THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 1959.
THE CHINA MAIL INVITES
A STORMY YOUNG AMERICAN WRITER TO TELL YOU
ABOUT HIMSELF...
Because his
the impact on books is mounting
world of books is
PEOPLE of outstanding talents, which sot them apart even in the highly-competitive field. in which they work-these are the subjects sought by the China Moil to give their personal attitudes to their carcars and the world. Today, in an interview with JOHN CRUESEMANN, the speaker is a fast-rising force among novelists commanding attention in many, lands
outside his nativo America. ‚ ‚'.
THE chief thing in life
is to learn to appre-
by TRUMAN CAPOTE
every
Who really held sway behind
the door of No. 10?
THE POWERS BEHIND THE PRIME MINISTERS, BY Sir Charlos Patrie. Mec- Gibbon and Koe, 21.
by George Malcolm Thomson
.rkimmed, with only , mental exértion.
In pursuit
might
BIZET AND HIS WORLD. By Mina Curtiss. Socker and Warburg. 50s.
bidding. Mina Curtiss has only herself to blame. In her enthusiasm, she has pursued her nubject down too many by-paths.
·The, outcome le a book' ' about twice as long as it need be...
SIR CHARLES But for the most herce and cer him," wrote Sandans to the phy looks for
PETRIE brings ist J. S. Bandar
Influential of the men on Patrie's Bolibur. "The King's authority private in matters political ought not be them blinking into the secretary to the laziest Prime enlarged." sunlight which, in their Minister in the whole modern history of Britain, Arthur
Like most men of his kind days of power and glory, Balfour.
·Sanders Bad strong personal prejudices. For instance, he di from which, they were careful to "One has heard of the New liked Bonar Law: "I have just fascinating material may be dug avoid. They are the per- Woman," said King Edward VII, beard that Bonar Law will be up by the industrious. sonal assistants of most. "but Sandars is the New Mán," elected leader of the party in
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of the Prime Ministers His authority
however, some
Clear view
The composer of Carmen was the Commons. In this. cam the son of a French hairdresser. At His first night, Carmen was paign he has been run by Mr Max Aitken, the little Cana-fallure. between Disraeli and
dian adventurer, who sits for Bizét lived just long enough Chamberlain.
The energetic lieutenant of a Ashton-under - Lync. Aitken to belleve he had fathered a flop sickly and indolent chief, Jack practically owns the Daily Ex- and not long enough to know The list
He la with Sandary opens
acquired a political press and the Express has run its ultimate triumph.
supposed to have died of da Monty Corry, whom Dis. authority which probably no Bonar for all it is worth."
appointment; in fact, an un- raeli first saw at a house private secretary at Number 10
But Sandare's greatest hatred seasonable addiction to swim- WOR reserved for Churchill. ming in cold water proved fatal. party at the Duke of Cleve has had, before or since. land's seat. whom he mado Moreover I doubt that any
his secretary and who country has a younger ghero- tion more startlingly talented in founded the Rowton Houses,
feld: Marilyn Monroe Marlon Brando.
closes with Sir Horace lved my childhood in the for two years, and there I wrote and much as to love your south: winters in New Orleans, my frat book, "Other Voices, J. D. Salinger and Flannery Wilson, the confidant of Neville painter Morris Chamberlain and joint author of In Alabarna and Other Rooms." friends. Having enemies summers
It was enough O'Connor, the Georgia. warded to read at of a success that 1 have since Graves, Leonard Bernstein and Munich. It contains the figure develops a certain
a pré-Bitol age, and after bern able to write what I chose Jerome tobbins one could go of that Dustere Whig, Sir
the length of a telephone for worlds, at lo and at my own pace, which on toughness, like the sharp words reached
Remember these names Algernon West, who was Glad any rate, atmospheres, beyond slow. skin of a barracuda, and the Southern mental-landscape, My ambition is to write because they will be remember Alone's private secretary.
n fell was firm, clear prose that involves
"During Churchill's last gives you strength so which instinctively
For une thing is readers in a world of my owit
Premiership, ys Petrie, here that mentally you be "I have been an individualist making which is at the sume America. If you're good-you're was no one who dared to talk
since my first day
to at time somewhere in their world successful. This may sound a
him freely save Lord more alert and ever
school. I have always lived the
philistine thing to say, but It la Benverbrook, and, during Glad life I liked. I have never skip-
true, thank God,
stone's last Premiership the only ped a pulse beat over what
exception was West."" others thought,
ciate your enemies-as
come
agile.
I was born 30 years ago New Orleans and raised in various parts of the South.
my enemy.
in
I
can
was always rude and fond of telling people the truth: some- thing most people ind un endurable.
A certain viulence of attitude
in the South brings this about. Yet for all that, the South has
No jumble
tov,
I have lived in A great number of places, and by lived mean really had a house and People who "play the game" stayed there: in Greece, in Italy, lose Spain, Africa, pod the West
often win. But they
all the same because the most indles. I have travelled exten- important thing
remain sively in the Orient, and over a
yourself, and you cannot always period of years stayed four do that by conforming.
months in Russia.
My education has been rather do-it-yourself. To this day I
A myth
Four months in Russia is like four years anywhere else. For
me thing the day-to-day bu ness of existing is so very
a nostalgia for me because it cannot rectie the alphabet or has a cohesion and a definite the multiplication tables. "culture" which the rest of the think it is because the rst United States lacks,
teacher in the first setool I went to used to slap my palms with a ruler when 1 made tiring. Just getting a meal mistake on these matters. So Ja restaurant — no one cares just refused to learn them. especially whether they serve I suppose it was the begining you or not; often you spend as
rebellion, Perhaps
long as two hours coaxing savage lady did me a favour.
One of the things that makes the United States exciting is its Jumbled population. Now the South is not a jumble. It'd like a European country. It has unity. That is one reason why It has produced so many writers of quailty..
the
Do you realise that most of
front-rank names
of
Loathed
the
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meal out of the kitchen. Now it is all very, weli dawdling two France. hours over lunch in But Soviet cooking is not quile so compensatory.
The lust school I went to
i had When Europeans think of loathed the headmaster.
How good it is to find England American writers they usually already started writing short full of Angry Young Men and
They Women. think of Hemingway, Steinberk, stories when I was 14.
These people have Ini Morquand. Not so.
weren't too bad. Anyway, some talent and something to say. of them were published.
A few nights ago 1 say the
It' When a national contest was im "Room at the Top." American literature really are held for the best short story Arst rate. Some of the younger Southerners? Take Faulkner, produced by a schoolboy, the men and women bere have Thomas Wolfe, Katherine Anne dreary mas!cr was certain 1 undefeatable vitality. Porter, Eurdora Welty, Ten- would win the prize and provkle Not so the equivalent "Beat”
Williams,
Carson Me him with a little glory. 50 generation
writers ins Cullers, Erskine Caldwell left. I was 15 years old. 1 America. The fact is most of them are nol weilers at all. although he gets no high marks never went to the school again from me.
My frat and last -- regular They are typists.
nessee
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of
"automotie"
between url
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and
In just the same way the job was with the New Yorker They believe in average American rates Somer magazine when I was 17. I was writing ostensibly for thera- BCL Maugham the outstanding engaged on the Talk of the peutle reasons. But there is Ilving writer of Britain, whereas Town pages, but unfortunately difference they have not really heard of E. M. Forsler. And while I con- sider Maugham admirable, he is not quite in the same sphere as the excellent Mr Forster,
I looked no young that they therapy. never dared send me out on any assignments.
It i
A myth though that America is, as the Russians say, After leaving this steady job "Nye Kulturn" If anything, I "retired" to a Louisiana form they are too culture-conscious.
'Make the 'ghost' told Anne Heywood
the roses soft'
by JOHN LAMBERT
ANNE HEYWOOD, the screen actress who wants to be a pop singer, huddled nervously on a high stool as she heard the results of her first recording session.
Sald'she: "I don't think I have from ber beginnings as a beauty ever felt so alone as I did queen,
in front of that microphone,"
not
NERVOUS MOMENTS
But her willowy Ogure end Miss Heywood, "25 and darkly her wide blue eyes could delceleble, is Usually very help her in the recording studio. ussured girl. She has needed to When you sing the word
sold the present 'roses,” '
disembodied te, to notch up her rating as the actress most in voice of the recording manager demard by British film stuxllos, in the control room, "sing It softly. You are fine when it
ANNE HEYWOOD,I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER FELT 80
ALONE".
come to kisses, but your roses are too hard."
New-girl Heywood nodded i humbly, "That is the difficulty," she said, "As an actress you get used to using the visual asos that God, the director, and the make-up meni have given you. Here all the personality you have has to be poured into your volco, It's for from easy,"
The top rank chiefs are impressed with Miss Heywood's progress they are even more impressed by her determination,
It was that quality fiut got her the recording contract. Sha Way cast as d night-club singer In "The Heart of Man," the new film in which she co-stars with Frankie Vaughan..
“Naturally, we can dub your voice."" alis, was #mured." "I play the part retorted Miss Haywood, do the singing
· Inyself, **
She did too with surprising
· smoothness. Now her firat duo, "Love Ia?" will be released next
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JACKY'S
DIARY
弟弟
JACKY MENDELSOM IN AGE 32
Power.
By
to an THE SLEEPWALKERS.
Arthur Koestler. Hutchin- son. 251.
He acted as Balfour's cars, he When Balfour, on becoming made up the Premier's mind for First Lord, allowed Churchill to Admiralty House,
the courtesy. him; be even called his Cabinets stay, on for him.
Sandars rogarded as a weak rurrender Sandars supported Balfour, In
claim enemy. He turned his back on resting King Edward's renda raht to see the his old chlet and never spoke to papers on which Cabinet deci, him again.
were reached. "It is
"OESTLER, describes, with impossible for us to yield in a
dramatic power and this kind," wrote
perversity, how the astronomers matter of Ballour who had a pirenk of Cecil toughness in his make-up. Petrie has written on illumin. Tycho Brahe, Kepler and Gailed
groped their way towards Sanders heartily, agreed.
ating litle book about some clearer view of the universe. When Lord Bath was appoint- men (and, one woman) who, The story is very long and, in ed Under-Secretary for Indio, mder strong Prime Ministers, places, hard to read. But the the King thought he alwould worked obscurely and, under dedicated reader is rewarded by have been asked to approve it, weak ones, wfolded power. Incisive portraits of remarkable, "The appointment of under Petrie, who melues no sensational tormented men of genius. secretaries does not directly con- revelations, can' be read,
Yester Day Saw A Movie Picture about
MOVIES
the Wiles of CODO Africão
She wanted to find A Lossed Treasure So She asked this Hunter to hELP her Hunt for
it asthe Saip No, But after he SAW Her MAP he finely said O.K.
MRA
Right Away they got into Lots of troublesta GUY got ate by a Crackerdial
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Now Play ING "A AFRICA LMOVIE"
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some
-London Express Service.
could tell right away it Wooden bea good Picture cause it Had A Girl in ite
So They Hired Some People to carry they ne Packages Started Walking in the Park. Which is where she must of Lossed it
The Parks in Africa Are Like ouns » EXCEPT the animals arent Locked up which is Lots More
Fund
Another guy caught a sick Ness called Berry Berry So they Bernied
Which is what you get from eating too many Berryso
Emely after Lots of Tribes & Tribulations They found the Lost Treasure Only it turned out to Be Just a bunch of Diamonds
Good BUY
EsPeshully for
animals
After that, all the People who carried the Bundles got scared & RAN AWAY SO THE MAN & THE LADY had to keep on Looking
alone By their self.
Then the Hunter Mustof GOTTEN CIAZY From the SUN CAUSE he started IN
ADD VICE
FOR
but they were Happy and GNS GIL CHILDREN
that was THE END
HAT
Your Walking in the ha Africa, You must t
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