OAB, and FLOUNDER
➡by Walter
FROM HERE AND THERE
French Cooking For
All-On Ice
PARIS: Fully prepared cooked dishes, frozen and packed in aluminium wrappers, are to be exported by France in her new drive for hard currency. A factory will be set up to produce them with funds from Marshall ald. Housewives will only have to heat the dishes on a low fire for 15 minutes before serving. Average price of one of these "new look" frozen dishes will be round about 2a. They will include French specialities such as boeuf mode and coq au vin. They will also be available for home consumption and, according to the Food Ministry, should facilitate food problems.
GOVERNMENT CAT
The only eat on the OTTAWA: Canadian overnment's payroll is Daisy Mac, who dirawan monthly salary of 5/- for rat-catching work of the among the dusty volumes Dominion Bureau of Statistes library in Ottawa. Daisy, who is einssfied officially as "Exterminator
on not
has been
Grade 2 in the civil service, comes from a long line of mat catchers of indeterminate breed. Her salary is used to buy milk and chopped liver and to keep her contented with her work. Since Daisy Mae was taken
a single, ret hus
seen around the library, An Increase
long ago Dalsy Mac's family not
the cost of living sky high. jumped Now, with six hungry young mouths to feed, office workers have set up a Dalay Mac mlik fund to supplement
the government salary.
FIRST VOTE
TEL-AVIV:
Arab
women
the same town. Her real sex 'was cliscovered during an Illness. Now the police have invited Edoardo to resuine the name of Corotina, and go to n dressmaker Instend of to talior.
n
-TRIP TO THE MOON?
NEW YORK: The Chemistry De-
partment of Ohio State University liquid hydrogen which call send rockets to the moon at a speed of 30,000 mph. The University believes that only lack of a ship strong; en- ough to make the trip now stands between
Us and inter-planetary travel.
has announced the development of
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1949.
BOOKS are too doar, says GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.
50,000 Expensive
TROUBLE IN JULY.
Erskino
By
Caldwell. Falcon
Press, 8s. 6d. 159 pages.
A
Words
HUNDRED and Afty-nine pages of fiction for 88. 6d. Ing was afoot. This time, his take- Fifty thousand words (by off to just too slow. To add to lis my reckoning) for a hundred embarrassment, a negro friend of and two pence..
his in seized by the mob, just in case they can find nobody better That is too few words for too to hang.
Caldwell BECA the many pennies.
well-worn, horrible theme better than most, He spares un nothing except suri- timentality. His picture of a run- down coramunity of whites is sub-
ly done.
It may be said that it in not much more expensive than many other novelo now being published. But that would not be a good de- fence. It would simply be saying that books are,
In general, dear.
They are, and they tend to be como dearer,"
too
The caso for the publishers has made by Mr Michael Joseph,
beer, the livellest of them. Bu
not diluto the high spirits of an admirablo newcomer to detective Action.
SHAKEN IN THE WIND. By Pamela Frankau. Heine- mann, 10s. 6d.
THE theme of this new novel is Cynthia's marriage-and what went wrong with it.
What did fo
wrong with ' (7 officer in the ATS, Cynthia, an
Stuart Hendricks, marrica American with a dazzling smile, This may simply be due to the qualities of wartime superior American dentifrice, but it is
to fum enough
Cynthia Into
GI bride.. THE
THE VOICE OF CORPSE. By Max Murray. Michael Joseph, S. 6d.
00
So it is one of those novels about the clash
of two civiliantions? Cynthin resents the American Way of Cooking. Or she is irritated be cause the United States is having
old Drilain
N over the deutit of Angela Mason such a nice post-war, wherins poor
TOBODY can feel much sorrow
The author does not even
points out that the cost of making Pewsey,
book is twice what it was before pretend to feel any. the war, while the price to the For Mina Pewsey has Indulged public has increased by only fifty idens of funi. which are rarely
popular. She has unearthed in convenient secrets about her neigh- hours, and has then sent them let- ters threatening exposure.
per cent.
So Mr Joseph predicts that the price of books must be raised still higher.
A
MISTAKEN attliúde. A
dis- ustrous conclusion. to his argu- ment.
For where did that argument be- Kin? With the acknowledgment that the "unbelievably large read- in public" created by the war is dwindling. so far
and as Action general-interest books are concern-
rd.
fact
being
choked off
were
The
It because. at m
So when some unknown benefac- tor ups and hils Miss Pewsey over the head with a blunt instrument, there is nothing but rejoicing in the village of Inching Round.
A fair number of its inhabitants substantial motives possess
either for committing the crime or for wishing the criminal well,
And it is Max Murray's job to take his readers on a paper-chase after the murderer? That is so; Mr Murray has written n detective story. And what, pray, is so exclt-
It is more complicated than that even. Stuart is a Itoman Catholle, while Cynthin does not get beyond thinking how comfortable it must be inside that church. A clash of religions, in fact? Just so.
want 10-1 Also, Cynthia does not have a а baby, And Stuart meela an old girl-friend (also R. C.), and finds, like so many others, that love can mean one thing in England,
THE BATURDAY TYRNING POIT ✪
11
EDITORA PALES SERVICE,
"Take my advice—nover try to give a`cat a bath.”
LOVE
(a) In the mode of DENISE ROBINS (b) In the mode of HOWARD SPRING
LOVE ME NO MORE. By and a kalfo), and some exhibitions and quite another in San Francisco. Denise Robins. Hutchinson, of sultry passion, Iris decides who is
must be 9s. 6d.
But everything turns out well in
Miss Frankau the end? allowed her secret.
the real master of her destiny.
But, alas, it can never be. In due
They clung in breathless silence."
course it is. He bent to kiss her.
And the No flowed on in ita
mysterious way.
HE took her in his arms" Ito those fatal mono- syllables, found in almost every novel, millions of the takers and taken in real life owe the disillusionment from which they By Howard Spring. Collins, are incurably suffering,
THERE IS NO ARMOUR.
12.. 6d.
SPRING'S novels are carefully constructed for the
in
OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS. By Truman Capote. Heinemann. 7s. 6d. 192 pages. PLAGUE upon the author who pretend that the war-time growth ing about that?
Now it really would not do to
wraps his story and its cha Just this. From the moment when neters in a sticky tissue of abscurity! of book-buying and the post-war decline were Acts of God.
Mrs Tilling telephones the police Here is a novel so thickly mantled et increased demand was due to the to say, "Somebody's done in Miss in glistening language and so deck-
Even if, like a Denise Robins MR. HOWARD that books
reasonably
ad with deceitful hints that, in the Mr Murray steadily in- Powsey," serests and frequently umuses his end, the reader is only half-aware cone, you have large, luminous convenience of the leisured. Moving
eyes with long silken Jashes, AD cheap and money plentiful.
at a comfortable pace, the narrative readers
what it has all been about.
alabqster face of pure classle out- time" when there is leas money He discloses a debonair style. He This is all the greater pity since
to time to make it easy to alight about, prices have gone too high. condescends to wit. He even takes Capote is a newcomer of rare gifts. line, and are quivering in the throes in his latest slows down from time
lecstasy, you can from or board again. of a newly discovered does the trouble to pump life and in- Listen: "Often the only movement never be sure that, propelled by an In these conditions, what SINGING MURDERER
the good, bold
Ile dividuality into his characters. In on the landscape is winter-smoke irresistible force, with heart beating publisher do?
Ted Pentecost, the narrator cuས་ his prices. He goes out to short, he treats his audience as if winding out of the chimney of some madly and pulses on fire, the right "There is No Armour," is an un- TISSAHAMY, CEYLON: A catch the "Veddali" or Aborigine jungle dwel-still waiting, which is always waiting and
wider ublic which is they were intelligent human be sorry-looking farmhouse, or a wing man will take you in his arms, crush conscionable time a-growing up. But
and arrow- not a species of literate stiffened bird, silent ler who, after evading arrestoning, for the cheaper book.
bloodhound Knuffing their way eyed, circling over the black deser-you to him, and kiss your exquisite by the lime bo la twenty he has left his birthplace, Manchester (you murder charge for 10 years, tired of
There is an immense opportunity from clue to clue over a desert of ted pine woods."
approximately guessed!), become a famous painter, his game of hide-and-seck with the
That is writing..
like that really occurs... But let's t.A., he is diffusing his married. Soon, as Edward recently surrendered, awaiting the publisher who refuses bad prose. will police and
Consider also Capote's talent for
Penteco not think about it. Daydream again Homes: Zoo, the negress with the with Denise Robins! Hier eightieth
in all directions. to follow the fatal path of dearer books, fewer customers and higher
long, scarred throat: Jesus Fever, noval (I hope I inven't miscounted) kind, wise, and gentle is he that he overheads, who turns his back on
and OR your true detective story en- her grandfather: Little Sunshine is called "Love Me No More" The makes infaithfulness to his wife
appear almost a virtue. the restrictionist philosophy puts his faith in expansion and thusiast, the advent of Mr Mur- the hermit. And Noon City, nearest tille
on is misleading: "He" goes
When at the end be is left all ray will bring no particular cause of township to Skulley's Landing, the books for the people.
alone you begin to feel sorry for at horrible pipes, that is all the boy
that remember He is Stephen Daltry, a young him-until you
"tall well. But at what point dild father. be particularly expensive.
diplomat,
beautifully solitude has given him the oppor- very It is story about
Nothing has ever negroes, you guess who had done it?"
de-built," with bright brown curly hair tunlly to write a book of 576 pages Rather, it is the story about- In the case of one reviewer, the cadent as the Landing, unless it is and a tanned, frank countenance, which looks like being popular.
Enough fleld hand, is
Incident, relevant and A the derelict hotel near by, whose She is is on
Iris, regal creature, negroes. Sonny, a
up by Capote: dwelling in beauty like the night, on irrelevant, makes this a neo-Dic- falsely accused of the rape of Katy, fluke, no doubt. But it is one of past is conjured
of folding things about Mr "Farewell sighs,
fana, the banks of the River Nile. Third kensian novel which, if not rushed, over-sexed white girl. After the endearing
the brute fall of male boats...." the customary preliminaries, Sonny Murray that he has underrated the
Atmosphere does deductive power of this reader.
not make is lynched.
Experience may make him more novel. But Capote is a cautious. Let us hope that it will watch.
vote for the first me in history 03 to the poils on when Israel
Arab January 25. Israel has an population of about 110,000, of whom
Women 40,000 are eligible to vote. cannot vote in the Arab states.
CHANGE-OVER
Re-
sang Ceylon jungle folk songs at the remand goal for recording by the Colombo Broadcasting Station's re- cording unit, for he has gained the reputation of the local jungle song- bird. Hearing his own voice played back thoroughly scared him at first, but later he grinned delightedly.
TALK, TALK, TALK
no
When
something
obvious when why it should so they chu they will say, pufingt decaying Southern mansion where tions." and "She" raises no objec-
Joel comes to And his
ROME: Twenty-four years ago Carolina Blogi. 14-year-old Venetian
NEW YORK: Nenrly a thousand girl, ran away from home and noll-
experts met in New York recently ing more was heard of her. cently it
she had to see what could be done to revive an was found that dressed as a boy, assumed the name the lost art of conversation. What of her dead brother, Edoardo, be they talked about on the morning: come a waiter in a Padua restaurant "Contributions of general semantics and later started a pastry shop in. to rhetorical criticisms."
reason
Jeff McCurtain, the sheriff, liked to go on a lishing trip when lynch-
Answor
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
YES MA'M?
28 CENTCA POUND FOR STEAK /*
page
seven.
YOU, YES INDEED
YOU COULD MOVE
IN_TOMORROW"
been co
1
and
So
man in the triangle is Prince Usref,
will be sedately enjoyed by thous
П
a the Serbian.
ands. I found it rather filling.
mon to
-DANIEL GEORGE
After dirty work at the Pyramids (Usref and Stephen come to blows'
"New Year Pipe-Dreams
BU KEMP STARRETT
"YOU GO TAKE A NICE
NAP... I'LL WASH THE DISHES AND CLEAN DOWN- STARS.... AND TOMORROW ILL DO THE
· UP-STAIRC")" ETC.
3.9
CAUTI, WE'VE DECIDED TO DÕIBLE YOUR. 1. SALARY...RETROACTIVE
TROK LACT JUNE...
ETC.
YOW!!
Ledger Syndicals
NO INCOME TAXES TO PAY TUS YEAR AND OUR! REAL ESTATE TAX IS
CUT IN HALF
ANOTHER OF THE MORE ELEGANT PIPE- VICIONS IS THE ONE IN WHICH MICTER KOBBY TAKES OVER TE DRUDGERY...WITH A
SHULE.
WE'LL BE
VIGNE UP/
GOOD!
LOC
Kirc
AND
MAKE
PIPE-DREAM
PAR-
EXCELLENCE.
ONE OF THE REALLY FANCY PIPE-DREAMS IS THE ONE ABOUT BUYING A HOUSE, AHOUSE WITH THREE BATIC, A TWO-CAR GARAGE „OIL-BURNER, AIR CON - DITIONED, DEEP FREEZER, AUTOMATIC DIĆI-VÁCIER A RUMPUS ROOM ........ ALL FOR FIVE HUNDRED DOWN AND
THIRTY-TWO A MONTH FOR EIGHT YEARS ONLY..
́ ́IVE MADE A NEW YEAR. RESOLUTION.... NO MORE MONKEYING WITH THE RADIO OR.
VACUUM CLEANER, OR THE CAR OR THE
VACLING AVZCHINE OR THE TOASTER
OR ANYTHING,
FROM HOW
ON
HOT DIGGETY!
I FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKC
IRON CURTAI
DEACE.
101/10-10-10, SIR/THEDE ARE
PLENTY OF TABLES
Пря NECESSARY!
"THE MORNING "AFTER
THE NIGHT BEFORE
(A REALLY HIGH TYPE PIPE-DREAM)