DAB and FLOUNDER
By WALTER
FROM 'HERE AND THERE:
Three Eggs For The Queens' Crews
police hunted Northern Territory
miles Wali Ring Juarra for 2,100 before they caught him. Now ho has been committed for trial for the manslaughter of his wife.
MEN ONLY
NEW YORK: There is a restau- rant in New York where they always serve three eggs with bacon and because the patrons CRES. That is
British of this restaurant are the
15 scamen off the Queens. But that not the only service the seamen get from Mr Isidore Zelin and his rea-
HALIFAX: Pubs have come back taurant. He changes their pounds
to this seaport town for the first for them. The most you can usual-
time in 31 years. The first to open ly get for a poumi note from a New
under Nova Scotia's revised liquor York bank is 12s. worth of dollars. But Mr Zelin always pays 155. Sold laws was the Sea Horne, where it was a case of men only. Under the new he: "I opened my place just across
pub laws, ong
women are barred from from the Queens' dock with thought in mind. I said no seaman pubs. Only beer and wines are on
And if any of sale. The regulations forbid will ever be gypped.
rum nud open sale of whisky, my fellows fry funny stuff, I
still must be pur spirits, which toss them out."
from chased
government liquor
NEW
MODESTY
just
YORK: in Atlanta, orders Georgic, police have given
draw the blinds that shops must when they are changing the clathes on their window dummies
APE-BOY DISCOVERY
out ale
stores.
ROCKY SERENADE
Teresina
the
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948.
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, reviewing the NEW BOOKS, picks an outstanding novel by a young 'Londoner
THE EDGE OF DARKNESS. By John Prebble. Secker and Warburg. 245 pages. 10s. 6d.
list.
HIS outstanding novel of the war is by a Londoner, aged 32. Prebble is the son of a chief petty officer, RN. He was brought up in Canada, and is now a London Journa-
His book is remarkable for:
1. Its writing. Powerful, new-cut, insistent: "The adders' tongues
The war was sincere at night." of gun Bashes Bickered wickedly.
2. Its characters, A handful of mon picked out of Monty's armies. Soldiers who will, in due
course, become old soldier and tell, not altogether falsely, how much they en- joyed it nil.
A SHARP EYE
LIBRARY LIST
What' Life hay Taught Ma. (Oshame, which notable Twenty- Five essays e
VATWAN pass on to this new generation Their burden workly, and wwworldly, wisdom, "A mos vigorous collection, with Dringe as an outstanding con tributor.
Kachless Tide, Skoed
(Hate,
Uz Gd Novel Brightly cold love story about bathing Ris and observant artists on the coast, of Cornwall
joko Martin, Thomas Batton (Duckworth: 2511 Biograpliv of whose once famous
an artist convesas at Bible
and
scenes have suddenly come back to favour with the cri
Must Tall All, C. R_Pun shon Gollancz, Us. 6d.) Detec tive Complicated but readable: behind the first rank fer quslite
ON THE SOLDIERS
duly
Their discipline is poor. They loot. They speak beastfully about their in- efficiency. They are Un- heroic, brave, nervous. Each is an Individual, with his passport to
our credence visned.
Only Smith, the fat, frightened unpopular officer, is aware of what the war is doing to them, of the probing and self- going within cach discovery uncomfortable
on
mind.
3. The brooding theme which muted runs through this study of malo society: a sense of the ruin overwhelming British. Germans, all
climax Its Europe, reaching
in dreadful Hamburg.
of
to
in
Dr Foole observes their customs, They dig up embalmed corpses in search the local cemetery watches, jewellery, clothes. COCIETY
Woy
Metternich, who ogled his through one international conference
had of after another,
picked up Dorothea at the Congress of Aix-16- Chapelle. She gave him a place in the long gallery of her lovers and sent him magnificent gossipy letters about high life in London.
la primitive, bestial, doomed to extinction and deep ly religious. Belial, god of flies, is worshipped-was not the Bomb con- been clusiva proof that God had overcome?
arc
This heathenism has a strong High
Vestments Church flavour. claborate. The privileged clergy are eunuchs. Women are regarded with There, the physical impact
The reason is particular hatred. war. its fear and tension, passes be replaced by a nagging bewilder- simple. The Infection of radio- activity causes a large proportion of to be Idlots or born ment.
This sharp-eyed novel Introduces children talent which commands attention. monsters. APE AND ESSENCE. By Aldous Huxley. Harper. 2dol. 50 cents. 205 pages.
THE ntom war is over. Bacterio- logical war is over, too. They lasted just three days and laid waste Amato, n 10-most of the earth. From Equatorial Africa the tribes Alter northward beauty of a village near
into empty Europe. Salerno, annoyed by the serenade of a shepherd, Nicola Rocco, 22, tossed window, killing a rock from the
ROME: year-old
SOME PIC (K) NIC JOHANNESBURG: Half a million years ago someone hit a 12-year-old
MELBOURNE: The world's largest ape-boy in the face, knocked
sapphire, a blue corundum as big as his front teeth and killed and him. This is the deduction of Pro-
A turkey's cgx, was picked up by tessor Raymond
noted Mrs Roy McKinney, a miner's wife, Dart, anthropologist of Witwatersrand at a Sunday picnic at Ruby Vale University, following the finding of u
Queensland. Her capphire, which a skull in the Makapansgat Valley was sold for be unstated sum, weighs near Potgietersrust, which he de-
1,038 carats. It is bigger than the clared is older than the Pekin Man
the previous
sapphire, or Java Ape-Man.
"Black Star." found last May in the same district.
Д
BOOMERANG DEATH DARWIN: An aborigine warrior named Wah Ring Juarra went on a visit to a neighbouring tribe for big corroborce. When he returned, he found that someone had tamper- sacred tribal relica ed with the which no-one but a warrior was allowed to touch. He "scented out the culprit and
his boomerang. It came whistling back, hit his young lubra wife on the temple and killed her Instantly.
throw
record
LAST RITES
JOHANNESBURG: Nobody has ever found a dead elephant in Africa and Major J. F.
it
In New Zealand, so remote that it has escaped the atom-bombs, pocket of Anglo-Saxon elvilisation survives. From It, scientists set out explore the by saling ship to fabulous clesolution of California. Among them is Dr Alfred Peole, botanist, frustrated
victim of
dominerring mother and prospective matrimonial prey of Ethel Hook, o regrettably wholesome scientist 35.
of
in
nursery.
Ape and Essence is a novel much the same sense as Gulliver's Travels is a book for the Half-parable, half-prophecy, it is an explosion of savage anguish over moral man's selen!ific genius and Cnilure.
the And the supreme festival of Bellal Year is n rite of purification infants imperfect In which these
mothers sucrißeed and their aro ncourged. After this, a fortnight of
ordained by the sexual licence is Church.
For the rest of the year chastity Is obligatory on pain of death. Dr an aboriginal giri, resents this pro- Poole, who falls in love with Loota, close season. The arch- tracted vicar, Head of the Church, is on- xlous to make him a clergyman. And Dr Poole, for irrational but insis- tent reasons, finds that he has vacation for the soprano priesthood of Belial. He decides to Acc.
saved Apes and Essence is not from some absurdity by its plercing sincerity and the Incisive brillance of the style. Its science is dublous. Bella! worship does not convince or horrify.
What a bad Alm this would make! What is Hollywood thinking of?
THE PRIVATE LETTERS OF PRINCESS LIEVEN TO PRINCE METTERNICH. Edited by Peter Quennell, John Mur. Dr ray,
321 pages. 98: 6d.
The book takes the form of a film script supposedly written by one William Tallis.
Cumming,
In his script Tallis tells how Sudan District Commissioner, claims Poole, escaping from Miss Hook, is
the
to have solved the mystery, He kidnapped by the Californih abori- PRINCESS
survivors of shot an elephant near the source ofgines, wretched
great
civilisation of Lon the Nile, and when he returned the once next day the body had vanished. He Angeles.. Their first impulse, to bury shallow grave him alive, is halted by the hope that found 1 burled in
to breed food which had obviously been dug by the he may be able producing plants. tucks of other elephants.
DOROTHEA LIEVEN was a meddling German with a long nose; the unfaithful wife of the Russian Ambassader in London in faithful spy of her the 1020s; the lover.
Austrian Chancellor Met- ternich.
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WE CANT HELP TH' PRICES, MAM!
WE DON'T
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ITS THE PACKERS
OR TH FARMERS
OR CUMPU!
HOW LET ME SEE.. WHERE
For the princess enjoyed, and abused, opportunities denied to most friendship of Wel- Journalists, the
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'Christmas Suggestions
BU KEMP STARRELD
"DIDN'T "SHE GIVE IT To up
FOUND TAIC IN THE ATTIC...... COULDN'T WE
WRAP IT. IN COME FANCY PAPER
AND RIBBONS AND SEND IT
'TO YOUR
AUNT EMMA?
EXTRA ADDED PROBLEM: WITH TURKEY AT CURRENT PRICES...
WHETHER TO BUY IT AND FINANCE IT AT THE BANK...OR TAKE BICK YOUR GIFT FOR UNCLE DETE AND LICE THE SAVINGS, TO PURCHASE Á DUCK............
"AREN'T YOU.
BEING A BIT. {OPTIMISTICE
YOU KNOW HOW TOLKY
ADE HAVING
TO ECONOMIZE
THESE DAYS!"
ISOME FOLKT WILL HANG MISTLETOE HO MATTER HOW FUTILE
IT MAY SEEM.
OF COURSE WEYE, ALWAYS THOUGHT THE JANITOR SHOULD START HIS CHRISTMAS - "PREPARATIONS EARLIER IN THE YEAR.
SAY ABOUT JAI.ONE.
AWIERES TREE?
"YOU SAID CHRISTMAS WAS JUST A RACKET... AND YOU WERE THROUGH
WIT SUCH FOOLISHNESS
THE
HOW ABOUT GOT PLENTY
TINCEL AND
LIGHTS...
GOT
PLENTY
of POP
CORNE
HAVE YOU MAILED: THE CARDSO "WHERE'S MY
CHECK
'GET
ME A
MANY FOLKS GET AS DESPERATE AS A FLEA ON A STUFFED CANARY WHEN IT IT COMES TO FINDING A SUITABLE GIFT AMONG THEIR CAST-OFFS.
(I DON'T KNOW, WHERE THE TREESTAND IS..WHERE'D YOU PIT IT WHEN WE TOOK
THE TREE
"YOU TOOK THE TREE DOWN...
WHERE DID
YOU PUT IT...
DOWN CELLAR
THE ATTIC?
•THE TOOL CLOSET
IN THE
GARAGE
COME PEOPLE LIKE TO BE PREPARED WIT UNDEEFABLE PANTS JUST IN CASE THE DINNER IS AS GOOD AS IT SHOULD BE...
Ledger-Syndicala
WHERE'S
THE
HISTLETOE
THEN OF COURSE, THERE'S THE LAD WIO NEVER CAN DIG UP ANY CIRISTMAS SPIRIT
TIL THE VERY LAST MINUTE
AS IF THE TREE- LIGHTS WEREN'T ENOVER OF A
·PROBLEM...WITH ALL THE STORES CLOSED AND NO SPADE BULBS..
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