1949-05-28 — Page 11

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

COUNTY

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1949.

But Would A Girl Behave DANIEL GEORGE STAMP

Like This?

SOLDIERS' DAUGHTERS NEVER CRY," By Audrey

Erskins › Lindop.. Heinemann. 9o. 6d. 313 pages. ESSICA” MILLER is n soldier's daughter." That is

Vienna, Jlk comes homo again Felix, with belated paternal wo- licitude, axke her if ́aho - kan learned to make wiener- schnitzel.

It seems an Inade- quate comment on the girl's be- haviour, even from a former mesa-secretary.

then murders Kurt, become a

agent and

to say, her father, Folis; has been drummed out hart sem margen Kaon, whi

"

the Millers' life is a miserable round of cadging and used to possess a metallic ruth- deceit, saved from total disaster by a wealthy grand mother, to whom the family is consistently rude and ungrateful.

At the age of 18 Jessica (or "JK"). deciding apparently that her mother, whom she is adore, has not supposed to enough troubles in life, bolts to Vienna, as the mistress of a young Austrian named Kurt, whom she loathes.

The girl's molive for this im- pulsive action is that she wishes Viennezo to be | near-another young man named Xandi, whom she loves.

Now it is just possible to be-. lieve that Jik did, in fact, be-

have like this, an two assump- flons, (a) that the girl is a cre- tin, (b) that she is morally under-endowed to a point where the services of a psychiatrist are required.

FROM HERE AND THERE:

But the author, quite plainly, intends us to suppose that Jik is a rather bright and

attractive young woman, And in this

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews the NEW BOOKS

:

error the has the loyal support lessness, has now a flabby bru- of hor publishern who declare, tallly. Word, he is no longer

"un using his sun-tan lotion. on the Jacket, that Sik swerving in the single purpose of

Although naturally quite killed has her love, pathetic in her ignor upset that ance of the world."

him, Jik thinks her counsel takes the murder "charge with the most displriting seriousness. I mean, is the man on her #ida

Is it possible that Mesars Heinemann have given no serious thought to the therapeutic or_Isn't he? and instructional value of good spanking?

П

of

IK'S family regard her pro-

longed stay

on the Con with a

stoical lack tinent curiosity. This, at any rate, ond can understand.

When Hiller put an end to the emotional brou-ha-ha in

The Rabbits Loved Pommie's Fence

Sydney: A young Englishman arrived here last year with a plastic wire fence he had developed to counter the rabbit plague and to offset the steel-wire-net shortage, It was reported recently that his fence had been greatly welcomed on up-country pastures-by the rabbits. They nto it.

'morc

Motor Manners New York: Emily Fast, who has spent the best years of her life trying to teach Americans "when to lift their hals and how to tilt their soup plates, has set herself

a new task-teaching manners to motorists. Trame who have tried to experts frighten Amerleans Into driving carefully will use her

shame them into it. booklet to

Post'a

edicts Some of Miss *gentleman will no more cheat a red light than cheat at cards; a courteous lady will not scold with

her horn any more than she would not as a Ashwife at a party; well-bred people, whether drivers or passengers, are just as considerate of each other as ara hosts and guests in a draw

manners Ing-room; bad motor can all too often result in mur- der."

The Long Arm

Copenhagen: Eighteen months ago a Jutland teacher's wife lost.

a gold necklace while bathing in Lim Flord. Recently she bought a herring at the local fish monger and found her necklace in its stomach.

Light Wakors New York: On sale soona which new-type alarm clock before jolting you out of bed with that langling first to awaken you by blinking a light in your eyes.

bell, tries

must be made

By a scandalous miscarriage.of

saved from the. justice she is

Broadmoor. scaffold and Through

neglecting to have warm undies sent to her in pri-- son she takes pneumonia. Even that does not finish the little pest.

Younger customers may over- look this story's sustained de- Lachment from verisimilitude.

WITHOUT ABSENT

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JOY OF MAN'S 'DESIRING. Dy Jan Clong. Routledge and

Kegan Paul, 12s. 6d. 1 498 A

The man who wrote the from which that, fise film The Daker's Wits was made has An parylous, clalos, on the attention .pl readers · Here, he describes how a stranger changed, as I be a miracle. the lives of a small, harsh community of peasants dwelling on a ‘platenst of the Haula-Provence

THE DOME OF THE ROCK, Dr Somerset de Chair Falcon. Se od 242 parts Although zakačchý inform This novel Tahowa 'sp thorough mid discer

Ida av kalght into Middle East Kía, that (in" takes hold of a reader's attention

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Cape,

· SELECTED STORIES. MERENUL Whitaker.

9, 60.1 256 nates „A choice of -tales from one of our best con- Emporary performen le” the Classical type of short story.

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THUNDER ON THE LEFT., Dy Christopher Morloy Faber and Faber, Gd: 273 pages it is enough to note that this i Tamous novel is again obtainable.

.... IDIN EDEM. By H. X. Flor. Ina Collant, s Det.: 191 Aus, unusual defective stdry, which turns upon. The question who stole Mr. Anthony Edari's black. Homburg

garden perty? And why ?

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SPADE AMONG THE RUSHEL By Margaret Leigh Phoeni House, 12s Od.; 195 pages. In 1942 the author took a dess lic croft in the West Highlands. This le what happened, in the five years that fallowed.

Με

-On women's books

love and this oventful・・ novel

nover have got itself

EN in women's novela porato

nover seem much like dramatically

*would real men. Perhaps, since the written. medium is fiction, they mean it to be that way. But when women writers abondon fic tion and tackle fact are their men any more convincing?

Isobel Macdonald for example,

Which

my

that suggests opening sentence should readj "Men in women's novele never seem like real men to men!"

Take Betty Miller's Professor in THE BURIED SELF (Peter Nowman Cain in THE DEATH OF THE NIGHTINGALE (Halo, Davier, 128, 0d.) conjures up the mid-Victoriaa poet, Matthew 8. 6d). The professor had

"buried self." Events resuscitato Arnold. Some of us have read

A

and liked some of his poetry. It. The austero scholar lapara We had to. His prose is not into his dery youth. compulsory reading.

to

Here, again, li is hard his align this character with one's Influenced perhaps by noble side-whiskered counten- knowledge of men and human

nature. anco as Inspector of schools, we may have got the Impression

But ho is essential to the that there was something prix-

But he was sultry climate of this imbroglio gish about him, young

enough to of love, lust, politics, jealousy, once young

and violence which has left mo fall incurably in love with a French giri, Marguerite. They feeling gind--not for the Ant parted-who knows, why?

time that Ilivo Fontaldo the covers of a book

Isobel Macdonald's guess is that Marguerite murmured that sire had had lovers before. So Matthew went away, and be-. Camo a respectable married

Cornishmen

But he never forgot her. HOWEVER, maybe the men

man. He wrote:--

Come to me in my dreams.

and then

Ds

women write about aro just an incredible—or credible

women in men'u books much By day I shall be well again. Nelthor species bears

resemblance to human beings. For then the night will more

than pay

Whether you think

bad thing depends upon what you want for your

The hopeless longing of the good or

day.

Though I can't quite see the money, Matthew Arnold of this book,

NOTES

ON

May 167 – Bwitzerland celebrated the centenary of the federal post and the 75th anniversary of the foundation of the Postal Union at Bern with two sets of special stamps.

The federal post series con- dilata of threo tri-coloured stamps: 5 centimes, grey, yet- low and red shows a post- horn: 20c, violet, yellow and grey pictures a mail coach drawn by ave horses, and the 30c, brown, yellow, and grey illustraten postal motor coach with trailer. The dates 1849-1949 appear in left bork, der

of each stamp.

Bot

The Universal Postal Union Also comprises three stamps: 10 centimes, green and light green has the main motif of the monument of

Postel

Union

251, "red"and-bright:

ped, pictures globe enlaced Jublice scroll, and the 400, blue and light blue shows globe hovered about by five pigoons symbolising postal unlly, These stamps-- hava "UFU" in the upper right / border.

THE Indonesian government

has honoured Soetan Sjah- rir, first. premier of, the Ro- public of Indonesia, by lau ing a 3% sen stamp, with his portrait. Because Sjabrir

WALI this a

Mr Dodge brings on the stage he may be the man Marguerite If you like to read of meh

an" old

the Whitney,

ship Whit does

than most

puro

delightful autobiography,

NICK RISKIN La Rusalan and a lance-corporal in the Royal Hampton Fusiliers. from them so

As a prince, he socks his odious that when your spring frock is company-commander: 48 worn out it can be converted lance-corporal, he deserts in into sugar and eaten. All the Durban. From that moment life can expect in is never free from care and enjoyment man

acquaintance, James world of the future, said rarely free from girls. tho

saw. And anyhow, allowing you know, or feel you would income-tax ex- for the possible Scarcely has he fled from one pert. It is my impression that feminine intuition, this book university professore, and

to fallibility of liko

know-Cornishmen. the professor, will come from

entanglement in South Africa, per music and the dance,

not know PAYE sailing as sloward on a Poor Fish....

a lengthy bound for Bombay, than he is from the unearned income al-half novel, half blography-is others explore Anno Trencer Capetown: After

involved with the Yorkshire lowance, but, in his own langu- better wrliten and makes bel debate the South African Senate

India, age, he is a pretty smart cookie ter reading Rajah in decided that confining goldfish Reaching Persia, by means of a

wife

In other directions.-* in glass bowls was not cruelty pilgrim boat which catches fire, whit it ho will very kindly go asks When John J Clayton the fish were cold- because blooded and not embarrassed by he organises his life for a time

But the post is always out why his son, Bob Clayton, such captivity. One Senator re-round a Polish night club dan- over to Los Angeles and find. ferred indignantly to drawing cer

Next is drawing those big cheques room goldfish swimming in catching up with Nick. circles in bowls where you atop is the drug traffic in Syria against the firm's account, you lovely American girl may be sure that Whit does not could not swing a cat.

Admitting that there is more waste much time auditing the than tincturo of improbability books.

this war-time about Nick's story is to spirited, good- natured and consistently inven- VERY soon he is talling a red-Lofts, is "as good a storyteller

Modern Miracio Brisbane: Seven, hours after Trevor Dare, aged two, was electrocuted by touching an Woodon Steaks

electric iron socket,

a surgeon New York: The beefsteak is to transplanted the cornea of one be replaced by a nice plank of of his eyes to the eye of 54- highly seasoned oak. Harvard's year-old Anthony Cole, a blind Professor Eugene Rochow, who veteran of the first world war. 'colls himself a geochemist, says The surgeon hopes to restore nun is using up the world's the sight of one of Cole's eyes.

Slim Look resources faster than they can be replaced. That means, he says, New York: Two-shada that meat, eggs, even vegetables, nylons have arrived in New Lighter shades in blend.

and

3ge,

tive that you can class it among the more saleable items in the recent output,

THE

fiction

Romantic

CALF

VENUS

They all seem genuine to me

· especially the Cornish, a breed with which I am Insufficiently acquainted. CORNISHI YEARS (Cape, 12× 0d.) will please all men and women who have not forgotten their youth.

Two-in-hand

an early champion of the bill of

for rights a. young, struggling country, he likened to Thomas Jefferson, therefore the stamp also car- ries a vignetto of Jefferson,

THE United States Post-Omice

Issued a 6-cent air mail stamp through the Alexan- dria, Va., post offico, on May 11, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the founding of the city of Alexandria, VA,

SPECIAL

com- 3-cent memorative for the 200th anniversary of the founding of Washington and Leo University in Lexington, Ya. was lesued recently,

PANAMA has issued threa

ACCORDING to the Jacket of . FOR (Michael Joseph, Or, Gd) I once committed myself to the state-

new stamps to commem- orate the 100th anniversary ment that its author, Norah

of Miguel do Cervantes red as you will meet on

birth. The 2-centesimos A day's

Christabel Maxwell's two- head named Gwen and has march through

endieca ди

honours the Spanish novellet in-head

MAS when

blography

with his portrait, the 5e blue) got into the hotel-room

GATTY AND MRS ́ EWING Bob is being groomed for the library." I stand by that.

pictures a statue to Cervantes kill by on accomplished gang of Her present atory-period (Constable, 151.), my point is

and the 10c violet shows Don Mrs-Ewing made in a lotter cardsharpers. Then quite sud- 1801 romantically and tragi wrote describing her new hus-

Quixote and Sancho Panza. denly Bob is dead, right in the cally Involves Humphrey,

a band... "He and Misa Wetherall's | middle of the gume, polsoned.

SO unlike Trol-TRE Issued airmail And $25,000 missing!

doctor with young

lope's 4-Who did it? The problem is mald in a. Bury St, Edmunds heroes, and all the prigs or remi

probates, and, fidgete, and sel solved at last by Kitty, who is,

fish, unchivalrous used-up as you may recall, a great deal

coffee-house.

Jenny, a

BLACK SHEAR

SHEEP. By David Dodge. Michael Joseph. Bs. 6d. 206 pages. .... OR your attention, a quick are out in his brave new world. York shops.

stepping, cheerfully written Mainstay in man's' diet must be the front

into darker story of detection in which the more to Whit than the pretty times beats me, but then, it growling Britons one meets with trees, which can bo made shades at the seam and heel beam of suspicion switches from widow of his late delested part- digestible by converting their Idea behin it all: they are one character to another. In the

the wearer's most satisfactory manner ima- Pace, humour, exeltement. cellulose into sugars, And oven supposed to make trees cannot be wasted. Clothes legs look slimmer,

ginable.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WE'D LOVE TO

COME OVER + AUD SEE YOUR.

MOVIES,

ARS....

ER

BUT THE MISCIC IS

SICK IN

BED....

NOTING

SERIOUS,

Y'KNOW

BUT...

Elc.

w

ner.

---(London Express Service:

"OH,YES/WE'D LOVE TO HAVE YOU AND THE CHILDREN COME OVER, SOME TIME SOON. BE SURE AND PHONE IS FIRST

OR, BETTER

YET. LET

THE

CALL

YOU

Humphrey's behaviour some-

he had

been-08

cool-headed in books" and rational and insusceptible as I like to think I am, he

have been

mora tem- would

C

Just what I've been saying.

-(London Expres service). Į

two

stamps on April 4. The penny, shows the ancient ruins of the Rock of Cashel with the angel Victor, sym- soaring plane, bollsing overhead. The 1 shilling ple- tures the scente Glendalough Valley near Dublin with the 'winged figure of Vietor above.

The Soft Brush-Off"

BY KEMP STARRETT

"ITI'A SHAME, MR_FLOPPE ∙BUT WE CAN'T

HIRE ANYONE

UNTIL OUR BUDGET IS APPROVED

AID

PASSED!

Ele

OO! WHAT

LIAR.

WITH COME FOLKS TIE BRICH-OFF COMES AS EASY AS FALLING OFF A RIG.

TOO, BAD, JO! I'D LOVE TO LEND YOU TH BUNDRED, BUT

WE HAVE A

JOINT ACCOBIT

AT THE

·BANK

AND THE

WIFE IS

VERY...

"SORRY, OLD. "MAN." WEDE" BOTI ON A VEGETARIAN DIET...

HO TIDI ALLOWED

*NO, PACJIST

BRUSHING OFF THE JOB SEEKER IS AS EASY AS FORGETTING TO PAY THE GAS BILL... ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A GOVERNMENT JOB-HE'S AFTERMA¦

DOG-LITTING...

JITH A VICIOUS GREAT DANE

THE LADY OF TRE 'HOUSE' IS OUT," SAYS THE LADY OF THE HOUSE, STEP- PHG OUTSIDE TO. „MAKE IT TRUTITEL

ASCHE BRUCHES

•OFF THE BRISA *MANL

5.1.

SOME FOLKO NEVER KNOW THEY ARE BEING BRUKILD OFF UNLESS ITS DONE BY A PULLMAN PORTER........ OR HOW LUCKY THEY ARE ON CERTAIN OCCASIONS,

"AW GO ON

HOME!

WE

"DON'T

WANTNY

Ledger Syndicate

TOUGH, LUCK, ALL THE WIFE IS.

ALLERGIC TO „ADOG. HAIRE!

GIRLS