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CHINA MAIL BOOK REVIEWS
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 24, 1954.
TRADE and
RUSSIA'S URGENT NEED FOR NEW
Daphne du Maurier MERCHANT SHIPS
Mary Anne, a novel by Daphne du Maurier (Gollancz, London 12/6).
Again
hatred of her cockney
tongue back
and the squalor of her alley life. She was destined for and pre higher things: a fast enrious existence i'1 a clety
hod which
the chare of
nad suistication
the exelte- ment of being something com- There pletely farcign to her. ale would rule supreme in an atmosphere of opulence; there would be freedom from want, education for her brothers and
No young British author hoping to catch a reviewer's eye today would even con- Boldly the cover fnp of her aider writing a novel like latest novel proclaims in this order) "Daphne du Maurier (in Daphne du Maurier's latext big red type): Her New Novel
in fact, he would prob- | Mary Anue" that is all. There ably shrink in horror from are no superfluous epithets such as "exciting", "fascinating". "in.
"bold and
It you venture
it.
the "delightfu}”.
wiity"
[
a decent home for her mother,
Forbamutely whe WAS well- cantowed by`ruture for the ad-
istreach She waa It is not just that the
kow
and like the authorexy's fasciruling beauty even st. 18. intelligence front subject is
her unoriginal (the hooks, you expect
latest nequired life story of a Duke's mis- o be at least on good us her insteding her father's newspaper polis, gained potre and bear- you buy her tress in an early 19th cen
they want from a school fur young
Indies to which L Jecherous
her.
COFFEY
in shorl.
I simply because
tury setting), it is because written by Daphne du Mauries of a very read prejudice ¦ and nothing i can say is going factor had sent mat young authors have to make you more for anything that resembles Armined to do 80
the lurid "pot-boilers" pula #shed by most populer Sunday papers, and 11 almost paralysing terror et earning fame through patronage of Hollywood,
thel
less de-
is certainly "Mary Anne" vely story. In her clipped, mey style, Mis du Maurier re-
her hend or
Perhaps her greatest meet at 13 was her preocity for she used her body with even greater abity Cham ht heart
disastrous marriage at the tender age of 10 to a plausible, grod-looking
With Al with c
Herd
eyes,
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London, June 23.
The Russians seem at last to be paying attention to the seriousness of the U.S. request for the return of some 86 ships, chiefly of Liberty- class, which the latter supplied under Lend-Lease 10 years or intore ago, says the London Journal of Commerce and Shipbuilding in an editorial,
and
1857.
Recently * German yard announced with great colai the receipt of an order from Russia for 15 additional shing processing ships, but a difficulty which has arisen is the method of payment.
and
Expansion in the exchanges of commodities between the Soviet West and East has made more ships a necessity. If the Liberty ships are handed back it seems likely that they will be more ready for the U.S. reserve fleet; for scrapping than before such a transfer takes place the USSR may have replaced most of them by new construction.
She is seeking to place in, actual and prospective, provides Western Europe orders for for delivery to the U.S.S.R. by tankers and dry-cargo ves- sela, whaling ships trawlers with processing facilities.
tugs and lake harges.
She is reported to have held out the bait of Immediate
for orders
103 merchant vessels, noBlying Britain such orders would be contin- Rení upen the free nationu broadening
range modities they would export in return to the U.S.S.R.
The broadening of the range and the
of nature
the com- modities A
would be negotiated by the
but certainly The U.S.S.R., the bulk would be of those strategic goods und materials now denied shipment from the West to the East. She has opened about 65 merchant vessels
deter- rinkart
in Saly life. career mined her For from destroying her youthi- vives o gloriously decadent era ful emily, seven years of hard work and child-bearing trans- when self-righteousness, cant,
formed Mary
Anne Clarke into corruption und shameles
voluptuous young Woman
frig adultery in the highest of high with
Bnd
TC- The critles'
xday society-even the Royal Family bobbing blonde curls, n praise
self-assurance, emarkablo columna Ingher carries
premium than provided daily One might even sizzling hot news. anything be say that today's inadding authors write solely for the critics, and The serua erities at that-and they sacrifice wale reader appeal
It was
በከ
Churp wit, a veneer of sophis- Ucation, and, most important of all, al ability to make des- delcious perste, of
wanton jove
any the Prince of inu of the day and night, scandals, with Wales and Mrs Fitzherbert set- But Daphne du Maurter basing a cracking pace: of Nelson
te nehleve just that end,
no such inhibitions and she never Nativeen, Frenchman's Creek
na Jarnako lan have made Orst- elnes Abus. Sunday papers have serialised her
gaspleg his
dying message of England Expects..." of the French revolution, and the rise of The Little Corporal across the
stories and stli channel.
A+
her station remains intact It has even grown with the years.
not home, Mos du Maurier, now in hor Attorney-General muiute
for
ur fale
even
and
judges 40's (discreetty Supreme Court
п
Her matto in those years might almost have been rough toil to the Stars", Her captivating giances sured one man aher
She
with began the another. the cumparatively junior ofcurs and climbed the ladder to fame with Generals and Peers.
were
she does not reveal her age in above a little seduction on the Who's Wh) writes essentially quiet, and
And then her final triumph: the Duke of York vnst 0
pubfle
who
uncle who of giving his her genial old thought nothing demand nuthing more than a
mixed quite profitably the busi- footman "L resduble story with a
young simple inlatress's
mess of Court Shoemaker Commission in the 17th Hussors. with a white slave racket for the nobility, arranged a meeting And the eldest with the Duke of York. was Mary Anne
became a Royal child in a poor family who, by Mary Anne
providence, just mistress, on achievement beyond managed to keep their lives and her wildest dreams, their horne
plat, plenty of dialogue, humbur. romance, passion, and even it le surrow and misfortune for But no mije- sake of balance. gories, no unfathomable argu- ment, no obscure morals und perferably no preaching.
She knows that her reviews In The Observer. The Times and The Sunday Times inay rate at nest only a few paragraphs, but then he
no longer needs the
help of the Rus Her name is Mule.cl
ow
aeeldent
above The sherri- It was a gay and carefree life.
She
WHA
#2
She was the klol of London. But levels of London. cockney child with a fierce de-she did not want just success for heriell. She remembered her termination to savour the better family and transported them all things of life, with a zeul for to her Ane home in Gloucester
pathological Place, learning and
ik
Charles Morgan's Advice Young Writers
To
Morgan, in a
presidential Mr Charles address entitled "On Learning to Write," which he gave last week at the annual meeting of the English Association in London, advised young writers "who may not altogether reject or despise the counsel of a fellow-learner older than them- selves" to read the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer.
Mr Morgan
was concerned self-exercise and a study of the with
technical right masters in the right way. learning the
These masters were not always elements of writing and also its
mert like
Goldsmith's,
da-
Then the debis began to mount, She demonstrated a commend- able versatility for one deter- mined never to work by the sweat of her brow. She turned to bribery and using her Duko (also Commander-in-Chief
the
feelers
that
com-
for
to
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HONGKONG STOCK EXCHANGE
New British Cotton
Spinning Patents
Sold Abroad
May Be
Manchester, June 23. The Chairman of the UK Cotton Board, Sir Raymond Street, has stated that licences to manufacture the latest scientific aids to the cotton industry would, if necessary, be sold overseas.
Speaking at the annual meeting of Shirley Developments Limited (the company formed to market, exploit and develop new techniques in textile manufacture, of which he is the Chairman) he said: "Our company was formed with the primary objective of promoting the use of the practical results of scientific research within the British cotton and allied industries. But it is clearly necessary for the directors to have a
policy about selling abroad.
"No doubt 80me
people would say that the benefits
of the work of the Shirley NEW YORK
Institute should be confined to those British firms who subscribe to its costs. This (From Our Correspondent) reaction, while natural, overlooks some awkward Business on
$54,270. Neon
the Stock
Ex-
"If patents are not protected
She Ands herself unable to pay cash, even in modern terma of
such a transaction; she pro- change this morning amounted facts, puses to pay in goods.
the k nolure noi disclosed, The and the morning's dealings:--- abroad, the competitor oversens barter terms were to be BANKS negotiated at a return visit to Moscow of
representatives of prospective builders, BUILDERS CAUTIOUS Although
one firm in United
ited Kingdom has negotiated
the
HX Bank INSURANCES
Union Underwriter Lombard SHIPPING
K. Wharf Duck
STOCK MARKET
can copy them. Protection in New York, June 28. most countries against copying Stocks shook off early is only given it supplies from lethargy today to
Britain are not restricted."
Sir Raymond gave
an account through
break
to the highest of the progress made with the levels since October 18, 1929 development or the sales of in the industrials and since some of the Shirley Inventions. November 8, 1980 100 or 15 70 On the Shirley Opener, he said
quotations
BHARES BUYERS SELLERS SALES
3029 16:3
25 045
31
the
Asin Nav
102+
DOCKS, ETC.
100 01
18.70 Provident (0) 12.30 121⁄2
1.09
50
are!
10 14000
LAND, ETC.
10K Hotel
170 9.50 2300 27
1000
IIK Land
58
704
50
Rta
23
240 33
9'nal Land
1.30
already
Although
been mode.
It
was
sometimes ond
Humphreys Realty
11.00
Д
UTILITIES
Tram
z 2 05 .....
27,00
a contract with Soviet Russia for the construction of 20 trawlers, stated to be valued at
£5 m., most shipbuilders pardonn pardonably. Inclined to treat the Inquiries with a degree of caution.
difficulties recalling to s
that have arisen in the past in the execution
orders for Russia.
be built by Western European
3.000 yards, ranging from 10,000 tona dondweight, but thielly within the 8.000 to 10,000 tons clasa.
Five
DELIVERY BY 1957
oll tankers
of
There
has long existed readiness on the part of Russian inspectors to condemn work on the grounds that it is
of not the standard they required. Furthermore, there is the babit of constantly orders, the
changing designs,
between 15.000 and 10,000 tons are in cluded.
This programme
of
Singapore Rubber Market
Singapore, June 23. The inarket opened very sterly but cused later profit taking. In the afternoon the market again WAK steady in the selling trade buying. but late in the afternoon caused a slight sethark. The market closed steady at lower level.
Future closings were: No. 1 rubber per tb, July 001-067%
Aut
unquoted No. 2 rubber per 1. July 642-05% No. 3
645-444 No. 4
0315-04 Spot rubber unhaled 01-0014 Blanket creVC
024-03
No.
of
the Army) as a willing accom- plice, she developed a profitable trade selling Commissions and Transfers to officers too Imprilent to wait for the tedious turning of official wheels.
D
pale crepe
United Press. NEW YORK MARKET
New York, June 23. Rubber futures closed today unchanged to points lower with sales of 64 contracts.
B
S'hal Dock Wheelock
12 30 the licencees-Messrs Tweedales ralla.
in the
A late strong demand in the
7.18 and Smalley-were dealing with 8.65 Kores of inquiries from all over 3500 the world and that a "gratifying carrier group finally pushed the
8.74 number" of installations
through had all overage
Its 1952 ceiling to n new 24-year high, the enthusiasm carried
stated that British Industrialists over into industrials. lagged behind in their readiness
Rail guins ranged to 2% 18 2006 27.80 to install up-to-date machinery, points in Santa Fe. Strength in 43122 the home orders placed for the ralls was particularly heartening 4000 10.00 Shirity Opener proves that this to the Bnancial community since
Star Ferry 122 C. Light (0) 18.40 13 60 1500 or 154%
1000 15 did not apply to the sphining in-
C. Light (N) 1240 11.50 1000 12.60 dustry.
500 in 13.70
Electric
to
Telephone
Cement
new add
30301 2200 30
1000 12.00
2500 or 301% 1000 pr 3D
150030
20 28.40
18.40
500 19
GOOD PROGRESS
Orders received for the Shirley
Automatic
Size
of the many
experts believe that the Break-through to top was necessary to continued market advance.
new
Box Support for tobacco
A
21
shares,
since it was first made available which sold, off yesterday heavily about 18 months ago had made on American Cancer Commitier
Miny
which purported manu-Andings
to
2000 or 19.20
500 19.10 good progress. 1500 19 facturers had followed up their link smoking with cancer and
initial
Installations with heart disease, also helped the 211 24.00 1000 24.70 10.40 1019
purchases of a further machine upward move, OD 1515 or machines. The licencees, 3000 7
so that what might initially be regarded as a series of repent orders. In fact, turn out differ
materially in succession, INDUSTRIALS involving new drawings,
and so on-to castings, materially to overhead costs.
STORES. ETC. An essential preliminary to
Dairy undertaking ship
engine Watson construction for the
New.. Soviet corfONS Union the employment of Texule Corp. 4.815 Russian-speaking technicians, | MISCELLANEOUS who, judging from what takes Yangtz.c
1.20 Yaunuti
143 140 130 145 place at, International con- ferences, would have lots
Allied
3,78 3 17! of talking and explaining to do.
0.00 Mcases
Joseph Darwen, hoci ale
Hibbert,
(148)
NOT BO SIMPLE New York Cotton
be overcome,
טה
Market
01
the
Several thousands of radio-nettve Static Eliminator
Amerledo Tobacco recovered
received a 1 points of yesterday's 34 good volume of Inquiry from Points loss. Liggett and Meyers regained 1% points of its 3 abroad.
points drop. Market said the tobaccos were oversolit
experts in the scare yesterday, with the result that there was specuda- tive buying and short covering In the group today.
(known the Shirley HASE) had been ordered since it first became avaliable
during winter.
Q:
last
Was
General
The general opinion appears to be that
Brush
shipyards should accept whatever work la available, and there Ja
New York, June 23. The device was developed to Trading picked up sharply on doubting the ability of
In the upswing and turnover for Qur Cotton prices todny opened eliminate for marking" shipbuilders to meet reasonable higher and were steady at the weaving and Wate knitting the day amounted to 2,000,000 requirements.
close.
nectate rayon and synthetle fibre shares, just 10,000 behind yes- it an
Gains ranged increased
to 80 cents cloths. Certainly,
this device, Sir terday. number of Russian orders bale as the market showed the Raymond said he had no doubt
advance after that it was uniform
effective. It was
Electric were placed, and the difficulties first
took top to the Icom place as the day's most nelive experienced in the past could several weeks of narrowly free- simple to attach
the work would gular changes.
and required D maintenanec. I issue. be more than welcome in view Day trader liquidation upset The manufacturers -- Record
Packard and Studebaker con- the rise at the close, causing the Electrical of declining order books.
Company-were well
tinued l'attract interest follow- It is doubtful whether the market to anish 5 points higher placed to mest big demand in ing the announcement of their issue
this, to 2 points lower. Opening prices the forthcoming autumn as simple Apart from the difficulty of were unchanged to up points, winter months. meeting Russian ideas on fixed New Orleans closed up s to off Sir Raymond denied rumours
of mags will prices, interested
1 point, Arms
commercial production of run the risk of incurring con-
Trading volume and open in-for terests.in siderable losses unless
Shirley now the Exchange today the
Automatic Interest in atcels was dimmed they
Rayon Loom. He said work to- by the drag in wage have assurances that there will were: Month
Volume Oper interest wards the production model was treet negotiations. 23.05 be no unilateral variation of July
The Oils were slightly lower on 21.00 the contract conditions.
Oct.
Terminal market price duc- tunted on a mixed trade be-
tween dealers and commission
houses.
Dullness featured in the spot Then the rumours started. market where No. 1 Rss were Ifer besotted wreck of
quoted nominally at 23% cents husband returned to thryaten
a pound. Future closings: July by naming him
Sept. MET.
17
the Duke.
crafty MP sniffed the co-respondent in a divorce action odour of scandal and the dream world of a muvelling cockney child began to shake ominously.
The pace of the story slackens a Mury Anne meets her final retribution and drifis quietly into old age--and exilo.
Miss du Maurler has succeed- grand strategy. He recognised those by whom we were most the importance of grammar, deeply moved, but those whose ed in capturing the atmosphere Her description syntax, and vocabulary, but he
of the debtors peisth End tho insisted that it was by training pended on the firmness of their of the period.
ele- line, the lucidity of their ex- bock lanes of Fidet Street üre of the car that all other
intenso and ments of a writer's apprentice-pression, and their use of form, vivid and show ship must be ruled.
perve
na
not primarily to decorate their careful research.
1 said earlier
Dec.
May
July
21.15
24.15 21.25
United PreM. —
LONDON MARKET
London, June 23, The rubber market was quiet-
by steady with No. 1 spot Ras quoted at 19% pence per lb. Prices:
Jom/Mar.
is
€9,100
24,500 270,100
Doc.
45,700
409,500
Mor.
LONDON WOOL
May
20150
July
TOPS
Deo.
Total
London June 23.
Wool tops future market
closed today easy with turnover
20,200 284.600
8,300
2,000
220,310
20.000
600
100
700
109,900
-1,000,200 baleni *United Press.
.NEW YORK PRICES
New York, June 23.
and
merger plans, Studebaker, up of a point yesterday, climbed a point. Packard held un-
in the development changed.
con-
progressing very smoothy. amount of work involved in balance. converting an experimental Out of 1,137 issues traded, 430 : model containing so many novel advanced, 404 declined, 204 un- features, to a production model, changed.
been under-estimated.-- hid
The New York Stock Exchange bond volume was $3,040,000. Chino Mall Special.
The American Stock Exchange volume was 600,000 shares--- United Pres.
Prieds of cotton futures closed New York Sugar
of 77 lots. Prices in pence per today as follows:- Ib. as follows:
No. 1 spot Ras
1936-197
Settlement house
term:
Sept
Odl./Dec.
Apr/June
July Aug. Sept. Eslata crepe this
1914-1934 1946-193 101)-20
30-20 }; General markets, cif barls ports: 101-1034 10-5/10-104 MAY July United Preat.. September
October December
July
20-203.
September
page or to charm or astonish the story was unoriginal. So it LONDON METAL
dmbellished it carefully, giving
a of
to
PRICES
London, June 23.
October December
January March
33.87
1834-1534
100-1011
Sept July Oct.
35.08
53.00
33.85
14725-14775
Dec.
33.67
14424-1647| 1433-143 -141-14134
Mar.
54.04-05
May
34.10-13
July
Oct.
33.12
139-139-1
Dec.
B:3.0771
United Press.
130-130%
LIVERPOOL MARKET
135-135%
Liverpool,. June 23.
-United Press.
NEW YORK TOPS
October/November
ar December/Jantiary
Market
DOW JONES AVERAGES
New York, June 23, Dow Jones closing averages on Wall Street were: 30 industriale
New York, Jime 29. ". World No. 4 sugar Nițuires to- day closed unchanged to 22
Is Wilities points lower with sales of: 87 is alocká
10. bonds contracts,
-Unied Pre
Domenic No. 6 sugar futures Comm. future price index point
World futures oased on light
3120 Uquidation in a quist markėl, 31.18
pro buying order 5118 Cuban March/Aprit!
31.10 dominated in the domestic mur- “Oficial prices for spot cottoni,ket. Futuro: closings were; are as follows; Zgyptian Cizm 30%) cas 12.28 nom. Centanci "No. 4' (World).
Cotton futures, In pence per closed unchanged to 1 To what master Wis the their readers, but to communi-1s, but Miss du Maurier has
lb and based on American higher with sales, of 180 con- student to go? For an English cate their intention.
New York, June 23, midding cotton, 15/10 inch,truotr. man, the Authorised Version of
it precision and a new vitality.
-Wool tope closed today steady, ¦ előend today ar follows:- the Bible and a gróf part of Mr. Morgan spoke of the in-
unchanged to 15 points lower. the Book of Common Prayer, valuable discipline" of working Also, she has given the book
per lb.
· All metal markets were steady Frices in centa authentic tono particularly the Litany, might for a great newspaper, with its the
today. Pelces closed in sterling follows: absolute limitations of space wall
dn
and time biography by dedicating it authority.
buyers and its requirement of lucidity. her great, great grandmother, per long ton as follows
of Her name? Mary Anne Clarke. réad
[the One did not write slackly you Authorised Version] and hear it with self-indulgence when the R. G. HUTCHEON. rend aloud day after day and machines night after night, your our will become so experienced in the splendour and sweetness of our longungo that it Intuitively
W!!
Write
reject vulgarist. You may in consequenos
Copper, upot
Lead June
Tin
spol
3-month
of Printing House Squere muttered in one's, cars,
$-manth
Sept.
The young writer who had
Zina Jun
New Books
Bept.
NEW YORK
New York,
riot the fortune to be harnessed not by a great newspaper must great | Harned himself und be willKE || CRAME prose, But, st louit you will to work within the limits of have a vocabulary.
You will the medium appropriate to his have d
the nest subject By principle of nstrative in move aimselt & limit imposing upon ment; hat demription, lucidity; would lead to rid his proso of "- draina,, conflict of vidan, of superfluous fost arid torestie (MS) data fhöra ‘and more fécurately) In learning to write, two: the true relationsfilp«, between
were chilady necessary) subjert and treatment
things
Prices of metal fútur berill, today in US", cents, bari
July
sellers
24014
losed
4.7000 traded 2026 traded
3032 asked
.203,4, 1000
2013 no ofɣár
Mar Now) -2017 traded
Astumouri 2017 40.30
1000 bid 2004 "diniai | American midailing NNU 33.06 1945 bid 198.9 asked
199,5 nom,
1969 traded
Volted Prem
nge Rates
BIAM, ...
London
30,20
United ProM.
Foreign Exchange
July
CHICAGO GRAIN PRICES
Chicaro, Jube 23. | Closing, Prices
· Prides per bushel in cents: Wheat, No.. #. rod **
No. %,