CHOPIN LIVES ON IN CZECH STAMP
MUSIC entered the life of Fryderyk Chopin the day he
was born. Into hla lille village room came the melody of violiss warm in a wedding serenade.
At the age of eight. Chopin played the piano at a con cert. What did the audience like best?" asked his mother. beautiful collar" said
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My Chopin.
At 15 he was a tomposer, At 10 he left his Polish villaro and won the hearts of Vienna. Real-
endly he tied
Багоре Across and poured out his music.
In London he played Лог Queen Victoria and the Prince kind and Consort. Bald Chopin: "Her Majesty was very spoke to me twice Prince Albert drew near the plano→→ a great favour, so they tell me,"
He found fame everywhere, but not happiness. At - 29 hỏe last wish brought his friend, Counie Delphine
Polocka to Ving at his wide.
And now, 100 years Inter; this stamp In his memATY in Imned by Czechoslovakis. For a Crech, Adalberi Zwyny rave Chopin his first real mitusio lemons.
Face value: Three crowns (aboni 84.); Perforation; 12 by 121⁄2.
-(London Express Servicu)
FROM HERE and THERE :
This Pub Caters For A Horse
of
the
his
bottles
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949.
HERE IS
The Arabian Bird. By Con- - stantine FitzGibbon. Casioll. 86. 6d. 227 pages.
rs FitzGibbon
meteor
or a new star in the firmament of fiction? On the showing of this novel, he is one or the other. It will take another novel to determine which.
AN EXCITING NOVEL: Fresh, Terse, Unusual
>NEW BOOKS ... by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON house in Chelsea. He finds two And when it is all over, Charles, deny them the weapons which": empty glasses and a bottle of with the tired wisdom of weak they will certainly not hesitate gin; the perfume of Louise, his man, decides that he does not to use.
Fortunately, they were wife and lying on the bed a care much about either of them.
Ho leaves Louise. battledress sult, Inter kdentified
the
almost all on the level of the ns belonging to Oliver, his son. It is a small-scale, uncannily British Free Corps and its Ordered to Meanwhile, let the sense of
From this epliome of sordid vivid drama of the common- weeping wenches. discovery havo outlet, Pro- romance the story unfolds back place. It draws its power and the Russian Front, the Corps, man, takes to its bed. It claim it with full muster of and forward. Back to Charles's fascination from the fact that, to
of his first wife, in FitzGibbon's world, nothing is one of the rare moments of trumpets that The Arabian seduction
on Helen, Bird is adult and young; treat, dance's death in action is re- nobody..
day her la commonplace. Nothing and humour in a serious, elaborate and able study, a little over- bitterly
and torpe, unsparing;
for its subject, Нете La first meeting
ho how
writes: long touched with
nported; to economical; grudging poetry,
with Louise, then the mistress "There was for a moment an marred somewhat by repetition of Roger Peacock, an objec almost tangible silence, like (e. g. the story of Joyce's arrest), tionable friend of Oliver, later the sllence between the end of The Last Attachment. By killed at Dunkirk.
the overture and the raising of the curtain. But it was stronger
Iris Origo. John Murray and Jonathan Cape. 255. than that. It was for Oliver, as though a whole, loud city, n
533 pages. gigantic and vulgar Corneville,
NE had slipped quietly beneath the this. seo,"
A book of quality; unusual, exciting.
It has eeltoes (Is that you, Hemingway?) It -19 French rather than English. in feeling. FitzGibbon is a young English- Irish-Asnerican After being interrupted for three years a Wellington, his education was spent in travelling the Con- Inent
£3 & week pocket. money.
on
He writes with passion and does not succumb to it.
He
Birt with irony; on the other hand, he does not fuss over it. no if it were a diploma from correspondence course,
Unknown to Charles, there was a moment, during a river side plenic, when Oliver and Louise came
brink of to the disclosing passion.
Peacock alone sensed
true motive for his continued
interest in Louise.
*
Charles,
乳 lonely don
undertow of feeling: it was the The Meaning of Treason. By Rebecca West. Mac. millan. 188. 340 pages. TREASON, worst and noblest
of
deserves crimes,
the panoply of the State trial, the headsman's axe
instead of the But here, is no 1 company for Lovat or Casement!
Oxford, drifts inte marriage
11.1
out
hangman's noose.
of the
CONSTANTINE FITZGUBBON was born in Lenox, Mass, USA., of lish Tether." When he was seven his mother remarried, to an American lawyer who had spent his entire fife je France, ila was compelled to sit in fence after dinner while his step-father played. Wagner -- on-the
‚an American' methas`und an Anglo-
resultant
characters to appear in the just recovered from
few decent promophone for hours, and bas only Byronic Saga, Countess Teresa aversion to that composer,
was patronisert by He was supposed to go to Eton, -
has but at the age of 12 developed Guiccioll, her contemporaries and been awarded the ill-natured strong desire to be a soldier and areers of most of Byron's allowed to go to Wellington College. ĐAt 15 he was an ardent blographers.
She was dowdy, fat, sentl Communist and was removed from Kis school and allowed to travel the and Italian. Continent with £3 o week pocket mental, She waddled like a duck, her money, until the age of 27. At the complexion pork.
shollow
TVAS like
bolled
10
ops of 17 he won on open, scholar- ship to Exeter Collage, Oxfőrd.
He fained the British Army in 1980 and was commissioned in the
Intelligence Corps and subsequently
served at the War Department in
a with Loulse, It works
well enough until that night in There are flat stretches, London when Oliver comes to sodden poliloquies. But he can town on leave, and against
Everybody laughed at her of
clubs.
and later at her French husband, nqualid WELLINGTON: I horse
manage his big scenes; rarely backcloth car with
The traitors of Hitler's war slithers into 羈 second-hand druns and drabs, the passion drinks In a bar, lopers new parcels, including two
An Rebecca West presents them who introduced his wife At 6.10 p.m. he put phrase or lets a glib falsity of between Louise and her step- unduly provided of beer.
are a poor lot-playboys, half- friends in a reverent whisper, Washington. not WORTY
A mind la son flares up.
mistress of Lord they are ni the Rangitadki Hotel, the beer on the footpath while character slip past.
wils, crazed with vanilty or na "former 31 miles east of Taupo, New
he carried in the older parcels, at work
Shakespeare him- Byron' Charles stumbles A middle-aged
on it in a crankiness Zealand's world famous trout forgetting the beer. He went to The story?
Here is her story, filed out Origo from fishing resort
A wild horse, the theatre later, came home at man, his young wife, his son by scene of garish scandal. Father self could not have lent stature
to those petty malefactors who by the Marchesa tamed when n pony by the midnight, and found the beer his first marriage.
wandered upon too Teresa's own papers. have
is allly? Yes, silly publican's two daughters, pushes still there.
spacious a stage. customers aalde gently to react
enough to convince herself in palt o! water. The
later life that her affair with Byron had been pure. obvious attraction about the pub is a billboard reading "Bad Crook
beer
Dirty SEM.
change. Incivility--Come in," And most people in this codis
largely publoser area, do. Other oddities are; £1 and 10/- celling,
return trips, and In a nearby birch forest- two elephants, acquired from a circus, haul logs.
Superior animal
skulls
Even
discovered
JOHANNESBURO: Prehistorie days men had more brains than women, according to Dr Robert Broom, the vintnent anthropologist, He bases this on his most recent fiscovery at Sterkfontein, near Krugersdorp. of the skull of the bar room Doler stuck on
brah ape-man with n left by
by clients from the young
of 050 cubic who fear capacity rugged out-country that they might be short of metres compared with 500 cu, c.
of female earlier. money on their
Wasp-waisted Englishmon
WASHINGTON: Waist lines would be kept down, said an expert of the American Dietetic Association, If Amerlenn would wear braces lice English- men, instead of belts. wearers unconsciously their stomachs, he said, keep their trousers up.
Fire hazard HOLLYWOOD; Fire diets meeting in New Orleans to And
of cutting
the down number of calls they have to make asked Hollywood' to ban nil scenes of people smoking in That's the worst fre bed. hazard, they fald.
Labour-Savor BOSTON: A square frying pan will reach Amerlean shops Its purpose to fry eggs and minced steak to At into sandwiches
avon.
Art-minded hons
NEW
YORK: Wingless
chickens got competition
recently-hens
that lay ready- A New York coloured eggs store offered pink, blue, grem and yellow egga laid by a Chilean breed for 2s, aplece.
2
Midnight Surprise ADELAIDE: Driven home by
friend, A mon
(nil stort
Rys
men
Belt- expand to
Charles Monroe returns from in wartime sir trip to his mews
The
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and con come near to murder.
Louise, asked to choose be them, chooses Charles, tween
Augustus Johns sketch of the Marchese Onge
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
BEEF LIC
A POUND,
REFRIGERATOR CAR. GASOLINE
"LAMB
RENT
INSURANCE
MEDICAL COSTS
TELEVISION
CLOTHING! RADIO?
Save only Joyce, very type of the Irish rebei whom Yeats has celebrated.
Brave, cruel
She
onc,
con-
DAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
| PALACE)
HOTEL,
CLEANING
SERVICE
Reasons for concussion
mystify the doctors
CONCUSSION
the mysteries medicine: It is
is still one of Severe blows in sports like of modern boxing or rugger can result in a
of therefore one long period disablement.
and dialectical, But, as Byron said, half in
of he pursues his fated spiral- complaint, an angel
And, most unusual of from rebelling against rebellion stancy.
the an on Irish Loyalist, to rebelling virtues in
Byron circle, against the state on whose completely disinterested.
Indeed, the thought strikes of the most dimcult injuries behalf he was exiled.
ho was not Teresa too nice ator a doctor to treat. twisted, Mean and
It was a the recovers at
end a queer woman for Byron?
which
have may which half-defeats the thought
about the "Lord occurred to Byron, who was only exact working of the brain. It ridicule
halt Byronic. It certainly never is not at all easy to say, for How-how,
Such men find democracy occurred to Teresa.
instance, what are basle reasons lasting literary A book of Loo
their alle- slovenly for
for most types of headache: or to Interest. glance-and log tolerant
why one person suffers more head from 8 knock on the than another.
dignity
blasting
mans.
-
of
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Party. Progress has rarely been so funny as this.
by
✪ The King and the CorpsM. By Man Murray, Michaei joseph. 8s. Gd. 224 pages, Max Murray married wit to murder In The
Volca of the Corpse. In his second book, wit has left home, A pity,
Simon The Journey of McKeever. By Albert Maltz. Gollancz 9%. 6d. 250 pages. The touching story of an old man who, erroneously, thinks there is a cure for his arthritis. Charm- ingly told.
The Fortnight in September, By R. C Sherriff, Heinemann. Bs. 6d. 264 pages. Ra-issue of i novel which made a stir in 193. London Express Service,
Little la known
But it is well known that a mild blow, insufficient to pro duce more than
momentary unconseloumess,
the means of inducing ifelong and
can be
persistent headaches unless care ensure immediate Is taken to resti
Often the psychological effect here is such that the individual does not completely regain his previous form.
of
Treatment
concussion is immediate rést in bed,
Any head injury sufficient to cause even momentary uncon-
sciousness should mean a week of complete rest. If the troublo is more sovero then a longer perlod is essential
Unfortunately this advice is rarely taken. The patent, feel. ing fit, insists on goiting up and returning to work.
The result in many cases le'n long period of intractable head- aches. These may not come on Yet a fracture of the skull, for two or three months. But provided it dove not involve they can easily last for many vital structures, can result in years.
(London Exprom Service) complete reCOVETY.
"Peering Into the Future"
BU REM P STARRETT
* I SAW THE CUTEST NEW CAR VESTERDAY:
IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS THE ONES
THAT HAVE GOT THEIRS WILL A RADIATE OPTIMISM, AND SEE AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED, ETERNAL
PROSPERITY.
LOTS OF KIDS VILL
·BECOME DISPLACED PERSONS DURING THOSE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TOURS.
THE UNLUCKY ONES VILL
BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THAT STURT
BACK.
COME
ELSE'S
-- OUR CRYSTAL
THERE'LL BE THE USUAL NUMBER: OF ECONOMISTS TRYING TO FIGURE"! OUT JOY TWO CAN LIVE AS CHEAPLY AS FOUR USED TO
MEAT!
BALL SHOWS A MAN
·PUTTING A LAWN – "MOWER AWAY FOR THE
WINTER.
.... AND
MEETING UP WITH ANOTHER INSTRU
MENT OF TORTURE
THE POLITICIANC
WILL BE PROMISING EVERYTHING TO I
WITHOUT - Ledger Syndicate
INCLUDING GOVIMENT
AND PLENTY OF DITTO SPENDING 22
IT TAKES NO GREAT TALENT FOR READING THE FUTURE TO: KNOW THAT THE HINTS ABOUT CARISTMAS PRESENTS - WIEL-
BEGIN COON.
EXPECTING TO ANDER SPEE
FIND THINGS
JUST WIEDE LES
THINKS HE PUT and put a EGA
TIEM.
ריה
THE PALLAD HOUSECLEANING.... SEASON WILL BE UPON UC BEFORE WE KNOW IT AND WE SHALL WAX, WROTE (AND, NOT DOUBT DESCEND TO COME, VERY LOWE TYPE LANGUAGE.