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George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
THE SURGEON OF ROME
PROBES THE SPIRIT OF LOVE
A GHOST AT NOON. "By
Alberto Moravid. Secker
LRERTO
last, when the
her heart is set
and Warburg. 12s. 6d. afflicted him until 25 and
action opens, 223 pages.
has left him with. a limp. been able to give his wife what MORAVIA His first novel, The Time of home of her own
on-a decent Emilia has began his career as 4 Indifference, was completed longed for this house as novelist early, before before he was 20. Its tone passionately as
other women he was completely cured of suggests that Moravin was long for children. the bone tuberculosis which born
Riccardo to please his wife. (Rome, 1907) dis-
stcrifices his OWN dream of serious literary tame and be- A later novel slyly glancing at comes a well-paid script-writer Mussolini's love affairs was to a film tycoon named Battista. passed from one terrified. Fascist to another until at last
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it reached the Duce himself, ordered it to be who first
and.
published
on, second thoughts, forbade Moravia to write anymore, under his own
name.
During the Nazi occupation of Italy Moravia was tipped off that the SS were about
to
pounce on him; with his wife; he spent the next eight months hiding in a hut high up in the Apennines.
A symbol
He survived the hardships of war to make the most remark- able Action reputation of the post-war era especially with
of Rome, The Woman down-to-earth, deeply human story of an Italian street-walker
29 ORRID Italy fell victim to Fascis...
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ME
PERSE CANDID
ACROSS
1 Kind of wine (6)
4 Defect (5)
7 False (6).
8 Musical note (5)
10 Small hail (4).
12 Akin (7)
15 Observed (5)
16 Ripped (4)
17 Incites (4)
19 Manservant (5)
20 Plece of furniture (7)
21 Set in motion (#)
~...~
23 Enticed (5)
24 Very hot (6)
25 Concise (5)
26: Frank (6)
DOWN
1. Tripped (8)
2' Alienate (8)
3 Put to fight (4)'
5 Disturbs (8)
6 Hang around (6)
9 Tree (5)
Bundles of documents (8)
12" Carousal (5)
13 Walked feebly (8)
14 Lowered in character (8)
18 Kind of bird (8)
22 State of stupor (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across:
3
Monsters, B
Esteem, 9 Repeated, 11 Attained, 12 True, 13 Debit, 18 Delay, 19 Used, 22 Dastards, 24 Continue; 25 Errand, 26, Elements. Down
1 Debar, 2 State, 3 Merited, 4 Omen, 5 Sued, 8 Entire, 7 Sudden, 16 Musele, 17 Seanca, 20 Broad,
10 Poril, 14 Began, 15 Tatters,
21 Aside, 22 Dine, 23 Suet.
DEYISIZ EETTA
-
ine
MORAVIA 2003 he born disillusioned ?
"
with is more brilliart_predecg- sor, The Woman of Rome, obe important quality: an assiduous and unshocked attention to the truth about men, women and their relations in love and out of
PARADE
À COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL “ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
BELGIAN ✨ Belgian police, Said the
engineer: "It was Dentists have finally realised SPORT trying to break the touch and go. It was all we that no matter how pretty the cock-fighting boom, could do to keep from being nurse holding the patient's as good as admitted last week pitched cut of the cab by
drill hurts the head,
just us they were fighting a losing shock. But the engine was too
have devised a battle.
big for him." -
isn't even a drill. It looks like
.
the
much less drill-which
soundless,
a finely sharpened pencil with
Every Sunday morning, police port. 50,000 Belgians watch NEW BLACK The biggest wave an electric lead at the end. It or smuggling works on the same principle as cock-fighting, outlawed 25 years MARKET
since prohibition
4. road-mender's pneumatic go. And the sport is becoming 30 popular it is taking away days has broken out along the drill, but with greater delicacy supporters from Belgium's two US-Canadian border. notione sports-cycling and it is not liquor but wheat, Exer
GEORGIANA: Extracts from correspondence of Gear-
Defying police measures and giana, Duchess of Devon, warnings, the cock-ighters have shire. Edited by the Earl made their sport one of the most of Bessborough. Murray. The stars are the cocks them- highly organised in the country. 25s. 308 pages.
CEORGIANA, first wife of the fifth Duke of Devonshirt, was a great beauty (In spite of the evidence of portraits); a wild gambler-forever deep in debt; a Whig hestes. At the climax of her political career, she kissed a butcher in the Westminster by cfection of 1784, thus obtaining six votes for her candidate, Charles James Fox. Sailors hired by the Tories roamed the town singing.
than she
I had rather kiss my Moll With all her paint and finery. What's a Duchess more than
woman?
We've stunder flesh on Ports
mouth Common.
Fox won the seat by 236 votes.
also
selves ferce, tough birds, their beaks sharpened and with steel spurs two inches long attached to their, scaly legs.
ofter the
It is a serious business. While the cocks, often named their owners-like "Jack Miller"try to cut each other to death there is no cheering. There
**ahs** are just murmured "oh"
bird gets home raking stigh
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2
The
and
Throughout Belgium the sport flourishes defiantly has an industry breeding 200,000 cocks a year for fighting and its own Belgian organisation National Cock-ighting Federa- tion with 10,000 paying mem- bers, which provides referees for the Sunday morning bouts, and even
even publishes a widely- read monthly magazine.
The federation presidem is. M.
A
But now and finesse.
With an ultra-sonic frequency Canada has developed a new type of wheat, known as Selkirk, of 30,000 cycles per second the hears nothing, feels that is resistant
to rust, Te patient
no fear of conserve the first supplies for nothing. There is United States have been banned, ash in the gum, no need for her own farmers, exports to the the drill slipping and tearing a the hitherto constant battle with the dentist pushing the drill and the patient doing his best to get
In Canada the new when sells at $3 a bushel, but Ameri- cans are offering four times as much if only supplies can be away from it. smuggled across.
And for the patient who is dentists have Phil Hoghaugh, US Customs still nervous,
gimmick of collector at Pembina, North thought up a new Dakota, says that already 1,000 soft music and soft lights as B bushels of the Canadian wheat psychological the have been seized by bardar against
"anaesthetic". medicated
patrols, and this is believed to atmosphere of the surgery. be only a fraction of the amount that is slipping through to the NOW WE Comfort for those world's newest black market.
4
NOT TO M. Dubuis, the Paria BE SHOT Prefect of Police wno successfully rid Paris of the sound of motor-car horne has new declared war against the capital's pigeons.
While admitting that the
off.
who will worry KNOW
and then дом about missing British diplomats Burgess and Maclean:
Sir Percy Sillitoe, ex-chief of Mi-has written his memoirs,
without "Cloak
Dagger." notes on Burgess Sternly, he and Maclean: "I can only en- truth
Georgiana's letters are those Rene Dugallaix, a stocky ruddy- Pigeons are part and parcel of age the inescapable of an impulsive, affectionate,rced farmer, who says "Co the Paris scenery, M. Dubois that no shred of legal evidence has ever been available against any of them which could have unhappy woman And to whom aghting was practised by the disclaims the general belief that they belong to the city authori- write her warmest ancient Greeks 2,000 years ago, ties and has authorised owners does she
served as
for the grounds of a worda?
warrant for their To her "ever dearest They encouraged their children
issuing Bex her "angelical anget" to appreciate the sport. So do of apartment blocks to kill them arrest."
have gone, The horses may a sensual, simple-hearted girl
Lady Elizabeth Foster, who was we."
It a arose because a Paris but the stable door was locked who is (Moravia cialms) What is strange and puzzling to not only the Duchess's closas! symbol of modern Italy. For him is
municipal councillor complained all the same. that this new area of friendl but
the Duke's
READING One local bookseller that the capital's pigeons had prosperity coincides with a mistress! Woman)
in the ancient uri- Adriana
the numerous that (the
was change in Emilia's feelings for
become so What a strange trio they were: HABIT
versity town is doing
British-born Anita ruined by
duke, him. She begins to despise her Ponderous
glamorous
Roddy-Eden Man- What am the quallies in husband.
But why? What lies tuchers; acored mistress and booming business, In the mid- cleaning of fouled buildings and PIN
pavements was something that MONEY Moravia which have made so behind her torturing coolness friend; a sister to them, but also die of Britain's national news the Council should attend to and
ville tells a New paper strike, he put a sign out- Powerful an appeal to a public and the attraction she begins to the mother of two children by side his shop: No newspapers. Pay for "if it is true that the York court she is so poor: that
the Duke.
Have you ever tried reading a pigeons are the property of the she has had to move into an $8 a week furnished room. She City of Paris,”
Tomuny Surprise was that hundreds of The pigeons, says M. Dubois, only gets $1,000 monthly from
husband estranged students apparently decided to belong to no one. They can be Manville, the asbestos heir. To give it a try. After the sign had exterminated by anyone.
Mrs Manville this is pin money. been up half a day, the book wishes to do so-but they must she estimates her husband's
be mared, not shot.
fortune at $10,000,000 or more.
every
murderer.
while he tion
tomater worries at the ques-
man
collaborates
book? 'Dearest Bess' Lady Elizabeth was daughter of the Bishop of Derry, who became Earl of Bristol and spent £20,000 a year on art.
seller had a queue.
•
•
"Music in PAINLESS
who
But Mr Manville, who boen married nine times
numbered in millions? He feel for the vulgar, dynamic keeps his narrative in brisk Battista whom she had formerly movement; his probing into detested? character goes deep, but the surgical work is quickly done, His subtlety never leads him uneasily with Rheingold, a Ger- director, on a new fish for into obscurity or "preciousness." Each new-revealed facet of per- Battista, a screen version of The to some Odyssey. sonality corresponds
which Only at the end does he realise truth about humanity
in contrast to Battista's reader can recognise.
forcefulness, his own His view of life is harsh but, greedy if there is le
sensitive nature appears compassion,
con- there is a want of comrade temptible to his wife. He is not man. He is someone who is are all in the mess ship-we
ons given orders and a salary. He-has-few-illusions; together
The only hope of saving big" There is no no cynicism. hibitionism about his bare, taut Battista and all he stands, for. ex marriage is to break away from And his characters are But by that time style..
it is too late to marked by the imperfection of life-thus even in the worst of put things right. Emilia has left in Battista's car and is killed them there
because he can't stand the Ray, is something not as a result of his too virile wholly bad.
driving.
In his new novel. A Ghost at The story of a defeated-love, Noon,
Molteni, a put into the mouth of the van
Riccardo
was
best -
have de
rally and came of sound-from anaesthetics-weekly?!.
БОЦ
and
Her mysterious hold over the Duchess is, perhaps, explained
while by the fact that when she came TOO BIG Hippopotami. into the life of the Devonshires, FOR HIM Portuguese East DENTISTRY you drill" is the had no such protracted trouble
Africa
theme of the
getting rid of eight previous of Georgiana, after seven years. clared war
dentistry on railway trains, ultra-modern
court he is wives, tells the disappointment, began to pre-after at least half a dozen. In- hibition now showing in Paris wove to his last
two million. duce children. Her dearest Bess
cidents in which maddened hip- where everything is done by So he opposes her suit for $1,000 had brought her luck. Georgiana
..to the rest. willing
pos charged. to overlooks
crews were cavity-boring. Everybody was pleased, and
warned to keep on the watch when Georgina died Elizabeth for the animals
and, where god in her place as Duchess possible, to come to a halt when hippes appeared on the horizon. of Devonshire.
But last week the tables were windows opened by these letters, turned. A glant hippo charged family life at Chatsworth is seen
a locomotive, got caught up in to be a game that three could the whirling wheels, and turn
ed into hippoburger.
Through
| struggling journalist "has at qushed, A Ghost at Noon shares play.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"DO YOU THINK I COULD
WEAR THIS
TO THE
OFFICE 7'
WHY NOT?
NOT ALL CUCKOOS ARE IN
CLOCKS /*
THIS IS THE SEASON WHEN THE MALE BIRDS COME OUT IN ALL THEIR FINE FEATHERS ——
LAST YEAR.
IT WAS A
•
BIRD BATH-THIS SPRING ITS A FISH POND:
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING
HOW ABOUT A SPANISH OMELET
A WELSH RABBIT AND SOME · DANISH PASTRY FOR A CHANGE ?
NE WAY TO SOLVE THAT URGE TO TRAVEL
the
fascinating
Signs And Portents
— NOW, ABOUT THE F
PICTURE WINDOW.
IN THE LIVING ROOM
AND THE......**
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CORP. IM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
FROZEN FOODS
VEGET
SPRING MUSIC TUNING
THE OUT- BOARD
There is now new hope for-
week BELOVED the man who hasn't been to the CRY THE Into London
dentist since, before the Wer
Jast
bowled Johnnie three-
crooner the
half-deat thought of that, buzzing, whirl- quarters Blackfoot Indian, who ing, devastating drill and the
smot into fume, four yeurs aNU horrible hygienic atmosphere of with a song called "Cry" and hus the dental surgery.
been
keeping the teenagers crying with him, ever since.
Mr Ray announced he had
liked decided that he
the English Especially the reticent and oh-so-British English.
BY HARRY WEINERT
"""THE AWAKENING
OF SPRING
SPRING
· FEVER. -
HOT DOS
PREPARING FOR THE ANNUAL BATTLE
WITH THE CUTWORMS)
SPRING
IS HERE WITH ALL THE WORKS.
Peeling a lemon, he explain ed: "They treat me just like the kid next doc
After three years of being mobbed in assorted corners of the globe, he found It rather pleasant.
*SOL" be mused, "when they tear your clothes off, it Isn't so bad. It's when they stay away that you have to woTTY."
MONKEY Monkeys BAN
threaten an international trade and
diplo matic crisis between America and India Washington sent an urgent order to India for thou sands ot rhesus monkeys, Urgently needed for infantile paralysis research and produc flon of polio vaccine, the order said.
But monkeys are revered in. Hindu mythology. Indians are complaining to their govern ment about exporting them to America. So ban went up. and now six thousand monkeys await shipment
The ban is going to
to continue until India gets assurances, thất the monkeys are needed for the worthiest humanitarian pur poses
LOST AND Nearly one million people disappear FOUND
In America every year. Most of them are not Reasons financini "troubles, mother-in-law troubles,
criminal,
for
teenagers' desiree S
on 12
In the
years one. I'm of sleuths for missing persons have tracked down: : 74,731 wandering husbands, only 4,820 missing wives Wives do not of
coumerum. away pag MAGD BAR
The com
company's best record
husbands.
тесото
was made
ade in finding 184,450 missing shareholders to force money on them. The share- holders had forgotten about dividends due to them
THE BIC England's rose is in
the lead to become: SNEEZE
America's national. flower by net of Congrem. But, a strong anti-rose opposition is appearing
The anti-rose people demand that a zative wild flower be:
The Herald Tribune
Hod
picked Golden
PRODOSES
Writes zesder Mulford Colebrook, sarcastically: “You my Golden Rod might serve as an senblem of some of the "finest American qualities Hayfever perhaps?”