·
Men With Rifles
Founded A Town
Betish were challenstag the French in Canada 'and needed a now basa to supply their troops.
A call went out for adventurers to build one, and i across the Atlantis sailed 2,000 men with their wives and children.
While red-conled soldiers watched; for war-painted Indians and French snipers, woodsmen felled trees and carpenters rush ed up log), huts loopholed for runs. Hunters shot, deer which were roasted over the camp fires,
The pioneers founded · Ula 1749) the port of Halifax, Nova Bootia, which helped to defcát
the French and has been a British naval base in every war adno. Now alant liners call there.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1949.
This way to the loony bin
LOVE IN ́A COLD CLI- MATE. By Nancy Mit- ford. Hamish Hamilton. 81. 6d. 284 pages."
T
* GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
and tifled. They are everything that Britain has turned her back on since the Glorious Revolution of 1945,
ding her newly widbwored uncle-by-marriage, odious. vicious, mobbish Boy Dougdale, for years her mother's lover!
After so many hopes, it is n cruel anti-climax. For. Polly. has not been given the Coburg- Ish name of Leopoldina for nothing. At times, her mother has dreamt of the Abbey and 4 voice saying: "7, Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David
a.
NANCY MITFORD IMS Peter Rodd), eldest of Lord Redesdale's' tamily of six daughters and a son, published two novels, Chelatmar Pudding and Highland Fing, before she was married (in 1932), Shortly before the war she adited two volumes et lettere of the Stanley Family..
After the war, she and her husband migrated to Paris, where she Is now living, and sise began to work on The Pursuit of Love, published two years ago (200,000 copies of the British edition sold) She is a alow worker The apparent effortlessness of her style ja, tive product, of a great deal of drudgery, two or three coplas in 'manuscript and repeated revisions of the typescript.
He reaches a naturi spóibeosis
in the Jackal-Italy of Mussolini. Fleeing from the country in 1043, ho falls into the hands of Eugenio, now п
resistance
lender. It is good, sardonie finish to an energetic, unsenti- mental story. Harrison has been a thought coreless with the pro- portions of his novel. But its speed holds.
Hermann had a
clean vest
HIS book is a bril liant. extravagant and
It is not to be. There is Joyous comedy. It has
nothing for it but to cut the feeling as well as fun;
ungrateful girl off with a shll- moments of sensibility as
ling and prepare to hand over And, since a Restoration' is Hampton
to བ well as explosions of farce, unlikely (taxation having sucking coloniatures The Blama illustrated here commemorates the town's 240th birthday and its builders XV's &.One pleture.
Its characters are sometimes ceeded, where the
axe of the Canadian cousin. (The Hamptona Face value: 4 cents (about 2158.); Perforallon: 12 by
very mind but are always recog- headsman falled), we may read have not kept pace with con-
TRIAL AND ERROR: The It has some of the tension of nisably human. For them, per- about their wickedness and folly stitutional progress in the Com- a well-told detective story. Who 12.
Autobiography of N ex-sergeant of the
A* haps, the loony bin-but never with the --(London, Esgram Berpica)
good conscience we
German Chaim Weizmann. monwealth.).
has Army was the "woman colour'd W," the puppet box.
bring to the gaudier · pages of Then,
Berlin (Hamish Hamilton, 21s.) written from
to oh delicious surprise! the dark lady who haunts the history,
the Canadian appears, le is Sonnets and visits the plays?
608 pagos.
apply for his real-life job The Hamptons and the Rad Cedric, he has lived (vaguely) That there was such a minx no
in the film version of lotto-co beautiful, kind, clever and dottyare na plping down the seams
hearties, in Paris, and he wears sults with reader of Ivar Brown will doubt. ERE is the story of one of the "Wooden Horse" escape He One can almost see her, so care- the most single-minded men from Stalag Luft III His far away as tho eighteenth peaks of himself reverently as fully, with so much love and of our age. Dr Weizmann can- century and a great deal funnier. "One"Is Polly as beautiful detestation, has Shakespeare put not
What has happened to them a One?"-and sulks at the her on paper.
FROM HERE AND THERE:
He'll try to keep his monkeys
Unprofitablo liners NEW YORK: Card sharpers have given up travelling the Atlantic liners because there is not enough money around pay their experies.
The satire, union of the ruth- Jess and the ladulgent, is all dona up in the wittiest af writing. Nancy Mittord has acquired a style of her own Post-Waugh.
LOVE in a Cold Climate, pre- pitious title for A summer novel-la a prudent insurance policy against the malice of St. Swithin.
Its period is Early Thirties, in
absurdity. The Hamptons and the Radletts are more or less
rich, powerful, uzeless, eccentric
NEW YORK: Question to be dead mice to the police gets a the full food of noble Engilsh decided in New York's courts; reward-a roll of white bread. is a monkey too "elvilised" to be classed as a wild animal. Tenant Jack Crawford plans 10 produce, two of the five pet monkeys he keeps in his dat to prove they can be as tame no
A dogs or cats. His purpose is to escape a Sanitation Department ruling that wild beasts are for bidden in city dwellings. The opposition's caso:-lions can be tamed too, but you won't And them in a Now York flat.
Off the deep and ROME: Fifty-one-year-old Arturo Barbagallo was poised on the top of a wall about to plunge to his death Into the river Tiber 100 feet below. But he fainted from emotion, and is now in San Spirito hospital suf- fering from shock and head in juries,
a
What
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DAB and FLOUNDER --by WALTER
and
Persuasivo 'phone WASHINGTON: described as the perfect tele- phone is soon to be issued in America. It la smaller lighter than the present
type: which is similor to Britain's. It has the numbers at the side of the din! wheel instead of derneath
tin- it. And the ring. which can be regulated by built-in dia), is persuasive, rather than demanding.
П
was
which
Casting out the Devil NEW YORK A 14-year-old Washington boy who "haunted" has been "cured" by Nightmare, house
a Jesult priest using centuries- old, seldom practised devil- NEW YORK: House for casting rites of the Catholle sale price, half-a-crown. Alfred Church. Selence was unable to Birnbaum, a New York GI explain why a blanket In student, is offering the £4,000 the boy slept moved across the "dream house" ho won in room, why a chair, in which he contest to anyone who will pay was sitting with his knees up. price of his ticket, suddenly tipped over, why wall him the Reason-inx officials demanded pictures were projected into the £1,000, contractors demanded room where he was standing.
The and why strange another £1,000 to move
scratching to a lot that would cost noises followed him." house
But £600, and the donor is charg- Lutheran minister swore ing him £10 a day “rent” un he saw these things happen. til he moves the house from its The bay was taken, to meninl exhibition site.
speclallets, doctors and hos- pitala, but they could not stop
Dead or alivet BMELIN: A plague of field mice bas destroyed so much of the harvest la Saxony. Russian zone, that anybody taking · ten
that
the strange manifestationa During a visit to St Louis, Je- sults became interested in his cat and one of them waE, AS- signed to cure him.
even
visit the Kruger name-Hermann Glomnitz. National Park in South Africa
Hermann's letter to the fla without comparing the privi- company reads: "This is to let atanding of #The hard-working the misfortunes of his people. ex-sergeant who was in charge become of all the gold (Polly's Canadian One expects.
playwright a or Cedric's)?
Vast practical The lions have no Arab prob- of this camp, under the com 'Polly's is probably dangling Cedric, Cedric falls in love writes
SONIA falls in love with knowledge of the theatre. He lom, ever some kitchen sink. As with Sonin, Lord Montdare, the power to infect,
mand of a German colonel, with Impotus and the Cedric's. No sink for Cedric,
the end. But Weizmann's biggest dim-from the beginning to Jewels and furniture of Hamp- one fancies!
culties were not with the Araba THE DEVIL IN
"Also, my name is mentioned THE or even the British, whom he throughout the
since? Into what have these answer. degenerates degenerated? What's In fact, not at all the sort of Brown brings to the under leged lot of the animals with you know that I am the German
But in Love in a Cold Climate
pupes on
tho
un Indian than not at all” this is said of an ex-Vicerelnet
of
I had close
FLESH. By Raymond likes and misunderstands. His Wooden Hors book called Rodiquet. Grey Walls sharpest anger is kept for the contact with all the internees
comfortable, assimilated Jews and am sure they will all ro Fress. 83. 6d. 167 pages. of the West, making no allow- member mo,
with
д
of a
Im-
gave
Chief Ferret
them
fair treatment
ton. sinks are still far off. It is the Soals towards new face creams, His love is active. Ha, urges silver ago. A lunatic moon
frocks, dipta and hair-do's; rich, Lisordered scene. A Labour Government ses her into steam barrels the and the hands of masseurs. She in power, but-oh, difference! Aunt Bonla
Lady lose weight, wrinkles, pouches THIS novel, so brief, to in- ance for the dilemma
which he was facing them. tense,
attempiing so Montdore) has every Minister at and less of the joints fairy possible a task and achieving it her feet and most of them on the
With a touch
There were, too, the fiercely wand Cedric transforms
"I also know the 50 men who her with such success-in any writer orthodox Challukkah Jews of telephone.
an ex- the from
settlements in were shot, and was the chief of early a terrifying old idol of it would have been Round Aunt Sonia, formidable
It was Palestine.
the so-called 'Ferrets" whờ dis- traordinary feat. And delicious young written by a French boy of 18. battleaxe and ex-Vicereine, and about 60 into
covered quite a number of the Polly, her beautiful daughter, darling of about a hundred.
And all those who rejoiced in
"You cannot leave," they escape tunnels made by the the story turn. Round Sonia
The difficulty of the task lies told Welzmann Sonia's grief over
in World War POWs Folly are and Polly and Love.
In the stark simplicity of the II. "There are important matters correspondingly enraged by the
theme, the violent, selfish, and still to settle."
"Some of the ex-PoWs3 The Feast of had the pleasure to meel since WHAT a lot of time there was now Lady Mentore, the as
affair for Love! And the
Tabernacles was at hand and in Berlin, and they helped mys am- young cat, her grey hair a self abandoning love
boy of 16 and a young they had to do from Trieste, had a 'clean vest,' and always no myrtles. Only the along here after the war as11 portance it hod! "Mamma curious shade of blue.
married woman of 10. It is and finect would rather I fell in love with As for Polly, her marriage of those stories that the film can in Austrian territory.
And with Boy lasts only 18 months invest with poetle power-and the Britich would lift the block during their internment.
Surely Then
she goes off happily with In the younger Hampton set, an old nobleman called Geoff in this can has done so. But to noc. No? In that case. Egyptian make an absorbing novel out of myrtles might do-if the British Paddington. Boy retires to Love has a narrow but wildly Hampton with Sonla and Ced those few worn threads, that would only lift tho quarantine planned film want the real facts change their lovers it is more Ho-is busy writing a book about calls for something like genius. like a Cabinet reshuffle than throo 10th century dukes.
THERE'S GLORY FOR All of which sad proceedings new government."
YOU! By Michael Harri- But Love, one way or another, are observed and remarked on ja never abant long As Mrs by
hater Matthew,
con. Werner Laurie, 10s, of
the Feast of Tabernacles, He Chaddesley Corbett says: "After sewers," Uncle Davey, whose
"Hucio
and denouncer of
6d, 394 pages.
need not have worried, General all, what would there be to think -health is a great comfort to tremendous spirit to tell the I read it up in the
Allenby knew about the myrtles. THARRISON nets out with He said: "It's all in the Bible: about when, one's alone, other- wise?"
Book of story of one of the most unpleas- Nehemiah last night." To Sonia, although che 18
ing but vital Italians in all merely 60, love only comes after
fiction. Carlo Duca, dowered her terrible disappointment over
with a quick brain and a plenary Polly For Polly will not marry SHAKESPEARE. By Ivor, lack of scruple, cels out to win and nobody will marry Polly, Eligible young men
Brown. Collins. 12s. 6d. wealth and tus in take one
237 pages. look, "how beautiful," and drag. to the altar same clnlees lttle OST readable. vet most
In the process he kills his contrary, written a book that is thing from Cadogan Square,
learned, this book thould closest-his And then suddenly, crowning spread far beyond the
too closs school stamped with sphers Griend and betrays the girl his full of feeling and incident. disaster. Polly insists on wed- whern Shakespeare is a cult brother Eugenio wants to marry,
-{London Express Service)
variable orbit "When they
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
him, and the enchanting Radlett children Viet and Jassy.
A diverting, if naughty. procession of scandals.
business
Milan big
on the importation of plants from Egypt!
Weizmann departed, wonder- ing what was real, the war or
And lifted the quarantine, A man of Weizmann's emin ence is entitled-almost expect ed-to write dull, probably in aincere, memoirs. He has, on the
personality and
"If the producers of this
and all inside information, as, to how this camp, was run, I could supply them. "Maybe I could wat as adviser or even take my part in the cast."
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Substitutes
Staing Luft III, was at Sagan, but that is now in the Russian zone-so the camp will bo reconstructed at Munsterlage, in the British zone."
officers fled after their escape The port to which the. British was Stettin, now also Russian. So Lubeck will be substituted the film,
"THE WOODEN HORSE published by Collins (10%, #dj.
"Folks We Can Do Without'
BY KEMP STARRETT
---(London Express Serviós),
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