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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1950.

BEVERLEY BAXTER, at the THEATRE, examines the

London

OT all theatre critics write notices in the Many newspapers. there be, and they are by no who menna unimportant, make up their minds and speak them loud and clear even if their audience is no larger than the person next to them.

I

Inlo

onc

the

I encountered such which

stole Palladium for Mr Jack Benny's act and took up a position on the extreme left of the stalls.

The amlable and gifted Mr Denny wandered on to the stage drawling lega with those lazy,

and proceeded to chat with us at the microphone.

AR BENNY was in no hurry

M

and neither

were

we.

Every now and then he stopped, talking and looked at the wings or towards the boxes with an unseelart disinterested gaze as if the vast theatre

but himself.

held no one

Advantage of being

BENNY

firmly to the ground. Where

tap my It was in one of these pauses upon there w that a young man in the ow shoulder from the critle behind. the This is too-awfal," be sald, behind touched me

up bis the picking "Excuse and shoulder and said: me, could you tell me who this walked out. isi

I sold that it was Jack Benny.

Ten minutes later, while Mr Benny was toolding at his finger had never seen nals as if he

same young before, the them man leaned forward and asked me when the man on the stage was going to do something.

Where has he HO wan he? been these last ten years? Was he in the Jungle, or work- groundnut scheme ink on the that he has mised the onward march of the arts and the new aristocracy of the microphone?

Duca he think that songs are now ung by

and that the violin in D

rouse our reluctant admiration for taking on to formidable an antagonist, In fact Robert At- ihe many of kina displayed

with characteristics Brooclated

his immortal namesake Thomna There is a charming Portin, and the thin crescent of a new moon looked down

upon mcene of absolute enchantment,

DEGINALD BECKWITH

#kliful fellow with a rare but he is sence of comedy, wrong to make an imaginary Communist revolution. ira Bri tain a theme for laughter.

It is true that the audience the Emuany laughed a lot at

Reunion when the

Theaire

Theatre Guild prezented Shep- herd'a Warning, but that is a tribute to the aetora rather than the author.

It in a goodly company which the Guild has gathered together, and be in a fortunate dramatist by Joyce Bar- who is served bour, Jack Allen, Henrietta

Watson and Emrya Jones.

One must

st be cautiuus seeing a young actres for the first i Une, but 7 was much impremed Turner whose by Atis Anna

Huldersfield portrayal Communist teatter of firm por. por and amorous Instincts was

little gem."

of n

-London Express Servico}

DAB and FLOUNDER

by WALTER

LEMON SQUASH

BOOKS & PERSONS... by HORACE THOROGOOD

Bull's eye for Mr. Lea

N° people who con

LINEW BOOKS ŽA.. by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON Nevil Shute

is going

Sacked from Eton down under

carding

for Aur

nollery. The winner 15, TODAY'S surprise: Novit -BUT HE BECAME

to custom, stoned 10 Shute sells up his houso death. In this kind of story the on Hayling Island, is to sail reader is no FAILURE

busy looking for À HAPPY

the meaning that he is liable to with his family

tralia. WILLIAM CORY. BY Faith headmaster of the too-emotional miss the fun.

Kive me the story called No,

Shute became an admirer of terms on which Cory was writ-

Charles.

Australia 0:1 Compton Mackenzie. Cong.able.

the materjal. Inst to his son. 21, 216 pages.

Every day a little boy named gathering trip that preceded his Cory loved boys, az a school-

brings back Laurie

from his current medal-winner, "A Town 7ILLIAM CORY is one mutter should

perhaps, and, of the most remark- expressed his feelings with less kindergarten come new tale of Like Alice." Flying his light alr- visited the principal eladomate eraft, he schoolmaster's caution. the misdeeds of a able and mysterious than

the teacher: nn-ind and the Northern Terri failures of the nineteenth Hornby, the headmaster, who named Charles. One day, Charles Australian cities, toured Queens-

disagreed with Cory about has kicked

a little tory. century. For what is left school policy, may not have other day he has entleed

rude

Shute: "'1 ace prosperity

They told

they told

dead,

They brought me biller news

hnd circulated

tion

Says

into saying a very

the lencher. Laurie's great

to hear and bitter tears to ten by Cory to a favourile pupil teacher, who says that Laurie,

ahead

very for

Kiri been reluctant to act. of the man and his work?

Elght inca, found in most To make the affair more my. Word to

sterious troops of boys (young parents are increasingly anxious Australia,

Prosperity lies ahead for him, anthologies, beginning:

them) went, to meet the mether of this pest. Rosebery minong,

At the Parent-Teacher Associa too. "A Town Like Allee" will ne, Heraclities, with their parents conscal, to

se you were stay with Cory. This,

meeting, nobody looks hog-earn at least £18,000 (without although

to tard enough for the part. So flm rights). After tax deduc

mother talks to the lion "I should get about £3,000," a packet of letters writ- Laurie's

A private in the First World naval lieutenant in the

in Shute--now and found after the boy's death! after a little trouble adjusting, War, a a man this half- is now a fine little helper, with second, For many

Bup ave lapses. Laurie's mother suppressed scandal

might have been the prelude to a life ever poses Charles's influence,

"Charles?" rays the teacher, more peculiar and less respect we don't have any Charles in able. In fact, Cory went on tenching for the pure love of thin kindergarten." it-pinsters, elderly, ele in Vermont, U.S.A.: wife of Stanley

Д wandering

shed. And the Eton Benthig Song. The rest of Cory is forgotten. although his book of poems, Túnica, which sold 311 copies in a collectors' 14 years, is now

rize: Cory, under his original rame of Johnson, was once al- young ladies, most famous; he was one of the Japanese. real Victorian school-monsters;

*SHIRLEY JACKSON, 29. livet

Edgar Hummm, of the New Yorker; has three children.

a man of independent and eccen- tric mind.

He lived another 20 year: A MURDER IS ANNOUNCED. Devon family ani, when birth of a Ily

he was nty-five.

By Agatha Christle. The Crime Club, 8. 06, 200 pages. with an Indian fortune, by in- married a pretty, strong-minded elination a man of action, he girl of 20 who told him, "I al- why barred by wenk eyesight ways wanted to

marry an old, and becatne. clever man, the Navy

good, tender and after a lustrous academle enreer,

are the man." He delighted.

13 "She an Eton master In 1845.

Halifax, wholesome Balfour,

your

WAR frolle

true. You Wis

A

13

milk

hir

MEVIL KHUTE

been in

the van-

She was well known here under Grey, Lyttleton, Brell, Spring and. 8s merry as an actress But what has really happened? since his Oxford days, when he

As quicily as possible I ex. erdian's band is going to be American painter of murals ment when he

and

there

THE

critic is not

We

How did he

frontier

clown, aho

married

were

the

Wan one

to note that

Mayor of El Paso, Texas, during: Floren Ziegfeld, fun. Col the the 1015-17 Mexican Revolu- Follen). THERE has never been a Shytion. Lea, as a child. saw the

kenzie's rather un Mr Robert rebels Lake Ciudad Juarez. A King remembers...

this

-(London Express Servica)

Somebody puts the light out in Miss Blacklock's cottage and has a good ry at murdering the old lady, killing himself in

Aftles-has the process. TOT satisfied with one from Peter Davies this month. | joseliery

That is the way things took. Cuard of aviation development Lest, Charies reputation, Tom

as stylish as a maid of limour." Frohman's manage-ee-such

to influence. owned a string mines he sought

The marriage was a success. The exact opposite of what spent his vacations working for of De Havilland. Twenty years ago, One of A strong Whitt, passionately in- Cory became a father and en-

seems

to have happened,

Atlantic as one of plained that Jack Benny never played for more than a note or and book illustrator, mul- of Laindon theatres,

for the Navy, course, Old Misa Bincklock is he flew the

the englucers in charge of the did anything. which

was his two? Can he not see that the denly made himself another her stories of him tells how interested in politics, he was, as tered his son

Bersuaded Barrie to give

The latter part of Cory's life the killer. up he saw it, conducting the educa peculiar genius "Thank you," popular figures of the enter

was obscure. When he died in Sill, it is Ingenious of Agatha airship R 100.

During the five years the whispered the young man, who tainment world today are those hy writing a novel, The juvels for plays with the result | tion of a ruling class

simple hnd whu ray, "I am, I do not do? Brave Bulls. Published in that they made fortunes for

Reading his letters to

the Hampstead in 1892, there were Christie to keep was perfectly sober

being the States last year, it one another.

one of the conception alive during the 256 family plan to stay abroad, the The Little Minis-youth who became Lord Esher, few of the net In spli

head of the house will write very good manners.

"And, " three books, leisurely 1 qulle enjoyed it,

Бауз AFTER a while the ebullient even though the young aan in jumped into the top-seller for alone cared then over Eat an extraordinary impression is brightest, oddest lights of the pages of her 50th crime story.

airman author to his publishers, had it from Barrie

a million dollars each. All told, created of a vigorous mind using entury had flickered out. As Non-vintage Christie.

earned $175,000 a year immense earning to illuminate the relical song says:

AGATHA CHRISTI. in her 603 "ny timo you want me to and the row behind pricked my con-list.

through their association. A Phil Horria arrived

current affairs for the benefit of

Eton bas, Eton boys, boys of with grown-up daughter, is married

back!" 10 Her Mailowon, the orchaeologist sign anything, I'll fy after some pitter patter with his science and made me wonder if Heinemann in May.

do (17

Millie IIA

was daughter

the good old seltooi. of the rising generation of an Em-

She accompanies her husband every His aircraft is one of the un- American years old-style famous chlet burst into a Boogie Woogle the pfesional

pire's overnors

Some make for fame, kome

year on expeditions to the Middle|usuni items in the not-wanted- Bille.

She eriminal lawyer,

fervent Wis named

East. Johnson-Cory was a negro song which conalsted of ready to accept the verdict father, for 15

mcke for shame,

Another-L on-voyale baggage. of 11

the imperialist.

While others

tife through many words sung at great pace, of the mob,

pre-fab for the gardence. song and It was a lengthy

reasons for hus dingust with the

play the foot. finished

poor showing of Heilish troops

From Mrs Compton Mac- before it was

in South Africa, Bui-"Despair came a tap on my shoulder from

untidy narrative, years Memoirs of King Abdullahi ofis binwed. Rute Britannia!"

the main mutline of the story the critic in the row behind,

<lirect descendenti

restiment marched en Transjordan,

When a

he hustled emerges; Cory's character re t of the Prophet Malomet, are toast the classroom

Dins elusive and aloof, He

with to che by Cuper be published

the boys ent Western language, Brats, the British Army!" gks' no but is at accompiled writer Novelis Arabie and Turkish. His MS, one could hear Violet Trefusis is Scottish born, translated by C. Khuri, 1 he

Suddenly, in a matter of 4 the lusty modes of Bottom in- tivers in France, and writes

edited and

revi: od by

few days, all this busy, elegant In French as in English, jurnallal Philip Groves. an hour trading up the incantation of easily in

life is Bestroyed for ever.

•Stuart Chase, author of

These 25 forles from Amerien Rochester the Jew, There are slout Jews. She has just pubished a novel

his fiftieth year Johnson Traves Study

Mankind

10 are unusual and uneven. Some appared, the man whose voice but by tradition Shylock in mutin French, Les Causes Pesturs, Proper

class--it would he stupid one of them. In Mr Atkins we In June he had a new one in Phoenix Haue) was a

was not dis- are very light, some very odd: T. S. Pretend that he travelling over one druk:

at Barvard with have a moneylender who could English, Pirates At Pay (from mate

net. He reins his fellow best are those where the author Set noiy Elat and hove knocked hotb Antonin and Michael Jorepni.

Walter Lippmari at

Kinet College. Cam is nearest to the earth, Worst the chief of the ring, and Bagai out

1conomist, in prewar Florence,

Fout

faridne. Efe changes his naine raight be called fairy-tales for Papal dinti, political then chucked Portia under the characters are a

corrimentator.

by deer-poll from Jobinson to grown-ups, e beer and a Spanish argues in this book that English

Cary. And he retires to a small which chin

Gentiles ap- † prince, s. Insead of the

abolish the rihee can

estite in the West Country. American (which they

Yale Betress

titre has created. pearing in coda

What certainly were) baiting a mean Burke's autobiography Win A

parent had they Feather

My Nose, is due

"He isn't even trying to sing," he bald earnestly. Out of the corner of my mouth I explained Ut Mr Harris did not really pecular sint, which was his genius and accounted for hit extraordinary peculiarly, "Thank you," murmured the critic.

After what seemed or so, the immortal

is like loose travel.

He is a plump, good-naturel starkic with a modest but lively appreciation of his own humbur, which k as it should be. He although nitre ang a foris, never intenciosd that he should. Then he danced, although the law of gravitation keep his feet

lock such an

LUTHER cowboy

Atkins is now pretenting in the earned to ride at three

ohi,

pent his open air of Regent's Park.

Mr Atkins la a great favourite

ranches with Mexicans. of mine,

But for once I find myself ni our old friend, variance with for if we doneti Henent's Park

Jaut

Our eyes at

helpless creature,

French without tears

More versatility.

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and

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London Express Service)

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

#!

KITCHY,

KITCHY

COO.

OVE

AND

OVER AGAIN.

WOULD YOU LIKE A NICE GLASS [OF WATER, FREDDIES

harf

.

*PAITH COMPTON MACKENZIE, wife of Comptom Mackenzie and sister of Christopher Sterne, a the grat nicer of William Cory.

By Bhirley THE LOTTERY.

Juckton, Geltane. 10. 6. 300 pages.

The Lattery. undeserved

13

won

fame,

A It led how, faithful to tradi- happened? complained to the tion, an American village holds

ILIBRARY LUSH

THE HIGH PLACE, By Geoffrey Household. Michael Josephs.dl ST24 pages.

city novel for A very irrehold to have written i Alent

International Beret Letely

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coverments every kind everywhere. Yis hend 19 a beating woman whh ought to 2 ctter things to do

for

IN FACE OF FUAR By Freda Top Faber and Faber. 124 64

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Undeviating attenDNow i cand ma the slightest

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London Kadresa Left:

Though Bangkok is one of my favourite clites. "Annn and The King of Slam" are not to my laste. For her .next story, "Never Dies the Dream," Mar- Karet Landon has chosen the colourful background of the I'll try Siamese capital again. arguin, lau.

From the food of war novels swamping Germany, frst to be translated for the beneft of the British is "The Odds Against Us. Author Is ex-infantryman Hans Werner Richter, Pub- |shers-MacGibbon and Kee.

*

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