1950-09-16 — Page 12

CANON WARNER Never sell your independence to mother-in-law even for £4,000

ANOTHER

WRAC IN

A

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1930.

MILESTONE

HISTORY

of these 1950 UGUST

However, neither repre- Just completed their basic train-.

and organisations was given official ing, went over the camp sented another mile training quarters, planted a tree status, and it was not until the stone in the history in commemoration of the first manpower situation became In- of the Women's Royal Royal visit to thla well- creasingly serious stier the cost- Army Corps, which became appointed, dower-bedecked ly Sommo battles of 1910 that an integral part of the camp, and then opened the new British Army last year.

Her Royal Highness the Prin- cess Royal, Controller Comman- dont since 1941, spent two days amood her Corps at the School of Instruction Huron Comp, the Training Hindhead, and toropa

Centre at Queen's Camp, Ouild ford.

| A# 1000! By my husband goi really good job, Tris mulher began to enjoy bat trait, and how the has She enjoyed it ever since i maker no attempt to dreas even moderately fashionably, heract in layers of clothes, and vors to bed at seven every night We have had her to stay with 143 twice, each time a dismai failure. She left in storme of

She is a Sla abuer and tears. contented, mischievous, Napping trouble-maker. Now she wants to return to us; fiving rent free an the base that she leaves us her money (2000) when she dies.

I feel that 1. whom God has blessed with superb health and be morr happines, should

tolerant. Should I grit my teeth and have her back, or should I Irave her alone to drive hericit into melancholia ↑

..

ONCE your mother-in-law

installed, your

She will be not be your own.

will be able to queen, blackmall you with that 24,000 She will have moved out of her

She

WRAC museuna.

of endurance to

She told the recruits that she know that the transition from elvillan life was not easy, either physically or mentally, and the hours of active

work on the square and to the gym bad put their qualities the test. They had still much to learn in other ways to ac- A Hindhead, the Princest custom themselves to a commu- Royal inspected the parsing-out nity life and to work as one of

Arst 25 women a team. parade of the cadeta to receive the King's Commission. In the Regular Army, The importance of status thai women have atlained

WOMEN PIONEERS

be

it was agreed that women could employed on non-combatant duties in back arena in Franco, This brought about the forma- tion of the Women's Auxilary Army Corps, whose first draft went Overseas under Heien. They were such a suc-

that,

re-named

Domo

Queen Mary's A.AC. 14 months later, 10,000 of them served on the Western Theatre and 57,000 ih all were demobliged.

The officers were called "unlt administrators" with roses in- stend of pips as badges of rank, while the senior officer, termed arca controller, had a fleur de lys

Hor badge to mark her rank.

the kery"

shows the

SHE WILL BE FAMOUS

BEHOLD THY DAUGHTER. By Nell Paterson. Hodder and

10s. Stoughton.

pages.

H

·

6d. 479

by

ERE is a novel as vigorous and forthright as any that has appeared in many a day. Its virtues are as simple they are remarkable; a 48 powerful, romantic story, hay. ing for its central figuro a young woman of strong, un-. romantic character.

HEIL PATEKION : Boen 1915: MA Edinburgh University; started writing for women's pulp magazmesi, married, Three children; Deutenant KNYX from ID0-1946 (mikaswaepuru); leathaffer and former limiar zowity lawn Tennis champlant likeem" trees, degi, harer. whisky, ahlite in one piece, small að new besks, the feel of a pen in my hand, dyleg in the sun doing nothing."

. BOOKS & PEOPLE

OH, MR. H✩M✩N✩W✩Y

by JON HOPE

PRESENTING

"We wish," she added, "the in the military sphere was ein- Women's Royal Army Corps to

was the name for phasized by the presence at the be respected wherever it may parade of the Adjutant-General serve throughout the world, to other ranks, and they wore A to the Forces the Deputy Chief be known for its smartness, long, ugly smock buttoned up to of the Imperial General Bar devotion to

and loyalty, the neck, a rather duty

sloppy felt and military attaches of eight The history of the past is made, hat, long: gaiters and square toed notions.

and we know it is good; the black shoes-but an order pre-

the museum The cadets, selected from the history of the future is in the served in ranks of the Corps or entered making, art we leave it in your that as a concersion, direct from civil

life, had just hands knowing that each one of heat is fell to be excessive, the home will in

undergone a nine months course, you will do her best to try a top button of the coatfrock may

be left unbuttoned," Those who are to undertake make it even better.” -

All Innks wore shoulder Present on both occasions patches of beech-brown, which specialist duties, such as in the

of the women bas Signal service, will receive fur-

distinclive remained the ther lustruction at Army tech- were several

had helped ical centres.

to

the Army Similar courses pioneers who

past history, and service to the present day. ibal before at the make have been held

Clerical workers curried 29/6d | 70 which the moulded the Service step by step, Hindhead School,

weck, and those on domestic Like the Old Man of the Sea, WRAC hny occupied for the past from a curiosity in 1917 Into a

gol £20

And a year, two years, but successful con- full-edged Corps which has duties she will be an Incubus ou yourdidates had never previously now taken over many military restriction of privileges" was back which nothing will rejoined the Regular Army as duties formerly undertaken by

the usunt punishment meted out

for offences. cominbaloned officers. She won't really be happy. of lealousy, An nimusphere

and bickering will drive

present home, and alternative rooms are notoriously dimcult to ret, If you should find her un- bearable.

move,

hate,

18

ch

A ceremonyfai Sash for the

Among them were Dame Helen Gwynne Vaughan and OUTSTANDING CADET

Dame Florence Simpson, who have been connected

the with her all the more into self-ply outstanding leader among the Services, since its inception, and Lady Swaythin, who as Mre This self-pity will be agres cadets was presented to Ofer Jean Knox played the leading vated by the fact that the Cadet A. M. E. Marshall, of living with two people who are Cropthorne, Worcestershire, and part in its great development be- no obviously happy together. At

certiftente for The best all- tween 1341 und 1943, every farm she will be remind. Found officer cadet was awarded ed of what she herself has miss-to or/cat E. A. Haggard, of ed. Is this really kindness on Torquay, Devon.

At Guilford, Her Royal Hign- your part?

neg saw other ranks who had

You tell me that your hus- see her twice R band goes to week, but that you don't go be- cause the sight of you with her Fon is more than stie can bear. This silly woman has destroyed the most precious thing in lite

the

love of her son and the affection of her daughter-in- law. By what sudden alchemy do you think that your genero- will alty in taking her back change this?

would be Your husband

Uhe superman to and up to double demand on tits loyalty under his very root. It is not right to ask it of him. His first loyalty is to you; yours to him. That is the meaning of marriage. Fortunately, kindness to your with mother-in-law coincides

husband, if your duty to your you take the long view. Curry Brrange- on the present wise ments, and let the £4,000 look after itself.

(London Express Serulce)

42 T39:

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but it's an out- rageous price, sir... my lart one only cost half that, and swore twice ai much...

London Express Sarvice,

colour of

work

A

with asteraiks...

BOOK of the Month

Bareviewed

•

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

marries Mr

And at

18 she

William Skene, aged 53, the

owner of the inn.

Quick work, you may think? One has to assume that Thirza's

les

creator has

done

than.

Jos W

good sense, excilement and fun. A salt wind blows across its pages, bringing the smell of fish from the curing yarda,

- Thirza, as native to her sur- roundings as the broad Buchan speech into which sho WAN Talsed, is something new in heroines. And with Dirk Stul- len danger enters the story, thu zpice that Thirza has been crav- Ing.

THE ASPHALT JUNGLE. By W. R. Burnett. Mac- Donnid. 8s. 6d. 240 pages.

Thirza Gare is not one of your Justice to the girl's comeliness, le police department is cÖT.

clinging love-lorn beauties, In- or else that Mr Skene is a man with remarkable insight into

bunco rupt. The

deed, it is a little doublíul character. There are those, of works with the con men.

4101

squad

The

though not to Captain Dirk

Stullen and

a few others to course, who declare that Thirza police are taking a fortune from syndicated prostitution, The what extent she is a beauty at Is

simply a designing hussy.

this racket sqund allows big-time- Minister

conveys nil. The most that one can say,

to the girl in the racket men to operate for a con- on the evidence given, is that very view

oulcers are cloth deration. Police Janguage of hip Thirza is well enough formed by plain

getting rich on protection money nature to rouse and to experi- (Free Kirk version). ence the passion which she 59. John Galt.

of comedy strongly resents.

The Minister, She is a

convinced

a feminist before the days of feminism, a wuman

with

of a

Ecenc

Д

It is worthy of from bookies.

In fact, when the new police into the although un commissioner sieps

asphalt

Jungle of this Mia. Mr Skeno that

Western city, he does not have romantic man Bomething of the outlook really the most a man and

certainly with Thirza has met, concludes: "In to look for for his life work. Particularly. as little Dr Rio- more than a man's share of de. my consecdered opinion, ye'd

Ane braw wife for menschneider arrives about the crmination, ambition, self-con make

time with samo

a well-con- William Skene. So you needna sidered plan fidence and acquisitiveness.

for a million- slam the door on me, Inssle."

dollar jewellery haul, And, for all her realistic, At this point, Thirza's future Hemingway boyish approach

Somewhere between crimo to life, com seems to be clearly laid out. She a woman, pletely

born on a will harness her businemibilities documentary and straight As Goon as the American

stern coast and among a stiff. to the Skene business, take over thriller, "The Asphalt Jungle" is Version of his Intest

novel, ipped people. A woman of un- control when her husband dies, tense performance in a tough women's Acres the River and Into the usual stature, round whom there fight to the

death against the genre. Well out of the ruck, Trees," reached

to publishers comes life a magnificent unscrupulous Carmichael in- Jonathan Cape, it was rushed story, destined to the widest terests and emerge victorious. SUCH DARLING DODOS. 10 tive> printers. When

the popularity.

By Angus Wilson, Secker proofs came back they revealed

"Behold Thy Daughter" is

and Warburg. 9s, fid. 212 number of expressions which

going to find countless readers. She will grow old, with a high though possibly asy

pages. Thirza is going to be famous. chio and a hard mouth, rich, "American eyes) do not escape

She is brought up in the autocratie and widely detested the cleansing blue pencil in poverty-stricken cottage of an in the town; towards the end, Alterate fisherman In Kayrie, she will be increasingly cecen- et to the offending pas-on the rocky shore of the Muray tric. rages. In come blanks, asterisk. Firth, in the iniddle years of

made to measure Inst century.

of

Brilain Su

i

Hemingway makes Its pearance early September.

Adict

*

over

非

of

np-

CECOND batch of stories from » purveyor of this article who made a huge first-impres slon success last year with "The Wrong Sel."

Wilson's own mixture ot

Good

lile

for value

the

adult

BEST KNOWN WORK The Women's Legion was re- was not vived in 1034, but it

And so it might have worked the Munich crisis until muturen 1938 that the Auxiliary

out, had it not been for Captain Stullen of that low, bhek bor. naughty wit, unkind satire and ப kinci of desperate sensitivity in Territorial Service, the successor

que, the Foolish Virgin. What of the Q.M.A.A.Ç., came into

Soon sorrows come. Fleeting Stullen's business at sea may be here on exhibition once more, being

For by Royal Warrant.

Smuggling?

example, in the Portraits of these three luciles

The occupy a place of honour in the hows how the auxiliaries, who

ofair Thomson-Christie, row when her dar Davie dls we can only guess. graphically Muuseum

(an Incident A Thoma supporter telis me appears

half-Blockade-running? What busi- story, where, reluctant yet de wholly amusing, ness

lighted, we meet Tony, who is poignant and

Kayrie is the week-end

brings him to e nuseum, which will provide had the choice of being cooks, tha

which ww Het the in tine a complete visual record clerks, orderlies, storewomen or

read MER Chriside's "Dumb

Arst only too plain: the Yankee skip- 55 and sleeps in cold cream and a slumber rict. How Tony longs of the progress of woman's con- drivers only at the outbreak of

of Thirza's Winers" (written 1937

quality). per keeps a woman there. gimpse In it

Deeper sorrow when her mother Thirza uses the American to to be, once more, in the avant- he found that tribution to the Army, it is not World War Two, took over more

M. Poirat Kave difes.

bring off the coup that restores garde! How delighted to find much more than the framework and more, technical and high-away the plots carlier books

Thirza does not the moment, with wiforms, skilled

wait for the Skene fortunes. He runs n that the post-war youths are all his and eventually by

creator-"Mysterious badges and photographs is the operated in over

others to settle her fate. When cargo of her herrings inte finns ke him, reactionaries. hundred Affair a

"Murder of her #Styles."

her father remarries, she de burg during the German-Danish main exhibits, but carefully different capacities. They served Roger Ackroyd felines to go and live with her war. Ilis fee is high, however,

"Mystery of

A mind. treasured documents,, personal in ME.F., C.M.F., B.A.O R. the Bite Train,"

And he lakes Miss Sayers mother. Already, the child, Thirza herself. letters and other reminders of and Austria, India and Ceylon, Clouds." Perhaps

has found herself a pesment

too and great ecco in East Africa and the Cari- would care to take the matter 11.

ently, LIBRARY LIST special events

job as a lady's maid in Cnt- Thirzn's objections, although sions will no doubt soon find beans, Norway and even in A with M. Poirot. It seems michael House, seat of the

and give it Japan.

near sincere, are not so fanatical as their way there

sentry family that dominates might have been expected. In character and individuality.

the town and trade of Kaysie. the captain she had met her A disagreeable brush with a match, in more senses than ous. To ask a Sikh called Singh if travelling revivalist which con In the end. hopelessay en- he knew another of the sames Thirza in her opinion that langled in Stullen's lawless ne- name I met in Burma was sex is disgusting as well as silly, livities. Thirza taken to the high a Welshman if leads to her dismissal. She be- sens with her lover. She has

ruiter he had ever met a man called comes a

with a herring Just

time before escaping to Evans.

the firm. Anyway, I put

divide her wealth between the question to Kushwan: Singh- With the superstition of her burgh of Kaysle and her special is busily educating friends. These last pages of the PRO at India Housewho has race, she Juri pubikhed

Somo collection of herself all this time, even to the story put ล hort stories called "The Mark point of learning to speak Latin credulity It may be forgiven of Vishna." Of course, it turned [with

of a the ald

drunken them for their pace and drama. whom he befriends. nut he knew him very well.

"Behold Thy Daughter" Now I'm locking for a Scots-Before

is promoted Bock of the Month und, for that long, the know a mean from the herring barrel to the matter, the novel of the year, to man who might named MacGregor,

Lotflee.

date. It has humanity, robust

A SUCCESS

The museun starts at 1017, but he employment of women on certain military duties actual-

Their best known work was on the gun sites of A.A. Com- mand, where they undertook operational duties as instrument

Dre numbers,

and control Kearchlight

the logical thing to do.

H

ly goes back some years earlier. every operators, and proved I had ar orking

S

15

and

rellable as men.

brought In 1941. they were Apart from Army nurses, who first saw service with an ex- under the Army Act, with the peditionary force in the Crimean same privileges responsibili-

ties War, there was formed in 1914

the other Armed

Forces car of the

the Crown. How well they a Women's Volunteer Reserve, who worked in canteens and on acquitted themselves has

A year later, a passed bate the nation's proud domestic duties. Women's Legion wan emaled to history, and has earned them a provide cooks and waitresses for permanent place in the Regular the War Department at home.

Army.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

*HI,POP/CAN 1 HAVE THE CAR. TODAY, POP?

CAN 1

1400, POP

now

"YOU PROMISED

TO WEED THE BEANS -REMEMBER!

AND I WANT YOU TO HELP ME SELECT SOME WALL

k

*

doninle

nonc

strain

1

Bolling Down the leg. By Oliver St. John Gogarty, Constable. 13k 478 pages Come Back to Erin, played with irreverent variations The qually of good conversation and the quantity of bad,

Our Sprons Căme from Wool- worths, By Barbara Comyna. Eyre and Spotswoode. Be. 64. bas pases The babbler, fringes ot artistic" London, with characters to match. An arffen, bitter, some- tundr funny, narrative of murtable marriage, from which the heroise mercifully CICADOS.

The furious Hugh Hickling.

10. Gu.

13y

Evangelist

Alvin Redman. 884 pages. A mid uitje Lawyer become Involved in fantastic eventa, includlar. overthrow of the British govern- ment by elements inspired from ⚫ foreign syren. A wild tale told with fire and conviction.

Father's Day

Bu KEMP STARRETT

HURRY UP, DADDY!

HAVE YOU GOT EVERY-

THINGS

****

THE IDEAL FATHER'S DAY WOULD BE FOR SOMLONÉ TO TIKE ON THOSE SUWAER CHORES, SAY TOR THE NEXT SIXTEEN WEEKS.

AND YOU SAD YOU'D

PAINT THE PORCA CHARS/

PAPER

AND

"POP

VIDED

Y'GOHHA

PLAY

CATCA

WITH

ALES

"DADDY, I SAY THE

KEENEST

DRESS-

DADDY

- WAIT UNTIL HE GETS NICELY KETTLED TO ASK HIM TO OPEŇ

A JAR OR CAN: IT WILL HELP MAKE THE DAY INTERESTING.

"WHAT'S A MATTER?

AM I SICK OR

SOMETHING?

DON'T!

41.POP!

SAPPY

POP'S

DAYEY

COPA, 1950 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORF, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

IF RE COMES DOW TO BREAKFAST LOOKING LIKE SOMETHING OUT OF A BOWERY FLOP-HOUSE LET IA GET AWAY WITH

IT

DON'T FORGET THAT DAILY, EXCEPT SUNDAYS, FAIRER DESHES OFF TO Á PLACE CALLED BUSINESS AND DOES SOMETHING- CALLED "WORK" ALL DAY LONG JUST TO KEEP YOU IN BOBBLE GUM OR MIIK...OR. ANYWAY, RABBIT.....

"DON'T-CHERŪDO, TAAT FATHERS DAY SOLAČÍ FELJÜK BE WORRIED STIP ALL WIL WEESCE

BE SURE TO PLAN SOME JOLLY ENTERTAINMENT, MAYBE A PICNIC, FOR FATHER'S DAY...

IF YOU'RE

GOING TO GIVE HALA PRESENT, LIKE

SAY, SLACIOS,

BE SURE

THEY FIT...

OR. HE

MAY THROW

OLE.

1.