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Wire trail over her carpet in the suburban flat. A cricket bat props_open_the_front door. The woman who once held hands with Elgar is making one more “quality record”
MRS WALLICH GETS TWENTY-THREE
WELSHMEN TAPED
A
London Mrs Wallich
ogress.
Her
get
"But we never let worry us down," sald Mr Thomas. "We just stamp it underfoot."
stamped. The carpet showed it was not the first time.
He wrong,"
BURST of Welsh word is authoritative. Raymond
Lavy reaches for the scissors. Bong came through the
where u "Isabella is never gap cricket bat propped whispers Mrs Pritchard open the front door. Up
her stairs, in
St. John's Wood flat, Mrs Isabella Wallich, director of a re- cording company, is getting down to work.
is a year Its head-
The hollow voice of the loud- speaker breaks in: "Tapa 4," it Another recording announces,
of the sanne heurt-straining choral music takes the air. "We did five tapes of this," says David Ffrangcon Thomas, re- miniscing about the two-day trip to Wales the week before, "and coch is better than the Just, It's incredible" Mr Thomas slaps his knee.
Her company old this month. quarters are still in the living-room, where wires trail over the carpet, and £600 worth of recording equipment stands between the armchairs. It is a com- fortable room to work in- the piano la draped with a travelling rug. not a Span- ish shawl-and gay record covers advertise the firm's tho
Oh, so cosy
THE FIFTH
version follows, Mrs Wallich's brown cy ca shine.
Tho door ерепа, almost knocking over
loudspeaker, The house-
products from every free keeper appears with a tray of surface.
coffee.
"It's really much too cosy," Wallich. "When I
In between snatches of music says Mrs for twenty-three Welshmen and move to my palatial premises, two harps, Mrs Wallich Loid there'll be none of this."
how it all began.
BY
ANNA
LANDAU
Bul there probably will be, For Mrs Wallich will never move to a conventional office; insists on staying at home wherć she can look after her family.
The only work she cannot do at home is the actual recording and
She talent-spotting.
very proud of her discovery, at an Ilford concert, of tenor Brychan Powell, Welsh farmer's son, particularly as it was her uncle who discovered another singing son of a farmer.
Hls name was Caruso, Her
The Story late uncle, Fred Caleberg, In Milan and immediately
ing Arms. His young nicce cords went with him on his
►
met
she Although
never Wallich Caruso, Isabella
did meet Elgar, when she was a $18.00
18-year-old plano student at the But
Isabella waited til her Parts Conservatoire. 18.00 children grew up a bit before 15.00 starting out on her own. Now
Too severe 14-year-old Richard Sebastian 25.00 after Bach, but the other one 8.50 has the musical talent"} and 25.00 10-year-old Rodger come racing home from school to hear- the 35.00 latest tape recordings. Her hus- 7.50 band returns from the City, and deals with the accounts,
7.50 takes refuge in a poetry book.
The telephone rung cutting
in
feebly, The
on the choir. men were on their way to fit a new carpet,
London Express Bervice
Mrs. Wallich listens In-her word is law...
MR X TOOK A A BIG
Do You Know The Answers?
By
ROBERT PITMAN
HAT does the name Wilhelm Guatloff mean to you? Nothing at all? That would have been my answer until DOW. Yot It was, the mechantman Wilhelm Gustic which suffered the most appalling disaster in the history of the sea.
Early in 1945 the decks of this German ship wero packed tight with U-boat men, with Gorman refugeca |fleeing from their Eastern conquests. Suddenly, off Danzig, a torpedo struck. In a few minutes the ship bad lurched under the sur- face and over 7,000 peoplo had been drowned.
No
Who fired the torpedof this day no certain answer has been given,
I take this sombre item from
a new stockpile of figures and facis, The Guinness Book Records (Superlatives Ltd., §8.). From this book I also learn that tho
beer-
for record drinkding is held by French- man (24 pints In 82 minutes); that Scotland has the lowest murder rate in the world; that the Pilgrim Fathers played darts in the Mayflower; that there is an Italian bank clerk who has had only ono hour's sleep since 1917; and that the American woman financier, Hetty Wilks who died in 1953 worth nearly £40,000,000-left her will in a tin box along with four pieces of soap.
THE TOPS
The book deals with other queries-how many can you answer?
1. Tho most hard-kicking alcoholto drink in the world?
2 Tho
costliest cially sold car?
Z
commer-
3. The place with the world's bigbest marriage rate?
4. The country which senda most immigrants into Britain?
A. Tho gramophons record with the biggest world sale to dato?
(For the answers, see Page Ten)
In most things, of course, America has the mostest-the world's most massive land- vehicle (a moving shovel which moves 2,200 tons); the world's largest building (the Pentagon
in Washington); the world's most married woman (14 times
with 13 divorces).
But Britain holds her well,
OWTI
We still have the world's largest gas works, the busiest railway Junction, the largest marquee, And we have the budgerigar with the world's biggest bird vocabulary 300 words).
(over
Finally there is the achieve- ment of the Englishwoman who at Sheffield in 1022 owned to 81 bigamous marriages in five years. Her world record still lstands,
GAMBLE
AND IT
IT PAID DIVIDENDS
TOTHING could have
looked more innocent than the fountain-
pen carried by the RAF
devised for aircrews, Mr. X decided to go to the top. To the Air Commodore in charge of the Service'e
By JOHN CLARKE
and had better discover all such purchasing organisation, he
fnk
war. The British Museum eft-cube wooden crate
Compair Nat
„Compass Na2{(tip)
THE SOUP
Mr X as summoned to see Com- a grim-faced Air modore, on whose desk stood - the tin of self-heating soup. He explained his theory. It the outside skin of the tin were punctured, chemical processes would be set up that would boil the soup in. less than a minute. He handed the Air Commodore. 4 bradawl. "You try," he said. The Air Commodore did."
frowns had been shot fidence the man who starts with her uncle heard the unknown tenor down over Occupied Europe. disapproval of conventional devices used in the 1914-18 consigned a tin of soup in a for 50 years artista' manager cabled his firm for permission His German captors felt no Whitehall minds. of one of the largest record to offer him £100 for six re-qualms about letting him When the production of provided him with 50-odd marketed on the outside:
Permission was refused keep and use the pen.
tiny compasses was crippled 1914-18 war escape books. "Personal," on its inner Grand Too expensive, said the Arm.
by a stray bomb that de- Mr X took them to Rugby packing "Danger." Tours, and names like Challapin,
They did not know that, stroyed his headquarters, School, whose headmaster came to Kreisler and Elgar
as well as ink, the pen con- Mr X (as this book calls he persuaded to enlist 25 mean more than patterns on poster.
4 comprehensive him) found that tained escape outfit-five tiny com- its replacement passes; one kind of dye that would demand.so would colour d uniform many sanctions, dark blue; another, more permits and
Compası Na 3 (Ni)...... HER UNCLE
official allowed her to concentrated, sufficient to other bring the com- camouflage several marks of appro- poser to the uniforms; even a supply of val, that delay to concert holl aspirin
and benzedrine production would where he why
have been "in- due to conduct tablets. his violin, con-
terminable." certo. "He was bo nervous we The pen was one product
"I decided to far the accounts have had to hold hands all the way," of the fertile, unconven- So 5.00 satisfied Colonel Wallich. The suid Mrs Wallich.
|tional, and highly indepen- try a gamble," 4.50 | six quality records, each coating One record Uncle Fred never dent mind of a man whose he writes.. 4.00 between £200 and £1,000 made was one of his niece at whole war effort was de picked
make, have sold well enough to the piano. He was much too 10.00 having no head for business.
one now?, "Heaven forbid," she for, captured Servicemen. off a six-page 15.00
Meanwhile the background replies.
wwells into the aural 3.00 music
Tiirty-nine, and Milan-born equivalent of a close-up. Ray her father was Italian and her -1.50 mond Lavy, musical engineer, mother American Mew Wallich
1.50 adjusts knobs knowledgeably displays no sign of temperament For security reasons, the
David
Thomas, over business worries. Trungcon
Thare name of the man who in ploring his intervention, My boys to read the books and firefighters who went to cellist, conductor, ·und: ex-. : 5.00 | commando, - checks his notes,
otes are printing difficulties Bach vented the fountain pen-plus telegram paid good divi- report on all they contained, with stir pumps and chaco 80 Mrs Mattle Pritchard, friend Balot of trouble, when his must still remain secret, dends. The foundations of a Within four days, the boys cal extinguishere
and Ears Wanch listens from a blue, There are and neighbour vete the Welsh, cover and lost his looks in pale But his story is told in the bigger and better factory had done a job that would week steered wartly clear
other prob first person, and its subject were laid the following day have taken. Mr. X several of Rás" units,” says Me 2. atool by the fire, gently, waving lems, much as hiring, the hail
Hardly ever did Mr X weeks, a for pencil in time to the muse and hading that fourth emerges as a man who over-adopt conventional, tactical data were setbacks. Irri- co
rode with exhibeating con- resetting, supusase a tabed, fonce by the RAF SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD Don't you think the harpy's have not turned, up, s
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picture was printed on'a record
a bit, blotchy, în 1-couple of "The machinery is only a liftie
A SECRET
sent.
telegram to Lord Beaverbrook ex- plaining the situation and im
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“Aspirin and Berisedrina - Compare Na 5"
self-appointed expert. In es- casual interest In
So the Year cupe devices, be thought be hea
The resulting explosion singed the carpet ruined the shiny, desk-top," damaged the wing of the immaculate, office, and brought" in an army of" eager