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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1950.
**** Portable Kitchen
Love in delirium
AND LIFE IN ITALICS
LOVE STORY. By Ruth McKenney. Rupert Hart-Davis,
⚫ 12s. 6d. 285 pages,
N fifteen boisterous rounds and a delirium of typo McKenney tells the story of her graphy, Ruth married life with Michael Lyman,
Twelve days after meeting, the nuptials took place, Twelve years Inter Rufi maved in on the marriage with her type- the subject. Maybe writer. Mr Lyman has still not spoken on he is still too surprised.
Them he was the respectable Left Wing editor of a journal called New Masses, full of re- volutionary #spiration neid pelly bourgcola folbles. He was rich the ex-husband woman. He, was also the author of Kerious books Ch trade unloun.
of
by
BOOKS
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Ritha in My Sister Eileen." living the fi life of the Left As for Hall, to the naked fatellectual (pre-way) Munich, eye she was only a simple girl Spanish war, mualfestes com- Even the Good Earth journalist writing for the New mittees Yorker. But in spite of this makes its appenrane when the she was Tomans take a house in Con- Reaction nk with
break out In a ant uhusuntly well-informed on the nertiruf and
of seed catalogues rubber workers"
This sh artider. common interest brought the landscape gardening. young people together.
to bo
П
trumps. Alded a tile, perhaps, by the Highland air and por- ridge, Geordie growa young man of colossal strength who wins the weight-putting at the Olymple Games.
"Geordie" Is ሰነዱ simple s that. As for Its hero's love- te, it is up straightforward as In weight-putting and, #nally, I predict a big as successful. meresy for this healthy, renti- mental and honest story,
<DAVID WALKER: born in Scot tal, after leaving Sandhurst join. ed Mark Watch: ADC to Governor Generat of Canada, 2938 token prisoner in France, 1940; var Lord Waeth's comptruflés to India: no
res in Canada, THE
Heine-
THIRD MAN. By Graham Greene. mann, 6s. 188 pages.
THE HOS
the
before Messrs Carol Reed, Orson Welles and Co. got their hands on it. Hevealing that Mr Welles was Jesponsible for the popular Hue
about Until one day brings Peart of screen dialogue
And that Kuth
herself Swiss euckoa-elacks. Ands
White Mr Reed invented the unhappy outside the There was House. hearing from the rndin rutin. also Eileen, his sister-in-law, a four-speakers what the crowd ravishing creature in a hurry to waiting outside the White House
doing. get to Reno-although
Mr. Lyman soon found that Harboto. Ruth was not the only woman waiting in s
Tonrriage.
npa
such a hurry that she forget ta pledge Mr Lyman's credit at a Fifth Avenue store for a 139- dollar evenings gown.
The germ was, years earlier, scribbled by Greene on the ap
of an envelope.
"I bad paid my last farewell "Yes, there are the people of Amerien, The Bt-tul people! to any week ago, when his
into lowered was
the They stand there, so patiently! colin
But resolute! frozen February ground, so that 5c quietly! Determined," ele, etc.
it was with incredulity that I raw him pass by, without a sign Nobody has ever bawled, of recognition, among the host † wept, Lougheel, retortevi, grilled of strangers in the Stranel, " Worse lay ahead. Ruth wrote her teeth, taken umbrage, qung-
How things start. book. "My a vastly popular
nt Ruth. Here, In fact, is Sister Eileen." Before he knowle, made it up on the rule what had happened, Bir Lyman full pamut entation
of was trying to reconcile manly small taffe to large dignity with the role of hus- CAPS.
of-a-celebrity bund being called Mr McKentey cocktail parties.
and was
n
M
ore at these functions Ituth forgot her own "TAMO, BA- nerved by the approach of mid-Western journalist. Eileen saved the day, She was back from Reno by this time, more her glamorous than ever. Th first iterary adventure she be- haved with Immense presenter
sh said of mind. "Scotch," Armly, you can save the dregs for the critics,"
Seeing Ruth's frantic signals, astonished she ordered adorer. "Go over and tell her who she is,"
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From Ruth's point of view. the party was a disanal failure. for "But what was a debrele one sister was a triumph for the olher. I wrote the books and my sister dined talked about them."
The only rad
page in book tells how Eileen was kill ed in a motor necilent. For the rest, "Love Story" is always rowity and often funny,
the
the front ROMAN
*GRAHAM GREENE, 40-year-old descendant of R. L. Sterenson, had rst story pubbled when he dy Year 15, burete bext arter 25. married and has strays fr
ค une!
and I are "Mitar
too pass- rionate," she says with a touch uf smugness, "to inhabit any safe and comfortable platoux." And now a few words from Mr Lyman. Yes?
*RUTH MCKENNEY, bera Clere- land, Olt, fired until crvently t London three children. GEORDIE. By David Walker. Collins. 7. 6.
192 pages.
THE
E hero of this beguiling
Hittle novel has a quality of universal appeal. Geordie is . runty little boy living in the conscions of Highlandis vastly Els pung physique. One day he advertisement: "Are you undersized? Do people in- more you? No need for despair! Grow big the Samson way!"
rends an
Georthe pays his ten shillings for the Complete Course.
Will you deny, sir, that once at least in your life you have felt some similar impulse?
Geordie's story ought, I sup- pose, to have ended th disap. Ruth in neurotie moment, polntment and grief. Not at all. giving away the theatre rights The Samson
Way turns up
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An idea seen at the inventors' section of the Autumn Exhibition at the Porte de Versailles, Parle, was this portable
the klichen affixed to rear of a car. It is a complete kitchen in miniature, and has all the things one normally
(Central Press} including table and chairs,
If you must
This doctor glosses
Pitt's gouty tricks
10
NE can fire dry sticks
with glory. But
Dr
Erich Eyck, well known as a German lawyer,
seems sparkless as an his- torinn.
This latest book-PITT versus
FOX. FATHER AND
In this, as in other things, .
beyond Dr Eyck does not go already recorded fact.
Handy summary
VITY then review his book? First, because the book in handy summary of a great
by J. P. W. MALLALIEU, M.P.
period in our history. Second, because readers. armed with the facts, may And
te
themselves drawn towards
SON not even make his volee heard. glory
of Macaulay or G. M.
(G. Bell and Sons, 218,)-han Dr Eyck records this, but Trevelyan. Hender all ready for the fr toes no point it.
ing. It deals with the liveliest
100 years in English history.
They were years in which Britain tost The American
learned how to pITT' colonies aud
bulld and hold an Empire; in
Omissions
TT the Younger was equni- fantastic. When he
which Adara Smith harnessed died. aged 46, he had been
three times Prime Minister his new idran of economles James Watt's steam engine; in the first time when he was 21. bent under De Eyek tells me that he drank, which Parliament the onslaught of the French Ite- and that he volutions and began to rechape even austere, in handling herself into a mistern pattern, country's finances,
vetl
part-be fair Mentioned, but
to your wife
TUIE
רעו,
After all, Chapman's version of Homer was indifferent. Dut Inspired Keats' to write ond
rentest odes.
London Expren Service)
BOOKS AND PEOPLE
netlentous GRAHAM GREENE
+
the
Front Pitt with
(FOR JUNIORS)
by ION HOPE
Graham Greane has writ- another children's book.
int
not But he doen
that Kay But Dr Eyck makes
his Pitt spent
พ fellow event in matter of fact when
equipping a Home curcession, and his figures are money in often bare boner, without flesh, Guard against Napoleonte In- nd with mineral water instead vasion he allowed himself to be
fleeced by the contractor who Another? Yes. He wrote one-
The Little Train"-two years ci blood.
sold him the Home Guard hats.
ugo. But it was unsigned. Its successor "The Little Fire En- Nor does he tell the reveal-zine"--will be published Ing story of Pitt's servant, who October, ready for the Christ-
by seeing bisnis trade, was made elder
Eat! Pitt,
on the of master drunk Chatham, who led Britain Bench. "Ah," sald
I am assured thal children. through 1750, her greatest year natisfaction, "I have the drink Bling this book in their stock- of victories, whose advice if and
servant has the in. will not fall to recognise taken, might have kept the headache."
the vivid prose and unerring in- Talled States within the Em-
stinct for a good story of the who kept troublesome To ne these omissions pure, spent much of his energy
with in the ecnstruction
rents reasonably quiet Brighton Rock," expensive buildings to protect the sparks which As your wife has been in a welf from the noise made by lit the bonßre. job (I wonder, by the way, this hao, anything to. do your disagreements?), her wages are her own, and you cannot touch them.
says CANON WARNER
like.
My wife and I feel it will tains, cutlery, and such be best for us to separate You and she must regard these
-for reasons I need not
possessions, half-and-half 45 detall. We may one day and net accordingly. decide to live together
agam.
Meantenile we cannat agreg'on what money and what furniture she can lay claim to na wc cach go our separate ways. I say that in a everything belongs to me da the husband, and that what I allow her is entirely within my discretion is this fight 7
Sir, you are wrong.
a
to claim as her own every-
thing that belonged to her on her wedding day. Has she acquired any property married? since you
If so, this will be entirely under her own control, and you have no business to in- terfere in any way.
run
You will no doubt be ning through the presents given to you at your wedding. You can take it as a general work Ing rule that anything she then received from her relatives and special friends are her own pre- perty.
You will have had some pre- so murh sents which were not personal as household presents, things which could really only be used by being shared: cur-
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
ir
his children.
with
of weird,
Tray
Arman
would have
No one can extract dulnesa out of Charles James Fox. Al} @
1:
Ferguson Findley rix, he caught his mother out week-end writer. Ille week-day. Dr Eyck mentions this, but in a mistake in Roman history, are spent in the New York office closses over 11. He suggests and refused thereafter to accept of an oil company. Findley, who that the buildings were much her as a teacher. At 15, he was 39, served with the United at home, admired, that friends even ask- taken by his father to Paris, State: inarines during the war. fulfilling her family and housted Chatham to design elders and encouraged to develop his took part in the Okinawa Inva-
old duties, she would have had for them.
taste for gambling. the legal right to look to you
If she had stayed
to
your means.
an
Though in his
sion. He tells me that much of his youth was spent removing 37 years in weeds from the family garden.
It
But, in fact, friends recap- Parliament he held office for After graduating, he resolved A word about any money she nised in the buildings the in-
140 years after may have saved from her house-sanity which can through the ly four, he is still recognised, never to do any more garden- he death, using for the rest of his life. He which made one of the great politicians in a kept his resolve... keeping. She may, with some Pit family and
Impossible
our history. justinestion, feel that if her in-the elder Pitt
To the long list of diverse genully and care have enabled colleague but a devastating up-
But his father. Henry Fox, is❤. her not to spend all that ponent in politics.
you have been giving her, what re-
harder to describe, and Drablications that slands to his the mains over is her own. Unfor- The insanity
Durham, showed et Eyck leaves him as he foundedit, Dr Cyril Alington,
78-year-old Dean of In particular, in
detective petty running. him-colourless, tunately for her, this is not so. metines
given to explain adds another light All sucht profits remain
no attempt the The elder Pitt suffered, penu-
novel, "Gold and Galters."* the great mystery-why Henry will be on the bookstalls soon. property of the husband, though thely, from gout. But, to ex-
alg Fox suddenly there is no reason why you tract sympathy during o
show n
siruggle. spirit of speech In the House, he some-
Charles should not
Port-journalist friendliness, and let her keep mes swathed his feet in
Few ambitious politicians Hamblett war given a subglan- there whatever balance
mby
necessary bandages.
first abandon their ambition until al cash advance for la
Men Without life abandons them. But Henryovel, Young To act in this generous way
to Fox, so ambitious that he would Hats" But he is now a young Ironic punishment method the may be
best
without MSS. A brief- to re-im when a month before he sink prkle or principle for the man keeping open the way conciliation in the long run. died, he rose to make one last sake of offee, suddenly gave up chen with six red notebooks of in his early final draft disappeared at Char- desperite appeal the pre- In mid-struggle Thai is, after all, what
of the
American fifties and relired to the twine Cross. Any finders? "They're servation sane people should
colonies and was so overwhelm- tasks of making money and ad- welcome," says the author, "o for.
ed with real pain that he could vancing himself in the peerage.be brief-case.".
be
of
two
be taping
-London Express Service)
for
came
un-
Have up the
Before You Go Back To Town
By KEMP
STARRETT
* HOLD STILL!"
#
HURRY UP,I
TICKLE ALL OVER?"
'BLFORE YOU GO HOME FROM THAT FARM THAT TAKES N' GUESTS SEE THE GARDEN WHERE TREY GREW THOSE FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES.
1 SHOULD THINK YOUD,
KKOV POISON OAKĘ,
WIEN YOU SEE IT... A MAN OF YOUR AGE....
CITY SLICKER!
AND DON'T FORGET
| TO PICK A BOUQUET
OF THOSE PRETTY, GREEN LEAVES.
AND DON'T MISS TRYING HORSEBACK RIDING IN THOSE CITIFIED "COUNTRY TOGS... .YOU CAN
GET YOUR SLICKS OFF YOUR NECK LATER ON
AND YOUR MEALS OFF THE MANTEL.
COPE. 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES
? LEARN
CORP. TH.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WE'VE BEEN HERE FORTY MINUTES!*
ANYTHING
DONT FAIL TO
TAKE A WALK IN THE VIRGIN WOODS... NO VACATION IS COMPLETE WITHOUT
AN ENTANGLING
ALLIANCE WITH
BÄRBED VIRE.1
ABOUT
BEES,
HONEY
BE SURE TO PEEK INTO A BIENESEE HOW IT'S MADE VERY INTERESTING.
BE SURE TO ENJOY THAT SIMPLE PLEAS—” FURE OF LYING ON THE GRASS FOR AN HOUR OR SO... AND THEN SPEND THE REST OF THE DAY HUNTING TICKS.
DOCTOR'S COMING
DON'T FAILTO SAMPLE THAT A
WONDERFUL COLD,CRYSTAL- CLEAR. SPRING
YOU FOUND... ALL FULL OF
NICE FAT GERMS.
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LET'S TURK
AROINDAN..
AND BY ALL MEANS DRIVE BACK HOME.
ON A ROAD THAT CROSSES A
„DRAW-BRIDGE. 、
T
NOT!