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CHILDREN'S
COLUMN
By Uncle Peter Boy Who Became Famous Author
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews three new novels
Love comes
THREE new novels arouse
to
Sam Fife
Into
which the producer hos omitted to
out-of-date opera
insert a living woman.
Remarque, in short, has not done it ngaln
NUMB PRISONER
Have you ever thought that all the world's great and furnous people curiosity. (1) Howard were once not famous at all, but Spring's Dunkerley's (Collins, Just boys and girla? Some of them 89. Gd.)-for Spring here takes were bom very poor and humble, up a task which the war made German refugee Ilving with others, for some and had to face great diffeulties in him' drop; (2) Erich Maria of his kind in an obscure hotel enter making their careers; and many of Remarque's Arch of Triumphing for walls who have no papers to them used those very difficultles in (Hutchinson, 10s. Gd.)—because show the police should they call. their climb upwards.
one wants to see if the writer of) How does Ravie make a Ilving in Such หง The famous British one world-beating best-seller has its precarious position? Quite easy, novelist, II. G. Wells. He was bom done, it again; (3) George He is a great suertent selence hus AS for Mitlar, his novel is that of over a little abap in a small country Millar's My Past was an Evil pear, French medieni town just outside London, in 1800. River (Heinemann, 9s. 6d.) come to an low a state that when
some tricky operation comes His parents were poor, but he was because Millar, in two outstand- especially something much loved and had a happy enough ing contributions to the litera- the Paris surgeons tum to tavic. childhood. He divided his time be-ture of danger disclosed a re- And Ravie does the job for them, un- tween a school where the boys scam markable technique of narration. Known to the patient and for, sns. to have done go work and to have And here comes his first novel.
10 percent of the fee. |spent their time tuling sweets, trad-
n gifted and sensitive writer who has yet to learn the art of the ext novel and has probably not yet found the kind of novel he wants to write.
This one has as its scene, an Aus- trian valley in the days after the In Ravie's Hife there are two pan-
German collapse. Episodes are in- ing stamps, drawing and telling each | RUDE GENIUS
slons. He wants very much to meet troduced with no relevance to the
other stories.
and murder one Haake, of the Gar-story.
One of them, a questioning QPRING'S story (period: the nine-tapo. These Gestapo men, how long by war correspondents, could not But his troubles began when bls ties) centres on a new maga- are they going to haunt our fiction properly belong to any novel. father, a professional player of Bri-, zinc, Dunkerley's, latest offspring of with their chubby white hands?
the novel?
In
Characters
aro
with
tain's national game of cricket, had Sir Daniel Dunkerley, the weekly there to be no post-war period for sharp ability, only to disappear into
a
billworth.
Fenius,
editors are-- although in this case, apart from one contribution to the "Yellow Book" and an extraordinary gift for sheer rudeness, there is really nothing to prove it."
an accident, and was no longer able | paper magnate. Its edlior is Alee to earn a living. Herbert George, or "Bertie" as he was
hed to chool and be apprenticed to a draper. There he was most un- happy, hating the work. Years later he wrote his famous novel "Kipps" about his adventures in the drapery trade.
He ran away from this life, and obtained a post as a school teacher.
smoke.
introduced
Willy Widemeyer, Hitler'a friend, might have been a tragle or men acting of ficher even corale character. Millar con
And Ravic is fascinated by Joon. him outer by what the calls her
English
who makes
"restlessness, which is as good a name for it as any other. What magle As for the central character, Gus- this creature exercises remains, how-tave, a French prisoner of war, he
wrapped in mystery. the ever,
is a stangely numb being. He in not Joan may smoke the most expen-interested in women and does not
most want to return to France. sive cigarettes, decorate the
Hard
Why, one wonders, does dynamie Sir Dan not oling this un- civil and tiresome young man out on his car? It is possible
In his spare time he worked hard, foo high a price for a good way luscious boudoirs, and behave with luck on a Frenchman, let us admit.
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| the most inconsequential cruelty. Not The best thing in the book is the and passed examinations. At lust Alec fails in love with a crlip for a moment is one deceived. Joan portrayal of violent action. Here he obtained a scholarship to
Young woman,
nameds romantle fiddle-faddle, a costume Millar shows what he can do. a Jewess science college in London. He be- Hesba Lewison, who, after 'an un- came a fully-fledged teacher, with happy childhood, writes whimsy all the qualifications, Then he stories that boost the circulation of turned author, and was soon famous. Dunkerley's.
His scientific novels seemed fan- tastle to people of the time; now. ndays we see that he only looked into the future, with his scientific know- ledge, and saw the things that would come. Among his many books are "The Shape of Things to Come, "The Time Machine," "The Invisible Man," "The First Men in the Moca" und The War in the Air,"
He died last year.
Rupert and Ninky-36
Ninly doesn't move again and at length Santa Claus gets up. "This animal worrica me." he says. " can't give donkeys like that to children next Christmas unless they can control bus jumps. He might jump into their bath or into their porridge at breakfast,” He has already jumped out of a window and tried to jump into the fire,” azya Rupert. Well, you'd better go to the storekeeper and see if he can explain it." says the old gentleman. Then the Toy Scoot salutes smartly and feads Rupert away.
„ALL MONTS REŽENYED..
Love comes, also, to Isambard Phyte, Sir Daniel's secretary's secre- fury, who for some reason thinks this name more pleasing than his real one, which is Sam Fife. Phyte's girl is Alec's sister, Elsie, who would have been a great violinist had not an accident mülmed her, hand,
THE GARDEN SIDE GLANCES
OF EDEN(?)
By J. A. BARLOW
The legendary "Tree of Knowledge” There is, too, a darker shadow which stood at the junction of the on Elsie's life, and on Alec's-their Euplitates and the Tigris, near to horrible father, who had beaten Alex | Quarno, has taken on a new lease with his belt and driven Elsie, as a girl, to a life of shame.
Driven? Sir Daniel is not quite sure. Can you really, he asks, drive
'em to that?
This dismal old monster. Dillworth Senior, might quite eusly have been. left to rot in his slum in Manchester. But not so. Alec insists on bringing him up to London, insists on sharing n root with him, and therefore la- vites the ultimate catastrophe,
Why, in the name of all that is sensible? What is the point In Alec's laborious self-torture? It certainly does not emerge naturally from his character. And with equal certainly, it invests the climax of the book with an air of garish melo- dramn.
of life, a sapling having been planted, on the venerated site of several "Trees of Knowledge" of Biblical history.
The dreary swamp-encompassed and maloría ridden arch int
Quama does not correspond with the topography of the Book of Genesis. Be that as it may, the Arabs of the region have a legend that once upon a time a vast and beautiful garden. was situated there and that some- where In the Interminable swamps there is on island which has the most luscious fruits and lovely flowers-unknown elsewhere-and which occasionally sheds n rich effulgence.
A pity. Because Spring, in spite of same lapses into tired and pom- pous writing, can create people,ded by travellers who have been paint teenes, and shape a story.
PARIS WAIFS
DEMARQUE takes us for a dip in
the high, the low and the wicked life of Paris just before war broke_out............. Ravic, his hero_ly... a.
According To Culbertson
be highly comes
(Copyright, 1947, by Ely Culbertson)
A pre-emptive bid warns partner to down dummy's club-ruffing power, conservative when it and North could get in only once for to doubling for penalties. that
purpose through South's North ignored that point in to-day's desperate ducking play when East deal.
led a low club to the queen. Trus, after North's trump return East had to play South for the Club ace and let the club jack ride through him for a runing-inesse, but this was not too a feat, and when it succeed- dimeult a ed East was home.
bad result
South, dealer. East-west vulnerable,
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This was a
for North-South-particularly con-
sidering that they could have made four
the spades
except against singleton club lead by West, and in any case could not have been de- feated badly. The fault, it is fairly clear, lay with North. In the post- mertem he argued staunchly in favour of the double, pointing to his singleton in partner's suit as an out- than standing defensive,
Faller offensive, feature of his hand, but this generally valid argument was The not conclusive, in this case. vulnerability conditions favoured four-spade bid by North rather than the double, as a simple insurance Bingleton,
policy." Singleton or no North could not be even reasonably an Impossible task on their hands sure of defeating four hearts, but when they tried to defeat four he could be reasonably sure that opened since North had announced six to hearts, even though South
his singleton diamond and ruffed the seven tricks in his own, hand at a return diamond lead. Now South apade contract, four spades, not vul-
no trump to lead, to cal nerable could not be hurt.
had
The latter feature has been verl-
through the dreary region of that part of Iraq,
It appears that up till 1920, the Tree of Knowledge" existed on the spot indicated. In that year, it seems that some members of the Inland Water Transport Section. Royal Engineers, climbed up the tree and It suapped in twain-to the horror of the Arabs.
Are You Sure?
Answers on Page 10
1. What two regions' account for virtually the entire world's supply of platinum?
2. A duenna
(a) desert valley. (b) vore- dom, (e) a chaperon, (d) song for. Aue voices.
3. Laughing gas b
Carbon
monoxide,
carbon
dioxide, nitrous oxide, helium, ammonta?
4. Close-up of a living crea-
fure.
What is it?
In
3. Name twD blanda North Amerien that belong to Franco.
6. ""The Swis Family Robinson" was written by-
Stevenson,
Defoe, Wyss, Fielding, Hans Andersom?
7. There are two spelling mistakes here
Appoplexy, tantamount, otlose, pulchritude, dilapeda- tion?
B. Who originated high beels, and why?
D. One of these has given its name to a kind of wreaktick....... Kestrel, Lark, queen bee, kingfisher, hawk?
10. In mythology, who was Charon?
By Galbraith
CÓPS, 1946 BY MEA BERVICE, ING. Y, M. REC. U. G. PAS, OFF
"He broke his arm trying to hang by his knees to impress. a git, and she didn't visit him once-I'm afraid he has .
lost his faith in womanhood!"
Skeleton
CLUES ACROSS
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had
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21. What you can on with a plot
and some chickona
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ferior headgene (two words). 26. Yot the go-ahead man ke
dono te to the end,
10. One sin among artista--they
take the truitj
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and see a famous general..
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had to wear these i
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not so good.
5. But for clio Dist part, all this
Jaland is in Scotland.
4. What restaurant stait should dincha ara Tot ba if the
(two words).
7. Crime where the police must
be hot on the scent.
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though not quite.·
11. Pain caused by the throbbing
of drums, perhaps,
13. No tortalas among the birds, 10. A destor has to be up early in
this U. state
20, Coming down the
half-terra
river st
22. And, jp, the way of a post-
script, I'm accing abakes.
23. Bird with the cry of another.
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study the clie numbers. Beron elur 16 you have to find places for 1.5 and 8 Across aud 2, 3, 4, 6. €, 7 and 1 Down. On the tțirit fine there must be un Aerose clue to (listously; that balanca No. 19.
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The rest should be easy, No words of lesa than three letters are used, except in phrases
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