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ft Daily Trlrqraph Mnrninq Pont Friday Oct 21 1949 The Bare Shoulder Fashion ROOKS OF THE HAY the Stealthy Terror of Sinuous third Thomas Hard A MW LIRE ARY EDITION OF THE FAMOUS NOVELS Accessories seen at First Nights NAOMI Prompt relief from ACIDITY ran hr rnuntfd on hen of i reads to hand in the Medicine Cabinet Thi quick acting antacid is especially rnnv fort me should you ever rat or drink unwisely smoke too much or sit up too late Bring also a most effective laxative Milk of Magnesia' will re-lie the svstem leaving you feeling clear-headed and so much fitter Bv MALCOLM MIJCCERIIME 7 he Green Reret By Hilary St (purge Saunders (Miehael Joseph l's) Scenm from a Bourgeois Life By Alaric Jacob (Seeker and Warburg 15s) The Mind's Eye By John Brophy (Arthur Barker 15s) Green provides an excellent account of the creation training and outstanding exploits of the Commandos in the 1939-45 war It is a model for such books well written factual at times intensely moving with a pleasant undercurrent of dry rJtcn Ml Jacob humour and never for a moment dull The material of yjvid an5l dramatc course is exceptional In conception and execution the Mary Queen Commando idea (due in the first place to Brigadier Dudley comes to a8n Clarke who has already given some account of the first tragic and familiar story Princess Elizabeth favours a double string of pearls of Magnesia9 UMDs TUM Ittl 12 6 I nr sue 3 2 ef umls 3 mU size I 7 A PROVEN PRODUCT OF THE CH 4S PHIt 1 IPS CHEMICAL CO ITTV steps in was a singularly daring and Ready Ibursdgy meek iDS New Fiction Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure a ere issued today Others will appear later 'The hooks are hound in blue cloth with end-paper maps 1 0s 6d net each Edmund Blunden AFTER THE BOMBING Mr Blunden' ne volume of terse exhibits to the full his gift for creating an atmosphere of pastoral enchantment Sunday Times 6s net Wide-open Canadian markets onlf a day away DENNIS WHEATLEYs The Other World brilliant one and enjoyed from the beginning the eager support of Mr Churchill There were many unforeseen difficulties: and Commandos like other troops had to endure long and tedious periods of Inaction which subjected their morale to a severe strain In the War Office opposition manifested itself against the whole project and changes were necessarily made in the high command and terms of reference None the less as Mr Saunders shows even the relative failures like the Dieppe raid could be turned to good account i and were far more than offset by! brilliant successes like he St Nazaire raid and operations in Africa vnu can he in the lucrative markets of ew York or the lS Middle est Trans-( anada Air Lines the moat frequent direct service to all important A anadian cities offers fast dailv Bights in luxurious North Mar pressurised Sk liners with immediate connections to all maior cities I passengers Mtr Julias hv hooking rl'A right through to their nnal destination Let TCA rush you to the great wealthy markets ot Canada and the L'SA I move fast Britain will sell worth mtr ltoooooooo to Canada this vear Add the vast potential of the American market the advantages of devaluation and you have undreamed-of opportunities It's vital dollars for Britain and good hard sterling for manufacturers ho get in first In Ins than a Jay vnu could he right in the heart of Canada's market hv Bring TCV A tew more hours and Roger is a bigger and more realistic hero than the Scarlet Pimpernel" I 1216 Uy PAMELA IIANM OKI JOHNSON On a Dark Sight By Anthony West new ROGER BROOK" story (Eyre and Spottiswoode 10s (id) rT Tctts The Parasites By Daphne du 1 HE Kljl A Cj Maurier (Gollancz 11s) CTni? A Wife at Sea By Georges I LiVl Simenon (Rout ledge 9s (id) foschb Taeiart The Star: The Man Who Made Friends with Himself By Christopher Worley (Faber 10s fid) A CONVICTION that it Is better to write of this earth as nearly as possble to this moment than to wrte of Nineteen Eighty-Four or the It is a thrilling story nr individual Other World does not destroy my reheroism and fine co-operation be- spect for the first novel of Mr An-tween individuals and Services of -hony West True no writer couid which every Englishman as reason have set up so formidable an array Largest of Book Publishers to be proud Mr record ot £'0fales against himself and is greatly enhanced by well-chosen j5 hard t-o see why Mr West has be-extracts from first-hand accounts of haved such intellectual masochism Nevertheless he has a lor-midable array of talents to match the self-selected obstacles range power imagination and I think a genuine liking lor human beings It is important for a writer to like people and not merely to be interested in them Dislike of humanity operations made at the time they took place There is for Instance Cp! report of what happened when making his way home with Cpl Sims across France after the St Nazaire raid they were arrested bv a French gendarme and taken to Two just out PETER r4MS-C4M404 infnrmatum and NHfrffMW from your raw! A i Patteogrr i and Air Cargo I -V 'ttlsh PMmiCK AIRPOH1 RH IRI MOTUND TelepA 'ae: Ulusgne entral 342 or pres rul 7 2 Et JoS M) MACMILLAN NILE women are still talking about the new short evening dresses and preferring their long skirts they are providing much fashion news above the waistline To give some idea of the fashion variety created by the off-shoulder shawl collar and strapless camisole bodice here are pictures from recent West End First Nights ITS OMLY A DAY BY TCA By Wmefrid Jnckton nothing as good as DUNLOPILLO CHEYNEY ONE OF THOSE THINGS entertainment guaranteed the nearest police post where there 'which means of course dislike of were a number of other gendarmes oneself is not a literary asset of the I "He (the original Cpl hrst order "On A Dark 1 Wheeler reported had a very vil- concerns a British lawyer who finds lainous face and I thought we were himself after suicide doomed to for it especially when they locked wander through the next world In the door A So we were I company with a German general who he went on for each in ium wrung w-as hanged after one of the war its warmlv by the hand and kissed us trials the book insists is on both chee is before helping us on contemporary and alwavs mirrors our tim and its predominant iimtvw pn iinrn anxieties Thus the adventures of There ha always been tendency memnyarT mt-for certain Englishmen to find their Wej bv ashbeutkinto he livs town country distasteful and asso- Kh-ves it he oWflsh elate themselves with causes else-i2 Mrar gu to device which has OisIIVII fn lfae St 62 agan never established itself despite the efforts of many practitioners as the best form ot story-telling There is a healthv searching In this novel for affirmatives Mr conclusions are radiant though it is rather hard to find them beneath the grey and troubled overlay His intentions though discover- where Byron was a case in point and in the 19 century a pil- grimage to Mecca was scarcely complete without some turband figure from Chisiehurst or Woking with a letter of credit tucked awav in his waistband Latti he Kremlin has been the lodestar: top boots fur cap and vodka knocked back in the regulation manner are able to Elected Silence 3rd imp now ready 5 Once On Esplanade FRANCES PARKINSON KEYES 6s The Distaff Muse an anthologx of poetry written by women and complied by CLIFFORD BAX 6c MEUM STEWART 103 6 Earlier Diplomatic History 1492-1713 SIR CHARLES PETRIE 183 HOLLIS CARTER when buying a mattress swd Anukfl W-xt pnr 1 DUNLOP RUBBFlt CO (Dnkyllo Dmmai Ric Issr siioa Uwrpool LOMKIN Bond -i If shoulder and neck from an unusual Jewelled collar worn here bv Elizabeth Allen i second from right to the five-string pearl choker chosen by Valeme Hobson (left On extreme right is another bare shoulder accessory a bluebird stuck to the skin Alternative to the lace and net shawls seen at the first night of A Streetcar Named Desire is the narrow lace edging the bodice of the dress worn at another first night by Gerd Larsen dower centre one of the prncipal dancers of tne Sadler's Wells Company That the shorter but no: necessarlv short evening dress is creeping in can be seen from the dresses worn by Valerie Hobson (ankle-length and Anne Craw lord the ankles (top centre) JSm SHORT HAIR BEAUTY PERSONALLY I detest the urchin haircut Introduced In Paris To me there is nothing attractive about scruff v-looking short hatr cut ragged at the edges But a short hair cut is certainly easv to keep order and when the style is chosen intelligently it can be most becoming Here are points worth keeping in mind when vou toy with the idea of a new short cut 1 A neat little-boy cut looks well with tailor-mades or great-collared top coats 2 Street urchin cut seems designed for Dior's baggy-backed suits and the neu jagged jutting silhouette Both these styles can be worn with slim afternoon and evening skirts but look ridiculous with full-skirted afternoon or evening dresses 3 A coolie hair cut or any hairdo with a full fringe will shorten your face by about a third its length If your face is oval then have a fringe cut uneven or with a parting 4 Some of the prettiest new short styles have the hair swept up from the forehead which gives a much more feminine effect than the hair cut like a man's at the side Even the best hairdresser cannot do good work on shabbv hair and It Is well worth reconditioning vour hair before vou pav for a new hair style Nothing has ever surpassed the good old-fashioned hairbrush for keeping the hair in perfect condition The bristles stimulate the scalp whip up the circulation and make the little oil glands which give the hair its gloss do their work properly Unfortunately the best kind of brush made of Siberian bristle is almost impossible to get now and prohibitive in price I saw one in an Oxford-street store for £30 You can however get brushes made from white and yellow bristles for 30s to 46s from most large stores The best substitute for bristle is whalebone These brushes cost 10s 6d to 12s 6d Whatever vou mav think of the relative value of the nvlon versus bristles the fact remains that nvlon brushes have come to stav and they have the tremendous advantage of being verv much cheaper than bristle brushes Some are much more attractive in colour and design The modem shampoo electric drving machine tinting and bleaching all tend to dry out the hair and therefore five brushing every dav is far more important than it has ever been before If hair come out handfuls on tne brush use finger massage instead I TO 1 ablp- enlad a great dealf detective urnrll An (ho rvo rt nf the rflo Hoy- WOrk on the part of the reader MARGUERITE STEEN TWILIGHT ON THE FLOODS A worthy successor to The Sun is My Undoing Nevertheless I commend this book to the adult reader with some enthusiasm It has great imaginative force and a peculiarlv acute sense of scene When Mr West writes something simpler not necessarily simpler In bsusic ideas but in conception and construction he should give us an important novel DAPHNE DU MAURIER The Parasites is not perhaps for the intellectually grown-up Let us say that it is for the young heart to whom to whom the gingerbread make evenings in seem rather paltrv by comparison and emulating Auden or Spender or even Palinurus a somewhat trivial endeavour If an attempt were ever to be made to analyse the psvchology of this genus Mr Alaric Scenes from a Bourgeois Life would provide valuable data He describes with commendable frankness the course of his life and development from schooldays when Matron thought my hair very pretty and my features so sensitive through young manhood awakening class-consciousness and a transient admiration for Sir the Cafe KOI 3 i SUNDAY TIMES house with the chimneys of barley- Oswald Mosley and on to a visit to -sugar and the sugar window-panes Ci i America the war and finally Mos- still seems the most desirable of rest- makes ncr places as alive Returning from Russia after dences Here again is the flash-back cow tteiurnmg irom kussu after uences ne re again is tne nasn-oacK i i the war Mr Jacob was struck by device not too skilfully used Miss as ncr people DAILY TELEGRAPH 12s 62 COLLINS Contract Bridge Keep the Lead from the GOOD WINE FOOD VALUE Dangerous Hand By A SMITH Daily Telegraph Bridge Correspondent 7 Accgrapu orugc I YOUR FIRESIDE OFFICE the meanness and smallness of hlis du Maurier in fact integrates her native land The unfortunate two levels of storv-telling less British soldier he points nt cannot smoothly than Mr West This book but have recognised that the according to her own high stan-American soldier or the Dominion dards technically rocky though it is soldier is a bigger man than he a all glitter all charm and all music: better nourished and educated man if should be read to the subdued a man who stands out against a more background of a selection of Mr spacious background" Coward's best songs if you want to Again what he asks were our few the utmost out of it divisions by comparison with the It bMins with denuncia-mighty Red Army and in case pride tion his actress wife her song-i should be taken in the research of writing brother and her unattractive our scientists or the production of wh scribbles away like Mr our factories he insists that Gibbon) as a crowd of Parasites We tanks and artillery which excelled aie thn asked: what do you think the German both in quality and of stricture? And given the -J ent over to Soviet Un'on Of course there are xamous motner ano latner ho now enabled the defence to set the 0ther bases of comDarison Jointly produced only the scribbler contract and taken just an inch or two into West of course did not know that rnoh ny the secret personality of the actress his partner held the Jack but he There was the A for instance Maria whose love for her step-knew that unless he ditched his and the Royal Navy which played brother Niall makes a packet of Queen he would be thrown in and perhaps a more impressive part in trouble for evervbodv forced to make a lead which would the war than the Red Air Force and Are these people shallow? Miss du have been advantageous to the i the Red Navy: but their achieve- Maurier demands Are they worth- declarer ments seem not to have fired Mr while? Well on the first score I The declarer congratulated West imagination As a war refuse to make moral Judgments and play as did Efcst but North correspondent he claims that he saw the second must be left to the m- the general more of the war than any mere dividual reader is seconds were soldier A less extensive but more haunting as one of those tunes view of operations how- of the 'twenties which we like to quantity and which c-ushJ -he opportunity to pronounce iudgmen opportunity of upsetting the German army the field were not of ur own wp are taken ove and he seized on it He built in the West at all but in the Hle lives of the three introduced Soviet tTn'nn Of itir the famous mother and father wh not share in A few for him to discern the line detailed An- i u7 alert West was given an plan of campaign evaded a throw-in play and had the satisfaction of break mg the contract The hands were S-K 8 4 3 H-8 2 D-A 6 3 C-Q 10 8 4 S-Q 6 3 H-A 9 4 S-J 10 9 H-QJ 107 6 3 Many a man and somini la neat In business aflain But somehow persona paper? eve seem to get all over the place Here la the solution The Shannon Personal P-1 It is Invaluable for two tiling trana-portln your private papers between otBc and home and organism your domestic papers the home The case is robustly constructed In crsrgie An shed steel complete with lock and key The Sles are the famous Shannoblic aC jostabiy-tabbed tiles suspended metal on metal The tabs are angled to meet the ere Thev are ad) stabe to anv of 5 or A positions so that entries carl be "staggered tor vision Ready-pnnted labels are Included for either alphabetical use or bv subject a we as plain onesi Just tear out this advertisement arc send with vour address and remittance Tne Shannon Ltd 339 Shannon Corner N-w Malder 8urrev for quarto sue 113 I 10 i 6') 699 mmtmtn Branches London Birmmihtm Bristol Glaf" Ledt Liverpool Manrhstr Npvrullp SAnttUBptAn oui tampion READY TO-DAY simenon A WIFE AT SEA 9s 6d net ROUTLEDGE AND KE GAN PAUL D-9 7 C-9 6 by which the contract could ever might have sfuUen hiscon vie- P3'' on the gramophone sometimes been made tkm Brltish richer was carefully lifting the needle over the D-QJ 10 8 4 2 C-3 S-A 7 5 H-K 5 D-K 5 C-A 7 5 2 opening bid of 1 was overbid by West with 1 After chA1'JiH 1 passed by South bid snouia a on his did enthusiasm enough of play have JpntaP To lead make the contract the declarer mentally and physically inferior to cracks haie ducked the opening ls American or fJominion comrade- He could then have won the second diamond drawn trumps and discarded a Spade on dummy? A ii 9 Nrrd ho The Ace and King of Spades would then be followed bv a small spade a i Which declarer could ruff setting up Wf'St mad tn automatic lad OI fmirth fnr Upurt the won by the declarer Pumm fourth sPadc ror a Heart Trumps were drawn In two rounds the Ace of Diamonds was made and onlV' thus fulfilling his contract 5 King and another Spad? trust Thp analysls at flrst slht mg that West would have to win and return either a Diamond which seems to be somewhat but North pointed out that his line ONCE UPON A TIME An Adventure VAUGHAN WILKINS The most exuberant and eventful of all the novels by the author of And Victoria 12s 6d net A TALE THAT IS TOLD A novel DENIS GODFREY Singapore in the nineteen-thirties is the scene of this dramatic love story 9s 6d net JONATHAN CAPE TWO STORIES n-arms Georges Simenon be at Soviet Mr Jacob writes the top of his form all the time and makes its basic appeal to those who Is rather far down it on this occa-like myself feel at home in the sion The flrst story about a skipper eighteenth Whether it forced to take a jealous wife to sea would have made the same basic is rather like a sketch for some size-appeal to those who like Johnson able masterpiece: I can imagine lived in the eighteenth century what a fine if unwieldy book Mr may reasonably be doubted In Hanley might have made had he any case apart from certain repre- worked on the same theme The hensible characteristics such as a second tale about the slow degenera-preference for Habeas Cadaver over tion of a murderer the growth of Habeas Corpus Mr Jacob finds little his guilt and the clambering of his that is not admirable in Stalin's fears has I fancy been done before Ftussia He refers appreciatively to and bv Simenon himself if my good old American revolution- memory serves me it is a variant on aries like Anna Louise Strong and "The Man Who Watched the Trams considers that here snob's way Go mav be way to a classless Interior and exterior shots are as Socialist society fine as ever atmospheres are opaque actors with tense and interesting Mind's consists of Mr faces are shown in sombre and dra-John personal journal for mafic lighting Nothing this writer the year 1948 In it he writes he produced could be other than fas-has recorded day by day a sample of cinating but all greatly fertile my His interests are extensive genius has its off moments and if we as is his circle of acquaintances and allow Simenon a touch of the his doings are sufficiently varied to genius we must not grudge him its hold the attention For the theatre concomitant weaknesses he has a particular regard and writes FRIENDS WITH HIMSKLF Mr Christopher Morley button-tons Ter5 holes us in the most endearing memorable in what he has would give declarer a ruff-discard or bJeLdTdhererWiSfthe a Heart which would ensure the advantage th7t it did not taking a tridu West however was mnnmi th? not anxious make either of these rounc on this line of play there adTs' arld Pf niu'si was no escape for the defenders off the Ace and King of Spades he quietly dropped his Queen under de- PK 9 clarer's King so that his partner won the third round A Heart return D-A C-J 5 The CYCLE and MOTOR-CYCLE SHOW 29th s-7 H- D-K 10 6 C-K 2 8-2 D-8 7 5 C-9 6 S-Q 10 H-4 3 D-4 2 C- Hearts are trumps and North-South to COURT OCT am 10 unday excluded) Admission Week-End Food FULL RATION AGAIN Dailv Telegraph Woman Reporter IOfJDON housewives may expect to receive a Is 6d ration of meat for each adult this week-end Much of it is beef The lamb available is mutton-size from almost South to lead all Solution will be found on to say but usl old' friend one reads on His is the cosiest manner of novel- LfiS15 JOAN BUTLER Heat Haze Joan Butler has written nothin better than this glorious fare Her books are a Live-nool Echo 9 WINIFRED CARTER Dr Johnson's Dear Mistress' The fascinating story of Hester Thrale the charm rc an cultured woman for whoi Johnson bore a deep ur 1 love Author nf Prlnre-- I lOth imp 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