DAB and FLOUNDER by WALTER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949.
The ABC of anarchy
in modern art
THE MARCH OF THE MODERNS. By William Gaunt. Cape, 12s. 6d. 319 pages.
Devon), and the marshes of New Jersey.
George Malcolm Thomson reviews a new book and finds init * pasingo "among the finest places of descriptive writing the war has given us,"
The London Of
The ships that sail, the fish that lurk and the birds, that haunt. Above all, the sanity- and strength of the men who snil, dah, shoot and idle, pre- Russolo, finished in a comprised in
ferring that life to everything 110ßer
themo riot. The audience, protesting com
number agalant The screeching and two, which is
The America which is being from the stage. THE famous banquet to Custom-house Officer booming of the Orchestra was
run and ruled, pillaged, modo DAY. Marinetti. the Futurist poel, over, and denied by greedy Rousseau is rightly regarded as an historic event in the modernist movement in art. Historic recorded with satisfaction that, tycoons, corrupt politicians and while tho Futurists had only a the vost hordes of uncuring
or two, 11 of the newcomers. for the personalities it brought together, for its scratch
audience were wounded. Ind eccentric happenings and for its purpose.
he but known it, it was the
This, characteristically enough, was half-derisive, half-serious:
A tribute from
the most ex- travagantly sophisticated pocta
Paris to orlats in and
who gentleman dignified old had served as a sergeant in the war of 70, held a small posi In the Paris tall-house, taught elocution and painted funny pictures.
to
:FROM HERE AND THERE:
By
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WILI
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
The Green Eye Was Only A Watch Face
Hunters
by
diamonds worth
ncross.
to
-The Blitz
be-
repose.
lakes presented. THE HEAT OF THE silent
By Elizabeth Bo- tween the railings which still
girt them, miruges of
morning
lookers-on.
Cape. Ds. 6d. 319 All this wns behold each
wen, pages.
moro light-heddetly: disembodied the
You will find it hard to sleeplessness
Robert, belleve that Stella's lover, is really traitor to his country. Stella
Brat of the war communiques. of the Teapot Dome scandal would not love that sort of night behind and the night to
WHILE
with Ancient cluttered
at
*
Marinetti
Destruction.
anarchy
VIE story is laid In the period
and the shameful presidency of Warren Harding. Roosevelt is still a long way off.
130
to
You will scarcely be man. convinced by the perfone- tory reasons he gives for this nonconformity.
But how gladly you will put your incredulity to sleep, as in page after page of exquisitely
writing, Elizabeth cadenced
characters Bowen evakes her and her scenes, the moods of the one and the evanescent feelings of the other.
Her setting is the embattled London of Inte 1940. It is that London, conjured up and sel before us in moving and majes- the prese. There can surely be
Londoner, especially no middle-aged Londoner, who will read pages 85 to 87 of this novel without seeing, feeling mor that prignant. lovely autumn when one world lay in rubble and another was still deep. deep in the dark, un-
Д
onee
In reality there were no holl- tinys; few were free however light-heartedly to wander. The come mat across every noon in an arch of strain.
To work or think was to ache, In offices, factories, ministries. shops, kitchens the hot yellow sands of each afternoon ran out alowly: fatigue was the one reality.
You dared not envisage sleep. Apathelle, the injured and dying
the hospitals watched light change on walls which fall lanight.
might
Those rendered homeless sat where they had been rent; or, the obstinacy of worse, with animals retraced their stops to look for what was no longer there.
Most of all, the dead, from mortuaries, from under cataracts of rubble, made their anonymous presence--not today's dead but as yesterday's living--felt through. London.
Uneaunted, they continued, to move in shoals through the city day, pervading everything to be seen or heard or felt with their forn-off senata, drawing on this tomorrow they had expected- for death cannot be so sudden as all that,
shouted rago against the monuments which up Italy-like come- Farson celebrates both the teries, he sald-Picasso, the vanishing America of the little Spaniard, was making pictures seaports and their independent. To Jarry and
also the his friends, out of newspaper cuttings and minded people, and ПоцеЕсли
was something more ita BILA
The of string.
modern eternal America of the strange- a litlle man who amused movement than
was getting under ly beautiful coastline and the "character," He was, in fact, ก
ter himself with a paintbrush. Ho remark-
way.
enormous inland distances which quaint, innocent and
Primitive, 19
He was It crossed the Channel, arriv- the scream
of a train-whistle able, like his pictures. Theso
the Primitive Man himself!
Ing
in London in 1910, at the in the night can touch to wild ware first discovered in
How serious' was it all? Just Grafton Galleries, accompanied poetry, Salon
by
wild 1
young
ns that other event by the usual disorders, Men dramatist, Alfred Jarry, who, as serious
dal Verme i atormed the officials and
writes of these realities when cycling, fred a revolver in the Teatro
up their frighten pedestrians out of Milan when Four Networks of toro
catalogues. with the crisp accomplishment the nian Noises, by the Futurist
com- Horrifled outcries rose from the of the professional, the way.
who eltadels of art and culture.
knows his job and has worked out an effective formula Said Sickert, "Pleasses and of narration. It is the writing of Matisses could be painted by a modern, disgruntled American all the coachmen that the risc male brooding with love and For the motor traffle has thrown dişlike over his country. -
nut
Said of employment." Wilson Steer, "1 suppose they £250,000 at have
private means," The night clubs and society parties, genteel hot-house
of British ciled of a stroke in a New York culture bad been
FARSON makes it into a novel hopeful womb of time. hit as by #
This must be among the fineal by introducing the good old
writing She was 54. mental hospital.
Mbomb. Daughter of n barfender she
melodramatic motive, the love pieces of descriptive
that the war has given us. But manand a woman re- Americans who are barred CAPETOWN:
wanted to be the first woman
and between
By find form your own opinton. buying n
their horror, turned from Northern Zululand Federal law from
to fly the Atlantic and offered "order" (new name for anarchy who,
think they find out permission of the publisher, an herin £12,500
fly tell a strange story of an neel drink. It is not matter of a airmen
the modern double-talk) out-or
and extract appears below for your New-
that they Fe brother the cult of a She got as far as dent to one of their party. One drink, gentlemen, it is the prin
110 longer were
pleasure. Read. Married for six few foundland.
This novel is not only prolife cafe intellectuals. They sister. night they were gathered round ciple of the thing. We want to
Count Voleslov de were the programme of parties, the camp fire to listen to an old be recognised as full American months to
Regan's vicious old in the kind of writing that pene- Zulu guide telling a story of citizens". Actually. explained Praeri in 1035, she was married the
Industry of whole mother had
not told her that trates the world of senses with Mr Savage, the indian gets his in 1910 to her fifth husband,
maln
of her lover. Doc intimations from another kind of the valley in which they were encamped.
He said it
drinks. He has caught up with Theodore Cella. TVยป
George Char- Art, as usual, had been Just Grect, was her father 100, then life. It has, too, many dellelous Fome of the white men's cus- haunted by an evil spirit with
lot, a spurned French dancer. little
Л
would nol
sub instances of Elizabeth Bowen's have Later during tome sufciently to be able to
shol himself outside her house Life did the job one green eye.
In a bigger An
mited to the sailboat skipper, unmalicious, penetrating insight but recovered. the night impressionable find himself a bootlegger. The
way,
Yandell Greer would not have into character.
In fact. If one could only member of the party awoke in Johnny-come-lately Americans the darkness
to find himself la Congress promised to think
After remling William Gaunt's departed in disgust to roam "looking at a small green light. about it.
tralior.... mankind. And Thinking of the Zulu story
No 'Chute
HOLLYWOOD: Fan letters, hol understand
more himself from eller's spirit, he took fright,
as for an aim atur is con- about the inner meaning of the Fenner, who SYDNEY: from pulled out his revolver
A former para cerned, are classified as business modern movement (if
these
would not have under the pillow and shot a trooper, acting on an impulse. letters. Neighbours of Roy successive convulsions can be Anna for himself. Juminant watch off his com- dived head first through a wine Rogers, the cowboy star, com-called a movement), But you panion's wrist.
dow of a rali motor travelling plained to the North Hollywood will know something
THEY had met one another, at 25 m.ph. between Talwood zoning authorities that so many heroes and martyrs, Its batties,
at 'first
very not
often, and Goodwind! Queensland.
kept delivering fan- victories and senndals. He told the train crew
the heady autumn later postmen
HERE is, as you may suspect, throughout household
THE mali to the Rogers that since the end of the war
*
In something flimsy this of the first London air raids, that they could not rest. The
season been he had felt a powerful urge to
Board ruled that the Rogers
bought the THE SONS OF NOAH. ale of tangled loves funtangled Never had any jump hond first from fast- were breaking rules by receiv-
folt; one in the end) The heart of the more
the moving vehicles. The man was
poetic sense of it with
In that Seplemper trans- Li By Negley Farson. Gol book elsewhere-in ing business
page knocked unconscious when he private address and gave them lancz. 12s. 6d. 317 pages. after page of taut, sullen prose sense of death
parency people became trans- through London, all but encrusted with the salt hit the ground, but was other-
parent, only to be located by the just ciarkor flicker of their wise uninjured.
this, of the Atlantic wind, and alive ropings-off of dangerous tracts of THE main
with nostalgia: "I'd lice io of street made islands of exalted hearts. big, untidy, uncomfortable
f'Good Overlooked
Strangeas saying The wade out into the creamy surff stricken silence, and people novel is simple enough:
glory of. the off the Carolina sands and use crowded against the ropes to night, good luck" to each other KINGSTON, Jamaica police grandeur and
at street corners, as the sky first after a six-months' search for castern seaboord of the United that She snakewood rod again." admire the sunny empllness on
the other side.
blanched then Lyzene Savage with the un- The Queen Is Dead
faded with wanted Ioan
for murder, States: In particular, Chesapeake
That
closed De is almost Farson's last Parks suddenly
evening, each hoped not to die Delaware Bay, the
cause of time-bombs drifts of that night, still more not to die sentence, It might be his text. NEW YORK: The Queen of found him in one of their own Bay.
aatleras Bunks (where they
leaves in the empty deck chairs, unknown. His opening speech: Diamonds is dead. Mabel Ball, lockups, noted for stealing who won the title by wearing goat.
still speak, and net. Elizabethun
- Lengton Express Service) birds aftoat on the dazzlingly
be
an
Want A Name
NEW YORK: Some Americans went to Washington recently to ask if they could now please called Americans. They were the direct descendants of the earliest known Americans,
Minnesota The
Red Indians. They travelled by sleeping car who stopped the train when he Anstead of on horseback and saw the man's feet disappearing vore blue serge suits instead of through the window, soon feathers. Their spokeman was revived him,
Executive
10 the Cheppewa
Hollywood itle of Secretary Tribe.
"Gentlemen, We are the only
Wot! No Parcels!
letters
at
sixty days to And a new hddress! The
guard,
nations.
ahead of Life. But
If Anna
the father
entertaining study, you may the American scas and hide beliove that Robert
tells the story, Quote:
much
theme
of its
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
?MES
YES,
-ITS-THE-BORECOMES/ THEY WANT US TO
COME OVER. AND SEE
THEIR COLOR-PHOTO
SLIDES! OLAYGOCI!
WHAT'LL. I TELL
EMO
tried to get
WAS
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This Is the passage praised
above:
the
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Theas unknown dead pranched those left lying not by their death, which might any night be shared, but by their uni knownness, which could not be mended now,
Who had the right to mourn them, not having cored they had lived?
50,
that
still
So, among the crowds eating, drinking, working. travelling, halting, there. began to an instinctive movement to
,be break down indifference while there was still time.
The wall between the Ilving and the living became less solid as the wall between the living and the dead thinned.
-(London Express Service)
STAMP. NOTES
THE French post office has announced Boveral com- memorative slampa to be is- med this year. The themes to
be
used Include: Franco- American friendship, the move- ment for n united Europe. the contentry of the French postage stanip, the 75th an- niversary of the founding of the Universal Posini Union, and the International Tele- graph and Telephone Congress to be held in Paris. The IT- &T set will comprise Ave stampa and will honour (1) Andro Claude Choppe, (2) Marie Ampere and Dominique Francois Arago, (3) Baudot, (*) Gen. Ferric and. (6) Alexandro-III Bridge and tho Petit-Palala.
A
BYSSINIA Intends to com-
memorate the fifth anniver- sary of its liberation from Italian occupation with the Issuance of five stamps on May 8.
...
centenary of the ENMARK will honour the Danish Government with a new pos- tuge on June 5. The denomi- nailon of the stamp will be and 20 ore, but the design colour have not yet been an- nounced.
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~ZECHOSLOVAKIA is grad-
ually withdrawing all its current stamps, most of which beur the head of former Presi- dent Eduard Benes, and re- placing them with portraits of four mon who were killed during the occupation of the country. Those honoured will be Jan Sverma, Communisi partisan: Julius Fucik, jour- nalist: Janko Jesensky, writer, and Vladimir Vaneurra, nove- list. The Czech post office also announces the issuance of a single rommemorative stamp to honour Lenin on the 25th In anniversary of his death. addition, the first anniversary of the "February events," Communist 'control
or
of the
country, produced four stamps; one for the event itself, and for industry, one for agricul- ture and one for science and art.
pero
UBA honours Gen. Antonio Maceo, revolutionary leader, with a set of eight stamps for the 100th anniversary of his birth. The values and colours are: 1-cent green; že red; Se blue-gray; Oc black and brown; 10e brown and green; 20c blue-gray and red; 50c red and black, and the black and purple.
Cuba's tobacco industry.
for another the background new set of three stamps. The ́1-cent green-shows the coun- try's lobacco harvest; the 2c red has Cuba, in the guise of a woman, holding the national
and
R flag
box of cigars, while the 5c blue picturises a cigar and the shield of Cuba.
"Unexpected Invitations
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RESPOND SHILING, VIGOROUSLY, PRONTO.
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MATTER? YOU'RE VAITE
AS A SHEET,
INVITATION TO LEADING HOW MUCH. WORK THERE IS TO. KEEPING A HOUSE CLEAN.
IINITATION TO A BIRTHDAY: PARTY VANTS NO FORGETTING OF THE DATE AND NO REFERENCE TO THE YEARS.
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