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"Really, old man, you should have
more
ко
fidence...
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1956.
MISS SAGAN ANOTHER
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EMEMBER the "Bon- jour Tristowo" girl, 19-year-old Francoise Sugan? -author of last year's most talked about best seller?
Well, she has done it ngain. I have just put down her new novel, UN CERTAIN SOURIRE (Julliard, 500 francs, in the French edition. to be
Lomion
this published in summer by John Murray).
A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS
Free of charge (6).
4 Tendency (5).
7 Stubborn (8),
8 Similar (5).
9 Thoroughfare (6).
11 Diminishes (7).
13 Told (?).
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15 Faise (8).
18 Track (5)
I Looks into closely (8)
20 Financial check (b).
21 Complete (8).
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1 Expands (5).
2 Armistice (5).
3 Aların (7).
Negotiates (6).
5 ring about (8).
Numbers
(8)
10 Liberated (8).
12 Train (7).
13 Part of the eye (8).
14 Special aptitude (8).
16 Twine (5).
17 Follow (5).
YESTERDAY'S ELENAWORL—ACTUS
Banach,
16
J.
Calm 10 Curator 31 Maul 12 Cedo, 14 Heveird, I Adore, 19 Hai, 2 Temples, Melt 27 Cite 2 Stutler, 29 Nuon. 3 Send, 31 Endley, 12 Boda. Down 2 Klated, 3 Summer, 4 Recur, Ainulet. 6 Spate, 1 Choke 12 Cast 1 Doon 15 ie, 10 Dent, to Heress 20 Amends, 21 ford. Eates, 24 Pulai 25 Stea
BOOKS.
HAS NAUGHTY
WRITTEN
HIT
by NANCY SPAIN
And I think it will create
even greater stir in London and in New York than "Boujour Tristesse.” And that "naughty" little book inade £50.000 for its author....
LL
This new novel is about
called girl minique in her fulls in love
All
teens
Do whe with a mum called Lue, in his 40's or 50's. Luc has churm and a nice fat wife,
He takes Dominique to the South of France with him. They, have 15-dity "honeyinoon. Then, more or less unperturbed, he goes back to his wife. He doesn't telephone Dominique for some aya
That is when she realises that she is in love with him
The effect
{T"
And
HEN be announeta that he is That is going to Amerien. when she tells him that she is in love with him.
Now why is this story going to sell even more than "Bon- jour Tristez?"
Portly, of course, beenuse 11, too, is "naughty. Very few English people will contemplate the idea of a giri of 17 going away with a man of 50 withoul
shock of horror.
Then there is the qually of Francolse Sagan herself, the teenage wrlier who knows l about the pitiful simplicity of the teenage heart and mind.
her Dominique,
heroluc, * bored, bored by people of her She hates faces thos own age. have no lines on thein She i
thrilled, fascinated,
by The attention of her elders.
Francoise Sugan's work ro. minds me so much of Colette. And the greatest of Colette'r novels was "Cheri," the story of a young man completely des- troyed
women by an older Well, here Is "Cheri" again, the girl almost story of a young dealroyed by an elder man. But not quite. not quite.
There's only one thing. Johns Murray, her English pubilshers, have not yet decided upon « title Can you think of one better than "A Certain Smile?"
FRANCOIS SAGAN
I found the trial scenes, the senes in Germany, brilliantly done and deeply disturbing. But
even
Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN... by Walter
PARADE
mournful
of the
FOGHORNS The
sound TO GO
foghorn may dis appear from Britain's coasts and bo replaced by loudspeakers which will give warning in much more musical tonds,
A COLUMN OF THE UNUSUAL ABOUT PEOPLE AND PLACES AND THINGS
order, exploded in the kitchen f a farm house and seriously injured an Austrian girl.
Theresla Kein, aged 18, had found the half-deflated balloon- one of thousands released by the "Crusade for Free- American
The General was saved one headache-he did not have to
Ice alve orders in Icelandic..
no army, and the land has Reykjavik government agreed to let French Republican Guards So the orders
Experiments have been car- Mr Raymond's artistry Ined out al Falmouth and are dom" Committee with leaflets hoist their flag. can't convince me that traitors now being made at Dungeness, for Hungary and Czechoslovakia grow in bar parlours in Balham Kent, with "line source loud in a field near the farm.
the
being in no reason except that their speakers of type for
Intending to use its silk for mums spoil them and their dads sialled at Broadmoor as a new filt
to get them to Sunday escape warning system.
In- petticoats, she dragged it into School
of radiating sound all the kitchen and started to rip it The escaping gus.cx- round, vertically and horizont- open.
There are thousands of boys
growing up like this today. Yet bet you five but they don't turn out like William Marshall, Joliti would
Amery. Burgess, To
Maclean. love "Yes," he
She weeps
He says he
give anything
1 she demands,
says, and asks her pardon
Autor-car
And when he comes back from America (she sees him in his In the street and knows that he back, pour kid) As he doesn't telephone again. these days go by she begins to stop loving him.
When he does telephone she is listening to Mozart,
"How are you?" he says and, "Wil you have a drink to- morrow?" and she says yes. And when she gels back she is vaguely
that she vexed
has end of the Mozam mised the andinte that "has the somo effect upon her always as dawn, or death, or A certain way of smiling.
Quality
man.
CHE goes up to her room and looks At herself in the mirror. Well she says to her- #elf, have loved o
1 "That's nothing to make faces about really. But for her it death of the spirit is a little because, you see, she no longer loved the man
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Guilty Fascist
TREACHERY
moment
big
is The fictional subjžel At th+- Last week we had Llewellyn dubbing This week we have moving attempt by Raymond.
Mr Richard away at it.
a far more Mr Ernest
Ernest Raymond's most rend- LORD OF abie novel, THE WENSLEY (Cassell, 15/-), tells the cautionary tale of Michael Townes, a young Fascist, who went to Germany and broadcast against us, ke Lord Haw-How, and then pleaded guilly to charge of high treason.
was
n
the Michael Townes adored agin-the-Government Bon of a publican (his pub is called The Lord of Wensley, hence the tille of the book) in Balham, His mother spoiled him, his sixter
F115 worshipped him. father, a hot-headed and belll- could never come gerent man, to terms with him.
Michael Townes, spolled, dignified, wrong-beaded, intense, sentimental, hangs beenuse he is determined to plead guilty.
P
QUICK FLIPS
THE FLIGHT FROM THE ENCHANTER, Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Windus, 15.). Difficult. "curious,"
but muddled in many places brilliantly writ ten story about Mischa Fox "the enchanter" and his effect on lots encan of people. People like Annette (who swung on the chandelier before she left her finishing school). Rosa (who loves two Polish brothers simultaneously) Miss Murdoch is and others, the coming writer....but just the same 1 wouldn't recommend this book to my maiden aunt in West Hartlepool,
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• BACK AND THE HEAVEN- LY CHOIR, Johannes Ruber (Rupert Hari-Davis, 12s. 6d.). Charming fable about a Pope who plays Bach like a master and would like him canonised, This causes fearful ecclesiastical Also ales, the consternation Pope is rather 1. Will he stay alive until he has achieved his heart's desire?
Off Duty
stead
were given In French,
Britain was represented by four Grenadier Guardsmen in full ceremonial drem,
With Gen, Gruenther, at the base wete NATO Lord Ismay Secretary-General
French Pranier Quy
an ordinary siren or ploded, shattering the kitchen saluting yo horn does, these loudspeakers and badly burning Therealo. send it out in certain selected
There was not even enough dirvelion
left of *ኔነቱ
the balloon to The
bandage the injured girl.
the "fogspeakers," like Broadmoor system, will be used to keep the sound just above Experts ground or tea level,
the loudspeaker estimate that
ystem is about thirty times as metent as the normal tog horn.
ten
and
Mollet.
Air
WDTC
of ot
The four German Air Force German the West men from
Force Training Company feld-grey uniforms and arrived EARLY Spring
American-style sicel helmets, 100 carly in SPRING hours
This Canada
With year.
olher detachments tho new Wehrmacht Astronomer John Heard, who calculates the seasons for the FontalLebleau and Dusseldorf, Canadian Almanac, adimitted it the Germans were talding part
While he was SANDWICHES Moscow
in their first milltary dress was all his fault. reckoning IN MOSCOW opened
what hour parade since the end of the up Arst English- reck
would arrive And there on precisely Spring style tea room,
he added five hours to Green- the
stands the
He should
Jacnu
has ita
word
at
"sandwiches." The Russian wich Mean Time.
same
charac-
SHAPE Suprem
language has no exact transla- have taken them away. tion for the word. 80 the
is using the restaurant word spelt in Russian ters
PARADE Sold 11 emigre: "NO IN PARIS Commander Russians would know what sandwich looks like. They just ther barked don't have them. They should be quite a
to Mus- covites."
and On offer-fish, sausage egg sandwiches.
surprise
Gen- cral Alfred Gruen-
orders in
eleven
wor.
And they were
marching the with British
for troops Arst Jime
1902-whe since British and German troops quelled the Boxer Rebellion in Peking.
langusgts at a parade of NATO WEDDING There will be no troops last week. The General WARNING Grace Kelly dolls, Grace Kelly stayed up most of the previous
dresses, Grace Kelly night listening to recordings of wedding
hairdos. There will be no the orders to "stand by your
Rainier sult styles, flags in the oleven NATO las Prince guages. He memorised them all Prince Ralaler medal, or Prince tics. Offenders who Rainier and
word-perfect on
make capital of the wedding of parade.
Grace and her Prince will be The occasion was a flag hoial- prosecuted, by order. balloon which lunded premature Ing ceremony
SHAPE's Austria, near the Czech seventh anniversary. ly in
An
"Crusade
American FREEDOM
for EXPLOSION Freedon leaflet
was
on
BY HARRY WEINERT
"HEY /~~ "THIS SHIRT AIN'T MENDED! WASSA MATTER~
HUH?
John Edward Sheridan, the ecicbrated couple's Pilladelphia lawyer, gave this warning in a newspaper advertisement:
It said: "Any use of the name of Grace Kelly, Prince Rainier the Third or their Scals, either directly or indirectly, for com- mercial
purposes, or to further the sale of merchandise or other
items, without the prior authority of the undersigned, is prohibit- ed, and any violation therefore shall be vigorously prosecuted."
BREACH Spanish police arrested. 32-year-old MAN
busincaman just as he was about to say "I do" at his wedding. They accused him of breach of promise to ten girls within the last twelve months. He is also accused of obtaining over £20,000 from his
pros- pective father-in-laws, after telling them he wanted the money to set up home.
But from the girl he, nnálly married he asked nothing.
THE NIGHT WATCHMAN SITS DOWN TO A HEARTY BREAKFAST AFTER A GOOD NIGHTS SLEEP.
WE CAN EVEN
ENJOY OUR
DENTIST'S JOKES
-WHEN HE'S
OFF DUTY, THAT IS.
IF A GIRL FEELS
ITS HER DUTY
TO HERSELF AND TO SOCIETY TO LOOK YOUNG-SHE DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME OFF-
IT REQUIRES CONSTANT · APPLICATION.
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COR, 1956 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP TM WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
THE VELVET VOICED TV ANNOUNCER CAN
RELAX AND TALK NATURALLY.
THE PESSIMIST TAKES A MINUTE
OFF AND ENJOYS A HEARTY LAUGH.
COMICS
IN TWO A 23-your – oki ARMIES Barnsley man, Donald Quest, of Creswell Street Pógmour, has arrived back in the town alter completing two spells" of Na- tional Bervice. After serving with the British Army in Hong- kung he was demobilised and to America to neo, his stater. There, he was called up again.
wenb
By a coincidence, Donald served in both armies with; the same man. He is Alex Hamil- ton, 25-year-old mechanic from Whitburn, near Glasgow.
Donald commented: We served together in Hongkong and I was amazed when I went for my medical examination for the American Army and found Alee had been called up too
Visitors to the United States on immigration visas uro table to call-up betwem the ages"of 18 and 20.
THE WOMAN'S CLUB LECTURER AND CULTURAL GUIDE
HAS A SESSION AT HIS OWN, CLUB,
THE THEATRE BOX OFFICE'MAN CAN THROW OFF HIS PROFESSIONAL AIR
AND BE CIVIL....:
THE HIGH-FASHION MODEL DOFFS HER DUDS AND CRAWLS INTO SOMETHING
120-YEAR Among the "Easter bonnela?! this year, BONNET
was one last worn
in' 1836. It redppeared in an "Easter bonnet" competition at Morecambe on the head of Mrs M. C. Hatswell bl. Great Horton, Bradford, and won a special prize
It had belonged to her great-great-grandmother
The black velvet and w bonnes trimmed" with
not and ostriefs featberg BAL own among the modern and Juliet caps word" by others contestanta.
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