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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1947.
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REVIEWS
"CERTIFIED." by H. J. Woodley (Gollancz, s. 8d.)
!
John Pudney makes a challenge..takes to wings
and quotes Grace Moore
T is only fair to mention straightaway that I hap- poned to read this book during a thousand mile journey This success story of one who by rond to the Mediterranean, died tragically after great work
leisured and that it held my attention all the way, both in be best served by quotations, in popularising great music may the hotels where we got bitten
in the flesh and the ones where for they at least show that there more to Miss Moore than we got stung in the pocket.
the cliche virtues.
The legendary figures who sold refrigerators to Eskimos and brought conls to Newcastle have nothing on William Brooks of Philadephia, who is begging Allied Headquarters in Tokyo to let him bring silk to Japan,
Brooks snym the Japanese are in favour of the iden, but astonished
Nevertheless, I cannot recom official of ́ SCAP foreign trade mend it as escapist for a holi. division still have not made up day. It is a disturbing account their minds whether to give the of one year in the life of a cer-
tified lunatic. necessary permission.
Most of the book was written "inside" an or- his dinary asylum, and its some- times gruesome and hair-raising details amount to a convincing Indictment of the lunacy experts and their methods.
In
the past month, since arrival in Japan, 31-year-old Brooks has made himself a reputation as an "enfant terrible" with both officials He believes and his competitors, he has red more proposals at the fired bullets than he Japmeve against them as a private with the 27th Division on Okinawa,
It is not suggested that the staff are all malevolent or inept in their unenviable task though there are some ugly stories of drugs forcibly ad ministered ""by the all-too- frequent method of the two
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ANSWERS
Questions on Page, 9
:
Silver as Solder
DTC
Used in Toys!
tricycles "Silver-jointed" 1. Royal William. Savannah crossed carller, but used sail for two-thirds among the toys now being made In the United States for of the way. 2. James Hilton, Charles ready
this Dickens, Sir Walter Scott, H. G. distribution by Santa Claus Wells. 3. England and Norway, 1000, year at Stamford Bridge, Yorks, 4, Sir Malcolm Sargent, the conductor. 5. All except Edward German, who was Welsh, Real name was Edward German Jones, 6. Holy Island, Skye, Isle of Wight. 7. Matches. Invented Arst friction maích, 1020. 8. A ter industrial use of silver brazing
church; it is a supporting buttress 9. Chicago,
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
Literally, the parts of the frames are, stuck together with silver. It is
Was
Of how to deal with an un- grateful prodigy I select a deli- cate passage:
The story of the simple life and "how I fought the stubborn
#eres with
ny mate-have saturated the bookstalls in recent years to such an extent that a debauchery ilke "The Lost Week- End" came as a relief.
Mr. Lockley Reared me, at first by writing about both the stub- born and his male, but very
soon he took wings and began to write about birds and the island they inhabit with much still and nuthority that I accompanied him there, storm and calm, with relish,
My only quarrel
in in fnct that
"As I came into the room she anatched at my hand and caught it in a frenzy of devo- tion. I held on to the hand, the reader is presumed from time squeezed it as I lifted her up to time to know things about birds on to a level with me, then that most of
do not us simply amacked her solidly across know. The prefect example is the
story of the face."
oyster-catcher for Christmas dinner, "which was s delicate eating as a topwing." There may be several of us who haven't caten lapwings, even in these days,
Of how to deal with the prac- tical aspect of art needs more reflective lines:-.
"For a year in 1941-42 I took over the management of my own career. There were lifted eyebrows and sarcaSM.. Being so accustomed to these foibles of humanity in the world of music I shrugged them off. The result in gross receipts surpassed my pre- vious year.
The author, having suffered certification, confinement. re- has not yet release, and even Brooks sald he
4 voluntary eelved official word that this pro-
or one in which he would return journey as a visitor to pocal
the the scene of his suffering, cigarettes on American sex
135 re-makos a touching plea for a Japanese markel for yen ceived favourable consideration.
new treatment of the whole The other 250-odd pages give is permission to problem of lunacy more in ac- the rest of the glamorous story. "All 1 wani
yen." he said. cord with this century. invest in Japanese
ex- to buy "I don't even want
ball purtables. Just invest it-In parks, for instance."--United Press.
LOAN SHOWS
IN LONDON'S CLUBLAND
If the author had stuck to his "I KNOW AN ISLAND," by purpose more directly the book R. M. Lockley (Harrap, 8s. 6d.)
would have been more effective
jargon and
THE Udeless Idleness of the Mediterranean enhances for me the pleasure of reading
as a narrative, but patches, alas, are strewn with slap-happy
Lockley's definition and comment, with Mr
which are pages. generalisations robust with great winds and high which are confusing, and irre-tides and loud with bird cries, on
cool, scudding, nurther days.
1927, Since
the author has island of Skokholm, inhabited the off the const of Pembrokeshire, tending the soil and studying bird life. The loosely connected series
levant.
'I would challenge the state- ment that "some of the world's best books have been written under the influence of drugs and many more at the behest of whisky."
Just as I would dismiss the charge (page 133) that Keats's
were the result
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QUOTES
FROM "The Iron Eat." by D. W. F. Hardio (Nicholson as. Gd.): "It's strange what a few and Watson, hits and bobs brought together by human being can tell you. They're not just magple's collections; there's purpose, preference and a habit, sentiment behind the contents of every man's pocket and every woman's handbag."
FROM Birgid Knight's
"The 04.):
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Struge and I Rise" (Cossell, 128.
Duke of Alva [in impered the long-threatened 1572) tax of 10 percent, on all sales, The Netherlanders fell back on the obvious solution-no sales, taxes, and al once trade ceased and life was at a standstill."
no
FROM "Amertens Thought, 1947" (Nicholas Kaye, 219.): “A rocket ling no celling, it works best in empty space... In our life-time we shall almost certainly cruise al 2,000 m.ph. for better OF worse."-- Wolfgang Langewiesche.
FROM "The Unfolding Year," by Hocidey Clarke (Rock, 12s. 6d.): "Generally, it is true that rain disliked by all birds except water-
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E team-of-four- at the recent Mississippi Valley Tournament in St. Louis, Mo., was won by Charios 11. Goren of Philadelphia, John E. Simon and Gordon Schérek of St. Louis, and Mr and Mrs David C. Carter of Kan- Sun City, Me.
John Simon does not play a great deal of duplicate bridge, and the fact that he prefers rubber bridge
of essays which make up this book begin and end with an account of Skokholm and contain several docu- montaries of visits to the Faroes, Shetlands, Orkneys. Blaskets and fowl... In spring, for instance, Hellgoland just before the war, and the blackbirds and others sing their and player would decide that he
of
of rome others.
World War II certainly seems to have given encouragement to the appreciation of the plastic | poems arts in Britain. One of the best drunkenness and insanity. known West End clubs in Lon."YOU'RE ONLY HUMAN don has for some time now had
a regularly changing exhibition of pictures (mainly contem- porary) loaned by its own members throughout the club.
ONCE," by Grace Moore
(Latimer, 15s.) TERE for the benefit of her I admirers is the autobio- graphy of the late Grace Moore,
best after a shower."
NEWS Trouble with the doubles--
barne art by his bidding on today's hand during the St. Louis tournament Only a rubber bridge player dares to bid three no
with trump
vold sult. However, after getting into the contruct, and especially when vold:
his partner's suit, the
batter" make it.
Baking Jay's hand helped Simon and his tesmimates to win the championship. Simon (South)ry with the ten the opening diamond lead in duinny
in
rabber
undi took the queen of clube finesse. He cashed the ace of clubs and led another club, hoping to see the auit break. East won with
This trick wS WOR
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Title trouble NEIL BELL'S' Sudan, Nigeria, Trinidad, Bermuda, the jack of clubs and returned the intest novel is called 'Forgive Us U. s. A.. Canada, Britain and five of Our Trespasses"; so is recent every European country. The club is the Savile, and a num-about whom cliches scream that novel by LLOYD C. DOUGLAS.
BOOKS TO BE ber of well-known artists are amos she had a voice of silver and a Biggest booksellers have recently its active inembers. The selectiun
of the pictures is, however, left to heart of gold.
laymen, although R. H. Wilenski, the
critic, is on the committee.
In a recent show there, the pictures in- loaned in one room-alone were sured for £5,000, being by Boudin, Augustus John.and Stanley Spencer among others.
military the naval and One of clubs, no doubt tiring of battle. pieces and portraits of remote generals, re
suit, und cently decided to follow members have been circulated garding the possibility of loaning pictures to be hung in the club.
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In all clubs, of course, there will be a minority of members who think dis- that such innovations are a turbance of pouce and tradition- but they are a minority.
Strangely enough it is not only in the stald corridors of London Club- land that this revolution is taking place. An Oxford college has also joined in. Pembroke College under- graduates have persuaded the warden to allow them to hang a selection of contemporary.plctures in college, and from time to time the college
whit
add to its collection by making n purchase,
CHESS PROBLEM.
By A. W. GALITZKY Black. 7. pieces.
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White, # pieces.
White to plug and mari "kree. Solution to yesterday's problem:
1. KR4, any; 2, Q, or Kt mates.
Rupert and the Three Guides-5
another Illustration of peace-time NANCY Swish-h opplication of a technique expand- ed during the war; wider and bet-
alloys.
Melted at relatively low tempera- tures, the alloys flow almost like water. Capillary attraction pulls the binding fluid in between the most closely matched surfaces. The Across: 1, Handsome; 6, Repine; 7, solder is so strong that a film u Bribe; 8, Loop; 11, Overt; 19, Arable; thousandth of an inch or less is See 1] enough to bind joints second only Down; 22, Eva, 23, Stress;
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he's listening to something. wonder if he'd mind if I spoke to him."
ALL NIGHTS RESLAVAD,
with the king and Simon. heart
from dammy FILMED: fincasing the ten-spot
warned their customers to be care. Christine Weston's "Tho Dark ful of the word "Dark" when order- Wood"; Kenneth (North-West Pas- ing: nine novels recently published sage) Roberts' *Lydin Balley", include it in the title.
Rosamund Lehmann's "The Ballad and the Source."
ROBERT W 73-year-old SERVICE, Preston-born-author of
OVER THE COUNTER: Tota
the old gold rush pioneer story sellers A Bear Coughs at the monda a
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Another club was led, East win- ning with the king. Bast returned another heart, Simon won with the ace and cashed his good club,
West had made the mistake of
to the ace blanking down
and. the king-queen-ten of
North Pole," by Robert of '98" and many "Truil
West to win. diamonds, forcing When West led the king of spades,. has delivered the second volume of (Heinemann, his autobiography to his publishers. Maugham's "Creatures of Circum-Simon let him hold that trick,
stance" (Heineman, 10s. 8d.); Then the ten of spades was led, Travel falks GODFREY and "I Chose Freedom," by Victor Simon won with dummy's jack BLUNDEN'S "Room on the Roule," Kravchenko (Robert Hale. 15s.), and cashed the ace of spades for his was written in Moscow, Egypt, Persia, still in the top sellers.
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