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"THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1948.

DAB and FLOUNDER.

by WALTEK

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

FROM HERE AND THERE:

PRETTY SINISTER

Toronto-A

PEN PALS

against hurt are the members of the famous Maori battalion who do not share the privileges of their European comrades in arms,

reviews the NEW BOOKS

THE

The MAN

GALLERY, By John Horne Burns, Secker and Warburg: 12s. 6d. 342 pages.

FOR

POR a thousand disreputable years or so, Naples hus sut by her sen, ogling the passers-by ‘und ́enjoying her status as metropolis of ill-fame.

For a much longer, period, the conjunction of an idle army and a city has been recognised as a certain recipe for vice.

So nobody need have been sur- prized or shocked when the Allie occupation of Naples was attendect

by circumstances spectacular, an deplorable,

But

oni

John Horne Burns, if not BLET prised was certainly shocked. This may have been nulve of him,

thus produced n book which almost every pure quivers with the sense of unbearable sutrage.

How American

Naples

army-and

corrupted the The how That is the theme of The Gallery,

corrupted Naples,

You can decide for yourself which side was the more to blante. Mr Burns feels that Nuples had the worst of it. May be. All one would say is that Naples was in this business of curruption long before the American army.

American army warning "pretty sinister pen pals" in Soviet- dominated Europe who wrote to Canadians for strategic information about the Arctic was given by an External Affairs Department spoken-

said "gentleman nsan, He

In Vienna" wrote to Canadian outposts Asking for postcards views

Arly-Crafty

New Jersey-Art_for_Arl's sake is now the rule in New Jersey pri- nos since they of Harbour

discoverd

that in exchange for scenes of

Edwin Becker. A professional Vienus, and others asked for road writer in on a: had chéque charge, maps and tourist Inforantlan. A bas made about £0,750 on Canadian telephone

magazine articles from bis cell, company had several requesta from people in

Dornapped Now Russian-occupied Germany

New York-Dognappers for

cutered Caradian telephone books. He said: the English language and the life "It shows how careful you have to of Marco, a Black-faced, eight- be. There is something pretty sinis- month-old Pekluese when

they ter when pen pals start asking for phoned magazine editor Richardson harbour views of Aretic posts," Wright to "put up as much money ns you can pay" for Marco'n ron- rom.

Canadian Black-Out

even

Now Comet

with a

The Gallery, after which the novel is named, is the Galleria Umberto, an arcade in the centre of the city, mart of all manner of transactions, mostly immoral.

WHO SAW

* NAPLES

do.

who

Mr grandpapa,

Frenelunun, their lends the girl improper books and, gulit as Frenchinen in fletion do, gives

her mineral advice.

Denise hardly needs the advice, With

her

and temperament educaton,

nil set she seemk

10 become a high-class lady of the town of New Orleans, when niret crosses her path again.

100 much? Indeed they Burns's writing throbs. with emotions-and” with . the complex of the conqueror,

is picture is highly coloured. Listen. The murmur of the sea drops like chained wolves, Bed writing? Shocking. But the bad emphatic. ness of the too excited, the over

A badness which makes its own savage Impact upon mind.

the

Denise has not seen him since the days wheri they bathed together. raw, naked and inocent, and, in the interval, Laird has committed the unforgivable sin. He, a man of the South, has fought for the hater shopkeepers of the North.

if, in stories,

for

Το

Denise,

as

The Gallery is, then. n

For novel. remarimble

orm, it is a collection of

It one must nevertheless call novel-a novel with two chief per sonages locked in love and hatred, the victor race and the vanquished.

á provocative Strong meat, this." A whiff of pagan, this mailers not at all. Not her the hypocrisies of those carrion in the Mediterranean ale.

The story called Queen Penicillin, who It is, therefore,

have to be persuaded that an inevitable port of call for Mr describing sottilers in a clinic, might Laled thought Justice and humanity Burns's heroes on their voyages into be issued 13

tract by a

some were on the side of the North. She love. vice and crime.

alarmed and outspoken Ministry of remalus faithful to her .lover Health.

even-clever girl-during the lime And what a collection of herves it

when she is the mistress of the Phonles, JK!

drunkards, schizo-

elegant, serpentine Hugh Duncan, phrenies, inverts, victims

power behind the sinister Knights The story called Mona is ugly of the While Camellia, in another way, being overcrowded Why does Denise inke up

with with soldiers who have wandered this deplorable

Because youth? into the wrong sex. It in some- Laird has married Sabrina McHugh, thing that this overwritten subject who Is lovely but mad. This is not treated as funny.

latter fact goes unnoticed by Laird at the wedding ceremony, 0 negligence which readers are asked, of their charity, to overlook.

Sabrina's father was shot by n

I the negro

riol. From 15int moment she is terrifled if she sees

**

War

Pretoria-A new comet double nucleus photographed from Ottawa-The whole of the pro-and the pale spirochete. Johannesburg by the Yale-Columbia vince of Ontario will be blacked Professor C Jackson, has now out this autumn and winter because been

through

All street the Jargest of lack of electric power.

Narcissists to a man, they telescope in the southern hemis- lighting, outdoor electrie adver-

forever admiring themselves in the phere at the Radcliffe Observatory, tising signs and display window Pretoria. It is at present levisible lighting will be turned off for the

mirrors of public lavatories and of Their own, more public self-pity. to the naked cye, but Professor second year in succession. Reason Jackson rays it has a fan-shaped in the lack of summer rainfall in

They are too eloquent, too

Self- tail and an unusual looking nucleus the northern rivers, where most of conscious, too urgently communient- with a double hend, "I have never the electrle

supplied power

Ing their sorrows to to

the eternal seen anything like it" he says and Canada's largest province is stars or the nearest. bawd. now will begin photographing every generated. At the same time power they live, they feel. night for calculations.

to Industry is to be rationed. Rivers in the worthiland are at res card low levels, and many have almost dried

following unusually hot summer.

Toothy Tale Johannesburg-While demonstrat- ing in a billiard anloon low easily he could put a billiard ball in his mouth, a player found he

coukl the not gel

ball

again. A out dentist had to be summoned to ex- tract four front teeth before the ball could be removed.

sachusetts Bostonians disguised as

re-

Tea-Time Tople New York-in 1773 the Man-

Red Indians, threw English tea into the sea and started America's volution. Today there is a sign on Boston's

*Boston

Tea common: Porty in reverse. Keep the pot boiling." It is part of a campaign to

sestd

food

parcels to Boston in England parcels which include len.

up

Hol Lectures

the

New York-New York, Univer- sity, which values quiet and lacks classrooms for is 36.112 regular

and night school students, rented a negro night club for its Monday evening courses in basic jazz nd

They

But feel

LIBRARY LIST

Murrioli. Mirx

By

Wonderful' Josephine Bell. Longmans, s. 6d. 204 pages.

Novel. The story of old Mrs Marriott during the last months of her life. And the story of old Mrs Marriott's doctors. Mrs Marriott was a selfish and forceful character who did not realise the folk music. In Cafe Spelety Downtown,

the birthplace harm she did. of boogie-woogle. students will hear Jazz players make hot music, i Kafirs Are Lively. By Ollver

Gollancz.

240 and listen to critics and historians Walker.

7s. 6d. lecture on its origins and meaning,

pages. The struggle of White v. During classes, from 0 to 0.15 p.m., Black In the Union of South Africa. the cafe's kitchen and bar will be Immensely topieni.

American

closed.

+

•

The Causeway. By Winifred Lear, Macmillian, 10s. 6d: 347 pages. A first novel laid in Camberwell, in the house of one of the eccentric clergymen ever encountered most in fction, or even life.

But No Antelope.. The Drink Question

New York-Teen-age huntress Wellington, New Zealand-The Elaine Monesmith, who shoots Maoris want the same facilities for left-handed, bagged two elephants,

a hangover as Europeans. a lion, five leopards and three hip ceiling Sixty

Maoris have petitioned popotamuses in the Belgian Congo. Parliament for the repeal of all But no antelope, she explained to distinction between Maoris anel ship reporters on her return, be Europeans under the licensing law. cause since seeing Walt Disney's

British Empire. Edited The present law prohibits the sale animated cartoon Bambi, the story Hector Bolitho. Batsford, 218.; 240 yf liquor to Muoris for consumption of a deer, she cannot bear to think | puges. A superbly lustrated sur-

butside `· publle houses, The most of hurting them.

vey, with contributions by experts.

The

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There are also episodes touching and tender, glimpses of love and decency, seen through the grime of starving, rapacious Naples.

THE VIXENS. By Frank Yerby. Heinemann, 10s. 68. 326 pages.

PREDICT for the Vixens a wide

of

success. popular First, because it is laid in the period of American history immediately following the Civil War. For some reason, public curiosity about the Civil War

and

lis aftermath Insatiable.

is

Add that the heroine of Mr.

a negro. One day she sees an awful lot of negroes and flees towards the swamps...

So

has

Denise and Laird can.? Yes, they can. In short, My Yerby written 1 crude, vigorous, highly-coloured romance that moves swiftly and through plenty of excitements towards its pre- ordained end.

WAR BETWEEN CON-

Yerby's saga is called Denise and TINENTS. By F. O. Mikscho that she is richly. provocatively and E. Combaux.

pagan, with a mouth like a slash

the

investments.

As the publisher Lyrically remorks DA the jacket, "Mr Yerby has gathered all the court cards into generous. his hand." He certainly has been

Faber, 158.

of scarlet across her dark golden 211 pages. face, and it will recognised that TWO The Vixens is a safe entrant for Two authors, both colonels, splurge about the map in order gilt-edged class of literary to show us what a

war, between "the West" and Soviet Russla might be like,

It would not be pleasant, if that is any surprise to you.

Against 040-720 Russian divisions. the Anglo-American coalition" would have a paltry 207, of whom 25 would be provided by

Franco Spain.

The last lime Franco fought the Russians, he sent exactly liero ad one division to the front. modern taste demands. For light This is one of the rare flashes relief, there is Denise's naughty old of optimism which mar the book.

Not only has he dealt himself Denise, but he has biso drawn from the pack one Laird Fournois, as Insolent and raflsh

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