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Lewis

"So your wife and it was

old-fashioned"

London Extraks Sureton,

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH," "SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.

What makes a woman like the books men hate?

Daniel George

BER:

ON BOOKS

AMING the old tycoon blame their parents for evils for "The young generations

Wisdom, which does nothing prevent ructions all round, though it imparts much Tibetan folk loro to the plodding reader.

The story-told with scrip- turn simplicity and in many ends with Salom and Veshti, ways dignifled and beautiful--

the grandparents,

for the heart of a blizzard. Brrrh! which the young generations, in

Soldiers their turn, will HOW

be blamed by their own children."

ripe for conversion Into an- other great American novel, The procedure in famillar. You take a local boy-preferably of dubious parentage. You grow him up with

a grievance and make him make good with a vengeance.

Americancolumn Luck, health, wealth, power

She sings in $ key

From NEWELL ROGERS

NEW YORK. One of Hampstead! Heath's most musical dollar exports is queen of the moment in New York's con- cert halls.

you give him everything: every thing but love. At the tiptop of his success you ahaller lk stoy heart. Wit a sprinkling of tears you then kill him off, and serve the concoction luke- warm in 300 pages.

Escapo

and

LEXANDER Baron's A THERE'S NO HOME (Cope, Da nd), is n British novel,

With Alexander Baror. you get away from it all you can be transported (to- will feel at home, though the is about morrow) to HIGH VALLEY, by scene Is Sielly. It Charmlan Clift nad George men you know-civilians turned Johnston (Faber, 12s. 6d) oldiers and lapsing into civi tale of rough but romantle do- laus again so they enjoy a lull Ings in the Tibetan Valley of the between two campaigns. Dreaming Phoenix.

Before the war claims them again they have snatched some happiness-not all of them: a few have suffered.

Salom, a roaming Chinese youth, falls in love there with Vestiti, the headman's daughter.

Sergeant Craddock and Grazi- She is so responsive that, floutella-if you can read their love Tuyur Caldwell has proft-

Ing the ably toyed

community's ancient with this theme customs

washing, she story without compassion and of not before. In LET LOVE COME submits, under Salom's super LAST (Collins, 10s. Od.) played with variations contri- buted by fractious children and lumber interests.

is

William Prescott made his way from poverty to presidency

vision, to total Immersion, Vision,

The arrival of Yanong, white lama, causes trouble. He wonte Veshti ns temporary gift to the gods. Salam disapproves At this point occurs a visita- presidency of the Prescott tion by the Living Buddha, and Lumber Company, Like Ishmael, the utterance of much Worldly his hand had been against every

some said In an

every man's pocket. Achieving ofuence, he descended upon his home town. There, marrying. almost by powder blue sequin-

the storm.

Ursula spangled gown she crossed

Wende, a genteel schoolmistre55,

he all491– River Styx as Orfeo, in a con-

sion, in size enormous, in taste reri version of Gluck's opera, to rescue Euridice from findes. execrable, and set about en- With her Hollywood host, fam-compassing the ruin of his for. ed conductor Bruno Walter, for mer planist, she sang Brahing and Arnold,

but a weak reed. Schubert,

Twice in twr nights 1 have heard contratto Kathleen Ferrier sing in capacity audiences.

21

New Yoth is for her the climax of a 6,000-mile tour-about 62,- 800 encert-goers in 38 cities- trinka and thrills,

Worst trial: Thanks to the coal strike the Wheaton, Illinois, hall

Wert night.

lightless and heatless on her concert

In They brought generator: to make light. thin

gown the st

in overcoats. audienc

Big thrill: A Negro woman at

Chattneey rogue

employer.

2011

undoubted

Fiction's Worst

He spoiled his two daughters auit two sons. Ursula, dreading

between Privates understanding, it the quarrel Broom and Jobbling mystifies

you, if, in short, what is credible, told in An unleated style with unforced untalated pathos, humour and

does not satisfy your "There's No Home" is no book for you.

-London Express. Service.

THE SHOW MUST GO ON"

DAB and FLOUNDER“. -by Walter

CIGARETTES

CIGARETTES

THE ENGLISH GIRL AND

NAPOLEON

WHERE is material for a

III'S

literary mystery hunt Books &

in Princess Marthe Bibesco's

forthcoming book. Prince

[Imperial.

She tells the story of

in displeasure, abandoned ali Napoleon 11's son and his

children in fiction, and, growing

portable In a to 4112

from

"I have

Persons

BY HORACE THOROGOOD!

SON

eccentricities,

forger-he Was

an expert on calligraphy,

• ANOTHER

сап-

NEW BOOKS

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

St.

A Fleet that is good

to the Evening Mirror).

Brukmona has been kidnap

FINAL NIGHT. By Robert through a letter brought over by. Brukmann and has thrown Gaines.. Heinemann, 8s. herself under a train (exclusive 6d. 241 pages. HERE will always be ped, murdered in a foreign novels about Fleet legation, dumped at Waterloo Street, and most of them and then taken back to will be bad. Nobody knows legation. why.

the

The Special Branch prefers that his demise should

Evening Mirror has the story

novel

Deiter on a short courte

GEORGES SIMENON ...

Perhaps It is because be extra-territorial. (Again the only journalists want to sat to itself.) their novels in London,

High-paced melodrama by a E.C.4-and because journal now talent. Atmosphere near- ists usually do not writa muthentle. Writing variable. good novels..

Best when it is least preten- rivalries, divided by the Arment So let it be said right this: "Challenging himself with

Hlous Worst when it reads like social barriers.

"Eating well and speaking Ul away that Final Night is a courage in the safety of his of their neighbour capable of good novel, is by a journal aloneness. Boy, put that one the widest generosity and of the list, and is about Fleet on the spikel

most disgraceful chicanery, the Street. About

ROBERT GAINES 18 pen people of Fougayrolles spring to same which covers the identity life before us, cynical, religious, evening paper which pulle of a journalist who graduated yet with the barricades of the off a double scoop.

Revolution always ready to re- Some from Yorkshire to Fleet Strees, build themselves in the streets. thing that does not happen He prefers to remain anony-

JEANNE SALEIL was born every day.

In the department of Aveyron in Final Night Is the latest THE DUKAYS. By Lajos France and spent

her girlhood summers in the mountain village Zilahy. Heinemann. 121. of Fougayrolles. "Has also lived 6d. 687 pages.

in England and in Mexico.

smart &

$110.

in

Ia

attempt to put over the glamour, sell-pity and reali- ty of Fleet Street. An at TRESS the Forsyte Saga up. How Professor of French in tempt in the modern man. Dhussar utform), all the Massachusetts, U.S.A. and has ner, sardonic, misanthropic, minds of its characters with taught there since the middle prepared to believe the the basest libertinism, give n thirties. licenco worst.

to the language (and STRANGE INHERITANCE. doing that would have sent Gaines exhibits his cart John

Routledge. By Simonon. Galsworthy

and Kegan Paul, . 9s. 6d. 222 pages.

ccllara the

lives.

scurrying solicitor's

He achieves his effect, creates

of journalists in no mood of back to the family adolescent enthusiasm, but business in Old Jewry-and you rather like dentist taking set some idea of The Dukays. IMENON is one of the least

It is like a vast, naughty, an X-ray of a row of in- badly organised picnic

showy of novelista and one In the of the best. He has a limited ferior teeth.

middle of the Hungarian plain. objective, knows exactly what It spreads over the first forty he wants to do and never tries SCOOPS GALORE

years of the present century. for more. GRANGER, for instance, And its central Bgure, in co

He is the poet of small towns, publisher-politi-

as it has the news-editor. Nobody far

one. Is

Count loent big-wigs, rainy weather, cian is Nigel (son.of Harold) Nicolson, 32, partner in the new Will make a hero of him, Dupf, who had an illegitimate deckside enfes, ship chandlers family on the largest possible stores, the Chamber of Cum- firm of George Weidenfeld and least of all his wife, Susan, sente.

merce, train journeys, money, Nicolson.

He doesn't share his whose Interest (after tho

More Invention, than shape And crime. parents' Socialist prospective Conservative

politico-isgin-bottle) does not focus about this lively work. date for a Midland constitucos).This explains why Granger parian who wrote this book in on the boards, with such speed Jon her lord and master.. • LAJOS ZILAHY is a Hun- his atmosphere, puts his dramb books," he says.

His pnet-mother

of Budapest-a that the job looks easy. In fact, Sackville-West,

is still morose at the end of fugitive from the Nazis. He the it has called for intimate know- The list of first productions a day of incredible pro- caped to America where he now ledge and a real genius for the. Beginning with £900 and his

the new firm father's bank guarantee, now at of

wears a fessional triumph. air. In Account

of details. selection of za he controls six companies. A apologetic fellow-director is

The story opens at the A HOUSE IN THE The latest Simenon twice J. P. L. Settled, De Sebact, ex-German

when

CEVENNES. Granger,

length. That is to By Jeanne the usual of the financial boss, defends his con- moment Thomas, vice-chairman

it is a full-length novel. Salcil. Collancz, 10. 6d. ny Conservative Party, and Baker nection with the Hitler regime, casting his morning glance

Many will think Simenon is himself is running for Purlin- and Charlotte (former wife of at the marble effigy of his 208 pages:

better over the shorter course. rent us a Conservative,

Professor) Haldane, in Truth

It tells how Gilles Mauvoisia, Wilt Out, explains her break proprietor, is whisked up E gay and tender portrait

in the lift to his duties.

French village com- weakling son of a no-good con

• GREY WALLS Press, which

with the Communist Party. ---- And Forger

to La Rochelle Two stories, as he puts It, munity in Provence in which Jurer, returns publish the book, are one of

puzzing.

• ANTONIA WHITE reappears "Stick

out." Girda Thorpe Sale family spend their and is plunged into the Falcon Press group. Why INTERESTING biography in

frightening intrigues that fol on the "Falcon?"

fetion programme nod Dr Brukmann. They do summers, It was the name of

next year's programime after 16 years. This is wel indeed.

At first they are shunned as low the death of his rich uncle tan armoured car commanded in A. J. A. Symous: His Life, aul, come news: her debut in 1033 Girda is being tried for nur foreigners. Then it turns out Octave: polsoned.

GEORGES SIMENON: 48- war by ex-Commando- Speculations, by his port brother with Frost in May was a nol- der at

The that Pipa. has an unparalleled should be good. able event of the literary year.doctor, & fugitive Minister from gift for funeral oratory, an art year-old French author of more 300 novels France's a major criminal industry. One there is solid sense in the aut-paratrooper Peter Baker, and he Julian. It

Symons (died 1941) was ecntrols the group.

the She will break her long silence an Iron Curtain country, may In great local demand. third of all thefts are from park-thor's threefold moral:-

The family a drawn' Into the greatest writer of psychological perfcet

ot Croydon dilettame gourmet in the spring with an importan! | land

at 1, DON'T spoil your children, el cars. The police are teaching

Brillers. He has worked under Mr Baker's career is a success (founded with Andre Simon the novel, The Lost Traveller (Eyre moment.

village life. motorists how to protect them- 2. DON'T, in any event think

It is a fe full of incident 16 pen-names. Son of

Before the day is done, Girde Can command their story.

Major B. P. Wine and Food Club), collector. and Spottiswoode). selves from "crooks with in- that you

love ind respect. 2. REMEM-Baker, head of Ealing Films nuthor and, among other

London Express Service, has been sensationally acquitted and scandal, torn by feuds and peners."

to

my

attempts at disciplining them love affair with an English Studio" "I inherited a fair for They became the worst-behe girl. But who was the girl? business and decided to apply it

developed teeth sharper The author says: U]2. than any serpent's,

called her Betzy. That was The bulk of the book Cupar not her name." She adds:

commercial

chicanery a San Francisco rehiaral sakl to stult) is too domestic for waris "The intimate facts came

me from

grand That was wonderful singeven Taylor Caldwell's words,

I # boor, Ursula mother, Princess George It was Marian Anderson,

the children

Bibesco, a distant cousin of America's gint ecloured con-

No, it would have been fairer the Empress Eugenie." Dollar carnings? Spiel Kath-

wiser lem: "I pay all my accompanist's and esponses. The management takes domestic for men,"

For wonen, doubtless, the But my bank says 20 percent.

The scenes of I am worth more than a care disharmony in

family life will constitute, the Spar

chief charm and point of the

tralto.

CRIME: Car-breaking is now

William

bore, cuisance.

to

write:

Too

If both sexes and all ages the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WHY DON'T YOU TAKE THE

DOG FOR A

WALK

#

15

AND I THINK THE PIANO

COULD GO OVER

THERE... THEN

THERE'S ALL

the Old Bailey.

any

of

than

Rainy Sunday

By KEMP STARRETT

London Express Service)-

SOME JUST STARE OUT THE WINDOW

AT WHAT'S MAKING THEA MISERABLE.

OTHERS GO IN FOR LITERATURE TO CHASE THE BLUES.

THAT BRASS

TO BE POLISHED

AND...

ETC.

COPR. 1750 BY GENERAL, FEARRES CORP. TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

THE

SOME GET SO

BOOK.

SPROUTS

WILL BE

VWANTING

TO DO |SOMETHING:

TO EACH

ONER.

DESPERATE THEY

EVEN TRY TO -

BALANCE THE

WIFE'S CHECK-

NEVER, NEVER WISH RIGHT OUT LOUD THAT YOU HAD SOMETHING TO DO BECAUSE, BROTHER, YOU'LL GET YOUR WISH BUT GOOD!

TO SOME OTHERS IT SEEMS THE IDEAL TIME TO REMIND A MAN OF ALL HIS PAST MISTAKES.

EVERTHING'S ALL MIXED... NEED A

LITTLE ORDER

OF COURSE YOU CAN RE-ARRANGE THE STUFF ON THE PANTRY. SHELVES.

2.19.

OTHERS TRY TO GET AS WET INSIDE AS IT IS OUTSIDE.

IT'S MINE

**TAINT!

'SMINE.