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The

World Waltzed

To This

T

Man's Music

a world which has wallzod to his muste, diere now goes out this stamp portrait of Johann Stratiam.

Ito siaried life as a bank clerk, but at 19 conducted bla own orchestra în. Vienna, and began writing the first of 300 wallace.

Jotted them down on his culis, on

Johnattaspromontebanknotes, even on the bea sheels. ΣΤΟΥΣ HROMEBOOKTE absent-minded and it the fire with them. He wrote the "Blue Danube" to cheer the Austrians after they had lost a masinat · Frizzyła In 1860. For his success he was hailed the Waits Xing.

War

He vislied Covent Garden, then went „do Aambeien, and weith 100 ximistani sonduc- for led an orchestra of 1,000 in Boston. "We started together at a pistol shal," he said, "but how we stopped together I don't Kinw."

The stamp, lasued by Austria, commemorates the K0th saniversity of Sirsim's death.

Face valuez une schilling (about 78); Perforation: 1916 by 14; Colour: blue; ef venzse, "

--fLondon Express Service)

FROM HERE AND THERE :

Mickey's Mistake

Was Going

Going Out

rival

who still swimming. He was taken gangsters, to Darwin hospital auffering

Snorers' First Aid

· HOLLYWOOD: Hollywood 75 yards from the shore and gangster Mickey Cohen, was shot by has a radar screen in his home from exhaustion. which picks up any moving ob- fect entering the grounds.” Hia inistake way to go out from bo- hind it and stay out at a night- club until 3.45 am. They shot him at the nightclub door.

Walls Have Eyes

NEW YORK: A department store "sicep shop" advertises a Enorer's first atd kit 'for £1 103. 04. It includes ear stoppers for lateners, a chin strap to keep the jaw from sagging, a shoreball to fasten on the back of the pyjamas, and a mouth guard.

NEW YORK: For televiewers who just cannot do without it, bet or while eating. ,even in

Off the Pog they have developed TV'sets to

WELLINGTON: Thieves, who be built into dining-room and

a large store by bedroom walls But no archi- broke into teet has rebelled. He has built smashing a window with stones

Te can now wrapped in newspapers, movable walls.

spent men's shut off his corner of the living- room while the rest of the family watches the screen.

Handyman

in

STOCKHOLM: Want ad. recent Svenska- Dagbladet here: "English-speaking Italian, who was guide to HRH Princess Margaret Rose during her re- cent visit to Capri, sccks post in home In Stockholm of. suburbs Good cook,

Children lika gardener.

Good zallor.”

Lost Horizon

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butler,

me.

ona

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6

1949,

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON sums up a best-sellera 450,000-word novel

-which took seven years to write-then the author killed himself

(250,000 copies sold)

FLIBRARY LIST

1,000 pages about one

day

in a US town

ERE is a novel which daunts the mind, strains the It runs to moro than 450,000 words, about five times the usual length of a novel, and it occupies more than 1,000 pages of print.

Hevesight, and appeals to the heart.

in

replied. "I have almost con- vinced myself."

His reputation survived even this gaffe. Such is the generosity of the public towards its honest Libernis,

Harold Nicolson, in this terse blography Imperfectly concenis his Impatience with his half- preposterous hero.

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THE BANQUET CEASES, Mary St Macdonald, is 10.; 421 pages. Competent detection. Acter the party, somebody polaons Ber- nard Smith Wilson the million- air. Is it his friend Rupert, whom ha is apparently trying to rulo? Or his sinister vecretary, Holmest The story has grip.

LOVE IN MILDENSKE. Dy Naco Royds smith. Hampers Low, Bach: 970 pages. Pifasant. Jejaure), novel about a "CATENE school ip-Lauzantie? Good charactor drawing.

• •

THE END OF THE WORLD. Dy Geoffery Dennis Kyre and pot Itswoode # 60.: 024 Sca Nearly 10 years ago this book won the lawthornden Prize fu rich. rhythmic prose will impress a new generation which may suspect that the end of the world la nöt simply a matter of fantasy,

By

the

Cape.

FAMILY BACKGROUND. Gladys Beatt ThamLMO 13. JO, 60, 255, paroo From archives of, thà Bedford family

bygino England and the rise of the

RAINTREE COUNTY. By Ross Lockridge, life-story assumen the quality Macdonald. 15s. 1056 pages.

of legend. John. becomes the hero

of the lost Republic of American Innocence, and the girls he loved.

HAROLD NICOLSON, author are nymphs caught in the brake.

and critic born in Tehran in A formidable

pootic and 1886, educated at Wellington arid 'Oxford, He is married to deeply rewarding novel..

Victoria Sackville Wert and ROSS LOCKRIDGE was born they have two sons. He was in Bloomfupton, Indiana, in the diplomatic service for many It engulfs the imagination inĮ warning. By a masterpiece of 1914. In his teens he became the years and has been an MP.

confusing, a vast,

beautiful misplaced ingenuity, each sce- fastest shorthand toriter in In- narrative and reflection. It is a unfinished sentence, the last tancour scholarships to Yale and a British Agent. By Jer-Russells tragi-comedy with a personal word of which links up with the to Harvard. He travelled In rard Tickell. Chapman and tragedy behind it.

Arnt word of the next section. Switzerland, Italy, England, and For seven yearn Rosa Lock-

15s. 334 pages. #tudied at the

Hall. He Sorbonne. with over-grown ridge, of Bloomington, Indiana,

Aymbolism, It is Intensely was married and there are four tolled on Raintree County American. It is plagully dia- children,

THIS story is told in an overs Teaching English by day, he cursive. It begins for too many worked by night on

the book, sentences

with the perilous six nights a week, year after monosyllable "0," year.

and irritating web of mingled ton of the story ends with an diana. He was awarded simul- ODETTE. The Story of come less fascinating alimpses of

The monstrous birth occurred,

came

LL of which makes it the.

BENJAMIN CON- STANT. By Harold Nicol- Constable. 188, 290

Bon.

pages.

CONSTANT,

But

even.

worked style. As if there were any need to underline the danger and the heroism.

Its undistinguished garb cannot mar the splendour of a tale of Incredible bravery A quarter of a million coples A more vital to remark that PENJAMIN

and

The poignant suffering. were sold. Hollywood forward with £37,000 of prize Rabtree County has page after Franco-Swiss politician and war record of Odette Sansom,

page of witty, moving

and man of letters in the age of now Mr Peter Churchill, GC, is a menorial, not only to her enkindling writing. The mood is Napoleon, wan a donkey, but n lyrical, elegiac, the herole fes clever donkey, a donkey with own glory but to her sisters-in- arms who faced the all-but- and drums of Maxching Through the right opinions. In love

certainty of hidcous Georgia

and politics, he was alike high- behind the German lines. A And Johnny Shawnessy does Rouled and absurd, march through Georgin and

Arriving in

JERRARD TICKELL, now in Paris, aged 20, fight at Gettysburg.

gawky, ugly and precocious, he his early 40's, was educated at He had oved the green-eyed fell in love with a woman of the Abbey Tipperary. In an the Nell Gaither, and had married 17. An egocentric in search of

war. (through a misplaced sense of a stronger ego than his own, honour) the fire-scarred South'n he was later engulfed by Ma- lady, Susanna Drake. In Sue, dame de Stael taking her (and

the liberal) side against Na the "nigger-hater,"

poleon. dusity strain.

money. A priest denounced the book OM "bombast, mank obscenity, materialistic philo- sophs

and blasphemous im- pudicity."

No symptom

fame was missing.

of

AND then Ross Lockridge was found, dead of monoxide pelzoning, in his locked Aged 34. He died the of hla Deven ycart

there is a

death

advertising agency before

joined up as a private in

1940 obtained a commission str months later, served in Africa,

Middle

East Madagascar Washington, West Indies and In an attempt to free himself European theatre, assisted in at Ravensbruck this outsize

Prosecution Circe, he

toar gullt concentration camp married-and then lacked the trial.

de to tell Madamo courage

carefully fabel to commit suleide twica

Karage. victim Jabour. long time trying on

She hides the secret; it bring In the strictest sense of the

her to madness and the killing from County is a wear for size before leaving the words, Raintree

of her child. shop with goods in stolen sult-man's fework. cases. The safe containing the It is a description of the takings was

undisturbed but events of one day at the small home to the

Johnny files from his broken Union army and the floor was fittered with over- town of Waycross, in Raintree the Civil War. He hopes to not fit.

they knocked at the door of a

asked the

And

County Independence Day, return to Nell. But bo i

speech.

doca

-

Stael what he had done. He VALLEY OF SOUND. Bý

Lewis Arnold. Evans Brothers. 9. 6d. 265 pages.

the has deve of the outstand B Folsworth falls in love with eve of Waterloo, he LINDED by the war. Alan

history.

he seeks recovery.

coats and trousers which would

1092. The events are mostly wounded and thought to be A Hiking King

humorous and satirical, A dead. When he comes back to COPENHAGEN: Ex-King General makes a patriotic Raintree County, Nell Michael and Princess Anne are

married his old friend-enemy touring Norway. Late one night A Senator, a genial fraud. Garland Jones and has died in ing political blunders is ult a woman planist whom he en-

dito. A prize bull is childbirth. zemote hikers' bought-gowned affording an edifying spectacle brought to д helfer, ihus

Having announced, publicly in counters in the valley where Unhappily, Years after, Johnny, turned print, that he would wait in she turns out to be the daughter, landlady if she could possibly to privileged spectators. And schoolmaster, marries, one of his Paris for the arrival (and the of a notorious traitor whose put them up for the night, and a libidinous revivalist leads a pupils, Esther Root, whose vengeance) of the Corsican

in mob to the assault of John Lather, Gideon, Joves her with oppressor, ha

name is as odiously familiar as offering, to make their bed, shawnessy falsely supposed to a more than paternal love. The Napoleon's closest collaborator Quisling's. In the end, this ob-i the morning. The landindy showed the couple to a modest have been making free with

stacle is swept aside and Alan room and retired. She was covoted ewo of the revivalist's

gets back his sight. On Independence Day, 1802, surprised next morning when flock.

and he broods over this life in the

Emotionally immature, the couple signed the register

Engrafted to these ceremonies company of

somewhat confused in purpose, "Princess

Senator Garland Anne" ond Michael, King."

Is the real story--the life and Jones, that pompous (but agree-

this novel will appeal to those loves

the

said John able) Action, and "Professor" back Constant wrote an apology. Intention is conveyed with naive, who do not complain if a sincere Shawnessy during the latter Stiles, the humorous dialectical Louis XVIII deleted half of the nineteenth century, and bawdy cynic, who is John from the

his name but honest, sentiment. list of exilea "You The telling is full of infuriat Shawnessy's pagan other-sell.

seem to have convinced

• LEWIS ARNOLD, educated at a the ing tricks. It jumps from one

And as memory roams back 'King," salda friend.

Weh public school and Cambridge, year to another with hardly a and forth

"That has worked in advertising, written across the past, the does not surpise me," Constant plays, short stories and film scripts.

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of

DARWIN: Elliott Arnold, aged 64, who is short-sighted, went for a swim in the sea off Darwin at seven o'clock evening. A strong tide carried him out and he lost sight land, so he stayed in the water all night. After three hours a dinghy fisherman saw him but mistook him for a crocodile and put back to shore. Next morn- ing a police launch found him

University Bop LOS ANGELES: Bebop, the new Negro jazz, has been added

musle curriculum to the

California University.

of

of

marriage is happy.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

became one of This he did under the influence of Madame de Recamier, an exceptionally empty-headed beauty.

When

the

Bourbona сабле

CHRISTOPHER COLUMDUB, ny Salvador do MadariagW. Halli and Carter 18 This contro versial book seeks, among other things, to murwer the question, Who was the man who rediscovered the New World? Madariaga thinku. ho was a Spanish Jew.

*

*

A BELGIAN MANOR IN'TWO WARS. Dy Charles d'Ydowalis Macmillan, 10% 40.1 200 pages This book of reminiscences has two focal points: the plour Belgian gentry of Bruges, and Chent; and the Franch soldiers with whom the author entered Paria in 2044.

London zzprata Service.

DAB and FLOUNDER. -by WALTER

ALCORDING

STAMP NOTES

11

17ARE the hills rise dim hlue

round the village of Glin”...** dalough, in Wicklow, people still talk in their soft triah brogue about Kovia, a good- looking young saint "who aludted there,

They say ho built a tile house and lived happily until a colleen named Kathleen took his mind off his work. Then Kevin drowned her, and ever since, they say, no bird has sung near Glendalough.

To cheer the people up after all this, the Government has put the village on its now

shilling birmall stamp, and uded the Angel Victor, who has a better reputation tham Kevin, and was, messenger to 81 Patrick.

These are probably the last stamps to carry the name Eire na it has just been; changed, to Republle"of Iro- ind." They look good náð, should rise in valué,

CANADÁ· “has recently issued two new sets. The first was on June 6 to

celebrate the birthday of King George VI. The set comprises. Ave stamps: 1 eent, green;. brown; 3c, purple; 4c,

red,

and de, blue. They show the king wearing mufti instead of, the military uniform shown in the old set

On June 21 a special 4 cont purple was issued to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the founding of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The stamp bears 'a sceno based on a C, W. Jof- freys painting entitled "Tho Founding of Halifax, 1740.”

THE

HE Dominican Republic has Issued two stamps--a 3- centavos bluc and a. 27- centavos olive green to com- memorate the San Francisco i church built by Spanish 'mis- sionaries in Santo Domingo.

A

NEW stamp is helping to build holiday hostels for boys and girls of all nations who visit the Saar-formerly German, now run by France. The people pay 10 francs (24d.) for the stamp and give an extra 7 francs (11⁄2d.) for the hostela.

These will provide hikers and cyclists with bed and n bath for about Is. 6d. a night, and there may be meals, too.

"Along About Now

BY KEMP STARRETT

"

Ledger Syndicats!

ALONG ABOUT NOW N/L COULD DO WITH A LITTLE REMOTE CONTROL ON THAT MESS OF GRASS.

ALSO JUST ABOUT NOW WE COULD USE: SOME OF THAT NASTY, COLD STUFF WE HAD

TOO MUCH OF LAST VINTER

WE COULD ALSO USE A MÁGIC.

WEED-VAND THAT YANKS", "EM

OUT AU DROPS

ALONG ABOUT HOW SOME OF US. COULD DO WITHOUT THOSE WEEK- END PLEASURE TRIDS" AS EASILY AS WE COULD GET ALONE WIN!–. QIT TIE INCOME TAX,

...OR A LUKTY CASE OF SMALL-POX.

'EM DEAD.

SOULFOLKS JIKT ABOUT NOW

COULD GET ALONG VERY

NICELY VITIOUT THE GREAT OFFDOORS

ÅND ALONG ABOUT NOW A

| LOT OF LADY FOLKS, HAVE, HAD ABOUT ALL THEY CAN TAKE OF VACATION.

FSCICOL WOULD ONLY OPEN

OLMY BACK? GOSH/ROCKS

ONLY THINGS TIL GARDEN THAT NE BUDE VOIT

YEAR

"PED UP WAR "TROSE,

COVERS THAT DROP WHEN REGRUB

COUT READY TO EAT. MED.

"WE DONT HAVE TO:

AT UNTIL THIS LATE DITE TO GET BORED AND TIRED FROM PICKINGA AND PARTING UP ROMEN