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امرا

MARRIAGE NOT

A TRAP

(Continued from Page 5) Now, for the first time, It has been officially, publicly and, in a sense declared that marriage is not a trap from which one can escape only by dificulty, expensive, and often morally revolting legal processes, but

a high vocation, to be prepared for with wisdom and discipline. as well as love,

The Report recommends that the state should organise a welfare ser- vice to give instruction to those

about to marry and advice to those whose marriages have gone badly.

•

BEFORE the complete failure of

can

a marriage is accepted a court welfare officer should make a last attempt to save it. If nothing be done, the officer will care for the Interests of the children if there are any.

"The Report proposes to use for this work those voluntary agencies which already exist and have acquired ex- perience.

It is suggested that marriages 'in registrars offices should be given and cero- more

impressive words mony. Certainly such marriages are depressingly gaunt, and even sordid In some cases, But I doubt whether much would be achieved by

change. Such value as the State ceremony depends, in my ex- perience, on

courtesy and on the friendliness of the registrar and this

rarely lacking.

is

Some of the most repulsive, mar- ringe rites that I have witnessed have taken place in churches with all that gorgeous sciting, noble music, and the almost terrifyingly solemn words that the Church of England marriage service could pro- vide.

ALL this has been turned into a social occasion and nothing could make it religious if those con- cerned are not religious.

the

I suggest that the clergy of Established Church should be leased from the legal obligation to marry couples who

before come

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1947...

FLOUNDER

DAB

[LIBRARIAN]

&

REFERENCE

by WALTER

REFERENCE

ONLY

Willo

CASANOVA-THE CAD!

"The Romance of Casanova,” by Richard Aldington, (Heinemann, 98. 6.) IOVANNIE JACOPO CASA, NOVA DE SEINGALT was born in Venice in 1725 and died

James Agate

Mr Aldington's novel is rather like that production in which the streets were cleared of bullfighters to make way for processions of nuns who in

**

ON BOOKS

- "At the invitation conveyed by n wave of Marco's hand, Casanova sat down to breakfast with gusto. "I've the appetite of u horse this morning, he remarked, as he lavishly buttered a roll.

"You generally have," fald Marco. For my own taste, I would

in 1803 nt the ripe age of 78, turn were succeeded by platoons of having broken every code of Inquisitors, grond and otherwise. decency and honour known to Thousands of usheretics and the polite world of the 18th cen- duchesses with the literary taste of soon read a bowl of porridge. tury. He was 2 professional usherettes will enjoy 门 novel amorist, meaning in plain cabling them to say as Browning English a end who made the be- said in some poem about Venice: " trayal of women the object of was never out of England-It's on if his existence.

I saw it all."

My own view is that Mr Aldington

has written the book with his tongue

check and that

he

But he was a cad of style, a great traveller who, when the fancy took

im, would turn away from ls Armly in his pursuit of good fortunes and play at would have much preferred to fol- being journalist, abbe, diplomatist low up his studies of Wellington and and spy.

He is said to have been handsome, Wilde with a new edition of the witty and eloquent, and it is cerisini "Memoirs," which nobody could that he was presented to Catherine annotate 11. of Russia, Frederiek the Great, chosen the other way.

better. However he has Rousseau, Voltaire, Louis XV, Madame de Pompadour.

and

This blackguard's lost claim to fame is that in 1932 he was rescued from

hell, where he is popularly supposed to be roasting, and given the honours of musical resuscitation at the London Collscum. And. It you please, by the producer "White Horse Inn."

of

"Going downstairs found Marco wrapped Acous dressing-gown,

Casanova in a gor- drinking

"Charles Kingsley and His Ideas,"

by Guy Kendall. (Hutchinson, 21s.)

LA

And I ask: To what Mold of what Mountain did Mr Kaigh dare to dictate this?

❖

"Stories of Adventure," selected by Marghanita Laski. · (Pilot Press, 15s.)

THERE is a Latin proverb which asks who shall keep the keepers themselves, And I ask who shail Instruct the misinstructors of youth. Well, I w

will

ia

Miss Laski tells the kids that "Man Friday's footprint more ensily remembered timn all the rest of Robinson Crusoe." If Mins Lanki will read Defoe's masterpiece a trifle more carefully she will dis- cover that the footprint was not Man Friday's at all, but was seen some FOR close on 20 years I have been eleven years after Crusoe's ship-

telling film magnates that the wreck and thirteen years world's Kingsley's "Westward Ho!"

most flimable novel is Friday

ท

before

Jests And Jeers

No horse can go so fast as the money you bet on him.

A doctor says that fifty out or every hundred of his patients

These are, of course,

overweight.

round figures.

are

The new machine worked for a week and then stopped. No one at the factory could get it to go, so they sent for an expert.

He came along, took one look at the machine, gave it a slight lap. with a hammer, and off it started. Then he sent in his bill:

To tapping machine ....... To knowing where to tap ..$100

f

$101.

"He wants to know who brought HIM/'

come into the picture. Whose footprint was 11, then? Crusoe never knew.

doubl very They invariably promise to set to much whether Defoe did either, work on it at once, and a few weeks inter I hear that the studio is busy

Miss Laski has chosen for her

"The

Carved with "The Massacre of Glencoe," in Carteen-year-olds

Austin Clare. "The will play Little Doctor" by Darley Dale, "Fin which Monty Stlekphast Robert Burns while Gloria Gloy is the Wolfhound" by A. L Dawson, Add definitions of an optimist: a being groomed for Annie Lautic. and "Bevis" by Richard Jefferies.

Mr Kendall's study tells us about red Defoe's

For myself, I should have prefer-water, decides to have a bath any- person who, finding himself in hot "Robinson

Crusoe, Kingsley, the many-sided

man Stevenson's "Treasure Island," Rider way. coffee and hot milk and eating novelist poet, purson, philosopher, Haggard's "King Solomon's Minca." those crescent rolls which com- ploncer. More than 70 years ago he House at Fellsgorth."

scientist,

"muscular Christian" and and Talbot Baines Reed's "The Cock memorate the defeat of the Turks was writing:

And I should outside Vierina in 1003.

"If I had my way, I would give don't believe that kids have any use have bound them up separately. I the some education to the child for books eight hundred pages long of the

collier and to the child of the bulk is discouraging. the peer. I would see that they When I was a kid I should have were taught the same things and used this or any other by the same method, Let them velume to prop up our dog kennel, omnibus one corner of which was in- wonky. and

PLANES

are flying half empty.

By BASIL CARDEW

THE one-way decline in air passenger traffic-plones arriving in THE

Britain half-empty but leaving full-has now become a iwa- way slump.

The flow of passengers in and out of London's three main air- ports has fallen nearly half in six months, it was revealed-from 45,000 last July to 27,050 in January.

The slump is partly seasonal. But the main reason is the public strike against loosely applied safely measures and recurring Bir crashes.

Ministry of Civil Aviation in-and-out passenger returns for London Airport, Northolt and Croydon for the intervening months

are:-

August. September October

2-48,278 — November.

48,408 December 34,564 1.

-30,356 29,618

Nearly one-third of the services operating from the three air- ports last July were not operating by January.

Plane movements numbered:---

July August September October

3,340 November

3,407

December

3,301

January

3,400

2,747

2,478

2,403

Heaviest trame decline was at Croydon where in coming and out-going passengers fell from 27,632 in July to 3,459 in January. But many of the 12 Croydon services had been transferred to the other airports.

Rupert & the New Pal→→→39

At the cat's words Rupert and 8 get very worned and run straight back to where the title Trolley is still lying. Sure enough. the hamper and a box which had been beside it have disappeared. “A van came along," cries the cat. "A man took the box. Then he tis ened the lid of the hamper and put that in the van, tool I mewed at him, but he took no notice and drove of right through Nutwood.": Goodness, this is awful! Whate ever cap we do?" says Rupert,

ALL RIGHTS RESERVAD

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A TARGET..

all begin alike, say "

This book is a serious work formed with much knowledge scholarship. It will have done good if it does no more than send readers. back to one of the greatest "novels in the English language.

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"99 and All That,"

by Frederick Knigh.

(Richard Lesley, 9s. 6d.)

HE author of this anwsing and

You can never tell about women and if you can, you shouldn't,

She: When we're engaged, you'l have to give me a ring. always He: Oh, yea,

What's

ber?

your num***

WILLIAM HICKEY

TASTE TEST

THE

1

I'

Was

sensible piece of chit-chat is

Field Marshal The trouble with me is that I like London doctor whose wife was and.) ALEXANDER who finally people, and the Royal Society of remains one of the great musical finished the Man Who Knew, ters in these modern times, for they

Portrait Painters are strange pain comedy figures of our

"In winter you charming ladies but I will tell you about that paint live people. Every one of the

time. muffle yourselves in furs and later. heavily lined conts, yet you wear the sheerest stockings, the thin- nest shoes, the filmsiest panties-

cramps in

I took the Man Who Knew

Galleries.

me

one narrow piece of ribbon be along with me for a stroll round tween you and the snow-it that the Suffolk-street Then you wonder why you get Hay-market, where the Royal chilblains, and elegant tummies. Then having exhibiting 339 assorted faces.

your Society of Potrait Painters were muffled yourselves up all winter and spring, you fly to the nearest possible approach to nakedness in--Over-lunch he gave me a talk the hottest sun; very pretty, very about Art, and afterwards, on our attractive and oh, la la, very chic, way to the galleries, he asked but damn silly,"

questions to see if I had listened.

"What is the fundamental truth of modern nesthetic?" he said.

"That a geometrical form has the magic

power

of metam

metamorphosis and when you look at it it may change in your Imagination into a human or animal representation." I said all this in one mouthful, and he was proud to see I hud listened to him.

where does sculpture stand carts?"

DOUBLE OR QUITS (Answers)

SPORT:-1. Sing Tao. 2. Joc Hardstaff. 3. Doncaster Rovers. 4. (a) England (b) England and Wales

to

330 paintings looked like a person."

"Don't tell me that that appeals

to your power of imagination," said the Man Who Knew

He was talking about Bandmaster HERBERT T. TWITCION, MIE., of the Salvation Army Band, who had been painted by FLORA LION. "I'm afraid I do." I said. "In fact, he looks such a happy man confident put a penny on his drum any day _in_his.faith, that I would willingly.

he happened to ask me."

"Very soon you will be telling me that modern art is a lot of drunken geometry compared with this stuff," said the Man Who Knew.

"I wouldn't say that," I said, and then I began fairly whiding round the galleries passing the Scar- borough Fisherman on my way to a fetching

young woman called PAULINE, by STANLEY DAVIS.

shared, 5. (a) Giants (b) Great plied theatre docs to poetry," i re- PORTRAITS seem to tell me a lot

Britain.

"And how do the plastie searches of cubism originate?" I replied.

"In a scission of the personality," "What will you look for at gallerica?"

the

about people. Looking in on Mr and Mrs JOHN CAMERON drawing sitting quietly in their room I could tell that here were two people who had the secret of happy: marriage. Then there was our own Mr BRUCE BLUNT, who seemed to me to look a little surprised that anyone' should want to paint hím, al

PEOPLE:~1. H Chi-minh. 2 Vice-President of the U.S.A. 3. King George III of Greece and King Christian X of Denmark. 4. Lieut (Continued from Page 4)

General Sir Nell Ritchie. 5. Inouye "Form, design and sensibility," "Slap Happy" Kanno,

said, "UNESCO needs the support of

POLITICS:-1,National Service "now that we have arrived at the

"Well," said the Man Who Knew, ull. overyone who can help. We need Bill. 2. China. 3. everything from big gifts of money Leum and Stern Gang. 4.

Irgun Zval exhibition will see it you have.."

Social "Taste?" to small gifts of toys, books and Democrats. 5. Germany and Aus- "Exactly," he said. pencils for the children."

tria. i

I

WAS

enjoying myself meeting

all these people, but I dare not stop too long in front of any one AS soon as we were in the first sion

portrait in case I caused an explo- from the Man Who Knew. room I took a quick look round Until I дов to Field-Marshal the Burma and then I stopped in front of one

Alexander. painting. It was a very lovely lady

The Goods required or the money PLACES: Geneva. 2. Salkung. needed to purchase them is expected 3. Lisbon. 4. Capital of the Indian to be obtained through the good state of Manipur, offices of the international voluntary border. 5. Victoria. organisatiotts. All types of bodies

are being reped in-educational and

ENTERTAINMENT; }

I went very close to him, within dalled Mrs GRAY MILLER painted two inches of his medal ribbons. by DAVID JAGGER, and she look-

"Interested in brush work?” sold";

Joan Dellie

ed

religious associations as well as the Lorring; her real name is World Federation of Trades Unions, Ellis. 2. Romeo and Juliet. 3. Or- tlle International Red Cross, the In-son Welles. 4. Monsieur Verdoux. 5. tornational Co-operative Alliance, Cornel Wilde." international student bodies, the Boy Scouts and the Girl Guides.

LUČKY DIPS: The Bank of China.

Inte 2. Tho

President We believe," states UNESCO, "In Roosevelt. 3, Demolition of Heligo- co-operating with as many organi-land's defences. 4. She told sations us possible, IS every day doorman she wanted to go to the brings us renewed proof of their indles' room to repair her stockings, generosity and willingness to help." 5. Telephone service.

NANCY Maybe One Hundred and One

"

COUNT THREE,

DOGGIE

MY DOG CAN COUNT

ARF

ARF

ARF

1. Two-Faced Woman.

2. Carron, them, as sometimes happens, in Cerronnde, short naval guo, first cast state of drunkenness. This they there. Carron oll, mixture of lime are, at present, legally unable to water and linseed oil, first, used:[ fuse to do (though I have known there. 3. Gate designed to keep some who have the courage to re- cattle from stroying. 4. Foot of the fuse in spite of the law) if the I housefly highly magnined. 5. Prohi-parties have observed the legal re- bition Act; enforced from 1920 to quirements of banns and domicile. 1933. U. Using its egg-tooth, which As the Report declares, there are grows on the tip of the upper jaw certain decencies and responsibilities and, except for the ostrich tribe, falls that can only be "anchored in public off after hatching. 7. Severn, 220 opinion" plus a wise administration milca, B. Lewis Carroll. D. From of the law. Towards the creation of North German traders, known as such public opinion the Report itself Easterlings, who settled in London. 10, will, do much. It is now the busi- Llaut-General Sip Kenneth Ander-ness of the rest of us to demand that

It should be implemented.

son.

NOW COUNT

OH, TAKE HER

FOUR

OUT TO COUNT

THE PICKETS

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IN OUR

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the

so live and warm and real that the Man Who Knew, and I felt he her hat.

felt like complimenting her upon had hope in me yet.

"It has neither novelty nor inno-

vation," sak the Man Who Knew.

"Dear me," I said,

AFTER I had been in the galleries:

"Not exactly," I said. "I was just looking to see if the artist bad paint-

ed in the eight'

on

marshal's Africa Star."

the

feld-

"And has he?" said the Man. *

Knew, grinding his teeth.

"Yes," I said. "But it isn't a very

for ten minutes I began to good eight." realise that I must be entirely lack

When next I turned to see, the

ing in, form, design or sensibility. Man Who Knew he had fled.

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