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FLIGHDERTOWN
BOOKS
1
by
WORTH
OF DIAMONDS FLOWN TO BRITAIN
000,
JAMES
AGATE
"Lord's," by Sir Pelham
Warner.
(Harrap, 158.)
៥
by WALTER
This is paradise for
Cricketers
on
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effecting his purpose; for that mis- chief was too precious a thing to be thrown away."
And here in the last:- That the heart was seat of hatred, and the countenance the proper
It need hardly be said that this
some could want to know about Lord's is of affection and friendship." motion. He stood there like fine animal baffled at the uselessness here. To say what is in this book of great strength and effort in this would be like drawing a map world. A companion, led him to the pavillon."
"Lord's" is a great book by a great cricketer who is niso a great sports- mon and a great gentleman.
Lovely writing! Exquisite writing!
the Acnic of a mile to a mile. book is a masterpiece of irony.
Its companion volume offers mag- nificent contrast.
Jests And Jeers
As Runyon would have described a wolf is a broad-minded guy,
Rail-car, pushing seems to be very popular in China nt the moment, Useful training in case of a con! shortage.
*
A man is never so weakens when Bomo woman is telling him, how strong he is.
Herbert: Wot's a minimum wage,. Albert?
Albert: Wot yer gets for goin' to. bit more yer does a bit of work. yer work. It yer wants to malto a.
The worried father hurried to the hospital where his son had been taken with a broken leg and myriad cuts and bruises.
"What happened, son?" he asked. The girl friend and I were jitter- of Kellynch bugging." the boy explained, "when
HERE are two ways of writing about cricket-the. Only it is just not accurate. I saw flowery and the matter-of- every ball of that match, and re- "Jonathan "Vild," by Henry Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man her old man cane in. He's deaf and
fact.
Go. back with reader, to the Match of 1890.
me
"Persuasion," by Jane
"Sir Walter Elliot,
Austen.
tage." (Hamish Hamilton, 6s.) THESE are the first two volumes
my mind's eye I can see low, after Australla had made the winning hit, Afty years, Richardson, Instead of standing still Manchester Test like some dazed animal, legged it Australla had been to the pavilion and got down two sel 125 runs to win the match. points before anybody else. The in a new series of world master- Twenty years later our greatest point is that in 1996 Neville Cardus, pieces. Nicely got up, well printed, and convenient wrote the author of that mafestle piece of attractively, bound,
pacitet. about the end of this wonderful prose, if he watched the game at for the
all, watched It from behind the bars
It is good to see "Jonathan Wild" of his nursery window. He was again. This is the story of the thief-taker who himself came to the
Wild, who had the gallows. notadence of all the petty thieves in
critic of the national
Kame
seven.
Sir
Pelham Warner
Ic
does writes with пис
and and **
con-
took up any book but the Barone- me out the window!"
There is no question of choosing between these two works.
Read both.
"Theatre Organ World,” by Jack Courtnay.
(Theatre Organ World, 218.)
Luxurious
Living In Luxembourg
Stowed in strongboxes of British air- liners, more than £30,000,000 worth of un- cut diamonds have been flown into Britain during the past year. London is now the
game: centre of the world's diamond trade.
"With nine runs still to be got, Kelly gave a chance to Lilley at the Chiefly, the diamonds came back to England from Canada of from mines in Africa.
organist, the young gentleman After industrial diamonds. There were wicket, and Lilley let the ball drop fantasticate.
at balls off the wicket to others, the end. When he was in the
to hang them, kept his charneter to
who bobs up in a lighting half-way being sorted in the Diamond consignments, each valued at £800,- to the earth. The heart of Richard- straight bat, and leaves the flicking town and then used that confidence W all of us know the cinema;
con might have burst at this, bul
сан PUL The difference, between him To the end he strov
and the crowd was throwing stones between seasick apricot and billous: ove Cardus Trading Co.'s office in London,
it did not.
that between Grace and suffered. Australia
at him, he applied his hands to the peach to perform at an Instrument by Ranjitsinbi!. won
Grace
leaned they were redistributed to cut
and three wickets, and the players ran against a ball, and it was at up parson's pocket, and emptied it of purady o glutinous version hurd Britain because it was the centre ters in all parts of the world.
thera save boundary: Ranji waved a conjurer's out of the world in his hand."
his bottle-screw, which be carried a of Schu- Mr Dale, in the Diamond
from the field--all of Richardson. He stood at the bowl wand, and a small boy picked
The bert's "Ave Maria," followed by of British recorded commercial ing crease, dazed. Could the match mugle up and threw I back.
the book ends with 16 maxims of equal "Momma's Go to Swat dem Flies." radio entertainment in prewar Trading Co.'s oillees in Holborn
have been lost his spirit protested.
service to the Dictator and the small- After which the slick young gentle- Viaduct, casually showed single
Could it be that the gods had looked In his new book "Plum" tells the time gangster, Here is the first of man bebs down and the business of days, is enjoying prosperity un
the evening la resumed. stones worth £10,000.
known elsewhere in Europe, if on and permitted so much painful story of Lord's cricket ground, tells Wild's maxims:-- Atriving to go unrewardedz Is it nobly, and four-squarely, und "Never to do more mischier
But suppose it isn't a young gen
not the world, today. body st shook from violent plainly. Everything that anybody another than was necessary to
the tleman? Very well, then it's an old one. And I hold that there is noth- ing less pleasing than an old gentle- man floating on a strawberry cloud with a puce halo.
"The Diamond Trading Company." said Mr Dale, "andles 95 percent of We diamonds. the world's rough buy they from a non-praft-making institution called the Diamond-Pro- ducers Association and then resell to various firma who cut the rourth stones into tenis.
"We are constantly despatching
stones to all parts of the world and
Another occasion which called, for a special guard was the arrival at Heath Row of £750,000 worth of diamonds which had been used for the Aga Khan's weighing ceremony.
CANADA'S
BIG WAR
EFFORT
In addition to financing her always use air transport for this pur- own multi-billion dollar
war
Duse," he said. "Small consignents effort, Canada contributed near-
of stones we send by ordinary airly £1,230,769,231 worth mail. Larger packages travel as air freight."
supplies,
of
war
foods and materials to her allies and When a very valualile consignment liberated countries,
Kold bullion { ** of precious stones or arrives at Landon Airport a special armed guard meets the airliner as it taxis into disperant.
This is revealed in the Canadian Mutual Aid Board's Anal report re- cently tabled in the Canadian House of Commons.
the
the
THE LOVE OF MUSIC
HAS GROWN
By DYNELEY HUSSEY
Music Critic of The Times
to
is
Luxembourg, City, known in
There are plenty of goods from every part of the world. The reason is that Luxembourg, with a small population,, has a big steel in dustry, and steel is currency any- where.
Agriculture engages 90,000 per- sons, who cultivate
308,173 Acres, mostly cats und potatoes.
Escaped Great. Damage
What this book does not reveal ts, what cinema organists
Luxembourg is the capital of the do during Duchy of Luxembourg, which covers thore three-hour was Tschaikovsky who first made they are not ladling out rubbish. tion of 250,000, of whom 57,000 are Intervals when 500 square miles and has a popula them appreciate the worth of music It is, to me, difficult to conceive in Luxembourg City. as an art and as a recreation of the more dreadful life than being con- mind. From Tschaikovsky most of demned to three or four 20-minute
spells of work with nothing to em them had ventured further Lentil ploy the rest of the day. However, they game to enjoy the masterpieces cach to his taste, and if a man of Beethoven and Mozart, und even determined to be a cinema organist of J. 5. Bach.
in a pentumbra of mashed pine- apple there is nothing to stop him.
The important mining and motal- NE of the remarkable fea- Hall, London, (since destroyed in
lurgical industries produce annually The vogue of the ballet, which has tures in the cultural history the air mids of 1940). The late Sir
Certainly this book will give him 5,200,000 tons of Iron ore, 1,550,000 of Britain during the past 50 which are still flourishing under the enl entertainments in England, may what it sets out to do brilliantly, furnaces, employing 3,815, and seven Henry Wood began these concerts, become one of the favourite theatri- enormous encouragement. It does tons of pig iron, and 1,500,000 tons of steel. There Are 35 blust extent for the And, to be perfectly frank, I the Dominion furnished supplies and years has been the renaissance in patronage of the British Broadcast- account to some
especial popularity of "Tschalkovsky's thinks that the hundred or so cinema steel works employing 2,100. The precious cargo is then un-materials tailles 2760.3720233 the musical world-a survival ing Corporation.
music at the present time. His organists whose portraits are given loaded
The war damage la estimated at after being passed and
inasterpieces in that form are sure here look any less handsome, artistic £100,000,000 sterling, which the through Customs is rushed to Lon-tween September 1, 1943 and Sep-both of creative activity and of a
tember 1, 1945. don in n car with an armed escort.
they are given.
of, shall I say, book reviewers. billion forms of the art. Indeed, with So great has been the volume of United Kingdom as well as
but they object to their standing army, consisting of three battalions,. traffle.In precious stones on British- doilar gift-about CA307,700,000, out this awakened love of music
They are asking £160,000,000 re- South American Airways routes that
In addition Canada contributed in the ordinary citizen, the chief all the corporation's alrliners
parations from Germany,
Luxembourg escaped any con- now fitted with a special strongbox.
siderable war damage. Outstanding cargo of valuables of the past 12 months was the shipment
Armed Guards At Airport
fre
ROBOT PLANE
WILL FIGHT
on now weapons "just round the corner."
The scientists' aims are:
Under the Mulual Ald Act alone,
pro-
can't
Of this £649,892,307 went to the greater public interest in all grammes the "Proms" contained a to attract large audiences whenever for Intelligent than the same number Luxembourgers do not mind paying.
£47,384,015 to UNRRA, £20,230,709
with Beginning
popular certain amount of symphonie music, but were at first largely devoted to lighter works. Gradually, as public eliminate the more trivial things. taste improved, Wood was able to
works would have been annual opportunity for rehearsing the bulk of the classical repertory wanting-British-composers-and of making an acquaintance with would hardly have achieved a wide range of modern music. their high rank
the among
VISITOR TO ENGLAND creative artists of their age.
in military, relief and gave Grecce incentive to the production of The concerts eventually became an
£5,846,153 worth of wheat.
-Mutual-Aid --
According to the tabled report, as tually 38 per cent of Canada's total Industrial war production was con- tributed to the cause of the United Nations through mutual aid.
new
upan
BY
by
THE WAY Beachcomber
THE
The white frackles on the laurel
bush
Do not prov That
Mongolian Rovers
Lack of coke has caused the steel works to drop to 65 per cent capa city, but still they are producing cnough to give the Luxembourgers
well-fed existence.
ed
Food From Holland From the first, Tschalkovsky, Tor About 20 per cent of production Not that England was ever "the
has had conspicuous meaning of much con- in question?" asked Malpractice, example,
Most of the essential food and "No. Her was absent. went into Canada's war effort and land without music" of German place in the Promenade programmes temporary verse, said
Idairy products are imported from 14 per cent was produced for the fiction. A vigorous musical tradition and has never lost the popularity critic the other day, is not al-thought Fang had it with him." Holland, and Switzerland in return
persisted even when the standard of which he acquired early in the ways clear at a first reading. him?"The day Unlied States.
"When did you last see er for steel goods. of the The remainder went to the United British music was admittedly at its history
concerts. His ROCKETS
Try the following:
before" replied Every home is well supplied with Kingdom, but was paid for through lowest. But this was a tradition of music had been heard and nd-
Walver. I walked with it in the coal. Kingdom claims against choral singing, stronger in the pro- mired in London, for instance,
garden behind.........”
There is a customs union between. British and American
vinces than in the
of the august
short: "Yes?" pro don stopped
Tes?" prompted Malprac-Belgium and Luxembourg, A pro- Eg- Royal Philharmonie Society. The
tice. The don remained silent. "Be-posed customs union between
Hol- scientists have been trying since Mutual aid to Australia totalled than of creative compepois, rather at the concerts
£28,115,304.
land
relied for her opera and her composer himself had come to Eng-
hind the buttery?" suggested the land and Luxembourg, due to start the end of the war to make
music Other countries received aid to the orchestral
foreign land a few months before his death
every clergyman in delective. Eyes," said the don, in March, is opposed by the farming, weapons for completely auto- following value: British West Indies,
Merioneth is a demon: execularis. Composers were con- to receive the degree of Doctor of
as though reluctantly. Not until a broken shutter
Malpractice population which fears the com matic war.
£ 1,607,848; China,
£12,228,307; tent to copy alien models in default Music from Cambridge University, Yet Tachaikovsky was still an un-
Blows the wind off its hinges.
made a hasty note, and dismissed petition of Dutch agricultural com- the historian curtly.
modities. That is the secret behind Mr. Noel-France, £7,724,015; Greece, £3,682, of a living national style.
India, £5,702,015; New Zealand,
known quantity to the gene
ral public
It is from "My Ode To What
Luxembourg Goverriment ask. Baker's statement in the Commons £4,701,231; Russia, £51,463,076. PARRY AND SHELLEY
in England. His success
the Other Can." and its hunting music
he Big Four to approve annexa- audiences at
at the Promenade Con- has already been commented on by
tion of a strip of territory one to The renaissance is usually dated certs was instantaneous, and, unlike those two pimply little gadgets who THE constructive statesman who eight miles wide on the German from the production of Hubert so many passing fashions, his music look as though mice had gnawed
suggested that international frontler, so to get control of the Parry's setting of Shelley's "Pro has remained
established.
their clothes for many a day.
affairs would present fewer pro-loselle River and to build a dam railway on the castern bank of the metheus Unbound" in 1800. The
Ever since Tschaikavaky 9
blems if
we could organise cricket of that work is appropriate to won its popularity in England, Murder of an Elephant (V) matches against
on the liver Our, to the north. Kusslan occasion of the release of has made converts to the art.
teams noted, I hope, the atmosphere of English music from foreign, and People who have hitherto taken no TIMIDLY Mr. Walver, the history cordiality and affection in which
German, domination. mainly
interest in ne particular
musle
don, faces lynx-eyed Malpractice. the Test Matches were being played 1. 38 m.p.h. 2. A city of Bombay activities of Parry and his contem- attracted to serious concerts. This "I understand," said the delective, in Australin. Speaking for myse),
poraries were certainly symptoms of
of attraction was conspicuous "that, on 2-An antidote to such rockets; new Isle of Man, (b) Arran. 5. Public fish musicians a better
4.
power (n) new movement which gave Eng- ly manifested during World War II. Bingo the Elephant." "That is so." see an Uzbek eleven at Lord's and a occasion, you exerolsed] It has long been my dearest wish tố type fighters which would guide
of Musleal people who have come into "Are you very fond of elephants Bashkir fifteen at Twickenham. themselves by radio on to the target house. In 1737 tax was imposed themselves.
contact with young men and women "Not inordinately. I think it For соп- rocket. The fighter would fly even
in the Armed Forces confirm
have
When her contract with Metro- faster than the bomb.
Hannibal's been began strong impression. ΣΑΤΕΣ numbers
which awoke my
Goldwyn-Mayer expires in October, Installed "Act of Parliament" clocks some 15 years later. Like all suc- of youngsters, whose previous musi- thinks it must have
interest When within a certain range it in their bars. 0. St. Leger, 1778.cessful popular movements, It urose cal experience had been confined to terrup would blow Itself up-almost certain-7, Solid old or silver. 8. Lord Win- spontaneously among ordinary men the
in is reported that Paul Whiteman 1049, child star Margaret O'Brien dance-band and the
may retire from the screen, her mo- "But cinema terrupted the detective.
wore Jun., son of the "King of Jazz," ther said recently. by using atomie energy-destroying terlon, D. The sun. 10. N. N. E. everything within a radius of a few
and women, it was neither inspired organ, have had their interest in you not afraid of looking foolish is calling himself the Crown Prince
Margaret, who is 10, plans to enter nor imposed from above. Among more serious music aroused by hear who had never looked anything but Years and years ago Mr. Harris, the object of graduating when she
with such a charge?" Mr. Walver, of Jazz. Too Inte for the miles.
Joke. San Francisco convent school with the notable manifestations of this ing something by Tschaikovsky, revival of interest in music were the In
interview of foolish in his He, with or without the Sausage King, introduced his is 10. Promenade Concerts ("Proms") patients in a naval hospital recently, an elephant, simpered. "Did you son as the Sausage Prince of Wales, She will then decido whether to established in 1894 at the Queen's nearly all the men stated that it exercise Bingo on the Wednesday or so I was told.
· 1-Long-range' rockets, guided by radio, which would travel at a height of 100 miles at more than 8,000 mph, could cross Britain in 14 minutes, and could easily carry atom bombs.
Solf-guided
This might happen at so great a height that nothing would be heard
on the earth. Tho only nows would
bo the disappearance" from radar
ARE YOU SURE?
title
ANSWERS
the
(Questions on Page 9)
India. 3. Proverbs 25, 25.
on clocks and watches, venience of customers tavern Keepers
Crossword Solution
Solution to yesterday's puzzle-
screens of both the bomb and thự, Across-1 and 7 Down, Now or fighter, possibly replaced by a signal never; 4 Harp; 0, Orion; 8. Einu; 10, representing
cloud
The
popular
concelt
movement
broodedst 0
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10, Pith; 19, Acon;, 20, Realm: 22, Punch; 25, Roc; 26, Ha-ha; 21, Re- pugnant.
activity.
Back for moro
3-Moro conventional pilotless
Down-1, Notepaper; 2, Orango;
bombers, which would return to hose 3, Wine; 4, Hen; 5, Parchment; 7, See for more bombs after a rald (at 1 across; D, Noe; 11, Trench; 14, 1,000 mpli or more) and work, Apex; 15. Tiarn;, 17, Lone; 21, Loon;
throughout the 24 hours.
Plotless fighters to
counter
them. Solf-homing devices would be
included in the fighters,
E
Defence
against
atomie rockets,
mely dificult, is not
although extremely
Impossible, becnuta it is very un-
likely that, any country will ever have, many tatom bombs..
The explosive type of uranium is scorce and difficult to `make that Fery large numbers are out of the Question,
23, Use; 24, Hag,
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