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By HAZEL CAVENDISH
MONSARRAT
IT
TELL'S THE RICH STORY OF COMMONWEALTH
'By Gwynne Phillips
London,
There was his Ingt letter froth HE opening of the Africa, written in 1873 to Sir "Queen and Common Geographical Society; his proyer Henry Rawlington, of the Royal
wealth" exhibition at book and sextant; his Consul's London's Imperial Institute cap — somewhat moth - caten There were the aurgent last week was planned to now.
Instruments he Used and the coincide with the Corona- rusty chackles he strucks off tion.
slaves. A manuscript map ot his, faded but still legible, was No better time could have also displayed. HEY often refer to Ing, the breaking ground for the besaning a good writer, or give
It up for the law.
been chosen. For the ex- him as "Cruel Sea" day one graduates as a writer.
As far as is known, these re- Feled everywhere as ke has "It did not take me very long"
hibition illustrates, not only es held by the Royal Monsarrat, 25 the been adulation In South to make up my mind."
works furiously, writing, re-to the British public but to Geographical Society have never book ig 80 mach Africa, an overpowering recep-
His love of the sea is the inborn writing, ruthlessly cutting.
thousands of overseas before been seen by the public. better-known than the man tion in New York, clamouring love of the amateur yachtman.
"Planning a book is exactly
the great interest himself.
Autograph hunters in Britain- The Monsarrots owned a seaside like a naval operation," he says. Visitors, the richness and No wonder
shown in them. Monsarrat yet affects no airs cottage in
** Anglesey, where "Characters must be under the variety of the Queen's Com- Yet this 42-year-old ex- and graces. An incident which Nicholas and his brother and absolute control of their captain, monwealth. Naval officer, now U.K. In typifies this pleasant lack of sister learned to sail 14-foot They must not be allowed to get
Their Problems occurred during dinghies. Freen dinghies self-importance formation officer in Ottawa his recent brief stay in London graduated to crewing in vecná
they out of hand.
Something of that in- (a recent appointment which " A small naval ship anchored races.
"I draw up an exact plan of a finite variety was brought. Alongside were maps showing as I toured the work being done by mis- Victoria Embankment similar post in off the
When the war come freelance novel before I write it. And home to me South Africa) is a hard- during Tito's visitpart of the Monsarnal had paciilst ideas and IS a plan. I know exactly the exhibition. Although it sionary societies In Africa and
Thaines escort provided for the joined Civil Defence. In there what I will be writing about on working author with 12 Yugoslav Premier-invited him vlows he resembled several other Page 30. And I stick to it." has the general title of the problems facing them.
and Common- An To reach leading writers, notably young
Exhibition that novels and a play behind to a drink on board.
Few authors are pleased with "Queen
Bix films of their books, but | wealth," him, He gave up a "steady" the escort craft he had, to cross and talented playwright Christo the
exhibitions originally built as Partisment's job-a solicitor's practice descend a rope ladder to the Corps instead
RNVR training ship to pher Fry, who joined the Planter Mousarrat is delighted with the are in fact on view; each contribution to the Flint of the armed film of "The Chiel Sea, Just contributes to that pictures Past and Present"--will interest for the insecure existence of smaller- ship anchored on the forces.
cleaped in Briain. But unlike the others, Mon- ships were used for much of of the Commonwealth as a freelance journalist, work- seaward side. ing in
a Paddington bed-
sarmat changed his mind. Had he the Redon and the casting is, in not. The Cruel Sea" could never his own words, near-perfect. aitting room.
have been written.
Way does Monarrat work of At that time he read on a daily job, when he can make advertisement in the Press.
so handsome a living by writ- ing?
follows n
lle storied with £40 and a typewriter, in a cloud of family disapproval.
He lived scantily on the pro- ceeds of articles for yachting periodicals and other magazines, Even the novels which poured from his prolife pen were not remarkable. The play, "The Visitor," in which Greer, Garson the played for the last time on
British stage, ran for only three
wicks.
It took a World War and five-year hatching period in the Navy to produce the novel that over a million people in 10 coun- tries have read.
short, arrived,
Monsarrat the writer has, in
SHY MAN
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HIDE & SEEK
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It
A the last minute the unicen A responsible for the invitation "Chenilernen who are yáchtanen
lscovered to his horror that are offered commissions Their Lords of the Admiralty RNVR." were dining that night in the
ship: training
consequently to either vessel other vis
visitors ere frowned were
upon. Monserrat's arrivol
COMPOSITES
naval
whole.
Was
1951 — "Parliament
a these who want tó leðra how Parliament came into being, how it developed and became Perhaps the most in what it is today, tereating is "Focus on The Hansard Society have Colonial Progress," the in- asiembled wax models illustrat
events in parlių- mentary history, such as the Because he feels the need for spiring story of what has ing the chief the
The fresh stimmilus of new peo-done and what is still to signing of the Magna Carta. ple, new ideas. The war present-be done in the Colonies, the And for those who are not sure cd him with
dro made In
"this" people who live there and how laws material, and
country, there are diagrams in- dlcsting changing human reone. Both his their way of life.
the various stages
Bill has through which same for him. vigorous young countries, do the It's an exciting exhibi. pass before it becomes Law.
tion-a-life-like chunk of
Some af the Commonwealth here on Elizabethans are given an
today's Youriz op- our doorsteps.
portunity of displaying their creative talent in "Young Artists from the Commonwealth" CX-
Mahalf years in the Atlantic, unfor- MONSARRAT spent three and
tunately coincided with the an-
is
magnificent constantly
as information officer
ON THE CREST
in
Hongkong Merchant
to
wide range of subjects, varving from a black and red ink You enter through heavy tration of a hymn, by Malaya's studded wooden gates a Boon Plang Koh, to a vivid oll replica of the Gates of painting of native dancera by Nigeria's Clara F. Ugbodaga. Zanzibar-into 2 garden Striking use of colour was most peopled by life-size effigies in evidence.
A rare of Colonial people.. The.
distriction was [ne- models are so life-like that corded to Trinidad's Boscoo I almost walked up to Holder.. His 'pathtings of West
pearance of the first of the im-
He is hard-working and very porinnt guests. The situation as sub-Heutenant, first deutcuant, was hurriedly explained to him, and finally in command of efficient, and he understanda and a geme of tactful hide-and- corvette and later two friguler, the meaning of ical co-opera- seek followed, in which Mon. He ended the war as a lleutenant- tion. For seven years in South sarrat
Africa he served on the staff was summarily pushed commander. into cabins, hidden behind coils The Cruel Bea" happened to me, Baring, now Governor of Kenya, Everything that happened in of fellow-Wythamist Sir Evelyn of rope, and generally kept out
says, who has paid many tributes to of sight of their Lordships until except the torpedoing."
"As for that, I heard men his ability. he could be souggled across to the escort craft. Far from swopping experiences of tor- taking offence, he entered into pood Ships so often that it was the spirit of the thing with ob- not dimeult to reconstruct it in the book. In one's mind one MOST agreeable surprise o vlous enjoyment.
mecting this success-in-s- The individuality of the man had lived it all so many times, night man is his disarming lack and his career belles a conven-
Because he believed he dosimed to be killed, he wrote A DAILY job sults him well, of conceit. He is a shy man, lional upbringing, Bearing an
as he prefers to write at particularly in the company of aristocratic Portuguese nome, doves much of what he raw night, regularly as clockwork.
around him in those five years. naval officers, but is delightfully he is, however, the son of a
"I hove always preferred of war.. These notes, which informal.
Liverpool Burgeon and was Witness our dialogue:
educated Winchester and contain much of the material writing to going out to parties."young West Indian lawyer Indian heads were accorded
to enquire about the book section to themselves. which made "The Cruel Sen, he rays. College, Cambridge. have now been published under, inclined to be and
Despilo an appearance which he appeared to bɩ studying But the law career which his He: Awful. I never mention family had selected for him had thele romes. I hope no one little appeal. even connects them with me.
Mos
1: What were your early books Trinity
like?
the title of "Three Corvettes.
The ships in The Cruel Sca," "Compass
Rose' and
he
also
an one is
a
44
"DAY
rather
worn
so intently.
In another
..
corner,
...A
How It Works
A
A small-but neverthelesa im-
than naval-silk scarves
eravat style and suede shoes- "Saltash "It was dull, and I wanted to I; Did you think they were write," he said. "All the time are composites of all the shipe Monsarrat has few arly tastes,
cotton farmer declared. Apart from an interest in rococo Uganda
portant exhibition, ^e a lled awful then?
I was supposed to be learning in the flotilla,
furniture. He likes music-stood with his hands steep- "Britain and the Colombo Plan," Hc:
Of course not. One law I was seribbling a novel in "The characters are
com Beethoven and Mozart or Dixie- ed in a sackful of cotton. explains in diagrams, what the posites-no never does. One always thinks my exercise book.
exact and and fast carst the
first "I finished it in 1932. It was representation of one's work is wonderful when
living thing
ho did with his bestseller Next to him was a massive Plan is, what it does and, how
it works. One of the pictures one is writing it. Later one so bad that I had to decide then person."
profits was to
Britain's Masai warrior, standing on supporting the diagrams shows buries one's head in shame, and there whether I was going But like many authors, he has chassiest car, the continental" one leg characteristic two. Chinese working in a
paddy... But it is all experience, trin- to devale all my attention to written into two of his characters Bentley, and a dashing, white attitude when at rest. A field. Underneath is the caption what he himself would like to Jaguar XK120 es a runabout.
"Without rice, nothing can sue I be. What author has not? Most interesting speculation Hongkong merchant sat ut ceed (Malay moverb) which Ericson and Lockhart are now. is Monserrala future 15 his typewriter, engrossed sums up the most urgent needs combination of all that he ever a writer.
in business affairs, while a of the folk of Southeast Asia." strove to be.
For let there be no mistake, Tamil rubber worker tapped Monsarrat is on the crop of his
"The World Encompassed" And
a rubber tree. wave.
tot wave may
tells the story of how the early break on the shores of our
British navigators-fróm: Drako nellon with a reverberating After showing us some of the to Cook--crossed and rocrossed people who live in the Colonies, the unknown aztens of the world ASPIRING authors would do crash.
exhibition He declares that he has the the study the statistical
explains, by to discover the new lands which 30 books in his diagrams material for record of this bestseller.
pictures, how were later to become part of the
and Monsarrat carried the book in head. Which one does he write? traders, explorers
mi British Commonwealth. The one that happens to "sursionaries discovered 'the his head for five years.
face" "He wrote it in two years to coming
fnt. His next novel Colonles, how they are governed out in August-and and some of the problems facing the day,
this is going to make the critics them. sit up with a jerk.
Where even the
calendar comes under the Big 4
From WILLIAM HAMSHER
Ten more
Ten
Hesy
The
+
CU-
DISCIPLINE
It was rewritten twice, The first draft was a quarter of million words. The second draft was 200,000 words. The third draft was 190,000 words.
many.
F
and
On display is a vast map" "of the world, showing some of the voyages undertaken by these naventurers, their schorts and Inatudents
For he knows the pitfalls of it was somewhat disconcert their navigation i alicmpling 一群 follow-up, aing to discover a couple of live There are paintings to
an second-not-so-good. This one locusts among the exhibits, to as Cook's Landing in Middal- to tho
07 any
**
THIS VERY MERRIE ENGLAND
- London.
WAYNE MINEAU, pageant hunting, finds an odd slant
It has sold 550,000 copies in theory tower end stent the menaces of nature. burgh, one of the Friendly Isles,
is of women, The attendant Britain, 350,000 in America, and is set in Ireland and America though, the loss couls glass medel complete with original assured me, during Ala second ́voyois a
South Seas. And there Berlin. Another "permanent" 19
14 translations have averaged two countries with which ho possibly escape from their TN 40 months Grand Ad- Rudolf Hess, Hitler's deputy. 10,000 sales in each country,
has come acquaintance. The caprison. In Bath Donitz, com- tes is not without w and
rigging-of the type of worship It has been highly praised lik does not enter into He
used by Wallis and Br every country where it has
Attracted then by the "Go Yo Cook's forerunners// But the third book from now mander of Hitler's navy, will again obscure German papers been published except Ger will be another sea story. The and Teach All Nations" -
hibition I found the centre of All the exhibits were daned have finished his 10 years quote Sir Winston Churchill's
carefully Monserrat Plan Is as that verdict
Hess Was
interest Monserrat laid dow
there wartime in gaol--the Nuremberg medical, not a criminal, case, brings true naval discipline. He operation.
Was To his writing
David by the famous National Mari- Livingstone's relics.
time Museum at Greenwiches! judgment on his war crimes. and should be regarded so,”
Forty months more. Forty But
Americans, the more visits by his family to French, and the Russians would the prison at Spandau, In the have to agree before changes British sector of Berlin; 100 could be made. more weekly letters; 160 more
The
West has never urged warm balls,
alterations in Spandau rules up That could be the way the 'to the point where their urging count towards freedom is being might upset four-Power kept by Doenitz.
operation. So there is no com- PHENOMENON of note
for Coronation year: in the Coronation year story of all those amateur shows- "Russian months". for Hesa. under
the four-Power guard
So many amateur produc rota. Ten more American
tions of Edward German's n size of chorus ant orchestra. You can pay £250 or £1,000.. months, when the food is better.
England" have Nor for the other Spandau "Merric
You can dress your principals more months of French
lifor, Walter Funk, Nazl been scheduled that the expensively or cheaply, depend nile, when the prisoners' library Journalist who became Reich costumiers are refusing to ing on whether you want to pull books changed. And · ten
are
the British
Bank President. more months with
in darge, mambers of the public If Spandau were a British handle any more. In top chargC.
the zone gaol Funk would have had Under the British,' say
The queue to play the show or increly your pab.
So the front rows of the na- began months ago. Germans, everything is always long spells in hospital.
So would "gentleman" Von This month the alagos fog
dressed la true "korrekt."
Neurath, Reich Foreign Minister
£1,000 outlay. Fan style. and "Protector of the Czechs, from the Channel to the Beatfish.
For But the back rows may have Includ perhaps 200 Neurath will be 88 when his harder, from Wales across to the dress, £60 for scenery, £15 for to make do with costumer a
revaltics, and several hundreds te Call it the luck of the navy... day of liberty dawns. He was North Sea.
earlier or a little One costume firm to handling for theatre hire and publicly, then the rollicking Elizabethan the British will be presiding at a very fick man when he 'Spandau
on celebrated his golden wedding 38 productions of it, and by can be a risky Investment für to midday
Age. Plead the costumiers October 1, 1958, the day Doenitz two years ago with an extra 15 summer's end more than 100 gmsteurs. Costume costs alone.
men of historical integrity Marrio Englands is due to leave. The "korrekt" minutes of vill bright chances domaces and sung themselves into characters, become a finncial
Insignificant for a play with ten what else cus we deryall administration should help,
The two
Coronation Merrio Englands operation with a week of Merrio
will not all be so polished R They Englands see a release? the saver, Gauleiter and Youth .over
Mr German's original at The seven men in the cella ars Fuehrer Baldur von Schirach, carne drain business houses, fac-
Down In London's Covent
Savoy in 1002, but nil
will ral, Erich Hitler's arms drive boss. Both od railways. ly, another grand admiral,
Even Army officers in training costume house of B, J. Simentar, peasantry and foresters, Racder, Doenitz's predecessor as are inside until 1960.
heralds, and soldiery, Sarlvenham's Colicge of like an fiktorie muscum carelessly dancers, navy bosa, has no chance at all. Spandau is the safest gual in at Ho will die In gaol. There is no the world they my Impossible Military Science have succumbed left lying around an outdoors trumpeters, Walter Raleigh and
movie Bet
the Earl of Essex, a witch Queen, and, na remission for good conduct in to break out of but even more to Genman's 1-year-old songs,
means imposible to break into.
How much does it cost to put There are 100,000 costuries hunting May Spandau.
(Continued un Pago 7, Col, 1) on the show? Well, that depends available there, but, no more this surplly, Good Queen Be
up
+
If on occasional teur year, for dressing up the golden
the wrong spot all age of Elizabeth the First, - voice hits
A Simmons director estimates the amateur, hearts are in the that Britain's total Elizabethan right one. resources (genuine Elizabethars
Among 1953 Merrie ..England the+Great designs) run to only about 6,000 planeers
Western Railway London Opera- garments.
tle Company. (it is nice, tHas they have not been compelled to change their title (to B.R. Western Region).
Big Finance tion's summer pageants will be Merrie Englands are being set, Certainly
will
& Would, a Russlari › month at after Doenilz are the "boy" of a small gröfit-or loss, ·
1.
Who, are the players?
D
werg
All Vary
inter Chief
tho
Chummy
dre offfeer Herbert Mason
was End of Drex. most of the dancers word
shorthand-typists, and Stanley Cheltins, the chief accountant's assistant, was musical diretor and conductor.
***
reputed not to think su, Certalo- and. architect: Albett Speer,tories, bapies, and the national Garden, stands the old theatrical bristle as, usual. with the achieved, a sicker, and-lover'
Just that,
"Life-long"
...
It was all very chummy, Dramatically and musically amateurish production than anyone expected.
With another 99 productions
ca hand during 1853 Mr.Go- man could hardly have wished for a merrier year.
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