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DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

It's A

THE HONGKÒNG TELEGRAPH; SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1949.

STAMP.

120,000 Words About A Let's be matey NOTES

Female Prig

MELISSA. By Taylor Caldwell. Collins. 10s. 6d., 448 pages.

EET one of the biggest female prigs in the

M whole records of fiction. Melissa is a prig

at the start of this novel; three hundred pages (and 120,000 words) further on, she is still a prig. It is too long.

Nobody in the novel can understand why Geoffrey Dun- ham, the well-to-do New Eng- land publisher wants to marry Mollaso. Nobody outside the novel is likely to understand Caldwell, tho why Taylor "major American novelist,"

the young woman thinks worth writing about.

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By

GEORGE MALCOLM

crudo character-drawing, and attention, more widely than he situations which glitter with knows. falsity.

One day, a prize is awarded for the best work in a local BRIGHT THE

PRO- weekly, And one day who

Into the Ellorys' MISE. By Richard Sher should walk man. Fabor and Faber, tittle houss but Royal Archer 111. (By that time Laura Is 10.. Od. 384 pages. 2 out of the picture.) So Lyle goes back to edit Panoramtin? you are going to like The Things are not so simple.

Bright Promise. You will There is un event called like it because it has the mood Pearl

to the apes

By BERNARD' WICKSTEED "VE always thought that one of the most neglected social graces was the art of behaving properly in the presence of animals. Most people know how to address a bishop and what to give a duchess, for ten, plus but

Where can you find out how to act with decorum in a field full of inquisitive cows, or in the monkey house at the Zoof

of life as you know it. A mood life Johnnie Eltery's Infantile

is about a life that you

will

that is wistful and optimistic. It paralyals, brings tragedy near, This novel is written with recognise, a life with successes Light, true and pleasant touch.

BLACK

Happily, this long-felt want of apes has a feeling that they has now been filled, in part, by are about to gang up on him and Miss Winifred Felce, who has give him a rough handling, What written a book telling us how to does he do? Answer: Ho dixes some point in the By mahe friends with the anthro- hisso on

aky hd gives the chimpanzco and pold apea

and disappointments, loves and The Anul chapters, telling of the careers and ambitions.

boy's paralysis and the Preal It is about people who are dent's death are deeply moving.

and generous, discon- collish inted and brave. People who

RAIN. neck the highest and are. often, content with less than the Simenon. Routledge second-best. Nice people, intelll- Kogan Paul, 91. 6d. gent people: people you would pages. like to know.

ton

THOMSON

辈

is equally incredible in either Ellery, who live in the UniforHE masier is back.

Without

role.

papo, Charles Melissa's late

affected tulo The novel is spent in show- Upjohn, was an pedant who behaved with ing how the scales, fall from cynical selfishness to his family, Melissa's eyes in the matter of the old fraud papa. They fall with the breath- Melissa speaks

of a paralysed ns if he were Dante and the inking woop Archangel Gabriel rolled into gincter.

Mellisa is notable for an abs Inflates Taylor Cold ell him into a monster of cyl. He lute economy of humour, some

onc.

Dog's Illinois Cats

NEW YORK: Miss Gertrude

Jinols has passed the Maraud-

ing Cats bill. This bill, declar-

also used

A long wait

NEW YORK:

Life

ship's

while speed

Twenty years

я

For

It is about Mr and Mrs Lyle

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This distracts their attention, and he can then eller beat it out of the cage or join them in screaming at the imaginary foc.

Female's Cry

"The way to get on well with cry of alarm. chimpanzees," she says in sim ple, telling terms, "is to be sports ing with them and good-temper wasted word, hoed, enter into their frolles and rough games, and amuse them." into US

the dingy of hurries States

the during

ake

It in casier to do this, sho quayside cafe where Baboile, Roosevelt.

Miss Felee spent eight years 1933. her feet in clogs, is swabbing points out, if you know the ape The Ellerys marry In

This is language.

looking after apes at the Munich floor. Outside, a mast- about the time all the banks are the

Very soon after that head light flickers above the tongue, confined to the emotions. Zoo, and one day a full-grown

be pleked heaving darkness of the Chan- and it can

up in male chimpanzee escaped from closing.

la cage and ran towards a 15- nel. Panorama is launched.

The Centaur will be in few months.

the hour.

light A Panorama is Lyle Ellery's idea within

Chimpanzee (or is it ehlm-year-old apprentice keeper, who of the new magazine the public drizzle or is it spray from the panzese?) is based on the sounds thought his last hour had come. are walling for. It is backed by breakers?

ghuh-ghah-ghuh (no gug-gug Luckily, he knew the language the money of Royal Archer, III.

In short a morning like any rug, as some people think), and and gave the cry of a female ape who is a rich man, not a race other.

four Except for the to convey the finer points of when insulted and in need of

you very your protection. home.

strangers cating rolls and but-your meaning for at the Normandie Com-vowels and intonation. To show The ferocious creature, who a mercials? Not if we know our you're displeased, for instance, moment before had been a figure Simenon.

you say gho-gha-gha In sharp. of primeval terror, was so over- staccato tones.

come with compassion that lig put his arm around the boy and gently led him away,

With customary frugality, he is setting the stage so common- A knowledge of chimpanzee is place and so romantic, for specially useful in a tight corner. firama of murder and detection. Supposing a keeper in a cage full It is up to alandard. No more need be said.

-(London Express Servica.

www.

**APE," by Winifred Felce, Chapman and Hall, 10s. 6d.

Magician to win

helped

war

Contrast this touching incl- dent with another occasion when an escaped ape got into the ki chen and cornered the cock. She didn't speak chimpanzee, only German, and was bitten for her ignorance. She escaped worse treatment only by throwing a chair at the ape and diving out through the window.

Chimpanzees need at least one good beating in their lives, Uni they've had it, they think they can push you around.

One girl keeper, who didn't

F

RANCE recently added to its current series five now stamps featuring The various provinces.

10 centimes.depicts Bour- Rogne: 650c, Guyenne; 1. franc, Savole; 2 fr., Au- vergne, and the 4 fr., Anjou.

Four stamps were also is- sued to attract the tourist trade: the 20 fr. pictures the Cathedral of Saint-Bernard-- do-Comminges; 25 fr, portrays l'Abbaya Saint-Mandrille;, 40 fr. shows a site in Vivarrals, and the 50 fr. has a site in Ardennes.

A few series of five air malis. comprises figurines; "100fr. vuo de Lille, 200 tr. vue de Bor deaux, 300 fr., vue de Lyons, 500 tr. vue de Marseilles and 1,000 fr. via de Paris.

EYLON honours the first an!

niversary of its indepen- dence by issuing four special stamps. Prime Minister D.S. Senanayake's portrait appears on the und 25-cont stamps and Ceylon's national emblem, the Lion Flag, on the 4 and 16-cents.

JAPAN

More Important as the motive power behind the magazine is Laura Archer. For she is not simply the very glamorous wife any paintings, but la liged to of a very rich man. She has have admitted to the exarnin-something else which hns Ing magistrate that he had already brought her all the way deast in pictures attributed up from the wrong side of the Utrillo knowing them to tracks in Butte, Monfana, and For ten years injections every fifteen min faked. Scores of faked Utrillos is going to take her where?

place to within In Die Arct up the Charty, pregi le

South America alki North close range wrecking the

of dent of the Chicago branch of medical oxygen cylinders. Two anid to have been sold to

And, in the called Frientis of days from Melbourne fe dor-

Africa. "There

as Ellerys marringe, are now the society Birds, has been Oghting cats, for used cylinders from the

many fake Utrillos as original" reeend, to wrecking completely

Lyle's career in journalism. Her argument is that cuts do re-fighting equipment

an art expert said In Paris. shilp raced fall by killing bins the more harm

For when Lyle decades that, That old excuse The skipper wirelessert than good by destroying rats head.

after all, he prefers Amy to the j for oxygen cylinders and sup-

Laura dynamic and mice. Stray dogs are not

exciting, NEW YORK: With the base- Panorama fires him. Life can allowed by law, she has said plies of adrenalin, which were

transferred from a fishing boat ball season

factory in be hard on, ♫

unemployed! for an over and over again, and

Brooklyn, home of the famous editor when the wrong kind of why

At last Miss In heavy seas, stray cats.

Dodgers, posted this notice or word has gone round about him.

As he tells in a book just pub-realise this, was bitten by the Charny has

fight. won her

N 3, 1938, Jasper

ape every day for six 11។ bulletin board-"Any em- Life is hard for Lyle, on relief

for 0 September 3, da, on the shed, Itter laughed when he reme desiring to attend a It is not no nica playee relative's funeral must adviseelther,

world's top magicians. He still was told Maskelyne was aciapt-months until at last she lost her ing magic on a huge scale for temper and shook her tormem- tor tili he walled fur mercy. the foremen before 10 am. on Until the day the idea occurs is.

day war purposes. But on that autum her that, back in Iowa, her the morning of the game."

The Fuchrer arranged for car-They were grent old father must be getting tired nearly 10 years ago he had to of editing that local weedy forget his stock illusions. He toons ridiculing him, but roun that.

ing was changed. Megiv was told it was unlikely that he the tune paper, What, go buck to a one- horse town after the squalld would appear in a theatre for was acknowledged, and Maske- on the Gestapo lyne was put

Of course, instead of shaking some time to come. grandeurs of New York!

A price on his him she could have bitten hlm would that work ou!?

And he was asked to help in black list with

head.

back. That is what apes expect winning the war-by magic.

Swopt Own Floor - blting, not a bealing. They It wasn't as casy as all that,

sure that one he but Major-as

became- He had a "Top Secret" office are never quito

where по сле was day a keeper won't turn and

L Muskelyne, adapting the con- in Cairo.

д without special take a lump out of them with his teeth. juror's art to the battlefield, did admitted

How do you beat a chimpan- He even had to sweep his own quite a lot towards achieving counter-signed pass.

This admirable book has cleaners might | zee? floor because Under-Water. Magic

instructions how to do that. You Today Maskelyne is back in hold the animal's left car in the His magle produced a method have guessed his secrets.

German bomber

his rightful business of lusion left hand and belabour it with of blinding

ho designed dummy

and stage magie, making school-your right. Or vice versa. pilots;

How do you feed an ape? Mnke tanks, guns, shell barrages, and boys' eyes grow round with

its bed? Cure its le ts? wonder. even dummy men.

He launched fleets of 250ft.

This book tells you all. No ape- Stanley over should be without it. long dummy submarines; and he

London Express Service) devised under-water magic for British secret agents.

ing stray cats a public nuisance, a waitress, Mrs Greta Appel, will fine all owners of cats who allow their pets to prowl. But of New

the Illinois legislature, in ri-

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York, had dream through all those years-a cosy restaurant of her own, little ding itself of the persistence of with red, orange and blue walls Miss Charny, has not yet won and curtains and lots of flowers,

A Society dedlented to

wait Unable to prace.

any longer, the welfare of cats is planning Birs Appel had made history a prolonged fight to get the

a sort in New York by becom- bill repealed.

Ing the first womani run a kerb-aldo

Fight for life

SYDNEY:

by using oxygen from cylinders in the

ship's

fire-fighting

to

ever Junchsland.

21 vase

Artistic fraud

PARIS: There take

Bled dry

NEW YORK: In Chiengo an income tax office reported that forwarded on taxpayer had with his return a bottle con- taining one pint of his blood!

to

How

She served hot dogs and soda "No Vote, No Tax" WELL, It does and it doesite ns you might expect. The Dr II. Shanley, pop. But her cart is painled

rawness of the VANCOUVER Thomas Har-amallness, the the Burgeon OIL

liner Drina, red, orange and blue, and on

ry Hunt, Indlay skipper of a place, drives Lyle crazy. Until saved the life of a British Im- top of the counter is

is leading a "No the day when he gets caught up flating tun. migrant en route to Australia filled with daffodils.

vole, no income tax" campaign in publie issues, the raging con- Columbia's Red troversles of the world; Fascism, by British Irlaus. He is claiming return freedom, Negroes, citizenship. Unliǝ

his Hitler, Roosevelt, and so forth. from stopped!

Isn't a local weekly as good a for employers wages by his contracted paintings sold in the South of

Focl 10 the printer's Income tax. "As I live in an place as any for telling people severo asthma after a ducklog France

charged with Indian reserve, and have no what you believe about these by King Neptune during the secretary being

It is not as good as crossing

line ceremony. "forgery." M. Pinson-Berthol, vote and no say in the spending questions? The doctor used up the ship's the secretary, a painter him- of the tax, why should I pay?" some, but it is good enough for Lyle. ifis editorials attract adrenalin supply In giving long self, denied that he had faked he says.

equipment. The immigrant. John Long, formerly of Manor Park, London.

the

of

£436

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

A GOOD

MORNING,

YOUR MAJESTY!

victory.

*Mapic Top Secret. Paul. 18.

-London Express Service)

friends after

Biting Bettor

has issued a king-size 5-yen brown stamp to com- Hobby "Stamp memorate Week" which pletures Mo- renabu's print "Beauty Glan- cing Back" and measures 1 x 2 inches. It is by far the largest stamp ever issued by Japan.

franc

UXEMBOURG has issued fivb new stamps which profic the Grand Duchess Charlotte, They are the 28c gray bluo, 1- frane red loc, 1.50 greenish blue, 2 frane gray violet and the 4 frane blue.

of Char- Also, in honour lotte's 30th anniversary of her

Luxembourg reign,

offered three semi-pasinis. The 8 plus 5 frane slate blue, 12 plus 5 franc black and green and the 15 plus 7 franc brown com plete the set.

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д new

IBERIA has issued

series of regular postage and nirmail stamps honouring its presidents. The 1-cent green and black shows Joseph Jekins Roberts, first presi- dent of Liberia after its "inde- pendence in 1840.

Other in the series will be released periodically, honour- ing the presidents in sequence of their service. The 25-cent bearing the present President William V. S. Tubman will be the only airmail in the set

Queen For A Day"

BY KEMP STARRETT

"SURE!

HOW

MUCH

VILST

THY

BREAK FACTS"

SHE MIGHT FEEL LIKE A QUEEN FOR TWO DAYS, EVEN... IF YOU SHOULD SURPRICE. HER TOME MORNING.

DO YOU

WANT P

THE QUEEN-FEELING MIGHT LACT MUCH LONGER THAN A DAY IF HE COULD MANAGE TO SHELL OUT WITHOIT SQUAWKING LIKE AN UNGREASED AXLE.

THE GAL VITH THE JUICIEST GOSSIP WILL

BE QUEEN TOR A WHILE

SHE'LL BE &CHEEN FOR ANY DAY HE TAKES HER OUT TO DIRE-ESPECIALLY FLE IGNORES THE PRICE SIDE OF THE MENU.

GET OUT OF HERE? THIS

ISAY JOB!"

THE MIDDLE-AGED BRIDE WHO IS STRONG? ADMED OVER THE THRESHOLD IS QUEEN

FOR A VILLE...IF HE DOESN'T DROP HER.

Ledger, Syndicate

WONDERFUL

HONEY! THAT WAS THE PERFECT PLAY!

PE DUT ALL OUR CLOTHES AWAY AN

MADE THE BEDS.

"AN'AN".

#AW WE HOPPEL

UP THE

BATHROOM

*YOU GET

TO BED/*

رسمي

TRY IT COME TIME,

·SIE MIGHT EVEN BE QUEEN.

FOR A WEEK AFTER, PRAICE LIKE THE.

WELL, EVEN FOR, ONE

| DAY TTE SOMETHING.