1948-12-11 — Page 11

DAB, and FLOUNDER

DEPOSITS

By WALTER

FROM HERE AND TH ERE :

Back To Normal On The Wheel Of Fate.

Tricate: The first post-war Italian suleido caused by losses at roulette is reported from Venice, where a Rome merchant cut his veins after Tosing, at the Venice Casino, a largo

toured South Africa for 43 years. In his prime he weighed, 332 pounds, carried horses bodily up a ladder, and defled iwo olephants in harness to pull apart his folded arms. He was nearly killed in the circus ring.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1948.

Death comes to happy valley

THE RAGE OF THE VUL- TURE. By Alan Moorehead. Hamish Hamilton. 9s. 253 радев.

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more

JOBODY will give you, in a

shortor time, a graphic account of happenings, preferably confused and,

if

possible, violent; nobody will paint you a back-cloth more vividly and surely than Moora- head.

Ho in the lucky owner of one of the most sensitive recording Instru- menta of the time. In short, as everybody knows, he is a great ro-

porter.

who can do, very quickly, and in conditions of exceptional personal discomfort, what elber good writers

That Is to say, he is a good writer

amount of money held in trust, was often mauled and several timesan at their leisure, at their desks and

Venice papers carried the item un der the heading "Return to Normal."

HASTY GLOBETROTTER Copenhagen: A Danish journalist, Lelf Hendil, has circled the globe in 6 days 21 hours 15 minutes, using ordinary route planes. In order to prove the reliability of air lines Hendil left Copenhagen on Tuesday, November 16, arrived in Cairo on Wednesday, Calcutta on Thursday, Shanghai

Friday, Tokyo on Saturday, Anchorage on Sunday, New York, Monday, and Copenhagen on Tuesday at 11.50 a.m., 25 minutes before line. Actual, flying ilmo was 92 hours 43 minutes.

on

FROM DUST TO DUST New York: A vacuum cleaner which picks up dirt and dust, com bines with it a streain of water, and disposes it down the drain has been patented by Arthur McGuire, Philadelphia inventor.

£1

DEAR SANTA CLAUS Osta: Letters addressed to Father Christmas, Fairyland, Oslo, Norway, are being received at the past office, Oslo, They are written by English -children who send long lists of things wanted. The letters have a connection with the Christmas tree for Trafalgar Squaro, which will be shipped from Oslo in the middle of this month. The Lord Mayor of Oslo, Mr Stokke, will go by plune to

nuthorities In Londori on December 20.

in their slippers.

In Durban in 1943 he was spread. But a reporter is, as a rule, con- eagled by a lion and sustained 38 serious wounds. Twenty years becerned with human beings as types,

in the mass. He fore, he had a fight to the death with

need not be a strange lion he started to train, particularly aware of the individual. and spent 13 weeks in hospital.

And it is precisely with the indivi dual that the novelist must deal.

MINK FOR MITES

New York: Fur coats for children were introduced-in Hollywood, of course-by designer Al Teillebaum. Price £73 up to

£250. Sald Tellebaum: "The best way to help the ego of a youngster is to give D snappy number in beaver or lamb."

INSECTS ON WARPATH- Sydney: Sydney is wondering . What happens next. Recently

plogue of black flea invaded the city and halted traffe, Six sacks of dend flies

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All this has its relevance to The Rege of the Vulture, a novel set in Kandahar, an Indian principality-- but it will be simpler to say that "Kandahar" is Moorhend's way of pronouncing

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Five to a Trust. By 1. A Lyton (Duckworth 12s. 6d). 219 pages in 1940 kr Layton sought to re-create, as nas qu possible on the original, ulta “họ London, medieval baraugi given in 1356 to five kings o Achieve some approach to the Histork mac, ba dyed winn blue The kings were missing

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PORTS This new recruit to the agreeable, con venient Noval Library is thought by many, Arnold Bennett among them, to be the best naval of the master

story. He deals with a phrase or an idea with a neat turn of the wrist, ice to tennis player. You are able to take his skill for granted. That would be a mistake,

De Polnay writes in a kind of shorthand which discarda explana- tions and dishonesties. His charac- tere are lucid, embittered and dis- passionate.

The weakness of this novel is thut one of the main personages is in- credible. His is a millionaire, Michael Barber, who does nothing but eat

brand. Yes, Michael is hard to take Pity.

IN THE STEPS OF THE BRONTES. By Ernest Ray- mond. Rich and Cowan, 12s. 6d. 321 pages.

ego came the climax of the Bronte story. It

JUST a century

is as swift a drama as anything in Action. Jane Eyre appeared in October 1047. Within the space of nineteen months, Wuthering Heights had been published, "Branwell Bronto was dead, Emily was dead, and Anno was dead,

Small wonder that the Brantes are written about, more often than any other literary group. Ernest Ray- mond noter with pleasant malico some of the theories that have been put forward to explain the strange character of Emily.

that

Miss Romer, Wilson: bellaved. Emily had given herself to Satan. Miss Virginia Moore thought she had found the secret of Emilly's "Jove life" in the mysterious Agure of Louis

Parentell.

His name appeared but once in the annals, on the manuscript of a poin of Emily's beginning I know not

was so dire a crime."

It was not much. It was enougti. for Miss Moore.

Alas, that magnifying glas the written have revealed should words as Love's Farewell and blown

#idents, cutlets and chicken and play bridge, poor Louis out of existence.

It is 1947. The mostly retired people, are packing up. The local prince and his mini- sters are about to flee. A century of peace in those happy valleys is ending. From the mountains the tribesmen pour down in a torrent of murder, rape and looting.

were taken from one office alone. Soon after, a red dust storm, unprecedented in Sydney's history, shrouded the city so that airliners were grounded, for three hours, with Moorcheud opens brilliantly with stocks the breath-catching beauty of the shops closing to save their from ruin. The weather bureauIimalayan scene. The history of agreed that conditions were pheno- Kandahar is condensed Into a Bew menal, but declined to forecast tho pages of Ane comedy. next plague.

SHE'S HAD IT

The bewildered, plucky group of English people being harried from Rome: Edda Clano Mussolini, din the continent of which they have ing with a friend in a Sorrento night been the only honest rulers Moore- club recently, was suddenly con-head seizes on the humour without fronted with her father's exécu- forgetting that, after all, this is not toner. Communist MP Walter so funny. Audisio. Edda recognised him but pretended to take no notice. She went on talking and laughing and beating time with her fork to

One day he culs down on the cut- lots and runs off with the hero's wife Luelle.

Emest Raymond has a good word to say for the Hegers. He cannot like Charlotte. Yet hers was, surely, During the war, Barber becomes a the deepest tragedy of them all leader in the French resistance. A book written with feeling-and After the war, he plays with totali- Jillustrated with adinirable photo- tarian fancies, of the more idealistte graphs,

PACIFIC WORKSHOP

OPPORTUNITY IN AUSTRALIA,

by Irvine Douglas. (Rockcliff, 16s.)

1939 Australia had never produced a motor- car engine. Today she

Pearson, the hero, is more effective TN as an onlooker than an actor in those events. And Elizabeth, the blind, doomed heroine-yes, we belleve in covered peaks.

hand the Irte over to the municipal Neapoliten soms being played by her, just as we believe in these snow- is making jet-propelled air-

IN. FATHER'S FOOTSTEPS? Washington: Washington says that there may. zoon be another F.D.R.

the orchestra. The refrain the song went like this: "Who has given, has given; who has had it, has had Let us not think about it any more.1

HOME TO ROOST

it.

But what have these people to do in this setting of horror, this mise- en-scene for headlong drama?

Moorhead has written One book with beautiful and ghastly pages. It in the American Government, Prest- Wellington: A racing pigeon own-he has not organised it into a com- dent Truman is thinking of maked by C. Litherland, of Ponsonby, pletely satisfactory novel, it is be- ing Roosevelt's son Secretary of Auckland, has popped into its loft cause at the very heart of the story the Navy. That is the department and carried on with the normal strength is missing. in which F.D.R., senior, began. chores of a pigeon. But it has or-

rived home six years late. It start- THE FAT OF THE LAND. By ed in a Wellington to Auckland race Peter de Polnay. Hutchin In November 1942 and should have

son, 98. 6d. 207 pages. taken between.six and eight hours to complete the course. The bird's DETER DE FOLNAY has a light but Identity is proved by the detalls un incisive touch on the typewriter; the identification ring round its leg cool eye for what matters in

A KING IS DEAD Durban: William Pagel, South African circus king, has died aged 70. He was buried in Pretoria on the farm where so many of his favourite animals are burled. His circus

a

eraft. And tomorrow?

the cattle

dairy stations and the forms. The workers Australin needs, and will continue to need for many years, are technicians, trained professional men, skilled craftsmen of all types.

But isn't Britain short, too? Yes-at present. But, says Mr Douglas, "the long-sighted' vlew Govern- would be for any British

discourage me to do nothing to

people from

adventurous starting a new life."

moro

He argues the case for a The author makes a bold act of widespread dispersal of manpower declares, 14 and industry throughout the Empire, Zalth. Australia, he destined to become the workshop of and asks: "If a company is paying the Pacific Basin, serving a thous Its way, does it matter very much money in sand million customers In Asla and whether it is making

Birmingham or in Sydney, so long the Southern isles.

Is British, the To make the vision a reality, as the capital Australia's population of seven and ployees British, and the country in a half million must be increased which the factories are situated is vastly. The Commonwealth Govern- British?"

plans to bring in 700,000 migrants (mostly from Britain) in ten years.

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Only a few of the migrants will be wanted on the sheep ranches,

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