DAB and FLOUNDER
-by WALTER
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1949,
"Marry Again' Smiled
His Dying
Wife
that
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF COVENTRY THIS POET that he was the very PATMORE. By Derek Patmore Constable, 15. 250 pages..
HE first Mrs Coventry Patmore was, on
the evidence of this amplified life of the . Victorian poet, the best of the lot and the most discerning.
soul minutest
STILL SETS
over buzzed in so
A PUZZLE
by George Malcolm Thomson
Dying, she hade her husband re-marry (it must have been.aald with a whimsical smile) and warned him that the priests would get him. The widower, Journoying to Rome, found that tho cardinals were the most agreable of com- pany and recalled that Roman Catholicism was the religion of gentlemen. would be recused of marrying for money, le fed from Rome. An even stronger argument But pride was hurt rather than presented Itself when he met scruples. Very soon, he had the lovely Mins Byles, who had settled down in England as promised never to marry and
country gentleman would scarcely break her word second Mrs Patmore. Protestant. in order to wed n Late one evening, Patmore ran
From Here and Thero:
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with the
Cashing In On
They're The Kar Kitty
tickola. At any' moineat. Inspector may come along.
the
In the meantime, the pazzan gera fight, philosophise at the top of their voices and make eyes at one another's womenfolk. Nobody will open the windows.
And nobody knows where the
is going,
Visa is the Marseilles under
named
SO THIS IS LOVE
(among the intellectuals)
by
more either.
much. Talk
creeps
understand
Pierre did not go to America. A subtle, incisive study of emotions and motives, with sensitive feeling for character,
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STAMP NOTES
REPARATIONS
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boen growing-in Sweden. Two the clubs have opened in Swedish capital where South Americans can meet, and Spanish and Portuguese are spoken by Swedish guests.
THEN Postmaster Perot
issued his own black penny stamp--the first in. the flower- and-sunshine islands of Ber muda-be did not dream that.
holm for a représentative exhibition 01 Latin- drink People The scene of World Without SHE CAME TO STAY,
American stamps, opening Talk endlessly. brilliantly. Talk only about
on October 12, in com- high a place." world during the war, Many of By Simone de Beauvoir. more
and Warburg, their, love-life. Analyse their
memoration of Columbus The poet was a Its inhabitants have false names, Secker
emotions with the rage of the no12s. 6d. 431 pages. udy political pasta and
Day. typical domestic gaudy
Upon them polico MINX she is. A minx priests of Baol
cutting them-All Latin-American countries selves with knives and lancets. in search' tyrant of the period, pounce
of Jews, A
will be represented, and she remains. Simone.do
And all the while, down goes
committeo has been formed uxorious and self- democrats, Communists.
Nothing is quite what li ap- Beauvoir does her best for Vat 69 the perped, the Benu
under the auspices of Crown willed. In politics, ha
Prince Gustaf Adolf, to BI- was a patriot who pears to be on the surface. the girl, tries to convinco iotals. And the war
nearer. Theatre empty. Pierro
range details of the expozi. feared the French, candy making concern
Sucror is in fact a hideout for /H8, on the word of a score begins to think war might be a
tion. The site of the exhibillan Ja to be at the Swedish hated the Germans fugitives. An American Quaker of witnesses, that there is good thing. I can
Postal Museum, and Swedish and helped to found relist organisation is, in fact, something worthwhile that.
postal authorities shipping hunted about Xaviere. the Artists Rifles. engaged." in
operating with A Leun- But, in the end as in the be- He will not go to the States.
American co-ordination com- He was a Tory who detested people out of the country, Even Vichy police Inspector Disraeli and taught his son, to the
Espinasse is playing a double inning, we see nothing but a Cerbert would gladly go to
mittee to make the event graceful young cat idly clawing Santo Domingo. As for Xaviere,
success. say "Dama Gladstone."
game.
cushions in somebody she goes on making her friends Interest in South America has The second Patmore menage B
When room. And the charming old Italian at the
else's drawing
unhappier, fniser, more frustrat- was placidoo plaeld maybe.
the ed. Until the night when Frau- turning on Into It there came a clever, colonel (who is not a colonel)Francoist,
for top of the gas-meler, despatches coise can tolerato no more and poor, ambitious girl named Har- sells forged old masters
resolutely upon the Once it had been thought riet Robson, a school friend of dollars so that refugees may be Xaviere to the next world, we marches
that time. Kas-mater. About daughter rescued. His granddaughter, the feel that justice has been done. edoring that Miss Bylen would marry Patmore's
on a high
tolerato lovely' Karen, carries
It was folly of Francoise, the
any round to a Jesuit houze, insist- Cardinal Manning, while he was Emily. A complex psycholo can love affair with Pontillac, velist, and Pierre, her loves Hitler could not ing that the matter be put right still an Anglican parson. He cal situation now unfolds.
It is my opinion that, if you without delay.
continued to influence her, to
Harriet becomes a governess Vichy oficial who thinks he is the famous actor, to admit the
nes are the using the ghi to send money to girl into the life which ence go to the Dome in Montparnasse, in the home. Patmore Then a new obstacle appeared, her Imperious husband's discon-
The money, once share with so much confidence you will see a man and a New York. Emily his tent. When Manning died, "alterest in her grows, (to Misa Byles was
woman. Both will have been in convinced
takes the veil, and dies: The again, goes to finance the work and affection and with 'so few helress-he more wrote, "I am
Resistance. With extra“ restraints.
the astonishment) an
joy she felt at the thought of of rescue.
There is no central figure, no
*
drdinary Intelligence and al death was quite ecstatic,
Mrs Patmore dies. Paimore hero-many brave people. There
But it never occurred to them great length, they will dissect And they will drink bulida a large church In her power, confusion, ugliness, memory and, in sixteen months, pathos. An overflow of vitality that they had anything to foar Xaviere.
As a from a discontented child, from heavily. But not, I think, Vat Harrict becomes the third Mrs into verbosity, delirium.
portrait of a community under her stubbornness, sensuality and 69.
Yet by the mere fact Patmore.
the terror, the sickly terror of charm.
were Vichy. World Without Visa con- that they asked her in, vinces. But it is a wearing book. they not acknowledging some Eventually the circus
next
But life and love were not
JEAN MALAQUAIS, proses lack in their own relationship? door missed the elephant and
Once Xaviere la across the wee bit monotonous. came around to collect it, but finished with the post. An old for's son, born in Warese, ipod, went by then many patients were man, he was captivated by the to sea as deck-hand and diah-wash187,
worked as miner, factory hand, threshold, that ancient constel- Eternal Triangle, brilliant Alice Meynell; very
lawyers clerk,” soon, could not pretend that his longshoreman, mechante, elreus haut, lation, the
bookkeeper tags rises ominously into the night A new NEW YORK:
get- of Gr. Fresh snock is a delicacy heading for home,
No spino pad?
was interest in fier
literary. hand, foreman in a rodio factory
supposes
that the rich-quick craze, the kar kitty, which said before the war al
NEW YORK: On sale in New on this culminating episode in Taken toner June 1610, exceped, ky over Montparnasse. And it has arrived. It is played in the 4d. per fish, Mixed with rice,
will be a sun helmet with a
two women and one man (with same way as the pyramid clulls it is the staple diet of the col York shops soon, priced at £3, Patmore's life, the new version and with his wife reached Vene anybody,
HAT journalism should be built-in radio.
Its advertised of Derek Patmore's blography rusla via Spain, now living in USA emotional permutations
THE BEST DAYS. By a little outside help) must
enjoyable-readable event -every new member has to in- oured population,
-two years after ils first virtude-You can Bisters in bois illuminating. troduce eight now duen-paying
favourite
Mrs Meynell, faced by Pat- Hugh Massingham, Cres quickly exhausted, little does he for
of the ingenuity of programme prize members--but 1h0
appearance is a triumph usually NEW YORK; After watching your
Simone de Beauvoir!
accident, Baxter reaching the top of the pyramid
a wren swinging on a clothes whilo, fishing, gardening, watchmore's exigence, sent him away, set Press. 10s. 6d. know
the deeply wounded. George Mere
Francoise To pages.
loves Xaviere, achieved by
cares ia
a new car instead of cash.
line while someone else bullt ing baseball or sitting in
dith reigned in his place. Radio pirate
the family nest, the leader writ- park with baby,
the poet women's companion-
enough about words WELLINGTON: Post Omed er of the Decatur
ship had always been essential; THE downfall of the righteous Xaviere makes a play for Pierre. brings it off because he
has an especial savour for Pierre and Xaviere unite in be enough about the theatre to hit
ing sorry for Francoise, Fran- hard and from it, at last, he took the radio detector vans are hunting Herald decided that
the unregenerate,
colso thinks how nice it would to write well.
His discourse here is of good naughty parson is for a radio pirate who has been must be a government housing women will show a little more sharpest hurt of his life.
standard be to seduce Gerbert, Pierre's leg this season. Sults in skirts answering ground control as if expediter.
four to
The most scorching questions theme of fiction. nino
ten, of bad acting in immortal -randing from Not on Sundays and has from aircraft plots
the back about Patmore have still to ba
"Bobs" Dewson, that pompous, protege. Xaviere does seduce acting in plays already forgot- bere modern vicar, begins to prowl Meanwhile, giving instructions
CAPETOWN: Four policemen inches in length--In been
F. F. and X. make no claims drama, and of those rare occa~ when play and matched in excel- a most readable pro- around Piccadilly because he be- pilots as if from ground control. appeared at a tennis club on or up the side, aro predicted for answered.
TV-Home breaker
Sunday and confiscated the the Spring.
lence. Baxter can rise to those visional verdict on his difficult llaves his son Ron is in bad on one another. P? F. and Xons in life are consumed with jealousy. P? players are trouble with the police.. character.
FI X-Oh, well.
rare occasions (consider him on Television, rackets, balls and nets and took NEW YORIC:
crimson pen
DEREK PATMORE,
Very soon, Bobs is prowling author
rise Wolft's Lear) touted as the possible saviour the names of the players for
broadcaster. and for
another reason. She is called
above the rest. possible prosecution under the monster, the length of three playteright,
Uittle journalist; great-grandson of Coven of the American home,
men and wearing what appears
Born in London, May, and is a vicious
He combines the urbanity try Palmbre;
his cited as grounds for separation Sundays Observance Act,
homa, to be a pair of
stalls with the piercing has 1905; educated Uppingham; a war prostitute. Boba thinks that by a New York wife, Mrs Betty
Jumbo caused chaos
seen by fathermen in correspondent in the Balkans and new-gained experience of life
the forthrightness of the gallery. He been Jo Hill. Her chargo"My hus-.
CAPETOWN: Hearing a crash
Bilboo waters several Hines Middle East
le., sin, will make him a boller
18 а moralist with a soft side band deprived me of his love
have disap WORLD WITHOUT the Bishop is not going to think
buzzes about the theatre like a bervant of the Church. Plainly,
for everything but pretence. He and companionship by devoting at the door, coloured pallenta in lately. All fish
Calvinia hospital looked up seared from the area, Patrol himself exclusively to watching a
and saw DA elephant coming bon
the VISA. By Jean Malaquais so. are constantly on bonts
wasp who has no prejudices, well television programmes.
through
word. Most of
succeeds Gollancz. 12. 6d. 499 Massingham Snock in demand
enough with his minor charac-
but believes that stings are for them dived under the bed, and
Coincidence?
pages. CAPETOWN: A flourishing all shricked. The elephant wan-
BRISBANE; A record num
WELLING in the pages of ters. But Bobs is a mere stock black market in fresh ours dored about besides, then ber of prisoners watched a film Jean Molaquala's novel is Agure, And about the central
overloaded fishing fleet, entered a private ward where shown in Brisbeno duol The like travelling in an Insanitary too little sin
overcrowded with has shot the price up 2/3d. per a doctor looked round and saw film told the story of Barabbas, train
washed people who have fah above the controlled price the elephant. He shooed it out. the biblical thief
from
to
was
Opinion
the
(Illinois). the wren
More Log NEW YORK:
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American
drinking
Red mensco MADRID: A
look-out.
comes
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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Gerbert.
This
among
be
FIRST NIGHTS AND
Baxter. Hutchinson. 215. NOISES OFF. By Beverley
239 pages.
and can
of
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watches her author characters, with the alertness of she records seismograph;
describes a lovers Ulf, it is like every tremor in violet ink on a graduated sheet. When she
running commentary, by expert for experts, on a slow
What zest and entertainment This is love among the intel- motion wrestling match, lectuals. Passion among the this nimble-witted crilic trans- dialecticlans. Jealousy in the mils from his adventures tzi theatre-world of Paris in the Shaftesbury Avenue-GHT. months before the war.
En
use and not ornament,
-London Expreta Service)
today, 100 years later, it would be catalogued at £700. He simply removed the date and month from the handstamp he used for post-marking letters and wrole in "One Penny" and "W. B. Perot." Now Bermuda has issued a sct of three stamps which em- body his design. They are: 211⁄2d. brown and bluej 3d. blue and black; 6d. green und violet,
The sixpenny, pictured here bas threo blossoms on the left; the others have two..
issucă
WITZERLAND has
four new semi-postals whose additional funds will go to bolster the national youth The welfare
organisation. "Pro Juventute" stamps con- sist of the 5-centima plus
of Gen. Ulrich Willie,
violet, with a commander-in
chief of the citizens' army during World War 1. The
10 100 plus green, grey and yellow shows foxgloves; the 20c plus 10 brown, red and Alpine yellow pictures the rocs and the 30e plus 10 blue, groy and orange shows paradise lily.
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