1949-01-15 — Page 11

OAB, and FLOUNDER

➡by Walter

FROM HERE AND THERE

French Cooking For

All-On Ice

PARIS: Fully prepared cooked dishes, frozen and packed in aluminium wrappers, are to be exported by France in her new drive for hard currency. A factory will be set up to produce them with funds from Marshall ald. Housewives will only have to heat the dishes on a low fire for 15 minutes before serving. Average price of one of these "new look" frozen dishes will be round about 2a. They will include French specialities such as boeuf mode and coq au vin. They will also be available for home consumption and, according to the Food Ministry, should facilitate food problems.

GOVERNMENT CAT

The only eat on the OTTAWA: Canadian overnment's payroll is Daisy Mac, who dirawan monthly salary of 5/- for rat-catching work of the among the dusty volumes Dominion Bureau of Statistes library in Ottawa. Daisy, who is einssfied officially as "Exterminator

on not

has been

Grade 2 in the civil service, comes from a long line of mat catchers of indeterminate breed. Her salary is used to buy milk and chopped liver and to keep her contented with her work. Since Daisy Mae was taken

a single, ret hus

seen around the library, An Increase

long ago Dalsy Mac's family not

the cost of living sky high. jumped Now, with six hungry young mouths to feed, office workers have set up a Dalay Mac mlik fund to supplement

the government salary.

FIRST VOTE

TEL-AVIV:

Arab

women

the same town. Her real sex 'was cliscovered during an Illness. Now the police have invited Edoardo to resuine the name of Corotina, and go to n dressmaker Instend of to talior.

n

-TRIP TO THE MOON?

NEW YORK: The Chemistry De-

partment of Ohio State University liquid hydrogen which call send rockets to the moon at a speed of 30,000 mph. The University believes that only lack of a ship strong; en- ough to make the trip now stands between

Us and inter-planetary travel.

has announced the development of

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1949.

BOOKS are too doar, says GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.

50,000 Expensive

TROUBLE IN JULY.

Erskino

By

Caldwell. Falcon

Press, 8s. 6d. 159 pages.

A

Words

HUNDRED and Afty-nine pages of fiction for 88. 6d. Ing was afoot. This time, his take- Fifty thousand words (by off to just too slow. To add to lis my reckoning) for a hundred embarrassment, a negro friend of and two pence..

his in seized by the mob, just in case they can find nobody better That is too few words for too to hang.

Caldwell BECA the many pennies.

well-worn, horrible theme better than most, He spares un nothing except suri- timentality. His picture of a run- down coramunity of whites is sub-

ly done.

It may be said that it in not much more expensive than many other novelo now being published. But that would not be a good de- fence. It would simply be saying that books are,

In general, dear.

They are, and they tend to be como dearer,"

too

The caso for the publishers has made by Mr Michael Joseph,

beer, the livellest of them. Bu

not diluto the high spirits of an admirablo newcomer to detective Action.

SHAKEN IN THE WIND. By Pamela Frankau. Heine- mann, 10s. 6d.

THE theme of this new novel is Cynthia's marriage-and what went wrong with it.

What did fo

wrong with ' (7 officer in the ATS, Cynthia, an

Stuart Hendricks, marrica American with a dazzling smile, This may simply be due to the qualities of wartime superior American dentifrice, but it is

to fum enough

Cynthia Into

GI bride.. THE

THE VOICE OF CORPSE. By Max Murray. Michael Joseph, S. 6d.

00

So it is one of those novels about the clash

of two civiliantions? Cynthin resents the American Way of Cooking. Or she is irritated be cause the United States is having

old Drilain

N over the deutit of Angela Mason such a nice post-war, wherins poor

TOBODY can feel much sorrow

The author does not even

points out that the cost of making Pewsey,

book is twice what it was before pretend to feel any. the war, while the price to the For Mina Pewsey has Indulged public has increased by only fifty idens of funi. which are rarely

popular. She has unearthed in convenient secrets about her neigh- hours, and has then sent them let- ters threatening exposure.

per cent.

So Mr Joseph predicts that the price of books must be raised still higher.

A

MISTAKEN attliúde. A

dis- ustrous conclusion. to his argu- ment.

For where did that argument be- Kin? With the acknowledgment that the "unbelievably large read- in public" created by the war is dwindling. so far

and as Action general-interest books are concern-

rd.

fact

being

choked off

were

The

It because. at m

So when some unknown benefac- tor ups and hils Miss Pewsey over the head with a blunt instrument, there is nothing but rejoicing in the village of Inching Round.

A fair number of its inhabitants substantial motives possess

either for committing the crime or for wishing the criminal well,

And it is Max Murray's job to take his readers on a paper-chase after the murderer? That is so; Mr Murray has written n detective story. And what, pray, is so exclt-

It is more complicated than that even. Stuart is a Itoman Catholle, while Cynthin does not get beyond thinking how comfortable it must be inside that church. A clash of religions, in fact? Just so.

want 10-1 Also, Cynthia does not have a а baby, And Stuart meela an old girl-friend (also R. C.), and finds, like so many others, that love can mean one thing in England,

THE BATURDAY TYRNING POIT ✪

11

EDITORA PALES SERVICE,

"Take my advice—nover try to give a`cat a bath.”

LOVE

(a) In the mode of DENISE ROBINS (b) In the mode of HOWARD SPRING

LOVE ME NO MORE. By and a kalfo), and some exhibitions and quite another in San Francisco. Denise Robins. Hutchinson, of sultry passion, Iris decides who is

must be 9s. 6d.

But everything turns out well in

Miss Frankau the end? allowed her secret.

the real master of her destiny.

But, alas, it can never be. In due

They clung in breathless silence."

course it is. He bent to kiss her.

And the No flowed on in ita

mysterious way.

HE took her in his arms" Ito those fatal mono- syllables, found in almost every novel, millions of the takers and taken in real life owe the disillusionment from which they By Howard Spring. Collins, are incurably suffering,

THERE IS NO ARMOUR.

12.. 6d.

SPRING'S novels are carefully constructed for the

in

OTHER VOICES, OTHER ROOMS. By Truman Capote. Heinemann. 7s. 6d. 192 pages. PLAGUE upon the author who pretend that the war-time growth ing about that?

Now it really would not do to

wraps his story and its cha Just this. From the moment when neters in a sticky tissue of abscurity! of book-buying and the post-war decline were Acts of God.

Mrs Tilling telephones the police Here is a novel so thickly mantled et increased demand was due to the to say, "Somebody's done in Miss in glistening language and so deck-

Even if, like a Denise Robins MR. HOWARD that books

reasonably

ad with deceitful hints that, in the Mr Murray steadily in- Powsey," serests and frequently umuses his end, the reader is only half-aware cone, you have large, luminous convenience of the leisured. Moving

eyes with long silken Jashes, AD cheap and money plentiful.

at a comfortable pace, the narrative readers

what it has all been about.

alabqster face of pure classle out- time" when there is leas money He discloses a debonair style. He This is all the greater pity since

to time to make it easy to alight about, prices have gone too high. condescends to wit. He even takes Capote is a newcomer of rare gifts. line, and are quivering in the throes in his latest slows down from time

lecstasy, you can from or board again. of a newly discovered does the trouble to pump life and in- Listen: "Often the only movement never be sure that, propelled by an In these conditions, what SINGING MURDERER

the good, bold

Ile dividuality into his characters. In on the landscape is winter-smoke irresistible force, with heart beating publisher do?

Ted Pentecost, the narrator cuས་ his prices. He goes out to short, he treats his audience as if winding out of the chimney of some madly and pulses on fire, the right "There is No Armour," is an un- TISSAHAMY, CEYLON: A catch the "Veddali" or Aborigine jungle dwel-still waiting, which is always waiting and

wider ublic which is they were intelligent human be sorry-looking farmhouse, or a wing man will take you in his arms, crush conscionable time a-growing up. But

and arrow- not a species of literate stiffened bird, silent ler who, after evading arrestoning, for the cheaper book.

bloodhound Knuffing their way eyed, circling over the black deser-you to him, and kiss your exquisite by the lime bo la twenty he has left his birthplace, Manchester (you murder charge for 10 years, tired of

There is an immense opportunity from clue to clue over a desert of ted pine woods."

approximately guessed!), become a famous painter, his game of hide-and-seck with the

That is writing..

like that really occurs... But let's t.A., he is diffusing his married. Soon, as Edward recently surrendered, awaiting the publisher who refuses bad prose. will police and

Consider also Capote's talent for

Penteco not think about it. Daydream again Homes: Zoo, the negress with the with Denise Robins! Hier eightieth

in all directions. to follow the fatal path of dearer books, fewer customers and higher

long, scarred throat: Jesus Fever, noval (I hope I inven't miscounted) kind, wise, and gentle is he that he overheads, who turns his back on

and OR your true detective story en- her grandfather: Little Sunshine is called "Love Me No More" The makes infaithfulness to his wife

appear almost a virtue. the restrictionist philosophy puts his faith in expansion and thusiast, the advent of Mr Mur- the hermit. And Noon City, nearest tille

on is misleading: "He" goes

When at the end be is left all ray will bring no particular cause of township to Skulley's Landing, the books for the people.

alone you begin to feel sorry for at horrible pipes, that is all the boy

that remember He is Stephen Daltry, a young him-until you

"tall well. But at what point dild father. be particularly expensive.

diplomat,

beautifully solitude has given him the oppor- very It is story about

Nothing has ever negroes, you guess who had done it?"

de-built," with bright brown curly hair tunlly to write a book of 576 pages Rather, it is the story about- In the case of one reviewer, the cadent as the Landing, unless it is and a tanned, frank countenance, which looks like being popular.

Enough fleld hand, is

Incident, relevant and A the derelict hotel near by, whose She is is on

Iris, regal creature, negroes. Sonny, a

up by Capote: dwelling in beauty like the night, on irrelevant, makes this a neo-Dic- falsely accused of the rape of Katy, fluke, no doubt. But it is one of past is conjured

of folding things about Mr "Farewell sighs,

fana, the banks of the River Nile. Third kensian novel which, if not rushed, over-sexed white girl. After the endearing

the brute fall of male boats...." the customary preliminaries, Sonny Murray that he has underrated the

Atmosphere does deductive power of this reader.

not make is lynched.

Experience may make him more novel. But Capote is a cautious. Let us hope that it will watch.

vote for the first me in history 03 to the poils on when Israel

Arab January 25. Israel has an population of about 110,000, of whom

Women 40,000 are eligible to vote. cannot vote in the Arab states.

CHANGE-OVER

Re-

sang Ceylon jungle folk songs at the remand goal for recording by the Colombo Broadcasting Station's re- cording unit, for he has gained the reputation of the local jungle song- bird. Hearing his own voice played back thoroughly scared him at first, but later he grinned delightedly.

TALK, TALK, TALK

no

When

something

obvious when why it should so they chu they will say, pufingt decaying Southern mansion where tions." and "She" raises no objec-

Joel comes to And his

ROME: Twenty-four years ago Carolina Blogi. 14-year-old Venetian

NEW YORK: Nenrly a thousand girl, ran away from home and noll-

experts met in New York recently ing more was heard of her. cently it

she had to see what could be done to revive an was found that dressed as a boy, assumed the name the lost art of conversation. What of her dead brother, Edoardo, be they talked about on the morning: come a waiter in a Padua restaurant "Contributions of general semantics and later started a pastry shop in. to rhetorical criticisms."

reason

Jeff McCurtain, the sheriff, liked to go on a lishing trip when lynch-

Answor

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

YES MA'M?

28 CENTCA POUND FOR STEAK /*

page

seven.

YOU, YES INDEED

YOU COULD MOVE

IN_TOMORROW"

been co

1

and

So

man in the triangle is Prince Usref,

will be sedately enjoyed by thous

П

a the Serbian.

ands. I found it rather filling.

mon to

-DANIEL GEORGE

After dirty work at the Pyramids (Usref and Stephen come to blows'

"New Year Pipe-Dreams

BU KEMP STARRETT

"YOU GO TAKE A NICE

NAP... I'LL WASH THE DISHES AND CLEAN DOWN- STARS.... AND TOMORROW ILL DO THE

· UP-STAIRC")" ETC.

3.9

CAUTI, WE'VE DECIDED TO DÕIBLE YOUR. 1. SALARY...RETROACTIVE

TROK LACT JUNE...

ETC.

YOW!!

Ledger Syndicals

NO INCOME TAXES TO PAY TUS YEAR AND OUR! REAL ESTATE TAX IS

CUT IN HALF

ANOTHER OF THE MORE ELEGANT PIPE- VICIONS IS THE ONE IN WHICH MICTER KOBBY TAKES OVER TE DRUDGERY...WITH A

SHULE.

WE'LL BE

VIGNE UP/

GOOD!

LOC

Kirc

AND

MAKE

PIPE-DREAM

PAR-

EXCELLENCE.

ONE OF THE REALLY FANCY PIPE-DREAMS IS THE ONE ABOUT BUYING A HOUSE, AHOUSE WITH THREE BATIC, A TWO-CAR GARAGE „OIL-BURNER, AIR CON - DITIONED, DEEP FREEZER, AUTOMATIC DIĆI-VÁCIER A RUMPUS ROOM ........ ALL FOR FIVE HUNDRED DOWN AND

THIRTY-TWO A MONTH FOR EIGHT YEARS ONLY..

́ ́IVE MADE A NEW YEAR. RESOLUTION.... NO MORE MONKEYING WITH THE RADIO OR.

VACUUM CLEANER, OR THE CAR OR THE

VACLING AVZCHINE OR THE TOASTER

OR ANYTHING,

FROM HOW

ON

HOT DIGGETY!

I FEEL LIKE A MILLION BUCKC

IRON CURTAI

DEACE.

101/10-10-10, SIR/THEDE ARE

PLENTY OF TABLES

Пря NECESSARY!

"THE MORNING "AFTER

THE NIGHT BEFORE

(A REALLY HIGH TYPE PIPE-DREAM)