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POCKET CARTOON

By OSBERT LANCASTER

"A typical example of what comes of unrestricted private enterprise and allowing people to marry just whom they like, withi a properly regulated system of Government-issued matrimonial permits."

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NEWS FROM U.S.

Bids are sealed

By NEWELL ROGERS

THE

NEW YORK,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1950.

The banal

side

of Elgar's music

URING the last week

or two I have been chided by correspon- dents for what they de scribe in different terms my "belittling" of Tchaikovsky,

these

I hove, of course, never be- littled Tchaikovsky In columns, or anywhere.

Talking about Music... by

NEVILLE CARDUS

There obressions:

ngoin on different and rising Jovels of pitch: or spurious chromntle notes drooling down- wards, as in that dreadful fune of Saint-Saens, Softly Awakes. are Elgar's two-bar mechanica? Wolf's at the end of a song--- fanfaren who indeed known yet, in incre the best of Huge numbers,

Gellebter, or Wolf?-the Geh' a certain affinity Kennst du das Land, rather than It is, in fact, only a month or drawn to,

соу Kip- the und

brisk stoccato Elgar two ago, since I wrote a protest between

came

those of in each

collism was the here against the "superior" view ling

(TT contradletion of

to familiar reminded of Tchalkovsky and

London. that his gentur dualism. Elgar with his milliary at any Wolf reclial in Lo the highbrows

In The ranged

pity and marchen, fairy music from thio

The student analysing the best torment and charnel-housa of Youth, the waving flat and the second best In

Wand

ndding in the finals of the Pathetique of England in

will enjoy himself the terror of

of Kipling with this list rench-me-down Symphony to the most delightful first symphony, nd happy ballet musle in the his Barrack-room ballads, Puck tricks of the trade, resorted to world.

of Packs Hill, and Jungle stories, by all but a very few composora

And the

to support the toftering Intellect.) prophetic nombre My objection to the Tchalkov- sky vogue is that it is not dis- glow and boom of fate of The Few indeed haven't criminating, and usually prefers Recessional can be heard in the such crutches. the second-best of his output slow

Bort

movement

the B flat minor pláno ̄ ̄con- "recoid symphony--

Serenade, certo-to the String for example.

Any artist in insulted by ap- preciation Incking taste or rente of selection.

Difficult task One of the

root

British Informa-studles for

most interesting a music-lover is to the from out the best

And the task

of Elgar's

Both of these great English- men dropped and Hopped ccca- sionally into puerilities.

Padding out

trivinlities

muste

to

needed

Needed_crutches

But distance lends enchant- ment; the older the music and the the less obvious seem banalitics. Time changes vulgarity into "quaintness."

There are moments when even:

before U3

in Mozart comes

hath lis questionable guire, and you can platitudes not less ponderous or be sure that Bach

than those of Martin empty

In music, more than in any other art, it is possible to pad- cliche after out a work with ellche and bluff nine people out of every ten in an audience Into the belief that you are saying tion Service has asked second-best in Henlus's pro- something, when really you are Tumper.

only exploiting the same stale Americans to submit sealed duction. tenders for Queen Mary's stiffer as we come la finer order formula-such as a phrase of TwoRLD COPYRIGHT RESERVED....

of musicn) thinking-as carpet.

mount the scale from the minor melody repeated over and over The British nisa told prospec-to the major masters.

bts wife, Jetter tive bidders that their dollars will be used to buy food and Buson-one of the best mindai .other materials" its North over

given to muste-said that America for Britons.

in a certain year he had learned,

In

And New York's Metropolitan among other things, to Museum of Art, where the car-costmise good from spennt-rale pet goes on display, decided to Beethoven "always" added Rive it an honour usually re- for masterpieces of the perved

past.

They

are going to hang the

carpet at the foot of the grand

London Express Service.j

-by WALTER

DAB and FLOUNDER

HELP!

HEMINGWAY'S Books a

NEW NOVEL

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hi Introducing

At request of a

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GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, Book Reviewer, Examines 'A' Very Candid` New Biography of Gabriele d'Annunzio.

THE GREAT LOVER-AS A

pages.

•

WOMAN SEES HIM

the Superman came

war

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AGE CANNOT WITHER. Had not Nietzsche himself spent they do not believe let them go

elsewhere, for heaven's sake. By Bertila Harding, some time in an institution?

D'Annunzio begged Duse to The staff beg to be excused. Harrap. 128. Od. 256 promise that if he went mad she They do not mind writing what to be Present Day wants, they will not would not allow film HE bald little man sent locked up in an asykim. Then a believe it Ed Masterson's world fred perplexity occurred. "But in shattered. He takes to the I am bottle.

He reigns. And then the telegram back to how will you know that I am the post-ollec. "It is not insane" Dute had no answer. what?

with Prescrit "It is At the end of the 1914

The staff, left for me," he said.

upon a Day on their hands, long privily addressed to Italy's greatest magnifcent ville on Lake Garda, for the dear old days of Master- world's the sequestrated property of n son's flair, genius, personality poct. I am the

the and delusion. German

professor under

contem- Amusing, sincere, greatest poet.'

ironic not coal of the Italian Government. fame Poetic

Entire with an porary D'Annunzio entered, occupied for Gabriele enough

and would not be driven out, He twist,

JOHN BROOKS. born New also, refused even to hand over the d'Annunzio. He was

December 5, 1920;

Princeton frazi uraduated

The Action. To prove it, he fessor's Danish widow.

"How long do you mean to 1942, then joined Army.

this first novel learned to ride. Look. stay in my house?" she asked. Big Wheel

"My life calls me to solve though he has had several short sneered the villagers, he is

published in America. great problems," he replied. "I storica practising for his statue.

Worked for Time magazine for Now on the New two pears. cannot say exactly?

Yorker,

WAS

in his own eyes, a Man of personal property of the pro- York City,

a great deal of Intelligence,

THE

CRUSADERS.

By Cassell

Stefan Heym.

15s. 656

And of course, he was The

HERMIT DE LUXE Great Lover. For example,

this lakeside palace, the lover of Eleanora Duse, TN

d'Annunzio was visited by trage- Italy's · greatest

Duse, contemplating an Ameri- dienne. It is supposed can tour to retrieve her fortunes. that d'Annunzio treated her She never lost the carelessness

pages. It was Abominably.

a with money of her parents, the

MIE Crusaders are the Ameri- both strolling Tinyers, story that suited

He received her among price. THE

can soldiers invading Europe. 'That "You have Crusading just for what? parties. She became more

question facing "tragic, and he more virile," less art treasures.

come," he said, "to the home of is the first

of the mobile But before too many tears are a Franciscon hermit."

Sergeant Bing This nccount of Duse

and unit. Io solves it shed for Duse, remember that

'approval in a pam- she had many lovers before d'Annunzio may add nothing to to d'Annunzio, that there was a literature but it recalls a great phlet dropped on the enemy in

as well Normandy. strong element of business in deal to history, Drama

of this big, ambitious, 1btit

-he 85 as comedy. ssociation

The rest the story For instance. dramatist, and she as actress.

of disgruntled novel demonstrates Probably.

night in Paris, as how the Crusaders lived up to too, she had wit Duse's first enough to

how see

comle Marguerite Gautier in La Dame their own ideals. Or failed to. d'Annunzio was.

The Crusaders is a book about After all, she

Cammellias. Bernhardt's aux

in the And there sat corruption. Corruption the Theatre did not elimb from her birth great role.

Ringe box, to black ineritel in big business: Busont, "very difficult"; for

(Eyre and Spottiswoode, just place. In a railway compartment Bernhardt in

sical and kill the show, with women. And so on. It is which Gerinan to world fame without having a BERTITA

disillusion Beethoven seldom descended to

a study la HARDING, IKE the "Hush that • and feeling. thinking Floppy

prevails when Chisto- author of a February novel, The actress. Ibacil kave a happy end-

Austro-Hungarian origin, went never slips into cynicism. Anale of the Ninth

IN THE SWIM If, in the

Small Hours of the Night.

Hey's canvas seems some- Symphony, he Introduces that pher Robin is saying father, Sir Roderick Jones, was in to A Doll's House. Instead of

ND I was hard not to laugh to Mexico as a baby when her

commissioned 19123 oses Nora's famous door-slamming AN

times too big for his brush. He banal maret-tane,

the casel to In the Great Hall, a staircase

dreadfully

Byron had he made her succumb to

at d'Annunzła. heavy chairman of Reuters; Lady Jones as Jurge as there was

prayers, This for reason.

Sumner's La

Enid Bagnold, who

That she should chamber almost

a swum from the Lido Into the Francia Joseuh to search for the stands too near ther

ere extending silence broods around Ernest National Velvet. He is 25, lost London's Victors Station.

It was a feat crown jewels that belonged to judge the over-all effect. But remain for the children's sake, heart of Venice. Beethoven was

writing in the war, married while at udal felt ne the reeled against that must be surpassed by an arimitian, the Hapsbury Em- the render, confused for a while. of symphonic musle Hemingway,

as the story and his wife soris it all out ROBESON OFF

the range

*ན ROOSEVELT beyond a purely musical scope; the successor to For Whom Oxford University, where the door, crying, "Oh, I am sin Italian

With Press peror of Mexico Doel.

Carlotta, now married to U. S. moves forward through stricken Germany, the embracing" world-nf. TV he Was

But I can says). he lived in aenderic wing against myself, but I can-|

in startled the

attendance, Army Air Force Lieut.-Colonel France into wasted photographers

Fifteen Jack Harding. out. set

peaco l'Annunzio

through ugly war inlo She invited millions, the mass of ordinary the Bell Tolls. the other night.

now reveal the title: it is squator," is now studying for the not leave them? (But that end- So familiar or mankind. two Negro politicians, one

that is hardly pretty. ing was never used. The Grand minutes inter he gave up. the other a De- vulgar tune served as a symbol Across the River and Into

"The Englishman did not stop Republican,

STEFAN HEYM, born in Ger- Trees. a generally sublime whole,

the

Serialisation •

cruelly Third volume, The Grand Slam won.)

here," the spectators mocrat, to her teatime TV chat, in a

BIG WHEEL. By many 1913, fled to Czecha

wan oul "To be fair," she also invited

Mahler employed banality to

John war history will be published in the came expressive end, but not begins in America in June. Allianes, of Winston Churchill's

Brooks, Gollancz, Slovakia when the Nazis

scholarship to Negro singer Paul Robeson,

Won June. Demand is so great that P. F. (Plum) Warner's Gentle-

Plazza San Marco," d'Annunzio,

power. But Robeson's appearance always with the same sublime Cape will publish it here.

relorted

9s. 6d. 239 pages.

the University of Chicago where The National Justification.

Cassell's are preparing to exceed men v. Players, history of those

to be a commemorative was called off.

URN a moral problem inside he got an MA. During the war book about at least knew. But Mahler

in the US. Army Broadcasting Company said it

Inter this year). His last book 306 1 and 2. My matches, 1808 to 1949 (Harpresture towards a literary pre-

out and what do you get? he served received an influx"

by Andre guess is 300,000 copies, Proust,

Another

and, Signal Corps, transferred to trivial or

moral problem, some Marcel

told the story of Lord's 1787-decessor. rentimental;

sports event." phone protests against him.

When Chekhov was 29 he fell 1945. Neville Cardus continues into

not dis- given wit, pace and first-hand Marland before the invasion Intelligence. He came ANNIE AND CUN

composers are commonplace and Maurois, translated by Gerard

The mishap

.could in love at fest sight with Lydia his reminiscences of theatre, SHOTGUN neross her knees, vulgar (at times) because they Hopkins, published by Cape.

be cannot help it, and perhaps bes

with ne- cricket and music in Second In-courage a man capable of writ- knowledge of your material, to Avilov. 24, married

Clevedon Annie Es

ing on the galley-proof of a new competent and gripping novel. as a sergeant, was stationed at

Wootton-under-Edge Clear Creek

Bre so very much

herself on nings (Collins). Potter's 36-year-old month - ok

book, "I have been thinking that Like The Big Wheel, sieged in her Rocky Mountain cause they

Lite

The conventional moral prob- and London, attended the British alive and human.

poel 1/01 J. H. B. Feel, has authoress. Chekhov in my chack.

or April) is.

psychological warfare Elgar, for instance. Pomp and

this year (from (Lehmmun, March

Out next month: The Holiday I might surpass this stupendous The authorities want to bulld

two books due marches on the

their 10 years

posedly that he is asked to write school at Brondesbury. He went £1,250,000 highway through Circumstance

Arthur Barker) test novel, her account of

Story by Commander R. G. prose in my future bocks yet, lem of the journalist is, sup- Ara She died in 1942. Stand. which one hand-damn good lunes"

Chief of Polytechnic perhaps, this is an illusion." Creek

Though the philosophy of the what he does not believe. But through the Invasion from Nor- Canyon Clear

A Man's Life, and The Chilterns association.

text of her story Touring Association, he has run smack through 66-he himself called them), Geron-

(mapped and illustrated). Peel aged 70: full

Superman naturally appealed to Ed Masterson, editor of Prerent mandy to the Elbe-writing pro- fius on the other.

has cottage, not at Hosnorton only recently became available.

spent most of his life arranging him he was perturbed by the Day, the high-class American paganda leaflets and interrogat- year-old Annie Davis's cabin.

that his staffing German prisoners. other people's holidays.

-London Express Service, Work has stopped. The rout

but in the Chilterns, reene of his Gillie's amiable builders cannot get near enough

novel; intcrits to the cabin to argue Annie out

interest in rural activities. of her resistance.

ELEANOR

would

of tele-

a

Yet another

now

what he was doing when he was Proust A La Recherche de

Elgar and Kipling

of any {where, or had my altcution

I have never read

• · Gillie

Far.

500

wrote

Ernest Short, 50 years a play- Koer, fells a new sen story in

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THERE WASHT ANYTHING ON THE BACK ANYWAY

EXCEPT SOME. OLD FINANCIAL

NEWS AND

STUFF!

Plea

father

Cricketem will welcome Birched the b "Signor Byron THE

-Loudon Express Service.

deteriorated

by

reflection that great thinkers magazine, insists

sometimes go out of their minds shall believe what they write. If

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