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THE HONGKONG TELMORAPIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1987,

A man took a girl to a DANCE

and then wrote this article

If you don't want to get on my nerves.

'OU won't spend a long time in the cloakroom when we arrive.

To me you lealt exactly the same when you come out as when you go in, and I don't like standing about for ten minutes in the hall in embarrassed isolation. It will lose you far more marks than any real or imagined improvement in your ap pearance will gain you.

You will never sny: "Be careful of my hair."

You will remember that, although the most interesting things in the room to you are other women's dresses, I cannot discuss any great en- the rival merits of velvet and lame thusiasm,

Get It

Right

Humble Pie

To ent humble ple is an expres+. [ston applied to those who suffer at setback or submit to humiliation. It probably cumes from the word "umble," applied to the heart, liver and entrails of the deer,

In olden times these were the perqulslics of the huntsmen, and They would be made into a plet which would be served to huntsmen, humble retainers, und their poor dependants, while the lord and his guests ale venison. joints and pasties,

Thus to cat humble pie was to take a 'back seat ut the. feast.

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You won't ask me to dispose of

your bag about my person. don't have a poacher's pocket And if you in my tail coat. have left your bag some- where, you will try to give me reasonably accurate instruc- tions about its appearance when you send me to look for it. I am a shy man and I hate having to ask strangers to get up while I look on and under their chairs for a bag which I can't describe and, which probably isn't there.

the You will wait till we have finish- ed any interesting conversa- tion which we are having be- fore saying "Let's dance." You may be able to concen- trate on politics while we are dancing, but remember that I have to do the steering.

You will never, never say: "This tune always reminds me of a marvellous party I had with So-and-so." Even if you do not intend it, it makes me feel that an unfavourable compari- son is being drawn.

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You will make it clear when it's our dance that you are ready. and won't make me have to interrupt a conversation with your last partner in which you appear engrossed. And, while I am on this subject- You will never cut dances. But

make will never slightest fuss if I do. You won't (if you are my wife) tell me whom I ought to dance with. By throwing me in the way of some girl whom you think I owe a duty to, you make it embarrassing for her and difficult for me.'

you

You will be independent. If you aren't enjoying yourself as

BOOKS OF THE DAY: Edited by Roger Pippett

Teaching the Young

ARGUMENTS AND DISCUSSIONS

By J. W. Marriott

(Harrop, 23)

B the world growing more humane? Ought we to blame the machines for turning too rapidly? Are we really free? Why is prido considered the first of IA thoso Beven Deadly Sins? civilisation killing the spirit of adventure?

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These and forty other equally, vital and equally exelling-questions are Introduced to the scholar'a inquiring mind in this excellent and, in many ways, revolutionary book.

Mr. Marriott's alm has been to find the subjects in which pupils are natur- ally interested, to stimulate thought and challenge opposition by provoca tive statement. When the eager brain is alive the ideas break into ex- pression. Good argument, like good chess-playing or good golf. comes with abundant practice."

So herc-under such alluring ca

to THINK

Nover, Jam To-day," "Why. Not Be Thoroughly Lazy?" "Miserable Starkey!" "Who Stole The Tarta?

Two Other Men," And still Two More" and "The Heavens Are Tell- ing is the argument-agenda for, the day.

The chapter headed The Good Old Times" is a characterstle ex- ample of Mr. Marriott's skili in intro- ducing a problem.

"The man who grows sentimental about the good old times knows little about history. Ile pictures Merrie England with its fairs and feasts, ils tournaments and madrigals, its May- pole mornings and its dances on the village green-but he doesn't realise all the facts. ·

"He grumbles about the electric pylons and petrol pumps of today, but forgets that only two centuries ago ho would have seen gibbets and crow- pecked, tattered corpses swinging in

Every Concert is a

Draw for Her!

PENCIL PORTRAITS OF CONCERT CELEBRITIES

much as you might, don't put C

on a gloomy face. At least try to appear gay, and you'll soon find that you are enjoying yourself,

You will insist on my having a drink when I suggest going to the bar, even if you don't want

I one yourself. Otherwise can't have one, if I am polite. And, finally: When I take you. home, don't ask me in for a drink if it is going to be an anticlimax to amusing evening. I don't like having to gulp down a glass of beer in an unwarmed room under a glaring top light, while you stand about refusing to have BAY yourself. Rather goodbye on the doorstep--you look much prettier there.

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By Hilda Wiener (Pitman, 25s.). ONCERT-GOERS con be divided into half a dozen or so definite types. There are the excitement-seekers ("Do you know, my dear, he dropped his baton twice, and the lobes of his ears are almost trans- parent?"), and the statisticians "This is the forty-seventh time I've heard Oogiltch play! ")

every

Then there are the theme-spotters who jab their programmes feverishly every time they recognise the printed music, the score followers whose ineasured swish accompanies symphony--and the fool-lappers.

Overlooking the mere listeners, there are also the dozers to whom all music 13 a lullaby, and the sketchers.

on her Ida Wiener falls-but feet-into the Irat

but category. Instead of leaving her sketches to fade on the yellowing pages of old pre grammes she has published them i book form.

Here are 200 pencil sketches of cele

brities of the concert platform. They are brilliantly done, being mot merely immediately recognisable, but each Aix- ing some gesture or attitude typical of the art of the particular player or singer at even sometimes conveying int of the nature of the music being

played.

There are names to suit all tastes- Beecham, Casals, Chaliapin, Furt- waengler, Helfetz, Horowitz, Huber. mann. Kreisler, Lotte Lehmann, Menu- hin. Itachmaninov, Schnabel, Stravin. sky, Suggła, Toscanini and Sir Henry Wood

Excellent blographical summaries necompany the sketches, which are all autographed. but one does not quite know how to take Mr. Millar Craig's remarks in his biography of the artist herself.

Commenting on the fact that ahe spent much of her time.ng a student In the Zoo, he says: "The drawing of wild animals was a valuable apprentice- ahip for the task to which she turned later the capture of musicians' move-

menis and altitudes during rehearsal and performance1

S. F.

the wind, and the heads of dead gentlemen (drawn and quartered and their bowels burnt before their eyes) which rotted in the rain at Templo Bar....

Those good old times! It wo knew only a quarter of the facts wo should thank heaven that we did not arrive on the planet sooner than wo did. The more we investigate the conditions of Merrie England the less we ilke them."

Which, I liope, puts you in the mood for the short discussions, debates, rend- ing hints and essay-writing which the author outlines at the close of ench Beclion.

Arguments and Discussions is un- questionably a work which, in Mr. Marriott's intention, aima nt klers rather than at facis, at the quickening of the brain rather than at loading the memory.

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"The idea that education can sharply divided into rigidly, defined subjects becomes more unpopular every year, and the pigeon-hole curriculum In likely to be abolished in the near future. If a teacher of English strays into the fields of history, economies, biology or astronomy so much the better for his English,

"Old Weller's motio was sounder than his son realised: The vider the viser, Sammy.*"*

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IN BRIEF

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THE OLD ASHDURN PLACE, by Mar- garet Fint (farrap, 78. 6d.). A novel that won a ten thousand dollars prize in the United States, this 19 a story, of a New England forming family Pleasantly written and fol- lowing conventional lines, but held- Ing the reader's interest.

HERE TO-DAY, by Pamela Hansford Johnson (Chapman and Hall, 78 .. Realisin and romance in a London suburb. The children of rival publicans can love ns truly as Romeo And Juliet. Blackmail and intrigue can cross the road from the florist's to the miller's. Vital.

TENANT FOR DEATII, by Cyril Kare (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.). Mr. Hare. writing his first detective story, dares to Use

false beard and a padded ault ie not only gets away with it -he positively triumphs in his inno- cent audacity. Watch Novice Hare..

CHEVALIER.

STAR BY STAR

THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF DIAURICE CHEVALIER

By William Doyer (Hutchinson, sa. Gd.) HAT world-famous figure in dinner-suit and straw hat, Maurice Chevaller, with his pout, confidential naughtiness and fascinating accent, has had no sudden triumph. His success has been the result of many years of struggle.

Son of a Parls house-painter, he was apprenticed to a joiner, tried clectrical engineering, printing and tailoring. And was a failure because his heart was in the okl rough-and-tumble musle-. talls of Meulimontant.

London first saw him with Elsie Janis in "Hulle, America!" in 1918, but was It was only moderately impressed. different seven years ago. Hollywood set him on n lucrative new road, and his world celebrity was instant.

When Chevaller was a prisoner of war in Ocmany, Mistinguett, we are told, enlisted the help of King Alfonsa to get him. exchanged in 1917, This was accompilabed, and a party in Paris

Valentine followed, with

sung by royal request.

There are references to the period of disfavour in his utive city, but none to the remarkable production of "White Birds" in London.

Much of the book is absurdly trivini. The divorco from Yvonne Vallée is thus summed up: "They thought they knew each other and understood eách other better every day, yet that proved 'mirago which they had eventually to recognise as such."

P. L. M.

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The Affair at

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The "burglar" was, of course, Harry Handstingle himself. man at no principles, and financial straits, he had conceived the plan of stealing his sister's necklace, thus getting, ut one stroke, the insurance robbery. The "burglar's" familiarity with the house and with Eva Handstingle's plans for the evening at once sug- gested to Playfair an inside job." What "aunk" Handstingle was the weight of evidence against his story of near in the lane. Play- fair clinched his case when he found a chouffeur's uniform bld- den in shed at Kozi Nuk.

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