BOOKS by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
A WOMAN AT WAR WITH OLD AGE
THE
in-
novelists have got It consists of a perfunctory parceli- around to the Peace. They ing-up of several distinct stories. have reached the period when Filmy unity in confrived by thin
device: the victories were celebrated and the breakages counted. It Is into this spoch that Pamela Hansford Johnson fits her new novel, AN AVENUE OF STONE (Michael Joseph; 108, 6.).
Johm Turner, a somewhat honest ex-officer, vilta n Harley- street specialist who gives him less
to
A year
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1948.
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NEWS SHORTS:
WONDER BOY
WAS LEFT
WONDERING
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PartsDanny Kaye that morning. Tumer decides to spend his Inst lived n dream. He dreamed months looking for three man who landed in the daylight of Paris and were kind to him while he was was unrecognised, unheard of, un- hospital during the war. All of these This assured plece of story-telling men had been in trouble of one kind Erected. In short there was has for its central, all-pervading or another. A HAF officer had milling mob of fans. It
was no character Helenn, Lady Archer, married the wrong sort of girl. An dream. It was life. Not a single former star of the music-halls and American negro soldier was charged autograph hunter pushed a grubby now a widow (twice), handsome, with attempled rape, And so forth.penell and paper forward, no crowd vibrant, loud-aid loathing with all her might the surrender which age There are good things In the book; of pretty girls surging forward and is relentlessly exacting from her. but good things do not make a novel. Jealling his
name. Danny Kaye This book does not march.
stood at the top of the Indder leading
In real life n woman one might have wanted to smother with a large, soft cushion.
Helens in the novel is an exasperating, but He- able, baggage.
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to his aircraft at 11.10 n.m. on March at Le Bourget, where he had Eldred Figg, hero
Michael Innded from London, and gazed Harrison's TREADMILL (Langdon, down on Es. Gd.), is the perfect prit. He student, a few friends and only half one impersonal looking This indomitable harridan seizes longer
loathes Bils preposteroun upon a weak young man named father, he loves the old horror, with a dozen photographers. The Amor]- Johnnie Field, introduced is called patronises his fellow-soldiers, Why by storm remained unheralded here. a sleek, self-admiring love, He can cinema star who took London house by her step-son, who is called els not drappel over the side of "We have been too busy with the Claud and wrlies books about modern art.
that
troopslip is n mystery. And Marshall plan talks," nobly, insufferably he stays in the French newspaper. As Helena's slave, Johnnie dusts ranks when practically the whole the fint, wolfa on the guests and High Command is begging him to
is the object of general commisera- take a commission. tion, But, not only are the years fighting cruelly against Helena, her heart has betrayed her—again.
Johnnie is the last thing in her life."
And before she is Onished, the gorgeous Helena is pressing, Johnnie's trousers and painting the room to be nice when ho Comer back.
In Johnnie there is both some- thing-better-nud-somethingisorse than the feckless enwardtee that Ithes with his hustrous ovelashes He cleverly exploits his weakness. and wenkly fights against it. IIIA self-contempt is always drowned in self-pity.
There are, too, glimpses of a more purposeful streak of mastiness, In pubs, Johnnie picks up girls and tells them lies about his life with Helens, Bes in which he appears in 'an attractive light. How Johnnie hates himself when be cloes that! A subtle portrait, painted without contempt.
Johnnie is not alone in the gallery. There are also Mrs Olney, endgirag ex-inlstress of Heleus's dead bus- Unnd; Charmlan. Hetron's daughter, whose marriage is always about to break up, yet somehow always grows stronger; and Mrs Sholto, the refined: scandal-monger.
But it in Helenn, painted something more than life-size, who is the book. Hens in the foil gaudy chapter of her life, a magnetic and Infurlat- Ing creature, striding from bliterly won triumph through direst defeat to brazen recovery.
THE CHEQUER
BOARD. by d.),
• Nevile Shute (Heluemaun, 9s is unsatisfactory as a novel because
CROSSWORD SOLUTION Solution of yesterday's puzzle.--
B.
Across: 1, Abnegate: 8, Banal; Grab; 10, Ostler: 12, Trident; 14. Tie; 15, Needed; 16. Game! 19, Ulcer: 20, Oven; 22, Relleve; 23, Peer; 24, Nee. Down: 1, About furm; 2, Bastille: 3, Ealing: 4, Agrec 5, Trend; 6, Easter; 7, Abundance; 11, Trenele; 13, Dearer; 17, Move; 18, Even; 21, Eke,
WEEK-END QUIZ
Da the ends of Stalin's. moustache turn up or down?
2. In tennis, what is a.
lob?
3. What is the derivation of the word "heli. copter"?
1. Who
the write novel, "The Constant Nymph?"
5. During World War II we used radar and the atomic bomb. Which cost more to produce? 6. What is the freezing
point of alcohol?
7. Who was nicknamed
"Poor Nal!'?
8. What flask?
iz
Dewar
9. Can fish make sounds?
10. Cockatoos are native
to what region? 11. In what century did men begin wearing short hair?
12. According to the offi- cial exchange rate, how many United States dollars will you get for £f sterling?
Anateers on Page 12
STOTRANSMITENDIENTE
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The dark car, using the centre line to steer by, is causing overtaking traffic to invade the wrong slite of the road
JESTS AND JEERS
Rested improvements for our mental
A counelllor the other day sug home. What, ure we to encourage Bald one more immigrants?
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Then there's the story and young composer who thought whisky
such essen-
SCIENCE SHORT:
NEW DRUGS
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TO FIGHT
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DISEASE
By PAUL F. ELLIS
NEW drug, developed in Eng- Innd, is passing preliminary tests us a weapon against epidemies of whooping cough, Tho compound. knowit as acrosporin, is produced by bacteria that infent the soil,
In n
Dr Peter Reina Brooklyn, report. told of preliminary tests with the new drug in the treatment
cough.
of
"Salle responses have been obtained," he said.
Dr Regna
another now
also reported that
drug, known 15
chloromycetin, is winning laurels as
a weapon against disease. This drug also is produced by bacteria froin soll.
typhus, but that the U.S. has been found effective against He said that chloromycetin already
plans to make further tests in the Army Far East this spring.
Dr Regna sald that while research
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Shot by moonlight? No, this picture was taken late in the afternoon with the camerà pointed toward the sun,
MOONLIGHT ON ORDER
Be
cross the border in cars, buses *** might bring inspiration, and couldn" { syphilis, which require maintenance moon appeared in my prints as lens with a hat or your hand so that
on foot to load up with tints as eggs, butter, meat and brentet beyond the first two bars.
and other grocerles Although-food-
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of a high level of pealcillin in the bloodstream, can be effectively treated with procaine penicillin at a fraction of the cost that would be incurred with other forms of the drug," he said.-United Press.
BARGAIN HUNT
It's commendable to face life with on new drugs is progressing, suc-SEVERAL years ago while Such shots are especially offective Oltawa-Americans are "raiding" ghter,
your chin up, unless you're a prize--cessful attempts have been made to
vacationing at a small lake for marine views or snow scenes and Improve penicillin and streptomycin." shops in Canadian border towns to
can easily be made without special escape the higher prices for every-
By combining penicillin with pro- in the Adirondacks, I made a equipment. To
make them, walt day items charged in their.
In the footprints on the sands of caine, or novocaine, he said, che- serica of time exposures of the until the sun is low in the sky and country.
own time, some people leave only theists have produced a drug which lake and the mountains by shoot toward the sun. Forterie, Ontario, marks of a heel.
careful can be injected with virtually no business is booming due to the In-
however, to make sure that the sun's pain. It also has a prolonged effect, moonlight. flux of Buffalo housewives on Shop-
sometimes staying in the body for 24
rays don't fall on your lens. This ping tours, Every week-day they
After the flim was developed can be done by waiting until the hours. Penicillin, glven usually is excreted within 12 hours.
alone, and printed, I discovered that itself is behind a claud, by interpos "Such disenses ns gonorrhen and what had been
Ing an object between the sun and a full, round the lens, or simply by shading the an oval. This was caused by the lens is in shadow." the relative movement of the
Moonlight effects are usually made moon and the earth during the best with the sun fairly low in the time the shutter had been open, sky and, as mentioned, to the front
Had I shot from a different angle, of rather than behind the so that the moon did not appear in You simply underexpose to eliminato the viewfinder, this fault would have all shadow detail, A snapshot with been avoided. But there are simpler the smallest opening with a simple ways to obtain "moonlight effects" single-lens
or box-type
camera, and by day.
the light is
is bright, will do the trick. Certainly hayone looking at the With folding cameras or those that snapshot reproduced here would
have variolin shutter settings try It was made by moonlight. 1/100 at 7/16 or f/22. The contrast think it Actually It was made at 4.30 on
between the solid blucks and the late November afternoon. Still, brilliant highlights-as in silhouette has all the brunty of a moonlight shots scene-deep.. black shadows and effects. brilliant highlights.
Several
the stores figure 50 percent of their total antes are to Americans. with each Unlied States visitor allowed to take back £1. 55. worth of groceries, Familles up to 10 frequently the border in search of Canadian bargains.
CTOBR
UNHOLY HOPES
Moscow-Pravda's name for th Western Bloc is the "Holy Alliance." I describes Churchill. Devin, Mor- shall, Schumacher and Sforza at
Overheard in the cinema; "Are they well to do?" "No, they're hard to do."
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First Firmer: What's alling thui o hen of yours?
Second Farmer: Shell shock. Ducks came out of the eggs she'd been sitting on.
NEW RECORDS
ENIS Martin, who appears in!
the crate of a still-born child plot-D-Tuppence Coloured" sings "Gol-
fing against the freedom of the European peoples. "It is a delayed action bomb which will blow up in their own faces", said the paper.
FISHY
New York-Newsweek magazine thinks has discovered why ali American Presidential candidates nose as skilled shermen, Any man Icolts good beside a fish.
WATER OF JORDAN Jerusalem.-An Arab plan to deny water to the 00,000 Jews of Jerusa- lem after British rule ends on 15 has became
practicable tha
to the heaviest rriinfall of the year in
The elstern in Jerusalem.
every Arab backyard is now brim full. One giant water enche beneath the Mosque of Omar which dates back
can which
to Roman times already holds enough water to Inst the Arab population of the city through the hot summer months. The Arabs any they now destroy the pipelines. bring fresh
water ncross the Arab territory to Jerusalem, without loss to themselves, but with grievous consequences to the Jews, who have the pipelines. no cisterns and depend entirely on
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LAST WEEK'S GOLUTION AU'S
way Bay" and "Terence's Farewell" on his first record. With more as- surance, he should go far (Parlo- phone R. 3050).
MCKENNEY
ON BRIDGE
Squeeze Boosts 11 Tricks to Thirteen
By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY OOKING al today's hand I do not think you would want to be in
A new and original version of "Tea For Two" is presented with real showmanship by Jee Mooney and his Quartet (Brunswick 03785).
But the plek of the latest issues a slam, especially with the king of in lighter vein is Phil Harris and his spades wrong and West holding the Orchestra in "The Dark Town Poker ace of hearts. Nevertheless Mrs Club" and "Woodman, Spare That Charlton Wallace, one of the win- Tree." This record is good valuejners of the women's national team- in every way (HMV BD.1170). of-four championship, made seven ROBERT TREDINNICK on this hand, thereby winning the
match for her team.
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had
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