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ARTIE..
GUL
in reply to your letter of the fifth that.
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1956.
What Makes Mantovani Sound Like Mantovani? Why..... Mr Binge!
you listen to any music show you must have become familiar with the words: "That item was arranged by So and
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But hardly ang Hstener. understands the real value of "So and so's" contribu- tion.
A British Crossword Puzzle
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CYRIL STAPLETON'S
Column
show you.
Last year fore, with his record selling the Mantovani carried 80,000 dollars way It Is, he could colire! neveral Irom Americo alone on public thousand pounds, appearances and record sales. und all because of in arranger's idten.
Glenn Miller became a dollar milionaire, all because of an
tranger's Idea. His trick was relatively simple ano, be re- placed the first alto saxophone in a five-piece sax section with
caribet This gave his completely different and instant- ly recognisable sound,
The Trick
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• Mantovani, the THUM Was time Bing 11s talk was to invitat
uf WILy
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play us through they were y lang! heding hall. Through aug. that achtas. Mantovant has be
of the most famous one mutasiul emeletes in the world the few 3x cuts he
an of oh slips which are recognis able by their individual uri,
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4 Spoken (4).
ACROBS
3 Love affairs (8)
8 Hang rotund (0).
9 Pretend Blues (B).
TI Solneed (8).
12 thifettered (4)
13 Headquarters (3).
18 Tech (5)
19 Way out (4).
22 Link (B).
24 Equip (8)
20 Grumble (8).
# Louse (3).
2 Symbols (5)
3 Shifts (7).
5 Greedy (4).
1 Smokes (6)
Thoroughfare
10 Frukt (5).
14 Turning-point (5).
15 Anneals (7).
10 Run away (0)
17 Ring (UT
20 Diminished by (5)
21 Concur (5)
22 Heal (4).
28 Goes before (8)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Mishonor
23 Impulse (4)
* Abbo, B Niggard, 10 Orison, 13 Remorse 15 Rose, 17 Angered, Valiant, 20 Axed, 21 Krveled, 26 Entire, 27 Discreet, 28 Raise,
Nigh 29 Leniency. Down: Major, 2 Minim, 3 Minor, Mirror, Risked, 9 Insam, 11 Relax. 12 Sotk!. 14 Entree. Heact, 18 Sewer, 18 Vandal, 19 Lessen, 22 Entry, 23 Timid. 24 Deter. 26 Truc
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arrangers 1 SIXTE
the
Often the arranger is the back-room boy behind
recordings of a famous vocal artist. For Instance. Frank Sinatra has Axel Stordahl and Nelson Riddle. Guy Mitchell has Milch Mhier, Ruby, Murray has Ray Martin.
What it was
like . . . being
married to a
man like this... BY HIS WIFE
NANCY
SPAIN'S
SATURDAY BOOK COLUMN
I shouldHE World's Most Per- You and the children are no
BA it
fect Woman married longer necessary to my success,** And Mary Macfadden was at the Father of Physical test on her own.
WAS
So that was the end of her
How much do these men con- tribute to the success of their artists? A
A great deal, say. 1 hink the reason Sinatra's album "Sengs for Swinging Lovers" is selling as well
ar. Culture, a 11 who the orchestral is because
perfectly still making parachute horrible life of carrot strips and rangements sulted to Frankie's mood.
jumps at the age of 85. dumbbell exercises, of glasses One of my favourite exumpit r
they loved, of water for breakfast, no ea, Together of the arrangers' ori
the
quarrelled, made " Billy May 1.P. "Sela May.
fortune from By is of course well known to 10,000,000
the bandje der such magazines Trac veryone
introdured a arrange wh
new Story and Physical Culture. style of dance-band writing five youts age, but did you kakow he is als, the man behind the scenes in many of America's
had They
numes
Seven children all begin wi D They divoretd. And now, Mis Mary Macfadden, who for 32 rightsture years shared the been fanuous bands? has
Ely May writes arrange of Bernarr Macfadden of thought of It's easy for other
fo: 1,4 Brown. Ray The Body ments
Beautiful, has told Anthay. anud
otherter True Story ratinny He's just recorded a couple DOMB BELLS AND CAI voral backgrounds. 1 Heico | STRIPS (Gollure.... 187-1 Forrest on Capitol.
And what win it like Hol A│Matrimony with this indestrues
Tatale:
of Tyea
The Gym- Well.
Mac- nastans”
Mrs Luckim puts her case very well. HER IDEA... HE
-
white in
a simil 1952 Mantovani Jums wding at he own rangements, wint Ronnie Binge ans bred bandleader
Muyi you've red some is broad-
Casts on
th. Bb C Very good they have en to
Unfortunately, Ronge husty'
The les are Tuking Change On Levi," and "1 Love You Mach Too Much? He also part of himself in a Play,
I: Just APTECTal
managed to myt a musical Ben which
tadellick for him-elf as easily release called "Nightmari distinguishable as the one he
era sack for Maastovaná
What do arrangers get paid" In Am use of the B.B.C. they
a bar
are paid a a standard rate of 28. This means they get any - thing from £4 to £20, rading for the length of the gerangetunt. And an arrange- anything men may take them Wing Ave
three days. hours to
ly write.
Sinatra's Men
COMETIMES
the
ervangen working tor hampell art. A stands to make a much better re- turn le his work, as in the ey of Jhony Dankworth nec his reemding of Experiments Wilh Mi
Johnny
ik
The Top Ten
BE 11. Boone (London)
STAR 2 "ALL
PARADE" (Deccu)
PINCHED IT
·
BOOKS TO BUY OR BORROW
4NX Hunte
MARY
Isten
DEARE..
12h
ja abandoned, exerga ℗
For fire Captain Fister
crazy
Your
T
His second wife said he was write anything which you will "eruel and inhuman," So he regret; try to score of anybody your was. He was also a little bit Just write facta; load
When, at the age of 85, sense of proportion.
ALWAYS refuse to be told he made a parachute jump on
the "I feel anything
record"; "of his birthday he said;
assume that everyone has an en- as fresh as a cucumber,"
He
signed nlways
allow himself thralling story;
for vitally
nature": He
remember didn't read "human books. He wrote them Instead. **news, not views"; be sym-
remember He never ate unless he was pathetic:
when He tried and failed to cliche comes Bungay heroe President of the U.S.A. pressed for time; remember that the hair long and cynician and boredoni are wore he floating, frequently grimaced to enemies, honesty and zest your
**wasn't
alltes. his face
And above all, says MacColl; arting of changed his nume
Have fun! hard to Bernart be-
I do,
had
**Adam He was indeed an old What killed him in the
*
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it
Power
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Caled
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horror
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South,
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Who have thought a 23*12 allt have had fun in them?
HOME."
SHE
-5
Pal CHE met hom when she
innoeent, henithy girl £100 IT 10 She had won
prize offered by him for The
Woman
He HOTEL," Perfoet
never He took her on tour mkd up.
morried in his Muscle Show, BACK- CHRIST- her instead.
WIN
L. [1 would isl 200
Fitx
3 "HEARTBREAK
Elvis Presley (H.M.V.)
WALKING 4 "I'M
FOR MAS/BLUEBOTTLE BLUES," The Go;na (Derez) |hell
WARDS
# through absolute She had to dive 60 fee! 3 "WHY DO FOULS FALL from Brighton pier,
und do IN LOVE?"
Teen Agert simliar aeroballes before the She hod crowds twice nightly. perry the iden for True Story, he
pinched it.
•
LUCY CROWN, Trwy Shaw. The Amowa novel that In caught on.
Loos. La My A
NTS, Ner woman, her
her kiver. งง ) busid.
wereld dedicatexi
may shies w the awful effects
of Muther Love aspects and how
of Mother
affecla
Live in all (in ə -t and how it ufors ⚫ the premuonable, growing ●
(Columbia)
501
.
4 "HOST
Como
DIGGITY." (HL.M.V.)
•
By JOHN Lonnie
the time the v hart ha! seven children and he Dinggin (Pye-Nixni
Was +4
7 "LOST
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8 "EXPERIMENTS WITH millionaire (employing no jess A
MICE," Johnny Dankworth (Parlophone)
WIND,"
Gogl Grant (London)
() ME Record
D "WAYWARD musician, TAPTION,
rat.. bandleader, and, us the tune is 1.opy-ight, Johnny also col- ketu mposers' fees. There-
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
SOME MIGHTY OAKS START RIGHT IN
MAKING 'EM
A CHIP OFF
THE OLD BLOCK.
SETTLE FOR
ANYTHING
QUIETER THAN A BOILER FACTORY.
10 "MY SEPTEMBER LOVE," David Whitfield (Dreen}
person than Fullon Cursier
nitor) their marriage was just about on the rocks
where They went to Europe,
myt Mussolini Macfadd în
shouted "Woman!
יימT
be
Watching Little Acorns Grow
IF YOU CAN SURVIVE,
IT'S SAFE TO SY YOU'LL SEE HER BECOME
A LOFTY-MINDED
MEMBER OF SOCIETY.
JUDGING FROM THEIR TASTE IN
TV PROGRAMS, THEY'LL NEVER
R
WHINGS
COPA, 1954 BY GENERAL FEATURES **
COMP T-WOND RIGHTS RESERVED.
NOT MADE,
$20
IF HE SRENDS HIS TIME DECORATING THE WALLS, ITMEANS HES GOING TO BE AN ARTIST- AND THATE,
BITTER PİLL FOR ANY PARENT TO SWALLOW.
11
more
duse
prison
He had fallen behind 1. his alimony payments be the
spcondi and third Mes May- faddens When ordered to pay by the court, he again failed So he was gnuled for contempt. The
cel prison
him So I suppose you Jaundice could say It was married life killed him.
gave
MacCOLL HAS THE
ANSWERS
ANYWAY, Mary Macfadden's
I
413
4
that the
arc you
Balzac New
Translation
TLEK Books, Ltd. are bring- ing out # new scrtes 171 English of the novels of Honore de Balzac, A
great mary whose WOTKS available
of
have not been English translations for many years --- some of these apparently not ince the tura of the century.
this
The
series
fall
from
per- This
of first "CEBAR BIROTTEAU.” the Is inay say,
P
rise and the non-fiction story model of all that
and und
Thablitation The should be, oven according to the Hules of Journalism.
a bankruptcy of Parisian Tutel
fumer, is now available. down by brilliant, witty 51-year-
novel was written in 1837, being ld collegate Rene MacColl in
"The DEADLINE AND DATELINE
In the series making up 1Oldbourne
The Human Comedy," and is based prem 15/-), The
on the period of Louis XVIII of story of his reporting life.
from a few years earlier, 10 be
lola
Jellers youngsters asking how & Jeurnalist. Well, MoeColl has all the answers:
be
to
The bankers and the business- men to be met in the pages of this book, their reactions to an
no nicotine. That was the end f Being Male to Mister Muscle When she married him she
NEVER When she
break a confidence; imuninem bankruptcy, their weighed 10st. 21b.
told you so!" reaction when u ufraid Jeft him she weighed 17st, and
questions; 100
and their she bad
high Marfadden spid
reveal a source; talk about your trash comes "humiliated him by losing her "exclusive' ; neglect a contact; praise for the rehabilitation
an honest if unfortunate
man, "social' contact; rim figure,"
the tragedy of whose life they could have averted with
interestimate
BY HARRY WEINERT
MAYBE YOU HAVE A BUDDING SCIENTIST IN THE |HOME~ ONE WITH A TALENT FOR RESEARCH, WHO, IF HE IS FORBIDDEN TO EAT SOMETHING, MAKES
HIS OWN TESTS AND EXPERIMENTS ———
STIMES IT'S EASIER TO:FDI
NOT: GOING
THE SIGNS INDICATE A KEEN INTEREST
IN FINANCIAL
AFFAIRS.
of
BOITIC
quick stocktaking, soine good- will and patience, do not |Cave an imprint on the Imagination that stamps them as outdated by a century and a balf.
MASTER WORK
Balze, It is said, besed this novel, generally regarded as a master work on is particular theme, on his own unhappy com- mercial experience.
Birotteau had come to Paris at the age of 14, had become a businessman in his own right in his early
twenties and had
already reached a position of respect among Parisian shop- keepers as a referee of the Commercial Court and DS a. Member of the Legion DI Honour, when his troubles began,
Unfortunately for him he had some money to invest and he was advised to put this into buliding lots. He knew what there was to be known in those days of the business of a fumer - Balzac even
credit him
with being the first znan to embark on modern advertis- ing methods on a grand scale -- but he knew little of real
the estate and barikding business. Ha came up against unscrupulous dealing completely foreign to his experience, and was simple enough to believe that nobody would stoop so low as to wish to ruin a Member of the Legion. of Honour.
one
ONE. ENEMY
He had, to begin with, only enemy, whom, ho had caught in the act of rifling his petty cash box and had' further by treating with When the came
Brottenu ́dia.
annage charity.
crust
covered that his years of dealing were not to be ́con- sidered in the balance against the
!, coffee shop rumours that his financial position was pre- carious.
Balzic treate every situatiori with scrupulous' fifrrices. The render discovers *eventually that most of the men who helped ruln Biroticnu were more guilty of panic, then hertlemoss, and there were some wha refused to be partners to this panic and stood by Birotica,
Balzan, minds his readers, with „some (inemorable; " pen alcotches of the charecters in the Anio, forceful
shrewd
analysis,
„Even if this;