ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 499, 14 January 1949, Page 12

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A CANDLE FOR ST. JUDE. By Rumer Godden. Michael Joseph. {| ADAME HOLBEIN, a brilliant ballerina‘ of the past, turned an old house, outbuildings and garden into a school for the’ practice of the ballet. And in so doing she brought together some of the diverse types of character which the dancing stage attracts, and created a conflict of personalities and wills that almost ended in tragedy. Miss (continued on next page)

(continued from previous page) Godden has obviously had more than a peep or two backstage, where, particularly in ballet, the wervile adulation of ballet mistress and stars by the rank and file has to be seen to be believed. I WAS ALWAYS LUCKY. By Cecil Field. Macdonald and Co, ECIL FIELD, a trained English journalist, took a trip round the world as a radio officer in the Merchant Navy. He collected odd pieces of interesting information, limericks, recipes and amusing quotable anecdotes which help the reader up the rivers of West Africa, across the North .Atlantic and the Pacific, and to. America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. He encourages our alleged complacency by remarking that he is "more impressed by New Zealand than any other country I have seen." Illustrations are by Tom Inglis. THE FOURTH ARM. By James W. Kenyon. George Harrap and Co. Ltd. MR. KENYON gives a survey of firefighting not only for the specialist but for the general reader, over a period of 4,000 years-from ancient Egyptian times, when fire-fighting was highly organised, to the blitz on London. The book takes its title from the claim that during the recent war years, fire-fighting became of importance comparable with flying a plane or driving a.tank into combat. The Fourth Arm is liberally illustrated. ~