1959-07-11 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIL," SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1959,

DISC PAGE detects a subtle new selling point for records-nothing to do with music!

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LIGHTHOUSE AT

THIS

LAGUNA

FINGERPRINT!

IF YOUR SON TURNED OUT. TO BE

THE THIEVING SORT YOU'D FEAR ITS TELL-TALE MESSAGE, ITS CERTAIN HEARTBREAK FOR YOUR FAMILY

MAIL BOOK PAGE... by GEORGE MILLAR

SMILING DAMNED VILLAIN,

by Rupert Croft-Cooke (Becket

& Warburg, 18.).

PAUL AXEL LUND,

Reading, wrong about Malaya and that meer he abominated. where he occupied B2-3, Oscar "our Ilves can only be saved by Wilde's cell, was "the best nick love." in England."

д

Miss

Chinese To

Ling, whom sho rescues, Finally, with a false passport, "terrorist" he left England un the hot bildes, and finally grooms into womanhood, the eless bun (the run), and he all-American

wife

"Don't Jays: I'm American,"

seems to be resigned, it restless, manager's

in his present billet, where ME.

for motor

THE ENDING

a Birmingham boy going six-and-eight (straight). who went so wrong one Sales of burglar alarms, sales, may say he never went and security locks

public resistance to Ling, who is beautiful, con- right, today runs a bar cars, also

with tinues to plot secrelly with the con-men, should increase

Immensely "Lerrorists," twelve feet by twelve in the sales of this

while all French- men on the plantation become the hot international readable book.

dangerously aware of her attrac- tions, port of Tangier.

The Malayan background

BOOKS IN

The walls are pasted with nowspaper cuttings descri- SHORT ing Lund's robberies and convictions.

If you order a whisky and listen the air will crackle

with the proprietor's patter

is competently painted.

on

This novel is written in unFrench manner, almost as an allegory. It can be consumed in a series of im O THE STRANGE DEATH OF visually

and there is CASTLEREAGH, by II. sequences, LORD Montgomery Hyde, ALF. (Ifeine- brilliant twist ending when the

On August 12, nauseatingly Bweet mann, 181.)

1822, the Foreign Secretary, who benefactress after 10 yenra of consistent not spoil it.

of brass-nucks (knuckle overwork had lost his reason,

American

... but I inust

dusters), tom (tomfoolery cut his throat and died. Was RITTER jewellery), tickles (thefts). Viscount

and Jack Ketches stretches),

"They done A

(woman) for 4

Castlereagh, second

Marquis of Londonderry, the

(prison victim of blackmailers? Some WOP

will disagree with the Andings of this book. All will find it

mort readable. hundred

• CHILDREN OF THE

nicker," Lund may re- ALBATROSS, by Anals Nin minisce. "I warned 'em (Peter Owen, 151.). A strangely built round- she'd conger. She did." dreamlike novel

Djuna, dancer in Paris, a Conger, from conger cel, women who demands from men means squeal.

lenderness rather then passion. Mr Croft-Cooke has set. A fasemating piece of writing tled in Tangier among his

dogs, flowers, and early BITTER

English watercolours. He

induced Lund, the unre- 'GIRL'

pentant scrowsman, to

come regularly for luncheon and there spill out his life story.

Lund was bom in E.sy Street. His father,

Scandinavian importer, leit £100,000 when he

EL

died recently. Not the cast IN

THE BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS, by

Amanda

Vall

(Becker & Warburg, 124. 8d.).

TILL THE DAY Robert Markel Warburg, 15.).

I DIE, (Becker

FRANK CANIZIO, who

de-

scribes himself as "a sawed- off Wop," a today 46, a year older than Paul Lund, the ex- crook mentioned earlier. This story of his. Jite, two-thirds of It lived in American gaols, cao with the greatest profit be read In conjunction with Lund's.

Born in a New York slurn, from the age of five Cantzio breathed The harsh air of orphanages and learned to hale his father. "I leaned over to

and took my father

a big

Ben-

IN "her" successful first novel healthy splt right into his face. terrible aspect of Lund's callous Vall described the determined attempted

"Love Me Little Amanda At 15. he was charged with

murder and dedication to Thievery and

schoolgirls tenced to three years in a boys' he bas efforts of American

to find love. In this book

the prison. Released, but with same girls, now at a New Eng- record, he was wrongly charged According to these confessious lend college, find 1. In Eendly's with a hold-up and brutally

trickery 迪 the pain

caused his family.

he stole from his mother at the case-she is the central charac sentenced to 15 years with hard

age of eight, and before he was terits sourness has n moral labour.

12 was screwing (burgling) significance.

neighbours' houses in Wake

However,

'Green Road, Moseley, Birming ham. He stole, because he led character,

dis-

He studied law until he the wrking in in "covered the legal flow in his sophisticated, and own conviction. Il. He was a strong and vicious very lively. Amy, aged 10, and Aghter.

CROOKED.

After

he

had

in love with the fletion-writing teacher,

murmurs:

Aller bitter disappointments, "After all, he managed to petition the there's more to life than Supreme Court and entirely by marriage,"

his own efforts secured his own acquittal.

"Lord, I hope to Emily-

attacked replies. "When one thinks of This is a great story, Canirio, master at the Junior of Solihult one's parents jt is to be now married and in California, Grammar School he was a cadet appalled." for the Merchant Service, which further toughened him.

told in tapo recordings, and Mr Markel has moulded li into "Amanda Vall is the pen an astoundingly vivid book. When he was 14 he half- name of an entirely masculine killed a bigger boy with his Greenwich Village writer, Mr dats and his foot. The Juvenile Warren Miller, aged 34. I find Court; £10 fine; a year's pro- his giris genuine and attractive, bation. Then he went to seu though fashionably bitter.

in the four-masted, squaro,

rigged Herzogin Ceelite.

A long spell of Army service BITTER

in India followed. In a way he

was a good sekiler, but he was RICE

always crooked. The war came,

and for him & ́was only "a pro-

per mug's paradise."

He made money. He sold Itallar pistols to the Americans, wold stolen brandy to the Aus trallang, and while running coolhouse at Abasia

and

a

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Fierre Daulle, frans- itted by Eichas Howard (Becker Warburg, Ha, ed.).

1

*****

Barracks, Cairo, pocketed a dishonest £80 a week.A KOCHAINELEE M1 and du

After the war he ballemed on our England of coupons

author of "The Bridge'on the River Kwai" shortages,

Frequently the law, his hated. VEEL VAN enemy, nabbed him. But, be claims it as a viatory that by rubber,

THE TRAVELS OF JAIMES HOFHEETERS. By Robert Lewis Taylor Macdonald 259.

THE Californian Gold rush of 1849 lured a strange, assori- ment of people across the American coaliment

In this long novel, buind ou thorough research, we follow the hazards of one little group as seen through the eyes of a small boy of fourteen,

Jalinle is a tough kid in the M. PIERRE BOULLE is the Huck Finn tradition, who sur- viver every imaginable sort of adventure, from falling of a paddle stearner into the Missouri The French manager of a to being captured by bandits north of and kidnapped by Indians. NA plantation

- Ho...aurvives "even" a-rascally; drunken old doctor of father

the age of 43 he had done fewer, Singapore has an American wife than eight years in price, Dart- who believes the British are all

love with RE

who is bull up by the author into rather too folksy o'chirac- ter for my taste.

-(London Express Service).

ND ENCOUNTER:

by ROBIN DOUGLAS-HOME

THESE EYE-CATCHING disc jackets all have one thing in common-and it's not the record inside!

America.

WI

COVETE on

from

Socompelling- this look at

a boy's island

ARTURO'S ISLAND. By Elsa Morante. Collins: 154. THIS novel, by the wife of the Italian novelist Moravia, has been awarded a high prize in Italy. One soon sees why.

A frat perhaps,

may When the boy is just reaching strike you as too literary and adolescence, the father turns up artificial. But it will not be one day from Naples with a long before the intensity of young wife, a poor bedraggled its vision and the vividness of little Neopallion girl, not much its description uf a young older thon Arturo. boy's mind will win and compel yeur attention.

a

I la the story of Arturo'a childhood and adolescence on a amall land off Naples, which houses a state prison. And a most unusual childhood it is.

father has inherited Hin

AL

large, old, rambling, utterly neglected house, and father and son live or rather camp there alone.

Restless.

You may have noticed. together with the approval of Those compelling, beauti- the record companies. fully printed long playing, deplore It. We have imported

Sald one recording man: sleeves tend nowadays not the trend because it saves costs

This father is a half-German, to have any connection with to use the summe

of romantie appearance, and which come

neurotie habits; some inner rest the music-apart from the albums

lessness is always driving/ him titles.

"But doesn't even help to Away from the island and bring It is an old technique in a

ing him back. When the It is on new deld;

woman appeal, this sell the records. Sometimes we he thinks nothing of going off time to get discs spinning. In chuck them out and

for months at a time leaving the America the "chresecake" cover own covers.

"We And Briush fans Uke child to live an entirely solitary has converted. dize bars into

pictures of the artists or bands Me. virtual glamour parlours,

in action." cover rivalling bookstalls for girls,

It is getting a hold in Britain too. But not, apparently, ol-

JACKYS DEARY

JACKY MENDELSOHN AGE 3/21⁄2

make our

So say I The music should

be good enough to sell itself.

-{London Express Service).-

Last night Mommy read me A Story called Re Little Red Riding Goods only it turned out to be A Fairy TAIL*

Thrown back on his vivid imagination, the boy roams the leland, swims and rails, and builds up his hero father into a precious legend.

*Which means Probally Didn'

Even HAPPen

Fiercely ¿catous at Brat. Arture soon sets that his father is really es indifferent to her as he is to him, and gradually hila suspicion of her turns to love.

It is the uncosy passion of adolescence, too proud to declare itselt, too strong to be stified, and excellently described and

dramatised.

But to complete the painful process of growing up. Arturo has finally to be disillusioned in his hero father, and this comes about in a very well worked climax when the boy discovers that there is now another rival : for his father's affection in a young convict from the pelson, and a successful rival, too.

Intensely wounding though It is, this discovery gives him just the shock he needs to push him out of his self-enclosed island existence intp the work outside that has to be faced.

1

RICHARD LISTER

-(London Express Service).

She was called This CAUSE SHE ALL Ways WORE A REd Coat which was Good for ・When SHE WENT Riping..

We

Except This Time SHE WAS WALKING SHELE SHE was walking in the Woods, SHE MET A was going to Visit her Grand Ma Who Was Talking Wolf who talked of asked Her Where she Sick in Bed With A bottle of wine & a WAS GOING So Little Red Riding Good Told Him Basket full of other GooDies

Wine

©1959, Kirg Forums Syklicate, the World rights Reserved.

WHEN THE WOLF got To The Grand MA'S HOUSE THE BUSTED down THE DOOD) garbled Her ALL UP

RAS

& what big. The BETTER TEETH YOU GOT ALSO

to chew you

WITH MY

Where You Soing

Then he PUT ON THE GRAND Ma's Night Gown & gor

into HER BED

[5-31)

I'm taking it

To My Grand MA WHOSE SICK

Finely Red Riding Good came in ONLY her Grand MA Looked real funny So She

SAid

OH What Big

GEARS YOU SOT Grand Ma.

the Wolf SAid

TO CLUTCH YOU

THE BETTER

with my Dear

So THEN RED BUT JUST THEN A MUNTER FOST ADD VICE Riding Good by & When He heard all That

saw it rEALLY screaming he came in for CHILDREN WAS THE Wolf Shot THE WOLF insteade So she Started

into Holler The Way GIRLS do ALL THE TIME

HELP

ANG

Before You Kiss

Your Grand Ma

BAN MAKE Sure You Look

at Her Teeth first

Your

Friend TACKY