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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
Zoo now has merry widow
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1948.
Have women killed the thriller?
By George Malcolm Thomson
THATEVER has happened to our writers of thrillers? Have they all died, or retired on their ample savings? Why do they write no more?
Having watched the stream of post-war fiction flow, or rather trickle, past, I can recall hardly one example of this ancient popular and surely most estimable type of story.
FEW animals in the London Zoo slic
What is the explanation?
no
women
to
Is it associated with the remark- able ascendancy of
in modern novel-writing? For 'we con assume that
woman wants write a thriller, or could do so
tried. On the other hand women con-and Miss Vern Caspary have had a worse run of luck than Mary, the "widow" orang-write defective stories. Sec outang, whose picture you see here. Since her arrival In 1930 she has lost two husbands, One male companion and an adopted baby.
As a result of these disappoint- rents Mary began to mope. She under spent so much time buried
her straw that she was seldom seem by visitors, and keepers became an- xlous about her condiflon,
below.
the
in
in
Or is it simply that the type of tamboyant imagination which thriller demands is temporarily abeyance, or out of fashion literary circles?
is certainly not out of fashion. with the public. There the taste Now they are worrying no longer.
for the full-blooded story of danger The other day there arrived
from
the narrative which plays upon the
Spider, two-year-old the reader's nerver and conquers his male orang, and keepers introduced incredulity is still alive and hearty, this lively youngster to Mary.
What a welcome it will give to the
warmth and "The change in
old wilow is first writer with the great.
She adopted the "baby," and fertility of invention which evention now spends alt her time mothering it and playing with it-to the delight of every visitor to the monkey
house.
The
At bedtime she makes up n nest of pushes the "baby" into straw, and
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of this kind of fiction demands!
But, at present, this public is not belut catered for. And to that ex- tent, writers and publishers are fall- ing; down on the job. There is modern equivalent of Dua Monts
Do
Cristo, Jules Verne's Twenty Thou-
"The Corgi' Trimmed For Mufti
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RIVING back to the office the other afternoon, my 15-miles-to-the-gallon enr ran into three traffic jams be- tween Hammersmith and Ken- sington. I parked the car on a
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Questions on Page 9
CROSSWORD SOLUTION
Solution of yesterday's puzzlc,-
Across:
1. Ambulance; ... Seed-
1. 1923. 2. Conter, originally pearl; 8, Saturday: 10, Establish; 11, Canterbury gallop, from the pace of
the pilgrims. 3. Finger and thumb. Ampul; 14, Dart; 15, Ingle; 18, Atro- Fillip is a blow with the nail of the claus; 20, Self; 21, See ↑ Down; 22,
Anger, forced from the bail of the See 1 Down.
thumb. 4. (a) V.C.; (b) M.C; (e)
D.F.C.;_(0) D.S.C. 5. Mr Ernest
Bevin, Secretary of State for Foreign
Down: 1 and 22, As dead as mut-
Back sent a canvas bag.
I
The bomb-site attendant lost his tired-of-it-all book when took from the canvas bag my Corgi. With its handlebars, folded it was no more than 19ins. high, 53ins. long and 1ins, wide.
A couple of deft movements had it the erected. Then, in riding trim. handlebars stood 37ins. high, the raised saddle 2814ins., and the width had grown to 211. ins
After priming the carburetter I seoptered off with both feet, and the two-stroke engine sang into life. It was no trouble to squeeze between tnxit and break away an easy fest when the Church-street trafic officer powered his hand.
Affairs. 0. Penshurst, Kent. 7. ton; 2, Messmate; 3, Beát; 4, Nadir; Prime Minister., 8. M.P. for Liver-3, Crash; 7 and 21, Public house;.D, pool, William Huskisson, killed by
the Rocket, 1830. 3. Îleifetz, '10. Tout; 12, Onion; 19, Reset; 10, Gout;
[17, Lush; 10, OIL,
Fives.
Along_by_the_Albert_Hall we were doing a smooth 20 miles per hour. By this time the 8 e.c. two-stroke Ex-
relsior "Spryte" single-speed engine was well warmed up.
cat thing on two wheels I have ever The Corgi is the simplest mechanl-
ridden or driven. It weighs Dalb We bowled along at 30 miles an the two tyres are 12gin, by 2hain. hour past Knightsbridge Barracks,
And it does 130 miles to the gel- and the brakes held well when
we lont
Basil Cardew came to the Brompton-rund fork.
HOW IT WORKS
1
A cyclist turned and saw me com- ing, so we slowed down to 10 miles per hour. The man on the blcycle. asked me how it worked.
I told him
there was only one Rear and I was in fi all the time. said there were only four controls; a left-hand I clutch lever on the bandle- bars and a normal twist-grip throttle control on the right. Also on the right I was using a front brike lever, and the pedal on the near side braked the back wheel.
told him that this Corg!stems from the paratroopers collapsible "Welbike" which they dropped dur
the Normandy landings.
ing
"It looks a treat," he said, "but I suppose you can't buy one in this country, and the price must be high. Wrong. Corgis are now re- leased for the home market, and they sell for £52.
Thousands are being sold on the Continent, and Corgi clubs are be- ing started In Switzerland and Sweden.
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LIBRARY LIST
Season in the Sun. Wolcott me (Tieinemann, G. od.). Collected' Articles, parodies and stories by a bright star of the New Yorker Armament Some of the fiercest reviewing of books, thentres and movies in alt recorded history are to be found within these covers. Fiercely recommended, parodick apart
On tecuming a Writer.
Уста Brittain Blutentnson, 109. 50.), Useful, practical induction to the crail, based
to Interest
Potter This
ence and presenten wide experl- as well as instruct.
The Thrart at Practies
me. Slephen Rupert Bart-Davis, 68.), treatise on the intent but desir able art of winning games alihmuth sho worse player, should have a wide public in view of the coming Olympic Games. The most perst tent winners inay here hope to learn something new.
and Leagues Under the Sea, Comm
Buchnny's Doyle's The Lost World Greenmantle, or H. G. Well's grand series of scientitle shuckers,
leading question has been stated: Why were the higher-up executives of Barclay-Truth-Publications so an- xious not to print the Wilson Story ns the Unsolved Mystery of the Month in their pulp magazine, Truth and Crime?
The answer to this inquiry 13 found in two corpses further on. In the meantime, John Ansell, the in- quisitive new editor, has learned a great deni about Barclay-Truth Publications and that imposing igure, Noble Darelny, high priest of lucrative pseudo-philosophy, which' Lumbines fraud and Freud in un- equal proportions.
The action of the story moves swiftly; characters are rother crudely drawn; and one reader at least guessed the solution too soon.
LMOST exactly opponite are the
A virtues and defects of Raymond
Postgate's story.
Here the gures come alive in a remarkable way, Action, is slow in getting under way. But the secret is kept to the last half-page.
Mra Rosalie van Beer, a tawdry. midle-aged woman with a love for port, is tried by jury for the murder by poisoning of her young nephew, Philip. It soon becomes apparent | that whlie Rosalie could have com- maltted the crime--and Indeed hud a motive for doing so-Philip had an equally strong motive for murdering his detested Bunt. And it in Just possible that he killed himself by ac- cident,
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The jury-which includes one stic- "essful murderess, and a religious fanatle-arrive with dimeulty at their
verdict. Mr Postgate misses How strange it is that in this, the none of the irony and trim hamour most alarming and wonderful of all of the trial. cras of scientide discovery, the
Verdict of Twilve was Örst selentine thriller has disappeared published in the summer of 1940. It (but not from school- Is one of the best detective stories-1 have ever read. It is amusing, in- telligent and even brillant. In the Apart from the special type of absence of thrillers, we must de the thriller which deals with crime, the best we can. hard-boiled story in which Peter Cheyney excels, the thriller is ex- tinet n the detective story reigns in its place. One reader at least is dissatished with the change of diet,
from acuit boy) Herature!
The difference between a
thriller and a detective story is roughly that between a steeplechase and a cross- wordi puzzle. The detective story is cool, cunning and slightly dis- honest. Its appeal is to the active brain and the sluggish pulse.
pre
Emotion, excitement, passion repugnant to its ilemure pages. Should they appear there, you may be sure they have been introduced solely to mislead the reader.
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Here are two detective stories, well above the
average in quality: Vera Caspary's Stranger Than Truth (Eyre and Spottiswonde, Us.)
und Raymond Postgate's Verdiet Twelve (Michael Joseph, Bs. Bd.). Each interesis; the second fascinates: neither excites.
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Stranger Than Truth talented author of Bedelia gets down
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Rupert's Silver Trumpet-7
Dinkie acta so curiously that Rupert follow and finds himsell being led back to a part of the Cominon. As he peeps over a grassy ridge he sees a lovely model sirplane standing t there.. My,-what-a- beauty he gasps.
"I've never
seen such a lovely model. Whoever can it belong to? There's no one else in sight. No wonder you were excited. Dinkie. I wonder if it really flies. How long can it have been here?" Rather timidly they go nearer to look at it.
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Capituè duck on the stage.
and both to England and Nova Beotta,
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Later in the day we tackled perimeter strip it Heston, which measures four miles; average speed. 20.7 miles per hour. And we went up Compass Hill at Richmond, which has a gradient of in 0. without trouble.
NANCY That Adds Up
CLUES DOWN"
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You've said.
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ces that if you turn the duck round it will kick the bucket again.
hough proverbially hard, they have their points.
17. Bookmaker on the run?
20 Partiy
punitivo
formatiui,
tillitary
21. The sort of look to make any-
one tagger back.
22. Being inly salt, it may well
be bitter to the tanto.
13. Bho should turn up. If she's
Hungry..
Aky Mign for Eugene. Rico-producer, possibly.
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MARKS?
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squares and clue numbers, as well as the words, are left for the solver toll in. Four black squares and four elua numbers have been inserted to give you a start.
The pattern formed by thę black squares' in symmetrical ;. the_top half of the pattern matches the hotton half, and the two sides correspond. Bo you can fill in 12 mare black spares at ange w correspond with those giren.
Since there is no 1 Across the third square from the left in the top lae and its three correspond- ing ones can be lifted in.
Note also that there is a 23 Down a well as Across, ko that the square abore that containing Lite figure "23" and the other three must also be black ones,
Two-letter words are suit used except in plituses.
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LAST WEEK'S SOLUTION.
By Ernie Bushmiller
YOU FLUNKED ARITHMETIC
"ZANIE BUSHMILER
Double Pas, Opening-♥ 2
IN bridge it is not desirable to be-
come known as a player who always can be counted upon to do things strictly according to formula. Vary your style of bidding once in while. False-cord necasionally, In other words, keep your opponents guessing.
Of course one can enrry this iden
too far. Fred Kaplan of New York, one of the Lite Masters, can real- ly pitch same fast ones to his part- One might think his airn At times was to torture his partner, but unquestionably he succeeds in get- -ting opponents milxed up.
ner.
the
Today's hand came Up Mayfair Bridge Club the other night. With nine spades and no diamonds, Kaplan opened the bidding with diamond. I two-spade bid over two clubs was a reverse bid, showing strong hond and forging his part- ner to bid again.
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He ran into a pretty: good holding in the North hand, and when North refused to accept the sign-off of four spades and bid five clubs. Kaplan decided to gamble on the slam. West made the one lead
that would defeat the contract. Kaplan
བས་་་ played a low heart from dummy,
East had no way to figure that Kaplan had nine spades and no diamonds. The ace of diamonds looked good to him and he decided that he could set the hand more than one trick. To keep a tenice position over the king of hearts, he played the ten-spot on the first trick. Kaplan wen, led a club to dummy, cashing the nce, king and queen of clubs, and discarded his other heart Ton the third club.
He knew that West held the king of spedes, as he wanted not have doubled without. trump tricic. Kaplan's hope was that West did not hold
three spades to the king. After trumping the third club trick. West came back with another heart, but
it was too late. Kaplan tramped. laid down the ace of trumps, caught the king and sprend the hand for the balance of the tricks
Of course East should have gone
up with the ace of hearts on the first trick. He knew that he had a chance to make the ace of hearts or the nce of diamonds, and that his partner must have a trump trick to justify a double of the slam con- tracf.
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