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"So your wife said it was
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London Fibreus Service,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
What makes a woman like the books men hate?
Daniel George
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Wisdom, which does nothing to prevent ructions nil round, though I imparts much Tibetan folk fore to the plodding reader. The story told with strip- tural simplicity und in many "The young generations ways dignified and beautiful- TAMING the old tycoon BER:
binme their parents for evils for ends with Salom On Veshti, -this sight is always which the parents once blamed united at last and for ever, in ripe for conversion into a the grandparents, and for the heart of a blizzard, Brrrb! other great American novel, which the young generations, in The procedure
now their turn, will be blamed by is familiar. You take a local their own children." boy-preferably of dubious parentage. You grow him up with
a grievance and make him make good with a vengeance.
сан
Escape
Soldiers
LEXANDER Baron" a THERE'S NO HOME (Cape, Da Od), is British novel.
With Alexander Bacon you 10 get away from k all you
though the be transported (to- will feel at home, morrow) to HIGH VALLEY, by sceno Is Sicily. It is about Charmian Clift and George men you know-civilians turned Johnston (Faber. 1. Cd) soldiers and lapsing Inta civl
lous again as they enjoy a Juli between two campaign.
Americancolumn Luck, health, wealth, power tale of rough but romantic do
She sings in $ key
From NEWELL ROGERS NEW YORK. One of Hampstead!
you give him everything: every- thing but love. At the tiptonings in the Tibetan Valley of the of his success you shatter his Dreaming Phoenik, clony heart. With sprinkling Salou, a rouming Chinese
of tears you then kill him off, and serve the ronruction luke warm in 500 portes.
Tayar Caldwell has profit- ably to
toyed! with this theme before. In LET LOVE COME LAST (Collin 10s. 6d.) it is played with variations contri- buted by fractions children and 1umber interests.
William Prescott made his
youth, falls in love there with Veshti, the headman's daughter. She is so responsive that, flout- ing the
community's ancient customs of not
washing, she submits, under Salon's super- vision, to tutal immersion. Fusion, to
The arrival nf Yunong. a White lana, caures trouble. He wants Veshti as a temporary gif to the gods. Salom disapproves.
At this point occurs a visita-
of them: R
Before the war claims therm gain they have snatched rome happiness-not all few have suffered,
Sergeant Craddock and Grazi- ella-if you can read their love compassion and story without understanding, if the quarrel between Privates Broom and Jobbling mystifies you,
if, in short, what is credible, told in an unheated style with unforced humour and untainted pathes. does not satisfy you, "There's
Heath's most musical dolar | way from poverly to president), tim by the Living: Duddha, and No Home" is no book for you.
exports is queen of the presidency of the Prescolt moment in New York's con- Laimber Company, Like Ihmad, the utterance of much Worldly eert halls.
his hand had been against every Twice in two nights I havent rones said in every man's Achieving atlluence, de
heard contralto Kathleen Perrier upon his home town,
tt fe capacity audiences. In a powder Blue pin tamatiest pown the opened
the
Hiver Stes an Oeler, in a con-
at vein of Glnek
There, tarrying. Binnst by form, Ursula Wende, a gentl tainelmi tress, he built a man- tion, in ize enormous, in to: 1
about en-
4o re come Bonadien from the endle, and rel
employer. Cadey
With For Hollywood boet, fat-compassing the rum of his for
canductor Mano Walter, fou 1ers 11pm Brahms and Amoke!, Seltuber.
New York as for her the claus +fa 5,008-quate parabeul 6%- Gettings in 36 exten
Worst triak: - Thanks to the cual tall the Wheaton, Dilane, ball
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~London Express Service,
THE SHOW MUST GO ON
DAB and FLOUNDER -by Walter
CIGARETTES
CIGARETTES
THE ENGLISH GIRL AND
NAPOLEON
HERE is misterial for a
literary mystery bunt in Princess Marthe Bibegrota forthcoming book. Prince Imperial.
"I have That was She adds:
III'S
Books
Persons
wyrokeR THEROFOOD
Studio" "I inherited a flair for bunes and decided to apply it as bede" he reyn
She tells the story of ba, depleasure, abandoned all Napoleon 1P's son and his attempts at discaplming the love affair with an English They became the whe-behaved girl. But who was the girl? chalten in dietion, mil, myowaszt tip developed
Super The author says:
called her Betzy. than ang perp uits
The bulk of the book topact at her name."
Heusitating with. £900 und hin factory bank unatantee, now at from
countered chican The intimate facts came 23 se controls sax rompatties Big thr: A Nerre woman t Son Planci: reh and sad totutt) in o date the for word
even Taylor Caldwell's wople, to from my grand- fellow-rhiteclar Beet at was wonderful Sun-
mother, Princess George Themes, vice-chairman bocay Ursula " It was Mauan, Auterson, Wilson &
Lore, and
Children Bibesco, a distant cousin of Scanervative Party, and hikes America's reat endomet
Funcle in running for Parlin, trakto
No, I would have been fairer the Empress Eugenie,"
haunt as a Conservative,
audiene in tevetensk
Detar carning? Sait Kath- Town: "I pay all my neumpanít th pn. The management takes That my book tay. 20 percent. Fain worth more than a en Spar"
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• GREY WALLS Prem, which doubtless, the publish the book, are one of the reenes of the Falcon Pres greip. Why constitute the
"Falcon?" I was the name of INE! of the
SON
eccentriciting.
forger-be
on expert on calligraphy.
• ANOTHER
Was
NEW BOOKS
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
A Fleet St. nove that is good
FINAL NICHT.
Cainci.
By Robert through a letter Heinomann. Bs.
ed. 241 pages. HERE will always be
THERE
novels about Fleet Street, and most of them will be bnd. Nobody knows why.
it
in beenuse
Perhaps only journalists want to set their novels in London, E.C.4-and because journal- ists usually do not write good novels,
brought over
by Irukmann and has thrown herself under a trein (exclusive to the Evening Mirror).
Brukmann has been kidnap- ned.
'foreign Ped, murdered in legation, dumped at Waterloo and then taken back to legation. The Special Branch prefers his demise should be extra-territorial, (Again the has the story Evening Mirror
to itself.)
the
High-paced melodrama by a new talent. Atmosphere near- authentic. Wriling variable.
Belter on a short cours
GEORGES SIMENON
Best when it is least preten- rivalries, divided by the firme So let it be said right tous. Worst when it reads like social barriers.
this: "Challenging himself with Eating well and speaking: away that Final Night is a courage In the cafety of his of their neighbour, capablo- good novel, is by a journal. aloneness, Boy, put that one the widest generosity and of ti ist, and is about Fleet on the spike!
most disgraceful chicanory, 1Street. About
• ROBERT GAINES is a pen people of Fougayrolles spring smart JL
name which covers the identity life before us, cynical, religiou evening paper which pulls of a
journalist who graduated yet with the barricades of th off a double scoop.
Some- from Yorkshire to Fleet Stress, build themselves in the street Revolution always ready to n thing that does not happen He prefers to reundin #1031- every day.
Final Night is the latest THE DUKAYS. attempt to put over the glamour, sell-pity and renli-
ty of Fleet Street. An at- tempt in the modern m
TROHS,
JEANNE SALEIL was boi in the department of Aveyron' and spent her girlho By Lajos France and
the mountain villas Zilahy. Heinemann, 12%. of Fougayrolles. Has also live Gd. 687 pages.
DRE
RESS the Forsyte
in England and in Mexico. Sopa up a Professor of French in hussar uniform, Ali the Massachusetts, USA. and h ner, sardonic, misanthropic, minds of is characters with fought there since the midd
thirties. prepared tu believe the the basest libertinism, give a worst.
Bcence to the language (and STRANGE INHERITANCI doings) that
SCOOPS GALORE
GRANGER for instance,
It
Gillen have sent
scurrying solicitor's
By
:
Gaines exhibits his cast John
Georges Simonor of journalists in no mood of back to the
Routledge and Kogan Pau adolescent enthusino, but lainess in Old Jewry--and you
9. 6d. 222 pages. of The rather like a dentist taking pet some idea
Dukarys. COMENON la one of the lear I like a vast. naughty, an X-ray of a row of in- badly-organised, plenic
showy of novelists, and on in the of the best. He has a limite ferior teeth.
middle of the Hungarian plain objective, knows exactly who It spreads over the first forty he wants to do and never trie years of the present century. far mor
And its central Agure, in
He is the poet of small towns parkli, her-podili. the news-editor, Nobody far as it is one, Count peal big-wigs, rainy weathes clats in Nigel, fron of H sold) will make a hero of him, Dupi, who had an illegitimate Peekside cafes, ship chandler Nicolson, 82, partner in the new firm of George Westenfeld and least of all his wife, Susan, family on the largest possible tres, the Chamber of Com
trale.
merce, train journeys, money Njenison, He doesn't share his whose interest (after the
More invention than shape And crime. parents' Socialist potles-is gin-bottle) does not focus about this Bvely work
He achieves his effect, creaté 11pertise Clip on her lord and master. • LAJOS ZILAHY is a Hun- his atmosphere, puts his dram
plate for a Mictland congituency.
This explains why Granger parian who wrote this book in on the boards, with such speed His pret-matter
Budapest that the jub looks cany, in fact is still morose at the end of futive from the Nazis. He es it has called for intimate know Sackville-West
The Bet of find productions day of incredible pru- raped to America where he now lege and a real genius for the of
wears anfessional triumph.
relections of detalls. apadocetie a. In Accomm
the new Brin
זין
Victoria
i J. P. 1. Settfed, fr Schnel, ex-German The story opens at the
of the tinmeial born, definde his con- moment when
nection with the Hitler regime, casting his morning glance and Charlotte &former wife of at the marble cfligy of his Professor) Haldane, in Truth win with the Communist Party.
-And Forger
Two
THE
cvllars uf
By Jeanne to usual
The latest Simenon la twled A HOUSE IN THE
That is to CEVENNES, Grauger,
length. Salcil,
Collancz, 10s. 6d. Sy is a full-length novel
will thic Alany
Simenon i 208 pages.
betler over the shorter course
It tells how Gilles Mauvoisin, pull pay and tender portiall Out, explains her beak proprietor, is whisked up
in the lift to his duties.
cum weakling son of a no-good con- of French village
to La Rochelle stories, as he pute it, munity in Provence in which juter, returns
Inio their and is plunged
puzzling,
• ANTONIA WHITE reappears "Stick out." " Gleda Thor, the Salvii family spend or the
Brukinoma. fiction programine | unt De
to Bunsner, They
iratening intrigues that fol after 16 years, This is wel - | indeed.
Best they are shunned as low the death of his rich uncle an armoiret ene estimuded in A, J. A. Symons: His Life and
Come never har debut in 1933 Girda is being; tried for mur- foreigners. Then it turns out Dctave, poisoned. War hy ex-Commando- Speculations, by his poet brother with Frost, in May was a not-der at the Old Hailey.
• GEORGES SIMENON, 46- The that Popa has an unparalleled It Bhoold be pantrooper Peter Bakgy, and the Julint,
good, ble event of the literary year.doctor, a furtive Minister from gift for funeral oratory, an art pear-old French author of more Syruman (died controls the troupe.
1911) was the She will break her long silence | an Iron Curtain country', nay in meat focal demand.
than 300 novels is France'r
1. DONT spal your children.
perfect dilettante -- gourmet in the spring with an important land at Croydon ut
The family drawn Into the preuteal writer of psychological village le.
Thrillers. He has worked under HONT, in any went think Mr Baker's carer la a success (ounded with Andry Simon the novel, The Lost Traveller (Eyre | moment.
It is a life full of incident 16 pen-nantes, commaart the story,
Major R. 1. Wine and Food Clubs), collector and Spottiswoude). to-Hut your com
Before the day is done, Girda have and regret 3. REMEM- | Baker, heted of Ealing Pile author and, monony olher
Lanung Express Service. has been sensationally acquitted and scamini, torn by fets and
CRIM: Var-breaking is now? major eratgal iradustry. Our tard of all thefts are from park- cars. The police are benching motor to how to proter
Vee fr
Merook with
is
|
hormony in fandy life will chief ekara and story's
the Für Foth prey nad all apa there is did sense in the an- then reeleid mul
Son
of
• INTERESTING biography in
year's programanic
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THE DOG FOR A
WALK T
#
AND I THINK THE PIANO
COULD GO OVER
THERE... THEN
THERE'S ALL
THAT BRASS
TO BE POLISHED AND ....
ETC.
At
Rainy Sunday
By KEMP STARRETT
-London Express Service)
IT'S
MINE!*
SOME JUST STARE OUT THE WINDOW
AT WHAT'S MAKING THEM MISERABLE.
OTHERS GO IN FOR LITERATURE TO CHASE
THE BLUES.
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TAINT! 'SMINE."
THE
SPROUTS
WILL BE ·
VANTING
TO DO
SOMETHING TO CÁCH
OTHER.
SOME GET SO DESPERATE THEY
EVEN TRY TO
BALANCE THE
WIFE'S CHECK-
BOOK.
NEVER, NEVER WISH RIGHT OUT LOUD THAT YOU NAD, SOMETHING TO DO BECAUSE, BROTHER, YOU'LL GET YOUR WISH ... BUT GOOD!
TO SOME ONIERS IT SEEMS THE IDEAL TIME TO REMIND A MAN OF ALL HIS PAST MISTAKES.
*EVERTHINGS
ALL MIXED... NEED A LITTLE
ORDER
OF COURSE YOU CAN REARRANGE THE STUMP ON THE PANTRY SHELVES.
2.19.
OTHERS TRY TO GET AS WET INSIDE AS IT IS OUTSIDE.
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