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THE CHINA MAIL
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12," 1956,"
"Beat us at darts, beat us at shove-ha penny, beat us at dominoes
WHAT MAKES A WORTH £20.000 A
B
Landon,
ECAUSE of the syrup and sincerity in their
singing, three young Englishwomen
#11
By FRANCIS MARTIN
That's the most
Bull O'Connor. singer.
our
off
VOICE YEAR?
two young Englishmen have reach the top, says Ridley, crying net.
jal
the sold ten million records
a girl must:
outrageous gimmick ever,
at His Majesty's one night in two years. They were spot- Have a voice that is dif- Or you can put in wah-ho 1946. He had lust sung a num-
fume by ferent, instantly ted or nursed to
recognis- ho-ho effects, hillbilly style. ber he hated, Twelve O'clock five talent-smiths. To these able. You needn't be born Gimmicks get you noticed, and All's Well, in the Arthur five i put a question: What with one. You can acquire If you're smart enough you Askey show, Follow the Girls. doer It take to become ait. Just a matter of teach- move on from gimmicka and £20,000 a year recording ing, training.
bulld
up a truly individual stur? For answers rend
style.
Be or Beem to be
Look back sincere.
on,
Walter trained
Ridley, HMV.
Alma hit-parader
Outrageous
entrance
uffice, a pretty nobody, in the spring of 1952:
TILES
London Ruperts-Bersina
NATHANIEL GUBBINS
W
HILE the world's animal to death
amog can be exhaled. Atatesmen are
at
before the here in a message she સામ
read without strală:
So the lucky giraffes wit
kept indoors In
a
LEGIVA ATIVⱭ NMO
either
I
You might ask me what am worrying about, For one thing I am a little hurt et Mr Butler's remark that Insto if we must not drop back
"What impressed me was not ber ulk about singing, but her
about bo worrying personality. I saw an average
'clean atmosphere, or unox Ana. JON AHM Canadian young housewife with an attracthings like a possible flare warm,
stago Uve face, a nice broad smile up in the Middle East, while wear smog masks, or perhaps
t distinctive accent,
even have their aees syringed No more pheasant there is trouble in Cyprus and Lecent coloured slightly by her and Algeria, what are the by anxious veta, while nothing
nt all live years in America.
is being done for the English at home thinking, women of the English aristo. "Volce? Very
although good for an doing, and worrying about? cracy,
they suffer amateur. 1 look her to rehearsal Some of them at the Lon- from the same handicaps, rooms, wrote lyrics for her, don Zoo are worrying about
Nobody cares If they choke to death in a smog; and made her practise, practise,
what will happen to giraffes you infer from this that practise. For stage experience
prefer giralles put her into a little summer if there is a smog this win- English own
women of the smart set show at Weymouth at £15 ater. week. She
like worked
As everybody knows, giraffes are probably right. igress. Loved every minute of hava farge, flaring nostrila ond exceptionally long necks like the women of the English j'aristocracy,
the same
As ho changed for his next
he heard number being sung outside his
bla rtressing-room- by
voice. Assuming that some over body had recorded him on the Cogan for two gruelling NEVER be afraid of gim- singers who have successly, he angrily flung open his years before letting her cut micks. But don't live by fully ridden all the storms. door, intending to smash i her first disc in 1952. To them. Take Johnny Ray's, Listening to them you say to over the hrst head he saw. But
yourself "They really believe there was
record no
Only what
singing." gramophone, they're Whether they actually do or call-boy, 16-year-old don't is, of course, beside the Bryce, bom singer, born mimic. point.
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11.
Girl goes with her boy to the theatre
Soft-pedal sex.
to see some woman record
d
No
perky
Richard
Singing lessons 'CONNOR
the boy's
was so struck by
talent that
he
ing star. if the star is sent him for 18 months singing slinky, sexy and ogling, the lessons and paid the bills, say- "Somebody once did the girl says, "She's trying to ing:
for
in mo
my grab my boy. I hate her." same thing_
struggling days."
Underline romance. Most Richard Bryce, call-boy, is people are inarticulate, remem- ber. Boy and giri walk out together for three
years. They're never able to say what thing that has put Valentine
other about they feel Can't find the words. The need a star to
cach
110w Dickle Valentine, whose voice makes hordes of 'ten-nge girls squeal ecstatically. Main
where he is, says O'Connor, is hard work-
them. Such things as 'Darling, hours perfecting one phrase,
it
0
"To do well in show business, to battle forward, taking all-the knockdowns and let-downs with a smile, a girl must have tre- mendous will power. And that,
i think, is the main lesson of Joan Regan's success,'
Keeping moving
The kindly English keepers THE kindly English are
THE giraffe's worried that the consider
will inhale Pensioners foot. wide-open nostrils
an exceptional amount of smog which, travelling down a yard of windpipe. will choke
THEY'RE ALL
IT-LIKE
the
DOING BING
By J. W. TAYLOR
QALES of tape-recording Some
the easy evenings with over-ripe. to pheasants and bottles of port you which have been
family's my diet for centuries.
staple
at
In fact, when wo lived Tottering TOWOTS Our Ex-
cestre? heme in Surrey my old grandfather,
of Purley,
also Earl of
the 14th Marquess
who married the
Ealing's hideous
about Old Age daughter, ate hardly, anything
A deputation from the Asso- cintion of Municipal Corpora-
else when SCBOIL
phensant
was
When he became extremely bend he believed I was old and slightly round the
ways in season, just as another
al-
tions will call on the Minister of Health asking
for a free chiropody service to keep the
ancestor of mine. the mad old folk mobile."
Duke of Brixion, though; every kindly
councillor ont
and Christmas Day recently, pointed out
some of day was the O..P. can hardly get to ste turkey and plum pudding
A
their retirement
the local post office to draw wearing gay paper tist all the
pensions, year round. which may soon have to be delivered at their homes at an extra cost to the Stato.
Work this out
also a man in
which
that It was for this reason the old Marchioness of Purley was obliged to get in a stock of tinned pheasant, which sho filled with little lead pellets so that her husband would be- lieve the bird had been shot on his estate, THERE is
As the family fortunes de American stores have Birmingham worrying over clined he was obliged to make he hopes do with a high tea of over-ripe may leave orders for next-day will be solved by the unlucky haddock and a glass of British
after closing time. editor of a magazino.
sherry, but by that time he are being increasingly
The man writes:
was so old that he hardly know used in offices for dictation pur- "It was stated to me the the difference so long as there
judg-lation of the world could stand
the.
Isle of Wight.
By things for "I've known Dickie spend machines have soared to them installed so that customers a problem I love you." The boy want one word, even, recording it on an extent that is even sur delivery them sald by a sweet, homely his own tape machine, playing it prising the manufacturers. They
ม
by looking boy.
nice, clean,
Last year
good-
at his
and
in
on
Incidentally, the family motto
girl. The girl wants them sald back to himself, experimenting | Industrialists, businessme poses, and in law courts for re- other day that the total popu- were pellets in the haddock.
with it endlessly. On the way doctors, solicitors, editors, Poses
cording evidence and Ted while singing with up,
entertainment stară, tutors ments, Heath's band, he doubled West End might clubs, worked a and families are using them 18 increasing numbers seven-day week, did without in
come home an aid to everyday activities. He will holldays. Iron
1 broadcast, get into Even the spy-catchers are Columbia, work
dressing-gown
dippers, DAY MARTIN,
tape recorder or using them, heard 19-year-old Ruby
Was study other people's records into Murray on TV last year.
the small hourB. Impressed. Sald to hlinseif, "Maybe she sounds good be cause she looks good." Turned down the picture to make sure. Sound was better than ever. Martin phoned Lime Grove at
Offered Miss Murray motor-coach, contract on which she has soiri a million and a quarter discs in the last 11 months.
Is this was "A Bottle and a Bird" But it was dropped like a hot brick Medical men are finding the correct?"
So for the editor has main when the hard-drinking younger tape most useful in their work.
tained Д
of dignified silence about son
the It relieves them of note-taking
DI
15th Marquess He is
a chorus girl out of probably married while patients are talking about this matter.
to the Folles Bergere.. themselves and affords leisurely waiting for another reader
clean study when it is played back work it out and come
My family was so out of Similarly
the answer with with have afterwards.
touch with the world that they These handy machines
In the interviewing
It hard meantime, 24 lawyers
to when
this found
bellevo grown in public favour
hitherto have be appears. to be the sort
of chorus girls are for moru, r2s- now uses cilents who since the war, when
restrictive and "A star has got to be tough were found for them. The Ger. come
self-question that causes intenso peatable and hard working You're on
tour. You have a Job with a dance band in New-Allied radio signals.
mans had them for recording conscious when hand notes are interest and interminable argu- tham girls of the English upper
taken of their problems. The ments, can anybody tell me if classes. Soon the castic, say. You are busy, until Allies were doing the same.
tape enables both parties to re- the population of the world, 12.30 a.m. Then you pile into a
once
Marlin is at one wih Ridley
on the importance of a "dit-
Jerent voice. But adds:
An athlete
lves,
heard.
lax and the solicitor can closely lying flat on its back, could go No more dustmen?
GROWING UP
biro?
Some don't care
con
Mr.
William
0
THER things, worrying me,
apart from Mr Butler's
autumn Budget, are warnings
It is pointed out that few
when they are Intelli-
At 11 the same In the field, recordings of study the facts after the inter-to sleep in the county of York- morning you're in Landon, re-actual combat soumis played to view. cording. You aren't tired. You the troops in training to build can't afford to be tired. You've up their confidence in battle got to bang the hell every time.” later on. Ships of the Fleet re
corded alt combat orders and
that with full employment Many familles enjoy muchị test pilots spoke into recorder pleasure from the recorder, par-A
the same," " thero' are and a higher standard of unl attached milices during power ficularly
education there will the
conversational other people in the country versal stages of children growing up. who do not appear to be worry. econ be no dustmen and nobody I don't agrec that thit
to deliver the coal. "difference" can be acquired. A similar carcer-verdiet on uses which
TESLIE GRADE, agent, giver There were many other war On her many toufs the Queen ing about anything much.
to be Thero 13 have been kept has recorded messages recording star la born with it.
David Whitfeld, ex-Hull brick-secret. Several sples were played back at the Palace to Hobern, of Tattenham, Corner, men will undertake this sort of Let's suppose you have a 200 layer and Decca star, who has caught by the invisible, silent Prince Charles
and Princess) who is proud to announce that work anough to do something You try sold three average sort of volce.
and a half to our recorder taking down what it Anne, and similarly
messages ho still 'bend over and to get to the top by clamping a
from them
by touch his toes at the age of were Tectived different
1. What million records since 1963:
80, style on
Her Majesty. Other families a boy who has discovered that Somehow the public happens?
favour it takes use the inpe to record a
443,520 mk "David talces the job as seri-
bottle folds NO SCRATCH pense what you're doing..
a obliged to heave thelp. ite radio programme for when tops to cover a mile, and When on feel, you aro a phony. They ously as an athlete,
absent member returns vicar who. naka in his parish coal and emply their own dust- write you off as unnatural, in our he's in the theatre by 10.30
The narrow plastic ribbon of works on yalee
home,
magazine. It anybody can tell bins,
money will mean and every morning sincero. And that's the end.
exercises with his musical recorder is easily edited with
It was crooner Bing Crosby/him how to keep awako In the nothing nt'all to adviser at the planó until one, scissors ani gum. There is no who made tape recording ac- dnytime. In New York last yetz on an needle hiss or scratch because
TV assignment,
there is no needle. The plastic coptable to radio fans, thua shat partics, olght-day | hired a stuetes so that he could tape: carries a boating of fron tering the myth that the pubus moelings, and even during "with 'du. I was obliged
would only slon. keep up scale and, arpeggios mamelised and captures sound. oxide. This surface becomes
broadcasts. By 1948, Bing had on," he says. "My fear is Nine hours a day, seven days And the tape can be used over
become red of having to that. I. shall fall, aalooys when fetch the coal, from, the de-
and go on talking had a Every work is his routine.
spend OVĚTY
er hour preaching the winter he takes a fortnight off, and over ngain.
studio! goes skiing in Switzerland or The coming of the peaco
stod with such vigour Thore la alaior ♬ asking by the Mediterranean. brought further uses for the that recordings ware made on ing to
$5.
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But the volga exercises;;iro,on ||maglo: tape, Airlines preserve dives. Editing and cutting dial-odffor vindOLINA TELLY at dear, and 'no; gas offerentelelty,
all the
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the ridiculous people ring that never. time, A star can never on them all mässiges « between cullies lead to poor results. buys his publication because at the power station are inte
tanding literary lecture, lot-up"
planos in' the alt and control!
heard of the new shine buried ator yace of tower personbet7
recording Finally,
Kalthy Quay Harwich, announcements nowed his demande. One of his newsreporn clubride down on în decu Devon, aspent on Joan Regan, to pcoming passengers to are shown wa: tape recorded and ko and trai anpibar, plane of millions, who made no patha impresin several work suratasha Now Hing
into: Zile
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