1956-11-17 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1956.

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capitalised on the bushy beard gone grey, on the lines of his face which catch the shadows

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EMINGWAY is only 68. But he In already legendary Furthermore, Hemingway and the photogra- wling a book, a big book. He phers cont.ive to show him thaks it might be "the master

It is possible that

the as a legend-ok and grizzled pkee

VOPPASSION which began to and a little tired.

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but he is still willing to fight a tie under the pompous,

It was that experience which to Arms," proxtured “Farewell perhaps the most perfect indici- ment of wat in the language His wonder turned to disil- tusion amid the "hot generation" of Americans who gathered in Paris after the war. It was a since professional califusion. they ha

to Kone to Paris develop their disillusion

Hemogaway slukthed of them, they had nickelsen Of even an

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widely 2 that the Bas His nstur hm he died mil. countrymen are relieved at the hought that they will no longer have to face the language of the brothels at at them from the

the gu-touring the up and the cruel. Brazed pager

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THEY'RE WRONG

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He found beauty in Africa and recorded.

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gathered In Paria disown their heritage

Hemingway's drive HIS OWN HERO

By LES ARMOUR

the

writing

Ho's

big book thinks it might be "the masterpiece"

the

the

hero of "The Snows of Kilimanjaro,'

The two heroes are imtom- patible in print but, in life, y represent Ot.ly two facets of one personality.

When he hus strayed fron drawing himself, he hua usually falte l "Over the River and into the Trees" has as its hero dissolute colonel, diseased, brokers decaying utterly Hemingway

never that,

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he is driven from work by the visits of his innumerabic friends, he keeps up a steady pace.

Much of his timo la spent in revision, and much of his writ-

destined light paper basket. place n his make-up.

He is far 100 American to be convince that virtue without there can hard work.

for the waste- Dut sloth has nu

be

much of

and the hero became a carten NO ONE KNOWS

ture which nervei to make a political point. Unfortunately,

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lemingway's strong point. The NOR is he, as legend would have

Hemingway could have been the herd of "Old Man and the Sca

The book faltered only in that the range and delicacy of the old man's feelings were more consistent with the range and delicacy of a Hemingway thon with the probable range of a simple Cuban fisherman.

thi

it, a simple develee of the hook became fodder for the four letter word and the hairy- sutirists.

chested, he-man school of art. He reads voraciously, ranks es an export

and painting, possesses the passionate love of learning and devotion to truth which marks the true stelnr. Beyond that his curiosity renter far. Stacks of newspapers and cals are deliverò l' every

to hia

Cuben house everything from the New States. to the Taller. man and Nation His house overflows with books No one knows how many of

he

HARD WORK

THE book won him a Pulitzer these reads but he 14 Frize, an even, which invartably as well versed on the hocked Hemingway as much as latest murder bials as on the it pleased him. He had never latest twist ไก abstractions! experienced respectability and painting, as knowledgeable Mout sure that be the wars of the Romans ng gbotts wanted to.

the revolution in Spain.

he

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developed a passion for different place when bu Bghting, and "Death in the

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it 1608. Chicago xti!! hud language.

Le sed into the language as a satirical phrase, of air Kune!

Henungway had The West still however; for frontier town.

i empty, overtuine jt. The dramu paid out before

"The men mart against bull as artificial it produced *For Whom vast and 19mpting

J thing us the blasphemmis Bell Tolls." who lived in the Middle West an 1. evet, mara The men who disillusion of American intellec

Hemingway certainly Snw lived in the West, were simple tuls

likabelf

na the young American ad blunt, an their world was

ofessor the hero who dies simple and blunt, too,

not for some abstract cause, bui wasn't very

because it is the inevit- Part of

Simply able outcome of his struggle to Thereafter, he had himself was born of the jolt that come ire, almost certa.ny,

him win the First World

become a whole man. Heming- photographed surrounded by when he plunged into a

In the Spanish Civil way would not, in the end, have innumerable bottles Jet the Hemingway can still shout a

Iwer the Hemingway found "ared mu h who won the war, public should

think he might cigaret e out of a man's mouth war he did not understand and

got blown up serving a country what he was really looking for He cored only about the indivi- have gone too far. from a fuir distance He

**inen with a purpose, riving duals in it who found or lost game hunting in italy) he din not underst

Actually, despite legend, he not go big

the by shellfire from an army (the desperately ใบ beenuse

genuinely themselves in the process, be Africa last

drinks Uttle (ene or two before Austrian) which he was human. The grass

Part of his strength has come dinner) and he works hard. rains did not come,

Even that turned sour when from the fact that in his great He is always up was brown, and he did not want fighting for a reason that cluded

by 0.30 and The Communists took over the books he has always been a busy writing by 8 oclock. Ho So see it. But he will go back. him.

IL was like plunging into a holy war for their own ends He does not look in real life

own hero He was the young allows himself regular rests, turned it into a as old

hollow soldler who made his peace in which sometimes last as much photographers nightmure from which he could and the

mockery, have portrayed him. They have not emerge.

Before that, though, "Farewell to Arms,” He is also as a month or two but, unless

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did

War

nun.

EVE PERRICK. REPORTS

THE

SOCIAL

RISE

OF

THE

DRESS

MAKERS

A REVOLUTION

THE story of the social rise And the Begum, who is accus- tomed to a certain grandeur herself, of London's top photo was so impressed by Mr Hartnell's graphers was told, by me, z, of a pattern originally made bedroom curtains of rose-printed the other day. The golden for Beau Brummell, that she is bay- age of the model girls has ing them copled for her own little

on the

the hills above Canaca. been well and truly From Benu to Begun-not bad, chronicled. Now I'd like commented Mr Hartnell, telling me

of the incident. to put it on record And not bad for Mr Hartnell that the boys behind the who, having fixed up his new winter quarters (I'm taking rooms in whole high-fashion busi- Albany) is preparing to pop over ness (the Top-is it Ten to Monte Carlo for a day or two.

There he will stay in a handsome Twelve these days?) villa, a Mercedes Benz at his dis

*Rolls-Royce; both by courtesy of a friend-in a high place, naturally.

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selected by their host for brains or beauty or both.

Sir Hartley Shawcross and Lady Digby Morton guest list. Boyle are two "regular" on the

get

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In return, Digby and wife Phyllis themselves invited to the American Emabay in Rome to lunch with Mrs Clare Bootho Luce.

And his latest enterprise, the purchase of a buling site on an Island off Jamaica, makes Mr Morion Caribbean landowner. Life could not grender ba,

PATERSON

are not doing badly either, posal in caso he should miss his own scot, gets V.IP. treatment when-

AMIES

DONALD Paterson, . staunch

ever he travels back to his homeland. On a recent trip to show his wares at the Edinburgh Festival he stayed with Lord and Lady Wemy at their historie Gosford grade R Hardy Amies, the man most House, dined with the Dalkeithe

ODAY the men who make

the clothes that sell.

£100 around the

mark have also made the socially.

after

MR

Earl

about town among the native In fact, the private lives they lead couturiers, accompanied the

shop hours is every bit as and Countess of Harewood to a first introduce a traditionally Scottish elegant, as grand and as copensive night this week. -as their working backgrounds of solt-carpeted, crystal-lit Mayfair salons.

HARTNELL

R. Norman Harthell, the Queen's Adressmaker, din be expected to live right royalty, and does so,j).

An Invitation to the 'party: giver on Gold Cup Day on the lawns. of his stately home Lovet, Dene,

He is that he has tried to

flavour to his new, and noblo, way Mr Amies has acquaintance with of life, that one rough week over his wife the moors stalking whatever you'es the Queen's cousin and

than social, not professional (he supposed to stalk was more through does not "dress" "Lady Harewood) enough, t connections 'Dressmaker Amics is Now ho aatiles for summer also a patron of the opera, and such holidays, complete with wite, patronage, of course, leads to bring, children, cook, nanny, and car, in him into the Harewood intimate rented villa at madly smart Cap but muzic-minded, circle.

Martin for six glorious weeks every

DIGBY MORTON

ANGLO-AMERICAN relations (red near Ascottin that section of the ciprocal hospitality section) are

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** It seems a pity 4 that Mr Pete Russell, one time drezamalotr

the Duchèng of Glducorti, before he sold his business to Michael of Lachame (who, incidentally,

Thames Valley where, us Princess in the capable hands of Mr Digby Body of title, the wife of air Brinti. Margaret implied to a Misa Marlyn) Morion. His premises, off Berkeley: Mountain, kila kila publicity: Monroe at the Royal Füm Show at Square, are used as a malon in both, ment jy did not way week, all Uis bell people reside), is night last weeka datang

second in realioiking only to When the dress shows are over any lon

Tady year the entertained there he parties begin Visling Americans

"all the drive dem the Ara, the Begum

the Aly, the Battina. Lord and Lad

top-nobythewspaper publishers

That being zo, about the only sure thing that can be predicted of his new novel is that, if it really is the masterpiece, the hero will be Ernest Hemingway, (COPYRIGHT)

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