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1

by

WORTH

OF DIAMONDS FLOWN TO BRITAIN

000,

JAMES

AGATE

"Lord's," by Sir Pelham

Warner.

(Harrap, 158.)

៥

by WALTER

This is paradise for

Cricketers

on

<

effecting his purpose; for that mis- chief was too precious a thing to be thrown away."

And here in the last:- That the heart was seat of hatred, and the countenance the proper

It need hardly be said that this

some could want to know about Lord's is of affection and friendship." motion. He stood there like fine animal baffled at the uselessness here. To say what is in this book of great strength and effort in this would be like drawing a map world. A companion, led him to the pavillon."

"Lord's" is a great book by a great cricketer who is niso a great sports- mon and a great gentleman.

Lovely writing! Exquisite writing!

the Acnic of a mile to a mile. book is a masterpiece of irony.

Its companion volume offers mag- nificent contrast.

Jests And Jeers

As Runyon would have described a wolf is a broad-minded guy,

Rail-car, pushing seems to be very popular in China nt the moment, Useful training in case of a con! shortage.

*

A man is never so weakens when Bomo woman is telling him, how strong he is.

Herbert: Wot's a minimum wage,. Albert?

Albert: Wot yer gets for goin' to. bit more yer does a bit of work. yer work. It yer wants to malto a.

The worried father hurried to the hospital where his son had been taken with a broken leg and myriad cuts and bruises.

"What happened, son?" he asked. The girl friend and I were jitter- of Kellynch bugging." the boy explained, "when

HERE are two ways of writing about cricket-the. Only it is just not accurate. I saw flowery and the matter-of- every ball of that match, and re- "Jonathan "Vild," by Henry Hall, in Somersetshire, was a man her old man cane in. He's deaf and

fact.

Go. back with reader, to the Match of 1890.

me

"Persuasion," by Jane

"Sir Walter Elliot,

Austen.

tage." (Hamish Hamilton, 6s.) THESE are the first two volumes

my mind's eye I can see low, after Australla had made the winning hit, Afty years, Richardson, Instead of standing still Manchester Test like some dazed animal, legged it Australla had been to the pavilion and got down two sel 125 runs to win the match. points before anybody else. The in a new series of world master- Twenty years later our greatest point is that in 1996 Neville Cardus, pieces. Nicely got up, well printed, and convenient wrote the author of that mafestle piece of attractively, bound,

pacitet. about the end of this wonderful prose, if he watched the game at for the

all, watched It from behind the bars

It is good to see "Jonathan Wild" of his nursery window. He was again. This is the story of the thief-taker who himself came to the

Wild, who had the gallows. notadence of all the petty thieves in

critic of the national

Kame

seven.

Sir

Pelham Warner

Ic

does writes with пис

and and **

con-

took up any book but the Barone- me out the window!"

There is no question of choosing between these two works.

Read both.

"Theatre Organ World,” by Jack Courtnay.

(Theatre Organ World, 218.)

Luxurious

Living In Luxembourg

Stowed in strongboxes of British air- liners, more than £30,000,000 worth of un- cut diamonds have been flown into Britain during the past year. London is now the

game: centre of the world's diamond trade.

"With nine runs still to be got, Kelly gave a chance to Lilley at the Chiefly, the diamonds came back to England from Canada of from mines in Africa.

organist, the young gentleman After industrial diamonds. There were wicket, and Lilley let the ball drop fantasticate.

at balls off the wicket to others, the end. When he was in the

to hang them, kept his charneter to

who bobs up in a lighting half-way being sorted in the Diamond consignments, each valued at £800,- to the earth. The heart of Richard- straight bat, and leaves the flicking town and then used that confidence W all of us know the cinema;

con might have burst at this, bul

сан PUL The difference, between him To the end he strov

and the crowd was throwing stones between seasick apricot and billous: ove Cardus Trading Co.'s office in London,

it did not.

that between Grace and suffered. Australia

at him, he applied his hands to the peach to perform at an Instrument by Ranjitsinbi!. won

Grace

leaned they were redistributed to cut

and three wickets, and the players ran against a ball, and it was at up parson's pocket, and emptied it of purady o glutinous version hurd Britain because it was the centre ters in all parts of the world.

thera save boundary: Ranji waved a conjurer's out of the world in his hand."

his bottle-screw, which be carried a of Schu- Mr Dale, in the Diamond

from the field--all of Richardson. He stood at the bowl wand, and a small boy picked

The bert's "Ave Maria," followed by of British recorded commercial ing crease, dazed. Could the match mugle up and threw I back.

the book ends with 16 maxims of equal "Momma's Go to Swat dem Flies." radio entertainment in prewar Trading Co.'s oillees in Holborn

have been lost his spirit protested.

service to the Dictator and the small- After which the slick young gentle- Viaduct, casually showed single

Could it be that the gods had looked In his new book "Plum" tells the time gangster, Here is the first of man bebs down and the business of days, is enjoying prosperity un

the evening la resumed. stones worth £10,000.

known elsewhere in Europe, if on and permitted so much painful story of Lord's cricket ground, tells Wild's maxims:-- Atriving to go unrewardedz Is it nobly, and four-squarely, und "Never to do more mischier

But suppose it isn't a young gen

not the world, today. body st shook from violent plainly. Everything that anybody another than was necessary to

the tleman? Very well, then it's an old one. And I hold that there is noth- ing less pleasing than an old gentle- man floating on a strawberry cloud with a puce halo.

"The Diamond Trading Company." said Mr Dale, "andles 95 percent of We diamonds. the world's rough buy they from a non-praft-making institution called the Diamond-Pro- ducers Association and then resell to various firma who cut the rourth stones into tenis.

"We are constantly despatching

stones to all parts of the world and

Another occasion which called, for a special guard was the arrival at Heath Row of £750,000 worth of diamonds which had been used for the Aga Khan's weighing ceremony.

CANADA'S

BIG WAR

EFFORT

In addition to financing her always use air transport for this pur- own multi-billion dollar

war

Duse," he said. "Small consignents effort, Canada contributed near-

of stones we send by ordinary airly £1,230,769,231 worth mail. Larger packages travel as air freight."

supplies,

of

war

foods and materials to her allies and When a very valualile consignment liberated countries,

Kold bullion { ** of precious stones or arrives at Landon Airport a special armed guard meets the airliner as it taxis into disperant.

This is revealed in the Canadian Mutual Aid Board's Anal report re- cently tabled in the Canadian House of Commons.

the

the

THE LOVE OF MUSIC

HAS GROWN

By DYNELEY HUSSEY

Music Critic of The Times

to

is

Luxembourg, City, known in

There are plenty of goods from every part of the world. The reason is that Luxembourg, with a small population,, has a big steel in dustry, and steel is currency any- where.

Agriculture engages 90,000 per- sons, who cultivate

308,173 Acres, mostly cats und potatoes.

Escaped Great. Damage

What this book does not reveal ts, what cinema organists

Luxembourg is the capital of the do during Duchy of Luxembourg, which covers thore three-hour was Tschaikovsky who first made they are not ladling out rubbish. tion of 250,000, of whom 57,000 are Intervals when 500 square miles and has a popula them appreciate the worth of music It is, to me, difficult to conceive in Luxembourg City. as an art and as a recreation of the more dreadful life than being con- mind. From Tschaikovsky most of demned to three or four 20-minute

spells of work with nothing to em them had ventured further Lentil ploy the rest of the day. However, they game to enjoy the masterpieces cach to his taste, and if a man of Beethoven and Mozart, und even determined to be a cinema organist of J. 5. Bach.

in a pentumbra of mashed pine- apple there is nothing to stop him.

The important mining and motal- NE of the remarkable fea- Hall, London, (since destroyed in

lurgical industries produce annually The vogue of the ballet, which has tures in the cultural history the air mids of 1940). The late Sir

Certainly this book will give him 5,200,000 tons of Iron ore, 1,550,000 of Britain during the past 50 which are still flourishing under the enl entertainments in England, may what it sets out to do brilliantly, furnaces, employing 3,815, and seven Henry Wood began these concerts, become one of the favourite theatri- enormous encouragement. It does tons of pig iron, and 1,500,000 tons of steel. There Are 35 blust extent for the And, to be perfectly frank, I the Dominion furnished supplies and years has been the renaissance in patronage of the British Broadcast- account to some

especial popularity of "Tschalkovsky's thinks that the hundred or so cinema steel works employing 2,100. The precious cargo is then un-materials tailles 2760.3720233 the musical world-a survival ing Corporation.

music at the present time. His organists whose portraits are given loaded

The war damage la estimated at after being passed and

inasterpieces in that form are sure here look any less handsome, artistic £100,000,000 sterling, which the through Customs is rushed to Lon-tween September 1, 1943 and Sep-both of creative activity and of a

tember 1, 1945. don in n car with an armed escort.

they are given.

of, shall I say, book reviewers. billion forms of the art. Indeed, with So great has been the volume of United Kingdom as well as

but they object to their standing army, consisting of three battalions,. traffle.In precious stones on British- doilar gift-about CA307,700,000, out this awakened love of music

They are asking £160,000,000 re- South American Airways routes that

In addition Canada contributed in the ordinary citizen, the chief all the corporation's alrliners

parations from Germany,

Luxembourg escaped any con- now fitted with a special strongbox.

siderable war damage. Outstanding cargo of valuables of the past 12 months was the shipment

Armed Guards At Airport

fre

ROBOT PLANE

WILL FIGHT

on now weapons "just round the corner."

The scientists' aims are:

Under the Mulual Ald Act alone,

pro-

can't

Of this £649,892,307 went to the greater public interest in all grammes the "Proms" contained a to attract large audiences whenever for Intelligent than the same number Luxembourgers do not mind paying.

£47,384,015 to UNRRA, £20,230,709

with Beginning

popular certain amount of symphonie music, but were at first largely devoted to lighter works. Gradually, as public eliminate the more trivial things. taste improved, Wood was able to

works would have been annual opportunity for rehearsing the bulk of the classical repertory wanting-British-composers-and of making an acquaintance with would hardly have achieved a wide range of modern music. their high rank

the among

VISITOR TO ENGLAND creative artists of their age.

in military, relief and gave Grecce incentive to the production of The concerts eventually became an

£5,846,153 worth of wheat.

-Mutual-Aid --

According to the tabled report, as tually 38 per cent of Canada's total Industrial war production was con- tributed to the cause of the United Nations through mutual aid.

new

upan

BY

by

THE WAY Beachcomber

THE

The white frackles on the laurel

bush

Do not prov That

Mongolian Rovers

Lack of coke has caused the steel works to drop to 65 per cent capa city, but still they are producing cnough to give the Luxembourgers

well-fed existence.

ed

Food From Holland From the first, Tschalkovsky, Tor About 20 per cent of production Not that England was ever "the

has had conspicuous meaning of much con- in question?" asked Malpractice, example,

Most of the essential food and "No. Her was absent. went into Canada's war effort and land without music" of German place in the Promenade programmes temporary verse, said

Idairy products are imported from 14 per cent was produced for the fiction. A vigorous musical tradition and has never lost the popularity critic the other day, is not al-thought Fang had it with him." Holland, and Switzerland in return

persisted even when the standard of which he acquired early in the ways clear at a first reading. him?"The day Unlied States.

"When did you last see er for steel goods. of the The remainder went to the United British music was admittedly at its history

concerts. His ROCKETS

Try the following:

before" replied Every home is well supplied with Kingdom, but was paid for through lowest. But this was a tradition of music had been heard and nd-

Walver. I walked with it in the coal. Kingdom claims against choral singing, stronger in the pro- mired in London, for instance,

garden behind.........”

There is a customs union between. British and American

vinces than in the

of the august

short: "Yes?" pro don stopped

Tes?" prompted Malprac-Belgium and Luxembourg, A pro- Eg- Royal Philharmonie Society. The

tice. The don remained silent. "Be-posed customs union between

Hol- scientists have been trying since Mutual aid to Australia totalled than of creative compepois, rather at the concerts

£28,115,304.

land

relied for her opera and her composer himself had come to Eng-

hind the buttery?" suggested the land and Luxembourg, due to start the end of the war to make

music Other countries received aid to the orchestral

foreign land a few months before his death

every clergyman in delective. Eyes," said the don, in March, is opposed by the farming, weapons for completely auto- following value: British West Indies,

Merioneth is a demon: execularis. Composers were con- to receive the degree of Doctor of

as though reluctantly. Not until a broken shutter

Malpractice population which fears the com matic war.

£ 1,607,848; China,

£12,228,307; tent to copy alien models in default Music from Cambridge University, Yet Tachaikovsky was still an un-

Blows the wind off its hinges.

made a hasty note, and dismissed petition of Dutch agricultural com- the historian curtly.

modities. That is the secret behind Mr. Noel-France, £7,724,015; Greece, £3,682, of a living national style.

India, £5,702,015; New Zealand,

known quantity to the gene

ral public

It is from "My Ode To What

Luxembourg Goverriment ask. Baker's statement in the Commons £4,701,231; Russia, £51,463,076. PARRY AND SHELLEY

in England. His success

the Other Can." and its hunting music

he Big Four to approve annexa- audiences at

at the Promenade Con- has already been commented on by

tion of a strip of territory one to The renaissance is usually dated certs was instantaneous, and, unlike those two pimply little gadgets who THE constructive statesman who eight miles wide on the German from the production of Hubert so many passing fashions, his music look as though mice had gnawed

suggested that international frontler, so to get control of the Parry's setting of Shelley's "Pro has remained

established.

their clothes for many a day.

affairs would present fewer pro-loselle River and to build a dam railway on the castern bank of the metheus Unbound" in 1800. The

Ever since Tschaikavaky 9

blems if

we could organise cricket of that work is appropriate to won its popularity in England, Murder of an Elephant (V) matches against

on the liver Our, to the north. Kusslan occasion of the release of has made converts to the art.

teams noted, I hope, the atmosphere of English music from foreign, and People who have hitherto taken no TIMIDLY Mr. Walver, the history cordiality and affection in which

German, domination. mainly

interest in ne particular

musle

don, faces lynx-eyed Malpractice. the Test Matches were being played 1. 38 m.p.h. 2. A city of Bombay activities of Parry and his contem- attracted to serious concerts. This "I understand," said the delective, in Australin. Speaking for myse),

poraries were certainly symptoms of

of attraction was conspicuous "that, on 2-An antidote to such rockets; new Isle of Man, (b) Arran. 5. Public fish musicians a better

4.

power (n) new movement which gave Eng- ly manifested during World War II. Bingo the Elephant." "That is so." see an Uzbek eleven at Lord's and a occasion, you exerolsed] It has long been my dearest wish tố type fighters which would guide

of Musleal people who have come into "Are you very fond of elephants Bashkir fifteen at Twickenham. themselves by radio on to the target house. In 1737 tax was imposed themselves.

contact with young men and women "Not inordinately. I think it For соп- rocket. The fighter would fly even

in the Armed Forces confirm

have

When her contract with Metro- faster than the bomb.

Hannibal's been began strong impression. ΣΑΤΕΣ numbers

which awoke my

Goldwyn-Mayer expires in October, Installed "Act of Parliament" clocks some 15 years later. Like all suc- of youngsters, whose previous musi- thinks it must have

interest When within a certain range it in their bars. 0. St. Leger, 1778.cessful popular movements, It urose cal experience had been confined to terrup would blow Itself up-almost certain-7, Solid old or silver. 8. Lord Win- spontaneously among ordinary men the

in is reported that Paul Whiteman 1049, child star Margaret O'Brien dance-band and the

may retire from the screen, her mo- "But cinema terrupted the detective.

wore Jun., son of the "King of Jazz," ther said recently. by using atomie energy-destroying terlon, D. The sun. 10. N. N. E. everything within a radius of a few

and women, it was neither inspired organ, have had their interest in you not afraid of looking foolish is calling himself the Crown Prince

Margaret, who is 10, plans to enter nor imposed from above. Among more serious music aroused by hear who had never looked anything but Years and years ago Mr. Harris, the object of graduating when she

with such a charge?" Mr. Walver, of Jazz. Too Inte for the miles.

Joke. San Francisco convent school with the notable manifestations of this ing something by Tschaikovsky, revival of interest in music were the In

interview of foolish in his He, with or without the Sausage King, introduced his is 10. Promenade Concerts ("Proms") patients in a naval hospital recently, an elephant, simpered. "Did you son as the Sausage Prince of Wales, She will then decido whether to established in 1894 at the Queen's nearly all the men stated that it exercise Bingo on the Wednesday or so I was told.

· 1-Long-range' rockets, guided by radio, which would travel at a height of 100 miles at more than 8,000 mph, could cross Britain in 14 minutes, and could easily carry atom bombs.

Solf-guided

This might happen at so great a height that nothing would be heard

on the earth. Tho only nows would

bo the disappearance" from radar

ARE YOU SURE?

title

ANSWERS

the

(Questions on Page 9)

India. 3. Proverbs 25, 25.

on clocks and watches, venience of customers tavern Keepers

Crossword Solution

Solution to yesterday's puzzle-

screens of both the bomb and thự, Across-1 and 7 Down, Now or fighter, possibly replaced by a signal never; 4 Harp; 0, Orion; 8. Einu; 10, representing

cloud

The

popular

concelt

movement

broodedst 0

ofradle-Tan; 12, Enter: 13 Enervate; 10, Gleo; NANCY Nothing If Not Enterprising

10, Pith; 19, Acon;, 20, Realm: 22, Punch; 25, Roc; 26, Ha-ha; 21, Re- pugnant.

activity.

Back for moro

3-Moro conventional pilotless

Down-1, Notepaper; 2, Orango;

bombers, which would return to hose 3, Wine; 4, Hen; 5, Parchment; 7, See for more bombs after a rald (at 1 across; D, Noe; 11, Trench; 14, 1,000 mpli or more) and work, Apex; 15. Tiarn;, 17, Lone; 21, Loon;

throughout the 24 hours.

Plotless fighters to

counter

them. Solf-homing devices would be

included in the fighters,

E

Defence

against

atomie rockets,

mely dificult, is not

although extremely

Impossible, becnuta it is very un-

likely that, any country will ever have, many tatom bombs..

The explosive type of uranium is scorce and difficult to `make that Fery large numbers are out of the Question,

23, Use; 24, Hag,

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