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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

A

A magnificent story-teller's

finest

novel

Reviewed by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

THE PARASITES. By cling, direua life with Mamo

Daphne du Maurier. (the great, dancer) and Pappy, (Gollancz. 11.

(the famous singer), it does not

pages.)

H

ledged, speed in the telling at the expenso, of care in the writing- but how little it matteri

All this fusest with the author' Inherited · feeling for the stage, and com.

the faint 360 occur to them that Charles, punction and dis-

Maria's husband is behaving trust with which unjustly and with exceptional she regards *ERE is tho finest acllainess,

people ་

those story of a magni-

gods and victims ficent story-teller. For That he is the real parasite, of their public sheer, simple power to com- neres. And that his indignant, with a mixture of sucking life out of his inherited whom she dissects mand the attention and to shaming outburst, towards the rueful good sense, supply entertainment, The close of that long, wet Sunday insight and com- Parasites is not surpassed afternoon is nothing but pro- passion. in this present season. Ilminary self-justification

his next disclosure: Charles wants Marin to divorce him so that he can marry "Carrots," a horsey jolly neighbour in the country.

Parasites? Had

they been

ДП ordinary family, the Delaneys would have hurled the accusation back

for

not dream of counter-attacking.

THE Delaneys

dwelt in a

grent fuss of adu- lation and the

best hotel suites..

She dissects with good sonse

DAPHNE DU MAURIER

at Charles when he delivered No. Charles's position is it. For what, come to think untenablo, But the Delnneys do of it, is Charles but an idle

They are spirited, eccentric to reform-is adroit rather than country gentleman potter- They are "different.” Always and extravagant. They have convincing. But by that time it ing about the estate until have been. And maybe "para- fun.

is not of much consequence. such time as his father dies sites" is the right name for that

An enormously capable and kind of "älfterence." whereupon he will potter

Until Mama, glorious Marua,

diverting novel. about the House of Lords? - Between ten-time and supper dies, in a cl accident Эл the three of them survey the Brittony-just on the day Marin But the Delaneys, whatever Delaney past, that dazzling (with a young Frenchiman) else they may be, are not, in the panorame, in a mood of regret, makes her first experiment feast ordinary. They are also self-pity and self-accusation. both something more and some- ' thing less than a family.

More, because they are united by Invisible strands of under standing and nostalgia beyond the lot of mere kindred,

a

And less because Maria is the daughter of Pappy and Viennese actress; Niall is the son of Mama and that French musician; only Cella, child of Mama and Pappy, is in the full sense of the namo a Delaney,

QUINCE they are the Delancys SING

and since they have lived as children that preposterous, ex-

with life.

The past from which Daphne

Pappy is robust, nolsy and evolved Niall's irresistible tunes inconsolable or almoat so, for and elusive personality, Maria's what singer is ever acting and Celia's drawinga.

The past from which Daphine

du Maurier has woven this bril- lant novel of the theatre and iis people.

Such admirable management

without

comfort who has still an adoring audience.

Pappy takes to the bottle and makes a clave of Celin, the

*Best selling novelist Daphna du Maurier has been described a 群 writer whose books "sond fim pro- Cucers, reaching for their chequs books." She was reputed to have Frceived nearly £1,000,000 for the film rights of The King's General. Shy in the daughter of a famous nelor, Sir Gerald du Maurier, and General Sir Frederick wife of Browning, who created the airborne furces during the war. Has three children, a

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of tempo, such barbed dialogue, plain one. such capacity for setting the scenes and conjuring up the The other have fled, Maria to climaxes. Is it theatrical? It is, the stage and her lovers, Niall o it should be Theatrical in to his tunes and to Paris with the well-bred under-stated Freada, Pappy's old friend. For modern manner.

quite ten minutes Pappy is livid

Aine. ratiling, HERE IS over this coduction. Ho goes of 1 clattering story of the high to the Garrick Club to do seas and the American const In nounco Freada to his pals (the days of Elizabeth. A story doubt if Pappy really did.) of the first of all the English settlements, on Roanoke Island, off the shores of South Carolina, And of the last Aght of tho Revenge.

And such speed in the narra- tion: sometimes, be it acknow-

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WHEN Maria marries Charles the Delantys make a stale

A warm, quick-moving inven visit to Coldhammer, Charles's tion, with imagination to give. family mansion, Peppy dis light to the deep historical graces himself over the cham- learning that has been put into pagne. It is a sceno of gentle it force in a tale which is, by turns, senilmenial and furiny, with the sparkle of Ike over all.

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