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Shipload Of Britons Sought Adventure

TALL ship furls andl, and anchors: a boatload of Bri-

A tons pull for the shore to seck fortune and adventure

In Afries.

SOUTH AFRIČA

It was 100 years ago, 'and wavo after wave of British

·Immigrants poured Into Natal ➡then a colony, now part of South Africa.

They opened up the right coast lands which stretch on either side of Durban, and began to grow sugar, coffee, wollon, and, later, les.

From the efforts of those British settlers the South Africans are reaping a rich harvest now, So the Govern- ment which does not tawue many new stampe-has pro- duced this commemorative one, showing the arrival of tho good ship Wanderer,

--(London Express Seroles)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

Wilfred's Answer Was "Pickles"

Progress

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 23, 1949.

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON gives his attention this week to a “surpassingly silly” novel

The tale of a GIRL and

an

OLD SCHOOL TIE

THE LAIRD AND THE in a secret room.

LADY. By Joan Grant, Methuon. 12. Od. 281 pages.

does nothing by halves,

Maryida's,

Joan Grant ships to Manchester Grammar School and then to Queen's College, Oxford. Leaving college he trampart the world with a rucksack on his back and has written voluminously of aven. He is 54 and what he has unmarried,

Marylda is now involved in an occult imbroglio. Rowan's grandfather, Hector had married ich American Emilio, who a rich IRST, a technical mat was supposed to have run off ter, Joan Grant de- with French chauffeur and com- clares that her hero, mitted suicido in Paris. Emilie, Sir Rowan Cairdrie, is "the it turns out, is a relation of 23rd laird of a small but belligerent clan."

Let it be establishest once and for all that "laird" is not the title of a clan official. It is a lowland Scottish term for landed proprietor, not a peer, who holds immediately from the King

It la possible, of course, that Sir Rowan thinks he is the "laird" of Clan Cairdrie, Io was educated at Winchester, and

"Curlews

In fact, Hector klijed Emilic,

bricked up the body and faked

Scot free Marylda. developing second sight among the Grampians, makes contact with the past, laye the ghosts and clears Emilie's name.

HUNTING THE FAIRIES. By Compton Mackenzie. Chatto and Windus. 10, 6d. 281 pages.

manty.

DI

BUT if you have a fixed anti- Dpathy to the whole shadowy her elopement. Later on Je hanged himself. Neither tragedy, realm of Celtle faery, Mackenzie came to light, a reflection on the is the man for your

From his keep at Kilwhile, ho Scottish police force,

carries out a hilarious forny against the whole horde brownies, kelpies, monsters and bogles. The Ossianic Society of Boston, Mass., send an exped!- on to Scotland so that the facts about the fairies can at last be A story. in other words, of established. surpassing silliness. The sooner Mr Mackenzie's fairies drinks we get clever Joan Grant back like Ash and go down fighting. on the banks of the Nile, about The funniest excursion into the time

the of

Eleventh Celtic. Mythology since the Dynasty, the better for all con-. Braemar Gathering' was invent- cerned

extraction, was born th Lon-

ed. JOAN GRANT, novelist of Sent.. COMPTON MACKENZIE, den in 1907. She is married and has one daughter. Her first novel. Winged Pharaoh, was published in

CHICAGO: Question asked of the will of his mistress, he slept he calls whaups Wilfred Pickles by a Chicago in her bedroom and was bathed There is no paying how far the radio quiz master: "What does in her bathroom. Hia 26-a-young man has fallen from 57 remind you of?" Pickles' week guardian ia in hospital. Grace. answer: "Pickles." His prizes for The house is to be sold, on con-

So much for pedantry, being right-a free lunch and ditton that Rip is buried in the In France, Rowan meets an dinner, a cruise down the river, garden when he dies.

American girl, Marylda Lovell, six white shirts, jewellery for

Her rent surname is Blenkinsop. his wife and a cowhide briefense, No Ordinary House but Marylda is hiding the Blen- NEW YORK: Headline from

kinsop millions and fleeing from New York newspaper on Prin- the social whirl. She travels ceas Elizabeth's

into with a wardrobe containing my 1937. She lives in Wales. movo Clarence House "Princess tries Violet Schiaparelli."

a garnet- palace-keeping."

red satin from Dior, a grey

HONEY FOR THE Halenciaga, 迎

GHOST. By Louis Gold- Keep the Homa printed linen from

ing. Hutchinson, 12s. 6d. Jacques Fath and a mink coat. guise of genteel poverty, Maryida Under this impenetrable dis-

412 pages. makes lovo

to Rowan. Her MR GOLDING, too, has suc- nicthods are not those of a lady. His response is not that of any laird I ever heard of

NEW YORK: Negroes will feach whiles for the first time at Harvard, America's Cambridge, and at Brown University, this nutumn Harvard took on Pro- fessor William Hinton. bactériologist, and Brown ap- pointed Professor J. Saunders to its English department."

"

Sooing the sights NEW YORK: One of New York's top attractions to tourists this summer I UNO's hend quarters at Lake Success. What most tourists want to see, ac- cording to a UNO official, is Mrs Eleanor Roosevell, who is one of America's delegates, and the Russland.

Tardy twin OTTAWA: Twins, a girl and then a boy, were born 47 hours spart to Mrs Lucien Cleroux.

She paddles enticingly In a stream, wears three frocks in to one sentence, and is discovered

соп

cumbed to

the bacillus

hocus-pocus that lies in walt

for unwary novelista somewhere begond Perth.

Jim Gunning, an ex-soldier with TB, fees from the threat of

DAB and FLOUNDER

By WALTER

GANE

FUN FAIR

3 RIGHT

11

Parson's Novel Breaks Hall Caine's Record

By Montague Lacey

72-YEAR-OLD parson, now on a sick bed in Call- fornia, has written a novel which is breaking records in Britain.

More than 250,000 copios -atacked one

on the other they would reach 57 times the hoight of St. Paul's Cathe- drl

had

been ordered

by the book-

PARBON

AUTHOR Looked doors,

shops and Alled church. libraries be-

fore publication day.

Here's my idea of comfort

60 years old now, has been writing Tovels for more than 40 years. I began with The Passionate Elops- ment in 1911. Followed by Carnival,

UNDAY morning, le Sinister Street, Guy and Pauline, a-beds will appreciate Sylvia Scortell, Extraordinary Wo- men, The Four

the touch of luxury Winds of Louw, Guard Turning this bedside wall-fitment can educated at St. Paul's and Magdalen add to the occasion. and a great many others. He w

College, Oxford: ha is the president of the Stamere Cat Club; he lives at Denchmorth Manor, near Wan-

tage, Berkshire, THE THREE FEARS. By Stagge. Michael Joseph. Bs. 6d. 255 pages.

Jonathan

I made my fitment from 1-inch timber, but 4 inch

stuff will do. Pieces

re-

quired: Backboard and book-

shelf, each 12ins. by Gins; table top, 12ins. square; back of bookshelf, 12ins by

-BAYS CHIPPY

The book, called "THE NIG FISHERMAN," is a story of Jesus in the Holy Land, now the now country of Israel, The Big Fisherman is Simon entled

Peter, the disciplo who lald

down his fishing nets on the Sco of Gallice to follow Jesus to Gethsemane, and then to deng Him, yet later to become the greatest of the first leaders and teachers of Christianity;

Background of the book is the years when the clanking armour of the Roman soldier was beard everywhere, and the land was a polyglot of warring peoples through which heard the Voice of Jesus.

Was

Lloyd C. Douglas, born in a village parsonage in Indiane. and parson himself for the last 40 years, is the author.

He has never been to England; but has spent most of his years preaching and lecturing in the US.

When, In 1015, he became minister of Ann Arbor Church, Michigan, he startled the cons gregation by telling them that this doors of the church would be closed at 10.45 on Sunday mornings.

People thought it funny-bul crowded to church the first Sun- day to me if it was true. It was And for six years the doors of his church were locked a quar ter of an hour before 'worship, o started.

table top but angle brackets bo added to give extra

may

income from tios TORONTO: Joan Curtis James, 20, did not like the Canadian man's laste in loud neckties when the came Canada two years ago an an air "ainbathing." "Sony," he says, an operation. In the Highlands Immigrant from

London. She "I didn't know you were there." he falls in with an odd old HERE is an excellent detective 9ins; sides of bookshelf, was shocked to find that men

woman named

Miss Lemuel,story which is also a divert-10ins. by Bins. paid as much as £3.155 for a You and a moon who has been unbalanced since ing satire on radio advertising hand-painted one. But she was pleaned when she found that on oneself what

But, just when one la asking the death of her adored nephew, and the jealousies of rival Cuts are made in the book- strength,

Edward. top of her £11 0.

Queens of the Stage, Winchester week at a

shelf and table top to take the film distributing company in

have done to Rowan, he makes

As St practising devil-

Somebody wants very badly to side pieces of the bookshelf as Toronto,

make WASHINGTON: Sir Alexan-

she could

an recovery, warning Maryido worshipper she persuades Jim to murder the Divine Daphne Win- shown in the diagram. The other der

painting ties that "the combination of you sign a compact with Satan. ters, First Lady of the Ameri-backboard is screwed into the Fleming, discoverer

£18 of

the horrid She has

moon and a couple of He will be given back his health can Stage. pencillin, is, of course, a Scots- with outdoor scenes man. A photographer seeking a turned to earning £6 5s. a nightingales in more than most condition that he allows the deed have been attempted by

time painting scarves "different" pune of him used up

with men can take without reverting host of Edward to enter his Lucy Milliken, America's Most

Beloved Actress?. body. a duzen plates to get it. Count scenes from British Alms, in- to the primitive."

"Red Shoes," "Blue ing each one, Sir Alexander cluding asked him what they all cost. Lagoon," and "Tinder-box."" "My" he said, "Four and six is a lot of money. Is it worth it for my picture?"

The Canny Scot

110 w

and a

Five paragraphs further on, the beast is unleashed.

on

Whether Jim's plight is medi- cal, psychic or theological re- niains a matter of anxious doubt, lle is saved at last by a meeting with his son. The demonic Miss Lemuel dies by an overdose of drugs.

They marry in Parts and de Food for Britain part for the Never-Never-High AUCIELAND; To help in lands, where Rowan, although crease food shipments to Britain, not one of "the real landowners," Grave guarantee

the New Zealand Government is has 100,000 acres. Room to toss VANCOUVER: Rip, a ten- to encourago a large increase in a caber.

For those who like their year-old wire-haired fox-terrier the use of tertilisers.

His castle. Farmers

Cloud, has Adam witchcraft wrapped in a Gaelle with an Income of £4 10s a will get subsidies, prices will be celling, curtains of Charles II. mist, the contents of Mr Gold week, has been guaranteed 4.cut, and three new fertiliser stump-work, Waterford glass

ing's cauldron are as good as grave by ruling of Mr Justice plants will be set up. Planes sconces, Venetian mirrors, Geor. any in sight. MacFarlane, Rip was tumed will spread top-dressing in hill gian sliver, two ghosts and the t

• Louis GOLDING: novellat, out of the house where, under country.

corpse of a murdered lady lying

born in Manchester, He won scholar

trauslier, lecturer,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

AN EL GOT SUDDENLY SICK SO I HAD T' FIR' "A DOCTOR TITAN' THEN .............

OI.IT WASH VERY

SHAD!"

Can

Anyhow, the attempt faile Twice. Two promising young

sacrificod to

Ilves

the

assassin's ill-aimed malice. And one begins to ask: Is he (she?) really trying to kill the Divine Daphno after all?"

A clever reader will probably before it la guess the truth revealed. This reader did not.

• JONATHAN STACCE La pleudonym of two thors. They also write under two other paudonyms,

-{London Express Service)

THE FUNNY MAN

THE

WALL BATTER

Ono Sunday Mr Douglas' said. he didn't want any more pen- nien in the collection bankets. The next Sunday there was such a weight of copper offered

The weight of the fitment is to the church that the deacons carried by a batten plugged to fairly staggered down the aisles the wall beneath the table top with It The piece is also plugged to the

wall

through one of the pieces of the bookshelf.

side

DURING the

war he

wroto "The Rabe," which fret pu Where screw heads will show they should be countersunk into him among the world's biggest the wood, and the holes filled { sellers." with

plastic wood and cand-!

papered flush with the surface. Pro-publication orders for his new novel, which is printed in

•

If you want to stain your fit-Britain, have come from 43 ment, use a spirit stain or wood countries, Empire and sorvign dye to match the rest of your not Including America. furniture.

Publishers in this country: belleve that the previous record cubscription for a was held by Hall Caine. It was new novel

about 100,000.

A covering of lino will give a washable surface, but the edges of the line must be protected by narrow wooden fllicts,

-{London Express Service)

(*Peter Davies, 12s. (1)

-{London Express, Serpize}

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