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FROM HERE AND THERE:
Hanky Panky
Panky With Bing And Franky
The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,' SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948,
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CHRYSANTHA. By Marguret Drake. The Bodley Hend. 9s. 6d. 300 pages.
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that
she should, as it appease Sex,
were,
A relief to all? Not quite. For Mary, having willed his death, convinces herself that sho
has become his murderer. While she is formenting herself with this rarefied problem of consolence, sho
+} en- counters an odd clergyman, the Rov Sie Vanbrugh Pratt, a disillusioned friend of Ricardo's who has a cure of titled souls in Belgravia.
This eccentric priest takes the lending part in 'solving the mystery of Ricardo's death. For, after some Very opportunely, Paul ap- hesitation, the novel turns into
0 TERE is an eccentric, be- pears at this point, thus saving defective story. It is a pity. In
her from unpromising experi- triumphs and disasters of Ricardo's gulling and original novel. ments in Charm. Chrysantha past there was surely the making of by a new novelist. Mark is a defeatist about Charm.
bigger and better book. Mr Singleton has conjured up a group well the name of. Margaret
of interesting characters but has Drake. She is an agreeable, if
The only trouble about Paul falled to weld them into a com- wayword, writer.
is that, owing to a brain injury, pletely antisfactory novel. he may go mad at any moment. Mr Singleton. too Jealousy is, above all, an emo- novelist of respectable talent. tion he must ansta One would will do better than this. have thought him safe enough with Chrysantha. Not so.
Bydney. The Australlon Musicians has announced it is moving.
Chrysantha, the young woman F. Kilson, is to landlord has raised the rent. Union Secretary,
whose diary (a document of CORNED JOKES seek legislation banning the import
gramophone records of Bing New York-Broadway is threaten-scatter-brained charm) tells the
fuz to investigate a report that story, was the subject of vigor British
buying ous controversy at her school. American comedians' best jokes in Was the girl a "genius” or men- the black market. It is said the Americans in London are representally retarded? The mistresses ting the material as "original", common room rang with the
oľ Crosby and Frank Sinatra so as to Kive home grown crooners a chance. "We want to ban all records of that kind", he said, "but we do not mind records that are works of art”.
comedians arc
enlied up peacetime
THE MORE THE MERRIER
A MAN'S LIFE! £1,200 annual Madrid-Ten prizes for large peasant familicy New York.Civilians military service in have been granted by the Spanish for Government. Familles must have at will not make good soldiers, warned least 15 chlidren, of which ten must a former American general, Robert be living at home. They need not Johnson. The only way, he argued,
l be by the same wife.
debate.
At the end of this book, the reader will still be asking him self the question. For what is was to attract
one to make of a girl who, for enlisices willingly. And according to him the only way example, says of a young man, to do that would be to do away"He just has a disinterested love with all brens, brald and officer of money"? Capetown-Four years ago Miss tosignla, give every private his own Johanna Bosmnts of Parow lost her room and the right to leave the voice completely and doctors were service any time he wanted to. unable to help her. Recently while rending Churchil's caustic remarks
in
CHURCHILL DID THE TRICK,
the House of Commons, she Euddenly burst out laughing and
started to spenk.
At first her voler
was hollow but in a short time
became normal again.
RANG THE BELL
Johannesburg.--Mr M.J. Fourie, a bus owner, was on holiday in the Northern Transval, when he picked up in 361⁄2 oz. gold nugget worth 1240. He hind holiday.
10
WATCHFUL
good
A TESTY PROBLEM Melbourne.The B.B.C.'s cricket
magnificent Swiss Barcelona.----A broadcasts to Australia have opened the way for a new class of crime chronometer presented by Lausanne's a referee matte "catnap Broadcasts of Tests and Fautball Club to
game, The gift wa other first class matches in Australia hem lose a
the
before referve begin about 8.30 p.m. and end at handed
got Even the mast ardent Lausnine played Barcelona. He enthusiasts
dini" that the game went on for 15 armchairs when the game KIOWS
During that dull. glving the catnap burglars minutes extra time. uninterrupted use of the bedrooms, period Barcelona vored two more The burglar's Test match score is onls. huge.
3.30 a.m.
doze In their Areside mixed up with "so many hands and
THE DEW (EY) SONG New York Theme song for every Franklin D. Roosevelt election was "Happy days, are here again". This brought ack Yellen, for he on endless annoyance to it's composer staunch Republican. In this election he is taking no chances of the other
He aldo stealing his
NO SMELLS HERE Niagara Falls.--Baby skunks for home pets are the intest craze in Niagara Falls.
The
animals are deodorised before they
adopted" and veterinary surgeons who do the trick with a minor report that business is operation brisk.
COMMUNISM LAID BARE
in Singapore. Somewhere ham Perak Jungle is A yusanak Woman written a special one for candidate Communist-naked. Police hud fer- Thomas Dewey. Sample lines: "Do reted out a Red we need Dewey? Like the flowers bandits were drilling while a girl
need the dow".
FONT.
KENT PROBLEM
York.--Ill
the
hideout. Thirty
Red bathed in a nearby stream. When the pallce opened fire, the men fled in one direction while the
Newark. New girl, dripping wet, New Jersey, the office of the Rent Control another,
ות
off
In
new He
THE END OF AN AGE. By W. R. Inge. Putnam, 10s. 6d. 288' pages.
But it turns out that Paul has He is not been misinformed,
It is Chry- liable to go mad, santha who needs care and
OOKING down from the heights She is a medium, 1. of philosophy, and history upon codtiling. with an attendant poltergeist. the turmoil of our time, Dr Inge a writes with luminous calm about All this emerges during the prospects of humanity. His
creepy Christmas party in a
conclusions are not despondent. The next half-century will be Have I given the impression that toxins as well as toxins. Christianity but the body pollile generales, this novel goes off the rails? If so, may have been nick, but Mammon I have done Miss Drake an injustice. holds nut no more prizes and Not even for one moment is it on Moloch has shown his hideous fact. the ralls. It slides down the banis- It is a plece of good fortune that, ters of innocence to land, with a
vicarage.
truth.
to Strongly recommended adventurous novel-tasters.
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at a time when slogans dealer and
of Dr Inge's calibre to set things In the perspective of his learning, his measured caution, and his wit.
Chrysantha's story opens at the time when an appalled intro- bump, in the hallway of alarming problems oppress, we have & man duction to psycho-analysis re- veals to her that her indecisive- ness of character is due to death-struggle between two primul instincts; the desire for Power (ie., her career) and Sex (ie., ser). Chrysantha decides
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By Major-general J. F. C. Frank Singleton. Chatto & Fuller. Eyre and Spottis Windus, 8% 61, 201 pages.
woode. 215. 431 pages. DICARDO DALE WIS it nasty WHEN the next wave of German RICA
piece of work and nobody was militarism rises, its propagandists sorry when he was found dead in will find this a useful book. Here the motorcar.
was he so they will read that Roosevelt was a
who
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people's
gullibility, that Hitler was First of all, he had lived a great idealist, visionary and realist, and Heal abroad. Then, he had a flair that Churchill was more interested for art-fancying. He talked like in devastation than in strategy. Oscar Wilde on one of his off days. Ricardo, in short, was a degenerate. Brillant, shady and corrupt,
Why
For the horrible brutality which disgraced the war, especially in Eastern Europe, the partisans are to And nasty, too. For when bis blume-and people liko Churchill grandmother. Mrs Fenwick, left all who dropped arms to underground
her money to Mary Jessop, grand- fighters. claughter of an old friend, thus disinheriting Ricardo, that fam- For boyant character made it plain that he had ro intention of allowing Mary to enjoy the fortune.
Polish the massacre of the officers at Kalyn, the Russians are, of course, responsible. No mention of the significant entry in Goeb- beis's diary.
Things reached the point where Mary decided she had better kill As distinct from these questions him. Just after that, Ricardo was of ideology, the book lis many found dead. A clear base of heurt unprejudiced comments fallure,
and strategy.
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