1949-11-05 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1949.

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They're Tough, Mighty THE OLD GIRL IS

Tough In Finland

It's laughter you're after or hints on how to grow

touch, this is your stamp one of a, set of four from

FINLAND. nallon famous for "athletes.

Xt this year's "novelty stamp. For who has ever seen another show- Inga boy running naked over show to plunge into an lay pool?

The story starts-In the forest huts where the Finns take a bath which makes them · strong, First they licat big stones on a stove, pour water on them and swelter In the steam.

Next a cold abower. Then they roll in the snow outside or swim, and finish by slapping each other with birch twigs to gel warm,

30: SUOM

Face value of the stamp to 30 Marks (about is. 1d.) plus 10 Marks to help the Red Cross. Perforation 14 by 14.

---(London Express Service)

FROM HERE AND THERE:

He'll Earn $$$ With "Yoicks" And "Tally-Ho'

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delivered And

NEW YORK: Daily, or almost letters since March. daily, Englishmen arrived in one to herself recently to New York on dollar-making she had won the first prize in

Tas- the £10,000 Tattersall's missions, but Charles Lyne, a

She will carry recent arrival, in the most

tanian Jottery (1)-

her job as usual usual yet. Mr Lyne points por- traits of luxhounds. and

Reds dislike gao! parently there are enough WASHINGTON: Complaints Americana who know what about gaol life registered "yolcka“ mRNA to keep bin America's 11 top

Communists, bury for werin Out of place in who were convicted of a can- His tweede amid New York's pirncy against the government chrome and toncrete, Mr Lyne bunks are too hard, nighlights told reporter he would work glare in their eyes, there is too at 12 American Jum clubs, touch smell of fresh paint, the mostly

New England word food is poor, the best menli ye! Virginia I haven't made arp bring beef heart, they are treat my and yet," he mid, "how ed too much "like regular much 19 charge for each por trait"

Sickening strike

Cri

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NEW YORK; Forbid/ten 19 law be strike, A thousand more of New York's dustinen reported they were low sick to work A Communist stration, said elty officials But les the men tid all they wanted was more money for tidying up

world's afler the prople

untidiest

Grounded husbands LOS ANGELES: Wives were blamed for the decline of pri- (there vate flying in America

Las been a 8.000 drop in civil Plane licences) Explained Kenneth Garafula, private plane manufacturer: "Women want their husbands around the house weekends Istend messing about the airport "

Self-help

WELLINGTON: Thirly-year- postwoman Mrs frene May Bu

delivering? ten, who has been

A MONSTER.

|_ NEW BOOKS ... by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON..

THE LOVERS DIS- frightened Nurse Goodall reads TURBED. By Elizabeth silly magazine stories to her. Lake. Cressot Press, 9s. 6d. 271 pages.

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Wo idens are widely disseminated about Elizabeth Lake's new

novel.

(1) That Lady Mason successfully polsor s the love between her nephew David and the doctor's daughter, Sheila.

(2) That this feat in a triumph Indyship a

of evil, and her wicked old monster.

Neither opinion will survive & mom nt of quiet reflection

The truth is that David and Sheila Mhemselves, by furtive behaviour and careless lying, poison the atmosphere of their love affair and in consequence become intolerable to

గల other.

JAY

Mason and Further, it Lady Фуду

broken zp the romance, she would have done Sheila a real Service in ridding her of na objectionabile nruf selish end, a young man as second-rate as The pictures he paints,

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So

for much

the: malignity of Lady Muson!

horrid

But the old girl is a monster Elizabeth Lake spends an 11- holy of devoted hate and loving invention 9a impressing the fact on put this

The evidence"

Also she is Iterate, hates her dead husband's family and ́folks Sex and anti-Semitism in

a Cockney accent.

Not a very formidable equip- ment for a fiend in human form. Indeed, at the back of my mind there lurks the suspicion

Mason โร that Lady monster at all but simply a sick and unhappy old woman with bad manners,

not

But Elizabeth Lake will not play it that way. And since she has the Rift

making her people come to life out of the printed page, we are compeiled to accept her vision of Lady Mason as a bloated spider weay- Ing an infernal wirb hapless creatures.

If Fred hnd known the truth he would have been even more certain of Clara's guilt, For Clara has fallen in love with a neigh- bouring farmer, Sam Lever, whose wife has run away from him,

Sam will have nothing to do will Clara. Bil Clara'e resent- ment falls not on Sam; but on her crippled husband Charle. She has wasted on him the best years of her life! It in only. fair that he should sacrifice to her the remaining years of his life.

The reasoning is confused but its conclusion is simple.

Her characters come to lite NOVELIST LUIZABETH

LAKE

some

NO

Poles and forth) are marching under guard to the Siberian mines, where, they will die quite certainly horribly.

and Clara buys the polson

The only mixes It In the stew trouble is that Clara's husbatki, Charlie, does not eat the stew, tionist, about but drowns himself in the well, Personally I think that Fred, That being so, our complaint the constable, has a grievance against the author is that she against fate-and that Ian Noll does not build a story big enough can write a better and turid enough to match the this. character she has conjured up.

book than

DOGE'S RING. By Daniele Vare. Methuen. 88. 6d. 212 pages.

Relentness u character-draw- THE in, powerful in the creation of Elizbell Like's isnosphere, new novel is wealt it deumatic architecture.

ELIZABETH LAKE 702 educated in conrente in France and England, and spent Bottle time in research at the De Omma library

htudell, tra

She married to Charles Madue, the port and sociologist,

Is amiable little book is a kind of distant and not very cobust relation of Prick of Pook'R H

Children living tn K11 old The Ive Scottish castle un the Angus by lusts of near Stevenage in Hertfordshire coast are visited and have a daughter aged four bygone days. and a an aged two

What, then, anves the book from being completely depress- Ing?

That it is not a mere descrip- ilon of conditions believed to exist in the dim empire of the NKVD. It is n poetic vision of the dignity as well as the de- gradation of man-and of the the two are manner in which

NKVD as in the interfused

leutenant Kudiavtacy.

This is not propaganda against Stalin so much as a piercing. deflant and terrible outery on behalf of human freedom.

DAB and FLOUNDER by WALTER

STORKS WANT A FAMILY

THE

HE London Zoo's two white storks seem lonely, NO special efforts are to be made to get partners for them.

They are both males, and re- cently showed signs of wanting to nest.

"For several weeks both aticks could be seen carrying and twigs about in their benks," sald Headkeeper Gregory.

The now birds will be caught for us in Holland next spring.

"White storks have nested in. the Zoo before. Last occasion was in 1941, when a chick was hutched in largo untidy rest which the parent birds bullt around one of the Iron roof supports."

Prairie Pluto To

Span A Nation

A 1,150-mile pipeline, costing

the £30,000,000, ano of

the world's longest, will by spring of 1931 carry oil from A book not lightly to be taken the newly found neids around Edmonton, Alberta, to the Up of the Great Lakes at Superior. Wisconsin.

NLIBRARY LISTA

A smail Scottish-Italian boy up. FOXHOLLOW. By lan named Marco possesses the ring

Niall. Heinemann, 88. 6d used to wed the sen.

with which the Dage of Venice By nicons 248 pages.

of the ring he can summon the Lion of St Mark's and, in his travel through time company.

Prison inspired him SALT LAKE (TTY; in good to murder, Robert McCoy has fr med a company to nella laventions perfected during

The inven years behind burg To revolutionary metal col-

release

Lady Mason is very large and Upon his

two

David, the nephew, spes months bouce he will take over

JERE her face as that of an 18th cen

is a brisk vice president of the com-

rusik tale HE grotesque. about the kind of people lan may be expects to make sales tury cartoonist's

aver the world In staffing "encrusted with blemishes, large Niall knows so well to put be- fore us. if it is not Niall at his best, the reason is plain, Fox- hollow is one of those novels that ends in an anti-climax,

s

ugly.

his factory McCoy will give pre-swellings, sinali awellings, pli- ference la ex-convicts

tings and patches of discolora, tion as though it were composed of not the usund Dutch to

New doal for wives AMSTERDAM: The wife wil no longer have

bey her husband She may i future dispose of her own pruz perty and she may even ask the court to order that part of her husband's salary

separately

puid ther 11 the ense of her husband not giving her a rea- conable amount of housekeeping money A wife will have the right to choose a career if she wants to take a jobs

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number features but 11 hundred, bighted landscape, a face i whose shadows were sketches of other laces."

Fred Carter, the village con- slable, believes that erline has coinc to Foxhollow Charlie Maye, the club-footed man, dis- But An excellent start.

appears and Clara, his wife, in there any other syniploms of explaining his absence, tells evil incarnate7

some untruths.

Dre

Yes, Lady Mason lies in best whisky and all day drinking

while poor

smoking cigurelles

Moreover, Fred discovers that

been hus

buying ral

Claru position.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

AND THEN HE ATE THIS AWFUL CHEESE AND

CHASED ME ALL OVER THE PLACE TRYING TO KIST ME!

IT WAS A SCREAM ...HE ATE ALL THIS AWFOL

CHEESE AND THEN

CHASED HE

ALL OVER

THE PLACE

TRYING TO KISS ME

ETC.

and space.

The device is hardly novel; the stories have more charm than vitality. Bul at which

DIC- Kroup are they aimed?

THE TORMENTORS, By Gol- Richard Cargoe. lancz. 9. 6d. 238 pages.

I would be hard to imagine

anything more dreadful and forbidding than the fate of the people to this novel. They (a mad priest, a political devia-

"YOU SHOULD SEE TIL MAGNIFICENT AEW-

CAR THE SWANKS HAVE .....AID SUCH

A BEAUTIFUL HOUSE.... FIFTY-FIVE FOOT LIVINGROOM...

AND THE POOL...VIAT

A POOL

AND THEIR TELEVISION SET COST SIXTEEN HUNDRED DOLLARS...ON, AND A BOAT YOU SHOULD SEE

KISS TO-MORROW GOODBYE. 113 lurare McCoy Arthur Barker, For those who as a 955 pages like their Action raw this is the book Plenty

of cold-blooded cruelty and hot-blooded shooting The hero kila bla fall-escupirs companion in the dam chapter He is killed by that companion's Tee slonia Mator on the len ose Most people will approve NADA THE LAY aider #

.

MacDonal.

Head 504

A romantic epie ot the Zulu netlab, often thought to be the author's best novel An attractive reimsus

THE GRAND DESIGN. By John za od. Dos Pans Lehmann 584 DREEA AD and scale novel sat in the politest

of Washington in the

New Deal day.

LITERATURA AND SUCIETY. By Edwio Mule Hogarth, Ba 60. Kways of one quality, mainly con cerned to make people enjoy books them by mord

understanding belier

London Expræer Service

ADA EDMONTON PERS

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al

U. S. A.

SUPERIOR

2. Michig

Pluto, Britain's wartime pipeline, went under the Eng- Wish Channet.

Crude all will be pumped in- to the line at Edmonton cross the Western Prairies Regina, Saskatchewan,

and industrialist and one of the men to behind the 600 million dollar

prairie oil strike.

From there it will run south- east to the Canadian-US border at Gretna, Maidtobu, south of Canada would Winnipeg, and continue east ward to Superior.

bo

He said there aro already 990 wells. By 1051 It was expected producing 200,000 barrels a day, enough for her needs. Much would bo exported to the western US in return for American oil for castern Canada.

Merely to all the pipeline will take 1,030,000 barrela → |04,330,000 gallons. And it will take 28 days for a barrel of of to move from Edmonton to the strengthen our economy, Superior outlet.

БАУС will

dollars,

"This

arki cnable Canada to play a greater

In London recently was James Y. Murdoch, Canadian affairs," he added.

Mr part in Imperial Gnancial

'em"

"Don't You Love 'em

BY KEMP STARRETT

'WHY DON'T Y'LOOK WHERE YER.

GOIN' »VIO GAVE YOU

A DRIVING

LICENSE,

ANYWAY, THE DIME STORE P

LOOK AT AY FENDER!

"THE ONES WHO TELL YOU A STORY AND AS SOON AS THEY FINISH THEY START RIGHT IN AND TELL IT ALL OVED AGAIN.

AND

ARD

THEY SAID

AND.

"SUDDENLY THE DOOR SLOWLY........

SUDDENLY THE DOOR SLOW) SUDDENLY THE DOOR, SLOY

CUDDENLY THE DOOR.

THE ONES WHO TALK, TALK TALK OVER UNDER AND AROUND EACH OTHER WHILE YOU'RE TRY- ING TO READ

*OH YES! WE

BUG HAD A WONDERFUL

TUE IN FLORIDA... ITS WARM THERE

· VINTER AND

SUAMER. THEY GROW ORANGEC

THERE, TOO

AND ....

THE WEEKEND GUEST WHO USES MOST OF THE TIME. TO TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE REALLY WONDERFUL AND EXPENSIVE HOMES HER FRIENDS OWN, UNTIL YOU GET THE NOTION THAT YOU'RE ON THE RAGGED EDGE OF

BANKRUPTCY AND LIVE IN A HOVEL

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BEST BUC

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THE ROAD.

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IT'S GOT EVERYTING

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✔TRED WHERE ARE YOU

GOINGS

"I'M GOING OUT TO TAKE A.

CHINESE MONIC LESSON!

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HA!

HE

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SHAHA

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KITCHEN FOR A DRINK OF VÅTER, HAS TO PUT YOU

TIDOUGH A

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THE GALS WHO TELL YOU THINGS

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THE LADS VIIO LAICH CO HARD ONER, THEIR OWN JOKES THAT, YOJA CANT TELL WHAT THEY'RE ABOUT.