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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1958.

CYRIL STAPLETON:

Column

Bing drops a line

Mankind by Maugham: The Children Who Take it or leave it...

By GEORGE Malcolm thomSON

POINTS OF VIEW. By W. Somerset Maugham, Helnomann.

215.

me o

IN this brittle business of singing popular songs, IN

where reputations are made overnight and are smashed as easily as the records they are built on, one man stays right up there at the top. He is the undisputed king of them all, the man who is imitated and hero-worshipped by a regular fan club of stars, the very prototype of every amateur bathroom baritone--Bing Crosby.

N the last lap, the runner seems to be tiring. In his proclaimed ultimate book, Maugham exhibits not.indeed carelessness--but the take- it-or-leave-it negligence of an author who has, long since, earned his right to a hearing.

The customary terseness of his style, corresponding to the atringency of his temperamont, hardens into a mannered and eurt monotony:

outs whom I have to the sex-life. They shared him. Not much, I suppose. They had become a

had few redeeming traits. Their like

Ierocious. was

n woman

Ilving (latest speelmen, American

supplies it.

culture Mrs

*.vorica from bad

1950)

Burt

Bore The

Crusader Cross

Do not expect to read a finer piece of history

The quality of the verza fiction in 1958 than THE to awful.DEVIL'S CROSS by Walter Their Inspiration Is distant | O'Mearu (Hodder, 156.), n memories of older ballnds and novel based on one of the

The

echoes of revival hymns. atrangest and most tragic

theme is maastonous:

An awful story you shall hear, make your blood run Twi

cold. Sometimes.

emouonni effect

was intended:

however,

is not

Three times she called

Henry!"

episodes in history the Children's Crusade.

1212

In AD the

what

"Dear

M

'I don't know what the reader about the dispositions which

Then sank into a swanon. think

thele of these three the onenorts made for will

P inta-

He gazed on her indiferently. And in allence left the room. best of my ability described to trese, Maria, an ex-tart who

000 midwife. "Men

ofter song written strike in 1002, seems to deserve with

a pince In ttle duen-

the repertoire of Socialist gatherings:

Its touching last Hng runs: "Faiher toas killed by the Pinkerton men."

This collection is curious and rather thou diverting. social poetle in its interest. It nuly be glanced at by those who are not specialists In the sub- ject.

Crosby wrote to me last week to say that he and his new you wife Kathryn may visit England in the spring.

"Haven't !267) dong any recording to jak of," writes Bing, with the complacency at a man who could afford to under- write o National Debt Just an album with Rosic Clooney.

"It's called Fancy Meeting You Here--a musical tour. Turo- ed out rather well, I thought, with some highly interesting and Bivsing arrangements by Billy May."

Bling also tells one that the TV show he did with Dean Martin and Patti Page recently was telerecorded and may be shown British screens shortly.

WE are in for the annual bar. Including

hit

songs

ruge of Christmas Trying us produer with the appropriate alt:- phere is ille attempting to hit the moon with a toy Sputnik.

But say what you like about Tin Pan Alley-it never gives up trying. Since the fantasti

Belafonte's of Harry Success "Mary's Boy Child" last year

unpreconted case of genuiné Christmas anthem con- quering the Pop Parade - re- the 7.50 Bgious themes will be

majority. 9.00

There are four new offerings 4.50 from Delafonte in E.P. form,

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un

un

"Silent Night" and of Mury" - and "The Sen plenty more on the way.

In their diaries which they published. the thin

Goncourts were

us Beed egoism

They little culture and prejudices. tion." were riddled with They were monstrously touchy " And so on.

The subject-matter of last book of essays? What do studiously uncharitable to their

think!

friends. Humanity. The

This unpleasing tealt endearing oddity

Jules Renard, of men and they share with"

author of the women.

novel Foil da which a famous Even when ho writes about Carotte, from

It is hart to The Short Story-on which be im was made. has a great deal to say that is like Renard. sensibic rather than profound- It 19 about human beings Maugham Нелгу James. Katherine Mansfield.

When his mother died. that answered a letter of condolence

1 really writing: thus: "I thank you for your Kipling. cordial note, As

On diarists

сая you Imagine the burlesque side of this burdnery hasn't escaped me."

The third of Maugham's Leautnud, loved Good men exist, it cannot be diarists. Paul denied. Chekhov, for example, his mother all too passionately. Why are Christmaa luts treating his patients without 1 don't kiss you like a mother," care? Because the ancient tee, slaving to provide for his he said, When he printed the family Maughan facts the pubile was scandailsed, festivities don't lend themselves ungrateful

puts the facts down on paper to novelty angles.

In describing these interest- and hardly any with no fuss

but unattractive Bgures. motion. Goodness is, after all, ing

at his ease. only another of the oddities of Maugham is much

They do not disappoint one who the human race.

has never expected much mankind.

of

Landa Express Service).

THE TOP SIX;

WHAT LONDON

IS READING

THE two

top books in the Evening Standard list were

runaway best- sellers In London last weck's Previous week. positions in brackets; novels marked with an asterisk.

1-Dr Zhivago". Pasternak (1).

2~~The

That's why Crosby's "Whate Christos remains the biggest hit of all time. It has earned

Saiptiness. A rare pheno. severni golden records and still

inenon. Maugham met a Saint seits steadily rear by year.

Belafonte is obviously hoping India in 1930 and makes him

Antarctica will repeat itself. the subject of an essay. Almost that history

incidents miraculous Child" is being "Mary's Boy

scribed with

grave detach- reissued.

ment, There are inexplicable things in life which it woul be unciviilsed to scoff at

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

• It had to happen, of course. There are now so many trends in pop music that the recording companies are getting them mixed. New release in the States is "Rock 'n' Roil Cha-Cha.”

Another, "Tom Dooley" by the Kingston Trio, now on issue over here, is described as Hawaiian with a calypso flavour.

Now it only remains for someone to record "The Skiffle Rock Kwela Calyso Mambo Cha-Cha."

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

OUR ADVICE IS TO WAIT UNTIL THE

LAST LEAF IS BLOWN ON TO A NEIGHBOR'S LAWN - HAVE PATIENCE,

ALL YOU NEED

IS A PIT TO

BURY THE

LEAVES IN-

ABOUT SEVEN

FEET BY SIX

AND TWO

DEEP-

FEET

NEIGHBORLY ADVICE—AND WHATE [MORE, HE'LL LOAN YOU THE SHOVEL.

AH-I SEE THE AUTUMN LEAVES ARE FALLING!*

NO KIDDING/.

are

May.

Maugham's admirers however, expect more from this than it offers farewell volume

them.

In verso

Maugham Is morc at case, AMERICAN MURDER however, when dealing With BALLADS, By Olive Woodley less daunting personages, such Burt Oxford University Press. ng the three French diaristy 88s. 6d. whose characters he depicts in

the lust essay of all,

Plainly he enjoys writing

satisfaction of the

the absurd snobbery

is surprising that a benign

of old lady should be the com- and self- plier of this book. But Mrs Goncourt Hurt, brought up among the Brothers. "I am a well-born Suinis in Salt Lake City. hila inan of letters," wrote one of been interested in murder thern, "and the mob have for ballads from curly childhood. me the attractiveness of ut:- known and undiscovered races. some-

There was, however, thing decidedly

Falling Leaves

down-to-earth

There was room for a collee- tion of the riper fruits from

of popular and

that branch

Borla

Crossing of Bir V. Fuchs and Sir B. II.

-Elizabeth the Great, Elizabeth Jenkins (4).

Our Man Начела, Graham Greene (3).

5- King George

VI,

J. W. Wheeler-Bennett (2).

B-Position at Noon', Erie Linklater.

the co- Compiled with operation of Arms and NAVY Stores Bumpus. Foules, Harrods Hatchards Selfridges W. H. Sirith and Son and The Times Bookshop.

-London Express Service).

By Harry Weinert

BY THE TIME

SHE APPEARS ON THE SCENE ATTIRED IN WHAT

SHE CONSIDERS THE

APPROPRIATE

LEAF RAKING RIG, ' THE JOB IS PRACTICALLY

FINISHED.

THAT LOOK IN THE NEIGHBOR'S BLOODSHOT EYES MEANS ONLY ONE THING YOU MIGHT" HAVE WAITED UNTIL THE WIND BLEW THE SMOKE TOWARD

SOMEONE ELSE.

ET GENERAL MATUKIS COWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

JUNIOR HAS POTATOES TO ROAST — THE PROBLEM

IS HOW TO

PREVENT HIM FROM BEING SMOKE-CURED LIKE A HAM OR HERRING.

"WHAT ARE THE LEAVES FROM YOUR TREE DOING IN MY YARD T

THAT'S THE ADVANTAGE ́OF LEAVING LEAVES TO THEIR OWN FATE.

AS THE LEAVES ARE BURNING YOU CAN WAK

POETIC AND

MEDITATE ON HOW YOU'RE WORKING UP.

A SWELL \ APPETITE.

peasant boy

12-year-old "

named Nicholas the steps

began to preach from

of Cologne Cathedral, Shelllý be announced that children could

succeed

Innocent where

adult Crusaders had failed-it

recapturing Jerusalem.

More than 30,000 childre followed the little hot-gospeltor. They never returned. The Pled Piper legend was all they left behind.

BATTLE-WEARY

Now, after expert research into the facts, author O'Meara has bulk the exching inla of Huuh do Gys.

amorous, Dalue-Woury knight, who laceO

the task

and of tracing bringing back one of the young

rusaders to her rich father.

と

dica,

He finds that with every milo of their juney children Saine, starving, formed plun robber bands. Some feli proy

the towns, A to bawds in

the wretched remnant reached

prepared seu, where merchants

to ship them na slaves to the Saracens, whom they had set

otal to conquer,

Such are the authentic £8. but see now

blenas O'Meara invem into touching fiction.

Onc

VAGUE SHAPES

Sir night

Hugh attacked by brigands in the forest darkness. Hut the blows on his mail are curiously feeble. Its norse breaks luuse, Sud- Peer- denly the ullack ceases. ing into the night Hugh secs vague shapes skipping ond senmpering away.

Then on the ground he finds one of his allockers trampled by the horse. Writes O'Mearu-

"Hc gazed

at the grey, streaked race of the dying boy. For the first time he nodced tau remnants of Crimson CIDES/ sewn to the filthy tatters of his Junte liugh reached out his hund and gently wok one of the He felt the boy's smail Angers tighten about his foreiger, coa child's might, and cling to it,"

,la's:ܐ

own

A New Face For Eve...

By Harold M. Harris STRANGERS IN MY BODY. By Evelyn Lancaster and James Poling. Secker. 18%.

*

THE fascinating story of

who vied for possession of a single body was told (and later timea) in The Three Faces of Eve (Secker, 188.).

The authors, Dr Thigpen and Dr Cleckley, found they had u trr-in-Die DELICI

Waite, a prim, painoic, tenso LAK-Wiic; Eve Black, frros- ponsible, pleasure loving, stumtish; and Jane, level-headed pus egocentris,

Finally, in a highly dramatic session the consulting room, a fourth personality, Evelyn, emerged. Sho Danished tilu othera lor good, married Earl Lancaster, a friend of June, and settled down to a contented married to.

The doctors were writing dis- passionately about 4 medical phenomenon. What was tho Buman run bċaina 17 What does it feel like to be only past- owner of your body?

I

CONFLICT

Unfortunately, Mrs Lancaster's ʊwn account gives un no inkling. It amounts to nothing more than #ro-hash of the carlier week-- and an oddiy condicting re-hash at that.

The most serious of the many Inconsistencles is that, according to Mrs Lancaster, it was not shë but Jane who married Earl Lan- canter. She herselt came into being only when the 'marriago was on the point of broaking up and Jano was attempting to commit suleide,

If there is a grain of truth in the entire story, Evelyn Lanche- ter must know when she took over the much disputed body and whether sho or jane married Earl. Yet on these key points her story la in direct conflict with the doctora" version, .. Her book has the paradoxical resull of casting doubt on thơ whole CAS. Perhaps it was naive of me ever to believo in 號

Mrs Lancaster has forced

na to join the sceptics."

=-(London Express furútch),,

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