"DAB and FLOUNDER
by Walter
POLA MASS
WAIT HERE
FROM HERE AND THERE:
A Doctor Envies
The Idiots
Asking for trouble
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1949.
Mr. Bates is a rum
baba
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
THE JACARANDA TREE. Dy H. E. Dates. Michael Joseph. 91, 6d. 223 pages. "Like the sky of the East, like the shining sowing of stars, lika the smell of dust in the darkness faintly scented by invisible flowers...
ES, here it is once again. Bates on Burma. Bates drenched in Burma as a baba in drenched in rum. Never did mun paint his scenery in more brilliant and passionate colours.
like STAMP
-LIBRARY LIST-
WINGED DAGGER. Hoy Farratt, Collins, 104, dd.; Aña pagès. Wor. An enthralling account of adven sure by one who never veoma to have doubted where the right pinga is to fight x wapens far behind the enemy's lines as possible. Strongly | recommended.
NO RESTING PLACE, Ian Niall. Heineniana, Vs. odaj 226, pages. Novel, Thita in a story of dark- | blunded tinker, folk in Scotland, nộ
murder, brooding suspicion, Andi Co sternal war between tha riomad and the soiled people. It will win: aug pabite for a new author.
BEAU BRUMMELL.. Sathicon Campbell iammond Ilammond, 19%; 410-pages, Biography. An extraordinary character who rises 10 fatrie by a fair for clothes, in mined by Invitence, and sinka into
of debts.
flower-in-the-hair galety of the misery and madnear under a lond Burmese.
NOTES
QULGARIA commemorates
the
DEPT
SINCERES
Bulgarian-Rumanian ANNOUNCING.......
friendship treaty, signed last year, with a set of irce new stamps. The 20 leva blue shows the 1877 Battle of Gri- vitza. The 40 leva grey deplets the parliament buildings of Bucharest and Sofle, while the 100 leva purple pictures a bridge on the Danube. The two higher denominations are of the airmail variety.
There is, in fact, a danger that Bates will be dismissed
Passionate
her feur of | Nអ onn whose powers of
not being thought white, Ai visual description are his decides at last to settle down by A: narrow but genuine talent, Netherlands will issue a
work here. It is, one main armament as a writer, the rond-side and look after the is at
refugees. her own would guess, the talent of a sick There could be no greater Burmese
man whore ponsibilities are people. mistake. Bates's real Misery. humiliation and bad abnormally heightened. strength lles in his ability temper pursue the fugitives.
WERE THERE
THREE not simply to describe people Four are killed in a car smash,
MEN, By Holen Beau- but to create them out of Connie McNair dies of typhoil.
clerk. Gollancz. 10s. 6d. raw material of their Interson and Nadin get through
284 pages. own actions.
NEW YORK: Only idiots have perfect health, argues a New York doctor, Dr John Lobhar. His reasoning: to have perfect health a man must never worry, and in those times only an idiot never worries.
sold the policeman, may be", "but why didn't you Intervene?" the "Because I wanted to see how ended, "he replied. the fight "I know both the Indies well, but I did not know which was the better fighter." Al three
the
WASHINGTON: A toy firm In now bringing out a child's Jeep' that carries three children and run for five hours on a rechargeable battery.
Will She got it?
NEW
YORK: What the nverage American Woman wants in her "dream
home". according to a Chleago „survey- one-way gloss in the front door can see out, and
radlant heated driveways to melt the snow, lights in the front steps to lessen the risk of falling.
cupboards
so that
none
she can
ΥΠΟΓΕ bedrooms.
800
in,
and bigger
were taken to nearest
police station.
Still Wot
NEW YORIC Science bas shattered another illusion here. Raindrops are not pear-shaped, Instend hartints picture them. they take all kinds of shapes- cluxus- groundrats, apjacks,
feet anci telephone bells, receivers.
Wouldn't Wait
to India.
The Jacaranda Tree is a long episode, magnificently reported. It is hardly a novel.
HERE is a good, strong, com-
plex story, competently told. have more passion than tense; It is built round people who in particular, round three men contrasting temperaments:
It is true that in The Jacaranda Tree, as in The Purple Plain, the Invish and ALL OVER THE PLACE. By Compton Mackenzie, cruel beauty of Burma is transmitted from
Chatto and Windus. 18s. of Bates's remarkable memory to the reader's mind. The light is savage. The colours blaze. The heat pulses. ·
*
But the core of the novel is a human situation, and the weak-
of the novel ness
is that the slluntion remains statle, It does not evolve into drains through the interplay of characters.
The situation exists between HUTCHINSON, (Kansas) A wedding supper salad became a Die members of a British party valid condition for an emergency escaping from Central Burma
292 pages.
Dr Loggett, the stole; Horace Ashcot, 0 rich man with an un- easy conscience; and Paul Han- well, endowed with "Latin" good looks and o
Catin more than looks
AS Mr Mackenzie has never A forgotten anything he has seen or heard. he hardly needs. to keep a diary. But what a propensity to exploit them.
the figure of Paul, Helen ply he had not preserved for us this vivid, humane and Beauclerk dwells with loving de- Her dislike for him of testation. snapshots set of
her to stimulate journeyings in Africa, Italy and the Far East.
imagination and give her an enhanced insight into character and molives.
xenial
seems
She writes in n'kind of short- hand, very feminine, ke this: "The red astonicblog
plush was every French restaurant."
His purpose was to collect material for a history of India's part in the War. He set about
task with the physical stamina and an enth- sasm which grew as he passed from one battlefield to another. The swansong of the old in- dian Army will certainly be no whining apologia, but something more like a hymn of triumph, shouted to the accompaniment of
Encouragement WASHINGTON: Jn Jackson marriage Ileeuce here. The ahead of the Japmese, In Heights, A New York suburb, bride. Suste Ann Beltz, 54, and particular, between Paterson, the policemen bringing back two the groom. William S. Reinke,mill manager, who organises the runway children their 59, asked the Judge for a waiver flight, and the other members of
Walter Stanger, Kota of the three-day wedding period the party. father complaint instead of gratitude-
Plans
were complete, "This Is the sixth Um they
Paterson is held in local dis- trumpets shid. The wedding erice was have run away this year and baked. chairs hind
been favour because he is living with It's your fault for giving stray borrowed,
and A speriat salatt Nodin,
a Burmese girl, thus much children so
ice cream had been prepared.
Loon slur The saludcasting a
British would spoll if leapt three days, womanhood, married and single,
upon especially they pleaded.
Connie The appeal was and
MeNair, whom he is thought to granted.
have treated badly.
and candy."
Fighting it out
EL
came
Expressing it
Trouble starts when Paterson discloses that Nadio, and her brother the boy Tuesday, will be members of the escape party. Escape is for the whites.
a
Meanwhile, comes this com- pantonable notebook jotted down in days when the Far East was passing through a dizzy phase of transformation. BRAVE AND CRUEL. By Denton Welch. Hamish 8s. 6d. 248 Hamilton.
pages.
THE PEOPLE OPPOSITE. By Sylvin Thompson. Michael Joseph, 8s. 6d. 238 pages.
13
NOVEL of post-war Enx- which land in
there practically nothing about queries, rationing, difficulties with de mestic help, travel restrictions, black markets incume-tax. For that, be grateful to Sylvia Thompson.
somewhat True, she is on casual terms with her characters. They blow. In und out: some- times
she
scarcely troubles to in- troduce them.
In the vin FLORENCE: Boccocelo policeman
NEW YORK; The most ex- upon two women having a tremendous battle, hitting each pressive word:: In the English
The woes of Rita and Amiel, according to Dr
THESE short stories are dis- other, tearing each other's hair language,
But not for all the whites. Miss tinguished by real originality of Simon and Sally Quendon: out, kicking und scratching. A Wilfred Funk, America's die-
Ross, who has become tionary publisher, are these:-
and a queer gift for evoking the the bliss, cosy not to say smug, by locking man was landing
of human 心 of Rose and John Hawkins-all Inost bitter-alone; the Buddhist, days behind. Major borderlands on. The policeman stopped the The
reverent - mother: the Brain repeats of his night and perlence. The areas where the are expertly presented. But they then asked the man most fight and
tragic death: the sad-bicycles back to where he start- eccentric, the unhealthy and the do not add up to much, nothing to most why he had done
the most ed. Miss Allison is a murke, half- adolescent skirt the regions of stop it. "I am the husband of dest forgotten; one of the ladies and the lover cruel-revenge; the warmest Burmese. She has neither the normality, adult life and the
Abre of the English nor the law. of the other," he said. "That friendship; the coldest-o.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
CO!! HEAVENS
*YOU LOOK SO
MUCH MORE
DISTINGUISHED
WITH YOUR./
HAIR A
LITTLE
LONG
Convincing? Not very. But there it brings the book quite neatly to an end.
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set of semi-postals with the additional funds turned over to child welfare organisations. The 2 cents plus 2 groen plelures a boy in a canoe, 5 cents plus 3 blue green shows a girl swimming, 0 cents plus 4 grey has a boy on a sled, 10 cents plus 5 red portrays a Kirl a swing while the 20 cents plus 8 hus a boy ice- skating.
The surcharges will not ap-
on the peor
the face of
slumps.
•
ATICAN City is to issue a
set of stamps lustrating i Rome's basliicas Including eight regular postage and iwo alemails.
TURKEY honours the 25th an- niversary of its republic with four stamps, the 15 kususi violet, 20k
40k green blue, and the 1 lira brown. They all bear an equestrian statue of Kemal Alaturk, Brst pre- sident of the republic.
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FOR LADIES
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QRAZIL has issued a new 40 centavos orange stajuzi honouring Tiradentes,
18 century pairiot and martyr who was banged for his revolutionary ideals. The stamp deplels him with a ropeSFITIZESSSESSESEDE.
around his neck.
CUADOR honours Pedro Vincente Malonado, 18th century teacher and scientist, on the 200th anniversary of his birth. There are 10 stapips in the set, with a variety of four illustrations.
THE Canal Zone has just re-
THE
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LOOK LIKE... SOME DARNED
ARTIST...OR * SOMETHINGS
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"Haircuts"
BY KEMP STARRETT
"HA AND THEN EVERYTHING
WENT BLACK!
IT NEVER SEEMS TOO SHORT TIL AFTER YOU GET HOME, UNLESS, OF COURSE, THE EARS STAND OUT LIKE THE WINGS ON A B-29.
SFHEARING JUNIORS CURLO USED TO BE A MAJOR OPERATION, ESPECIALLY FOR HIS ||| MAMA. VE WONDER IF IT'S STILL THAT WAY OR I DO THEY JINT CHOP'EM MIDBE GLAD OF ITS
'TWO AND A
HALF INCHES ON TOP QUARTER INCH ON THE SIDES AND NO CLIPPERS AND NO TALK
Ledger Sundente
NEVER MENTION THAT YOU'RE GETTING A HAIRCUT....UNLESS YOU WANT TO RECEIVE MORE ADVICE TIAN YOU'D GET
FROM AN INSURANCE SALESMAN.
BARBERS
NO VATING
THE MAN WHO BOUGHT HIS NEW HAT BEFORE HE GOT HIS HAIR CUT.
THE FUSSY CUSTOMER: WITH SOME FICES WHO CARES ABOUT TONSORIAL ART ?
ONCE WE CUT OUROVI KAR AND PUT THE MONEY ON A HORSE: WE GOT TRIMMED BOTH WAYS AID BY THE VARE
SOME BARBERS WILL GUARANTEE TO GROW HAR. ON ANYTHING BUT "THEMSELVES.
"FOR: "THE LADS WHO COME THEIR HAIRS WITH A TOWEL A BITOFCAR: WAX WILL KEEP THOSE CIK HAIRS IN Y PLACE AND SAVE THE SURFACE.