1949-01-27 — Page 17

DAB and FLOUNDER -oy Walter

FROM HERE AND THERE:

No Legs Or Daggers For The Africans

CAPE TOWN: Cinema posters and 'stills' showing women in scanty clothing and men hold- ing guns or daggers will be censored in South Africa in future, and recently several posters of women in skirts above their knees have had frocks painted on them. Both American and British film advertising is affected. The idea is that Africans will not be inspired to become gunmen, and ordinarily they would not see white women with revealing clothes.

SLUMP IN MINKS TORONTO: Mink coals, which would have cost £2,500 last year, are now selling at £1,000 because of a nn~ slump in the mink Industry, nounced W. H. Schaeffer, secretary of the Ontarie Fur Breeders' Ass- clation.

explained that

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Canadians and Americans produced three million pelis last year, double the number in 1917, and the slump is heightened by the Inet that Rus sian, Japanese and Chinese mink now on sale, when Europe connot buy from Amerlen because of the dollar shortage. Says Schoeffer: "We are practically giving conts nway."

QUADS

MADRID: Four chicks have been

hatched from a four-yolk egg in a farm near Agudo, in the province

of Ciudad Real.

DOMESTIC HARMONY

SYDNEY!

it for he never got his boat into trouble. But recently hin any nerve gave way, and he had to be

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, ERIDAY, JANUABX,, 28,....1949.

Here's a warning

to grass widows

ARABESQUE. By Geoffroy explore Kenya. The more Household. Chatto and speculative brush up their Ger- Windús. 10s. 6d. 244 pages. man. And Armande is re- cruited as a British spy, in readiness for the arrival of the conquerors.

T

THE ICAson of Mr House. hold's Middle East novel is plain enough: If you are a woman, don't get mixed up in

International politics. Above all, don't become

It did Armande no good at all. When we met her first sho dwells in Beirut. She is Angle-French, grag widow, and idle. She is also a lady in the stricter sense of the word.

A

·

spy.

nion to test her fascinations on Fortunately, there is no occa- the Gestapo.

Meanwhile, the laconie Ser- geant Prayle becomes u cap tain. His attitude to Armande aimultaneously changes, from

the humorous to the romantic. Such is the magic of the King's commission..

of

by George

Last there should be misunder-

standing Chamberlain sent his agent to seo Grandi next morning. In a toxicab, in a London street, Munso lini's ambassador heard from this anonymous individual how pleased the Prime Minister was with the ally he had found against his "own Foreign Secretary,

A fantastic episode. Earlier there was an occasion in German menace, circulated by Eden which a top-secret dossier on the its way to to the Cabinet, found Grandl. The Italians made good use of it with Hiller,

Arabesque is a glossy piece work, unensily poised be- tween novel and thriller. The Middle Enst scenes are vivid, THE PHASIAN BIRD. By first-hand. Insight Henry Williamson. Faber and

the trickler Faber. 10s. 6d. 341 pages. varieties of local poli-

Although these papers lack the scandalous interest of Clano's Diary, they abound in pleturesque touches, If he had not been a bad Foreign Minister, Clano might have been a good journalist. Thus, in Spain, just after the civil war, he notes that Franco

the churches is repairing while leaving the railways in ruins.

Malcolm

THOMSON into

"Kensington," says Sergeant Prayle, of the Field Security Police, as soon as he sets eyes on her. He not the only a security officer to brood speculatively over Ar ties is obviously based on ex- perience. The soldier-types are well-drawn. Not so poor Ar- mande.

Another mande's

taken to hospita), where his blind-

discovered. TR whe targeman now steers his vessel.

MIXED GRILL

NEW YORK: A meal so big that the chef gave out orders through a public address system was served in this land of so much plenty recent- ly, The ocension-the Governor's annual banquet Dt Tallahassee, capital of the playground Sinte of Florida. The menu--71

whole eattle, 100 whole hoga, or 13 tons of meat. Lloyd Rhoden began his vast cooking operation at dawn. Forty evicts from a prison camp first

past, present and future. War is war.

When Armande is naked by David Nachmias, a Zionist in British service to wheedle some

hidden machine-guns out of a Christian sheikh, she supposes that the guns will fall into British hands.

Nobody is more desolated than she when the Zionista get them instead. Nobody more dug forty pits and then it a bonfire in each of them. All day long they shocked when Nachmias, with chopped wood from a nearby forest expressions of warm good will. to build up their fires. At nightfall betrays her and the British Rhoden decided he had enough em- An American furnity bers to begin his "barbecue." The authorities put her on a very

was thrown on in at Wahroonga, near Sydney, count meat

great black list. chunks. The secret was to cook have themselves Jucky-they

em slow" said Chef Rhoden. mald. All they had to do was to agree that the maid brought her look a good twenty hours to do them

of in a turn.

Not like scrambling baby with her. Now the lady the house minds the mald's baby eggs, you know." The guests form 1wo nights a week while the maid ed 48 queues to get their portions. goes out baby-sitting at ziight.

10s.

il

reality

BATH-TUB FROLICS CAPETOWN: When a townsman

that It is so black, indeed, Armande is driven to take a job na a cabaret dancer in Cairo. One cannot think that she VAS much of EL draw. Fatima must surely make

a

BLIND BARGE-MASTER

of the Cape City of DD stepping bigger appeal to the artistic Conrad's AMSTERDAM: Joseph

joke on his by

There is not much into the bath behind her and turn-public. story of the blind captain who went on sailing his ship became

ing on the cold shower, the wife Kensington about Fatima." For fainted, struck her head on the wall for a Rotterdam barge master,

steered his boat and collapsed on her joker husband. two years he through the Dutch canals though Imprisoned in the narrow bath un- The loss of his sight meant der pounds of substantial woman- husband was drowning dismissal and poverty. Therefore he hood, the

blind

WHEN

Rommel threatens Cairo. Armande's luck hid his blindness and steered his when his wife recovered conscious- ship with the eyes of his wife and ness and gave him artificial respira- turns, GHQ burns its papers. The richer Egyptians decide to 14-year-old son. Nobody discovered tion.

CIANO'S

DIPLOMATIC PAPERS. Edited by Malcolm Muggeridge. Odhams. 171. 6d. 512 pages.

THE most intereating charac

ter in these documents of Mussolini's son-in-law nover emerges from the shadows. He remains without a name,

He was the confidential agent passing between Chamberlain. British Prime Minister, and Grandi, Italiani Ambassador, at time of diplomatic conflict between the two countries.

This intermediary helped to the extraordinary engineer meeting between Grandi, Cham- berlain and Eden at Downing

Street, which Grandi describes!

"Chamberlain and Eden were not. Prime Minister and a Foreign Secretary discussing with the ambassador of a foreigȧ Power a delicate situa- tion: They were two enemies confronting each other like two cocks in true fighting posture."

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GOOD MORNING.

IS YOUR | MOTHER-

AT HOME?

}' | WOULDN'T WORRY

[ ABOUT IT, MR.SCINOOK,

SUPPOSE YOU HAD A

NOCE LIKE HA JIMMY DURANTE'S S

brings to

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★ Americans have paid £1,500,000 to road KINSEY'S Report on the Human Male.

★ Hero is CHARLES WINTOUR'S Report on Kinsey. Ho says: This book is bogus,

BE YOUR AGE, DOC!

UBLISHING sensation of 'brand of jargon than any I have met

1948 in America was the before. Here is a sample:

"In general the medians are closer Kinsey Report, Dr Alfred than the means. Since the value of C. Kinsey's monumental 800- means are affected by a few high- page study of Sexual Behaviour rating Individuals, as the values of In the Human Male. Nearly a stancy of the medians Indicates that medlihs aro not, this greater co- quarter of a million copies have the frequencies of persona with already been gold of the unusually high rates of outlet vary in successive samples, while the original work, which retails at frequencies of the individuals in. $614 a copy. Well over a million, the mass of the population. da not copies of cheap, popular ver- vary so much."

How did Kinsey got oll sions of the Report have also material for all this? There is a been sold. That is to say, section in the book called Establish- Americans have paid out ng Rapport, which describes how roughly £1,500,000

Kinsey managed to win for the

friends privilege of learning what the

among the American people. "Something more than

cold Report has to tell them.

objectivity is needed,” he says, "in dealing with human subjects.".

Britain

the

They wasted their money,

The sympathetic interviewer Indiana Calling

records his reactions in ways that may not involve spoken words but

arc, NOW that the Report is published which

nonetheless, readily (W. B. Saunders, comprehended by most people. A 32s. 6d.) the British public can minute change of facial expression, judge it for themselves. They will be alight tenising of a muscle, the astonished that this work was ever flick of an eye, a trace of a change taken seriously by anyone. ".

in one's volco betray the in- MR WILLIAMSON, na most people

Kinsey

has not written

terviewer's emotions.. # por-

Unlettered know, novel a rich vocabulary and a fine most laudable:

the nature nographic book. Indeed his alma in persons and persons of mentally to accumulate an lower levels are often particularly imagination. In The Phasian Bird, objective determined body of fact keen in sensing the true nature of his birds and animals are, in fact, about sex. But how does he set about another person's reactions." more interesting than his humans. this task?

Elsewhere Kinsey says that it is America is a big country; 150 important to look the subject The life, struggles and death of | million people live there. But Kinney squarely in the eye, and also to ask the Phasian bird (a superb hybrid has produced this report which pur- questions as rapidly as the subject pheasant) enthrall the render and ports to tell us all about the Human, can possibly comprehend and reply. become for Wubo,

a politically Male (without regard, be it noted,

Does He Kiss? muddled farmer, a symbol of hope on the basis of interviews which he THE full bloom which he carries with him when

the Kinsey is imprisoned during the war as a has carried out very

when he largely In suspected enemy of his country. Indiana, where he is Professor of questions children under eight about

Zoology at the State University.

their sexual activities (a pursuit which to some parents will seem a On page 5 of his Report there is a little map which shows the sources somewhat unrewarding task). Kinsey of his histories.

recommends a "tusale" as leading

LIBRARY LIST

THE NETWORK. Dy Evan John. Heinemann, 7. ad., 199 pages. This novel is based very closely upon the evidenED disclosed in tho Ottawa

apy trial. Names дго change

Scene 1 noved to Landon. I can detect no other Improvement.

THE CONSPIRATOR. By Bum- phrey Slater. Jahn Lehmann. ý. Od. 168 gingen. When Harriet marries her Guards major she does not know that he is a secret agent of the Kremlin. It is n pogliarital surprise, sa unpleasant to Harriet as her existence is to the Kremlin,

much Another novel · owing Ottawa disclosures.

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THE TILAL OF JESUS CHRIST, By Frank J. I'owell. Paternoster Press, da.. 160 pages. A Trained lawyer and London merimais looks at the evidence history's grantest trial. The outcome lɔ n book giving startling effect of actuality.

EAST RIVER. By Sholem Asch. Macdunaid. 12. od., 490 pages. A jonk. strong, convincing story of East Side down, their religious Inorat and family probieras The Davidonskys are caught up in a conflict between spiritual life and material auecriz

WONDERFUL. HOW DID YOU

EVERGET HER

HUR TO STAY

of Interview is reached

The State of Indiana is packed naturally to questions whether the solld with dots, each of which re- boy similarly tucales with other boys presenta 50 CAGCA. With great in the neighbourhood, and whether difficulty I have counted 90 dots he kisses girls. there, which represent 4,500 cases

The vialon of Dr Kinsey tussling out of the 12,000 recorded by Dr with a seven-year-old boy, while simultaneously loaking at him

Kinsey.

But Indiana has a population of straight in the eye, fring a rapid only 3,500,000 or roughly two per series of questions him about his cent. of the American population. girl friends and not forgetting these Callfornia, the other hand, with minute changes of facial expres-

of an eye only trace of change in his volce-which would establish rapport particularly

a population of roughly 7,000,000, or slon-the flick double that of Indians, supplied 400 cases.

not

has

and a

In fact, the great Kinsey Report quickly with an "unlettered per- is primarily a study

of the son"-this is so manifestly absurd Human Male, not even of the Ame- that I conclude that not only is Dr rican Male, but of the Indiana Malo Kinsey entirely humourless, but he and, perhaps, more accurately still, does not know much about human of the Bloomington malo, since beings. Bloomington is where Indiana Uni- This report, says one American versity is located.

reviewer, has done for sex. what Columbus did for geography. Well. it is the duty of the Old World to NOT all the statistical jargon em- check the exuberance of the New. Nployed by Kinsey can conceal My report on the Kinsey Report is in his approach. that It reaches a new altitude in employs a higher the bogus.

This Is Jargon

this basic Admittedly

naw

he

"Tact"

Bu KEMP STARRETT

SOUT LIKE TRAT

SORRERA

GOSH, HARDLY KNEW YOU! YOU'VE LOST

TO MUCH WEIGHT.

HOW DO

YOU DO

THE TACT-ITION WHO'S

BEEN READING THE COMIC PAPERS,

"MOST COMPTABLE

BED 1 EVER SLEPT IN... THIS IS AV

LUMBAGO!

A WEEK-END AT THE BOSS HOUSE ...ON

A GED HAVING THE SAME GENERAL. CONTOURS AS THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS_

VIKEN HOSES ARE INADVERTENTLY MENMONED RIGHT UNDER, THE BOSS CNOZZLE TACT IS ADVISABLE. Ledger Syndicats

"ER ER!"

C

YOU HAVE TO BE TACTFUL WITH' ARTISTS...SOME OF THEM ARE BLACKSMITIC OR BOILER-MAKERS IN SMOCKS (BE CAREFUL NOT TO

MISTAKE CLOIDS FOR COBBLESTONES,)]

"HEN, HEH!HES A BE, EXTRA PLAYFUL TODAY?

VIT TAKES A LOT MORE TUM TACT TO BE TACTFUL COME TIMES

201,1% $0-0-0 SORRY. IT WASNT ANDRET JACKSON WHO WAS THE FATHER. TOP OUR COUNTRY

IT WAS GEORGE

WACHINGTON... REMEMBERS {BUT THANKS FOR

. A NICE TRY.

TROSE RADIO DIPLOMATS

I WOULDNT HAVE KNOWN IT EITHER. IF IT WASN'T RIGHT HERE ON THE CARD.

INVÄNT A GOOD DENTURE...

BRUSH, PLEASE

12:5.

YESAL! DOES YOUR

•MOTIER YEAR.

I JUST THE UPPERS OR DOES SHE

HAVE A LOWER

PLATE

ALSO:

DRIGGISTS ARE VERY TACTFUL FOLKS... "TIEY

HAVE TO BE