*
DANIEL GEORGE continues-
Love in Bloom...
WHATEVER may be the harsher feelings that life may develop, there is no one, however callous or constrained he may become, whoso brow does not grow pensive at the First Love. Disraeli. ̧
---Landor.
memory of
captivated by
LOOKING BACK
the as it a
THE ¦ HONGKONG/TELEGRAPH, : SATURDAY, JULY 1, 1950.
DAVID BLACK'S Record Review
DAB and FLOUNDER -by WALTER
A meal for the musical gourmet
Tmonth's tote uns THE month's recordings tot 13272), and Hoagy Car- I think Carmichael wins the
neither lush nor Crippalan day with his spirited attack. austere. If they provido no rip-roaring banquet fow would find difficulty in selecting a reasonable repast of music.
Popular too is The Old Mag- ter Painter, Frank Sinatra sings this (Columbia DB2004) with- out too many vocal contortions.
Among the entrees in Wiener Schnitzel: Furtwangler conduct-
thin with the by the George Club (Decca whether it is
played with you 'mid cowalipa to a rare roast of England: not better done in the spiritual
blowing.
BE OUR experience in thought. particulars what it may, no playfulness of youth,
to be a cat. man ever forgot the visita- kitten were never tions of that power to his heart and
brain which I created all things now; which was the dawn in him of music, poetry, and art: which made the face of naturo radiant with purple light, the morning and the put night varied enchantments. --Emerson,
When I was six and you were
four; When parlands wraving, flower-
baits throwing,
Were pleasures soon to please
no mu....
loned lindura lias pased arcay in
light,
though firat loue's impas-
colder
I still have thoughts of you with
kindness,
last
YOUNG LOVE FIRST LOVE is only a
And shall do, tilt lot little foolishness and a of curiosity. Bernard
Shaw.
all carly love affairs ought to be strangled or
PERIIATS
drowned, like so many
kitten-Thackeray,
There's nothing half so
sweet in life
A love's young dream.
blind
Dur
goodnight.
-Peacock,
ELECTRIC
ALL AT once an ninning delicious shudder went through)
ch
with
But contrast ing the Vienna Philharmonic some cong sung
Die Meistersinger
Glee Overture Mitchell (HMV DB0042-3) Or there is a F0385) and see cat
Beecham and the manner Thomas
than as a crooner's Royal Philharmonic with item-or even the way Phil aydn's Symphony No. 102 Harris does it (HMV 80803), B flat (HMV DD21042-4).
Danny Kaye? Yes, ho Furtwangler
in is happy the Immense industry of Wag "straight" for half
present and impeccably ner, but the great breadth of
of C'est t Beecham luxuriates
Bon (Drunswick 04485). Haydn is something In
Then vilch
he does a Maurice to produce mr
Chevalier Impression
hop which
been done with equal facility Ey others. The reverse Wilhelmina Ends nim switching to a Dutch necent which Kaye worshippers will find
Joyful oc- casion.
a first-rate recording,
I do not count the Concertge- bouw Orchestra's playing of Ilavel's Rapsodie Espagnole (Decca ATC2093-4) under Eduard van Beinum among the trencherian dishes,
This is something specin! like her frame. From him to her itno, not Hollandaise Bauer, in coursed, and back from her to spite of the orchestra's Amster- him. Forward and back love's doin connection, but tole electric messenger rushed from metinlere,, For Ravel is a man Thomas Moore.
heart to
at of subtleties and van heurt, knocking
Belnum WARNING
ti it curged tumultuous brings them adroitly out of this THERE ARE mony who ty against the bars of its pri- colourful and fascinating music, marry from utter indigence of sou, crying out for its mate.
In this clasa, too, stanar They stood trembling in uni- Bach's Suite No. 3 in D major a lovely couple unterplayed by the Stuttgart Cham- these fair heavens of the morn-ber Orchestra (Decca AX314-6). Ing-Meredith,
A polished performance.
It is Bach, If anybody, whe rules the month. REFLECTION
for Columbin THEN WE gradually fell to have produced a brillant erica considering how young they of the Fantasia and Fugue in were, and how
G Minor and the Fugue in there must be lapse of several years before Minor (DX1048-0), this early love could come to
FESTIVAL FOLLOW-UPS
Nineteen recordings by well known people cach describing one of the ID official festivals to be held in England, Scotland and Wales in 1951 are to be sent overseas where they will broadcast by local radio stations and played to audiences in Dri- tish Council centres.
be
dent of the Council, for London,
Bor
anything, and how it could come
to happiness only if it were real
IDEAL
the Lord Provost of Edinlarghi || My first, last love; the idol
of
manhood,
n
moro
(London Express Service)
Machine-made love
a Soviet factory
A
ERA FIODOROVNA PANOVA, an up-and- coming novelist in Soviet Russia, has unearthed whole new gallery of in- credible characters in her Russian best-seller, The Factory.
Mita
Panova, 45, won the Stalin Award of ten thousand roubles for a novel published In 1046 entitled The Train.
She has nico style for machinery, and she may even now be writing the third leg of a trilogy and calling it The Tank, but her human characters have nover been seen this side of the Iron Curtain.
INTERMISSION!
The women
are strong and clever and good, the men are strong ind delermined and Food
BOOKS AND PEOPLE
by JON HOPE
FACT IS FASTER
THAN FICTION
10
FROM Heinemann's office standard of his China Run it Audrey Lindop collected may establish his reputation as her menuscript of The Tall a first-class navelist, Headlines.
She had a chapter to add. The story had reached the point where a girl was involved in a
In London Library I passed a pleasant hour with CJ. Purnell, [street
accident. Micr
1105 charge Lindop whe
of 500,000 called taxi. That is about all volumes, Mr soon to she remembers. Mies
Lindop retire, has been there was alse involved accident
escapes.
Love Scene-
Russian Style
Was
"There was something now and touching about Marijka (horaino). Hor overall
saturated with oil after a day at the machinos; there was a brown, oily stain on har templo...Lukashin (horo) protended in- difference. On that day for the first timo ho had dona 110 percent of his factory quota."
in
"The normal rate of Atting the detonatore was at first 11,- 000 in eleven hours, then grad- ually rose to 22,000. Lida could turn out 55,000. Once she tried to beat all records. and made 03,000, but her hands shook and she felt drained, emplied.
"On leaving put on the that she
of
"
the shop Lids dreamy expression was particularly fond
Lidn got her reward, She married a very deserving young soldier.
Final paragraph: "High
windows gloam
risca
Tho
through the snowstorm everything around is clothed in feathery mow. Now lofty and Bereng
Factory sacred to Labour, the Master of
World.
And over it our glorious Russian winter show- ers her diaphanous gems. "
Which might be good stuff the home market, but
the
La worried for Nonna Sergeevna
two chapters about her Unclo
Joc'# censors should
They are robot-like creatures for who believe fanatically in the career as an engineer. All the never have let it get outsido great mission of Communism. boys liked Nonna, but no dlee. Russia. and are ready to die for Unclo Nonna falls in love with fac- tory director General Listopad. They meet secretly
Joo.
over a
The gladiators
went on strike
It is to be hoped that Miss drafting board. Nonna, how- Panova is writing to Kremlin ever, has more important wor- orders,
and is not depicting Rus- rica. sia todny as she sees it. If Rus
Page 157: "It was a year of sin is a country of such strong. torment. for Nonna, The chief APPARENTLY you needn't clever, fanatical robots then it technologist asked her, What necessarily be would take
in Rome to do as the Romans did.
Novelist Arthur Koestler doesn't think so, anyway. HID newest book, The Gladiatore, "In fact her thesis had been draws on amazing parallel be excellent. She had studied the tween the Roman world of 73-
more thon an
II-bomb to defeat her. Short of was your examination thesia?"
"Connecting rods," said Non- total annihilation Misa Pan- ova's Russians would never be beaten.
no.
Devoid of passion technology of connecting rods 71 BC and the world today.
The Factory is a story about a murition factory in Central Russia,
sion and humour as we of the West know them.
Take a love scene from pace
128:
for 45 Jale
many
от
from reports of the most up-to- Koestler doesn't mention the date works."
parallel, of course. Ile is 100 novelist for that. But sweeps elever
this missed in
more
This is the girl who callors and soldiers off their It cannot be fcet. Who has a It is devoid of love and pas device (lavent Pecial mirror ironje tale of the Slave War.
Showmen in by herself) at
Roman times her front window to warn her had problems even as they have
visits of against the
unwel today-not entertainment tax, nale visitors.
but the high wastage of train Sensible girl, Nonna. "There was something now and touching about Marijka (one of heroine she doesn't line up with to die in each duel
As a cd gladiatora. After all one had
heroines), Her
Rome Hollywood types. overall
She is
And when about 70 gladiators in a street Fears. His predecessor, the was saturated with oil after a Dig, husky, cleverer than most went on strike by running off
Sir Charles Hagberg Wright.
Just before duels were about to ing desk served for 47 years, At the issue day at the machines: there was men, always in overalls
Then there is Lida Ermina, of commence, there ia Frederick James a brown olly, stain ber
Were petit bourgeois Cox. He and I spoke about the temple...
origin, library habits of Gladstone. Mr
who problems to be solved came good.
The Gladiators is the story of Cox has been at his desk
"Lukashin (hero) pretended
Crixus, a uninspiring Gaul, and for Indifference. 08 years.
the first time he had done 110
lors against the Roman State. percent of his factory quota."
Their venture began well and "Lida was used to a world they founded a Although there is no fun in where there were
a new State with always new visions of making it a Utopia. volu:ncy of plays by Nock the book, there Is plenty of rippers and sweeta for din- But in Roman times (even as Coward. Saya Me Coward stark very stark -*- tragedy, ner
Mr today,
Koestler?) people "Intellectual snob
The value may Chapter six opens:
Factory the boxes of
want a didn't
totalitarian paru- detonators stood by Lida's side, dice. And so (even as today) "Poor Klavdia had a short five hundred to a box specially they little life, but it was not an un- packed and sealed. A certificate them. And that, of course, was
had
have
11 forced on eventful ene.
Jay on top as one opened the the beginning of tho By Western standards it was oxide developed special ges-
end for the Sun State.
Koestler's story of Intrigue, mother drop tures: with an elegant and swift insurrection, jealousy and blood- Poor Klavdia's
brother
was killed fighting the with another-like throwing has not changed much, if at all, Germans and her father com- down a winning card--she slid despite the progress mitted suicide, Klavdia died in the certificate on to the convey to have made
We claim childbirth.
in the last, 2000-
On that day for Full of detonators Spartacus, who lead the gladi
Misa Lindop is married to screenwriter Dudley Lelle, They live in Earl's Court.
Her novel comes out in June.
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Out this month. Third of four
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and lasting, ang inspired them Here is crystal organ playing The novelist is accustomed to with stendy resolution to do conveying the full power of narrow
They started Each speaker, who will also their duty to each other, with Bach. The organist is E, Power when, as a child in Burma, the tell the slury of his town, la constancy, fortitude, and pers and the music wwnnd her mother were chased by closely
connected with the severance each always for the recorded in St Paul's Chapel at a hungry tiger. Festival
Its locality—Mr | other's sake.~Dirkens,
Columbia University New York. Herbert Morrison, Lord Preal-
Among the singers I hesitate between the men: Gluseppe Valdengo's baritone comes crisply and movingly with Ricoletto's monologue (Deecu X304) and Gigli is compelling
As an amateur, Neil Paterson carry weight for a little while with
* beautiful aria from L'Amico
was captain Fritz
of a
professional but the play's the thing." Mascagni football team. He and I used to (JLMV DA1037).
work in the same newspaper On the poular side, the pre- office, and at that time he was
to be WHAT IS à first love worth. pecupation seems
murk making his xcept to prepare for a second? the old Dixieland tune That's writer as well as an athlete, inver-statement: "The lasue of highly dramatic one.
Thy Becton's Cookery Books is thaped dead in a bread quetic, her movement she tore off the seal; shed shows that human nature second love plenty, What does the bring? Only regret for the first-John Hay,
for the The
p youth. darling of
and, alust
the
(Sir Andrew Murray), Cynan, Archdruld of Wales, National Esteddfod, Sir John Barbiroll. conductor of Halle Orchestra, for Chelten- bam.
For Aldeburgh the recording will be by the Earl of Hare- wood, President of the Festival, for St David's, the Archbishop of Wales (The Right Rev. John Morgan) and for York, the Dean of York (The Very Rev, Milner-White.)
E.
Now the most blessed memory
of mine age.
---Tennyson.
LAST QUESTIONS
London Express Service)
of
with
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Department
of
Publicity
n story
д
bustling affair second
novel, which gets various treatments Daughter-now selling from the inevitable Nellie Lut- the States will be published best event the book trade has
reen for years." cher (Capital 13274), Pee Wee here in July by Hodder and Hunt with his orchestra (Capi-Stoughton.
the
new editions of
M:s
Begolit
well in
If It Is up to the
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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THE JONESES
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DO YOU TURK VE
CAI) EVER
GET TO
DO YOU HEAR SOMETHING
KNOCKINGS
and yo
"I'M HUNGRY.
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years.
"Touring Time"
BU KEMP STARRETT
*YOU COME ABOUT
FORTY MILE OUTA
YER WAY. FRIEND."
A MAN IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING
UP HIS KIND" TO STOP IN AND LOOK
AT A NEW CAR.
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"SEE YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK.... HAPPEN TO KNOW A FELLER HAME O JO OR GEORGE JOHNSON ?DONT. REMEMBER HIS ADDRESS.....BOT E-
*YA OUGHTA RELIDE YOUR BRAKES, CLITCH
IS SLAPPW' TOO,' YA NEED NEW
PLUGS, AU A RUIG JOB.
DON'T FORGET TO STOP OVER NIGHT AT A FEW OF THOSE QUAINT, OFF-THE-BEATEN- PATH PLACES... SO YOU CAN REALLY BE GLAD TO GET BACK TO YOUR OWN HOME.
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IT'LL BE YOUR FAULT, YOU CAN BET ON IT... EVEN IT YOU WERE STAUD-
ING STILL.
THE ONES WHO GET OFF THE MAIN ROADS AND EXPLORE THE PICTURESQUE LANES GENERALLY END UP IN SOME FARMYARD AS LOST AS LAST YEAR ́S TAXES.
* WHATS TH
BIGIDEAP
STOP 14 TO CHECK UP ON
AN ANNOYING SQUEAK ........
THE ONES WHO, AFTER, THEY'VE GOTTEN
"YDE CAUT MÌSS: IT:/"
YOI HOROŊGILLY CONFUSED, TELL YOU .......
HISTORIC SPOTS... "SEL. THAT PLACE? TRATS"
WHERE I GOT THE POMALIE
; POISONING "TWO YEARS AGO.”
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