THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1949.
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They're Tough, Mighty THE OLD GIRL IS
Tough In Finland
It's laughter you're after or hints on how to grow
touch, this is your stamp one of a, set of four from
FINLAND. nallon famous for "athletes.
Xt this year's "novelty stamp. For who has ever seen another show- Inga boy running naked over show to plunge into an lay pool?
The story starts-In the forest huts where the Finns take a bath which makes them · strong, First they licat big stones on a stove, pour water on them and swelter In the steam.
Next a cold abower. Then they roll in the snow outside or swim, and finish by slapping each other with birch twigs to gel warm,
30: SUOM
Face value of the stamp to 30 Marks (about is. 1d.) plus 10 Marks to help the Red Cross. Perforation 14 by 14.
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NEW YORK: Daily, or almost letters since March. daily, Englishmen arrived in one to herself recently to New York on dollar-making she had won the first prize in
Tas- the £10,000 Tattersall's missions, but Charles Lyne, a
She will carry recent arrival, in the most
tanian Jottery (1)-
her job as usual usual yet. Mr Lyne points por- traits of luxhounds. and
Reds dislike gao! parently there are enough WASHINGTON: Complaints Americana who know what about gaol life registered "yolcka“ mRNA to keep bin America's 11 top
Communists, bury for werin Out of place in who were convicted of a can- His tweede amid New York's pirncy against the government chrome and toncrete, Mr Lyne bunks are too hard, nighlights told reporter he would work glare in their eyes, there is too at 12 American Jum clubs, touch smell of fresh paint, the mostly
New England word food is poor, the best menli ye! Virginia I haven't made arp bring beef heart, they are treat my and yet," he mid, "how ed too much "like regular much 19 charge for each por trait"
Sickening strike
Cri
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NEW YORK; Forbid/ten 19 law be strike, A thousand more of New York's dustinen reported they were low sick to work A Communist stration, said elty officials But les the men tid all they wanted was more money for tidying up
world's afler the prople
untidiest
Grounded husbands LOS ANGELES: Wives were blamed for the decline of pri- (there vate flying in America
Las been a 8.000 drop in civil Plane licences) Explained Kenneth Garafula, private plane manufacturer: "Women want their husbands around the house weekends Istend messing about the airport "
Self-help
WELLINGTON: Thirly-year- postwoman Mrs frene May Bu
delivering? ten, who has been
A MONSTER.
|_ NEW BOOKS ... by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON..
THE LOVERS DIS- frightened Nurse Goodall reads TURBED. By Elizabeth silly magazine stories to her. Lake. Cressot Press, 9s. 6d. 271 pages.
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Wo idens are widely disseminated about Elizabeth Lake's new
novel.
(1) That Lady Mason successfully polsor s the love between her nephew David and the doctor's daughter, Sheila.
(2) That this feat in a triumph Indyship a
of evil, and her wicked old monster.
Neither opinion will survive & mom nt of quiet reflection
The truth is that David and Sheila Mhemselves, by furtive behaviour and careless lying, poison the atmosphere of their love affair and in consequence become intolerable to
గల other.
JAY
Mason and Further, it Lady Фуду
broken zp the romance, she would have done Sheila a real Service in ridding her of na objectionabile nruf selish end, a young man as second-rate as The pictures he paints,
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So
for much
the: malignity of Lady Muson!
horrid
But the old girl is a monster Elizabeth Lake spends an 11- holy of devoted hate and loving invention 9a impressing the fact on put this
The evidence"
Also she is Iterate, hates her dead husband's family and ́folks Sex and anti-Semitism in
a Cockney accent.
Not a very formidable equip- ment for a fiend in human form. Indeed, at the back of my mind there lurks the suspicion
Mason โร that Lady monster at all but simply a sick and unhappy old woman with bad manners,
not
But Elizabeth Lake will not play it that way. And since she has the Rift
making her people come to life out of the printed page, we are compeiled to accept her vision of Lady Mason as a bloated spider weay- Ing an infernal wirb hapless creatures.
If Fred hnd known the truth he would have been even more certain of Clara's guilt, For Clara has fallen in love with a neigh- bouring farmer, Sam Lever, whose wife has run away from him,
Sam will have nothing to do will Clara. Bil Clara'e resent- ment falls not on Sam; but on her crippled husband Charle. She has wasted on him the best years of her life! It in only. fair that he should sacrifice to her the remaining years of his life.
The reasoning is confused but its conclusion is simple.
Her characters come to lite NOVELIST LUIZABETH
LAKE
some
NO
Poles and forth) are marching under guard to the Siberian mines, where, they will die quite certainly horribly.
and Clara buys the polson
The only mixes It In the stew trouble is that Clara's husbatki, Charlie, does not eat the stew, tionist, about but drowns himself in the well, Personally I think that Fred, That being so, our complaint the constable, has a grievance against the author is that she against fate-and that Ian Noll does not build a story big enough can write a better and turid enough to match the this. character she has conjured up.
book than
DOGE'S RING. By Daniele Vare. Methuen. 88. 6d. 212 pages.
Relentness u character-draw- THE in, powerful in the creation of Elizbell Like's isnosphere, new novel is wealt it deumatic architecture.
ELIZABETH LAKE 702 educated in conrente in France and England, and spent Bottle time in research at the De Omma library
htudell, tra
She married to Charles Madue, the port and sociologist,
Is amiable little book is a kind of distant and not very cobust relation of Prick of Pook'R H
Children living tn K11 old The Ive Scottish castle un the Angus by lusts of near Stevenage in Hertfordshire coast are visited and have a daughter aged four bygone days. and a an aged two
What, then, anves the book from being completely depress- Ing?
That it is not a mere descrip- ilon of conditions believed to exist in the dim empire of the NKVD. It is n poetic vision of the dignity as well as the de- gradation of man-and of the the two are manner in which
NKVD as in the interfused
leutenant Kudiavtacy.
This is not propaganda against Stalin so much as a piercing. deflant and terrible outery on behalf of human freedom.
DAB and FLOUNDER by WALTER
STORKS WANT A FAMILY
THE
HE London Zoo's two white storks seem lonely, NO special efforts are to be made to get partners for them.
They are both males, and re- cently showed signs of wanting to nest.
"For several weeks both aticks could be seen carrying and twigs about in their benks," sald Headkeeper Gregory.
The now birds will be caught for us in Holland next spring.
"White storks have nested in. the Zoo before. Last occasion was in 1941, when a chick was hutched in largo untidy rest which the parent birds bullt around one of the Iron roof supports."
Prairie Pluto To
Span A Nation
A 1,150-mile pipeline, costing
the £30,000,000, ano of
the world's longest, will by spring of 1931 carry oil from A book not lightly to be taken the newly found neids around Edmonton, Alberta, to the Up of the Great Lakes at Superior. Wisconsin.
NLIBRARY LISTA
A smail Scottish-Italian boy up. FOXHOLLOW. By lan named Marco possesses the ring
Niall. Heinemann, 88. 6d used to wed the sen.
with which the Dage of Venice By nicons 248 pages.
of the ring he can summon the Lion of St Mark's and, in his travel through time company.
Prison inspired him SALT LAKE (TTY; in good to murder, Robert McCoy has fr med a company to nella laventions perfected during
The inven years behind burg To revolutionary metal col-
release
Lady Mason is very large and Upon his
two
David, the nephew, spes months bouce he will take over
JERE her face as that of an 18th cen
is a brisk vice president of the com-
rusik tale HE grotesque. about the kind of people lan may be expects to make sales tury cartoonist's
aver the world In staffing "encrusted with blemishes, large Niall knows so well to put be- fore us. if it is not Niall at his best, the reason is plain, Fox- hollow is one of those novels that ends in an anti-climax,
s
ugly.
his factory McCoy will give pre-swellings, sinali awellings, pli- ference la ex-convicts
tings and patches of discolora, tion as though it were composed of not the usund Dutch to
New doal for wives AMSTERDAM: The wife wil no longer have
bey her husband She may i future dispose of her own pruz perty and she may even ask the court to order that part of her husband's salary
separately
puid ther 11 the ense of her husband not giving her a rea- conable amount of housekeeping money A wife will have the right to choose a career if she wants to take a jobs
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number features but 11 hundred, bighted landscape, a face i whose shadows were sketches of other laces."
Fred Carter, the village con- slable, believes that erline has coinc to Foxhollow Charlie Maye, the club-footed man, dis- But An excellent start.
appears and Clara, his wife, in there any other syniploms of explaining his absence, tells evil incarnate7
some untruths.
Dre
Yes, Lady Mason lies in best whisky and all day drinking
while poor
smoking cigurelles
Moreover, Fred discovers that
been hus
buying ral
Claru position.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
AND THEN HE ATE THIS AWFUL CHEESE AND
CHASED ME ALL OVER THE PLACE TRYING TO KIST ME!
IT WAS A SCREAM ...HE ATE ALL THIS AWFOL
CHEESE AND THEN
CHASED HE
ALL OVER
THE PLACE
TRYING TO KISS ME
ETC.
and space.
The device is hardly novel; the stories have more charm than vitality. Bul at which
DIC- Kroup are they aimed?
THE TORMENTORS, By Gol- Richard Cargoe. lancz. 9. 6d. 238 pages.
I would be hard to imagine
anything more dreadful and forbidding than the fate of the people to this novel. They (a mad priest, a political devia-
"YOU SHOULD SEE TIL MAGNIFICENT AEW-
CAR THE SWANKS HAVE .....AID SUCH
A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE.... FIFTY-FIVE FOOT LIVINGROOM...
AND THE POOL...VIAT
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AND THEIR TELEVISION SET COST SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS...ON, AND A BOAT YOU SHOULD SEE
KISS TO-MORROW GOODBYE. 113 lurare McCoy Arthur Barker, For those who as a 955 pages like their Action raw this is the book Plenty
of cold-blooded cruelty and hot-blooded shooting The hero kila bla fall-escupirs companion in the dam chapter He is killed by that companion's Tee slonia Mator on the len ose Most people will approve NADA THE LAY aider #
.
MacDonal.
Head 504
A romantic epie ot the Zulu netlab, often thought to be the author's best novel An attractive reimsus
THE GRAND DESIGN. By John za od. Dos Pans Lehmann 584 DREEA AD and scale novel sat in the politest
of Washington in the
New Deal day.
LITERATURA AND SUCIETY. By Edwio Mule Hogarth, Ba 60. Kways of one quality, mainly con cerned to make people enjoy books them by mord
understanding belier
London Expræer Service
ADA EDMONTON PERS
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al
U. S. A.
SUPERIOR
2. Michig
Pluto, Britain's wartime pipeline, went under the Eng- Wish Channet.
Crude all will be pumped in- to the line at Edmonton cross the Western Prairies Regina, Saskatchewan,
and industrialist and one of the men to behind the 600 million dollar
prairie oil strike.
From there it will run south- east to the Canadian-US border at Gretna, Maidtobu, south of Canada would Winnipeg, and continue east ward to Superior.
bo
He said there aro already 990 wells. By 1051 It was expected producing 200,000 barrels a day, enough for her needs. Much would bo exported to the western US in return for American oil for castern Canada.
Merely to all the pipeline will take 1,030,000 barrela → |04,330,000 gallons. And it will take 28 days for a barrel of of to move from Edmonton to the strengthen our economy, Superior outlet.
БАУС will
dollars,
"This
arki cnable Canada to play a greater
In London recently was James Y. Murdoch, Canadian affairs," he added.
Mr part in Imperial Gnancial
'em"
"Don't You Love 'em
BY KEMP STARRETT
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GOIN' »VIO GAVE YOU
A DRIVING
LICENSE,
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LOOK AT AY FENDER!
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AND
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THEY SAID
AND.
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SUDDENLY THE DOOR SLOW) SUDDENLY THE DOOR, SLOY
CUDDENLY THE DOOR.
THE ONES WHO TALK, TALK TALK OVER UNDER AND AROUND EACH OTHER WHILE YOU'RE TRY- ING TO READ
*OH YES! WE
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TUE IN FLORIDA... ITS WARM THERE
· VINTER AND
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✔TRED WHERE ARE YOU
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