12
Battle
of the (1951) Gap
WORDS and MUSIC)
by MARIUS POPE
LONDON. MANAGER of the new Festival concert hall, Mr John Shove,
is getting anxious about the two-month
Here is a tip for the granio- phone companica. Why not record this first concert? Thou- sands of music-lovers would like to unique a memento of Britain's progress in music,
SOME months eko, in conversation with Richard Austin, director and conducthe of the New Era Concert Sodety, I muid that tume-
gap-from mid-July to mid- tblog should be done to Improve September at the peak of the lighting in the Albert Hall.
the Festival sengon.
This, corresponding with the Promenade concert sea- son at the Albert Hall, is when no evening concerts will be given at the ball.
new
A
It is often unpleasant to it in the full glare of the food- Jights and a certain tense of intimacy, such as one finds in ə theatre, is missing.
Now Mr Austiu tells me that, acting on my congestion, he han experimented with the rhling In the fall. For the New Era's concerla this season the fights in the auditorium will be put out. but there in the boxes will be left un fur
people wishing to read reores. The visual effect. unusually says Mr Aurlin, Is
Shove la having recond thoughts about substituting
"Two months season of bollet. would be too long for a con- tinuous ballet senson," he says,
Now he is negotiating with pleasant. folk-dancing group in various European countries. We may have a month of ballet and a month of folk-dancing.
The idea is certainly novel:
come to the Festival of Britain
to sec-Yugoslav folk-dancers in
the new £2,000,000 hail
Acoustics guaranteed.
(World Copyright Reserved-Landen Espress Service).
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1950.
Champagne Sultan
Dining at a Mayfair night club-the Sultan of Johore. With him in this picture are American musical star Dolores Gray (left) and British cabaret singer Cella Lipton. (London Express Service).
BOOKS and PEOPLE by JON HOPE
Ferguson
THE LAMPY
THE LADY WITH CARRIED A PUNCH, TOO
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
T
of this world.
heard "voices"
Miss Nightingale was thought to be harsh, and dii little to
reputation. She
Would chc
water
TENACITY
Lord
Strat-
of
ordinary prople,
officer
by
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The
MISS NIGHTINGALE
It
led Queen Victoria, who crented the Nightingale Legend (30 FLORENCE NIGHT- stink and th of the Sculari detested by Florence) and put
have her above attack. INGALE. By Cecil Wood- hospital?
cleared the
Aupply. Elere, then, Constable, ham - Smith.
Is the amazing which ran through the corpse life of a woman who had the 15s. 615 pages.
of a dead horse?
luck und die misfortune-to Would he have carried out be born to great wealth, The THE Book of the Month
the Jonely secret, systematic Nightingales, in their vast car- for October is the best
study of European hospitals rage travelled the Continent biography published which made Florence Nightin- like princes. Without her so- since the war.
ale the world's greatent au- 14
cial position Florence could not have done the job at Scutnr). Florence Nightingale was thority in that feld?
รูไทย Britain of the early But to be rich meant, for what Bernard Show thought St
be lifted by Joan WAS-ON unconventional flies was full of soft-hearted woman to
women "more at for million social trivialities. weman who combined a big- gentle
than hospital" ness-like
I took this engle 10 years- (an sense of mission with heaven a pentus for the mystical affairs Florence sald) who would have and bitter war with her family Ladies with to fight her way out of her made admirable Like Joan, she and
obryed them the Lamp so long as a menintage among the canaries.
was at hand to deal with the story of that struggle and the
Ao vogla among cunories, lartily but faithfully,
subsequent triumph has never She is the uncanonised saint bed pans.
been so thoroughly and mov- commercial scale, hunted auto- of the Victorian age.
ingly luk.
graphis with cavage zeal, and CECIL WOODHAM-SMITH, chummed up with celebrities,
Not all celebrities. When he modify that
No need to speculate on this wife of a City solicitor, and
two children, has asked Kipling for his auto- would labour
topic. Poor tragi-comic Mary mother of like a lave
to Stanley was all set to be the spent six years on research for graph, "he raised his sticks ag nurse some man with a dan- gerously infectious disease but Lady with the Lamp. She brought her Florence Nightingate bio- raised my hat the nastiest
tempered celebrity
I over would not move an inch after out to Scutari a mixed bag of graphy-her first book.
struck." Another time he asks minlatering angels with hired to console the stricken "nurses" whrdz
to scrub
the floors, OPERATION CICERO. By plaintively:
Why
La Barric widow.
The angels fied from the smells L. C. Moyzlach Wingate, such a little so-and-so?"
Now and then, Bason takes a NO SENTIMENTALITY'
of Scutari. The "nurses" trank
8s. 6d. 208 pages. gin with the troops.
holiday from bookselling. "Amy CHE loved the British soldier
But why be hard on Mary A GERMAN intelligence and I, he records, "went for a Stanley
tells how the Al hie when
through Surrey
lanes. but she did not sentimenta-
Hughe Any is all of Gft, and probably se him "What has he done rd de Redeliffe Canning, the bonian valet of Sir
unibassador, "Errat
with his Knatchbull-Hugessen, British 14 stone. It is I suppose, the "Spice of Life" author,
with the Eldrank it up. 1 70 tons of plate and 25 servants, ambassador in Ankara, sold to fascination of contrasts. Yet suppose." Lloyd
Douglas. selection-appears these two books-both
the hospital the German embassy microilms works out OK. We never talk have
When Arst sho went to
British Biblical
sight
papers. ef books." of his of top secret backgrounds—nre Scutari to nurse the Crimean the first fight of best sellers.
thousands of For these he was paid £300,000 wounded the renticed that he
Those contemplating invest-
• A barrister, Roger Frisby,
and her nurses must at all couls flonuld Wilkin-
British banknotes. and a doctor,
British sales of the "Bic win the confidence of the hos- have collaboraled in Fisherman,"
la not the Scutori
Mr Moyzisch tells the truth note the prices Dason was get- Instale doctors. The doctors must tale of a beautiful girl with a published on
tog in 1030-ve Galsworthy as he knew it. But is it the fest light-hearted book about pubs. year, total 300,000. And "The ork for her help. Until they kind heart.
editions, £330, It's o is an epic of truth? The reader's doubts are very funny world and the world They coll It-naturally- Robe," first issued seven years did no. she was
prepared to genius, Intelligence and tenacity early aroused by this Albanian of collectors "They're Open!"
no, more than $30,000. World watch poor soldiers suffer and fold in terms of red tape, mille valet, who hated
the British miest." One can hardly tary hauteur, religious bicker. because an Englishman
had
• At 73 novells Sir Philip million.
tlame the nurses, who were ing and death.
accidentally
shot
his father Gibbs becomes publisher.
FRED BASON, 47, back- He
shocked.
while out hunting, and who, in tor, started as a books mesenger has folnci the board of Alan
Average number of patients taking his photographs had an boy, then graduated to a book She had a blistering tongue, during two months 2349, total acknowledged partner in the barrow, then to a bookshop in his nuthor celebrated Wingate. Outgoing is Andre 73rd birthday recently. To his plenty of humour and, again dead 2315. That was Seulart. Deutsch, who intends starting Californian home I send gree-like Jonn, a weakness for
Camberwell; he published a up a new firm.
from reader No. 3,000,- soldiers' language.
KISSING HER SHADOW tings
On the whole, It seems more Somerset Maugham bibliography. When she stood beside some
that probable
the exciting Success story of the week 001.
former Here is another writer who about
RAF pilot
poor devil who was having his How natural to explode with microfilms were, not What sort of orchestra will belleves you
Dougins Bader, whose can't have 100
first
Amoni:
•
the unpublished arm amputated without anaes-
indignation or Uke poor Lord betrayal, Toscanini And? I asked Issay much of a
him, not William Poulet, vow you would British deception. Sir Hughe novel. "The Slender Thread," material left by Lawrence of thetic, she inspired
has Dobrowen, Russian-born
was shot down Arabis when he died in 1935 with loving pity but with her rather go to the front than near Knatchbull-Hugessen said ductor who has been in charge quickly. David Walker follows is out. Bader
"After this busi- Belgium in 1941, spent was his book, "The Mint," own steely power.
the hospital-and in fact, spend of the valet, of the BBC Orchestra for the up his Geordie-well received
which much specula- rest of the war
your me plenicking with Lady ness he was discharged, or left." month-with "The Storm the
behind around
RUTHLESSNESS
L. C. MOYZISCH was, Stratford, past three weeks.
and the Silence," which, say barbed wire. His novel bas ve Interest has centred. Now, Like Toscanini. Mr Dobrowen
mare in which he “ during the war, an attache in because thine extracts ar CHE was passionate, like Mary will be out by already been bought by Ameri- for the next is a condutor of La Scala, Bilan.the publishers,
can publishers: Hollywood has to be published. They will ap- Further he has conducted Christmas.
that the soldiers where he was employed by asked for photoctat
despaired the Essential T. E. copy of pear in Toscanini's own
Queen Elizabeth. Consider her kissed her shadow as she passed the German Scert Service un- Lawrence due soon.
troubled "daydreams," ForsytesSpames, MS,
50 bit-
is der Kaltenbrunner. Since the through the words. And And the author?
terly repented in her diary, her in
0 Juela natter Austria: Now he mana And wrote that actress Jenny Laird Marianne Nicholson and and factual, so clearly exposing ages a factory in the Tyrol. was looking for a "nice, kind her Aunt Mai Consider how how the whole Crimean cata- cat-loving publisher"
cast Henry strophe came for her heartlessly" she
about, without and Monckton understanding, novel about two cata. Secker Nicholson
FRED exultation,
BASON'S DIARY. Milnes Warburg pounerd-and
of her life. out
Edited by Nicoisa Bentley. Wi- One thing she was not-The why the soldiers did so.
enta. B, Gd. 176 pages. Lady with the Lamp.
Florence emerged from the XTRACTS from the journal That pretty idol might have nightmare convinced that she of a self-made card. Fred smoothed a soldier's pillow and had failed and that her enemies Bason hos in his time, sold books brought him beef tea. But had won. What saved her and from a barrew end a shop. would she have endured the her cause was the sure ustinet cellected cigarette cards on
it
hla third this week,
Findlay, whose periodicals, Another idea is drama, Shake-novel "My Old Man' Budge," Book-of-the- recent considered, Mannger seriously was Drowne visited the hall recent-month winner, in wasting no ly. was enthusiastic about open-time. His next story is alrendly
with his singe productions,
publishers, What's The kien is being seriously more, Findlay, who calls the considered Manager Shove new book Waterfront thinks it would bring back to (Wel
change that," the theatre conditions resenth-publishers) hnu kept the 1ng
those ui Shakespeare's characters from My Old
Man's Badge."
Globe.
Bay nid
So
we'll be thaug-hunting defective Jobimy Malone Nuro Mary Kiernan
gain.
IT IS now Just six months before Tomeaniní will conduct the BBC with Orchestra
most and
of
in the
Impariant concert
next year-the Inaugurali
concert for the new hall.
For the BBC
orchestra.
con-
Mr Dobrowen
last
The
good thlon too
had high praise. "It is almost Jolyen, Irene pnd the rest-are
over
He has
in
sales for both come to three die untended.
The
would not enter where, within palace windows, his country's dying?
It
Wyns
soldiera were practically all in counterfeit nicht In Arst editions might
just
touching
Emba
but
of Arts is fun-
a valet's LIBRARY LIST
einborate
Stuart, and as ruthless as Florence neither "exploded" nor the German Embassy at Ankara
the perfect orchestra to work to be portfnyed by 7x-Stode started work in the office of his • At the end of last month love for Hilary Bonham Carter possible to read Cecil Wood- war he has come back to h
with," he said.
"A conductor student
olicini
war artist London publisher. could want no better. They have Anthony Gross in a new 840-
such an enormous repertoire and paged edition of "The Forsyte are so well-integrated that the Suga." first rehearsal with them is like the fourth with most orches- tras."
likely that
HAVE YOU
"They
heard of a novel and As methodical in his hobby
Big Fisher signed up Miss Laird 40 hours called ***The work is London man" or another, "The Robe?" after reading the MSS. unders in his desk
mati J.
says the happy Thurston I asked orchestra will business
ten people this quer- lapped it up." sive a performance that will Thrower. He collects entertain-, tion--and none
had heard of author. impress the critics of the world.ng extracts from books and either, or knew anything of the
It seems Toscanini se
-(London Express Service)
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