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HOW HUMAN SHOULD
VICTOR
A GREAT MAN
HUCO. By Andro Maurois, Cape. 30s. 540 pages.
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UGO was a man on the largest possible scale: a poet, a prophet, patriot and, latterly, a patriarch. But the great man was all too human. The
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George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
prophet's mantle often re- (JULIETTE DRQUET, who vealed a lurking potticoat.
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names
of his masterpieces "Les Miserables," "Notre Dame de Paris" and the rest, Two million people followed the hearse, a pauper's hearse.
дя
most тел. But he had walked further, and climbed higher.
As a boy he had written in a in lived within sight of him.
"One walks To the end of his life-he exile or prosperity, but never notebook,
entered his house. She had heavily through life as one does died at 83--the weakness of been the kept woman of several through mud." With Hugo, the virility persisted; Indeed, it men; she lived to become a kind mud had been deeper than with grew more pronounced with of saint of unmarried love, age. And sometimes it led
ALICE OZY, a pretty model him into absurd situations. of whom Hugo competed suc- cessfully against his son Charles, It never occurred to the poet have been that Charles might upset by this Incident. motto was Ego Hugo.
When Hugo, the geal demoerut, accepted a peerage the Bourbon king. the from republican newspapers sneered, "Democracy, which he has in- sulled is now entitled to
well laugh. L hus been uvenged."
int
few weeks, democracy had added reason to laugh.
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PARADE
IN WILLIAM SANSOM'S new
collection of stories (Hogarth | FORTUNE IN
IN Hugo's
SARAH BERNBARDT, whe proposed to have a son by him. Actresses. literary ladies. political ladies. laundry girls, street wornen, all the amorous
10 panorama that figures diary, sometimes discreetly in the Spanish he had learned as
buy.
His father.
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT
PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
23
In 1883
Nazaire and two openly In Germany since the campaign, the St sailors walked war. Its appearance has taken Dieppe Taids, Holland and Bel- Press, 138. 6d.), the first and | A KITBAC Into a Ply- place less than a year after the gium, post-invasion Europe, the longest gives its name to the
German Government re- Arnhem landing and Germany. mouth shop with a kitbag-one West book,
It A Contest of Ladies.
Twenty-nino modern gained its sovereignty.
awards were that would make any
with Published in Buenos Aires, it made for valour in the Burma stamp collector delirious is a near-saucy trifle in which
It was full
of is distributed by a Nazi under- compaign, a similar number for (ex- excitement. 2 well-to-do ux-actor
Cape" postage ground centre in Berchtesgaden, North African operations (in- lead his romantic
in the
more "triangular
stamps.
a few miles from Hitler's cluding the Western Desert and rubusl musicai comedies) is
The first adhesive stamps, the "oagle's nest hideout in the Tobruk, Tunisia, Tripolitania. tricked into
The author is W. Von Cyrenalca and Oran), and entertaining 51x Penny Black and the Twopenny Alps.
believed to bea for Slolly and Italy. entrants to a beauty contest Blue, had been issued only 13 Asenback, and trapped into noticing that years carller, when Rowland Hill former Nazi who escaped to the
FAREWELL Josephine Baker, one of them is more attractive tounded the Penny Post In 1840. Argentine after the war.
SHOW
famous coloured For the thousands of stamps than the rest.
star of the old in the dtbag the sallors gladly
the Folies Bergere, is saying good- who TOP FOR Members accepted £5. The
bye to the stage for good-at bought them was named Stanley VALOUR Royal Regiment of
Artillery have won the age of 50. Her farewell per- Gibbons aud
today every philatelist In the world knows the Victoria Cross, the supreme formance in Paris next month 48 Limes looka like being the most
spectacular sell-out show
wernan. Adultery being then a
general, had criminal offence, the king had helped Napoleoni to hold down to Intervene
commission Spain. Hugo owed more to his the lady's husband, a bad artist, mother, a Voltairean who did but hod series of frescos not believe 11
in God to execute
her son's complete faith in ut Versailles.
genius.
Facile subject
GREAT man's failings are a for mockery. facile subject especially when the great man tras a taste for the "sublime" and is liable to say (le a pretty i am old. young congɔæriosi}. I am Rieng to see God. What a Tremendous thing What shall SAY" i often wonder. I am preparing for the occasion,"
Revealing the cloven hoof of Maurois thin uld pagan delly. never allows the true greatneMOS of Hugo lo slip out of focus. He remains a Titan, even when he is the victim of farce.
His first cup, the play "Rer- nand." was a revolt against the stately, classical French druma. Hugo planned the occasion like a general; with his admirers, who were instructed to crush the first
After the signs of discontent, fourth net, a publisher held out 5,000 francs
for In notes
the back rights. Hisges took the money reluctantly: he had only 50 francs in the world.
packed the theatre
Famous
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becomes win
that exening a diversion overlooks the altar in his path.
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Her style is statoly rother than convincing: **W*H the tipless yawn of the dead mouth vanked in slow sumeraquit
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The
his name. The centenary of his award for valour, business is to be marked by an the highest number awarded to exhibition In
be any Corps or Regiment. London to opened Keeper of
38,
by Sir John Wilson, Royal Engineers come next with
the Queen's Stamp
The Rifle Brigade lead the In- fantry with 27. The South
Collection.
Gibbons,
arc now
The
Queen's
the
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for many years. They say the seats are going to be entirely cupied by the diplomatic corps, Ministers and the rich and mighty.
from
have
the
time she was dancing in a skirt
Four operas WAGNER turned the Teutonic W story of the Nibelungs into four operas. EDITH SIMON 19 content to make une novel out The Twelve Pictures ',
to her only a youth Wales Borderers have 22.
Josephine is retiring (Cassett, 168.). She tells how using a cornT
21, model of his father's King's Royal Rifle Corps.
farm-hotel - waxworks Brunhikle,
where who really
loved shop
ho when
bought the and the Royal Fusiliers, 10. show in the Dordogne,
The Grenadier Guards, with she and her third husband, ex- Siegfried, plotted hip death "triangular Capes," resold some with Hagen.
of them at 8s. a gross. Today 13 awards, head the Brigade of band leader Jo Bouillon, they are worth £20 each. The Guards, followed by the Cold- adopted five children. The wax- Woodblock
"the varieties which he stream Guds with 12,
works show, called 9th sold at 3s, a dozen now fetch
Roya Jorama," Is a panoramic picture £225 each, and the rare Wood Lancers have won most words in of Josephine's Life, block Errors of Colour for which the Royal Armoured Corps with
14. he charged 4s, each
of bananas at the Folies. Crown- have Beottish regiments valued up to £1,300.
an ing feature is a life-sized model Gibbons made £500 on the outstanding record. The Gordon of herself and husband at their deal with the two sailors.
Highlanders and the Seaforth audience with the Pope a few Highlanders can boast of 10 years back.
years award-winners each. Among
American Too many young other regimerris of the High- wives are exploiting their hus- Booding bookstall land Brigade, the Argylls have bands by making them do too WHEN Ion Canning, narrator NAZI An amazing book which
new BOOK is PAUL SCOTT'S
gained 18. the Camerons four, much housework. "This is the of Sidone Gruenberg, When he criticised a govern-
stay
his friend Akin some observers believe, to start Highland Light Infantry ment, it had to pay heed; when Hurst,
on American family It is teen. slumbled upon
a new Nazi movement.
In the Lowland Brigade, life,
several bod he turned hostile,
books the
"who has written and one of many near-Nazi pretty tangle of miseries
Cameronians (Scottish books on the subject. drive him into exile.
West Rifles) have won 13, the Royal Thus he intrigues. Alan's mother drank which can be bought in HE ie which Maurois 373-
Mrs Gruenberg, who headed spent nearly 20
in secret. Alan's wife had just Germany today and which are Scots severs the Royal Scots folds. sometimes with
the Child Study Association of Guernsey.
left him. That was only the being published in an ever-
Fusiliers six, and the K.O.S.B. the U.S. for 25 years, smile, somciunes with emotion,
warned always with animation. Was When he died. reconciled to
start of complications that took increasing stream,
Laking women that they were Victoria crowded wh work..
Fifty-three political France, he was given the most Jan's mind off his own troubles Issued in a brown jacket to
remind its readers of the Nazi were awarded in the
advantage of their rights at the activity, bedraggled, or picture impressive funeral of the 10th his wife had left him). sque adventures, women:
century. The body lay in state
Amore-than-competent. out under the Arc de Triomphe: 12
of-the-rut novel, by the author French poets provided a guard
of
The streets wore of "The Alien Scy Eyre and honour, lined with
bearing the Spottiswoode publish al 153. masts
After a volem quarrel, his mistress. Juliette Drouot, writes: "Here are your letters and the handkerchiefs you returned to It is not mine. Later, mat Jullette set detectives to watch him, in his own interests.
THE
Crowded
E
ADELE, his wife, who be
but trayed him as a husband
wedded to his was faithfully
tame as a writer.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
EVERYONE
| RUNS THE RISK
OF TALKING
IN HIS SLEEP.
THERE'S EVEN A RISK IN GOING TO THE DOCTOR- HE MAY BRING UP THE SUBJECT OF THAT BILL (YOU HAVE OWED HIM FOR THREE YEARS.
EVEN IN THE COUNTRY YOU RUN THE RISK
·OF BEING MISTAKEŇ POR A WOLF
WLINUS
CLOON
the he was
richest writer in Europe, the most famous poet in France, a great personage, giving brilliant en- tertainments where the crowd was fashionable and the food indifferent;
be guests had to and "all sout stomachs in the cloakroom."
"Somersault?"
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leave their W
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contains
novel, A Mals Child, went LO errough political dynamite, the Black Watch 15 and the opinion
with
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The Risks We Take
IF YOU'RE. ALWAYS THINKING
OF YOUR
CALORIES,
YOU RUN THE RISK
OF MISSING
SOME
SPICY GOSSIP.
COPA, 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP,TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
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THERE ARE MORE RISKS IN A BATHTUB THAN IN A SUBMARINE—WHAT WE AKED IS
NON-SKID SOAP AND PRY WATER.
Ave
thir-
Crosses North-
an expert
Brown Shirts, and modelled in west Europe theatre in the last expense of their husbands
"Perfectly nice young wives
its style on Hitler's own book, war. This was the highest num- are pushing the men into doing "Mein Kampf", It is the first
1930 and operations between completely outspoken pro-Nazi to be won in one theatre of more and more housework be
that modern propaganda book
emuse they know 10 be sold 1945, and includes the 1940
young men are willing to help," she said.
BY
HARRY WEINERT
LOOK AT THE CHANCE YOU TAKE WHEN YOU
FORGET YOUR GALOSHES —–—–—– AND
WE DON'T MEAN WET FEET.
DON'T
|WORRY~
THAT'S
SAFE ENOUGH?
"ER-WHAT
TIME
IS IT?
REALLY / YOU HAVE NO MORE SENSE THAN A TWO
YEAR OLD /
NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ARTICLES
LOST OR STOLEN
"ABOUT"
TIME YOU ETC.
WHEN IT ISN'T SAFE TO RISK STÉME OF DAY
"Women who load chores on their spouses the minute they get home from the office, turn over the care of the children, and expect regular help with rude are in for a the dishes, awakening' one day," she added. "The men are likely to start doing more night work at the offee and going away on more business trips.
"Future historians might describe this as a delayed reac- tion to generations of wife- exploitation still all too fresh in our memories."
spar- FLYING Thousands BARON rows fly to England
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every year from the Continent of Europe, but onc is expected to arrive soon with- out the aid of its own wings,
After two years with the Forces in Germany, RAF Chaplain E.G. Altop, is to bring back a German sparrow, as a souvenir-but this is a special bird. Barno ven Vogel-vogel is German for bird was one of four motherless fledglings found by the padre, at Moenchen- Cladbach six months ago."
The Baron grew up to prefer. the comforts of a human homa and although he takes occas- glonal fights outside he always returns. Von Vogel flies every where in the house and is quite at home with the family, in- cluding the padre's three chil- dren.
When Chaplain Aksop moves shortly to Gaydon in Wiltshire, the Baren will be going along, 100.
"Little birdier" have hinted at Customs trouble at Dover, but the Baron has cast off all suggestions of quarantine, After all thousands of his relatives fly in free every year and he, too, could do the last few yards on his own wings, if he sa desired.
DOLLHOUSE A three-foot-
high, FIRE
Toomed doll's house, with asbestos - covered fittings, has been -built by Worcester Bremen to show schoolchildren and
youth and
other organisations how easily ftros can spread.
The house has hidden wiring and fires can be started in any of the rooms by the dick of a switch
Paralki-dampedrag produce - smoke,
effects.
Ал
arrangement of glass ACTORUM alrects, petrol *. fumes to show how fires might be caused by a naked flame in another part of the house,
The model shows 18 causes of Are. Examples include sparks on clothes alring in front. fired, towels? Igniting wover cooking, stove,): cigarettest chair or sofas, curtain Alt Dandiens; electric frode miér and sparks on PURE,