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A ploturs within the box camera range, yet one that conveys a facting of action from the drawn bow and notched arrow.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1948.

Mr. Liddell NEW BOOKS by Margaret Lana

will

upset the pin-money

Fall the arts, that of the

novel is the only one most people secretly be lieve they could practise If they chose.

cherish

Few amateurs illusiona about the sonatas they could compose or the pictures they could paint if they had time. It is not so with the novel. The foolish, the boring and the incompetent are drawn as by a magnet to the notion that all they need is paper, ink and Httle leisure to become writers.

experience that fertiliso his imagination, It will profit him othing" Once stated, this appear as obvious: yet we all know of writers who go careering about the world in search of

authors

LIBRARY LIST

The Arrow and the Bword.. Itugi

Williamson, Faber, 10%, dd.) A altempt to prove that the deaths of William Rufus and Thom A Becker were murders required by pakan religion which went wderground with the caminx of Christianity. Fascinating even to the aceptical.

on to Thiladelphia in the Morning. Jack Jones. Hamish Hamilton. 10. 6d.} An out-of- the- ordinary navel, a Welsh as it can well be, about Welsh goal-mining and Welsh singing. and much better than this brief description suggests.

not

Not so Jane Austen, Po so Henry James; not so Mika Compton -Burnett, whose sole theme is that of tyranny in family life, and who empolys alt and violence in such a way that "the crime of adultery is been to be less

less chocking

daily cruelty at the breaks on the

table," This is a book to discourage the amateur and annoy the middlebrow, and very properly. We have only a fow good novelists, and there is a paper shortage.

A TRIAL for murder, however

sordid and banal the crime, bas

nearly always a certain fascination. It is murder presented in the form of an intricate puzzle, through which as in a game to the final solution. the threads of evidence are pursueit

The Trial of Ley and Smith, edited by C.E. Bechhofer Roberts story 100. odd, Incomprehensible and (Jarrolds 108.) tells, however, a abnormal for us to draw any general conclusions from it which enlarge our understanding.

might The crime,

known as asked us to

"the chalk-pit mularly

ligious, social or political conviction, In our time the novel has been ut capable of seeing and sympathis- the dominant literary form, and so ing with all points of view, has attracted to itself,

no Mr. CIS.

He must not only be wise, con- Lewis has justly pointed templative, truthful and (aesthell

Out, "writers whose talents would have tally), Atied them much better

virtuous, but he must be for work capable of submitting to exacting of some other kind" and even those disciplines-not who ought never to have written at is knowing and keeping within his the least of which all, the words "letion" and "novel" natural range. have therefore

Mr. Liddel makes como to have an unmistakablo favour of contempt, distinction between range and ex-that and the novelist today finds himselt perience.

Jealousy Experience can be ex- woman of 00 can drive an old man

sexual respects in the condition as the domestic servant; for instance, an artist has never he was, mnd makes

tended at will, БАТС

range cannot. "If, to murder. To learn in the end that his status undoubtedly needs to be cone up in a balloon,

the theme no then he can less depressing and peculiar. But improved--but then 50 docs standard of his work.

the Po up in

But if (as is most no doubt there are people who will probable) ballooning turns out not enjoy it during the winter evenings 10 be one of those aspects of h with a nice cup of cocoa.

some

one.

DAB and FLOUNDER

BATH

by Walter

France Looks Forward

To Bumper Wheat Crop

By SALLY GRAM SWING

THE French government is French Government had planned

plugging desperately for a originally for machinery and bumper wheat crop this year.

Last year's harvest, damaged by Icy weather into late. spring. and drought in the summer months, was the worst in French history, us many

This year, however, almost twice are planted with wheat, and so far, according to agricultural

experts, the crop promises to be outstanding.

In 1938,

a bumper wheat year, 5,037,280 hectares (a hectare Is 21 acres) of wheat were

Acres

vital industrial needs:

Plerre Palmlin, Minister of agriculture, has insisted this

year that farmers plant more wheat ihan other products. He has seen to it that farmers were given a guaran- teed price la proportion with their expense.

With winter wheat planted 4.113,000 hectares, and a continua- tion of the mild weather which government officials are optimistic. Europeans have gladly experienced, In mid-winter, worried French- men looked to the mow-filled skies Crops Aided

valuable bellove the grotesquely improbabic and yielded grain. In 1947, and worried about the wheat.

FROM HERE AND THERE:

BESIEGED Such

ONE of the best news photo- the word "action" frighten you. graphers I know complains Several months ago we discuss- that the only assignments he 'ed the business of shooting at draws from the sports depart a moment when action in tem- ments are assignments to cover porarily halted, swimming meets.

of making "I haven't "poised action" shots. been out to the ball park this pictures are as season," he griped, "but I've with summer

easy to shot every

sports as swimming meet winter ones. that's been held around here Today's picture, for example, during the past six months."

is well within the scope of a There's

Almple box

There's reason for this, actually no motion pictured-no though my friend won't admit need for. fast shutter speeds, It A one-time fancy diver But the feeling-of-action is con- himself-his-swimming pictures veyed. are tops. For he knows exactly when to shoot to catch the pic- ture he wants,

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There's a lesson in this for anyone who likes to make snap shots of sports. It's simply that there's no substitute for knowing the sport you're shoot- ing. Whether it's baseball or golf or track, archery, swim- ming, horseshoes, or what-you-- will, action in sports generally followa

11 fairly predictable sequence.

And if you're planning to take sports pictures, don't let

camera.

work.

person who

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the sum dropped to a pitiful 2,708,- 475 hectares. But this year the sum is almost up to that of 1938. fatture was a dwindling In French

The result of last year's wheat reserves. It was to spend on wheat imports what the

IN BERLIN

WAR FEAR

in

But the Minister of Agriculture south and west of France, and from crop was not warried. From all over the necessary rolling Ile de France, poured in re- ports that the farmers and peasants were delighted with the

snow.

It had protected their wheat from low temperatures, slowed its growth enough so that

frost would

any further not harm it, and killed some weeds into the bargain.

The show had helped kill mice and other vermin,

stroyed the "platin,"

fold

and de- interoscopic

on wheat

roots before turning them into a rot- ten mush.

mushroom that settles

seven

the

hnd

The winter wheat crop will harvested in July and August.

bo

No

"If a miracle happens, Franco can produce enough, wheat to meet her needs, an official said. "But French land is tired, and we lack the phosphates and nourish it."

potasslum

to

themselves a great dent of good by HOSE aspirants who think they "have a novel in them" may do reading A Treatise by Robert Liddell

on the Novel. (Cape, Ds, dd.) This book, small though it is, goes make a long way towards defining the

kind of with being a novelist, and analyses the Is capable of

Berlin-All British oficial tele- changing the methods by which

numbers. A great phone calls between Berlin and the

small been doing the novelista

work of plant hidden In an outbuilding on pounds a week page-boys on have

Kone about their British Zone, along

the lines that the course has been used for pass through 100 miles of Russian alterations.

the floor of New York's Stock Exchange, Mr. Liddell is with two kinds of novel-the good Chief reason for this is to keep novel, and the novel which might

concerned

Zone territory, are now being moni- Only

Wall-Street'a Anancial centre tored by British Security have been good if it had not been

the rst strike in its history. Omeers

Jess

The middlebrow

than 350 check

quotation clerks, on any possible leakage of

tubemen, for this-or-that-deforralty~or~flaw.

Washington. Elder-statesman-operators went out. They were

pukes and

telephone vital or secret information during Bernard Baruch warned and the lowbrow

telephone conversations which can "There is no peace." Appearing as Curb Exchange. America: Joined by 250 think of a number of

employees of the Hovel he leaves on one side as not be tapped in the Russian Zone. A a witness before the Senate Armed portly brokers and pretty secretaries If you stop a moment you can being serious.

The white-haired Even so, his personal

other aim is to see that ines are Services Committee, he pleaded for handled 590,000 shares in the first similar taste restriels him still further, Fosations during which official secrets seription, universal military service

not being used for private conver- the Immediate enactment of the top of his wind-up, ready to aspects of the work of Jane Auster, gillcial found "talking carelessly or enormous impression on Senators. subjects--a baseball pitcher atat his book is less a treatise on the

con- four hours. night he mentioned. Any British and vast industrial mobilisation, His start his pitch; a batter, his Intaubert, Proust. Henry James,

univer or Control cocked, waiting for the ball; a

Commission statement

obviously mode diver, poised on the edge of the compressed, profound and reward-

M. Forster, and that most difficult, discusstug, private matters, is in- He accused Amerien of high board; a shot-putter, kis

mediately reprimanded.

"scuttle London.-A wealthy Hollywood and run" policy after the inst ing shot cradled in hand, ready to

of modern novelists, Miss J.

war company, Locw's Incorporated. ended. A note of terrible urgency plans to start

"It would have Compton-Burnett.

pleture-making

very bad start his delivery.

It takes, Mr Liddell belleves, a

NUMBERS RACKET

in psychological effect on the French ran all through his hour's testimony. Britain in the "Act now, don't wall,"

Text few weeks. people if after a good crop we lift- very special sort of person to make

he repeated "The management is taking notion," add in any

many times. WellingtonForehotely a year Hons of dollars and the world mill- expectation that the company

ed the rationing and then next year novelist. Не

"Delay cost us bit suys the may be perverse or Auckland (New Zealand)

World-Telegram, "in the

had to inflict it anew," the spokes- number trouble to write if there were kets, and the

Racial tons of lives in the first two world be able to transfer all its frozen wil of ways ("It Clubs been print out must be doubted if anyone would

man explained. large sums on forged Latofalisator tie-

wars. So please go ahead. Enact, British pounds in the United States

Ife said, however, there would be a considerable increase over the cract." police now nothing at all

hold

In the form of pictures made with present ration if the crop is good, wrong with him"), but he must have the one essential the only two meetings since Christ- 21,500 worth of forged tickets from

blocked sterling." One of the pic- The ration now. is. limited to 250 of humanism-he must be civilisert, mas, Forgers

10,000 P/A STRIKE-BREAKERS tures will be "Young Bess," based grams per day per person, or slight- not grinding the axe

bave been of any re-genuine tickets and after the race pounds-a-year-

buying New York. Ten-thousand- which stars and staff will be trans- loaf

on the life of Queen Elizabeth, for ly over one-third of a long, thin have ferred from Hollywood,

of French Press.

bread. Valted

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These are typical of "poised action" shots and they by means exhaust the possibilities of summer sports shots simple equipment.

with

John van Guilder

novel

Whole

than on soJNIE

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"I HEAR YOU'RE GOING TO GET

MARRIED DON'T DO IT! I'VE BEEN MARRIED TOR TWENTY YEARS

AND I KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING

ABOUT!"

"YOU'D FEEL A LOT BETTER IF YOU'D TAKE SOME EXERCISE, THERE'S A HUNDRED THINGS TO BE DONE, IN THE GARDEN... AND THE ATTIC noo.

AND

THE CELLAR AND........"

ETC.

stockbrekers

U.S. BESS

To Continue Rationing The position 01. the present Kovernment, however, is that even if the weather in France is unbelley- ably good, bread rationing will have to continue even after the summer crop is in.

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GET NICE AND COMFORTABLE AND SURE AS TAXES -- SOMEONE WILL COME ALONG AND START. GIVING OUT WITH ADVICE ABOUT WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR SPARE

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ADVICE FROM MOTHER: START TRAINING AIM AT ONCE.... SHOW HA WHO'S BOSS...JUST AS I DID WITH YOUR FATHER../

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