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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1959.

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

World's Most Prolific Author Of Whodunits

CREATOR OF IMMORTAL

''INSPECTOR

MAIGRET HAS DONE 500 `NOVELS

By RICHARD BERRY

At 6 am, precisely, a stocky, square-jawed author lights one of his 60 pipes and begins to peck at a typewriter with two fingers-rhythmically and without pause. Three hours later, with one chapter completed, he joins his wife for breakfast.

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It is am, and the day's work

over for Belgian-born Georges Simenon, the world's

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inost prollfe author of best- selling whodunits and the crea

g of the Immorial Inspector Maigret.

will eight

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This six-to-nine routine be exactly the same for to ten days depending on The number of chapters to his book -and shen wlil spend day or two revising his work.

Simenon has produced well over 500 novels and now writes six books

o year which are translated into 18 languages, sirlet But by keeping to this schedule he works for only three hours a day and for only twelve weeks a year.

contral character whom he is writing a book. "I literally act

him," he says. "The strain on my arrvous system is oppailing. I am simply not myself,'

In one book, for example, the central character was a drunk. Simation who drinks very little. at all when durafly not working. surprised his wite by drinking heavily.

He is often surly, aggressive, and very sitive- when writing. This time his mooxi was so difficult that some of his servants gave in their notice,

SIXTY PIPES

Belgian-born Georges Simenon

• BY THE • ¦ AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER

WAY

by Beachcomber

MAZDA

going

SKED how she

to vote, Mrs Rackstraw, 22, of 9, Oxbroth Crescent, who had alept for two nights outside the polling station, said, "Well, as I was first in the queue, I ought to be able to vote whatever way I Ilke*

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that?"

"And what was naked the reporter. "Look here,"

ropited the constituent, "If this

SYDNEY IS GOING ORIENTAL

Sydney (By Airmail).

is one of those Gollop polls, my¦ Another Waratah Festival ended last Saturday

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д

have it.

opinion in "I don't know." voice broke in "If this is Collip poll, you can

1 thought it was a bus queue." Hurt pride

"PUT an X against the candi-

date you ish to vote for, he said, so I said to him, I said. I suppose you think I can't write my own name. You'll be asking me to make my thumb- mark next, I wald. What with all this education, I said, and millions spent in schools, I said, where does it get you if a lot of politicians can't iniat Fou to write your own name? That's what I said to him." Three disgruntled voters

E said in his speech not "HE

to spoil our ballot papers, as though were going to scribble a lot of dirty limericks en them."

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we

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with a procession through Sydney's streets, the crowning of a Spring Queen and various other alleged items of festivities which lasted throughout a week.

This festival was brought into bring in 1958 by the Sydney City Council in a worthy offort Lo create some sort of yearly Interest in our parka and gar- dens and the coming of spring. but somehow the effort has just not_clicked.

able ingenuity and endea- youred to develop a re cognisable Australian character in their pro- grammes.

There is no doubt that the While the people of Europe type of TV we are getting in certainly in days, this country t can have their national ther folk dancing, their world class, both in programmes carnivals, confetti and the rest produced and in the type of of it, Sydney-siders need some picture being telecast,

that we can take thing more than just the name of a day before they let their great praise for this, because wo hair down.

were Inst into the national tele-

Not

any

were

concerned we still manage to get England and America,

The procession was extremely vision field and therefore well organised and some thou- able to select the best of equip sands of people, with wild ment. "He told me I was

As for us the programmes are the abandon, lined the procession wrong constituency,

said route, but galety was forced and constituencies be damned. I'm only the spending of thousands not voting for any old constitu- of pounds in public relations

I'm voting

managed to keep up a flagging member, es I've a perfect interest. right to do. Then 1 sald sar-

We just aren't built for wild castically, is this democracy, or

carnivals, without BORNE rea- in'i ? He turned

red. end Bonable cause, didn't know what to answer."

ency.

for

"I put my bit of paper in hla no. In no, hat, and he said,

Have it your the ballot book.

You ought

But at the end of every new 200 novels and was keeping six "extreme crucity, rudeness and own way. I said.

the

different publishers busy.

calls

his

book the fixed smile returns to the author's face. He is easy-

Now he could afford to oase going and soft-spoken again.

Simenon usually plans his up the pace and he began what A HERO IS BORN

"sori-literary" novels on his walks in the woods he

product wa In There would be nothing extra- and elds where he can escape phase. One

all worldly distractions. Then spector Maigret, around whom ordinary about this if he sacri- Aced quality for quantity. But

he carefully classifies nd his be wrote 20 books in two goars characters and decides on

the central and who became despite his machine-Uke outpu be maintains a high standard zittings for his scenes.

#igure of some 50 of his novels of authorship. Such a famous

Ther

only 000 xed and almost as famous as Sher. Cite as Anare Gide nas des- formul for

To lock Holmes. his novels: ribed him

While us perhaps the arrange matters no as to subject

concentrating greatest novelist in contem-

the utmost whodunits Simenon gained some iny characters th porary French literature. His possible strain."

practical experience of detective arden! admirers will argue

Before he starts a book, work. In 1934 he helped, the that he is the greatest novelist

Mme. Slusenon cleans every police in their investigation t in the world today.

one of his 60 pipes and has his the murder of M. Prines, judge typewriter overhauled. Then, of the Stavisky affair. as he churns out a chapter-a-

The newspapers gave

Simenon has such an amazing now technique that a fim is being made by director Jean-

St. John Ambulance Francois Houduroy to show how

Brigade

Free Ambulance Service for Emergency Accident Cases

Tal. Hong Kong '71111 Tel. Kowloon

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Simenon

hera comes into being. Cameramen have moved Into the author's chateau over- looking Lake Geneva and

Inattentiveness"—and was for

Pecretary. Now she merly his

and agent, is also his manager

with publishers in 24 dealing countries, oyndication, dim and television sales.

It is a full-time job being the business chief of the vast best-seller 'factory. Simenon His novels have sold more than 80,000,000 coples and earned fortunes in 32 currencies. Sane of his novels have been made into films.

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him

slay, who charres that he is much of the credit for the triple never disturbed or distracted arrest which followed-und the for two weeks. She takes police did not publicly challenge telephone calls. deals the stories which pruised with all his letters.

Simmon for solving the crime. Georgas Simenon, whose part of Simenon is being played books sell 3,000,000 coples

'REAL' WRITING by Simenon,

It will

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be

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the

interesting

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year, is the son of Liege in- surance man and a descendant

"I saw one once," says the Twinkle-eyed author. "It was so bad I whistled and they threw me out"

Simenon has written nearly 170 books under his own name

while hundreds of others have

been published under 16 pseudonyms. Even prolife Edgar Wallace was only credited with 150 novels at the time of his death. And Simenon is probably even more prolac than the older Duntas since he writes he every word himself and employe "real no hack man.

In 1935, Simenon entered his

phase,

. when to write

experiment, ince Simenon gels of a Breton soldier in Napoleon's third completely

army, He was 15 when his ondeavoured

in the form of Yet Georges Simenon is not father died and he was sent to literature"

the automatic writing novels. work

But the really as an errand boy in a psychological

machine that he appears to be. war interrupted his work and bookshop.

for two years he devoted all For he confesses: "To Write I His

he mother hoped that would become a pastry-cook. his energies to helping Belgian have to feel the urge"-Central

wha Instead, at the age of 16, he refugees joined the Gazette de Liege as Frutice during the first German

reporter. The next year he assault on their country. wrote his first novel "Au Pont des Arches," It sold 1,500 copies.

R.M.S. "CORFU”

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SAILS:

BAGGAGE:

Thousands

of

had

fted

Lo

Press

He now lives in Lausannt, i BIBLE THROUGHT Switzerland, with hle French- Canadian wife, Denise, and their

FOR TODAY three children-Johnny, nine. baby Marie-Georges, six, and

Eierre.

The Simenons are inseparable

were born in the

The Lord formed man of the dust of the ground. Genesis 2:7.

have

At 6.00 p.m. on 23rd October, 1959. magazine contained six of his

200 NOVELS AT 19 In those days he wrote at the Penang, rate of about 80 pages a day.

short stories, short novels, sketches, Westerns, nowadays. In 13 years of mar and even "spley stories rolled riage they have only twice been parted for more than 12 hours off his typewriter.

One novel, "Dancers of the at a time when their first two

childre

Humanity may Gal-Moulin" was churned out in United States. When Pierre was travelled a long road from 24 hours. One issue of a

born this year, Georges moved micro-organisms. The inic with his wife into a special re- short stories-all under different

served suite at the famous portant thing is not where names.

Montches clinic, Lausanne. we came from, but where married and

Dense is the author's second we are going. Within to Paris.

10% wife--the first, Regina, divorced years he had written more than him in Reno on the grounds of

Should be sent to Hongkong & Kowloon Wharf Co.'s Godown (No. 2 Gate) by 5.00 p.m. on 22nd October, 1959.

(SUBJECT TO ALTERATION)

RENCH-RESTAURANT

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RESTAURANT AND BAR

Member of Diners' Club.

Member of American Express Credit Plan. Member of Finders Service Ltd.

Members of Credit Card Facilities.

Reservation 26002

SRA QUEEN'S ROAD GENTRAL, HÓNG KONG.

At 19, Simenon moved

Press-Radio Bible Seroloe,

Ine Cincinnati, Ohio.

So fierce has been the out- cry against the penny increase in postal charges (from

4d. to 5d.) that even the Post Office is be- coming worried about the prospects of following

revenue,

Quite a my cit

number of business crganisations have threatened to group together and engage a messenger to deliver their city

to think yourself lucky I'm here at all." Injured dignity

the register, I cald "HE sald my name wasn't en when't applying for a job, l'à roma to vote. You haven't got a vobe, he said. I drew up and cald pretty bluntly if you don't want my vote I can take it somewhere else, where they do want it. Call this mail. polling booth, I sneered. how Overlooking the fact that the can you poll if you aren't affective organisation of such a allowed to vote? He told meet-up would be almost im- to go away, and I said nothing possible, a Post Office spolce would suli me better. But, Iman has rushed into print and added, don't come crawling to warned that private mall de me for my vols, over again." ilvery sorvices are all illegal.

[London Express Service).

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The number of licences Issued in Australia Incidentally is close to the million and allowing for those characters who don't be lieve in giving the post another Aver, the number is probably getting around 1,200,000 mark.

office

The

For some reason

or other Bydney is going Oriental, According to men now making fortunes in Syd- ney from selling goods from Southeast Asian countries, Australians are going Eastern in a very big way. Already

Sydney haz Japanese restaurants which are doing a

roaring trade, Indonesian restaurant and some &D Chinese cafes,

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Gift shops and four new emporiums in the city are seil- ing more than £15,000 worth of He said that a section of the Oriental goods each month. Post and Telegraph Act pro In the past year at least six vented are body starting

A of Sydney's biggest chain stores private post office of thele pws, have opened sections selling

It has been reported that the coods imported direct inland town of Goulburn al- the Orient.

froma

Some 20 ment, mostly Chinese

ready, has its own private mail Servico where a man Is de- leave Sydney every few months livering local accounts and local for Hongkong, Japan, Formosa,

Burma letters at 3d, a Umo,

Thailand buying furniture, toys, clothes novelty gifts wholesale,

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two Japanese restaurants, which every night are crowded out.

Died last week was a man

who probably stopped They serve true Japanese food, more bricks in a short walted on

by kimono-clad

period than any other Japanese lasses and the sale of official in Sydney's his sake is steadily mounting. tory.

He was Harold Condo,

Pulled from the dourishing Mail Notices

Balmain Electricity Company in the depths of Sydney's black- outs, ho set himself to the for- midable and thankkis job of overcoming the post-war power shortage

Though

Balive to the r

that came pronation and gibes his way "Candlelight Conde" bore them with calm and neve complained when worried ministers took cover behind his broad shoulders.

His greatest work, a tak to which he dierlicated himselt unsparingly, was the planning and organising beyond the blackouts to meet tho State's fast expecting domand for electric power",

power

He was a man of very broad vision and the grid of bigh electricity wires which pans the State today la a tri- bute to the work which he old ns Chainman of the N.S.W. Electricity Commission,

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Philippines p.m.

North Borneo, Sarawak, 3 p.m.

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