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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY

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DAB and FLOUNDER

WALTER

Machines One more shrewd

help with baby now

From HENRY LOWRIE

NEW YORK.

WHEN groups of British

war brides flew home with their children from America it meant only a holiday for them.

But airline officials and architects

much по OAW

that more in their light designing they

now luxury airports.

are

First of them was opened in Baltimore.

Because of the trementous

boy takes

the lid off

O all the hopefuls Twho will burden

to

a

his Majesty's maila London publishers with their "as yet unpublished work" word: If you want

write to

winner, lift the lid off something -politica, a profession, what you will. Show the cash customers what brews up underneath.

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on

JEROME WEIDMAN

by JAMES LEASOR

Increase in the number of baby Dr Cronin used this passengern, it features a nursery infallible formula with all sorts of machines. They

when

he

wratc will hand out new apples, mix

words lost or hard food, replace baby' broken boities, or sterilise the Harley street. So did the girl he wanted to marry, to

Frederic dirty onts.

Wakeman when his boss.

His fortunes (and his Arm's) There are private rooms for performing a similar ser- kvist on the moods of their top adults, who may have a shower vice for American advertis- strip-cartoonist, one Buzz Wap- and shnich 40 winka lu iad be--¦ing in "The Hucksters.” ping. This arust slips out and tween plane connections.

Business men have a confer- ence room big enough to hold 75, They can even throw u party, tive u full dinner, and let guests dance In an open-air

tlichtre.

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sirns up with their

greatest Sinclair Lewis gives his readers rival. At Y. and J's chaos and under-cover stult about back darkness reign and all is night. yard American politics; and the

Then Cade manages to sign Inland Revenue here benellt up

intellectual formhand richly by Nigel Balchin's know- enlled Wally Pohl to produce a ledge of the back-room Ministry regular piece (called, tiaturally methods.

enough, "Pohl's Apart"), This Mailer turna la an open letter-we-accuse- War. Norman

the other side of the Honert-Joc affair. 11 becomes a medal in "The Naked and the fabulous success.

And Tom Len (Thre POLITICS: America's South, Dead." which does not like President Brave Bully") scares you with

the stomach-shrinking frar Truman, has given him another the rebuff. North Carolin minnhe bullighters in their sordid.

world of blood Wil ted Inwyer

Ax sweaty

aud mark, when the curth trembles for the Sonnte, ift candidate

Truman's "Fais Deal"

Smith

The venom of the bulls.

FLUORESCENT... THE obliging d

of

the Man of Tomarrow.

[ORE than one man dies.

MO The future-for bright-

boy Cade diez with him. Ahend He the grey, hopeless

years. Once more he is the hired hand, the man who couldn't quite. "...

He walked stowly, keeping his head down, as though the only thing that mattered was to re- trace his steps exactly as he had com, without leaving any further disfiguring marks in the road."

Author Woldman, a one-time Inwyer, pegs out his plot with the pretty precision of the pro- sreuilon putting its enzo.

cloes more than antirise. offers in Cade, the frog would be a business bull, example for others gnawed by too much ambition.

H:

who

or

And If these men do suceced what then?

BIL

"In that cast desert of sham which they had risen to fame and fortune they felt the need for an oasis of reality, a #mall place in which they could pouse and relax for a while and

their Aljow

desiccated con- sciences to absorb the forgotter moisture of integrity."

IT'S A MARKET

Ind.

he

WEIDMAN is no newcome

to the lid-lifting literary When he was only 2 produced a polished and cynical novel about the rise of a polished and cynical operator in New York's clothing trade.

He followed this with another drapery expose: "What's in it for me?"

What's in it for Weldman now i!! ncent among the successful anti-Mammon prophets, who hate the system that provide: them with conveniently rich Things to hate.

Weldman, the American Nor-

teretary was in the same posi-

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15, 1950.

Now here's a woman you

BOOKS

are sure to hate

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON astute enough to see that mar-

reviews the 'NEW BOOKS

THE WIDOW. By Suran tion of the young man whom Yorke. John Lehmann, she has captivated. The widow divulged 9. Od. 216 pages.

(her namo la never from start to finish) tells it Tins is not so much a herself in a mood of unive self-

novel дз a prolonged applause. essay on love, written by somebody who dislikes it.

The author, Susan Yorice, an American

ilving In Buenos Alres, has reinarkable vir- tuosity in the analysic emotion. She uses her gift to wolve a character, "the widow,"

selfish, scheming and cold blooded. that she would be on toe nost odious women fiction If only it were possible

of

to regard her as a human being at all.

riage to him would be a tactical blunder. No! The only satis factory end to the grisly omour will be Lho young mary's destruction,

141

Thin the widow brings about she says in effect, by a variety of cunning devices. "See." "Low brilliantly I have con- verted love bite a form of iong-nancee (whom she has selectal

For instanco, she makes h en planning! Observe how for him) pa jealous that the girl

fully I, a wealthy

woman, runs off with the young man's fashionable and forty, ensnare !rsit friend, Finally, he is this youth on whom my posses

art vest Lo give fancy has alighted. Watch widow smashes the Ming var suleide when the

wretch so that even

I play with poor that he regards as his "goo delities, of which he is so

huck" plece, ridiculously proud, are in fact And what happens dictated by my wishes! Walt What happens when the cat has

DOW

ank

The

udmire how neatly I despatch the victim when appropriate moment atives P

thent

at last led the mouse? "My

mind," says the widow in her and way, "is a dreary realm that lacks a sovereign." In simpler langunge, she la bored,

Anybody interested in love as

But Susan Yorke has done Ber work too well. Carried In surroundings of "gracious away by an almost personal vin" (te, cocktail parties, an experiment in deep freezing Balred for her "heroine, she swimraing

fashionabic might care to try this grim but pool, I bas

created not A wicked concerts) in a South American talented novel, woman. but maligannt city, the widow marks down * SUSAN YORKE spent machine.

the macabre parsion the childhood in China and Indis; This is the story of a middle- calls, "love", a weak,

New good- studied political selence sted woman's diabolicni destruc-looking young lawyer. She is York; went to South America

for

The 'too-frank' letters of

James

Joyce Books and husons

Joyce exhibition, big National Library,

BY: HORACE THOROGOOD)

Bzrn

in United States foreign service; married, lives in Buenos Aires. EVERY MAN A PENNY.

By Bruce Marshall, Con- stable. 12.. 6d. 612 pagcs.

A GOOD

120X1 and an 11- eventful life. Not very promising ingredients for Eilot LEARN that the James leation, rests with the Dublin Lawrence. T. S. RISING STAR

longish novel. "In fact, it is only not to

Norman he Pound, Inter Wells,

Bruce Marshall's humour, pre- opened til 50 years hence. But Douglas, Edde March nudi ADE is anxious try

um Colling, has his own cyni-Paris success in the autumu. Patricia Tutching's James Joyce Maughans helped and influenced Juice, faith and bumanity that wringle into a top-drawer ent. cloakroom philosophy being brought to London of Dublin. due in the sprind him. With Marguerite Sicon up this book divertingly alive.

of Con- from Falcon Press, will throw

It is plain from the word 30 wrote the play French that the Abbe Gaston will campaigned as an apponent of with the rear of the crowd and uses Pohl as a lever to pro- "A man who slept with n by the histitute

pet bimelf up into a partner-

For Love,

Cel :lup.

By apt coincidence, a study He fancies himself as the tim as a man who built his temporary Arts, will open, ew light on the subject.

anywhere in the From all this, a frank slidy never

Church nreat executive, the ring star, house on a windy hill. If he early February, in the Na of the author of Lady Chatter of the restless Twenties should

For one thing, he is Loo indiscreet, Book decided later thri he didn't liktional

League's ky's Lover will appear about emerite.

for another, that

shade much breeze, there wa

the rame time-Richard Alding- Anrher war book success is a

too sympathetic sinners, Often he only one thing; he could do. H

In time for it, John Lane war's Portrait of a Genius, but is The Naked and the Dead.towards

(Hebe mana). Why the Publisher Wingate says he has wishes that "the Lord had made could go away from there.";

is publishing, January 12, but... Aldington explains. solel 78.000 copies and expects Christianity a little easier or at Or was itapossible to.tehe

first chrap edition in "In going over the hooks and £5,000 by Chrisimon.

feast allowed a handicap to bad

These are her or anyone else that humor his

"The youngest old man players," country of Ulysses ktters I noticed that

of beings were not like bookends"

the where or other almost everyone have ever known" says Eleanoriments that even the best matched (185).

used the phrase, "Of course, D Farjeen of her

Krandfather, eburchman. pairs could not experience When, during the war, H, Lowience was a genius, but Joseph

American identical emotions.”

Joyce fled from Paris 10 2." Aklington, while allowing actor. She has written a fore- It is all here. The whispered Switzerland, leaving unpaid the "Lut." emphasises the word to 115 autobiography,

*

*

*

York, Loulou's

COMPETITION; New

always

Jealous ot

off again."

comes

Says Luke sady: "You fun what you're doing is easy, You Its Bite: claim to be the world's biggest 37-year-old Joe Weidman, it's a matter of it

i fough and making prople throwidły Fad elty, in hoping to take away

Ameri-

To the line un they hand title. Incomplete census figuress can writer with a handful

MA threwdly can Amerian novek Gyer what you want. published

texty

Gurt, but you'll fear." liliu! Jinn York's populatio

"THE PRICE Cate

Ins, Macheth-like the S GT of

hand, too late. He, has gambled his suorescent world of American life, his friendships, his sucurity.

These firms on this one smart move. syndicates.

8,000,000, Greater

Show

ew

achmond London's is

8,300,01. And it carefulty pointed out that New York, area is only 359 autre miles, against Lonito's 693.

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He writes-in

sleeves.

gallery.

those

"genlum."

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senie-

Jeffersbu

not the successful

‹ Mice rumours, the telephones

Apart from one excursion to appearing shortly in Reinhardt buy up the work of columusta, Then the incredible happent, that ring but who's to answer, rent, his landlord auctioned

and cartoonists, and

Evans's Theatre Library South America (whence painful others of Birnain Wood moving to Dun-

PAUPERISATION effects-except the little men

irregularities have been reported: in the big job his

under a new title. Rip Van the easy phrase, the polished sinanet. the two rival Arms and the big men in their shirt snatched

Derek (great-grandson of Winkie, his mast famous role. Inforehandl

priests smoking cigars in the (pencil-ndroko,

by and well their merge.

Coventry) I'atmore is writinut O Patrick Bair, whose forth- confessional, etc.), the abbe friends. BIR - Cude dashes off into the

This is the market-place. On

his nutobiography

the coming GLAMOUR: A clisin of New work to new papers

Rist novel. Faster! #penda the whole of his Me in York

Aazines from the Gulf to

die country to see Poll, to try to sale are Ideas and brains and

Pictures went for the price of gutbreak of war, when he was Faster! (Eyre and Spottiswoode) Farks, where the church of St. restaurants walch

Golden Gale.

persuade him to expose the the souls of mea

their frames. Many tems thus 31. Private History been steadily dropping busines

will tell will attract much attention by Clovis strives plously to win Heary Care, polsed on the folly of a merger, han sturted a beauty emurze fur,

Wiseman Weldman describes dispersed have been recovered, what happened to him, sun of its very erthal theme and over the congregation of St.. edge of 30, mildly unhappy is waitresses,

Joyce's Jewish helper, Leon, wealthy, cultured parents, when treatments is an officer of the Remy, which in holy emulation to brim!

lauf, unhappy back

But Poll (despite a smouth, in his give them a second-drawer job at Vin-

where the burled treasure is deported by the Germans, evesi the family fortunes vanished. Surrey County Council in s tries to sneak back its errant. ****naver and Jaxon, has lost Lusse, freen roadster, smart clothes

At 17 he look up modern early thirties

flock. appetite." Their biggest prob

and other pleasant

wages of and what the hazards are forked an "underground" return

to rescue certain unsold ro decoration. worked INL New His

Brat title for it, The

The abbe takes no part in this lemore feri, Sad Beatrice "The Price la Right by rottable sin) is still a country those who seek Miller,

the lawas York, turned author at 23. Back Train, was anticipated by a tran competition. He lives, with his The cost of this hook in the beauty. Jerome Weldman Hammond, man at heart. He is busy tend-

in London he joined and left stated Russian nove! published cats, in a flat above a kept One sealed parcel of letters rst the Socialists, then the Mosa few months back.

woman and watches France home, walk without shoes.” Gs.).

gares him. He dies.

oo frank for contemporary pub- leyites. As a boy he met D. HI.

- London Express Service) Í going to the devil

customers

pruferetonni

hired to glamourine them: "At Fiammond and Co., Ltd.. 103, Ing a sick bull, The animal price of knowledge.

book

-(London Express Service)

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