THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1950,
New novels by 3 famous
A potpourri of what is happening home-side: A braille map of the underground; the Navy wreckers at work; the hiking scouts; and
BAB and FLOUNDER
by WALTER
Hemingway.
Rice
Winsor
Americans
o!
The Boy Who Plays Marbles
With His
WELVE grey - painted some years ago.
TWELV
ships
sum-
near
Glass
Eye
The 1040 winner of the award
For the blind
MAP of the London Under-
turned up at Legion and Women's Engineer- Inflamed eye ing Society, of the Royal school with un
Rocket and minus his glass optie, Navy, flying red danger Questioned by an N.S.P.C.C is 20-year-old Daphno Briggs now studying fings,
work inspector, young B confessed of Birmingham, will be at
Univerzity for a sround the coasts of that he had used his glass eye, at London
to emergency plus his
spare, by HORACE THOROGOOD
B. Sc. in aircraft engineering. the Britain during
play marbles with his school- MORE news leaks out
mer, blowing to pieces the friends, and while doing so had Mo M Ernest Hemingway's new
The National Health Ser- Across The Hilver And remainder of the wartime broken hoth of them. novel,
vice in 110W Into The Trees. While crossing wrecks resting in or
New York un the ile de the main shipping routes,
with another glass eye, with at he keeps in France he corrected
The Navy's wreckers"-un!t the proviso calia "the first clean typescript. of the wreck dispersal feet- s appointed place and does not When he gets galley posts are on the lust stage of dieper roll it around the playground.
f hundreds American publishers ng the many from his
th cluttered which later thin month he will make wreels
during th swa-Janes extensive corrections and addio: fal tions he is a pernickety author, war.
"Then," says Jonathan Cape, his publisher here, we get the
what he
H
providing him
To race in U.S.
ARIN II, a Swedish built
Amound for the use of blind people is being produced by the National Institute for The Bling with the co-operation of London Transport,
The
consists of thick map brown paper sheets showing rach
underground ne with
Five hundred wrecks requir- KA 30-ton ton cutter, has left on names in raised bruille
dispersal faced them at the
galleys, corrected and revised-m of the War. Working mainly Peole, Dorget, with five amateur will consist of 27 sheets which i
we hope!" Publication here and
in the United Stater romewhere about August.
Two
other
will be
American
bir
chometers The complete map
together weigh one pound.
The
Includea
aboard, on a 5,000 the yachtsmen months, the tamar
special since infles trip to race in American have
in Karin III. which raised symbols for Interchange dispersal vessels
disposed of about 100 wrecks a watera.
points and contains an index of owned by Lieutenant-Comman- year.
der G. C. L. Payne, has been underground stations and Lon- a rare from Newport, dan places of Interest served ウルミュー
Long Island, to Bermuda, or hy them.
Cruising Club ganised by the
Amerlea andl Uhe Bermuda Yacht Club, tarta on June 18.
about 100 pemain, but men will be presenting new not nil are in the shipping la novels here In June.
and that, target of about 70 shank und broken shim now faces the Et• • •!!! 13 priority
Kathleen Winsor, author of pal Forever Amber, will publish work. with Macdonalds Star Aloney,
thais During
Sumner WIRK This has a modern setting, and
the THI Le concentrated And will is about a country girl.
Channel who wreek in the Bristol playwright Elmer Race,
When wreck distra! and Thea wrote Street Scene
was on text bork Adding Machine, comes with bean there
"Wire- # the lid off to follow-although novel that takes
matered
Royal Round the world
which
Scouts have just started out from
FOUR young Rover
Karin 1 has also been en-
for the Royal Ocean Parkmouth on a bike round termi
world, They are Peter Nacing Club's race from lier- the
Williams, 21, Cyril Wyncoll, 20, muda to Plymouth, England
Beries Lieutenant-Comman- Tom Hodgson and George
Snippets
Secker and Warburg aim to
Tired
11
and trite: A plot
with the nap worn off
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by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Louis the arzon of Meaney's gorgeou
91. "castic."
COLORADO. By
Bromfield. Canell. 6d. 318 paget.
ANYBODY who
cannot
guess, by page 70 of Colorado, what is going to
Bromfeld has written a novel which could only be justified by in exuberance, by fresh twists development,
characters by drawn from the life.
Instead, the writing is tired,
the characters are taken from
happen in the remaining 250 the peg, and the plot has had
off these many
I is as if Bromfield was
pages ought to be congratu- its nap warn lated. He must be glori. rars. ously innocent of the triter describing to his public some altuations in Wild West fic- nim tion.
he had seen long hgo. which had bored him a good
teal.
By page 70 a train timed the
Talent for precocious children
TRUMAN CAPOTE Colorado Blue Bell has crawled THE HOLLOW OF the across the Great Plains and has
WAVE. By Edward
Other horridly brilliant novel. arrived at Silver City, where a
Reinhardt Newhouse. P. J.
Vulces, Other Rooms, raises the named human Gorilla
and Evans. 8s. 6d. 297 question: Is Capote in a state of Meaney is the Big Boss and,
arrested literary development? ninong other extra-mural netiv!-
pages.
He Alves the impression of Madge of tics, the lover
of the Inhabitants of one working, with more inbour Beakyiner, who manages the MOST
M
this intelligent story of and less conviction, over the old leading disorderly house.
by ndultery the Blue Bell is modern
quick ground. His precocleus children "New Yorkerish" have almost got beyond being youngest minded,
from a Edward Newhouse are engaged children at all.
1kulo wizened tre They in running a pro-Communist
monsters like Appleseed who publishing house."
a tight, weather-tanned anxious green
On board
Meaney's supposed con Dick, returning spell of culture or Oxford.
By this time the form of the story is as plalu-and as true to tre as the gold tints in Madge Beakymer's hair.
Dick Meaney has brought with him his Limey tutor. Ceef Chatsworthy, owlsh in appear anee as Limers are, lalling in a piping tenor as Limeys do, and having a grandpop an ear), as Limeys have.
theatrical life-The Show Muster's Handbook" has since been der Payne, the crew consists of Grainger, 21. who expect their publish The Trial, singe versioni
rule-of-thumb Peter Almack, of Christchurch, trip to take three to five years. Franz Kafka novci of that train is Mademoiselle
Chap- twe Australians, Bruce
Go On.
It will make a stir.
1 reduce tant
hart to be followed.
was that One carly discovery ju sunken ship lying on a furt Not Enough
the sea-led couted to 24 f
trie in the mud, by sure it with the de troying! Booksellers' preliminary rocandim: it demand for this was to heavy explove e ages which the dise
Gollancz founderal vesel use. that publisher
the 3.000 ton himself with not enough emples; In this way. to HO
round, so has had to Empire Nets was "atured" in already sent the mud of the Schelft without withdraw copies
out and defer publication untiluvit a trace of herself. more have been printed.
But not all ships gave in to
A lint novel, The Beauti. the wreckers
Cape next 5071-ton British
ful Visit, due from
Cay CATRO
THE
Girl "boffin"
£ 150
Home-grown
their
Governor Colorado
State
Holland, "had Larry Do-gooder rich,
with no inflamed social little face with rouselence, puts up the money, eyes, or Miss Bobbit, who was and Jack only 13 but "sessed along with Waller, Lanning
Brm tocing a grown-up mince, one hand on Kinenld keep the the party line. Nell Miller. less her hip."
in devout
his political Miss Bobbit Is a megalo- aliations, designs the book maniac. Her story, the best of thir bimeh, is a sad little fable. jackets.
(WORLD COPYRIGHT RESERVEDI LIBRARY LIST
in love.
By James Lale Last Night.
Heinemann, 8. 6d. 251
Bracli pages.
mit?
231
The point of the novel is that
the most
"advanced" them on the even Accompanying
Labelle men and women demand some- from lifo than more but
free thing Ponte, lovely They intend to work
name, in time for its firat Lon-
ndellty It will
no spoken romad touring the Far delity to The Party and in- way through France, Belgium, don production, nan and G. Donaghy, and a
I an with West
ageing Denmark.
This murder story centres on Putetun S. K. Bakker.
Falling to achieve that some- Germany, Hollst
doubt be earnestly searched by
her forinerly
blonde Switzerland,
thing more. Walter's
n mora puzzle: Should a good Because of de dollar difficul- Norway. Sweden,
students of the baling gospel-dipsomanine,
witty
allow An Armenian wife, hitteT
undoubted man taken on board 1.
which mother's lover. South of Malia, Egypt.
existentialism, with ty, they have
over the Among
population of Aluxine, thrown
executed for n somehow got him.
criminal to be enough stores to last them the Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Kafka has
if associated after his death. Silver City are Dick's outsize Brooklyn Bridge, neurotic Linda, crime he certainly did not com- trip, which is
stoliti whole of their
the United States and Canada,
ister Eudora Meaney, who has Larry's wife, marries a expected to last re month,
The Wilderness is Yours. By wrote his ent her life in bed ever since business mazi; and Nell stays Kafka, a Czech,
in love; and on in the army after the war. Rose Tharburn. Da. Od. novel in German. Two French-she was crossed
Newhouse, obviously, knows
Huwa pages. is estimated that at least inen.
and Jeau-Henry Caldwell, honest cattle-- Andre Gide
who
running for his way around both the apper
A Brst novel of real promise, Engineering IT
County and the 01 Women's
100,000 smokers in Britain Louis Barrault, made the play,
of crust of Dutchers
sub-world of the falling to take its full impact anti-Meaney the earnost an Soetely is offering a
own tobacco.from it, and a Swedish-Ameri- new grow their The scholarship to enable a second- The growing of tobacco In back
Cellow-travellers. His characters on the mind because it deals in ean, Frank Sundstrom, trans- ticket.
war, Imaginary Interesting. rucognisable; an Imaginary ship, ary schoolgirl to train to be gardens and allotments has in-
partisans. From these battered materials are
would E-Bont a "bollin,"
creased by leaps and bounds in fated it from their French into
what story is likely to be con- subtly but firmly drawn. They countries, imaginary the English edition we are now
brilliantly not too One touch of actuality
have brought it into struct d? A child playing on the talk
sharper weck, is by Elizabeth Jane Clan Munro, zained in
The scholarship, which is the the last these years,
focus. Howard, who belongs to a dis-Alley in September 1010 with if 15,00 tons of
two Already
organisations
nursery floor could do it. of its kind for
A novel to read, Cecil, the Limey tenderfoot,
The Folltles of Freedom, by tinguished London family, that her
teok Sixteen cul award
the first was in 1948- catering for tobacco growers-
Graham Greene has ankhed
M. Schlesinger. Junt. 390 girls, txcludes Sir Arthur Somervell, manganese iron,
weeks #f
wit work
chosen girl to the National Amateur Tobacco
his dict of suct
pudding and A TREE OF NIGHT. By Arthur
(Heinemann, 10s. 6d. 264 pp.). the composer (her grandfather),
Icharges, and est £22.368 be- will enable the
in aircraft Growers Association and the two-thirds of a new novel. Heerawny thin and pallid" after
Truman Capote. Tobacco is now wring a feature arte beer at Oxford, will make good
A brilliant young Am
American and Justice Somervell Lord
Pioneer form'sire reared to be a menace train for a career
He will In a man's country.
B.. 6d. Heinemann, research, design and production British
critlelses both historian
the Lord Norman, Jate Governor of
Association-claim on the Pope for America, then to navigation.
Growers'
ilm engineering. Any girl attending
with and goes to Germany
tuer the heart of Eudora, conquer EN 30,000 members, about the Bank of England.
"ignorant dogmatism of Dough- 209 pages. a secondary sclicol can apply
After various members of the
face
and the progresalves" there are many thousands more director Carol Reed, who made
of for the scholarship,
curing their own The Third Man, to make on- Meaney family have made dis-
honourable proposals to Mile, da X-BOY WONDER CAPOTE, hysteria and irresponsibility Fonte
Dick will marry the girl. minute, 20, his hair cut in a the extreme Right in America challenge of world If 100,000 people grow and other imm.
Moreover, he will join Cald- fringe, has an eccentric talent before the story comes from the Na- promising candidates will then
Ke has given Heinemanns
the American She hself after bein: jainti
borderline knowledge of children, of The Third Manwell's political opposition to the for committing to paper pre- Communism. Readers with some to London. There the winner 5 pounds a year they deprive the MS" secretary of the Inland Water-ional Sicioty for the Prevention be drawn and the girls invited smoke their duty-free quota of
comes cecious of Cruelty to Children:
cases, the more delicate shades scene will find this re-statement he explains, Meaney Empire, which who will be chosen by a panel of Sir Stafford Cripps of some which is not. Bill
of the Liberal faith Illuminating, ways Association, is now on its Eleven-year-old
And that is the way it is. Plus of sadism, plays marbles with his glass experts from the Royal Aeronau- thing like £7,000,000 in duty script of the flim but written in crashing down.
His new collection of stories, provocative and readable. hand they save usual action form.
an explosion at Meaney's silver
-London Express Service) eyes, s wonying the National tical Society, the Guild of Air On the other
of British the country about £1,000,000 in Recently, B, Pilots, the Soclely
mine, a riot in Silver City, and no advance on that feverishly, Health Service.
-(London Express Service) who lost an eye in an accident Aircraft Constructors, Women's dollara.
Russion
Her mother, before marriage, was with Diaghilev's Ballet,
cargo
His glass eye THE
Andree Howard, the latest National Health A short list of the most rowers
choreographer, is her cousin.
She is also council. London Opera Club's mittee
the од
com-
-London Express Service)
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
" AND ON TOP OF ALL THAT I'VE
GOT LARYNGITIS AND LUMBAGO,
Al' SPOTS
BEFORE
ALY EYES...
•MY LIVER
*MY
CHEST
"THEY THINK,
IT'S MY
TICKER!
I GET ALL OUT O' BREATH,
AND...
бте
to see.
· WAIT A MINUTE... LET ME THINK? HON
DID THAT LINE GO? THE FIRST MAN SAID.... NO, AIS FRIEND SAD. NO...I GUESS....
IR-ER"
brilliantly.
"It Isn't Always the Girls
Bŋ KEMP STARRETT
THERE, HELPLESS!
IT'S AS EASY AS FALLING OF A RUG/"
33
Te.
"LOOK OUT!
SLOW DOWNS
THROV OUT,
YOUR. CLUTCH?
IT ISN'T ONLY THE GALS WHO LOVE TO
TALK OVER THEIR SYMPTOMS, WE HEAR.
NO LEFT
"TURN THERE?
AND, SPEAKING OF BACK- SEAT DRIVING.
COPR. 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVERS,
́ ́I TOLD YOU'
TO WATCH
OF COURSE IT'S ALWAYS THE WIFE WHO TOREETS THE PUNCH LIKE OF
A JOKE ... OR STARTS OFF WITH THE POINT OF SAME
"DOPE!"
AND WHO IS IT THAT'S SO, HELPLESS AROUND THE HOUSE ?
THEN THERE'S THE POPULAR, DELUSION THAT IT'S ONLY THE GALS WHO TALK
TOO MUCH.
"AND THAT BRE
LOOKED FISHY
TO
AND THEY SAY HES. BAD WITH THE TAX
PEOPLE-HE
ETC.
"AND WHO ALWAYS BURNS
THE TOAST. P
KOLE IS IT ALWAYS "THE "THROW TIE GARE. AWAY
AND WHAT WAS THAT STUTT, ABOUT GALS BERG THE GOSSIPS
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