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Jib 6-IVCnKO 8TAKDA2UX BATtTRIMT WATCH irro Graham Aunt9 misses the prize Deputy report on his visit to the Danish Trade Fair 99 with him In Oxford a few months ago and showed him the manuscript Is an astounding piece of work" says Commander Villlers -produce something so fresh and Interesting after all that has been written about Cook Is remarkable I think whoever recommended him for the OM must have had a look at this Beaglehole an unobstru-slve figure with a moustache and grey eyes Is an authority on all Pacific history His most recent academic post was Professor of Commonwealth History at Wellington University Holmesian Hotel A SHERLOCK HOLMES Hotel Is to open in Baker Street this summer It Is being built on the site of numbers 108 to 114 and devotees of the great detective point out with glee that these two figures added together come to 222 which is as near as possible to 221B the fictional home of Holmes and Watson The facade of the old building Is being retained as It Is of some period Interest It was once the palace of a Victorian bishop and later the YWCA Mr Michael Hardwick and his wife Mollle who have written several books of Holmesiana have been engaged as consultants on the furnishing which in the public rooms will be suitably in period with a reproduction of sitting room in 221B But the 160 bedrooms each with bathroom will be modem in style been turning out during the past year She has been gathering leaves and seeds from the countryside around her home at Steeple Bumpstead and 'has been sticking them on to canvas and wood and placing them under glass A CURIOUS omission in the list of six novels shortlisted for the second £5000 Booker Prize for fiction is Graham Travels With My Aunt which most readers would rank among the best'of the year -Greene's publishers Die Bodlev Head tell me the book was not submitted for the prize No particular they say We discuss these things with the authors and In this ease decided not to submit Submission by the publisher however Is not essential In announcing the CRAHAM CREENE short-list the Publishers Association stated: Judges considered 60 works of fiction that had either been submitted by publishers or called in My italics The prize was for best work of fiction published between December 1 1968 and November 30 1969 book came out on November 17 Just Inside the date limit Quiet New Zealander PROFESSOR JOHN BEAGLE-HOLE the quiet New Zealander who has been given the rare honour of the Order of Merit spent a dozen years editing a monumental three-volume edition of the Journals cf Captain Cook Now at 68 he Is well advanced on a definitive biography of Cook An old friend of his Commander Alan himself the author of a book on Cook me Beaglehole stayed' TOP (TDELD Danish FUffilTiniK trees In bloom at a Latour and a Boudin The auction Is on April 8 and the charity preview with tickets at 3 gns alms to raise some of the £40000 towards the cost of a new of which has gone up In one of the poorest parts of the Italian city Father Borelli started helping poor youngsters in 1950 in a disused church which has had to be demolished to make way for development Work The event has been engineered by Mr Richard Nathanson an official of Sotheby's Impressionist and modern picture department Says he: "I have known Father Borelli for many years and as now has an office In Italy it was felt it would be a good Idea to link him with the auction which Is likely to be one of the mos Important of the year He Is a man of extraordinary vision and his work has inspired many others to similar Burdock decorative work In the William Morris tradition I have Just done two figures In ash seed and have also completed a head In burdock At the moment I am lumbered for -burdock seed as not the right time of the year to -find she says Miss Miles Is selling the pictures lor between £20 and £50 Her husband Anthony Loynes Is working on an anthology and a biography at their farm home The couple expect their first child In May fund-raiser AN IMPORTANT sale of modern and Impressionist paintings and sculptures at next month will aim to raise funds for Father Mario Borelli the Naples They Include woman on a (1882) young girls sitting In a Matisse's The painted In 1907 and Hamlet and Horatio at the by Delacroix Also on sale will be Camille Pissarro's oil painting Apple now call for the America ranging from one- day tours of London to full holidays beginning at the Relchenbach Falls In Switzerland (scene of the famous struggle with Moriarty) to Dartmoor (Hound of the BaskervUles) TIIE UNION of the Societies of Welsh Churches in London are holding their annhal Eisteddfod today at the Friends' House Euston Road It coincides with the Eurovision Song Contest and when the Eisteddfod is hotting up that bright young Welsh singer Mary Hopkins will be performing in Amsterdam So it Is proposed to interrupt proceedings and let the audience see and hear Mary on even If it happens in the middle of Chairing the Bard A sad loss THE PICCADILLY Owner House which Is to dose In June will be missed as much as the 'd Trocadero Just round the comer that other Lyons venture which was the Joy of provincials up for a trip to London The Comer House has changed enormously over the years Before the war It was a place for a leisurely tea with toasted teacakes and there was an orchestra on every floor Then came the brasserie with a Continental flavour And at one time the upstairs restaurant had a moving belt which delivered trays of food mechanically shooting the trays oil at the right station Three weddings THREE OF THE CAST of the new Ronald Miller play Abelard and HeloLse which has Its premiere at the Northcott Theatre Exeter at the end of this month are getting married All three will have to postpone their honeymoons Stanley McGeugh who plays brother-in-law marries actress Debra Brayshaw at Sldcott Somerset on March 28 Mary Ashton who plays Martella a novice nun weds actor Peter Greene at Lan sport near Taunton on Easter Sundav- The third member of the cast to marry Sandra Duncan who plays Sister Constance Is to marry actor Brian McDermott at Hale In Cheshire on April 19 Vive la bicyclette! 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