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DID SCHULBERG

WATERFRONT. By Budd Schulborg. The Bodley

Hoad. 15s.

CHULBERG is like

Shakespeare. Shake- speare wrote the tim

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PART FOR MARLON BRANDO

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

Schulberg's writing may seem little tired now and then Remember this is his second time round the course.

Honesty Pays

"Jullua Caesar," Schulberg Mark Anthony talks too wrote the film "Water- much and Brando specialises front." Both contain rich in young men who brood, juvenile delinquent parts for eject an occasional word like

Brando a cherry stone and act in by the trade union leaders, both Marlon Brando. probably found that Schul- frequently but violently. brothers are murdered. Katie better Terry Malloy, Schulberg's Dayle goes back to her convent berg turned in the

hero, was a natural for him. school. Father Borry, whose job.

Terry keeps his sub-conscious checlence bar spoken 100 on near the surface he can, gudly, received an ecclesiastical Thoughts grope about in the reprimand. mind of this ex-pugilist

bowl of goldfish, in a коир.

Terry can grasp the iden that hir clever brotler, Charley the | Gent, a rising power in long- shoremen's local 447, would like him to invite Joey Boyle up on roof so that they can about racing pigeons. When Joey is thrown iroin the roof by two critics of his trade union policy--that is omething that continues to other Terry through most of tliks noval.

He dwells in

world which corrupt union battens York waterfront workers, blackmails the shipping lines, organises pffering, bribes the police and patronises church,

Inconvenient idealiels like foty Doyle are removed.

Schulberg junts this weasel Warren with careful dislike. This is a novel written by on who 15 well attforme rather than one who knows

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16 Fall from grace (5).

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

IT ALL STARTED

LONG AGO,

WHEN THE CARS

WERE OPEN

AND THE PEOPLE ENCLOSED.

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10 the compara

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New

The

future is called Ralph Hopkins, tycoon of United Broadcasting, who proposes that Tom should "help him" with speeches he is going to make in Inunching D mental health crusade.

aibility, that led him to write this nonsense':

The

largest space Press is and

in the to given murder rases, In-

popular divorce catering to the two basic atinets" (blood and sex).

Contrasts

A LEGACY. By Sybilla Bod-

ford.

Weldenfold and Nicolson. 15s. 368 pagon.

linked

How to handle a lycount Tom explains: "You make a tot of highly qualified contradictory staternels, and keep your eyen TT to the beginning of the een- tury. The Kaiser is on the on the man's face to see which unes please him

throne. In their ugly big house Inefted by his wife's contempt, in West Berlin live the Merzes, Ton tries honesty on Hopkins; an intensely self-centred Jewish And enormously

rich It pays. He is offered a big job, clan, which he refuses

by marriage (through a dead Merz girl) with the more acute test of honesty A

who faces Tum when he hears that Feldenn,

belong to the Maria

of Baden. with her (and his) sum Catholle nobility

He takes The contrasted spheres of the THE hero has been demoted. to starving in Rome.

the

ench so strange Once he

wife, who two families. news to his was a paratroop

ecem almost pre- answers bim first like a wife now as to officer dropping vengefully be- in

historic

its #n

oddity, are hind the enemy lines. Now he and then ke

Tom a rebred with a loving, sharp-

no eyed humour.

the

The cruel drama is visited by a gel avenger, Katle Doyle, come to look for her brother's tiles, to trouble Father Barry's coneiraty wilh the question, Was there ever a saint who hid 111 the church?" and to trouble Terry's heart.

It all romo to

bad, sad, logical end. Terry talka too much. When his brother fails

to bring him in for execution

THE MAN IN THE GREY FLANNEL SUIT. By Sloan Wilson. Cassal. 12s. 6d. 304 pages.

holds down a fair-sized job on

a big charitable trust. He lives with his wife and the children shabby little house within commuting range of New York. And he has just bought a new Frey fanel sult for business reasons) at $70 which be en- not afford. Hb name is Thomas R. RUL

Tom is not quite #fullure. He is hardly a success. He is just one of a masy of former heroes who have put on timidity with the neat flannel sults they wear for

Uushuess reasons. Then, alnost simultaneously, the future and the past clutch at Tom.

The past means the war and the war contained two blissful months in Rome with on talian girl, Maria,

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN

"

Cupido

The Stresistible

Scent

Clothes And The Car

NOW WHAT DO WE USE

AS OUR COUNTRY ESTATE —–—–

A MOTEL ?*

Cupido

Bee Leraristiko

Scent

woman,

The Inst page oces little further from failure; nearer

A Lump

deal success a good inore of an honest man.

Drama nags at the people In

of tearing BACH AND THE HEAVEN. this novel instead Bul upart.

story und them

LY CHOIR. By Johannes character-drawing add up to

Ruber. Rupert Hart-Davis. something thai berumes moving.

12s. 6d. Nonsense

REFLECTIONS ON HANG- ING. By Arthur Koestler, 6d. 193 Gollancz. 129. pages.

WOESTLER meant to write in

“a cool, detached manner,” but "Indignation and plly kept seeping in" Was it Indignation or pity, or only plain irrespon-

BY HARRY

10

FLYING SOUP

by Walter

ERE is

Hung

a winsome

Its dowy

mursel Cyt's

towards Hollywood, unless I am much mistaken.

it is religion with a lump in its throat and a smile Ou ils lips. It is slight and preity; no school of theological though nood be offended. The writing is elegant and whimsteal, as if Thornton Wilder, on a bad day. had agreed to collaborate with Ludwig Bemelmans.

It tells how Pope, living in own dime, Gregory XIX, has a general passion for music and a particular enthusiasm for playing the violin. One day ho conceives the idea of canonis- ing the composer he loves best, Johann Sebastian Bach,

WATCH

THE

WEINERT

CURVES

MAN WAITING WHILE HIS SPOUSE

CHANGES INTO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T CLASH WITH 'THE ·

UPHOLSTERY,

PARADE

ERNIE Nobel POLO

Prize winning author ("The Old Man and the Sea") Ernst Ilemingway has been offered the leading role ma modern film version of Marco Polo's adven- |tures. ►

Hemingway 13

to

supposed travel from Venice 10 Peking by

train, joep, plane and hel- copter unlike Polo who went by horse and came but fol- lowing the same route as the Venean explorer.

The film will cost several million dollars, not counting Hemingway's pay

And what would Ernest gal? Said the producer Dino de Lau- rentals: "We asked him to name his own figure. We are not going to be stingy about that." JUST A The pretty girl exer- DITE

cising her spaniel in tha Bydney park #hought a dog had bitten her when she felt something sắp her leg. But when she turnİKİ round she saw it was

who had bitten her. There ho was on his hands and knees on

the_gress.

"He had crawled up when I wasn't looking anch dug bla teeth in," said Miss Maria Pip-

poa.

And 27-year-old Barry William McKinnon was gaoled for A month for pasault.

Said ho

I did it,"

"I don't know why

man

i

DUMFRIES American fronts:1A– DAVY

Davy Crockett may not have been born "on a mountain top in Tennosacc." Major E. Crockett, of Bexhill, a 65-yeur- old retired British Army officer, says he often heard his mother speak about his great-grand- father's brother who want to America and whose name was David. He Was

born in Dumfriesshiro and Wag.

of

DA

опе

aur.

of

jive brothers, whom were sea captains. Major Crockett, who bollaves he may be the famous Davy, is `hlə great-grandnephew,

.

UNPAID Samoa's 30 COPS

police without men went

this month. pay £2400 payroll was stolen from a safe in Apia

Their

.

police station. The pay alcrk did as he was told after making up the pay packota-ho left the mate key in a satchel on top of the safe and the office key on a ledge over the doorway,

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NEW Mink cavlar, vodka LOOK and gildxe harps suced

the "new, look" Itussian stands at Milan's 30-ation-in- ternational fair. For the first time since Rusia, participated in this annual fair, no pictures of Boviet leaders were on show. There were luxury goods galor but no propaganda postera,

- THEN THERE WERE THE BEARCAT

BOYS AND GIRLS.

TO BE REAL SHARP. YOU SHOULD

HAVE THE PROPER ATTIRE

FOR ONE OF THOSE IMPORTED

CARS.

FORMAL WEAR IN THE HOT ROD LEAGUE.

A COUPLE OF DUNGAREE DOLLS AND

THEIR BOY FRIENDS JUST BEFORE THE TAKEOFF

IN THE GOOD OLD DAYS

SMART MOTORISTS WORE

ANY

OLD

TRING.

MUNITY

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