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The demand
Old works only
.LONDON.
HERE is a difference
and a distinction, not
yet recorded in social
or any other paychology,
by
NEVILLE CARDUS
Many years ago I was present between tho behaviour of at a Sunday morning concert in subscribers to concerts and Vienna, and Klemperer was subscribers to circulating about to begin the Ninth Sym-
of Mahler. phony librartes--and concerts atand with arms
Symphony we сли find a prophetic hint of the wrath to come; we are given a forelasto of the
percussive ucidity of contemporary music,
A MYSTERY. ·
Ho Blood UT too much has been written And tho outstretched, baton Dof
austore
That is, pathological Mahler, in relation to the literature extended,, there was an awe- pfmusic exactly as circulat-inspiring silence, the audience why I could wish that in Eng- leant forward, as though pre- land we might hear not only Ing libraries stand to litera pared for a revelation, even for The Song of the Earth, but, as frequently, the Fourth Sym- un apocalypse. ture in general.
phony.
The subscribers to the circulating 1brarlen insist on the "latest" books, the subscribers
to concerts insist
stuff. Beethoven,
BEGAN TO SOB
A on the old
Wagner. for
Tchaikovsky-Telnikovsky
preference.
ND the man sitting next to me, before Klemperer even moved an arm, before a single note was played, shuddered and put his face lato his hands and gobbed, Alsa, he hnd been
1
It is a mystery to me why this work isn't one of the world's favourites.. It is full of fresh infectious melodies. There is a fascinating scherzo. There is one of the most beautiful slow movements in existence. And
Anale the
calls for solo soprano to sing of the delights of a peasant's dream of Heaven, wine and A paradise of good sweetmeats,
a
What better would you? But
Mahler himself sald that not day would the world in his agree about his position at the routine will persist, remain- the great composers, He died in 1911, yet ant long ago I read in the same thing the more it
while in changed. something by one of our most prominent writers on music to ductors go on conducting from the effect that Mahler was prone memory.
I seldom hear anybody in my eating-garlle.
naking for lending
library Middlemarch, one of the few novels in English that for brain
survive comparison work will with say the Ninth Symphony of Beethoven.. "Have you Nigel Bulchin's latest?" I hear them asking the nice pallent girl who attends to me, "I forget the lille. to The Parasites, I think."
Few peoplo run to the Albert Hall to hear a work by Rubbra; you have almost to wait in a Graham Greene's queue for "Intest."
EMPTY HALLS?
the what OFTEN Wonder music publle would be listen- ing to nowadays if Beethoven
if
our con-
"philosophisings" of 21 (World Coryright Reserved-London "Teutonic" kind.
Express Service.)
But Mahter was not Trutanie, | certainly he was no philosopher, He was born in Bohemin, and he never forgot the Tandsenpe and atmosphere of his boyhood; in all his works we hent fan- fares from the barracks in the distance, horn calls, bird calls.
ile was also a Jew who became
the most authoritative conductor in Europe, at the Vienna State Opera.
Into
DAB and FLOUNDER
FLOUNDAR
ПАНК
+
—by WALTER
[ELDENDLÄ BANK
VARY:
1930
Six Novels Stand Out
· NEW BOOKS,
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
berk.
1
LX novels stand out in the leg of the Weddell Sea. The theme is the life story of
amidst. the passing
Ils crow is presumed lost until that energotle young Phariseo stream of fiction. You two months later two feboats, who, on the road to Damascus, arrive at the South Georgia becomes Paul, the apostle jo, the can buy the lot for £3 118. radio station with 12 survivors Gentiles.
It is making a great deal of a Gd., thus nequiring 3,057 aboard and news that 67 others
about are marooned on a drifting ico- novellet that his portrait of this printed pages and 1,250,000 words,
n should carry or the
Usually the aspirants Innes's business is to teh hide their ineptitude for such equivalent in longth of a
through his fictitious narrator, tasks behind a holy attack of the dozen ordinary novels.
named shakes an ex-naval officer
Cofion described by The six range in time over Duncan Craig-how the disaster
"reverent, trent- ater publishers '08 from very ancient occurred and how the survivors ment"), 3,300 years,
Egypt 1400 B.C. to post-war
esenped. It is a grim business, Sholem Asch makes a bold England. Women are liable to with treachery, personal rivalry stab at it, backed with con- like Ernest Raymond's Gentle and love (there are women on siderable learning, and brings it post-war England with a play Greaves, for men it would bo the ice) reinforcing the safer to choose Guard of Honour malignity of Antartic nature. Here, one says, is a Paul based on the life of one Colicy
who
might
have done what we Burton, who has spent his life
In India. doing good know Paul did.
The Apostle far outstrips in maharajah painted out, Colley is value and dramatle Are all probably the only living British HAMMOND INNES was born recent reconstructions
of the saint in 1913 in Sussex, Triad teach-New Testament, and there have Living? That is the trouble ip, publishing, journalism.
Too many. Yet Prynne's play was written and Is been many,
what
Sholem produced in the belief that a comparison. Asch is challenging! Here is his Colley is quite dead. And here account of a certain conversa he is, flying home to a drama crammed with outrageous libela
**
Cold adventure for the warm Areside.
married.
tion:
on him.
ERNIST RAYMOND
As his
THE WHITE SOUTH. By Hammond Innes. Collins, 9. Gd. 319 pages.
"the pilless ITS cene is
of the An- frozen wastes
Nomon citizen?" " ha tarctic," quote the author, THE APOSTLE. By Sholem
asked, stupefied. Was it A propitious opening. How who relies on an accumulation
Asch. MacDonald. 159.
possible? I prici a great suni sad then; to report that Menon ef credible but appalling details
752 pages.
for my citizenship,' he said.
throws die book away. Scorning to impress as, rather than on
talent
wildest did not purchase
my his any surprising turns of phrase,
HIS novel is an ambillous, Roman citizenhip. I was born humour ho turns serlous, re-
Rornin He is not afraid to remind us dignite and, on the whole, a
ligious even. At once, his hand-' citizen," answered
ling, which has been so 'sure, to face successful attack on an exalted Paul, were face that "men
fallers, becomes banal. with the elements."
subject. It has a large cost and There is another rendering of
It is hard to play the Hallelu- A whole factory ship, the many,
highly the same incident: crowded and
jah Chorus on a zither. Southern Cross, British-owned, coloured scenes. Both are pro- Norwegian-manned, is crushed duced with confident skili.
C.V.R. Thompson:
Thompson: Sunshine
NEW YORK.
THE most expensive was
Is Costly
זיי
Kam
"Anci the chief captain answered, With a great Lebtained I this freedom. Ant Paul sud. But 1 was born free." You can take your choice. Luke or Asch.
SHOLEM ASCH was born in
Poland. Is one of the foremost living Jewish writers. Has lived in America for many years,
own
for
GENTLE GREAVES. By Ernest Raymond. Cassell. 12s. 6d. 543 pages.
ALLAN
Mr Vanderbull told me
The Caronin he
is stocked with long they will start mixing a few
the Negro trespa for Koing
"educational America's best food and
with white units travel." "I have never taken a world's linest wines and spirits. But the army says it still has no 1 steamer trip in history Fruise before," he said. Roose-
iden of modifying its policy, began in New York the other velt said he "Just felt like a S MAN estimated that during to ten percent. of total strength. GUARD OF HONOUR. By All marries frike to whom ho
INGER MARGARET TRU- which limits Negro enlistments
day.
were 550
tone-world
There of plano plex. Teini- country fields, villages and low- and they
vialin
hollday."
Other
were passengers
for
MOURNE, son of a philandering general, grows up to love and lose his child- hood friend Gentle, who marries. a rowdy doctor named Drury. then becomes a publisher James Gould Cozzens, tactlessly discloses his abiding. Longmans. .12s. 6d. 631 love for Gentle. pages.
1950 she will make £25,000, of Off to the Mediterranean
un nearly as much as her father DOLITICS: Left-winger Henry Wallace and the so-called sniled the liner Caronia for knowns (rom "Texnk, where munkes, "But I am interested in
more than money, she Progressive Party (Paul Robe- Sa his temperament assimi-the first long-distance, all 1000,000 dollars is
pittance, musle
won and so forth), are no longer
Meanwhile Gentie, faise to her Interl cosmopolitan culture,
hume, hits her husband with a Maga- had not composed the third and with the result that even in luxury winter cruise since doctors, lawyers, and socialites, said, "and I want to make my
mostly from the provinces. mother and father proud of men weer Henry Lace is said to THERE is insight and
zine-owner
com- handy ophthalmoscope. She runs fifth symphonies, and the maturity he remained mixed in before the war.
MURST CO MÁNY "bon voyage" pre- T
DAY,
passion in this story of three off to London, has a child by New be "delinitely interested" in the 4th plane concerts. If Grieg the elements, naive and com-
Yorkers nie mameel
days at a Florida alr-base. It Allan and dies. The war of 1914. their Republicans invitation to
should by no means be put aside follows! passengers, seats arrived that the ag second no-shave, no-bath, save for Senator la Connecticut.
almost had not composed his
at once. Just under gaze people, had to hire seven concerto, and
A skilful, friendly novel, more Mayor James Byrnes, President Tru-on the ground that it is a war fur their passaga men to deliver them on board, water day, was a flop.
For here are matters successful with its humour than kovsky hadi
to roofed rooms, enter the over-1000.000 forgotten
to There were so many mink coats
William O'Dwyer left
a man's fest Secretary of State, covel.
that outlast compose the most famous planaivilised flavours and nostalgie alone. Before they get back
ambition, with its sentiment. Somehow it down south, nanounced he will try for a they will spend
that women without them were fortnight's holiday portamento of the city New York
with hiy bride, with a political come back ns Governor loyalty, the resentful Baht n w hard to share Raymond's concerto of all, and the fourth, and opera house,
nearly as much again,
suspected stowaways.
dark stubble. And water of South Carolina and leader of individual makes against o vasi enthusiasm for his heroine. th and sixth symphonies,
He is not
A In the German
the anti-Truman bloc in Aneri-impersonal machine. typical shore excursion
A novel written Six women look private maids engineer Edward Clark went
with fm- £350 a pussen- There will be a refreshing tradition; he helped to forge the will cost them
mense confidence and verve. with them an extra cost of black-tie dinner with a face ca's Southland.
like A tramp's. But even fewer $1,500.
Baggage averaged six
New D'USINESS:
York when, at the shape and material of the Aus- fer.
Jis change, for us
Το Πικέ symphonie style. He
who, in
these trunks a head. One woman had ordinary citizens gave up shav- And water-
planning to install meters concert of the London Philhar- trian
really took over the heritage of days, can afford to spend 50 30 dinner dresses. Angry aning than last time. monte orchestra, we shall bear Schubert. There is nothing in much money, and take 80 daya disappointed were nearly
eaving results were disappoint along its kerbstones to collect
threepence an hour from mo Mahler's The Song of the Earib. his music
Beethoven oft from work, I went aboard American who coul not bet
torists who park their cars there, bookings. This
only work of heroical-ethical standpoint; and just before sailing time, the
LJIGHEST SALARY ever 'pald One of the three companies try- 1 to a a certainly he was never one of which has bad!
night-club entertainer ing to get a contract to supply the Brahmslan bourgeoisie.
will go to Danny Kaye. He will the meters is owned by New this In
get 15,000 for a fortnight's York's biggest bookie, Frank country. In Central Europe,
swan-song of nine- Vienna especially, Makler (and sang the
teenth-century romanticism, But accepted Bruckner) Are ⚫among the greatest-ui least, he was one of the first to react
£2,300 for n single room: against this same luselous they were so accepted once on romanticism. In the second and
$1
Mahler's
sympathetic hearing
A time.
29
of the
out
They handed me a passenger 1st bound in zebra stripes to remind everyone of New York's
night club.
HERE
100
n
In The Song of the Earth he smartest heard of only two pas-Texas millionaire, £7,000; Lew work in Miami, America's winter Ericson.
thinl movements of the Ninth
•
SINUHE THE EGYPTIAN. By Mika Waltari. Putnam. 12s. 6d. 503 pages.
art
THE STUMBLING STONE.
By Aubrey Menen. Chatto SOME may be daunted by the
thought that this is and Windus, 98. 6d. 309 ciaborate reconstruction of life pages.
In the age of Akhnaton, a Pharaoh who heretically be- N his first few pages Aubrey lieved that there was only one.
Menen sots, us down, with a God. delicious bump situation So explorer report that
is what some passen Kers pald for their rooms Mr and Mrs Charles Urschel, 1 trac
playground. rengers-Harold Vanderbilt, the Fawcett, retired Brooklyn Judge,
DVERTISING: Ifollywood's Augn to munch its latest bristling with hope of picture, the hinterland is full of my vols MrOLOUR BARS in the U.S. America's Cup yachtsman, who booked a suite for £7,000, and and Mrs Philip Rhinelander, so Army are to be broken blande bombshell, Shelley Lucky Prynne, Who had and well worth the journey. George Roosevelt, a big finan- cialites, £3,800; James Rafferty, down gradually. As the first step. Winters, is to ask "Have you flourished on pre-war frivolity, Names ilka "Shubblluliumā” cier.
a chemical inagnate, . £4,000. army chiefs promised that before been Shelley-shocked?"
prospering in serious, should not unduly dismay.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WELL, GOOD NIGHT. DON'T STAY UP TOO LATE, YOUNG LADY!^
Is now
'More Forecasts
Bu
KEMP
STARRETT
TOOT THE HORN A FEW TIMES TO EXPEDITE MATTERS: FORECAST, HURRICANE APPROACHING ........ (WHEN IT GETS GOOD AND READY.)
"DOCTOR
IS READY FOR YOU; MR SMITH
AT THE DENTISTS: IT'LL
BE COLD, DAMP AHD VERY
UNSETTLED.
ALL I SAID
WAS THE HAIR-DO LOOKS A
LITTLE
SILLY!"
SUDDEN SQUALLS TOLLOWED |BY HEAVY RAINS..
CLEARING SKIES...
FAIR. AND MUCH WARMER.
INCREASING WINDS AND VERY WAR
SO I TOLD
HIM OFF AN QUIT.
JUST HINT THAT HE'S A LITTLE SHORT OF BEING REALLY HANDSOME =WHOOSH!! CLOUDY,COLD AND BLUSTERY.
COFA, 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORF, TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
STORM IN DIRECTION OF WIND "A. (REVISED}}
MILD AND
BECOMING SULTRY AND
HOT... UNDER
THE
COLLAR.