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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1954.7

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The Wise Madame Butterfly

By

Richard Hughes

THER

Tokyo.

HERE are no blondes OF Marilyn Monroes in Japan. But the most critical Westerner, who finds much to frustrate und dismay him in the land of the Rising

Sun, always pays homage to the Japanese woman.

She is delectable, gay, charm- g. faithful, affectionate, self- 113, tolerant, pisod and

tally female,

She knows at her first, and deed only, duty is to her hord mader, who often fails

ka Apprnetales the treasure which

Дарени Inaction and evolu-

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we have, mee te otisly, bestow-

The

harin that the fæcupation da to Japon was kan daripraser Pertan Oreidentad Bent such CLA chewing KIM, juke-barx muste, publie Malays

und tan- of affection attractive namike -lika em a young. ngresscalable and less intelli-

esit strata of the girls.

But even these, one feels, were only decting besimirch- ams, winch the great makasty

the girts resisted, because of their annul sensitivity, Their inthuetter will am bring the

ring

Fest K usti scrtice onVATE"

REAL VALUE

The

Western suffragette PONÆREC--what 15 Aly uescribed as "ity of the biky naturally repeiled

The Japanese Wetheti, whan, un- like so munis Braten, European,; and

WWERED.

know the cal value of a non- vented and led husbant or lover, unfredast is nagging and Frustrated womenfolk, and skil-; really

dehided into the 掲げる! that he masterful and tell gent of bl superior species.

One

th

hervile,

the gravest blows

which General MueArthur Auf-

fered during the Occupation

was the resul

opinion trail

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nducted by the

Asabi, dupan's teardrog

new-

paper, among Japanese WEITET

on the

to Western become

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WELCOME HOME

What a man!

How we need

such crackling vitality!...

RNOLD BENNETT

WAN

decidedly somebody. He

10

was

An author who had

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men's hypersiral courtesies le journalist who had become

To the •jpuc+14+ questions an oracle.

women

whether they wished {0} =

tinue the

Western practices of

Puvement

artists drew

having men wild their seats in him. He was cheered at firai trams and

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stand back nights. trains,

when entering dusing rooms theaters, and Curry the parcels, they offered a ringing and overwheling "No."

The te ognst these "elvilities" was around 80 per-

cent

Women got on wrong buses just to look at him. He Was asked to stand for Parliament.

He shared with Tallulah

a telephone box

Bankhead. Hu Wils asked to lunch by luyd Many of the wolnen agreed,

The Prince of Wales spontaneously, Independently. George.

ne approved of his subtly an! prendly, on the told him

The same explanation wouldn't like it; and, if the men don't like it, it will not help to make us happy."

REAL WISDOM

men

Here is real femin ne wodom ~1777 intuitive Sagneity, which has been trugienily

denied to many Western women who, not content with casting the vide want to scramble for the vole themselves to

say nothing of geloctine their husbands' ties,

soft shirt.

Anachronism

SO OFTEN HUDDLING TOGETHER BLUCKING DELIGHT AT THEIR OWN REFLECTIONS

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Conditions, it should be welded, are rot much better in America

where this poin no PullizeT

Prize for the best novel of the заечал could be awarded sco considered good

none Was enough,

of

Reasons for the decine

the novel are many oby us.

Television and

the cinema have diverted muel potential talent. Authors, en- couraged by publishers, have cocked

their eyes Art the

the

direction of the best-seller lists rather than

the

praise 01 posterity. And the public have Mund in tales of real life--Kon- 'Tiki. Everest. The Wooden Hors-excitement more vivid

and gripping than anything that cin como from

writer's imagination.

Bul kn even inore clammy hand on the author's, desire to grapple with his times is the atmosphere of uncertainty and resignation which envelops us all. Authors not only lack the equipment for dealing with con- temporary problems; they do not even seem to know what the problems are,

Until they do, and until they come out from under their snug,

E. M. Forster has just stopped literary vacuums, the novel will Kipling and Hardy were still

novels. And, indeed, towards the end writing

And J. B. continue to dell into disrepute alive, but past then real great-

the 1914-18 บ

war Bennett Priestley is just tired.

and the days of the great men Aldous

was a served as Director Huxley

of Propa- BE ENNETT'S Journals which,

pivanising minor gue.

The only authors to use their of literature remain as remote ganda under Lord Beaverbrook, pens along with Ave 41 his 3 Was

Minister atmisphere that the

to probe the conscience as they are now. Information. (+ are sent to crackleit with the vitality of For his

of our times-George Orwell and services Bennett was Graham Greene--have, strangely novels". Penguin republish, scrupulously entalogas change. There were Victorian Tered

"I want peerige, the adulation, the tame, the Rin

to ix: smashed

and nothing," was his reply. "Give enough, been the most discuried. mill and the luxury that

They saw in Catholicism and Edward 7 shibboleths to be it to Harry Louder." surrounded and soothed him like shattered. And writers were

the Police State, offering oppos- a warm bath.

up there with the lenders of As tha book critic for the Ing solutions to man's fate, fit Standard

century Evening

in the subjects for the 20th the wrecking crew.

novelist. WE8

It is not easy for us, less than bundialing them in public, en-three decades later, 10 ap- forming forming servile domestic chores preciate

them. opening

the extraordinary

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their position Arnold Bennett held in perectual mail, manipulating the English life. For we live in conildenoe trick of the joint age where a literary giant is banking account and "aspiring" almost

neltirer

un anuchromism

J

IT

Prolific

was their conscious involve- ment in the social issues the day thui changed their stature from men of literature

Twenties, Berment's word

almost omnipotent. A

column books

Uncertainty

of praise from him and like The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Jew Susa rocketed to best- Fellerdom. A recommendation OST of the others have been Even

for a book how to slim content to try their hand at to fields of "public" endeavour Pygmies are hard to find.

brought queues of corpulent feline, sensitive, fur which an amniscient pro-

Introspective vidence

Post-war Britain can boast of designed nor

readers to the book shops. writing. They have nothing to noted the feminine mind and the its scientists, its mounlumeera, to men of authority. They were

Now where are the literary say but they can make it sound feminine attributes.

Its athletes, Ms engineers, its not content to huddle together figures of today to match these beautiful. actors, But it would need A in wan colerics clucking delight dynamic personalitics of 30 rabid chauvinist to rake a cheer at their own reflections.

After 10 Since years ago?

the end of for our men of letters.

the war there has emerged only important Yel how different In Ben- dised

and Wells propagan- one new playwright, Christopher war has yet been produced. feverishly for the Left: Fry, and one new poet, Dylan a year quivering from the effects nott's day, Then Shaw. Wells, Chesterton and Belloc thunderexi Thomas, of any signiflesnee.

of the H-bomby Asiatic resur- Belloc

changing Chesterton, Galsworthy,

Galsworthy's

gence,

The spectacle of Madame But- Kimono, terfly, in Korgeous equattle with fan and side long glance, bowing with pro- vocative humility before the gratified male, getting her own way while appearing not to do so, and adorning the scene with

flattery or restraint 09 circumstances demand, is one tu Kludden the heart of the elderly

on

Shaw

the

Right.

the

years not a single novel about the last

•

In

social

pre-eminence in the public eye. were Katling cach other for plays blazed with indignation But it is the novelists who structure of Britain, it was L.

over injustice. Bennett's prolife have been the most disappoint- P. Hartley's "The Go-Between," journalism

dealt with every ing. Aldous Huxley has re- a fragile study of a 12-year-old

Evelyn uspect of contemporary England treated into mysticism.

In 1900, that won the most boy *The Grand Babylon Hotel, Anna misogynist and to burn the head of the Flue Townz, Riceman Steps.

from the League of Nations to Waugh looks down his nose with acclaim as the English novel of

1953. The Old Wives Tale, Claphanger. the tipping of waiters.

petulant disgust at the present,

of the discerning adolescent,

Haparanda Is The Brightest Spot Under The Midnight Sun-But

IT'S TORTURE FOR A TAX-GATHERER

Haparanda, Sweden.

magic name

of

T Haparanda has always

By FRED MANOR

conjured in my mind visjona On one bank is the stern with Tornio-a bridge that the world in their of seals gambolling on fee. austerity of Finland. On the can be crossed with

re

floes, of Arctic nun (shining other bank is the exuberant markable ease-will bring incongruous in this Arctic Occasionally they catch, a wery

at midnight in the summer), luxury of Sweden.

of reindeer cautiously

or

seems to lake, part in what is just one big conspiracy with a single, cheerful atm-to cheat 'the Revenue, ostentatious Officially, the display of luxury goods-a dis- livelihood is

Inhabitants' derived mainly play that appears somewhat from fishing and scal-catching. the shopper to mountains of wildernces gripped in 80 de rare species of seal, the ring-scal. In Finland, coffee la bananas from the Weat

of frost. grees

Or at least so I was told, poking their heads out of strictly rationed and expen- Indies, of grapes from Italy There is, in fact, nothing in

bridge and Spain, and of peaches congruous about the shops or

I have always the frozen forest in the win- sive. Across the

been rather their goods. there are unlimited quan- from California.

There is a brisk wary of stories from Haparanda. ter: time.

summaver in all articles displayed, In days when there has been a tities of cheap and good In reality, Haparanda is

Not all the shopping across the end in many which are not dis- doarth of news, thrilling reports a Finn, bridge, is an Innocent, Watches, played. But the customers about the most improbabla all of this. It is also one of coffee. And to

pro different from the events have sometimes

found Europe's largest smuggling coffee means as much as diamonds, and gold change hands there

whiskey to n Scotsman or at one, bank or the other, or usual run of shoppers. centres.

an Irishman; wine tonomowhere in the midst of the The same winter snow Frenchman, or tea to an roses Gulf. and ico envelop the twin Englishman. towns of Finnish Tornid and

Swedish Haparanda, situated

on the mouth of the Tornio

River at the head of the

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There is something, uncanny The mute binte exchanged in in the phosphere of Heparanda, lelaurely fashion · across

their way into the newspsport- and such

reports hava, often datelined. "Haparanda.” “That's why, I wanted to see this

con

perunda..

"the A town et 8,000, 16 was born out counter the half-finished pen- Woll, now I have adun Ht;, and, int n warṣ150 yearsčago, "adid · it" tences mutteredi over marble shoe. I have breathed the in-

There is very little fruit thrives on internationed affairs. op tables in Frowded cafes res probable atmosphere of this im- It has no proper harbour, and no miniscent of Parle-these are all probable town, I mokooliow toel Gulf of Bothnid. But the in Finland. But a three industries all around It are part and parcel of the Hipshould have given chowe tell difference between the two minute walk across the fron Beds and forests. Bus, aranda towns is that of two worlds. bridge linking Haparanda, ftrabona will vorum Rey, for it byping technik jeder or the past the bebout, of

whole ) - tower ins doubt.”

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