Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
1. "Have you no wit, man- ners, nor honesty, but to gabble tike
tinkers at this time of night?" asks Malvolio in "Twelfth Night," He was re- ferring to
Late sitting in House of Commons, midnight carouse, nightingales in Olivia's
den?
2. Whose
ilteac
Manassa
AL
nicknames
var-
Arc
Mauler, Ambling Brown Bomber?
3. A logan stone is→ Pip of loganberry, rocking stone, petrified timber?
two in-
4. One of these struments
A cuphoniums.
Who is playing 117
5. Robert Stevenson, grand-
father of
for his
R.LE, was famous
Locomotives,
lighthouses,
novels, South Sea exploration?
6. Paurity means
Fatness, fetoness, poorncas? 7. The only Hylog
President of the U.S.A. Is— ‹
Calvin
Coolidge, William Howard Taft, Herbert Hoover, William McKinley?
Blounty
8. Queen
1
A
Anne's
gift to parents of triplets; distribution of bread to the poor; fund from which clerical stipends are augmented; award for valour?
fer
0. Which does a golfer pre-
A birdie, or an eagle? ·
10. In what cities
you And these thoroughfares
would famous
(a) Deansgate; (b) Sat- chichall-street; (c) Princer- street;
(d) Corporation-street,
The Swoose Is A Real Bird
An odd bird known as a swoose has been hatched on a farm at Cen- tral Hawkes Bay. The swoose is a cross between a swan and a.guoso.
The swoose is now several weeks old, the only chick hatched from a clutch of six eggs. The other eggs addled.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.
"STREET
OF NOBLES" IS
TO
Foreign Office Ousts Savage
Foreign Secretary's Residence
And Crockford's CARLTON.CONS
By H. L. MCNALLY
ARLTON House Terrace,
418
royalty,
society, diplomats and clubmon have known it for over a cen- tury, is to go. On its site, just off Pall Mall, overlooking The Mall and St. James's Park and extending on each side of the Duke of York's Steps, Britain's new Foreign Office will be built, Umcials, tranported from Whitehall, will work in a modern block replacing 10 noblemen's mansions and the present Foreign Offfee, too small for modern 'require- ments, will be available for another department.
But on The Mall side all will acem the same as it was when John Nasti |designed the facade and saw it built in 1830. Royally driving from Trafalgar-square
Buckingham Palace will see the same view on their right before they pass Marl- borough House ns Avas geen by William IV.
SAVAGE CLUB
Former.German Embassy
MINISTRY OF NAT, INSURANCÈ
HE
F.O.
UNION CLUB
Duke of York's nice M
{CROCKFORD'S
CLA
L
GO
Cat. Astor's house
Carlton House Terrace the shaded buildings are already occupied by Whitehall.
Three famous cluba: the Sayage, offices and blocks of fats should be frequented by artists, writers and banned actors; Crockford's, by card players; The Government of 1047 has and the Union, a high-standing social, decided otherwise. Already half the, club, are secking now homes. They Terrace has been taken over by the have been told that in little more Foreign Office and the Ministry of then a year the builders' men will National Insurance. - arrive.
"The Ministry has been very good about it" sold Mr George Baker,
honorary secretary of "and" has told us of a number of bulidings about' to bo derequisition- cc".
1
The Terrace included some of the finest private mansions in London. Lord Palmerston, Lord Curzon, Lord Balfour, Lord Kitchener, Lord Cow--- dray, the Duke, of Roxburghe and Mr Gladstone lived there.
At the end of the Terrace adjoining Queen Mary's home, Marlborough House, is the newly decorated No. 1 Carlton Gardens, official residence of the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin.
It is now painted a bright creamy yellow and is the house in which Lord Northcliffe died in 1927.
Poison Gas Experiments Ended In A Big Sneeze
A sneezing powder, so powerful that a handful sprayed into a hall four to five times as big as a metropolitan theatre would set the entire audience sneezing violently, has been developed by a Cam- bridge University science team.
The powder was not evolved of this page. They tried out inor- because the scientists wore ganic compounds with organic overtaken by a school-boyish chemicals. urge for practical joking, "but Was dovised a counter weapon if the Germans used poison gas in the war:
03
They built compounds from ti mercury, thallium, bismuth-rarer in Britain then than lead, but ex- perimentally Important in the search for the most powerful stornutator. They prepared what they called tri-phenyl in compounds which had the never previously been described.
of
drew diagrams of com the ulnations which looked like nightmare of a geometry showing how each molecule linked into th
the others. ....
When war clouds descended and Britain prepared for the worst, Government had poison" gases all kinds examined, and let enemy know that if polson Casca were used in war Britain could give
as good (or as bad) as she got. the Savage.
The German Embassy was in No. It was only in 1934, that the Crown 8, and there Ribbentrop fell out with Lands. Advisory Committee recom-
hla noble neighboure because of his mended that the Terrace should be peremptory requests for the use of reserved for Tes/denc
or for their private sections of the terrace embassies, Iczations, clubs or learned for his parties to which he did not socleties, and that hotels, business invite any who complied.
Soon the spacious ballrooms, lofty reception rooms and wide Blonc atairensen will be pulled down.
Cut glass chandelier that lighted the dances of men who fought, at Waterloo,
will
give place to
fluorescent tubes.
The foreign policy of Britain of the 1050's wi be planned in steel, concrete and plastic offices. Only the
historic facade' will stay.
The detective story is dying
CRIME stories, plain and
simple, will always have a future. For they make an ir- resistible appeal to the average But I feel that the de- tective story, as we understand the term today, has no future.
men.
It has been hanging on for many years, and it has been kept alive only by a series of drastic blond transfusions.
ship,
By SIDNEY HORLER
of
lost
Dr Hamilton McComble, 68, and Dr B. C. Saunders, 43, were guinea pigs in the teals.
With
one
a
the
They found that tri-propyl lead benzene sulphonamide was a power ful sternutator. A concentration of part In 10-million forced all the seven helpers at Cambridge guinea-pig scientists to leave they set out to find lead compounds chamber in 40 seconds, which would be poisonous when Declared McComble and Saunders breathed into the lungs. Lead was after their experiments: Tri-propyl chosen because Britain had plenty lead methane sulphonamide in only of it
deadlier arsenic was alightly less potent than the best armenlents"-grim jubilation over a The scientists prepared large selentite discovery which, if applied quantities of tri-ethyl lend chloride, effectively, would have meant death While working with this compound, or permanent injury to millions, Saunders developed symptoms of severe influenza which wore off at, nights but returned in the day.
It. Tho
On New Track
effective
"Dogs Of Hell" Are Howling
historien novels, which be con- That set them off on a new track. sidered his best work.
They abandoned their original And what about the detective intentions, and sought an No Industry, and the writing
The art of narrative seems largely story's stable-mate, the shocker? sternutator (sneezing powder). They best There again home talent is very found that tri-cibyl lead chlorido detective atories has become an in- to be dying out; many of the dustry during the past 21 years, story-tellers have died or have low at the moment. We have re-In the concentration of one part in
From Paris comes a startling can stand so much had craftsman- stopped writing, and there are few cently the gifted Valentine Wil-one million-produced an at new musical instrument--the newcomers of real merit to take liams, and his death makes yet an-mosphere in which breathing was ondium Martinot, or Martinot their places.
ather serious gap in the ranks of dimeult. I have been reading English fc- the mastera: Wallace, Sapper, Op-
waves. Hundreds of tri-alkyl lead com- tion for 50 years, and there has penhelm, Buchan, Where are their pounds
and were then prepared never been such a dearth of talent successors? I do not see them.
Its Inventor: middle-aged, trim- tested. In n glass-walled cham-bearded Maurice Martinot, who has of as ni the present time, in my decline opinion.
ber, ten cubic yards in capacity, been working on it for 20 years. the scientists made their own ex- An electrical instrument, it has a perimental atmosphere.
but with none of the usual keyboard, recorded the time
Too many back writers have tried evidence regarding the
NE unmistakablc piece
to cash in on this popular type of story, and the result, in the majority of cases, hus been stultifying.
Where there is one Agatha Chris- tle, there are at least 100 also-rans,
THE few authors capable of con- 1ceiving
aumciently intriguing plots are often terribly dull writers -two I could name are about as
exciting to read as a raliway guide so that one has to wade through hundreds of pages of wooden prose before arriving at the (always assuming that one hasn't fallen asleep).
of the art of the detective story is
Erle Ambler, appears to
have
of
Members of the team entered and ets, is connected with am-
were
noticeable.
The writing of a good detective that some novellats, in a desperate novel calls for exceptional literary attempt to keep the poor thing alive, gifts, which was why that talented ONE talented writer in this field, have endeavoured to improve upon man the late SS. Van Dine made the original pallern generally with
a fortune in America, although he deserted the novel for the flms. the nose, throat, chest and gums lamentable 'results. No names, insulting letters, but there are at least two authors who have put so much fantasy into their
detective novels that their books read
like nightmares.'
no
are
was not so successful here. If an- other Van Dine should arise there might be some hope for the deltog tive novel.
The success of the Sherlock
I am often asked what I regard as the Bix best "thrillers" written during the past 40 years. Here my cholce:
The Man with the Club-foot- Valentine Willams.
ta
when irritation
Unless the com- pound in the air proved intolerable, the scientists stayed in the cham ber ten minutes.
and I produces bones with the of valves.
Its "bruitage" (sound effect) capa- buffes: it can make the sounds of a day-old chleit, a nightingale, a mos- quito, a blue-bottle, a gale-wind, a prepared abomber, a machine-gun, and tho Graduated list of the oxicity (pol-howling dogs of Hell" the latter
So the scientists
The House of the Arrow—A.. ́Esonous quality) of their compounds, for use in the B.B.C.'s production of
W. Mason.
Juggernaut Alice Campbell. Greenmantle---John Buchau.
-
Milder Compounda
If these are stories of deduction, Holmes stories was partly because as originally conceived by Edgar the powerful character was a strik- stooge.
Honnoger's "Joan of Arc at the Allan Poe, then I am Ella Wheeler ing personality. (That his
Stake." Dr Watson, was the biggest ass that Wilcox, the poetess of passion.
For the milder compounds. they Its melodic assets: 18 can emulate printed ever walked through the
The Way of Uniling-Edgar Wal- sprayed in one molecule of poison with good effect, violins (massed and page merely added to his stature).
compound to :10-million "molecules dull,
salo), caxophone, flute, bassoon, Contrast Holics with the
Inspectors who
of air. For more injurious com-organ, drum notes, plucked strings, plodding police
novel! Into litter the modern detective
It bulls down to this: the detec- pounds they kept down the con-
When the bell-dog's howl is heard Conan Doyle could tive story may have a future if some centration to one in 25-million. Marcover,
constant TICW writers of great ablity They went through
merciful doubling of compounds without the write, although it was a
effect is pronounced grievance with him that the public are discovered; if not, it is doom-which-sot out in chemical, formulas strings the preferred his crime fiction to .the .ed.
--would stretch across four columns terrifying.
I um afraid that publishers denouement
largely to blame for the artistic de cline of the detective story; instead of sifting the wheat from the tares, they have rushed
So the situation is this: the de- Lective story, as Invented by Edgar Allan Poc. and carried to fabulous success by Conan Doyle, is dying because it has been worked to death by a host of inferior ractitioners.
everything
print that seemed to bear any rela- tonship to a "clue" novel, with the result that the reading public has become surf:ited.
lace.
Bulldog Drummond-Sapper.
"Dog Day's"
staccato bassoon.
BY KEMP STARRETT
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHAT IN THE
WORLD WILL WE
DO WITH THEM?"
"THERE'S ABOUT FOUR BUCHELS MORE
PICQEY
·ROTUR-BUT-
LOVE AN AUCH....
THE YOUNGER GENER- “ATION" BIAS, HO"MORE"
WHIBITIONS THAN A CAT.....WHEN IT COMES TO COOLING
OFF.
"HEY!
LOWER!**
AS IF THE HEAT WEREN'T. ENOUGH...THE TOMATOES" ALL COME RIPE AT ONCE UD "YOU HAVE TO STEW-YOURSELF
ALONG WITH THE FRUIT
WHEN ALL THE NEIGHBORHOOD KIDS ARE AVAY FROIL TOWN THE HEAT GETS A LAD DOWN.
#OLCHON, HAVE SOME HODE
Ledger Syndicate
ACCORDING TO SOME FOLKS THE WAY TO BEAT THE HEAT IS TO TANK UP ON ALL THE COLD DRINKS THEY CAN HOLD...IT ALSO HELPS TO (SOLVE THE FOOD PROBLEM.
SOME FOLKS CAN-FORGET
THE HEAT BY GOING OUT TO THE BALL PARK AND INSULTING TIE UMPIRES.
THE OUTDOOR, GRILL: TIE THEORY BEING THAT THE HOTTER
THE FOOD THE COOLER THE BODY
WILL SEEM
MED SUGGEST SHORTE.....IF YOU CAN. STAND THE DERICIVE GIGGLES OF THE... GALS.