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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1952,

THE

ON THE WALL

bale County

Borough Elections

- Verdict

Woʻsh Copyright, By arrangement,with Dally iterate,

Mme. (350) SIMENON

The French-Canadian wife

of

1

best-selling author

votes for the simple life

W

London.

THEN you read that Mme Georges Simenon is staying at a West End hotel with her husband, who is one the world's richest and, best-selling novelists, vou imagine some degree of, lacquer- cd sophistication. At least I did,

of-

But we are all wrong-as wrong as we are, in supposing that, Simenen is a Frenchman. In fact, he is Belgia, born 49 years ago in Liege),

His French-Canadian wife, her hands thrust in-. to the pockets of her grey flannel skirt, her feet b flat-heeled brown country shoes planted "pur-

no nonsense

about. posefully on the carpet, has her whatever. She even disdains the harmless artt fice of a dash of lipstick or a dab of powder,**** Her only jewellery apart from her plain wid- 'ding band is her single-pearl engagement ring.

Sho revealed her age

psychological:

MADAME SIMENON

Sime-

with. It is as if she wished to ad-dir "the correspondence.

in non, his writing finished, walks out being asked. She was 32 on vertise the fact that here,

contrast with the subtleties of alone to the vilinge post office May 14.

thrillers, to collect the mail, and aort Madamic Simenon has an al- the

life out his thoughts for the next most aggressive lack of affecta- which are her husband's

Madame take a country walk. tion. Her dark brown eyes 1x work, is the tour of simplicity chapter. At 11 Monsieurant

direct and itself.

bale Or perhaps they side you with such a noncos gaze that you feel that.

Simmonen, the Boys, likes or hostes or play golf. After lunch this at last is a woman with

trast. He has travelled all over Siminsa izkera 90-minute. positively no Beception.. the world, and when he lived ciesta (no siesta for Madame in France liked to pop over to who meantime buslos herself

relax with Johnny and household- London from Paris to

COMIC SIDE

OF COMMUNISM

Zulus, Eskimos

By BARBARA VEREKER

酽

between books, ("He knows chores). London well and enjoys every- thing here including the restay-

ronts.")

Simenon Denyse

འ

dined together the

WES hea

geparated

In the late afternoon, Simenon

+

This is Madamo's first sight, kes another think-walk"! of England. "I fell in love while his wife works in the office. In the evenings they. with it at once" said she.

with her read, tolk; Isten to the, radio, She fell in love husband at first sight too. A and occasionally. Took; in on friend arranged the meeting in TV. Nothing but French (Communiet) Party, in April New Yeak selling Draysa uul inked at. home.

A lililo“ extre by HERE are some jokes

vaganza -pont- 1951, "I get passionately angry met, as she was that Sime- then, a wearing

umes when I see someone

steps in and they are the

Between novels Tyrolean hat because I consider. not wanted EVELYN IRONS

Secretary Brid best jokes which can

them a demonstration against telling

Simenon his thres weeks to be appreciated universally.

the People's Democracy," must

month free, and during that The sight of a grand and

Now, this sort of thing is funny live a very emotional Hic, I don't tha

In her usual gülleless way, time, he, and, his wife like to solemn man

missing his labour for political offenders. All

remark is any more

Denyse telephoned to tell trke a few days trip to a this we know, and some of it in any language. Any language, know that this humble comrade's wasted new, footing and altting down makes us think, and some of it that is, except the language of

Simcaen that it was untrue New Yerk hotel, scalpig the Communism. For, as I have sold, some of the mere with a bump is funny to the makes us tremble.

utterances.

Utterances such, as

awaiting her shows, meeting friends... as she had a job

"But we don't BO in for they Then along comes a splendid it is the rule in this kind of the one quoted in Prayda in back home in Ottawa. Simenon. onlookers, whether

who make it

added szetely." that it la

Mme. amused, Suggested or Communist called Adolf Hen- that the people

to. Simenon. If we go to a night that they July 1951 when Stalin defined m

nice to lunch to introduce Hula noscible do not see

1

ab; & is just to 'son one of Englishmën, — The only Ticke

comic relief,

Hennecke, who are being funny at all.. Com an internationalist as "one who would be

remali

Incurably without qualification without gether, anyhow. person who does not see the organised the shock work- mun'sts

esitation, is ready to defend the

He was more than half on the variety shows which my s-lemn. in Eart Berlin, has.

hour late for the appointment: husband enjoys." joke is the solemn man es

inclinext

When, in Dresden, Christmas Soylet Union." to

Says Madame Simenon, ""I was Simenon's celebrated Deteo himself. And the more simple, and I'm

Must Laugh think, original, way of increasing angels were put on sale bearing

too shy to leave the table and Ive in pre er Maigret is usually solemu be

strolled in to be found with a glass in his the remains

coal production. In all serious the festive inscription "Peace of

aperitif, [OFTUD; more comical he looks. ness he suggests that miners Earth secures the Fulfilment of VERE are many ates of walk out." They

in But for the last seven · ̈ years"· I suddenly realised I was be- thould learn

our Five-Year Plan," it hever Communism which are not aen. Park air lunch" "And hand-an to play. Modern politics have..

recurred to the Communists ult funny. But when I hear the love," she says. "And luckily the novelist has taken practi Or "Playing chess increases coal that anybody.might taught.

at a cancer: of music specially he felt the same."

cally no liquar, come very kolemn.

written for the 30th anniversary rather, modern politicians production," he announced in a

Absurdities recent interview. "Chess play-

Czechoslovak Communist

Madame Simenon used. have become very solemn. is helps the logical thinking WHEN a Hungarian, Communist Party on earnest audience stores evening. That was in 1945.

10 to W

cantala entitled "Themenen They are constantly point- and, therefore, enables us

пожарарет reported that raptly

-given up_cigarettes altogether ing out to us that this produce more conl. We should following Soviet directives, our Party Membership Card" when from his first wife whom he given ang but now she has

Soviet

Literary had married in 1923, culture in dancing has under- I read that the should all play chess."

"faculty political utterance

Denyse turned down the Ol because I used to smoke more. I judge by this sample of his gode unprecedented T

develop- Gazette has called for a

Like Maigret, Simenon make us think or that ut logical thinking, that Comrade ment, and the dance in our coun- of can be trained in secretary; she still deals with icciates good food. He has terance make us tremble, Hennecke is not himself a chess try also has become the common owning in which circus ¡tawa job and became Simenon's was good for, meer ontway aesthetical all his business letters, although taught me everything 7:-- know our player, but I think it is a cause of yet they seldom draw

the masses, they political,

discla ocial and of the cis no longer types his novels. about cooking," said his wife.

when I hear of

the day modestly. "He's 1 attention to the fact that a splendid nation, and well in line thought it splendid and hot a

wonderful coak, good many political, ut with the Communist ideal of cul- bit funny. The Canton Southern decree issued by the Hungarian They were married

ture for everyman.

Dally

reproving a Canton Trade Ministry, and reported in after his Reno divorco⚫eame

the

was not she but / pipe, terances should

Zagrch newspaper, Vjesnik, through. merely love to think of all those restaurant, for serving

1032 ruling that

moking Simenon, who gave me on make us laugh..

brawny miners moving through

and "Protest-

the recipe for his per dish... In 'the morning and

shaggy dogs must be shorn and Take for instance, that grand the darkness, multering, "Red America, Aid-Karen, porr February 1

"Scrub mussels," he said, set- the Now they live the State, or

Shadow ting.comfortably in his chair and. solemn body, the Soylel pawn to play and win in eleven Home-Defend-Fatherland Rice" all hair exceeding two centime

ct. funn

merely observed tres sent to

them thoroughly. -In- Government. Watch its. august moves."

not vulgarles the owners of the dogs will be Rock Farm in Connecticut, on Wash Then see it

miss progress.

Primly Marxist Sport:

dignitted propaganda campaign." severely punished-these things old colonial-style white clap several changes of salted water footing, sit down with p bu TF-the augstation is taken up.

And although the correspon do not make me think. They do board house with 18 acres of for an hour, put them a me tremble. They land and two trout streams. clote-covered pan with one.. and make itself highly ridiculous.

Skratnen woltes 'Irani five to zmall onion and a stick of But this unintentional clown Communist mine will be just dent who wrote to Vilagossag, the not make

cultured 0.8 Communist organ of the Hungarian Workers' merely make me laugh.

seven books a year. But it is ing is not confined to the Soviet s

Ruasion

all under such pericet control celery, and let them stow

quietly in their own juice un Government. There are Com sportsmen. For, as a

that his wife will never 50 til the mussels are cooked, The manials all over the world con- named Vastaka has pointed out.

down to history as the patient rates and celery may stilt he stantly

slipping on metaphorical "It is not sufficient for Soviet be supermen

wife of an erratic genius. hard-but never mind, wei banana skins, Possibly because sportsmen to

He rises at 6 a.m., writes in can't want them throw

thier of physically-their prowess in the connot keep one cru

soundproof office for two away. I eat the mussels and Moscow and still took where you Beld must be matched by their

and a half hours. That is at their liquid with plenty

ct are going. It can happen at any knowledge of the history of Bolshevism, philosophy, political'

chapter, and it is all the writ- well-buttered bread. Perfect." Ing he does in a day. One

After that it was - easy to economy, and the momi aspect

book takes him ten to twelve understand Mme, Simenon's days.

enthusiastic answer" ip a Kho HIS

wife gets up at 6.30, pugstop, "What is it Histo dresses their 2-year-old son be the wife of a best-selling (chistened Jean, but known writer?" Americanwise as Johnny), and "It's a beautiful lifes after breakfast goes to work she.

you

moment.

its

Chess for Miners of Soviet sport."

N'a eptech on ecal production, This again conjures up a happy for instance. Now we know picture of some Soviet 'm- that Russian miners are praised. nasium where hearty athletes now being trained to Encouraged and given 30 days are even holiday ntter eleven months march into, or more probably

+

THE LADY IS UNWILLING

O U.R

From FREDERICK COOK

New York. nt 30 vezations, all ureful

later civilian life. The Army months ugo, did its best to bring a "ollege.

woday we use out of, the Olympic Games, in F America's manpower ke smogghere" into the camp

1mit

The

Marshal Kanlev mines in the ring two robust citizens are Czechoslovakia, children

are boxing, while in their respective director, Mrs Anna Rosen- routine and cut the age drafted for cight-hour shitts, and corners their seconds sit with berg, the live wire who frem. 19 to 18 in cases where

came parents consented,

But all to no avail. that 60 boys and 85 girls must bowed heads, engrossed in their "loves screwy hats," get 200 truckloads of coal to the books on philosophy. Near by, a back from Koren with an American girl wants no part of surface, or suffer the punish- couple of supermen are skipping urgent message from Gen- it. There was a brief spunt in

to read ments of food cuts and fines in pausing from time to time

erals Ridgway and Van rezulting, then the decline set

in.. Downward goes the curve. flicted by the Communist another chapter of Marx,

WHAT'S LACKING? Given supervisor, Pracek.

the question, to a girl end join up, Frivate first a voice breaking in "Send us 72,000 Service We know that in Russia men imagine such a setting one can Fleet,

blue-eyed blonde ot 23 from

CA How has; Mrs Rosenberg Davenport, Iown, succeeded? To date she has. Shifce

n. book- threw up persuaded just 8,532 to keeper's job to go into the Army. volunteer for all three Why? I asked her, What made her do it when others would Services.

Fat? Dkastrous, says Wothing on-- and puzzling.

and women are urged to go down occasionally with: "Stop play-women," they pleaded. "As who

class Shirice Gerdner, slender,

the mines because it is a glorious ing with that medicine Ball, way of serving the Soviet Union. Ivan, and get on with your soon as possible." We also know about forced dialectical materialiam."

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