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RECORDS by PATRICK GRAY

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1957.

WONDERFUL, SAYS

MISS

ÆR HARRY CLAFF, the man who married Joan two months ago,

REGAN

will be an Interesting inckient forget that the day would come when and where anyone docs," when I would have to give up Miss Renald) live

was in Skicup villa. doting attendance, is all

new husbands are expected He is super"

to be.

It was Mr Claff who oprned the drink, offered round the cigarettes and Then fit them.

the door. served

Miss Joan Reign, the woman who married Hurry, said: "And he is wonderful

when he has 10 do his share of the household chores. No, he doesn't actually clean out the fireplaces. But I expect he would do if we didn't have home help. Oh, 's wonderful to have a man about the house again,"

Unhappy one

You may recall that the last man Mas Regan, had about the house was

Richard Howell.

American paratrooper,

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Mr

former il

As marriages go this was a Mr particularly unhappy one. ifowell chose to tive in America and Miss Regon in Britain.

A reconciliation was attempted i with all the modesty of a three- ring circus, Parted from each i other for three years Miss Re- Kun

singing.

When that will be the sole

The case that THE

shook Rome

BOOK

PAGE

Is the doctor's formula getting a little run-down?

ALL ROME TREMBLED.

12s. 6d. 239 pogas. LL Rome gossiped, as it has done for 20 centuries, A

and for once-as happens every 50 years or happens Harry so it had something to gossip about. On April 11, earning power 1958, the dend, half-naked body of a good-looking girl, in the family, And things will Wilma Montesi, daughter of a carpenter, was found on a 1 tok Miss Regin that it had Joan Regan's Intest contribu- beach near the city. The local police, without waiting often been sold that marriages tion to recorded entertainment for a post-mortem, registered a suicide.

wite which the

caris 4 is Seven and a Half Cents Exersa of her (Decca F10934), a number from lary in in husband's wire more likely to The Pajama Game sung by her E on the socks than the more to the necompaniment of Max conventional unions,

Bygraves.

By Melton 5. Davis. Barelo, advice on such a subject-which reema doubtful-here they with And it in a humane, palaluble form.

even themselves out."

be

.Next day, the special pollee announced that the girl had die by Beeldent. Whte paddling, the

by George Malcolm Thomson

Evening Standard Book Criti

THE SLEDGE' PATROL.

By

David Howarth. Collins. 15s. 255 pages.

N

by RICHARD

LISTER

the

Ho falls his exc. through mistaking a cherry alone impac-" ted on an appendix for an orange pip impacted on a paro-. tid duct, So he becomes neestant to a G.P. In a Now Town north of London, and does a little amateur psycho-analysis which all but lands him in a breach of promise,

When his principal cups his the Groenland cost, in unfamilier theme followe 1042, German stora estab- pattern of ita predecessors. dise young Dr Gordon takes in fished a weather-report station. Here is young Dr Gordon still his friend Grimsdyke is а They had wenpurs but no dogs. at St Swithin's st swelling Iccun. This is the slapstick Danes. Norwegians, Eskimus for the Primary of the Royal sequence,

opposed thein with dogs but College of Surgeons. Here he is ordering a new Bentley ("off without mcdern Brearms, A feeling terçib- grange war develops--growing ly #1 'ard atinger Ln the brotherhood of the Arelle sserts itself ameng them. On i; David Howarty has founded a deeply interesting and often moving book.

had been carried away by a cur- Me Claff quickly served an- Also put on record by Misset. The post-mortem con- Armed this theory-and placed oftier round of drinks and Regna (but Roi due to

hours the time of death 18 Miss Regan said: "We know, released mül November) is

earlier than did the doctor who That is a problem that almost Love Me To Picces,

Best examined the body. In fact, It is a fender little piece that the usual medical symptoms nf stopped us from marrying in the

We inlled about it should, in view of the afore drowning were absent. Brat place.

chief of the Roman 12ce, night after night and then fold mentioned circumstances,

A resigned. Forcion Minister SIGMUND FREUD: The each other, that we must not dedicated to Mr Harry Claft.

Wilma's fance, a policeman piccioni offered to reign. cried out in the morgue: "They

courts were guarded Uke tave killed, the filthy

fortresses. The government murderers!"

tattered.

froma New In to London Blackpon!, and Mr Howell w in from America.

A British Crossword Puzzle

10

42

17

19

Through

wife's

Prens

A

"I Intend

over again.

wao my wife al i don't know

ugent Mr Howell told reporters:

how to court her, who does?"

As reconciliations go this out

was a flop.

It ended in divorce.

Now all the world and Mr Howe know who could (and did) woo and win) Ms Re-

Kan.

I called on Miss Regan and Mr Claff, a dapper young man with a red carnation In his buttonhole und the job of managing the booking office of the West End theatre where Miss Regan is currently -Employed.

I said I wanted to know how: Mr Claff was working out as a stepfather

Miss lo

Regan's children Russell (7) and Deniel (10) and was fold that accord- ing to the children "Daddy is because he takes us to football matches on Saturday."

The Claffs "No one has yet; called us the Regans, and there!

super

125

ACROSS

1 AB together, new, ing (ú), 4 Eet incur gutt (5).

* Pass dar troopa, prihaps 101.

Pungent bud ..

The baptismal hype? (4).

Give away point? 471,

8

13

14

DOWN

1 Pat Inte cipher t

2 Cchne, of receiver:7 1351.

3 Like a duckling? +4).

5 Fastidious and fur from

be

robust Gale-cris in a hostle way (1 Fieruns have them 15).

is what to look for in Lebanon? 15). 11 Set of apartments (8).

Put down 14).

12 Wits day, is done 14.

10 Went on strikes (51.

17 For the gare (8)

val the line (5).

13 Cont

14 Greatly appreciated 103.

16 Rure away from wica's merited in Piney at mure than one

(71.

31 American lake (4).

7 Composition for nine (51

Possibly happy teney

Not broward off? [31,

26 The middle-ayed may have it t

mant 16).

gentle

lek before you do this one! (4)

FRIDAYS CROSSWORD.-Arrow: Re-solved, a forsel, Saveloy, 11 Retainer, 12 Lev. 13 Unbar. 13 Sabin, 19 Oway, 22 Molested. 24 Martinet. 23 Stripe, 26 Comato.c. Bowen 1 Smart 2 Troth, 3 Resigas, 4 Elan. B Over, & Violet, 7 Drobi, in Venal, 14 Baron, 15 Rosette 10 Cosmic, 17 Antrim, 20 Aule. 21 Aditre. 22 Mint, 20 Less

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

'YOU THINK YOU ARE WAKING TO THE

SINGING OF BIRDS AND FIND ITS AN

· EARLY MORNING PAINTER WAISTLING

HIS MORNING SONG.

AS USUAL

THERE'S

MORE

TO THE

JOB

THAAI

THE

CONTRACT

CALLS FOR.

DON'T BE CRITICAL, WHAT'S

A LITTLE PAINT ON THE EGGS.

-AND RED FENDERS / “

So began, in mystery, the famous Montes Case. And so it all but ended, leaving behind no more than a faint bad smell on the air of Rome.

4

LAW

Drema had arrived.

Davis unfolds the devious, sordid story n ก too-bright Journalistic idem with real skilt in selection and narration. I the end, I felt bad at Just some idea of what the Montesi Case was all about,

But In bars propte talked. notebly Adriana Bisaccio member of Rome's bohemian circle, who said: "Wilma WER murdered, One of these days When the verdic was read Venice sumenne will pay." Names out in the Tribunal of began to be mentioned, retably four years after Wilma's death

Pleciont and Pero Piccioni, Jazz band leader and

Mortagna and son of the Italian Foreign were found not guilly, I knew

how the result had

been reached. I had some idea of its Judlein value-and why it was accepted by the public.

Minister.

In September, a inagazine

the printed

statement that Wilma had died at a drug party! with the connivance of high police officials, her body had

been tumbled into the sea.

Davis has, in short, dane on excellent job of exposition. This claim can hardly be made for Wayland Young, who in The Orgles, drugs, jazz, vice in

Montesi Scandal (Faber, 185.) high quarters Rome felt itself produces a blond sociological back in the monstrous days of fract, as if the main interest in Nero or the Borgias. The poor

Wilma's death was the Buodgates uf rumour and light it throws on Italian

came

sucding the authorities to hush the death up. The whole matter before the Judges, with results various and surprising. Government tottered

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. But, iter all, the chief point is that Wilma Montest was found dead and the nobody yet knows how she died. Those who wish to pursue the mystery had better begin with Melton Davis.

Last Phose. By Ernest Jones.

Hogarth Press. 35s. 536 pages.

the WED

running through

whole enta-

logue of elar-

ming disease?

Failing phoid, I sus.. pected glan-

pailta-

cosii Or

ders,

Jncipient cholera and

COMPLETION of a disciple's discovering i

life of his master, révolutionary

thinker

theory and transformed the practice of psychoanalysis.

ALL MY SINS. By Hans Habe. Harrap. 181. 400 pages,

TRE author of A Thousand Shell Fall has had a gay, adventurous life in love (tive wives). war (Sparka. Civil, Ethiopian, World 11). Hollywood and pelson comp. 1s nute biography is the quick-witted document that one would expect from an author who has come through so much.

DOCTOR

IN LOVE. By Richard Gordon, Michael Joseph. 12s. Gd. 188 pages.

<ne

with'. Grimsdyke

income tax, my dear old lad") and Indulging in some unethical- advertising. "His replacement is "WORK engaged by telegram: HARD BUT FUN, HOPE YOU DRINK BEER GORDON": "ARRIVING NOON. TO- MORROW STOP YES I DRINK DEEK BARRINGTON" But Barrington on arrival turns out to be female lady doctor, and we are on the last towards marriage,

lap

Consultations over microscopes and cardiographs lead up to the was Jaundice Richard Gordon engagement, and the climax is

of after all.

doyed only by problems Hospital'sed in or his house-hunting and will-making own wards he indulges in a and one of those improbably,

the night farelenl coy love affair with

eve of wedding nurse and 's outplayed by a quarrels. young colleague who has the Dr Gordon has found u zdvantage of being on his feet. successful formula, but I wonder But the nurse (and the Sister) it's not beginning to run dishes them both.

down. Of course, when we find "Woman," sigha Dr Geron's a good joke we like to stick to

one is getting bright and breezy young friend it, but this Grimsdyke. "A creature I once shade senile I were taken American Into consultation I should sug- raw described in an gynaecology book co 'A const gest that the patient now needs pater bi-ped with pain in the something, a good deal stronger Dr Gordon's dilution of back." There are lots of jokes thinn like that as we follow young Wodehouse-and-water. I should Gordon's early stages In the prescribe a strong shot In the medical profession.

erm of Invention.

FICTION SHELF

BY PHILIP OAKES.

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excusation were opened wide. temperament, politics ปอป

Ugo Montagna, a Marchese, judicial system. Young's readers THE medical students has long

VOLCANOES ABOVE the Francoise Sagan model, and

• THE suid to be the head of a dope will close the book almost

been a stock figure in Eng- ring, was named by a journalist confused

UB. By Norman Lewis, Cape, uy the low-own in the irital cbout the Case alish (and Scottish comedy.

How well we know him by 15. Sardonically-told adventure hablis of young America, as the man responsible for pers

story, now! Puffing his pipe in a

(bout s love-scarred when they opened It.

variety of terrible dlgs es he young Englishman who joins on .. TIME AND THE HOUR. By swols at his medical text-books; American-financed revolution in Howard Spring. Collins, 155. rowdy and raucous In Lagey Guatemala, tuwin back his Lung, gossipy chronicle about trousers thinking up his hideous coffee plantation, seized by the charector's already launched in

Jokes:

boyish and State. Violence made meaning we mather's prev.ous, noves practical

ful; characters ohd country awkward with calf-love for the

This instalment begins in Brad. pretty nurses; owlishly flunking sharply seen. An excellent novel furs in 1912, and has wrong

exam, until steered by a travel writer,

the once-bright young things in through at last by his gruff but distance lends disenchantment.

World London, Just before kindly elders. He is the hera (ir

War II. Rainer like a large box that is the word) of innumer-

• LOVE ME LITTLE. By or chocolates; habit takes you Anunda Vall. Becker and to the end.

Ап emancipated young wonian,

Anna Mala Caglio, called "The Black Swan," gave TO THE FAIR UNKNOWN. eviderce against Mostagna, her

By Andre Maurois. The former lover. Alida Vulli, the

Bodley Hood. 10s. 6d. for im star, gave evidence Piccioni, who

175 pages. had been called An assasin. Valli's memory" proved to be less durable than her beauty.

The

RITING these letters to an almost Imaginary woman, of Prince Maurois develops, with wit and passport Maurice of Hesse, a relation of no excess of illusion, a practical

was philosophy the Italian royal family,

of love and taken away from him, Pavone, behaviour. If women need

Painting And Papering

"MAYBE IF YOU HANG THE DRAPĖS

CROOKED NO ONE

WILL NOTICE ··

PEOPLE WHO CAN'T EVEN STICK A STAMP ON AN ENVELOPE SHOULDAY ATTEMPT

THE JOB.

9-22

COPR. 1957 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORY, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERYED,

JUST WHEN THE WORK IS, FINISHED TO PERFECTION, SOME ONE COMES ‘ALONG AND RESTS ON IT.

every

able farors, ms and humorous Bliort stories.

to whom

Warburg. 10 d. Very fur.ny novel (allegedly by a 10-year- old authoress) about the efforts by

• THE BIG WAR. By Anton

Hus he, as one might expect, changed at all with The coining

an American teenager, to Myrer. Hamish Hamilton, 18. of the National Health Service?

get to grips with nex" during The title tells you almost all Not very much, if we are to

the summer vacation. Entirely you need to know. The war is in trust Dr Gordon, the latest of whose variations on this not successful, both as a satire on the Pacific. The warriors-a newly-married veteran, a senal-

By Harry Weinert

ITS A MISTAKE TO HANG AROUND AND GET IN THE WAY — THE PAPERHANGER MAY OBEY HIS NATURAL IMPULSE AND

PASTE YOU TO THE WALL.

THE EASIEST I SAID A WAY IS TO PASTE 1 RAZOR BLADE!

THE PAPER

OVER LIGHT

SWITCHES -- ;

| ITS GETTING

IT OFF

LATER

THAT'S TOUGH.

"OH-BOY'I AM I GLAD I DONT

HAVE TO SLEEP IN THIS MESS TONIGHT"/

"OKAY GENIUS/

PLEASANT DREAMS

tive young poet, and a

a love-

that

▼

hungky Itamarate Marines, And the conclusion is

humanity. wins ...through, Decently-dene. but overlong and sadly familiar.

•

GIOVANNI'S ROOM. By James Baldwin, Michael Joseph, 15. Possibly the best, and cer- ainly the frankest, növel aboui homosexuality for many years,

Toid in the rat person by an American expatriate in Paris, who becomes involved with tá handsome barman, when the girl he cantiot quite decirlo to marry goes off to Spain, Tinged alightly with melodrama, but cleanly and capably written.

. THE ARTIFICIAL NIG- GER. By Flannery. O'Connor, Spearman. 138 6d. Ten stories by a young American willer, ull of them set in the moon- shine and hellfire reaches of the deep South. Rondom samples:

all-American family is butchered by a maniacal killer called The Misfit; a poor girl loses hcr artlocial leg to a Bible cálc:man ("One time I got a woman'a glass cyc this war" he said). Brillant, bale- | ful, and highly recommended,

• FURNISHED FOR MURDER. By Elizabeth Ferrars. Crime Club 10 ed. Double death in the Home Countles when 蕴 mysterious stranger moves into the, furnished cottage, offered to [let by a needy writer and his wife, Ingenious plot and ex cellent characterisation (especially the author, obsessed with lax troubles). Minor quibble: would' an alleged spinster attend a meeting of the Wives' Fellowship?

THE NAME IS SMITHIL By Erle North. Dobson. 118. 00. Undercover Treasury man, ormed with an automalle tucked In the false sole of his shoe, tangies with cheque forgers in and around Melbourne. Slap- dash, stylo ́ and over-tough⠀⠀at- titudes, with unfamiliar Aus- tralian

seitings as some com- pensation. B

THE MAN WITH 'YELLOW SHOES. By Anthony Ecokstal}- | Smilta · Winťate 12à, 64. 'Com- |munist plot to fabologe tho Suez Canal and start a holy war, | failed by aging «English"author, recruited to the ranks of M15. Splendid assortment of villains, | Including an Egyptian ¦¦ doctor with-a-s beautiful wife und depraved tartes,and: a cigar- smoking German financier iGood cloak and daggur stun,