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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 19, 1954.

MURDER, MONEY AND Α DOLL, MR GRUBB HOLDS

NIGHTMARE SPELL IN A

By George Malcolm Thomson

NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, ed, will protest at the hor-

By Davis Grubb (Hamish rid spell that holds them.

has "Night of the Hunter" Hamilton, 10. 6. 270

unusial quality and accomplists- pages).

ment; Davis Grubb has been able to wring out of his subject the grim- not simply a tale of mest tension-with the screw given another turn

every tow pages--but also a wild, night- mare poetry.

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ROM the first page to the last, this novel is haunted by a painful and terrible power. Some readers may find its theme barely tolerable: many who read on, enthrall

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrom: 1 Mentor, 5 Delva, B 18 Muse, Acumen, 31 Gable, 12 Sinner, 14 Dear, 10 Drawl, Alert, 19 Reel, 20 Erased, 24 Prism, 26 Solemn, 20 Pool, 27 Treut, 28 Nobles. Down: Meal, 2 Nous, 3 Omen, 4 Runner, 6 Degrade, 6 Liberat, 7 Emerald, 10 Miser, 13 Porapet, 14 Declar, 15 Attempt. 17 Hevel. 19 leason, 21 Solo, 22 Deal, 23 Onus.

It is about murder and money;

about a psychopathic evangelist and two little children, in the Middie West during the Great Depression.

when

mean

their

rng

BOOK

OF THE MONTH

on to

PARADE

DDDDDDDDDDE

A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS

WRONG In, France, you can Appropriately, they stole his neighbouring Sweden, but now SIDE IS break the road laws trousers-then called the police. word is getting round (from

thoso who have braved the and get paid for it. RIGHT If that

you STRATEGIC After the trip to Britain) that there is no happen to be a competitor in a RETREAT

Typoping of better husband than an English- cycle race,

the Colour lust man.

Cavalry

The British-minderi brides, in fact, have only one complaint, Although bom' and bred almost on the Arctic Circle, they find English winters "far too cold

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Beverly

where Hills, all things are things im-

In Nancy, the appeal court has woek, the Household decided that . a meing cyclist rodo proudly past Hyde Park At last Pearl, to save her can pass someone on the wrong Corner.

Then came a rain squmil. brother from the knife, blurts side of the road-if it given him

Someone barked an order. As out the peere. The green-back a chance of gaining first place,

The

ranks court ordered Mayor a man, the troep broke notes are hidden inside her zug

to buy cyclist and scurried for shelter under doll. From that moment every Reno Lacas

£140 damages the trees.

HOLLYWOOD In thing is desperate, forlorn fight Hoger Letebro

Matt's wife the and 290 doctor billa for his FISH Kerry into the darkness,

CIVILISATION STORY laughed once too often. river and at lost refuge with losses and Injuries.

Lefebra,

in corning

first,

Kerry, of Capetown, possible and most old Rachel Cooper.

Is there something maybe a collided with the door of Lucas had always been a keen fisher possible, there is news of a boom on the man-but little too

sweet in the lyrical car while passing it

caught in beauty parlour for dags- of the road 30 anything. When he went off on and In luxury treatment for closing parsages of the story, wrong side

A week-end trip, his wife cats. when the children and safely yards from the finish line.

laughed. with a rough old woman with a liking for kids, an old woman liko a

strong tree with many birds?

Change of mood

If there is, then Davis Grubb may be forgiven for providing the so eloquent a contrast to terrors that have gone before. Especially as the quality of his writing does not fall with the

Неге, of mood.

to change show that quality, are the last sentences of the book:

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the

asked of

HARD Ex-members TIMES Egyption royal family Anding life a bit tough,

be seldom

At present there are four Finally, he got tired of it and

her if she was willing to canine beauty shops which pay him £1 for every fish ho specialise in poodle haircuts (for caught She said she was,

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are looking for jobs.

Kerry came back with Trouble is they have no fish on a day when all

Mos! of them brother flaherman were coming qualifications.

and many can y homo empty handed. can drive planes but that is about as far 35 1: коса.

So there was a general cele- bration when Nametallah Hailm, whose husband was millionaire Лve tinies over, found a job

as secretary to a who lives Swedish Industrialist

Nice,

in

once

"She's lucky," sighed a one- time prince, "she was trained as a shorthand typist."

poodles) and just plain haircuts for less snobbish breeds,

that he And that

God sent people to Preacher. Strange power

God told him what to do, And John Harper is old enough to it was always a widow that God

For the feline world there is understand what the other child- brought to him (there had been

the Balwood Hospital For Cats, was it 127). A widow when

which they chant aix-or

a streamlined building. wad of money in "Hung. bang, hing! See the with a little

the dining room sugar bowl. Or robber swing!" Pearl, his sister, Ben Harper's

very exclusive, and owned by a widow,

Willa,

NOW IT'S A new accret weil-khown veterinary surgeon, Is young enough to clutch coli,

with no little wad but, maybe, the

secret lo

ganisation Dr Haidy, it appears, used to They are both very young dollars. enough

a vast hoard of

CHEESA-CHEESA African or- Dr Norman Haldy. which copies Mau Mau tactics treat dogs too but, he explains. to build father comes

and calls itself Chesa-Chocsa is "I gave up dogs because cata wounded to the house, with the tabernacle to the Lord.

becoming

in active

the

mort develop

Interesting police on his heels and whispers

But Wilta cannot tell, because

Transvaal.

dilsense." To help things along to John where he has hidden she does

The night of the hunter was not

know; Willa dies

advertisea she cannot tell. 10,000 dollars of stolen money. beruuse

The organisation (Its English Dr Haidy One gone forever and the blue mer

translation

"Burn-Burn") 'storted from scratch' the They are not many days okler night Sword of Jehovah (pollee) would not come again,

recently sent a letter to every his business is "the cat's whis- when their father is hanged in flashes. Only John knows where And so John puiled the gospel

member of South Africa's Par- kem, Louisville geol.

the money is hidden, John and quilt snug around his car and dreamless winter

liament threatening revenge by Young enough to excite the Pearl And Pearl, clutching the fell into a pily of Preacher, that

gaunt mg doll, is sworn to secrecy,

eurled up beneath

teeism from work of the Malan Government, The man of strange and holy power What

their quaint, stim calico #gures of the WORKERS' What causes absen- fire for the segregation actions a puzzling man

PREHISTORIC One BANE who

had-so

-laziness, football letters make interesting com- daddy he says-com-

world's forgotten kings, and the with new

is, forted their father's last hours aminted on one hand and LOVE strong gentle shepherds of that matches, race meetings? Maybe parisons with some of the first BARK

letters which wero who "We fallen, anelent me

had but rheumatism still is one of "threat" In gnol; who soon becomes their on the other; now saying.

has just been their Allie all forgit how much these little guarded

Jambs industry's

at the onset of the natural science greatest enemies, received step-father,

recorded off the coast of New Tattooed

of Mau Mau terror: the back of lambs has endured"; and now against the night."

according to the Ministry Preacher's Angers

inpossible not to make "The Health. two streaming, "Speak, boy! Speak! words, LOVE on one hand, HATE Where's hid? Speak before Night of the Hunter" the Book

of the Month. on the other. He can make his cut your throat." hands illustrate edifying stories as the Angers wrestle together.

Preacher la a man tormented by the wickedness mankind especially women-and Irus unteri by Its stubbornness—–— especially the slubbornness of Ben Harper, father of John and Pearl.

With

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Art

HATE

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of the

most amazing

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"We tell the people to burn Zeeland. The sound is the bark Amazing, be- of the tuatara. forms, in murky, misty Britain three all cars, tractors, veld,

was barking barris,

afrikaner cause the tuatura

the million weeks of working time mountains,

wilderness of the of schools, Dutch Reformed chur- over each year because are lost rheumatiens. This causes a loss ches, pull down the telephone earth untold centuries befero

the arrival of man. of £260 million in production wires, stop the trains.

The tuatara, in "In 15 years we will beach all living fossil, a creature that has the and

medical and

the children to bum. Matches are one penny a box.

In

THEIR

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fact is

lived unchanged and unchanging

to

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Temples of the Sun and me, and to understand

Moon. By Michael Swan, strange phenomenon of sleep as expenses.

Numbers suffering from it is known to science. Cape, Z1s. 283 pages.

"So we have Chresa-Cheers while other and greater species rheumatism-between two and

the have risen and disappeared. To burn the property of

of its bark Humorous, percepĤive necount Dreams, snoring, the blood-three million persons.

Nationalist Government so that get a recording of DAL young Englishman's sugar content of the sleeper-

inhospitable Aldermen the cell he shured

we can get Liberty. We have no special scientiae expedition went

tho with all come under the notice of this journey through Mexico,

"Any Ben, Preucher had been hot on special attention to Aztec and

commercial other spokesman except Cheesa- alert, entertaining expert, So

Islands with a highly-sensitive the trail of the 10,000 hidden Mays remains. Keen eye and do the intellectual fcats per- CHANCE traveller worth his Chees

Now, coples of Ball could turn a

The polka take a serious view tape recorder. dollars, urging. beseeching, graceful style give the book formed in alctp. c.g., writing praying for money to build the

place sale

among the small of Kubla

Russian 'No' into a 'Yes'. What of the threat which, if appiled the recording will be distributed Khan (Coleridge), Anest

tho gospel tabernacle on

a tragedy commercial travellers

to the Union's 10,000,000 Africaris throughout the world. Arst-class travel composition of a violfa

sonata

the 2,000,000 white, do not have more me to use against whole Ohio River. And always studies dealing with that part (Tartini), chemical structure of their gifts in the interest of the could cripple the country. disappointed,

of the world. it contains the benzene molecule (Kekuie).country" Lieut.-Col. Maurice But Preacher, like the Lord, does not need-some admirable

president of the ENGLISH When Ben is hanged photographs. I can wait.

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ing Preacher, who every springtime feels his whole sprit, come ailve with holy rage and hatred of the spowing mass of Jarlots whoremongers in Louisville, thut swarining riverside Sodom. He rubs the knife in his pocket with sweating fingers, the knite that is the Sword of Jehovah.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"I THOUGHT YOD SAID YOU'D MOWED

TRE LAVN....... AND

YOU WERE GOING

TO WASH THE CAR.

AND PAINT THOSE

· PORCA CHAIRS.

"TRIPLETS!"

· FATHER'S DAY? OK, WEAR??

THERE'S JUST NO

SENTIMENT

IN SOME

FAMILIES.

for

How to Get More Sleep. By Chapman Pincher. Daily Express, 51, 120 pages. A title book

gives which

Chop- more than I promises. und

man Pincher is concerned not simply to assist the victims of insoninia but to give everyone the opportunity to sleep wisely, well, for the right length

Batchelor,

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Twenty women workers in a Turin,

Every

Finnish

an

to oven

All-weather

the

FALSE The fair weather sport tha Ja toves

FLAGS of yachting

Mediterranean sparkling Engilshman

20 according to Finnish statisticians, turning into

smuggling rackets-under anyway! To talk well is one thing; to

At present Finland ha a Red Ensign of the British Mer- look well on the printed page CHOCOLATE

of surplus

husband-hungry chant Marine, another. Since the two quali- NEMESIS

women and, in order

Police and Custome investiga- things up, hundreds of Finnish tions between Tangler and ties rarely go together, let it be sald that Echors (formerly chocolate factory

girls are looking to other coun- Spain have revealed that a Mackenzie's broad-

Italy, spotted a professional iries for the men of their choice. number of yachts lying tha Compton

is an exception to the plekpocket rifling their hand- High

Ust of good British dag don't even belong casts)

bags in a cloakroom this week, husbond-producing countries is

British nationals even At though they registered Lloyd's in the names of English owners! The yachts have been bought by companions,

of rule.

Father's Day

"ÁNY DÂY IS FATHER'S DAY....TO GET BUTTERED UP... IN PREPAR- ATION FOR, PUTTING THE BITE ON, Hil

AT LEAST YOU MIGHT SHAVE!

Ú

מם

tho

KEMP STARRETT

Bo

WELL,'IF YOU MUST

KNOW, WE'RE GOING-

ON À PICNIC. I

WAHTED TO

SURPRISE YOU FOR FATHER'S

DAY!

BUT! WANTED TO

PLAY GOLF!

BE SURE TO PLIN SOMETHING NICE FOR. PATKER, CO HE'LL BE CERTAIN TO ENJOY HIS DAY,

COPR, 1943 BY GENERAL FRATURES CORF, 114WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

HEY! I GOT

A DATE.......I URDY UD!

YOI GOT A LONG-TERA

LRASE

READUS' TH"'HELP

́SPOSE YOU'RE

WANTED · XUM ·

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IT MAY BE FATHER'S DAY..

BUT NOT: 14 THE

BATIRODAL

to

through governesses and

foreigners

nurses, who are British subjects. Among the foreigners aro

respectable

many

Spainards.

Forbidden by law. own boats registered outside Spain; they pay British subjects to buy the boats for them.

The price paid for the privi- lege of being able to sail under the Red Ensign is believed 10 be a good one. The more so as it is accepted by the autho rities as being "above musplelon" far as smuggling is con- cerned.

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TOTTERING The leaning TOWER

tower of Pisa is now leaning so much (officially) thai___it_18 almost falling down. Experts agree,, in fact, that, unless some- thing is done to support the world-famous monument (dat- ing back to 1178) it is bound to collapse.

As a result of this scare Pisa is today full of experts. from all nations with new-fangled measuring- Instruments, Bimul- taneously Pisa's Mayor la re- celving hundreds of letters from all points of the world giving advice on how to save the Dower.

popular current

The most

solution appears to be to inject thousands of tons of liquid cement under the foundations, Engineers are afraid, however, that the sudden pressure, of the cement would merely push the tower right over and quickly, No one, it seems, has a really first-class solution,

Meanwhile the leaning tower of Pisa (already 14 feet off vertidal) continues to collapse at the fast (for a tower) rate of 1.3 millimetres a year.

IT'S A A shepherd, in centrat DATE Groece has just had

vision in which he learnt the date of the end 01 the world. The shepherd, Apos tolos Koujas, whs, bonding, his sheep). In the "fields" "when" (the says he "ruddenly felt like Denying". -) Golcan - ko

chariel be knelt down'atid," je

nediately saw a vision of thewa figures Cone nder

WE HEAR. THERE ARE SOME FATBEDS WHO WISH TREY WERENT

WITH COME ON EVERY DAY