1949-09-17 — Page 11

He Disguised Himself

As A- Walter

NE of the

ONE

great adventurers about whom

Mialian

chlidren learn is a delicate boy who grew strong fighting is ses their country free-Gluseppe Masalai.

Italy was ruled then by Austrism and their puppet Italian dukes. They defeated Maxxini and his rebels many Ansen» sand » sentenced him to death. Dat be disguised himself as a walter, escaped to London in a ship and carried on his campaign.

*.- Eventually, the rebels wen. Italy because na Independent kingdom`in ́1801. disappointed He had plotted for a repubilo.

Marzini WAS

To commemorate him (1805-72) his country ham lasued this stamp Face values 20 lire (about 24.); perforation: 14 by 14....

-London Express Burplice)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

No Welcome For

The

CAPETOWN:

Stranger

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1949.

215,000 Americans

buy a

a book

MONK

a

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON FLECTED SILENCE: the development for a clever young autobiography of man in the days of the Spanish

Civil War. Thomas Merton. 'Hollis» Flut lready theology

and Carter. 15., 381 pages.

And

*

about

-Grandma is on the other de of the Great Divide and, in moments of crisis, will shout: "God Save the King"

Just another. and noisler, Life with Father? That would be an injustice. The book hus wild fun and genuine Inven

tlon, amid ita uprohr. ........ And Grandpa, who is a Freethinker as well as a Sinn Feiner and preying on his mind ono day he runs into church, off at euperstition" in the as if seized by sudden panle, intervals of denouncing Orange- RELIGIOUS ex-**

and black Church la, however,

Republi- not men perlenco must, in the enough for him. He will bo n

cang Grandpa amourTM monk. nature of things, con- priest.

tain an element that cannot austere the bottom the more 'Lainous character, *

[be communicated.

The disturbing event in the life of Saul of Tarsus which overtook him on the road to Damascus-wo do

His decision to become Trappist (a silent" order) is taken when he is 27. It is the very eve of Pearl Harbour; his anxiety in that the Draft Doard, which hnd rejected

_*RUTH_MCKENNEY was born in Cleveland, Ohio, Married; solth thres *, children she now lives in London. Her book' My Suter Elleen soos a best seller, was flimed and uses a Broadway museeride a_play,' sun' ning for two years. She is now working on a book about England in collaboration with her husband.

JOURNAL. By JAN'S

Ronald Duncan.' Cam- pion. 81, 6d. 167 pages. UT of his Saturday arilcies

not doubt its reality; yet wem, may now claim him.

carbon copy of a novel

BUID

Journal of My Ea- the Nazis accom-

entilled do not quite understand it.

The came is, to

de cape from The stranger the station they will broadcast who stood at the back of the mute, baseball or football re-ree, true of the experience panies him on his way to the And in the train room while the young, couple sulta, ilme signals, and

Thomas Merton monastery,, news which befell were married at a magistrate's ashes. ocurt

recently. came forward. after the ceremony and .ATM. reste:! the bridegrooms

groom

on

off an he went

the detective,

with

Family tree

centrie

In the boarding-house on 114th "I asked God to wake me up Street. Just behind the Colum- at Galion, Ohio," bla Library.

has

this Merton

written п - CAPETOWN: Two center- housebreaking charge. "No arians,died

about it, book

and 215,000 leaving recently

coples have been sold in the honeymoon" moaned, the bride between them 330 descen-

dants

United States. It is a revela One hundred-year-old tion, but it leaves much un- Mrs Elizabeth Auser of Kim-

It begins in the berley left five children, 46 revealed. Insects stop trains

Pyrenees and ends in a Trap grandchildren, 150 great-grand- ROME: Hordes of tiny in children

Kreat Plst monastery in Kentucky. and

Reven

Stare by stage wo follow the Betts have cilsrupted trains great-grandetsʻldren. Mrs

Journey, We see the trajec- ninning into Milan from Como. Pens Katze of Hopefield,

tory; the Impulsion 104,

remains locally called Province, agted There parasites,

children, 30, grandchildren, 15 beyond our knowledge. "Doria" have already ren-

But there it is, beyond A dered the Como aren useless Ereat-grandchildren

doubt, giving unity to the potato crop. great-great-grandchildren.

for next year's

They have now swarmed over long lengths of the railway line, piling up to three inches thick, and pending the driving wheels of locomotives skidding

wildly

with

in a well-known London newspaper Jan the Devon far- mer has made a little book rich in the lore of the country- 'side and the idiosyncrosy of

one exceptional countryman.

There are many ways to became, a farmer, but few so roundabout as Jan's

113 is, indeed.

•THERE

ege element in this book. In places, it is down- right panelimonious to the lay mind. Its literary quailty

He bought an Arab horse, varies. But there can be na proposing to ride it to Con-

sincerity mistaking the

and continople. In the meantime, the eloquence with which the horse needed hay, co Jnn Merton conveys the spiritual bought fleld; it needed corn. tension and emotional weight so he bought a farm. Having e of monastic worship.

farm, ho must learn to run ft. Being a clever man, he made The world is well lost is this. then, an escape himself

successful farmer. whole experience so that an story? The theory of mon- And having the writer's gift, apparently troping

business asticism Is, not

this vivid, good- simply that he makes proves, in the end, to be pur- monics flee the sinful world, natured book out of his adven- posive and unerring. Thirty be

by creating a disposable sur-tures, plus of merit, they may pro' of the less cure the salvation

Jur- Cupe left six

and

two

Heaven-s (c) ont

WELLINGTON:

of bad smell from a Wellington beach may end up. In disguise

• RONALD DUNCAN, port, play. right and West Country former. Author of This, Way to the Tomb, 34, married, two children.

BLOOD AND IRON

** DAB and FLOUNDER

-by Walter....

The

11

You Know Where

You Are With

Countess

The

THE EMPEROR'S DUCHESS. By Countess."

Peter Davis', 10s. 6d 324 pages.

Waldeckt.

ND so, what?" the Cardinal aneured." . -With--

these words, the practised reader knows exactly

••• where Countess Waldeck has taken him. To

the Age of Napoleons Just look at the furniture.” It seems to consist mainly of chaises longues. This is known as the Empire Style.

eyes.

Laure, the countess's times the virtues seem frighten- heroine, leans back in her ngiy Inconsequential... While chaise longue (p.66); throws she is trying to puzzle it all out

she meets Metternich, the Aus herself on it (p.88); relaxes irian Ambassador. comfortably. against its Metternich shakes her till her cushions (p.111); is flung teath, rattle. She observes the upon it by her husband, humid palpitating corners of his who then attempts murder the sharp and painful sweetness She gave herself, up to with a pair of gold scissors which went wave after compel

Even this dia. ling wave through her body. (p.223), agreenble incident does not night was suddenly loud with the The perfumed stillness of the cure Laure. She is back on wild humming of her blood." that chaise longue by p.287.

Laure decides (some pages the Duchesse later than the reader) that the LAURE IS

d'Abrantes, wife of Junot, simple Christian virtues ono of Napoleon's stupider beyond her strength. "Take me

to the grotto," she murmura. Hor In other carrier her zag¬ilf,sho. weze unfaithful with weightless. The same ray of moonlight glides, over her check and his

generals. Junot loves her in a military sort of way. words he is

Napoleonie regularity.

Laure cannot make up her mind whether she really loves Junot or not. The simple Christian virtues hold her to her duty. But she notices that some»

General Is Outspoken

By MILTON SHULMAN

\{[/HEN Lieut-general Sir As a pioneer in tank warfare,

#ro

There is a lot la be said for the Old Diplomacy."

Junot says it with the gold scissors.......

!

MPRESSED

in Paris Doudoirs. Walking JUST before the decisive mo- deserving.

ment in his life, Marion, a Lawlor saw a youth of 23, hd been reading is an idea strange to i The Eagle fas Two Heads, Aged Gifford Martel decided to Martel, gives an authoritative reception wearing all his decora-

Two chemists William

Blake and James

IL

tao Protestant mind, and stranger to the Protestant conscience.

guides to the

Roman Church

gulded Thomas Merton.

they

with her three-year-old daugh- Once too often

ter Mrs Mavis CAPETOWN: A Durban fatty substance. policeman, Reuben Annandale, scoffed at the idea of its being Joyce; he had been meeting But nobody will find it strange 24, showed guests at a party ambergris. But a laboratory an engaging Bittle Hindu my- that this impressive, uneven how cowboyn

identifled it gambled

Bramachari. A book The family col-stle named death. He explained that I feeted more in a night search. strange trio of the cylinder of a revolver was

The French Legation gave Roman Church! Maybe, but in- well oiled and only one car-

them three Paris addresses, and to the tridge put in, the weight of all Mre Lawlor wants now is the cartridge would pull then export licence. (Note: value loaded chamber to, the bottom of 30 lbs of ambergris is about when the cylinder was spun. £1,080). He knelt down and performed · the trick three times puccess- fully. But the fourth time there was a bang, and Con- stable Annandale crumpled up, dond.

Plossing the braves

i

Immense has had

in America success

**THOMAS MERTON was born in amall town in the Pyrenees near the Spanish borfar in 1915. Transl- The path had, of course.

led with his father to Bermuda and then to France, where he wɑn cầu, been prepared. Merton, son of cated. Entered a troppist monastery a New Zealand father and an in Kentucky and is now studying American mother, spent for the priesthood. nomudle boyhood. He was un- THE LOUD RED PAT. happy, irascible, probably un- RICK. By Ruth Mc. NEW YORK: In a belated likeable. "Ill-adjusted" is the

Kenney. Rupert Hart- attempt

up for all fashionable term. He "belong- to make the flims in which the Ameri- ed" nowhere.

Davis. 6. 239 pages. And he had o cnn redskin has been the bliter dislike for what he saw villian, Hollywood is suddenly of modern civilization.

and more IT La a generation

left NEW YOLK: Season-licket making no fover than six films

vince the Flannigans Giving up Cambridge (whero uso Grand Cen- glorifying America's holders who

first in he behaved badly) and a pro- Ireland, but the war with the York's habitants. of New

But it is not all Jected

British Saxon oppressor B

stili goes on cathedral-liko terminals, have conscience. In its search for diplomat, he became Come in Cleveland, Ohio, and Grand-

a paying customers, Hollywood munist student in New York. pa

the boen promland that within

sobs

ho sings month it will not be so boring wants to please veryone in He signed tho pacifit

an do ballad,

Jike me walling for a train. All over the dollar market.

claration. It Wha a typical I-rish soldier."

الدين

Keeping them amused

Одо

career

Fu

"Shoot

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WAY DON'T YOU HAVE A REGULAR.

PLACE TOR EVERYTHINGS

I COULD. ARRANGE YOUR

THINGS SO YOU COULD PUT

YOUR HANDS

ON RIGHT WHEN YOU NEED 'EM!

BTC.

LILIBRAR

USTA

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• ISHALL NOT WANT. By_Norman 447 BETL Collins. Collins 7 od Reilsum Austera and shapely, the drama of John Marco's life untolds from the moment he strain £150 of the chapel's money so as to marry, the gies whom. fater heat throw over An unlovable man

he does not yot sympathy.

by his violenco, Laure gives up Metternich and is not unfaithful to her hus band for another 37 pages. Hor. now lover la marquis of the ancient regime with beautiful. legs. Still her friends think it is a comedown after Metternich.

As for Junot, he too suffers decline. Sent to ·Elyria os governor-general, "to restore morale," he appears of an official

give his memoirs the title An account of the long struggle to tions but no clothing. Puzzled by

Soldier Outspoken

(Sifion develop an effective armoured this behaviour, his friends decide Praed, 21s.), he warned his arm in the face of the traditional he must be mad. It turns out

Army reluctance to experiment. they are right. readers Just what to expect.

But underlying this story is on

Our last glimpse of Laure is As commander of the Royal impatient

against all that of a "disturbing fairy of 54" resentment Armoured Corps in 1940, and as those who did not agree with his who has written 2,000,000 words head of the British Military Me. own particular views about how of memoire...

In this novel motivation la sion in Moscow in 1943, General tanks should be employed. Mariel saw much to be out- That Martel was not im-casual: characters are drawn in spoken about, and he has not pressed by the black beret which (or, rather, rouged in) feebly. hesitated to lay about him with

wore is fairly But here at any rate, are the Montgomery all the blunt-speaking vigour of obvious. He considers that our titles, uniforms and fashions of a man whose profession has kept andled at El Alamein and he cy

armoured forco; wun badly time. Also, some very high- writing Listen gho Mont-

ontrarely used perfume straight. In telling the story of his life, gomers:

She felt that the elusive trag Martel takes sidelong swipes at velopment of two separate types soigno totality of her "degance rance as it sprung from the to of tanks, the cruiser and the owns more personal"

him silent too long.

everything from Communism.

Consistently "?"

criticises

fer opposing

the

the

cricket And even though fantry, and insisting that one

A Vogue's gallery of history. in the tank like the Sherman would be he has spent 37 years

'COUNTESS WALDECI grew up Army, he does not hesitate to good enough. Although Great Mannheim took a Ph.D. at Hol offer his advice on such matters cral biontgomery did not, know delberg, At 29, went to Paris, da

the solving of Britain's much about tänka he was not bled in journalism and politier; in

married.. publisher economic crisis and the best way prepared to take any advice," he | Urtain.

Became United States. to hunt tigers.

citiren 1941.

119

DU

complains.

:

1920

I FORGOT TO TELL YOU THE JIPSEAS ARE COMIN TOO. THAT MAKES EIGHT

FOR CUPPER

'How To Discourage a Wife'

BY KEMP STARRETT

"GOSH, WHEN I "THUSIC" WHAT I COULD OʻBOUGHT

WITH THAT MONEY/*

AN EFFECTIVE WAY TO DISCOURAGE

PA WIFE IS TO HIND FAULT WITH

THE WAY SHE STORES THINGS IN "THE KITCHEN PANTRY AND

REFRIGERATOR.

PLAY A SHOKE SCREEN OF YOUR

FAVORITE OLD OAKIM ALL OVER THE HOUSE.

|

I WHEN THERE'S A HOLIDAY WEEK-END-` ESPECIALLY LABOR DAY, BE CURE TO

WANT TO STAY HOMË, INVITE LOTS OF

FOLKS TO MEALS AND SIT AROUND ALL DAY ON YOUR BIG FAT...CHAIR AND

NEVER LIFT A FINGER TO HELP HER.

PASS...

ME

WILL HE

| Ledger. Syndicats

CHOOP ALL CHER

THE HOUSE LOOKING

FOR

·DEST.

IF YOU SHOULD TAKE HER TO A SHOW GRIPE ALL EVENING ABOUT THE PRICE OF THE TICKETS...OR:IF ITS AY

| MOVIE WITH HER PET STAR, TELL HOW LOIKY HE WAS.

SHOW ABOUT APAGHETTI:

́ ́TOR GOSHCAKES,

DO YOU THINK:

TW' STUFF GROWC ON TREES......ON. · I GOT A FORT

KNOX O

WHEN YOU DO. TÅKE HER OUT ··

FOR A MEAL -BE CURE TO GO 10 DIR OF THOSE “QUANT! JOINTS" WILDE CIEL HAVE TROUBLE FINDING HER AOUTH.

CONE DOWN TO BREAKFAST EVERY SUNDAY LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING \PRESE OUT OF A BOWERY FLOP KOKE.

SCADE THE DAYLIGHTS ON OF HER. EVERY TIME YOU'RE OTT N

THE CAR TOGETER

İCOUNK LIKE A LION WITH A TOOTH-

ACTENVERA TIME, SHE VACIA FOR AN EXTRA DOLLAR ORÍTYD..

"TROCK" SYEART" YOU MUST HAVE..