon powder,
Naturally conventional, David fell in with the customs. of society as he found them. Thus he plotted the escape of an Indian nationalist from Brixton Prison.
When, at the end of youth, war came, there was no need to rush off to onlist. Had one not Maynard Keynes's assurance that it would be all over before one was trained?
THE VIOLINS OF SAINT- JACQUES. By Patrick Leigh Formar, Murray: Vorschayle. 9%. 6d. 139 pagor,
at the THE Mardi Gras ball
Count de Serindan's man- sion in the West Indian island most of Saint-Jacques is a splendid and glamorous enter-
work identifying the tainment, marred only by- labouring poor with Christ Himself;
Prospect of a duel; opening and a Quaker lady
of a feud likely to split the whose "rational custome"
con- island; elopement and possible stated of long pale blue Turkish bigamous inarriage of the eldest werc sandals,
tweed, daughter; universal menace of
tortan
leprosy.
trousers in Harris
More romantic
More romantic still the Nazarbeks, Armenians scarves and a necklace of hom-
a couple of whom the Turks had just mered alver. massacre. Mr
failed to Nazarbek's stories of Turk-
во
In love
This was the world in which grew up
ish atrocities were frightful that the good young David Garnett ladies of Limpsfield got up and which he presents with dry was nostalgic humour in the first part of his autobiography. It Mrs could be a delicious world that well 08 an absurd one.
her
A subscription-which interrupted when Nazarbek suggested they were paying husband for immoral poses.
as
One could fall in love with pur- the
beautiful Oilvler sisters, proud creatures who burned Joe
PARADE
But, in fact, these perils come to nothing. Before the night la over, the island is torn asunder by u volcanic cruption and slnko beneath the waves.
Patrick Leigh Fermor brings a gift for stylish writing to his torrid inelodrama, The Ufo of the French Creole aristocracy in admirably conveyed. But the canvas is over-crowded. Mater- Jal adequate for a full-length novel is cramped into the space of a long story.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
and Loop
neighbouring DOWN GOES The United that for a quarter of a century the States' last housed the Rialto THE LAST
Burlesque business arou
'first of Theatre, where many girls
There are still some burlesquo STRIP-TEASE stronghold
big- time made their appearance before theatres in a few othies, among burlesque shows featuring going to Broadway. strip-tease the central district
of Chicago, has said goodbye to Its strip-tease girls.
them Jersey City, Los Angeles and New Orleans-but they are its It is the init theatre of more in the nature of glorified kind to be destroyed in Chicago, night clubs at which popular dozen singers and comedians are just building burlesque houses flourished in as plentul as strip-lease girls.
Workmen have begun tearing A tow down the four-storey
RACINGA
ago years
BY HARRY WEINERT
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"YOU CAN'TT SAY HE
HAS A ONE-TRACK MIND- HE PLAYS 'EM ALL/
THE CHARACTER WHO THINKS NINE TO FIVE IS THE ODDS ON A HORSE.
SIX COPIES, AND
USE WHITE CARBON PAPER
SIG. DEAL IN
THE OFFICE
COMIC
WOWS
THE
NEW
GIRL.
"
GUY ON THE CORNER
·HAD EM
TWO-BITS.
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Several cities, like New York, Washington and Philadelphia,
outlawed strip-tease acts years ago and in other cities they have languished for lack of audiences. Chicago's Rialto, ironically, will be replaced with a modern store that will display the kind of clothes a well-dressed girl should wear.
TRYING TO A British Over- CATCH UP
Leas Airways pildt who has Cross2d the Atlantic in Lat (control cabin of fneroplanes more than 420 times, is wondering when he will catch up with the captain of the Queen Mary.
I think the Queen Mary cap-. Lain has completed 650 cross- ings," says Captain Alun Andrew, who, at 44, has logged some three million miles in the air.
Captain Andrew, who has completed 10,000 Bying hours since he first took off in an Beroplane more than 20 years ago, was with Imperial Airways before the war,
In the autumn of 1940 ho made his first Atlantic crossing when he began a wartime job of forrying aircraft from America.
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CRIPPLED A IRRIA of 04 MAN CETS who has suffered from infantile BIG JOB
paralysis since he was two has been chosen by international agreement to solve problems involved in construct- Lig a 250-mile serial railway in the forests of Equatorial Africa.
He is Mr Herbert Shields, of Cross Lane, Bexley, managing director of a London engineering arm.
Mr Shields has walked with an iron support on one leg since 1091.
But ho has been responsible for many major developments in nerini railways,
He has travelled to the foot-,-* hills of Everest, the barren areas. of the Rockies, the interior- of Brazil and Yugoslavia, the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, the miner of New Zealand, the rivers of Australia and Portugal, and the |"playground”: mountains of Switzerland and Bayarla.
He has helped win for Britain export orders worth many millions of pounds.
Mr Shields is president of the International Ropeway Assocía- tion ropeway, is the technical term for this type of aerial roll- way), who comprise the leading constructors of five countries,
lie Ticelyed" the" One in - the