THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1950,
For sale: How CAN a
one Borneo town...
By PATRICIA CLARY
Anybody want to buy a Borneo town? A movie studio in Hollywood has one, for sale cheap.
FOR
The Los
The town spreads over eight neres and includes 17 homes, a rubber curing factory and tropical trees and ferns,
15 $35,000, price Angeles. You'll
have to cart it away yourself. But at that it be cheaper than carting it all the way from Borneo.
millionaire go
broke?
by C. V. R. THOMPSON
DIAMOND as big as a shilling-
the badge In Texas of a multi- millionaire - sparkled from his fingers. That was the only visible sign that Glenn McCarthy-who bounced in and - | out of New York recently-is what he in: the hero at 43 of one of the world's big success stories.
For certainly he was expensively dressed;
| looken ready made and a size
and a half too big.
not Take OLENN MCCARTHY...his his suit Income was halved overnight Twentieth Century-Fox sald the town is priced cheaply be
wenih he needs as a eterk in cause wants to get rid of i
From his beat nose I would bunk. But, Just like the bank It's built right over a producing have said he was a retired prize; cieck, he would go to gaol if he oll well on the lot, and being fighter. From his eyes—cold yet fault it. Anished with the business of busy-I might have taken him making movier about Borneo, for a professional cardsharper. officials are anxious to get back
to making money with oil. No poverty.
BUT if I found nothing about
The town is a replica of the
village
[1
Glen McCarthy himself to of Sandukan. It cost $50,000 new plus $10,000 for sustent wealth, I found nothing landscaping and was built for his surroundings,
abs JOH! the movie "Three Came Home," virited about a family who lived in Houston,
the Japanese poverty, pant Sandakan when invaded it.
"I don't like to be regulated," McCarthy said. He never has ren since he was a boy in Houston,
They say
for
Perhaps the explanation la schemes-and McCarthy Just shrugged his broad shoulders wi:en I suggested it-in that he cannot bear standing still.
But it would seem that now is Mr McCarthy the time when must sinnd still. He has mori- rnged his underground wealth na for as the local banks will 10-about £18,000,000.
Lat
December he asked the Government banks to lend him £25,000,000. Hio idea is to pay off the mortgage and use the cash to ide him over till tho
5
oil boom starts up again.
"If the Government in roing to control our actions they have the nt to subaldise us until effect of their controls are over."
an
AtcCarthy has
not had Perhaps that is nnswer yet. why he come to New York.
Here's my bet ΜΕΛΙ
【EANWHILE his great drills are out again probing the earth for yet more oil to add to vnst underground THERE when who
are come in Houston 11s ready say that McCarthy treasure. He wants more wells town !
so that he will get blager quotas. to suggest wit lose all the money he has Alore pumping means more cash,
matte, Ju his ent, or future.
top-heavy from Wall Street skyscraper-building schemes. to San Francisco, Pay that
norl the McCarthy, "Three Come Home" is takenCarthy
There is no visible through
sign of to that. sul his, is the £200,000
Yet
rumours,
-(London Express Service)
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DAB and FLOUNDER Hunt-the-deserter makes
—by WALTER
from the book by Ages Keith, empire are about to bust, NEW TREASURES OF LITERATURE
toho recently passed Hongkong
Conada.]
her
10p
colonial mansion he bought no roms as be had built his original capital of 108. Jafo his first
ch of a skyscraper he built-again
NO PLACE TO STAY million.
So Bongo was duplicatert in Hollywood,
trees.
All
A
FROM THE EMPIRE
success
So do a radio being enjoyed by writers small-town from the Commonwealth,
Shamrock
Books & Persons
THOROGOOD
this a fine first novel
AGAIN
"first" novel
bus made its way to the top of the week's list. Tomorrow Hugh Sykes
ON
DANIEL GEORGE BOOKS
Gunner's mother and his girl for
Mr F. L Green B4
1
Davies (a Cambridge don) finite pathos in the treatment of Although I have great respect. will see NO MAN PURSUES friend, Gunner himself and the serious novelist his intent work on other deserters-for them such neems to me a rigmarole which can be found are might provide material for an
excellent nud endless
strip cartoon.
But
(Bodley Head, 98. Od.) sala in the bookshops, and excuses people buying it, I hope. offered.
the it is subject on Stretcher-poor,
study of Tackling n
simple, kind- which there has been too henrted Stretcher-which tranX- much falac reasoning, ho has forms this composed a moving drama ecological excursion Into
triumph of sympathetle imaginn- with characters who are tion. deserters, good and bad, and the friends and relations who harbour them.
Stretcher.
Ou
His hero-victim is a man known as compassionate leave after
very
erodiiablo
JULIAN GREEN, an American who writes in French, is not committed to probability In IF I WERE YOU. translated hy I J. F. McEwen (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 100.
Od.). By Still running they young man is embled occult perhaps diabolical-
to become a series of other men, N F. L. Green's new novel- catering into them body ane! CLOUDS IN THE WIND soul. One is a murderer, an- (Michael Joseph, 12s Gd) other n plous Bavant with his parents had been killed another deserter is the central peculiar Inicresia. in an air raid, Stretcher Baure, but he just will not do.
After promising to be a super- Eleeting to tell his own story, he rescue stayed to help in
lets us have over 500 pages of I. natural thriller, the story aga long- work-stayed too
under the author's desire to stayed out of the Army.
express that double anguish Now he is working at odd times as a gardener for a doctor, who has divined his secret.
ho
AL other odd times lends a hand-for friend ship's sake-in the disposal
the
Frank Chester, natural son of which consists in to know-
history
1 barmaid and a bookie was, on ledge that a man can neither
denth of ls mother,
Laks re- escape
destiny ceived into his father's cultured nor...." And so on. How they family He rend
nt to preach at us, these novelists! ་་ Oxford, and came down to toy with the idea of a literary career, but took a job selling tinned Incat. Soon he was carning £4,000 a year. (He could hardly have done better at Turf nc- counting.)
an
All in
+
OOKING for a wits-match on home ground? Try A DAISY CHAIN FOR SATAN, by Joan
of stolen goods and coupons. Ils marriage to beautiful and Fleming (Hutchinson, 95. Od.)- In the EDC European service.
arrangement of came to grief l-British Under the title The Masterpiece Friendship for him carries brilliant Harriet.
humour, love, international
mis- murier, he has put L'Oeuvre Into Eng-higher obligations than law when Dorn.
conduct and mystification in an lish (publication this spring by made morality can impose ora, out swimming with Frank. "Cr Slan
appeared.
artistle and plutocratic milieu.. Paul Elek).
is loyalty is his undoing failed to return. Did the sink might have been its sub-title.
By a Weathercock" robbery or was she pushed under?
A
· Present vogue of French art implicated in here gives it a special interest, which resulted in loss of as it is based mainly of Cezanne life, he undergoes a rigorous and the Impressionist move self-examination, and decirtes novels are still in big demand, invent. L'Oeuvre appeared in especially aty Brother Jonathan, 1886: only previous English ver to give himself up. which, filmed, broke bax villce son, by Vizetelly, whe trans- errors. His Portrait of Clare laud most of Zola, is 60 years
sabo for the screen this year, oki.
David
tennis champion,
The doubt estranged him froin Harriet, and by the time the war hnd broken out he had Insti truch with her. But he borrowed
to try to Bnd her.
-(London Express Sarulcsi
tin Ariny car and left his unit The yo-yo was
once deadly
NOTABLE feature of Every
the moment in publish- expedition foffre building
is the cash-in Iouston tining circles travilied 20,000 iniles to
Phong with 30,000 feet of him to show what belongs to him.
Anci 15 like, it looks
They brought station
weekly newspapers. back a boatload of
Babylonian The moss, ferns,
in the past season South utensils and other props. Three Howl, which he built against all Africa has been represented by hundred California Indiane ivice a year ago (for Houston's Sarah Gertrude Millin's notable world to turn 21,000 square glorification, he Pays, for book, King of the Bastards, an feet of tule malting: fala Borneo McCarthy's, saya Houston), excellent novel of Jamaica, New 1ype rooting material. Other his as it has always been.
Bay eng from native of that In the fast minutes of our hand, V. S. Reid; and in April,
Before doing so he is workers built the homes and rubber factury.
nweting McCarthy did what he New Zealand-born Ruth Park,
one obligation to fulfil. He han geldon done before, 11 whole & Horn In The Southi The author of a powerful A nice paint will arise over must tell the mother of his The factory was supplied with gave an estimate he does not won big opplause in 1958, offers First novel, Sun and Straus Mary Borden's new novel, For friend Gunner that her son, real rubber in my state, know exactly-of what he la
April) [ Poor Man's (due
39-year-old The Record (Heinemann, April). who has
You may not know it but shipped from Borneo.
disappeared, is worth.
At current prices her second novel.
Benarest How far is a novelist artistically still alive.
At this juncture, with 400 those yo-yos which are so Lloyd, late with UNRRA in justled in
But Gunner (a pares still to ro, the story runs popular in Hongkong nowadays giving a hero a The casting department hired £150 million and £200 Orange (from Michael Joseph), Aneriest,
a% legal
advise strong likeness to a well-known congenital bad lad) has kept amok. Frank goes to Portsmouth, were deadly weapons 300 years Like her fiti novel, it deplets London "You can't go broke with all
Truman's Hajaus, Dusums, Nuruts, Ukits, that, can you?" he asked,
on President the life of rh
The tublie num, recently dead In in touch with his mother, gets mixed up with other deser-ago. at White House. y's staff
ters and German spies, is coshed! descended dwellers in Sydney" Bukitaus, Punum
is Yet a few minutes later he all slum district, Surrey Hills, where seene
Cambridge, where tropic
into unconsciousness and pro- Pedro Flores, who lives Salus, Sights, Pathans and
old rendezvous- ruined longed anne
amnesia. The
Vintar, Philippine Islands, and her Filipinos to make up Sama-ut admitted that the rumours Ruth and
husband once he spent a year at St. John's blurring his identity with flet-She is visiting him at were true. "I am an indepen lived in a tenement. Her College as a Henry Fellow. An
house-when Stretcher ap over by the time his memory is promoting sale of the kan'a vodopolitan population.
dent oil man," he paid, “and we humbur
American
to is delicious:
couple arriving
Gunner, too quick returns, but he fud himself still says that the yo-yo first pears. being killed thrill with independent are
horror and charm visit the war grave of a beloved character of a
in the gang, their business now introduced in Flipino tribal 011 the trigger, mistakes uff, Aly income
nly con discovered he had a employed as a Communist spy was cut over-
being warehouse robbery and warfare as a rock on the end of with tenderness, too. hight 50 percent by Government
He here of which they knew on her chief, the reluctant de-him for a policeman...、 Black marketeering.
the sting. orders-fà prevent an oil slump,
nothing. A dramatic, moving mocratie member of government
the they says
story: Rodley Head saw
Soviet- anonymous
When peace settled over the narrativo In this Though
Absurdily competes with seript, first and bugged it before controlled
central
islands, the children converted until passages of prose are sometimea irrelevance the American publishers.
capital. Result is a povel with, too clearly suffused with poetry, deferred climax is reached the the disbanded weapon into
Une Chut
of Jan and sentimentality is narrowly mastermind of the gang turns toy, swinging the rock
averted, no incident or character out to be Scotland Yard, and fro, up and down, in the sama
motions as the modern yo-yo, There is In Frank: finds Harriet. is unconvincing.
Southern
million.
California Malays,
Javanese,
were
#cenes
in
the can
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LEARN JAPANESE California - Japanese were hired
soldiers,
• Another overseas note_comes Japanes AS
No Busheen en stand ruch a from Cape Town where Francs advisers Two technical signed
cut. And that is how all these Brett Young, now 66, has his themone teach them to speak Japanese damn rumours got started about | home, On May 5 be returns to
translator of Zola is and the other
receive an honorary degree from to feel them whether I am going to rurvive."
Most f the
So Glenn McCarthy Is as Birmingham University where Thomas Wallon, D.Lill, of the pidsin Endin
nene to all the he took his MB En 1906. 1 Sorbonne, broadcaster in French Japanese were college graduates, fontalieinitly
ינגו
to
● New
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
ALL YOU
HAVE TO
DO IS
TEAR
DOWN
ONE
WALL!
while circumstances,
tious details?
Miss Borden writes In the male secretary
in
DA
European
for hero, Masaryk.
-London Express Servica.
WHY HIRE AN EXPENSIVE ARCHITECT WHEN YOU CAN
GET THESE STOCK PLANS
FOR TEN DOLLARS?
THIS MODERN JUNK LOOKS
LIKE A
FACTORY
"NOW WHEN WE BUILT
war
the long-
Building Something?
By
KEMP STARRETT
"THESE BATTENED DOORS
I AIN'T NO
GOOD
BELONG
ON A BARN!
"YOU
OUGHTA
HAVE
FRENCH
DOORS
at
toya,
was
a
and
YOUR FRIENDS WILL RE-DRAW YOUR PLANS
FOR YOU AT NO COST WHATEVER
EXCEPT MAYBE ANOTHER THOUSAND OR SO.
BLUE'S A LOUSY, COLOR!WILY DON'T YOU DO
IT IN PINK?
STAREFF
IF THE PAINTER DOESN'T OBJECT TO THE COLOR FOR YOUR BED- ROOA YOUR FRIENDS WILL
COLONIAL
IS STUFFY, .DON'T YOU THINKS
COM, 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
"OH, NO? 1
LIKE COLONIAL,
BUT THEY THINK THEY WANT
MODERN!
线
LET IT BE KNOWN YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD AND THE FAMILY WILL WANT TO MANAGE EVERTHING
BUT THE BILLS,
* YOUR CEILINGS
OLGAT
TO BE
HIGHER
IF YOU CAN GET A CARPENTER TO DO ANYTHING YOUR WAY WITHOUT A SQUAWK YOU'RE A GENIUS....
"OOOF!"
* THEY WANT
43084.3 TO BUILD THAT NINE-BY- ELEVEN ADDITION?"
A
WHAT? FOR ONLY TVO WALLS
WID THAT LITTLE
ROOF
"WAY DON'T YOU DÓ VOIR KITCHEN IN KNOTTY PINE THESE ALL-WHITE ONES LOOK CLINICAL!
THEY'LL WANT TO CHANGE THE UNCHANGEABLE.
NO MATTER IF IT'S ONLY A HEN- "YOU SHOULD HAVE BUILT IT SOKE
WHERE ELSE.