"LOCAL COLOUR"

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 19

"LOCAL COLOUR"

v At.the age of thirty, . Hetty Price, who for twelve years had slaved: as a typist, in a solicitor's office, won a competition, which gave her £1000. At once she determined.-to - leave her job ana try her hand at writing a novel. So she sets out in search of local colour. After a while she lights on Barn j Cove and settles clown to write. But !so many things distract her mind that she' makes very slow progress. She begins .to find, too, that £1000 does not go very far when you indulge in such luxuries as' refitting your landlady's | house, rejuvenating her garden, lending her £200 to satisfy'the man in possession, and paying for a specialist to attend a neighbour's child. As her fellow-lodger, John Tarrant, tells her 'fYou'll always find people, to make use of you." John Tarrant is a bit of a mystery to her. . At first she dislikes | him intensely, but when he breaks his only sound leg in falling over a stepladder she has left in the hall, she discovers that she has grown fond of him. Finally, just as she is contemplating a return to slavery, she finds someone who wants her. Thus Miss' Rosemary Rees brings her charming story, "lioeal Colour," to a happy end.