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FROM HERE AND THERÉ:

The Congressman Can't Get A

Drink-Of Water

WASHINGTON:

Complaint "Belle

from Congressman James Bry- "convey

to Rome Gisela"

the regarde of Ger-

It had to happen

son, a lectotaller "Washington man horsemen to the Pope." is the drinkingest place in the world You can always get a cocktail, but never a glass of water,"

Bad for business HOLLYWOOD; Films

star- ring Shirley Temple are slump- ing. Hollywood reports, since she announced she would get a divorce,

Faith

NEW YORK: Admission from

Brewster. Captain John

naval doctor

who

the "cold cure"

seling by

in

a

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

1949.

Maugham Displays His

Mind At Work

M

NEW BOOKS

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.

trusion.

Warfare is carried

on

be-

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rites.

It is

First entry (1802): "Con A WRITER'S NOTEBOOK,

rather like By W. Somerset Maug Aldering how foolishly people tween villages

act and how pleasantly they primitive football match, ham. Heinemann. 126, prattle, perhaps it would bo companied by religious 6d. 349 pages.

better for the world if they Nobody is killed. talked more and did less."

But, just when Venn-Thomas TAUGHAM tidies up The material on which has decided that, although

mind has everything is pleasant, hia desk. Fifteen Powerful, active

worked during half a century, also a little bit boring, he comes fat books, the jot- More. Insight into the way upon the main religious festi- tings of a lifetime, are re- that mind has worked. We are val, or orgy, of the New Cre- 21 enthralling in tans. This culminates in ritual duced to one rich, handsome permitted

murder and cannibalism. volume. It contains scenes,.

*W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM, Whereupon Venn-Thomas takes characters, stray thoughts, distinguished British novelist, an indignant header back

it 15. There can be fets toriters in the Twentieth Century, and second thoughts, anec- dotes. For instanco:

talking about "They were V.F., whom they'd all known. Sho published a volume of pan- clonate love poems, obviously not addressed to her husband. It made them laugh to think she'd carried on a long affair SEVEN DAYS IN NEW under his nose."

CRETE. By Robert Graves. Cassoll. Ds. 6d. 281 pages.

to

ด

Forty years after, that comes

story called Colonel's Lady.

be- The

NEW YORK: The first TV strike In America has started. Seventy-two artists, designing costumes and scenery, who got the same want £30 a weekt. pay as theatrical designers: £60

a week.

Globe-trotter

mouse

WELLINGTON) A

which survived named Hubert, ~ shipwreck 100 miles north the of San Francisco.

crossed the discovered United States in a Pullman and tablets now then went to

the England in the million

nt dedi

the Aquitania, has America: he gave some of hands of a surgeon of the liner pallenta fake pls containing Rimulaka because of a Now nothing but sugar, and one out Zealand benlih order

prohibi- of three of them reported them- ing the keeping Pl disease-

nboard. mice carrying selves cured of their colds.

mouse was the pet of the ship's BRUSSELS: A huge bone, 17 steward, James Burnell¬ga, ft. long and weighing hair and if it had not been declared ton, which was recently caught in the nets of an Ostend traw- the ler, has been presented to Belgian

History Natural Museum. Experts beileve it to be the jaw bone of gigantic whatc.

Ocean monstar

Rival for Sinatra

Overnight the NEW YORK:

of Persia has be- young Shah come real life Valentino for New York's feminine bobby. time he leaves xoxers. Every and enters his hotel he gets the Frank Sinatra treatment-coon, whistles and cheers. And over- heard: one giri asking another: How many wives can a Persian have?

mare

Ride a grey maro FRANKFORT: Countess Ellen Von Hohenan, 52, will ride a dapper grey

from her native hamic In Bavorla

Year, she said Rome for Holy recently, The German Countess said she would ride her horse

to

The

to the Customs the captain of the ship would have been ¡lable lane of £200 or six months Kaol.

Atom-proof

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CIHICAGO: In Chiengo, so inr America's most atom-conscious are advertising rity, architects

"Atem- two houses which are

They have a bomb resistant." roof of cement poured wire lath. Admittedly useless for close-by bombs, these roots, the architects, wil explain offer protection against radio- netivity from bombs dropped a mile or tnore away.

Much simplor... PHILADELFIA: Simplified English, as it is called, has been adopted officially by the United States Navy. Sample:--instend of saying "While travelling via elr, baggage to accompany authorised," the Navy will now any "Bagair."

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Here are the jollingE

history who have reaped such #

Into

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rich reward as he. Four years cpo. This is a guide book to

estimated his improbable future stale rather The New Yorker Earnings in the previous 3 years than a novel. Robert. Graves' as more than £750,000. Liver moat

Bald that has, surely, something tastier of the time In France.

would bubbling in his cauldre. Catalina, his latest novel, also be le iset, and that in future he would write only for pleasure.

that OST novels about the future turned into Rain, the ärst 171 are serious and repellent. authentic glimpse of Sadlo This one is plain daft, Thompson And here is the anecdote of Ah Fons, the coolle who

wealthy in became Hawall, married a Portuguese and, after a Hfetime, gathered his children round him and spit he was going back to Chins, to the wife of his youth. And so vnnished.

"There is the making of A story here,"

Maugham, эпут "but I never wrote it because I discovered that Jack London had already done so,"

the

Robert Graves imagines that distant Rome A! mankind, epoch, growing weary of science and rationalism, decides to seek How? By happiness instead. reproducing, as far as may be, the social conditions prevailing ul times when humanity seema to have been most contented,

On the island of Crete,

the Bronze communal life of Age is reconstructed with care- The hope is ful scholarship. that a new religion will emerge. And, sure enough, so it does. Or rather, a very old religion

the is restored;

cult of the mother goddess, Mari, Queen of Heaven. For a fernale city is thought to be more "natural." The servants of the goddess; the witches, are the dominant personalities in society.

MAUGHAM'S trl Russian Mteacher was almost a dwarf and came from Odessa. When be failed to turn up for four dnya, Maugham went In search uf him. He found him starke

para- Ino this bewildering ncked and very drink

"I have written a poem," he rise, Edward Venn-Thomas,

"With dramatic poet of our own times, is trans- explained.

It was ported by magle art. His first gestures he recited it.

favourable, very long and I didn't under- impressions

Living is as gracious as the ad- stand a word."

vertisements In an American magazine The Inhabitants aro very good-looking.

of

The ghtning sketches people have a brillant impres- stonism. There is a fascinating

note on the Importance of phy sical characteristics to the au- thor: "The world la an entire- iy different place to the man of 571. Tin, from what it in to tho man of Gn. 2in."

Throughout the years, the mind of Maugham's temper hardly alters; the man of feel-

slightly ing

overplaying the mon with a level head: "Sen- timentality is only sentiment

wrong that rubs you up the way." Maugham is more than cool; he is composed.

are

ROBERT GRAVES was born in London in 1893. Hie 100 educated

at Charterhouse and later went to St. John's, Orford, Beginning, ar d post of World War The produced spa of 23-hia "autoblo- at the graphy, Goodbye to All That, To the public et large he ta_the_man who wrote 1. Claudiua ond Count Bellearius,

THE MEMOIRS OF A SHY PORNOGRAPHER.

By Kenneth

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His book in a witty satire on contemporary Amerl- can society, Kenneth Patchen is the most exciting and origi- nat young

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ELIVERIES of British Over- scan Airways' first fleet of British-built post-war air Ilnera are to start soon.

The

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rip-roaring best-seller by built Stratocruisers,

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And black magic, if practised by glamorous young women, ing this work. has its brighter side.

--(London Express Service)

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