FICTION SHELF
-by PHILIP OAKES-
THE FOURTH WORLD.
By
Daphne Atlas, - Becker & Warburg, 18%. Harsh, sometimes strident American novel, wet in a school for the blind, whose head invista that jos of sight demands social chastity; #10 mingling of the sexes; no mari- nge for the blind. Alsing ten- on brought to Bush-point by a tragic
love
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 27, 1957.
MR. DONEGAN
H
IS LOOKING
FOR GAGS
IS chin juts out like a bleak poin- Stubborn, but unstubbled. sula.
The deep-set eyes are as frank as a French B picture. The nose is a dis- parabola that
between affair Mudents. At Its best when extinguished
posing the cruel world uf goes a long way to meeting adolescenta learning to Bve in the chin. darkness.
• ON THE HAYCOCK. Leslie Kark.
This turn out to be By Anthony Donegan, formerly Michael Joseph,banjoist in traditional jazz 15%-Unemphatic, but effective, bands but better known to story of a doctor (threatened by
n Lonnie Donegan, and day the return of blindness), his the four women in life. monarch of the skifile music. Rather bmp hero, hut must In- telligent grading of his love, sacred taking in the profane, easy and romanite Narrative meinders here and there, but covers a surprlang anoint of
ground,
• THE HOUR OF LOVE. By
Maxener
Meersch. Van Der Kimber. 164. Posthumous novel which rompletes the: trilogy. The Poor Girl. Told in the Brat person by factory-hand heroine, with literary layer att snobben in-laws. Utterly meere, unbear- ably polerral.
RECORD ROUND
by RAMSDEN GREIG
"fle's planning." the
man leave the flat he has wys, “lo in a hore owned by his ladd in-law in Worstead and bulld nhouse of his own in Woodford, Flat life is difficult new that he has twee vars."
Confident Mr Bonzean may
When 1 met him Mr Donegan was sprawled un regally across a sofa in his be, but he does not deny the Hippodrome, dressing-room. fact that he is studying He had come off-stage after comedy patter of the music-
had he
touring and that
a spirited and perspiring his time is available I will performance of his super- probably learnt to dance." charged folk music.
ORGANISED
Such
MENON-the villain of the Suez piece
ACCORDING TO CONNELL
THE MOST IMPORTANT COUNTRY. By John Connell.
Cassell,
161. 240 pages,
So
O many lies have been told about the Suez crisis that John Connell, in assembling the known facts and presenting them in a readable and convenient form, per- forms a real service.
Here is much that is already The Suez polley was a failure, half forgotten. It should not That is its suficient political It is the duty be forgotten, and certainly not condemnation. In Bellain, which uns nothing to of polietaus to calculate cor-
recily. be ashamed of in this record.
A British Crossword
Puzzle
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accomplishments, he says, would be an insurance against the remote-to-Duncan day when the bollom do: fail out of als world and ske muste becomes old hat,
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In the street outside group of agitated fans were chanting: "We want our
THE PIONEERS. by Jack Lonnie," and a minor mem- Schoefer. Druise. 8. Cil. Eleven stories of the Old West her of the business organi
Mtaawhile, between glutees at gas book, Lonnie Dengan
by the author of Shane. No gunsation behind Mr Donegan Nights at high, but a was chanting: "Buy the bents out hi skille music. sturdy, sensitive prosling of the official kit of people who helped biography."
sirape a country.
No
Donegan Lonnie
I told Mr Donegan Top Ten 1st. Its latest Putting "Business seems as brisk on the Style (Nixu 78) gets the WOMAN OF STRAW, by
And added On turk Destan allacking treat- as ever." Catherine Arley. Collins, 12s. 6d. Huthless Csay In Crime and behalf of the traditional jazz ment trom the fast groove to punishment about a pretty Ger-parists: "Isn't there just the label. than war orphan who tricks an
in millionare into marriage, one tiny sign that skiffle is intending to grab his fortune on the skids or ruck-'n-roll Sinunon-sharp understanding of on the rocks?" avarice.
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Now Mr Donegan is negotial- 29 ing his third American tour,
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I looks as it it will be some considerable time before we see Mr Lonnie Donegan as a music-
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Mr Donegan, who through his nose in ap alino
THE GALLANT AFFAIR, coherent Irld-American el patter-and-dance man, after by Hank Hobson, Cassell, 11seen and talks off-sage throu
in strong Cockney
"We're
Gà. London-based, American his mouth accented thriller about a lough seed with Scots suid,
eye slugging his way still having a ball and I think private tuuh vice rings and Soho we'll go on having one for a nobs, in search of a missing long, long time.”
. Strictly sub-Chandler, but sete ingenious and not exciting,
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OF
in-
THE EVIDENCE
Air
stay
Further
tho evidence FOUR CASE FRIENDS, by J. C. Masterman. Donegan is certain that skifte Hodder & Stoughton. 12. Gd. and Donegan are here to Sulty study in pre-detection, and will continue to bring him featuring Dr Brendellawyer in a weekly salary that how Estimate at serhinologist-who foresces business fitneters the murder of one of four almost a hundreti tlines as much friends. The problem is Who us ho get playing a banjo,
by Supplied will do what, and to whom?
-(Lontion Express Seruter),
1
manager,
his business
I'VE HEARD
20
The elegant little voice of Nocl Coward deals with numbers of Noel Coward in New York (Philips 33). Like Vegas it Noel Coward in Les has its quota of naughty (but elever) Tiems. Best of this batch Is Why Must the Show Go On?
considerable im- Iucte tovement in technique on the Kaye Sisters test, The Ricky Tick Song (Philips 70).
-(London Erpress Service).
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"HOW DID SAL
MAKE OUT -
WITH HER
PARKING
TICKET ? TELL US
ALL
ABOUT IT!
ACHONB
Islan elty (55
4 Fil and starts (0).
Walked purpo:efully (d).
10 It's on target (0).
12 Mirrored likenen? 10).
14 Quack remedy 17).
Americans waisteost (4).
19 Ambassadora (7).
20 feet of furniture (7).
22 Sharpen (4)
2 Angry outlkirsta, (7)
a lot out (0).
20 Cut off a syllable (5).
30 Gives up (8).
3t Furrtaste? (01.1
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32 Fashionable manner (8).
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1 Actor James 18).
2 Early Birds? - (5),
3 Lowest point (5),
He's fively smag (4).
"When day is done..........
7 Walks cocktły (0),
Strive to equal (7),
11 Where's Reco7 (5).
11 Agreeable characteristic (7).
15 1 taken in court (4),
15 Played a Huto? (6).
Like dead wood (4),
20 They've got something (0),
zi How boring it is
(8).
24 Gulding straps (5).
25 Girl's plaything (5).
LA Simer in song (5).
Loyal and true (#1.
FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD-Aerom: 3 Trenchier, & Oval, 9 Treating, Sentient 13 Stud, is a streich. 13 Saturday, 10 Tar, 21 Pocketed as Alderney, 20 Tree, 27 Assembly. Down: Bora, 2 Lawn, 4 Rare, 6 Neat, 6 Hoist, 1 Rigid, A Tues, to Enact. 12 Eases, 14 Usage, i Talon, 17 Husky, 19 Tiare. 20 Aidre, 21 Prom, 22 Cell, 23 Tyre, za Duet.
SUG
The Interrupters
"YOU WERE RIGHT MISSUS, IT IS ANTS!
KRISHNA MENON Totiable hatred,,
Britain's political leaders last year under-rated the world's copacily for self-righteousness and over-rated the nerves and KM- clear-headedness of some of their own people here at home. Bucz, however, was not, at the tinie, considered in terms of travesty in a tense well-ordered success or failure. It was pre- narrative which does full justice sented as a morality play sad to Eden, supported by the public, at UNO with Britain (and to a lesser extent, France) cast for the role of villain.
of
Rarely in the history of man- kind has there been such
aside undvereal drawing sldrts come of them distinelly oiled, from any contact with the wicked imperialistic ag Cressor, Britain.
by
GEORGE MALCOLM
THOMSON
but struck down by illness at a moment, when every physical tid mental reserve was needed. Dulles is shown na serpenting and blundering, his mind Jabyrinth without an exit, and Krishna Menon-if Connell has villain it is Menon-is de- picted
Agure both malignant and preposterous, a viperish wind-bug A busy- body with an insatiable haired of Britain,
Connell believes that the decisive factor in producing the collapse of the Suez polley was Bnancial-the loss of 84 anillion dollars from Britain's reserves. Until the chlef actors speak and Mr Sebley, Russian spokes Government departments give man at the UNO Assembly, his up their secrets this account tune's puratively dripping with should
Hungarian blood had the efron-
etund as a necessary
tery to speak of Britain's "record of an outbreak of inter-
national hysteria. Other of the Egyptian people."
* more respect- nations, slightly able but still very spotted in JAM TODAY. By Oriel
221 pages.
record. were almost equally Malot. Golfancs.
decent
158.
divorced from good sense,
"Game of
the more am.CF.g them were shef's of doubt,
Mc Thus Cabot Lodge, American repre» rertative at UNO uttered a sud- den agonised cry when he found hiquicl in the name camp as the Russians.
But he did not paure long enough to EUTT out 13 characters u shade more
which original, confusions
its situations more had brought him and others to subtly contrivea? Maybe. But such an embarrassing pass. one cannot have everything.
wild by Youth high spirits, two E- Ush girls in Paris, artists, conde conelerges, the French what more docs a book need to make it readable than Ingredients like these? Jam Today might have been a little better written,
the mental
UNO had become regarded as
a court of morals. Yet it was allowed to pretise two ethical standards one for the good, a lower standard for the less good -one in Sucz aud another in Kashirt.
The outcome was an utterly distorted situation in which the victims of lawlessness were branded as criminals, cheap Kiventurers donned the mantle Britain, of respectability, and Jed by a man who has as neute a sense of international ethics as anyone alive was practically drummed out of the society of the law-abiding. Connell brings his reminder
to the pubile of this sordid
By Geoffrey TILL SEVEN.
Dennis. Eyre and Spottis- woodc. 18s. 208 pages. EOFFREY DENNIS in his task new book attempts which calls for exceptional de- Hicacy and literary Lacl: his autobiography down to the age Dennis has a good of seven.
a writer of re- memory. But miniscence must select and dis- end as well us remember. And Dennis recalls too many things that do not bring life to his story.
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