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CHOPIN LIVES ON IN CZECH STAMP

MUSIC entered the life of Fryderyk Chopin the day he

was born. Into hla lille village room came the melody of violiss warm in a wedding serenade.

At the age of eight. Chopin played the piano at a con cert. What did the audience like best?" asked his mother. beautiful collar" said

300

My Chopin.

At 15 he was a tomposer, At 10 he left his Polish villaro and won the hearts of Vienna. Real-

endly he tied

Багоре Across and poured out his music.

In London he played Лог Queen Victoria and the Prince kind and Consort. Bald Chopin: "Her Majesty was very spoke to me twice Prince Albert drew near the plano→→ a great favour, so they tell me,"

He found fame everywhere, but not happiness. At - 29 hỏe last wish brought his friend, Counie Delphine

Polocka to Ving at his wide.

And now, 100 years Inter; this stamp In his memATY in Imned by Czechoslovakis. For a Crech, Adalberi Zwyny rave Chopin his first real mitusio lemons.

Face value: Three crowns (aboni 84.); Perforation; 12 by 121⁄2.

-(London Express Servicu)

FROM HERE and THERE :

This Pub Caters For A Horse

of

the

his

bottles

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1949.

HERE IS

The Arabian Bird. By Con- - stantine FitzGibbon. Casioll. 86. 6d. 227 pages.

rs FitzGibbon

meteor

or a new star in the firmament of fiction? On the showing of this novel, he is one or the other. It will take another novel to determine which.

AN EXCITING NOVEL: Fresh, Terse, Unusual

>NEW BOOKS ... by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON house in Chelsea. He finds two And when it is all over, Charles, deny them the weapons which": empty glasses and a bottle of with the tired wisdom of weak they will certainly not hesitate gin; the perfume of Louise, his man, decides that he does not to use.

Fortunately, they were wife and lying on the bed a care much about either of them.

Ho leaves Louise. battledress sult, Inter kdentified

the

almost all on the level of the ns belonging to Oliver, his son. It is a small-scale, uncannily British Free Corps and its Ordered to Meanwhile, let the sense of

From this epliome of sordid vivid drama of the common- weeping wenches. discovery havo outlet, Pro- romance the story unfolds back place. It draws its power and the Russian Front, the Corps, man, takes to its bed. It claim it with full muster of and forward. Back to Charles's fascination from the fact that, to

of his first wife, in FitzGibbon's world, nothing is one of the rare moments of trumpets that The Arabian seduction

on Helen, Bird is adult and young; treat, dance's death in action is re- nobody..

day her la commonplace. Nothing and humour in a serious, elaborate and able study, a little over- bitterly

and torpe, unsparing;

for its subject, Нете La first meeting

ho how

writes: long touched with

nported; to economical; grudging poetry,

with Louise, then the mistress "There was for a moment an marred somewhat by repetition of Roger Peacock, an objec almost tangible silence, like (e. g. the story of Joyce's arrest), tionable friend of Oliver, later the sllence between the end of The Last Attachment. By killed at Dunkirk.

the overture and the raising of the curtain. But it was stronger

Iris Origo. John Murray and Jonathan Cape. 255. than that. It was for Oliver, as though a whole, loud city, n

533 pages. gigantic and vulgar Corneville,

NE had slipped quietly beneath the this. seo,"

A book of quality; unusual, exciting.

It has eeltoes (Is that you, Hemingway?) It -19 French rather than English. in feeling. FitzGibbon is a young English- Irish-Asnerican After being interrupted for three years a Wellington, his education was spent in travelling the Con- Inent

£3 & week pocket. money.

on

He writes with passion and does not succumb to it.

He

Birt with irony; on the other hand, he does not fuss over it. no if it were a diploma from correspondence course,

Unknown to Charles, there was a moment, during a river side plenic, when Oliver and Louise came

brink of to the disclosing passion.

Peacock alone sensed

true motive for his continued

interest in Louise.

*

Charles,

乳 lonely don

undertow of feeling: it was the The Meaning of Treason. By Rebecca West. Mac. millan. 188. 340 pages. TREASON, worst and noblest

of

deserves crimes,

the panoply of the State trial, the headsman's axe

instead of the But here, is no 1 company for Lovat or Casement!

Oxford, drifts inte marriage

11.1

out

hangman's noose.

of the

CONSTANTINE FITZGUBBON was born in Lenox, Mass, USA., of lish Tether." When he was seven his mother remarried, to an American lawyer who had spent his entire fife je France, ila was compelled to sit in fence after dinner while his step-father played. Wagner -- on-the

‚an American' methas`und an Anglo-

resultant

characters to appear in the just recovered from

few decent promophone for hours, and bas only Byronic Saga, Countess Teresa aversion to that composer,

was patronisert by He was supposed to go to Eton, -

has but at the age of 12 developed Guiccioll, her contemporaries and been awarded the ill-natured strong desire to be a soldier and areers of most of Byron's allowed to go to Wellington College. ĐAt 15 he was an ardent blographers.

She was dowdy, fat, sentl Communist and was removed from Kis school and allowed to travel the and Italian. Continent with £3 o week pocket mental, She waddled like a duck, her money, until the age of 27. At the complexion pork.

shollow

TVAS like

bolled

10

ops of 17 he won on open, scholar- ship to Exeter Collage, Oxfőrd.

He fained the British Army in 1980 and was commissioned in the

Intelligence Corps and subsequently

served at the War Department in

a with Loulse, It works

well enough until that night in There are flat stretches, London when Oliver comes to sodden poliloquies. But he can town on leave, and against

Everybody laughed at her of

clubs.

and later at her French husband, nqualid WELLINGTON: I horse

manage his big scenes; rarely backcloth car with

The traitors of Hitler's war slithers into 羈 second-hand druns and drabs, the passion drinks In a bar, lopers new parcels, including two

An Rebecca West presents them who introduced his wife At 6.10 p.m. he put phrase or lets a glib falsity of between Louise and her step- unduly provided of beer.

are a poor lot-playboys, half- friends in a reverent whisper, Washington. not WORTY

A mind la son flares up.

mistress of Lord they are ni the Rangitadki Hotel, the beer on the footpath while character slip past.

wils, crazed with vanilty or na "former 31 miles east of Taupo, New

he carried in the older parcels, at work

Shakespeare him- Byron' Charles stumbles A middle-aged

on it in a crankiness Zealand's world famous trout forgetting the beer. He went to The story?

Here is her story, filed out Origo from fishing resort

A wild horse, the theatre later, came home at man, his young wife, his son by scene of garish scandal. Father self could not have lent stature

to those petty malefactors who by the Marchesa tamed when n pony by the midnight, and found the beer his first marriage.

wandered upon too Teresa's own papers. have

is allly? Yes, silly publican's two daughters, pushes still there.

spacious a stage. customers aalde gently to react

enough to convince herself in palt o! water. The

later life that her affair with Byron had been pure. obvious attraction about the pub is a billboard reading "Bad Crook

beer

Dirty SEM.

change. Incivility--Come in," And most people in this codis

largely publoser area, do. Other oddities are; £1 and 10/- celling,

return trips, and In a nearby birch forest- two elephants, acquired from a circus, haul logs.

Superior animal

skulls

Even

discovered

JOHANNESBURO: Prehistorie days men had more brains than women, according to Dr Robert Broom, the vintnent anthropologist, He bases this on his most recent fiscovery at Sterkfontein, near Krugersdorp. of the skull of the bar room Doler stuck on

brah ape-man with n left by

by clients from the young

of 050 cubic who fear capacity rugged out-country that they might be short of metres compared with 500 cu, c.

of female earlier. money on their

Wasp-waisted Englishmon

WASHINGTON: Waist lines would be kept down, said an expert of the American Dietetic Association, If Amerlenn would wear braces lice English- men, instead of belts. wearers unconsciously their stomachs, he said, keep their trousers up.

Fire hazard HOLLYWOOD; Fire diets meeting in New Orleans to And

of cutting

the down number of calls they have to make asked Hollywood' to ban nil scenes of people smoking in That's the worst fre bed. hazard, they fald.

Labour-Savor BOSTON: A square frying pan will reach Amerlean shops Its purpose to fry eggs and minced steak to At into sandwiches

avon.

Art-minded hons

NEW

YORK: Wingless

chickens got competition

recently-hens

that lay ready- A New York coloured eggs store offered pink, blue, grem and yellow egga laid by a Chilean breed for 2s, aplece.

2

Midnight Surprise ADELAIDE: Driven home by

friend, A mon

(nil stort

Rys

men

Belt- expand to

Charles Monroe returns from in wartime sir trip to his mews

The

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and con come near to murder.

Louise, asked to choose be them, chooses Charles, tween

Augustus Johns sketch of the Marchese Onge

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

BEEF LIC

A POUND,

REFRIGERATOR CAR. GASOLINE

"LAMB

RENT

INSURANCE

MEDICAL COSTS

TELEVISION

CLOTHING! RADIO?

Save only Joyce, very type of the Irish rebei whom Yeats has celebrated.

Brave, cruel

She

onc,

con-

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

| PALACE)

HOTEL,

CLEANING

SERVICE

Reasons for concussion

mystify the doctors

CONCUSSION

the mysteries medicine: It is

is still one of Severe blows in sports like of modern boxing or rugger can result in a

of therefore one long period disablement.

and dialectical, But, as Byron said, half in

of he pursues his fated spiral- complaint, an angel

And, most unusual of from rebelling against rebellion stancy.

the an on Irish Loyalist, to rebelling virtues in

Byron circle, against the state on whose completely disinterested.

Indeed, the thought strikes of the most dimcult injuries behalf he was exiled.

ho was not Teresa too nice ator a doctor to treat. twisted, Mean and

It was a the recovers at

end a queer woman for Byron?

which

have may which half-defeats the thought

about the "Lord occurred to Byron, who was only exact working of the brain. It ridicule

halt Byronic. It certainly never is not at all easy to say, for How-how,

Such men find democracy occurred to Teresa.

instance, what are basle reasons lasting literary A book of Loo

their alle- slovenly for

for most types of headache: or to Interest. glance-and log tolerant

why one person suffers more head from 8 knock on the than another.

dignity

blasting

mans.

-

of

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Conference at Cold Comfort Farm. By Stella Gibbons. Long- 7. 6d. 167 pages. Cold Comfort Farm is right up to date. The International Thinkers' Group premises. It is meet on its attended, among other progressivo elements,

the Managerial Revolutionary

Party. Progress has rarely been so funny as this.

by

✪ The King and the CorpsM. By Man Murray, Michaei joseph. 8s. Gd. 224 pages, Max Murray married wit to murder In The

Volca of the Corpse. In his second book, wit has left home, A pity,

Simon The Journey of McKeever. By Albert Maltz. Gollancz 9%. 6d. 250 pages. The touching story of an old man who, erroneously, thinks there is a cure for his arthritis. Charm- ingly told.

The Fortnight in September, By R. C Sherriff, Heinemann. Bs. 6d. 264 pages. Ra-issue of i novel which made a stir in 193. London Express Service,

Little la known

But it is well known that a mild blow, insufficient to pro duce more than

momentary unconseloumess,

the means of inducing ifelong and

can be

persistent headaches unless care ensure immediate Is taken to resti

Often the psychological effect here is such that the individual does not completely regain his previous form.

of

Treatment

concussion is immediate rést in bed,

Any head injury sufficient to cause even momentary uncon-

sciousness should mean a week of complete rest. If the troublo is more sovero then a longer perlod is essential

Unfortunately this advice is rarely taken. The patent, feel. ing fit, insists on goiting up and returning to work.

The result in many cases le'n long period of intractable head- aches. These may not come on Yet a fracture of the skull, for two or three months. But provided it dove not involve they can easily last for many vital structures, can result in years.

(London Exprom Service) complete reCOVETY.

"Peering Into the Future"

BU REM P STARRETT

* I SAW THE CUTEST NEW CAR VESTERDAY:

IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS THE ONES

THAT HAVE GOT THEIRS WILL A RADIATE OPTIMISM, AND SEE AN ERA OF UNPRECEDENTED, ETERNAL

PROSPERITY.

LOTS OF KIDS VILL

·BECOME DISPLACED PERSONS DURING THOSE CHRISTMAS SHOPPING TOURS.

THE UNLUCKY ONES VILL

BE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THAT STURT

BACK.

COME

ELSE'S

-- OUR CRYSTAL

THERE'LL BE THE USUAL NUMBER: OF ECONOMISTS TRYING TO FIGURE"! OUT JOY TWO CAN LIVE AS CHEAPLY AS FOUR USED TO

MEAT!

BALL SHOWS A MAN

·PUTTING A LAWN – "MOWER AWAY FOR THE

WINTER.

.... AND

MEETING UP WITH ANOTHER INSTRU

MENT OF TORTURE

THE POLITICIANC

WILL BE PROMISING EVERYTHING TO I

WITHOUT - Ledger Syndicate

INCLUDING GOVIMENT

AND PLENTY OF DITTO SPENDING 22

IT TAKES NO GREAT TALENT FOR READING THE FUTURE TO: KNOW THAT THE HINTS ABOUT CARISTMAS PRESENTS - WIEL-

BEGIN COON.

EXPECTING TO ANDER SPEE

FIND THINGS

JUST WIEDE LES

THINKS HE PUT and put a EGA

TIEM.

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THE PALLAD HOUSECLEANING.... SEASON WILL BE UPON UC BEFORE WE KNOW IT AND WE SHALL WAX, WROTE (AND, NOT DOUBT DESCEND TO COME, VERY LOWE TYPE LANGUAGE.