SAS and FLOUNDER
B, WALTER
FROM HERE AND THERE:
FRONT
NAIROBI-A
PAGE FOR THE APES
London-born
SKIRMISH
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1948.
Maugham
CATALINA.
Book Of The Week
starts a wrangle
BY MARGARET LANE
W.
to
raanner embarrassing phisticated taste, but which
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no
Maugham. (Heinemann, are led to different ground.
The Arst apparition has taken body," "A hoarse sob broke from
10s. 6d.) 256 pages.
M
doubt goes straight to the heart of Somerset but for the middle of the novel we the innocent. ("She loved him with all the hot passion of her young
placa on the steps of a convent his throat, a sound like the strangled church, and the Carmelite convent mysterious cry of a bird
abird of the R SOMERSET MAUG-
In question has an aristocratie, au- night in the dark allenco of the decided HAM has said before thoritarian prioress who has loved forest.") Perhaps he has
too com- that a certain novel was the ascetic bishop in youth, and that human beings are
n broken plex, or too boring or too distaste- his last, and then, perennial as entered religion with
heart when he took the tonsure. ful for his purposo, and that the the phoenix, has written an- other. It really seems, how ever, that Catalina may final.
It is an
wo- each of gold and platinum and 20 valuabler man, Mra Leakey, the wife of Dr uncut diamonds. Theso L. S. B. Leakey, a noted East African belonged to the Italian War Ministry
admirably sir and were recovered after the war archaeologist, left Nairobi by recently carrying in her lap a skull by the Italian Military Intelligence, 26,000,000 years old. She found it on Rusing Island, Lake Victoria, while working as a member of the British-Kenya miocene expedition. It is insured for £5,000. The skull, which is that of an ape, is the first of its kind ever found in the world, and is expected to compel the re- consideration of many existing theories of the stages of tvolution, because, according to to Leakey. it.. shows marked human characteristicn which scientists did not believe had emerged in apes of that period.
WINDFALL
CAPE TOWN--Bought
abook entitled "You
for
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rooms to the Ministry of Health.
MILLIONAIRE'S ANTICS
her
and
The Prioress, Dona Beatriz is atock figures of old-fashioned tales of the fame of Mother are the real. the indestructible Jealous
of Avila, founder of the material. be Teresa
Discalced Carmelites; and fearing that her old enemy will one day be strate that a great many current Perhaps he is hoping to demon- canonised, tries to force the miracu- ideas about the novel are wrong- lously eured Catalina into own order, to provide it with a pos- 45, for instance, that probability in
desirable in a modern novel, alble rival saint.
that Cervantes', characters cannot author is with decency directly appear in one, Beatriz the By Dona
and that it is not respectable to momentarily tempted into an ex- amination of character; but not for describle Catholic miracles without desires nothing in somehow indicating your point of long, Catalina the world but to marry her young view (which can legitimately be man, and in the struggle between only that of a Catholle writing for love and the convent her passion eventually softens the heart of Dona Beatriz, so that instead of forcing her into the religious life she secret-, ly helps the lovers to escape,
More Miracles
no one
Catholica).
Perhaps, on the other hand, he is simply indulging in the luxury of a' good laugh. But at what? At himself? I hardly think so.
No I believe that after all he has been moved by an impish de- sire to set his public by the ears, it talk and argue about to make this book. If this is his target, he tempers lost over Catalina and those has hit it. There are bound to be who wish to take part had better rush out and buy it.
Popular Music
extremely provocative book to have produced as a last
send many readers back to that work; so provocative that it will docu- candid personal ment, The Summing Up, to find out expelly what Maugham hus said about the craft of fiction. It is use- COLOMBO-The battle for "ful to know what a man is aiming at before you decide whether he has hit ing space" between. two Ceylon
the mark government departments has now
There has never been any am- reached cabinet level. One after-biguity in Maugham's assessment of noon the Ministry of Posts slipped himadt as a writer. He has always into rooms at the Secretariat just seen himself as an entertainer, a vacated by the British High Com-story-teller pure Fzrcl simple. He missioner. The next morning, how-has no message. He has come to ever, they found their furniture and no sweeping conclusions about life. Ales in the corridors. Treasury He has imply a great gift for in-
comes the third part, or NOW officials, who wanted to Hive the venting stories.
"A good story is obviously a dif- end. In this Mr Maugham, who carried out the ejectment during cult thing to invent... It should has already described one blessed the night. Protests and counter-have coherence and sufficient prob- vision and three miracles, introduces
for
Whenever the lovers the needs of the theme; several more. ablity protests brought vast amusement to it should be of a nature to display are 25.
in danger of unchastity, mis of arrow of second-hand books, the other government departments the development of character raculous showers of rain prevent the
in the Secretarint. Con Train
Ain, and it should have completeness, so When they come to a church, Your Memory" contained a £5 note
that when it is finally unfolded no their horse will go on further unti left by a previous absent-minded
more questions run be asked about they ask the priest to marry them: owner as a marker.
who took part in it. and when the ceremony is held up MILAN—A Milan tribunal has the persons
It should have a beginning, a for lack of a witness, the Blessed decided to confiscate the entire pro-middle and an end" PALEFACE · SQUIRE
Virgin comes down from her niche perly and assets, valued at £3,000,-
By these standards, what is and assists, recognised by Hallan cotten king. of the ONTARIO -Indian Archie Decair 000,
Catalina The author calls It but the bride. rode down the muddy, Mohawk Giulio Glovanal Brusadelli, for tax
romance, but its genre is that of
Most fairy stories would Trall on horseback today to bring evasion. Brusadell had declared
end talo or
I the folk
fairy story. £10.000
here, but not this one. The lovers the news to 80-year-old Yorkshire business turnover of
£200 in
tax snaps its Angers at
probability, encounter Don Quixote and Sancho missionary William Kendall that he year, paying only
miracles deals in
and fantasies, Panza, Jółn a troupe of strolling £11,300 and a 20- yearly. Although had inherited
concerned slater known as one of Italy's richest men and is only fleetingly
players, and rapidly achieve such from his roomed mansion
dangerous
with character.
sticcess that Catalina is hailed as fillds, who shut herself up for 30 and keenest and most por Yorks,
Movie dancer Gene Kelly stockt
the greatest actress in Spain. The market operators. owning years in Sinnington Manor,
Prioress dies, still despising Teresa sents an unusual idea for records in like Dickens' Misa Havisham In several villas and ears, a yacht and
"Archic, or
a rich art collection, the tax agents
of Avila (her death-bed provides a new MGM album, "The Song and "Great Expectations." "Ho-Who-Brings-The-Tidings," was only got wise after a scandal pro-MOST certainly it has a beginning the one authentic Maugham touch Dance Man" making a memorial to a middle and an end. The be in the book); the Bishop too, having the heroes of vaudeville, George M. worried because he knew the mean voked by Brusadelli himself. It is
ginning introduces the characters, learned # little tolerance; and Cohan, Pat Rooney and others. ing of the message he brought 11 estimated that overdue tax and fines
ach with a short life history, and Catalina enjoys success, fame and six songs represent typical miles from the nearest village. He will eat up the whole of Brusadelli's
& moral tale. Catalina
a ripe old age. happiness to a
bers of the various entertainers as meant that. Kendall had fortune.... now it
crippled girl in sixteenth-century Now what
are we to make of interpreted in song and dance by finally decided if he would stay in
the book Kelly. the reserve as an unofficial chief
Spain, to whom the Blessed Virgin this novel, said to be appears, promising her that she which Mr Maugham has always He-Who-Goer-In-Opposite-Ways"
al- "Harvest Moon," CAPE TOWN-Durban Scots have shall be cured by, whichever son of wanted to write, and which appar-
→ Capitol
old numbers (because of his three crossings-o!
o certain cilizan ha5 served God ently has been several years in the bum, has six sweet the Atlantic)or return to England won a battle with the City Council
to the best. This citizen has three sons writing?
sung adequately by the Pled Pipers of who refused permission ng William Kendall, barrister
Band to play in an
bishop. a successful
with Paul Weston's orchestra. Some Gray's Inn and Lord of the Manor Caledonian Pipe
Perhaps he has decided, after all of the
"Girl of My songs are Vebement soldier, and a humble baker. The parks and on beaches. of Sinnington.
Scotsmen accused the Council
of bishop tries to perform the miracle. his years of experiment and exDreams," "Melancholy Baby" and
soldier does the perlence, that tales of miracles and Shine On, Harvest Moon." wasting money on musicians with and fails. The
wonders It is the modest baker, who
(levitation, miraculous unpronounceable names and singers same.
For those who like their ballads a western nasal twang. who howled like timber wolves. The has lived in humble charity with ringing of bells, magic showers) are sung with
his fellows, whose hand miraculous- what the human Imagination really RCA Victor has a "Country Song akirl of the pipes, the roll of the
delights in. Perhaps he wishes to Hits" album with Elton Britt and drum and the waggle of the kilts ly delivers her from her crutch.
all that is simple and group known as the Skytoppers. thrill everybody, they claimed, and
good in us, and so de- before their persistent attack the
writes at limes in
-DAVID C. WHITNEY Council finally relented.
HOARDER
ROME - Marshall Rodolfe Graziani, being tried for collabora- tion with the Germans, revealed that before the German collapse he had in the bell-tower of a Benedic- tine Monastery a treasure of 18 kilos
Brusadelli
Wis
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A Moral Tale
ascetic
a
is a
So far, it is like a thousand appeal to
stories of three sons, naive and traditional three daughters, or three wishes; llberately
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
DID YOU NOTICE HOW MARY'S GETTING -TO-SHOW-KER-
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SOME ARE THANKFUL JUST
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THE LAD WHO WAS {TRANKFUL HE'D PUT
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SEASON........... UNTIL
HE REMEMBERED
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