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THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1950.

Month For THIS BOOK WILL SHAKE Lawrence SOME OF HONGKONG'S

Addicts COLONIALS

COLONIALS REVIEWED BY IAN GALE

By HORACE THOROGOOD

ARCHI

a D. H.

the

the

Pe of the characteristic Europeana and coloured colonials desire for self-government in

DOLITICAL agitation la Mawrence month. Be features of the colonial of comparable education fa the colon's to-day, and points "Social out that the agitation comes as fore it ended, nearly a world today. The essence allowed to remain.

a rule from a minority intelli- million copies of his books of colonial grievances is not quality must be the very be- ginning of colonial policy and

The

and

from most entsia,

not 1odny, were on sale in the shops.economic,-but political. And practice

Ten titles were added to it will become more and effective way to compete with majority of the people.

Self-govemment for the Penguin series; Heine- more political, because the racist nationalims is to root up

colonies is inevitable, he says, soci: Intercourse," mann are reprinting a score biggest fact in the colonial the old barelera to equality in

the main problem now is when of his books in their Unl-world is not poverty, but

Discussing the about

basis of the to gring it. He suggests that form Pocket Edition, besides passion - passion

ecionial relationship, he says the British Government should In relationships. publishing Richard Alding-colonial

tint is the encounter of two proclaim a timetable setting out ton's now biography of him, other words it is not enough peoples who have arrived at the main stages towards self- of techuleal government to be applied to the curiously titled Portrait of to give the colonial peoples different stages

more evolved colonies. a Genius. But

more goods and services; development. (The "but..

good

**

in because so many people, talking of him, say "Of course he was a genlus,

but

·

:

no

is government

In the early days not only Henys that if a time table. substitute for self-govern- dn the technically superior, and were set for Nigeria and the

therefore duminant people con- Gold ment.

Coas it would increase rider themselves. superior, but good will, it would encourage Two other provocative des

politicians There are the views of W. R, the dominated people consider jocal

to comport are on Michael Joseph's nutumn Crocker,

bo themselves with his bool Self the dominant people to

responsibility 1st. The rat. The History of Government for the Colonies superior,

2. and it would enable the brads

of departments to plan ahead.

Munchen1

in

Inderclothes (since the 15th Allen and Unwin, 12a Gu). century) is by Drs C. Willett, This is a book which will cause and Philli

It wil Cunnington.

a atty in the colonies, jointly

formel Gallery

of English Costume people, but will

please a good many more. undles hur hern Function ost mostly utilitarian, but, as the Publisher demurely remarks,French

INEVITABLE *

But one of the

This book is vigorous and outstanding casy to read, and the author has

in giving un excel-; trails of our prezent epoch is succeeded the levelling out of the dis- lens outline of the causes of un- Contrasting the British and purity. The technically back rest in the colonies today.

colonial systems, the ward peoples have, plcked up when they have alro rerved nuthor boldly points to race the techniques, and, says the biologists. fact is deriminalieri

the erotic purpose the

factor author, Indian

African physicists, frankly recognized and examined which will eventually lead to Chinese

break up of the British engineers Surgeon, Ok- as such."

Empire. "ople." he says, "de inhom Redskin afvertising

ar

"SHOCKING"

The recami is Roads Euln, The Shocking History Of Sorial Reform, by E. S. Turner, who wrote so amusingly about Juvenile fletion in Boys Will He Doys.

tt.

not like being exploited but experta, Eskimo erooners, point

What to the truth," they can put up with it. they chaint put up with is bring Considered inferior."

I

Thus, with his magie spawn. Blan white

must now 1!11 While France prepared to ac- accustomed to considering the. cept her colonial cubject na redionial peoples la equal in Beenure : Frenchmen Why holdin

equals, the natural crlowments. deals with valuable reform the English by the colonies have

In the following chapters, Mr met with tooth-and-rail ope developed a cult of race superior?

A treathe, says Mr Clocker, Cracker outlines the unrest and Example Daylight ity. position.

written around the Saving, denemerit becaure it could be would ruin the urlal indus coure and the rourequences of

10 Brit clubs in colonial! try

Aldous Huxley roads an arvas, alarm in his new collectie of ecoys, Themes And Variations

(Chatto and Winius. Mag). Bet foreseen

411

inevitable would

SOCIAL EQUALITY

When Wilfred Blunt went to calamity resulting from over-alta in 1991, he, a member of

the arintneracy, was shocked to pulation and rail erosion.

Today's 2-lution population in that all Maltece, even the needs

double the existing food altese nobility, were excluded

por nueition: from the club at Valetta. for peroureist what will

will the position be 50sia, Indians youre hence when it cannot be less than three billions”

In

were still ex- cluded from the chiles up to the day the Viceroyalty Huxley's elvire to politicians extinguished in

1047.

Was

Th

local

De antagonising

: Worry less abinn II-homin effect of the clubs which may or may not ru off,timent was ant more about the wore has the snobberies of the majority of world starvation.

Fli

of British middle-clars wives in

Mel by 1onlichte colonies"

Carran. March, 20)

is W.

*131*• pullor toes

OT

on to say Stouter Mossory of how he has all selame for economile and other British Meng kids velopment, all gazetings of

general Kori native appointed to this napped Germin Kreips in Crete in 1944, A that senior post, re writ in thrilling adventure, saily told, water so long as the practice uf

-London Express Service,

social

huequality

between

Jony

It's only the morning post. Raidening 11 My husband correspondent,"

London Express Service.

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

IDEERIMIREÐINNICKIS, REGORD REVIEW This Cossack Chorus

sounds elderly now

HERE are two orchestral

and two piano recordt of real distinction in the Feb- runry Dupplements.

First I wold and you to hear Le Roue d'Omplate, by Saint- Sains, Beautifully played by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham,

ti

It in obvious that a great deal of trouble 1. trees taken in balancing the orchestra; my aly regret is that the change-over had to come in the ruletale of a long crescendo, For all that, this record is a foy in Bear. It ha personality, sensitivity and polish, (AMV DB, 6198.)

From Saint-Saens to Brads 1 ts Opis 31--Tragir Over- fure, played by the Philharmonia Ourhestra conducted by Paul

Here is the

perfect example of complete co-opera- tion between musicians and recording engineera

It is p seated on three sides, realiali- cally, the whole performance being impeccable.

* * ***

In complete contrast the fourth nice i taken over by Brulama's Hungarian Daner No. 5, which is played with tremendous spirit, (inaking what must be considered `a notably recording (Colombla

LX. 1931-2.)

In July 1947 Arturo Benedetti Michelangell's dret récord was

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

HOLD STILL OR I'LL BE

LATE FOR

MY DATE. WITH THE HAIR-

DRESSER

SUGGEST SAVING A BIT

BY CUTTING OUT BEAUTY TREATMENTS

AND SEE

WHO GETS

THE HOME-

MADE KID.

I DONT BELIEVE YOU'RE

EVEN TRYING TO ROLL THEM ?"

released. At the time I wrote that in this young planist we had A musician in the front rank,

77164 month he plays the Buson arrangement "of" Bach's Chaconne from the Parilts in 19 miner. This is the best recur! he has made: the recording of the piano fa entirely in keeping with the beautiful quality of Michelangell's magnificent inter- pretation. (IMY 18, 21007-01

1 am enghanted with the way Monique Hos plays two short pieces by Couperin, Les Barri- cades Mystérieuses, and Le Tie- Toe-Choc Ou Les Mallotin Here is delicacy, wit and first- glass recorded "plano, (Decea

1. 9331.)

Twelve Bobbers and A Hazel Tree, two folk songs are sung by the Don Cossack Chorus Co- ducted by Serge Jnrött, who will be visiting this country during March.

On this record it would appear that the passing of time has not en kind to this famous chair: their earlier records were much, much better. (Columbia DX. 1630.).

There would seem to be no reason at all for the Issise of Round Her Neck She Wore a Yellow Ribbon und Mammi Knows Best by the Tanner Sisters except, perhaps, for the Sid accompaniment from Phillips OBA his Orchestra. (FIMV JL, 9875)

Loadnu Express Service,

New Books by George Malcolm ThomsOTI

A woman who should

never have

THE GRASS IS SINGING.

TH

By Doris Lessing. Michael Joseph. 9s. 6d. 256 pages. THIS novel belongs to the now generation of writers which, almost every month, turns up a fresh talent clamouring for notice and judgment.

The Grass is Singing Is sin- eere, uexpert, powerful and promising. Its author iz a wornan, from' South Africa, Home of so many famous women writers.

Its story is ugly and pitiful, with its own version of human dignity preserved somehow in Equalor and defeat.

married

Should we say genius? And its theme, underlying the

DENTON WELCH is that tragic ritory,

social dilemma of our time: the Coldf a antive and sces the human

The interval was filled with. hospitals,

and doctors, pain writing. His great ambition was to finish this novel.

In the end he could work for only three or four minutes at a time, after which he would lie, almost blind and with a raging headache. He died aged 31, on December 30, 1940.

A Voice Through a Cloud is In fiction, the story of an illness, It is moving and uncomfortably vivid, it has the acuteness, with- out the distortions, of pain. It is biller and courageous,

It states a kind of distrustful integrity in a series of brilliant pletures of fellow patients, nurses, anxious relatives. It is mature, with disarming fashes of youthful timidity. It is hardly

• novel at all. But it is a deep experience.

Welch was a writer born. Not

even physient disaster could

War of Colour. Here it is, trans being, his sense of guilt fumes lated into the calamitous life of up in resentiment and he brings frustrate his angry, sensitive Dick Turner and his wife, Mary, down the whip."

ani

Later, Mary (by now hardly

talent. Should we my genius?

A

played out in the oppressive tin shack. the lonely air of among the dust devils of the fane) is haunted in nightmarca veldi.

by the gigantic black gure. TWELVE AGAINST THE No

LAW. By They are like two antagonists.

Edward D. villains here heroes, The casual brutalities

Radin. Heinemann. 10s. like their of white farmers,

6d. 246 pages. equally casual outbrents of kindness, new too much part of n It ends at the moment where THE social pattern to provoke con- the book opens-with the mur' true. demnation.

her

by her ob.

But he is sure of himself; she is

by fear, undermined

nigais, dream-llet session.

LED).

IESE excellent crime stories

have the advantage of being

der of Mary and the arrest of Mr Radin has not needed to As for the natives, they are loses (motive, theft). Dick is use his imagination. He hag cunning, they are stupid and, cut of his mind.

gone to the newspapers, to the the whole, they are disagreeable.

Only Tony, a young man not police records This novel spins no zentimental

(nostly Now web rond them. It is an negaukang out from England, hows York records).

an embarrassing readiness tu His talent les in givingt fresh- on your pity, not on your fear explain. Charlie Slatter, Dick's ness to those bygone annals of ducts.

eighbour, roon shuts him iniquity. Fleft Mary should, of course, never

It is a "bad business."

Green to the For example, have married Dick, Probably che Under that muttered formula, Parrot murder on Third Avenue, should not have married at all white South Africa resolutely in which the critical evidence She was a good sport," life buries the unsavoury affair. was provided by a parrot which

club the tennis

The note Is never forced kept

calling out "Robber, dances, aut rather under-sexed throughout, The story is ruled robber." Until one day a detec- Overhearing a malicious con: ly the impress of something tive decided the bird was talk- versation one day, "How absurd that not be escaped, that is in French and went looking the looks, tres.ed

3.ed like a girl in implicit in the people, the scene, for a man named Robert. her Los pule the notion of the climate. So what might be narriage in her head. Dick merely Fordid takes on a kind wickedness. comes into town about that time, of pride.

LUU of

buying stores for his farm.

It is not much of a farm and Dick not much of a farmer. Mary is even more feckless. She can not elure the hent, the fonic- the deadening drought. liness Above all, she cannot manage the native sa rvants,

The Turners are well on the way down to the "poor while"

A VOICE THROUGH A CLOUD. By Denton Welch. Lehmann, 10s, Od. 256 pages.

E most astonishing thing about this book is not that

level by the time Moses comes it is written so brilliantly bul back to help in the line,

that it was written at all, Con-

He is a huge black man; once sider:

Denton Welch was born in Mary had struck him with

Batt whip.

are Shanghai in 1917 and brought now things different somehow

between up in China. He was studying them. Mary is aware of Moses; art in London when (aged 10) of a road soon she is aware of no one else. he was the victim

accident, At first, with anger.

from the effects of "When a white man in Afelen which he died 13 years later. by accident looks Into the eyes His spirie had been broken.

A

on

most readable shept ot

LIBRAREYA

Student Body. By M. R. Ilodgkin.

pages.

Gollancz, D. 04. EZG

Scene: nn American college. Theme: blackmail and murder. Writer: on American woman. newcomer to detection. In- geniously worked put and amusingly told

No Duty on a Corpse. By Max Murray. Michael Joseph, Ba. Gd.

08 pages

A murder takes place on transatlantic liner called the Queen Alexandra. It should have been easy to solve. But R appears that many people had reason to kill Leondra Blith. Mr. Murray brings a light touch to his sobre topic.

London Expreu Berukce.

Keeping Down Expenses"

Bu KEMP STARRETT

:

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IF THERE'S ANY ECONO~ 'MIZING ON CLOTHES GUESS WHO'LL DO IT.

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FOR ANOTHER

MONTH

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OTHERS BALANCE THE BUDGET BY LUMPING ALL THEIR BILLS IN ONE SCRAP BASKET.

CUTTING DOWN ON THE LIGHT BILLS IS FINE ECONOMY... FOR

THE DOCTORS.

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WE WISH THEY'D ECONOMIZE.

ON THE TEN-BICK TOUCHES.

SOME WOULD LOVE TO ECONOMIZE ON

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MUSTACHES.

4.16

SORRY, JO!

I GOTTA SAVE

UP TO PAY MY

INCOME

TAXES.