1950-05-20 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1950.

It's not the LOST WEEKEND' AUTHOR

same off

the screen By Patricia Clary

AND SOME

Hitoareld showers

COMES A CROPPER

were

THE EVIL EYE 【AROLD ACTON'S

and

PRINCE

terrible. Humour much biographical tenderness offset the violence FICTION has always held more then somewhat of a genius, and

distorting mirror up supplies

detall, such as his passion for and hatred.

(even in hints Paul to Nature. Once it reflected clothes

of the the majority

human "custom-buil!") and his request ladies with devoted atten-beings as creatures of pure (duly honoured) that his ashes tion in movies. But he says romance, they're silly to expect the Now it

exposes them as thing from their monsters of turpitude, too

bad to die. Even Henreid, after a long. happy marriage, no longer kisses

Name husbands.

too good to live, should be scattered over Broad- ISIDORE (Methuen, 10s. Ed.)

дл

The world of present-day Itis wife's hand and pays her fiction is dark and dire, largely murderers and flowery compliments each even-iphabiled by

With cruelly and murderces. Ing.

nimost ranked "Even Sir Walter Roleigh," he violence

"would

appears я have said.

stopped virtue: kindness in mudeankered rentimentality, love as spreading his coat puddles for his wife after a tewanguish, humour as insult. ralny seasons. He couldn't have to pay the afforded balls.*

cleaning

in

Real life is run on different lines, or it would never run at all.

am moved to these

way.

It was not

Runyon, I may add, who left instructions that 10 percent, of his ashes should be dropped on his agent's offices."

The

is fantastic indulgence. prince was a feitatore, that is to say, a man with the gift-curse? power? anyhow, inconvenience. of the evil eye. He hardly knew his own visual strength. cometime Klance But If-his

· HARD-LUCK TALE

wrought havoc, it could subdue and Imperious women CAMDEN'S aim in lovely EORGE

TIME and therefore create situations U MY LIFE, DIY

illustrated by is to present (here piquantly

which Вугоп (Deut, 81. Gd.) working-class Londoners at the Topolski)

have devised. Voltaire might time of the biltz

Shocking in both senses of the and witty Mistakenly, think, he hands word, this learned his novel over to a narrator. exercise provokes the icind of

whom it is dimcult to laughter classifed ar sardonic.

BEST SINCE

recognise the reftections by the latest Daniel like and who is hard to

Henreid, currently playing a swashbuckling, buccaneer

of "Last Columbia's Buccaneers," said many women complain that who write in the honeymoon is aver after the Grat

yeur of marriage. "It's then that the husband begins to forget the little things he used to remember." Henreid for "He takes things bald, granted. He gets out of the car and just walks his wife to open her door and get out by herself.

A typical

or

Charles Jack, George The result to more de- THE public, I am told, shrinksi

parcel of pessimism from America.

exploited having fon. dipomania in "The Lost

ON 21 21 Weekend.”

"The BOOKS homosexuality

Valour." of Fall

succumberl OUTER EDGES away, leaving to

has

tale,

from

one-man

show! So I may

of

be

Londoner. pressing than it need short stories. have been-like an elon- wasting space in recommending Benson gated whining hard-luck THE MAN FROM THE TUN-

Theodora NEL, by (Gollane 10s, Gd.) as the best, THE in

I do not question its close (Peter Nevill

facts, her the liveliest, and most varied collec- the attractions of relation to the

wonder whether Bil, a born oh, since never mind when. It

was before your time. criminal vault, followed by warmth of its sincerity. I merely tion of tales I have read since rusiles at mutilation, as a

hardly any senso water with theme for a demealle novel.

of humour, was the best man Its purpose is to prove-in for the job of sustaining interest "He used really to kiss his series of crackling dialogies- and sympathy in a story fumillar wife when he got hotse at night. that newspaper accounts of u to millions. Now he give her an automaticton who killed two little girls pce on the cheek He used with his garden thears adversely

:ffected the lives of alt to entice what she wore.

Kissos dwindle

"One woman wrote that now people who real them: she could walk out wearing a

leopard skin loin cloth with a

difference."

know

Nevertheless, na It slands, this a by no means negligible chapter of social history,

the s

One youth they inspired to

In

PRIMITIVE

-London Express Service)

PAB and FLOUNDER

-by WALTER

Successor to "Naked and the Dead"

five turkey on her head am! her attempt a sanitar murder. tu: band worldar't

the all the others they include boit E horrors la GOD'S THUMB THERE

stodgy and smart suburbanites-- Another wife complained that it fumented unhealthy desires or her man used to converse intelli-bate suspicions gently at the breakfast

table

Now he buries hiruself in the newspaper Fund rays "More coffer"

is to be simal- publication

taneous by Otar Deliso

6.) are here 1a.

and in America alark, and

Norman Mailer's

DOWN.

unsophisticated,

Golinez, primitive.

Logically this novel should

I am Post-war Italy in its scene. only itself prove pernicious,

here to testify that, even to- The village of Acerto is at the of lithering mountain Ong husband served his wife wards the author, it has induced lon!

thelrin me no homicidal breakfast wedding anniversary for the frat three years.

bri

Cm

she say, he doesn't even remember the date.

"My advice to these women,” the sinve movie lover says, "Is

no to warry about things

impule which will one day overwhelm only a distaste for such method: K. of levying emotional blackmail upon the sensitive, and illat- in the fancy of the prurient.

If I were to pour on it the icy

18

successor

to his sensational Naked And The Dead."

Books &

The Persons

Sines the latter came out here

New Books by George Malcolm Thomson

Is Fry too witty

theatre?

for the

An

THE MIRACULOUS career

athlete, already THE HOUR OF TRUTH. By David Davidson. BARBER. By Marcel threatened by marriage.

turn Ile fears that he may

Falcon. 9. 6d. 344 pager. Ayme. The Bodlay Head

into one of those insignificant young men, addicted to women, THIS 9. 6d. 256 pages.

books, music and other morbid T

turns

THIS way for some light sensations.

Tdistraction from thoughts atheist. Plere dimly for problems of an occupying army,

tho overthrow of

is a new novel by an American who wrote that to impressive study of the moral ills new CH. the social The Steeper of H bombs and the buying order.

story has neither the urgency of of-politicians. Ayme is dry, His pretty young wife, interest nor the dramatle tension naughty and cynical. He is Micheline, falls in love with of the earlier book.

It is the story of Willora n satirist. But there is as ftlend of her husband's named

Dernard. But Bernard turns Harmon, an

American Inwyer much serious purpose in his Bernar

out

by his womenfolk, think that Fle

wife, children and mother-in-

Το devoid of sex appeal. From this law.

escape from it all, Boufflee.

conclusion she in Harmon takes a wartime job Open this novel and relax. alarming

American government You will find yourself, rescued by Milou, a professional will an

buxer who does not worry un- mission sent to the rescue of a with Lasquin the indus- doly about his career as an run-down South American pro- trialist, attending his athlete.

Gaudy weddingtid puppets. outrageous

Caught up in a web of Intriguo daughter's

cool doings,

-headed and

and corruption, Harmon in the writing-every end sacrifices

his position and luncheon. Half-way through epigeniniatic the meal. Lasquin dies, thing is here to make a good (which is harder) his love affair per with a woman named Ernestino, uttering the words. "Eliza featherweight, novel save

haps the necessary minimum of te an ideal of service. In doing beth. Production."

stery,

back self-respect co, he wins MARCEL AYME was the end power to love his wife.

children of n A novel of good intentions itself on As a boy he spent which falls to stamp

satire as there is in a good begins be an idealist. Mickeline oppressed begins to

under-

biacksmith,

vince.

"Production" Is standable enough. It is the youngest of siz very least one expects of a most of his days swimming and the mind.

Bul bouling. Worked in a bank, as industrialist. dying "Elizabeth"?

On the day of the funeral, Madame Lasquin receives £111 illiterate scrawl which explains everything. Las- has been keeping a quin mistress,

zułesman

By

THE SMALL HOURS.OF

THE

NIGHT.

By

Timothy Angus Jones. James Barrie. 98. 6d. 232 pages.

"ON'T you come and have drink?" (p. 15). "He a gulp" (p. 10). "I had drunk de me drink half my glass at

much "Champagne" (p.

(p. 19). The champagne...."

(p. 22). We drank deeply"

off glass in "Dickle wandered hang' (p. 23). "You must drink

18).

a labourer, fillin

Insurance life journalist, VENUS OBSERVED.

Christopher Fry, Oxford. Ga. 99 pages. JAVERYBODY knows that Fry The news gives his widow a is witty, But is he not tou Here, morbid pleasure. Life, she feels, witty for the theatre? has laid its predatory clutch on indeed is play with words. But a play? her. She is now the victim of do the words make these real and rather disgraceful The answer may be found at the

absence of St James's Theatre." happenings in the

it, read it. Before which one is not quite sure of

Otherwise one or the fun one gulp" (p. 20). "I shall be drunk....we drank" (p. 31), bring alive.

and rome of the poetry will be "Drinking" (p. 32). "I poured lost to you. So swift, so plane- out" (p. 42). "Drink" (p. 43). ing are the twists and turns of

of etc. etc. "I decided to have a

drink" (p. 221).

Nothing like a change.

of

the

Fry's

So

But the most direct beneficia exuberantly does Fry the vir

imagination.

in necessary

the little water of inoral indignation there priest, doctor, lawyer, beggar. From a talk with Andre Deutsch. Zuydeuote," by Robert Merle, 1rturbed by the discovery that

forgel. husbands

doesn't mean a thing.

"We're all guilty-even me."

No actor

that

Fry

DI HORACE THOROGOOD

Manuscript of the new book last May, his London publishers (Wingate's) have sold 85.000

bis edition, will arrive here in the summer.

death and another copica

Lasquin's Will soon be Aware of, though not selually

• Written in a language similar making 100.000,

brother-in-law, Chauvieux, who tuoso try to overwhelm Fry the The book is as impending ready. that awaiting

in frankness to that of

at the play as dark vacant left catastrophe, the villagers exist in

How do author and publisher Naked and the Dead," the Prix with address and efficiency takes dramatist.

place torpor-

un spectacles at an eclipse. of agonised

fare out of it? Goncourt winner "Weekend A

Elizabeth's life. He does so respectively

enchanting It 15. in itself. a kind

As if Wilde and got reading. I has been having a rough passage she is the wife of his old army Wingate's managing director,

Shakespeare before It would be no sizzling. The story, equally despairing and irresolute.

Mailer's cling

in France.

pal, Malinier, a fanatical Right drunk on

ben. hills gather being founded on too soggy an In the neighbouring

French Wing patriot who regards women picking up his

nt work: virtuoso are characters

for

the assumption, never catches fire, me of their friends have taken royally (10 to 20 percent) will

him over £5,000, payable in Its

inferior beings, unit at Dunkirk.ns From, it

soldiers trapped 11 leaves me idly speculating un refuge from what?

Perpetua, his heroine, is told by What kind of military service. Govern-

Merlet the future of Charles Jackson. reems, a retributive

amorous duke that love may This is more than covered by Says

Less fortunate is the novelist

surprise her in the middle of n ment. The refugees are Com- triple-What will he think of next?

of the But mouths but the real language of Pontdebois one Jackie Robinson,

munists. A voluntary surrender the currency brought in by the nuage was I to put into their

exported. 137,000 copies

man's executors. Elizabeth does entence, provided the sentence She replies is not ton he's had threat athlete,

ON THE RUNYON Knys

is arranged.

production costs of the 100.000 soldiers? offers to make a career out of

However, the priest of Zuvd-not take to Pontdebois at all with a sentence exactly, but not movies, loc. Bul he plans to

return to the copies were high, about £20,000, NOME along, children, before

The rebels"

violente gets the impression that if the boogie man sloughs you ge

arrested, so, allowing for normal over- Some C lick to baseball.

muck, were a little more successsful "I'm a ball player.

less than the denunciation the Brooklyn Dodger the Skookum for mopers some released. As soon as these heads, I reckon the publishers ecofe has

und the profit will be That wasn't me-that was Daten formalities are over

cujoining his people not to "coil" his sentimental life, he would not write those austere novels actor,"

and about sla. recort baseman said. "It would

The book, translated into 11 themselves by reading be ridiculous to try to compete unvon in one of the stories soldiers have left, a gang from author's. with the many fine actors now forming the collection of literary the hills-non-political-swoop

for "dishonouring the Goncourt remains issued under the title of town, killing, looting, ravish-languages and being filmed at publicly assailing

Hollywood, still sells over 500 a in Hollywood."

out-of-place in ALL THIS AND THAT (Con- js. He'll be as front of the camera, he Barres, stable, 12s. 6d.) Trauk Sinatra trying to but a home-run.

7

not au

Issued. a of "this

the selectors

The story has obscurities, as week here, and will sell more Academy in the eyes of decent An introduction by Clark Kin- well as some jarring American- now that South Africa's ban on people." wird, who thinks Runyon was as but its effect is beautiful British books is lifted.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

HERE, HOLD THIS

IN YOUR, MOUTH .......

I'D BETTER GET

THE DOCTOR!"

thr

dead

short.

identally. 300 words long.

a lovely sentence.

*

CHRISTOPHER FRY, 4- year-old poet-playwright, lives lic Upon the younger generation in a Coisicolds cottage with his been teacher, cartoonist, Is new 'son-in-law, Pierre, is has driven into the family business.. producer and composer of revue

quin's death bears heavily, wife and 11-year-old son,

will be the wreck of his music.

--(Lonian Expreza Service)

It

" YOU SHOULDN'T EAT SO MANY STARCHY THINGS. HOW I EAT ONLY STEWED FRUIT...MORE CARROTS WOULD HELP YOU, TOO... AND NUTS INSTEAD

SO MUCH MEAT...{*

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Why Is It?

KEMP STARRETT

"SHALL I DRIVE THE

CAR UP HEAR THE WINDOW SO YOU CAN HEAR ANOTHER PROGRAM.

ON THAT RADIO, TOO!

Th

WAY IS IT WHEN A MAN GOES TO

BED EARLY FOR ONCE, HIS WIFE IS

SURE AL'S COMING DOWN WITH SOMETHING?

"GEORGE!

FOR HEAVEN'S' SAKE... THE RUG..."

I DECIDED WE'D

EAT OUT TOR A

CHANGE.... VELL GO ADOUND TO THE TEA ROOM

AND WHY, WHEN YOU TRY TO BE A BIT HELPFUL, DO KNIVES, TORKS AND SPOONS HAVE TO HOP OFF CINTO THE FLOORS

COFR. 1150 BY GENERAL FEATURES COAP, TM-WORLO RIGHTS RESTAVED,

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ALSO, WHY IS IT, THEY ALWAYS TAR THE ROADS JUST ABOUT THE TIME YOU GET THE NEW BUS ALL WAXED AND GLEAMING?

WAY.WIEN YOU BRING HOME (WITHOUT NOTICE)

·A COUPLE OF "THE BONS FOR A "HOME- COOKED MEAL, DOES THE MISSUS HAVE OTHER PLANS (ALSO WITHOUT NOTICE.)

WHEN THE RADIO PROGRAMS GET SWIFTED ABOUT WHY IS IT ALL YOUR FAVORITES ALWAYS GO ON THE AIR AT THE SAME TIME?

*WELL, I WENT TO TUL OCCULISTS TODAY... HOW

AND WHY IS IT, WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR BEST BLUE

COAT ON THE SOFA, THAT YOUR MOLTING PUP HAVE TO PICK TAT" SPOT TO SLEEP

ON 2

410

'DON'T

YOU

D'YA LIKE MY

NEW

MEAN BI-FOCALS

BI-FUDDLESS

AND WIEN VODVE THOUGHT UP A TARLY GOOD GAG WHY DOES THE VITE PROMPTLY ASSIME YOIRE. AN IGNORANCES?: