THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959,
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LIGHTHOUSE AT
THIS
LAGUNA
FINGERPRINT!
IF YOUR SON TURNED OUT. TO BE
THE THIEVING SORT YOU'D FEAR ITS TELL-TALE MESSAGE, ITS CERTAIN HEARTBREAK FOR YOUR FAMILY
MAIL BOOK PAGE... by GEORGE MILLAR
SMILING DAMNED VILLAIN,
by Rupert Croft-Cooke (Becket
& Warburg, 18.).
PAUL AXEL LUND,
Reading, wrong about Malaya and that meer he abominated. where he occupied B2-3, Oscar "our Ilves can only be saved by Wilde's cell, was "the best nick love." in England."
д
Miss
Chinese To
Ling, whom sho rescues, Finally, with a false passport, "terrorist" he left England un the hot bildes, and finally grooms into womanhood, the eless bun (the run), and he all-American
wife
"Don't Jays: I'm American,"
seems to be resigned, it restless, manager's
in his present billet, where ME.
for motor
THE ENDING
a Birmingham boy going six-and-eight (straight). who went so wrong one Sales of burglar alarms, sales, may say he never went and security locks
public resistance to Ling, who is beautiful, con- right, today runs a bar cars, also
with tinues to plot secrelly with the con-men, should increase
Immensely "Lerrorists," twelve feet by twelve in the sales of this
while all French- men on the plantation become the hot international readable book.
dangerously aware of her attrac- tions, port of Tangier.
The Malayan background
BOOKS IN
The walls are pasted with nowspaper cuttings descri- SHORT ing Lund's robberies and convictions.
If you order a whisky and listen the air will crackle
with the proprietor's patter
is competently painted.
on
This novel is written in unFrench manner, almost as an allegory. It can be consumed in a series of im O THE STRANGE DEATH OF visually
and there is CASTLEREAGH, by II. sequences, LORD Montgomery Hyde, ALF. (Ifeine- brilliant twist ending when the
On August 12, nauseatingly Bweet mann, 181.)
1822, the Foreign Secretary, who benefactress after 10 yenra of consistent not spoil it.
of brass-nucks (knuckle overwork had lost his reason,
American
... but I inust
dusters), tom (tomfoolery cut his throat and died. Was RITTER jewellery), tickles (thefts). Viscount
and Jack Ketches stretches),
"They done A
(woman) for 4
Castlereagh, second
Marquis of Londonderry, the
(prison victim of blackmailers? Some WOP
will disagree with the Andings of this book. All will find it
mort readable. hundred
• CHILDREN OF THE
nicker," Lund may re- ALBATROSS, by Anals Nin minisce. "I warned 'em (Peter Owen, 151.). A strangely built round- she'd conger. She did." dreamlike novel
Djuna, dancer in Paris, a Conger, from conger cel, women who demands from men means squeal.
lenderness rather then passion. Mr Croft-Cooke has set. A fasemating piece of writing tled in Tangier among his
dogs, flowers, and early BITTER
English watercolours. He
induced Lund, the unre- 'GIRL'
pentant scrowsman, to
come regularly for luncheon and there spill out his life story.
Lund was bom in E.sy Street. His father,
Scandinavian importer, leit £100,000 when he
EL
died recently. Not the cast IN
THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, by
Amanda
Vall
(Becker & Warburg, 124. 8d.).
TILL THE DAY Robert Markel Warburg, 15.).
I DIE, (Becker
FRANK CANIZIO, who
de-
scribes himself as "a sawed- off Wop," a today 46, a year older than Paul Lund, the ex- crook mentioned earlier. This story of his. Jite, two-thirds of It lived in American gaols, cao with the greatest profit be read In conjunction with Lund's.
Born in a New York slurn, from the age of five Cantzio breathed The harsh air of orphanages and learned to hale his father. "I leaned over to
and took my father
a big
Ben-
IN "her" successful first novel healthy splt right into his face. terrible aspect of Lund's callous Vall described the determined attempted
"Love Me Little Amanda At 15. he was charged with
murder and dedication to Thievery and
schoolgirls tenced to three years in a boys' he bas efforts of American
to find love. In this book
the prison. Released, but with same girls, now at a New Eng- record, he was wrongly charged According to these confessious lend college, find 1. In Eendly's with a hold-up and brutally
trickery 迪 the pain
caused his family.
he stole from his mother at the case-she is the central charac sentenced to 15 years with hard
age of eight, and before he was terits sourness has n moral labour.
12 was screwing (burgling) significance.
neighbours' houses in Wake
However,
'Green Road, Moseley, Birming ham. He stole, because he led character,
dis-
He studied law until he the wrking in in "covered the legal flow in his sophisticated, and own conviction. Il. He was a strong and vicious very lively. Amy, aged 10, and Aghter.
CROOKED.
After
he
had
in love with the fletion-writing teacher,
murmurs:
Aller bitter disappointments, "After all, he managed to petition the there's more to life than Supreme Court and entirely by marriage,"
his own efforts secured his own acquittal.
"Lord, I hope to Emily-
attacked replies. "When one thinks of This is a great story, Canirio, master at the Junior of Solihult one's parents jt is to be now married and in California, Grammar School he was a cadet appalled." for the Merchant Service, which further toughened him.
told in tapo recordings, and Mr Markel has moulded li into "Amanda Vall is the pen an astoundingly vivid book. When he was 14 he half- name of an entirely masculine killed a bigger boy with his Greenwich Village writer, Mr dats and his foot. The Juvenile Warren Miller, aged 34. I find Court; £10 fine; a year's pro- his giris genuine and attractive, bation. Then he went to seu though fashionably bitter.
in the four-masted, squaro,
rigged Herzogin Ceelite.
A long spell of Army service BITTER
in India followed. In a way he
was a good sekiler, but he was RICE
always crooked. The war came,
and for him & ́was only "a pro-
per mug's paradise."
He made money. He sold Itallar pistols to the Americans, wold stolen brandy to the Aus trallang, and while running coolhouse at Abasia
and
a
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Fierre Daulle, frans- itted by Eichas Howard (Becker Warburg, Ha, ed.).
1
*****
Barracks, Cairo, pocketed a dishonest £80 a week.A KOCHAINELEE M1 and du
After the war he ballemed on our England of coupons
author of "The Bridge'on the River Kwai" shortages,
Frequently the law, his hated. VEEL VAN enemy, nabbed him. But, be claims it as a viatory that by rubber,
THE TRAVELS OF JAIMES HOFHEETERS. By Robert Lewis Taylor Macdonald 259.
THE Californian Gold rush of 1849 lured a strange, assori- ment of people across the American coaliment
In this long novel, buind ou thorough research, we follow the hazards of one little group as seen through the eyes of a small boy of fourteen,
Jalinle is a tough kid in the M. PIERRE BOULLE is the Huck Finn tradition, who sur- viver every imaginable sort of adventure, from falling of a paddle stearner into the Missouri The French manager of a to being captured by bandits north of and kidnapped by Indians. NA plantation
- Ho...aurvives "even" a-rascally; drunken old doctor of father
the age of 43 he had done fewer, Singapore has an American wife than eight years in price, Dart- who believes the British are all
love with RE
who is bull up by the author into rather too folksy o'chirac- ter for my taste.
-(London Express Service).
ND ENCOUNTER:
by ROBIN DOUGLAS-HOME
THESE EYE-CATCHING disc jackets all have one thing in common-and it's not the record inside!
America.
WI
COVETE on
from
Socompelling- this look at
a boy's island
ARTURO'S ISLAND. By Elsa Morante. Collins: 154. THIS novel, by the wife of the Italian novelist Moravia, has been awarded a high prize in Italy. One soon sees why.
A frat perhaps,
may When the boy is just reaching strike you as too literary and adolescence, the father turns up artificial. But it will not be one day from Naples with a long before the intensity of young wife, a poor bedraggled its vision and the vividness of little Neopallion girl, not much its description uf a young older thon Arturo. boy's mind will win and compel yeur attention.
a
I la the story of Arturo'a childhood and adolescence on a amall land off Naples, which houses a state prison. And a most unusual childhood it is.
father has inherited Hin
AL
large, old, rambling, utterly neglected house, and father and son live or rather camp there alone.
Restless.
You may have noticed. together with the approval of Those compelling, beauti- the record companies. fully printed long playing, deplore It. We have imported
Sald one recording man: sleeves tend nowadays not the trend because it saves costs
This father is a half-German, to have any connection with to use the summe
of romantie appearance, and which come
neurotie habits; some inner rest the music-apart from the albums
lessness is always driving/ him titles.
"But doesn't even help to Away from the island and bring It is an old technique in a
ing him back. When the It is on new deld;
woman appeal, this sell the records. Sometimes we he thinks nothing of going off time to get discs spinning. In chuck them out and
for months at a time leaving the America the "chresecake" cover own covers.
"We And Briush fans Uke child to live an entirely solitary has converted. dize bars into
pictures of the artists or bands Me. virtual glamour parlours,
in action." cover rivalling bookstalls for girls,
It is getting a hold in Britain too. But not, apparently, ol-
JACKYS DEARY
JACKY MENDELSOHN AGE 3/21⁄2
make our
So say I The music should
be good enough to sell itself.
-{London Express Service).-
Last night Mommy read me A Story called Re Little Red Riding Goods only it turned out to be A Fairy TAIL*
Thrown back on his vivid imagination, the boy roams the leland, swims and rails, and builds up his hero father into a precious legend.
*Which means Probally Didn'
Even HAPPen
Fiercely ¿catous at Brat. Arture soon sets that his father is really es indifferent to her as he is to him, and gradually hila suspicion of her turns to love.
It is the uncosy passion of adolescence, too proud to declare itselt, too strong to be stified, and excellently described and
dramatised.
But to complete the painful process of growing up. Arturo has finally to be disillusioned in his hero father, and this comes about in a very well worked climax when the boy discovers that there is now another rival : for his father's affection in a young convict from the pelson, and a successful rival, too.
Intensely wounding though It is, this discovery gives him just the shock he needs to push him out of his self-enclosed island existence intp the work outside that has to be faced.
1
RICHARD LISTER
-(London Express Service).
She was called This CAUSE SHE ALL Ways WORE A REd Coat which was Good for ・When SHE WENT Riping..
We
Except This Time SHE WAS WALKING SHELE SHE was walking in the Woods, SHE MET A was going to Visit her Grand Ma Who Was Talking Wolf who talked of asked Her Where she Sick in Bed With A bottle of wine & a WAS GOING So Little Red Riding Good Told Him Basket full of other GooDies
Wine
©1959, Kirg Forums Syklicate, the World rights Reserved.
WHEN THE WOLF got To The Grand MA'S HOUSE THE BUSTED down THE DOOD) garbled Her ALL UP
RAS
& what big. The BETTER TEETH YOU GOT ALSO
to chew you
WITH MY
Where You Soing
Then he PUT ON THE GRAND Ma's Night Gown & gor
into HER BED
[5-31)
I'm taking it
To My Grand MA WHOSE SICK
Finely Red Riding Good came in ONLY her Grand MA Looked real funny So She
SAid
OH What Big
GEARS YOU SOT Grand Ma.
the Wolf SAid
TO CLUTCH YOU
THE BETTER
with my Dear
So THEN RED BUT JUST THEN A MUNTER FOST ADD VICE Riding Good by & When He heard all That
saw it rEALLY screaming he came in for CHILDREN WAS THE Wolf Shot THE WOLF insteade So she Started
into Holler The Way GIRLS do ALL THE TIME
HELP
ANG
Before You Kiss
Your Grand Ma
BAN MAKE Sure You Look
at Her Teeth first
Your
Friend TACKY