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[*** THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1955.
The TOP POPS go in search of a SONG
2
DAVID LEWIN spotlights Dickie Valentine David Whitfield
WENT searching for
one f Hong iny with Dickie Valentine and David Whitfield, Britain's top two "pop" singers. We went to London's Tin Pan Alley, which is off Charing Cross Road, and has an outpost In Bond Street in the west,
Searching for a song is just like shopping for a pair of shoes-only there is no cash transaction. All that is needed is Valentine David to persunde Dickie Whitheld that a song fils them perfectly.
They can take it home with them, and the publisher waits for the first gramophone record sales for his money.
OT
In Denmark Street big, friendly Jimmy office at the Philips greeted us in his
Peter Maurice Music Company. He pointed of David Whitfield and said: "Got Just the thing for you here. David. Came from Amerien
in
Bud night. It's called 'I Wonder, and it's right in the style of 'I Bes Jieve","
A pinnist played it through, Whitfield, 228 your cold, hummed it first, then pickest up a line or two here and there. Then his
41 41 musical director.
branded Reg Warburton, cloesn't have loo played it.
Whitfield read the words
"The words have closely
to
VALENTINE
A song with a beat
mony I notes.
Kell couldd uvxdiences," he said,
Jow it to
The two
in the record feld attract me first," he said. "There' singers are the popular best- are good...) con go along with "pop" in the busi ue43, Valen-
Urom
Be sag is few lines:--
"I wonder how each mother know what babies try to say,
une-Itme
theatre pipe like the former boy with numbers like "Finger Surpicton" and "There Must of
and Willietai. Be a Reason";
rement loader. the with operatie-mple songs like "Cara Mia Mine" and "Aurwer walk Me." But all the time they
need
fresh Ideas. new Bongs,
How little children learn to walk-an
day some away."
Whutneid broke off and zwed. I've got a little boy "You **,
my own-Lance is thawe--and
of that I know the meaning le, I could sing it."
Jimmy Phillips hovered near, "It's kicking big in Amr ten,' he said. They're biting it there."
But Whitfield shook his head. "it's a good song," he said. "But it is not for me. It would It 1 be out of my character.
nced more sung 1 It would behind and anyway, people would think I was trying to croon it, and crousing istý my style."
Dickie Valentine, 25 years old, came closer to the plano "I Wonder" and listener? again. "It's not too fast-and it
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Italian," said Valentine. "We'll have special lyrics writion," Bald Jinusy Phillips.
"Here's a new Dickie,"
WHITFIELD
A song must have excitement
the
Mukes
GEORGE
know
That
These "pop" one for you, over-confident and mess it up
singers exactly what they need and said Holmes. "Called altogether,"
what
audiences "Tik Tika Tok." It's got a
expect. Teddy Holmes produced an- They do not BUY a song they clap-hands beat."
ono to record. other manuscriph "Here's n necept
the world," he makes their own-like Johnny lune to careas said. Valentine asked: "What's Ray and "Cry." it called Atom Bomb Blues'?" Said Holmes: "Oh, no, the title is 'Goodbye, My Love," "
Valentine kang it through, leaning over the pione. "I like to have a beat behind a song,"
spid "After five years
Heath's band "Don't make them too senti. singing with Ted mental," said Valentine. "Only I'd be lost without a definite
beat."
+
this
Al Jolson could get away with the words of 'Mummy' and called Mamma, don't
forget.
moved
west
I looked at David Whitfield, "No-1 can't sing to a beat,” he sold. like to get excitement into a song, and then relax with to Bond it to make people comfortable the august, vak when I sing. Relaxing is the
of Chappells. thing." panelled offices Inside, Lwo of the company's Holmes and chiefs-Teddy
out Junny Henney spread
We Phillips Jimmy
offered to play them
Street, demonstration Q record of
number, "Want ng You Mine." The two We Eingers said: "No thanks, prefer to see it cold."
They sang it together. "L's. got a lift for me," said Whit-
theid.
"Not Valentine.
for me." sald
We hunted through piles of theet music. There wing a new Italian song called "Mammu.” Whitfield sung it. then
stud- "The middle's O.K.-it's menta
enough for me. But the bem ghaninar needs
be lender or sweet for my style.
Dicklo Valentine suld: "Musically, It's good for me But the words
Whats
the with wrong words?" I asked. "They're in
to
more
PROFILE of a LITTLE MAN with a BIG JOB
Joe Brown is off to beat a killer
THE
And he has just set off from Liverpool elimb the third
to highest mountain in the world Kinchirunga the killer.
Kinchinjunga, in the South Eastern Himalayan is 28,148ft high only a few hundred feet snailer, than Everest. It has never been rilmbed. And it got its name of killer from the victims it claimed previous expeditions
the rock face.
ها
their wares.
MEET
Valentine nodded, "You can be too relaxed, of course," he wald, "And then you become
A
After it was played the talk "I could do became technical, it as a beguine," said Valentine,
"It needs faster backing me," cald Whitfield. It was like a conference of business men in the ornate West End office with chandeliers and good carpats.
for
Then they sing it on the radio or in variety. The song pub lisher gets his money on royal- ties from all sales. ('That can amount to £5,000 on 4 good-
SONG..
ECC," said Jimmy Phillips, "It' in't like the old days
DIVORCE
TH
THE ARCHBISHOP GIVES THE CHURCH'S ANSWER TO AN ACUTE · PROBLEM
HE Archbishop of Can- standard. It stands before the terbury, Dr Geoffrey world to proclaim that this is what Christ meins marriaga to Fisher, has just put be and what He sys to la?” forward a plan which he
More and mono divorced hopes will turn back the people knew they could not be mounting, tide of divorce remarried in church. sweeping through Britain,
He makes these two main points to save marriage:—
1 A single act of adultery Ja not a good ground for
divorco
No marriage in church of,
Very many of them," says that the Church is upholding a Dr Fisher, "welcome the fact
alandard from which they have chosen to, or been forced to, depart
Thus the Christian standard le being saved: the Church is doing its necessary work and any divorced person with a making people think *moto partner still living. Because, seriously before they embark on
Says Dr Fisher, Chrbt's view marriage."
of marringto was that anyone who divorced his wife and married another committed adultery.
are
The archbishop's views published in a is.n-time, 29- page booklet. "Problams of Marriage and Divorce,"
that
He traces the attitude of the Church to divorce through the centuries to toxiny when-
realised "The Church the mounting tide of divorce was threatening to overthrow the whole Christian conception of marriage.
"The social evlig springing from broken homes became the more evident as their number increased
**If the social evila were mounting, the moral grounds on which divorces rosted were also
alarmingly unsatisfactory.
Adultery
Hard Cases
Dr Fisher refers hard asked."
to "really
These, ho siya, "ure people who have had terrible spiritumi them suffering imposed upon by the
and,
first marriage
finding spiritual deliverance and renewal in the prospect of the second marriage may destro out of a good and sincere heart that the Church should marry them,
"I it not wrong and un- Christian to exclude them?
frankly "Let me say quite that in some cases where a first marriage has ended in tragedy 4 second marriage has, by every test of the presence of the Holy Spirit that we are able to re- cognise, been abundantly bless- ed.
I do noi For this reason find myself able to forbid good to me for people who come advice to embark on a second "Adultery had onco been the marriage"
puto,
the The archbishop anti ys before the way any more, only ground of divorce, when we look a new number, could
of Church's position before them, some claim
kind such in the and tells them that it is their set a release date on it, and recognition
Gorpets,
But while continuous duty, as conscientiously as they hoped that the danes bands and adultery was one thing, a single can, to decide before God what
gramophone net of adultery was not a good they should do
ground on which to break up a We tak
marriage for life.
"And adulteries ranged.'
"There was no longer BIKY security that the innocent party really was the innocent party, - and in any case the line be- tween Innocence and guilt in breaking up a marriage is rarely so clear-cut as a divorce docree
might suggest.
singers would take it up.
"Now it's the records that count, music from any country in the the numbere world-but it's with a kick in them that go."
MILLIONAIRE
WELFARE
ONE WITH A
Milun.
Mur-
YOUNT Gaetano
zotto, six feet tall and
By Bernard Ronald
AND
PLAN
were
"If they remarry, they will nover again be able to bear a full and clear witness to Our
of 'ar- Lord's declaration
marriage is, ...
"In short, the moral basis of divorce decrees could hardly be regarded ni safisfactory."
Dr Fisher first spoke up about single acts of infidelity two months ago in reply to a the question put to him by highly-
Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce.
most moder
Ho created a storm by stating "It in the law which has made a single act of adultery a ground for divorce, not the Church.
"The Church would wholly
bigger Italiani industrial centres. The name "Valdagno" does not do it justice. It should be called
"Workers' Paradigm," for Open-air swimming
has the time a civil
pools Marzotto empire 60, strode briskly into wing except
mosaics and skilled specialists, dentists, his silk-walled study at the servant may keep a citizen wait lined with fancy
borderd with green lawns and doctors and surgeons who look top of his Persian-carpeted ing in the queue,"
flower beds Clubs in marble, after the bealth of the workers. white marble staircase, Now a whirl of the arms, with lush lounges, Fitzy re- asalated by a smal smy of
ten raising of eyebrows, the indigon croation
rooms complete with nurses and the summoned one of his
tion terrifico: "Mm were not billiards, beer--and benutim equipment. servants to prepare 2
We must to serve it. bart to be numbers. fabulous dinner (and
48 all battle against bureauerney
I think, however, that Count approve if the law was no
accept content to many cocktails aa I
I had stepped into a private Marzotto's 'most shining victory Jonger WAB before it is too late,"
act of adultery pleased to sample) and told
enterprise waltero community in in the field of welfare has been single Gaetano man of seat which the worker's best friend scored in the sunset of his village | sufficient ground." me how ho became & walth, title, factories, villas, is the boss, who cares for his folk's Eyes. The State millionaire after working hotels, vineyards, marble quar- Employees from the cradle to the old-age pensioners only 23 a three months
enterprise, grave. ainemas, ap-ries, in
physical strength prentice
Yorkshire intelligence,
and
spoken. He guts had woollen mill.
bowed. "Now I must attend to His 13,000 workers call him the business,"" Gaetano the Generous--and they would seem to be right.
ад an
A
This benevolent boas huge industrial empire is generous with everything-with
of a
Champagne?
"Champagne?" A white-coated
ITE
bennis
ini
month, which means misery for a country aged couples There'
courts, where a 2 lb. loaf of bread costs
fields bowling greens, hockey
is. 5d. and prime beet is 65, « Ib. and soccer pitchen. Hospitala with matervilty wards where bables are
born at the rate of and their mothers 500 a year", get month's leave from tho looms on full pay.
Wards
Miles Ahead
No Worries
k
Remarriage
60
a
His booklet, urging that there should be no remerringe after divorce when both partners are alive, posee the problem of "The Squire and the Cottager"
Buys Dr Fisher-
2.
country village
Disapproves
witat
whether
"They must decide this lasting spiritual loss is in their judgment outweighed by 'a call of God to seek spiritual gain in a second marriage.
"But that does not mean that Tematy Church hould the them. That would be asking the Church to compromise the otw way in which it can give a clear Ito Our Lord's testimony standard for their sales
"Thus, if they feel denial of a Church marriage to be a croes of suffering, they should bear it for the Church so that it may not, in its official acts of -the compromiso marrying, standard entrusted to it by Our Lord.”
Dr Fisher disapproves of the way the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches exercise their marriage disciplines.
They even
hold
that D. Roman Catholic not married by a Roman Catholic priest but, for example, in an Anglican church,
be is not validly married.
"And "If divorced may'
the first time, (for married according to this theory) in the Roman Church"
the effect in a Problems Ahead
on the pastonal
Dr Fisher does not
Bromm
bolieva
Holy #tha
THE name is Joe Brown. congratulations with no fuss-
and he is 28 years old again, he is that sort of man.
He told me that he spent the and only 5ft 4ins. tall-a night on that climb standing on builder's Assistant from a tedge with his back against Manchester.
didn't get
But there are no worries for any sleep that night," he calmly
A second later, his huge bulk,
Marzotto's retired millimads. He said.
Bls money, with the list, 10 lbs colourfully clothed in a green
**Imingine for toddlers aged be- hus built a marble-halled, sun- For Brown even a climbing build that gives power and polse tweed sports jacket, grey pull tween a few months and three balconied residence for them, but is luxury. He belongs to to his made-to-measure "sults over, white Bilk shirt, bright years, where they uro ted. complete with a a restaurant that position of the parish priest If the Manchester Rock and Icend with the
gestures that tartan ue and impeccable grey, washed, entertained and given
Ve shines like a a now pin. He has allowed the remarriago of Club of 18 members. They accompany his gift of the gab: flannel trousers, went sailing out nios liitin cote to me in married quarters and roome for the squire and refused it to a have no hut, always sleep out.
poople who have remarriot Once Joe Brown
kwan Justidock." ""There was so much to learn into the world of malesmanship while mamina is busy in the mill single pensioners. If they have ( borger, even if his judgment that as a general rule divorced
arki wolt with the This service costs the mother worked for him since their young in my boyhood days. The and warp and some
Any clergyman left to decide thould be barred friends
it being Communion, English were producing
he giver the vigour a gladiator of half his only eight shillings a month.
days were swinging across | I
them porsions of ones on merit would be at the Church's bourden duty to give ancst, the most beautiful bge.
£12 a mon fast-flowing streaming
This nearly
mercy of every hard luck story I was
together With ear Ben Nevis when wordens in the world,
the State's con would lack the means of all the spiritual help it can to people who get involved in tribution of £5 a month, means securing reliable evidenos.” determined to become a master one
fell in. Joe
matrimonial trouble." Where it in a comer of that they can take the last years Brown
jumped in, of their technique.
Ho refore to the obvious rescued him then Italy to have
pubile, corporate act, such as
of register office ckingers** huge marble-walled, of their lives easily. refused
Count Marzotto to Industry, too.
also houses-marriage, he says, the Churchi
Ho naka if the weddings. his workers must have linoleum-florod wing as spot-
it rule and the intention of lifelong union can change his clother.
less as it is colourful,
accom- hundreds modates and foods youngsters families. They live in big, airy clergy must accept it loyally.
flats with bathrooms and contrad "It cannot be left to the vary. be assumed to exist in But Count Marzotto's per between three and six, About
cuser and, wards: -- And some pay only ing discretion of 12,000 parleh Omo can conceive of a situa lity was still enveloping me, 800 boys and girls were enjoying
10 a your rent for five-roomed priests, or even to the varying tion in which, the Church would It themselves on fun-thirtype pochments with built-in cup discretion of 43 diocesan blehops be usable any longer to recog declined the champagne. did not seem right to sit sipping Indoor roundabouts mad dby
bounds and inoleum supplied by millionaire's wines while my chairs and tables.
"We may speak of tho tame nice civil marriages for Church host was working like two men
their landlord.
of a person to be admitted to purposes and would be driven
hold
thunt only. those amid the rattle and clatter of The home of these Marzottians No wonder I ordered cham-communion, but in the case of 10
tho in the marriage,
question la married in Church are truly the Toora'oross the way.»
markod on the map' ar prime for breakfast
situation which It is 23 miles from militonaire's villa next morning whether the marriage le a fit married
rálne
sarious very one to be celebrated in church. would the wonderful things the Count Vernon, city of Romeo and and cinkod glumes will
The Church coriot Viva
cor- probleme and one that must be But in terms of pro- phaity waitress to say: Just laid on for the leisure hours Juliet.
porately marry below Christ's avoided it posible.". is miles ahead of much. Count Marzotto."
on
in 1905 and 1938. In this new, Bri- tish. expedition are nine men -- Charles Evans, a surgeon, the leader; George Band, McKinnon, Tony Streather, Joha
Tom
Jackson, Norman Hardy, Nell Mather, John Clegg-and Joc Brown,
Joe never
bas Brown been оп a Himalayan expedi
tion before. Yet, tho man most likely to
reach, the top is--Joe. He
that sort of man.
no
even
I wanted Venetian had appeared as i a great textile from newhere to stop out, trom behind a silver tray loaded with
"It was tough going. But sparkling drinks in glistening No-mow, Ice and always had the faith that I glasses. the wildest weather would succeed. To get on in life hold
fears for you must have faith, both in Brown.
yourself and in the job you are He has gone for a doing. It is not necessary to be week At "
Embitious. But you must have spaked to the skin goal-and put all your efforts but he never catches into reaching it."
ma
dry out," he says, "is
cold. "The way to
to get into a slevp-
ing bag at night.
You'll find you're
His Goal
'झ'
I went out to have a look at Valdagno,
dry in the morning,” His eyes, brown and bright of his clath-cappal workers, ...・・ gross, it
He has made under bushy block eyebrows,
is several rescues, and in turn has became fixed shafts of light that
had many narrow escapès, Six borod into me like gimlets. times He has fallen on climbs, "I believer in private entur- but each time he was roped on prise. And I bellys that, thosa and able to climb back.
¦
He has been climbing only six years. He began in a disused un · mixe at Alderley Edge, Cheshire. His first rope was a thick brewer's rope, "Then," he In fact, the only time he has we went to the other been injured was in the Army. Bemandised a clothes when a friend playfully, pushed
де
Since then he has led rock climbs in the British Isles, that other
climbers thought ime nomible. And for the past two summers he has climbed in the Alpa
the west
Lost your he climbed the
face of the Dru 12,6001
who dra fortunate, in biginosa
and amass great worth should spend some of their timo, help- Ing their fellow
My goal today is to leave the
him over in the barrack-room work looking better than it was
when
I
"I broke Στην
log in three places,"
pays Joe. NOW a woman's' footnote. His
frown, hat
the “qủ yone that paMANA
sister told me: "For six years he cracy medos ma has never apent a well-drid, at moro raves of the home He is always out climb-domi
Alpine peak in two days, ing We knew the pinnacle, he by red
compared with seven days taken'
was aiming at was this'expedí--
by a French, team that made the vin
JOHNNY HAZARD
HI JOHNNY? IT
STHIS LITTLE WITH THE
SURE DONS LOOK, LIH ZVE SEEN: GOING TO A LOT. OF TROUBLEWA JUST TO BEND LAF
By Frank Robbins.
VOCABULZ
I HAD AN IDEA 'SADZOOKE WAS:
WHAT HAS HE BEEN
SAYING LA
"AND THAT'S PLENTY.. ENDUSH TO MAGIHIM.
WORTH A MILLION.
(</S-EV) DOLLARS TO THE PENS
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this situation
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such
Chris Lincoln