... civilian weather expert is convinced that Hurricane Mabel will change its course to strike the Island of San Fernandez in the Caribbean, but he has to persuade others that he is right. Published by Collins, 7 April, 18s ...

... real James nd, after whom Ian Fleming r. tied his hero, is a distinguished ni- thologist with a special knov dge of the Caribbean. Publishe by Collins, 7 April, 10s 6d ...

... EARTHAQUAKE The gramophone WHEN Katherine Dunham and her troupe appeared in Caribbean Rhap sody at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London six years ago, against two of the characters in the programme, Possessed Dancer and Girl in Search of Quirino, read ...

... in four years), will have its premiere at Sadler's Wells. The setting is a ghostly volcanic island which emerges from the Caribbean to disclose a smouldering sexual tangle, played out to voodoo dances and the festivities of Mardi Gras. Conventional arias ...

... Cod, but not before he ■las invented a frightful thing called ice- ■nine, the ultimate entoftotal destruction. I Add 'a Caribbean land, a holy negro who ■las come up wit: a new Zennish religion ■called Bokononis' a beautiful love god- Idess who plays ...

... Jazz in the calypso country by Gerald Lascelles RECORDS MY RECENT VISIT to the Caribbean prompts me to observe how jazz-conscious most of those islands in the sun have become in recent years. Not only was I inundated with requests to broad cast jazz ...

... most authen interpretation of the l and illustrates the long-s ing alliance which many J men have had with the n of the Caribbean and bo America. on records ...

... the snatches of calypso, the hymn tunes, street cries and other exotic sound effects, the characters appeal to us less as Caribbeans beset by particular problems of their own than as poverty-stricken human beings dreaming of a big, free life. The nearest ...

... is The IIunting-Ground, by Francis Clifford (Hodder Stoughton 16s.). This is a suspense story about an air crash in the Caribbean which involves much more than first appears to the eyes of the bird-photographer who, quite by chance, is first on the grisly ...

... of drama in discussions of debentures, proxies and stock options. A motley group of well-heeled investors plan to build a Caribbean hotel. Jessie Matthews plays a rich widow who represents the forces of business rectitude, while Ron Randell is suitably ...

... man who was capable of such brilliant planning. In our day and age a man like that would have retired strategically to a Caribbean island and have continued to scheme from the security of some vast, well-guarded estate. But die he does and all the craft ...

... a spy. And The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul is an enormously readable, chatty, sadly funny account of a return to the Caribbean, ending with a dignified and somehow calmly hilarious account of Frenchman's Cove, the holiday paradise for all right-minded ...