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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950.
BING CROSBY WRITES A CANDID CONFESSION
HAD
a
letter this of the mellow, good-natured acien, and when this is absent,
philosophy of his life and his
week from Bing Crosby,
It is a remarkable lotter —a letter which will provoke comment wherever the name Crosby is known, and will be quoted and commented upon around the world.
Old
For in this lolor Bing, ""The Grunner," acin out kome
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD --Across 3 Clry L 7
4 Epenres, 10 Chalar, 13 Malince, 15 Core, 17 Budiar I, 18 De tant, 20 A 21 Silence, 20 Rewis,
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work.
thn ho
so is the stylo.
MY INSPIRATION Crosby has known more nua-
DON'T think increasing eg css than anyone clao in
has got anything to do with field — and now popular explains how he feels about the 11, or that the pipes ere getting other side of success.
rus y, Ucause i belleve voice Hiteter to me is promptedly his very hole to do with by my remarks in a column not the publie aceptance of a popu long ago about the tolmutable for suger. 's the style, the
ruby
Lumilable
mood they create that puts them longer.
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of his
fact I raid some Imitators. 1,40
Martin, Dean Peny Come, and Dave King, seemed to be dolug belier un the original.
AS A Cuddy read my com- penis and this is what he has to say..
"I'VE STRETCHED A TALENT SO THIN IT IS ALMOST OPAQUE
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now ont again, and I'll always be hopeful that some day I can get another hit record that wil; give me a total of 20 which havá sold over a million.
Thanks again, Cyril, for your Interest, and all my warmest re- ads to you and your renders,
BING CROSBY
As ever.
THE TOP TEN HITS THIS WEEK
MR NICHOLS HIDES IN THE BUSHES When he sees his first Eucryphía
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10
George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS
save his prose from complete
EMPRESS FREDE-
SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN. There is a mement, described the careless render, the flush on On The Lawn,' his own checka hoightened by By Boverlay Nichola, in "Sunlight
whon Nichols, calling on Lord embarrassment, may overlook Cape. 16, 255 pages.
Aberconway, owner of the the most important fact about a VERY
years world-famous garden at Bodnant, Nichols book,
Then had just rung the bell,
It is the work of a very, sbrewd Beverley Nichols sciis he glanced over his shoulder and man. Nlenols knows what he is a house. A house saw his fist Eucryphial
doing
knows how for he can go; with a garden which he has
and knows when the little smile So shattering of self-mockery is needed to made beautiful with his
The impact was so shatter mawkishness. own gloved hands, plus some help with the rough work. ing that it would have been quite mow
THE Impossible to go in and meet the A house about which, tak family, and make polite con- K RICK: DAUGHTER OF QUEEN VICTORIA, By Richard ing his gloves off,, he has veraation, until one had got one's
breath."
Barkeley. Macmillan, 30%. 822 profitably written books.
So Mr Nichols hid in a rhodo pagus. Queen Victoria By the time Nichols sells a
dendron bush, to the bewlider- not forget that the Crown house is of no further use to ment of Lord Aberconway's Princess of Prussia (later Em- Film as a literary property.
butler, until his emotional storm press Frederick) was her sumes his authentic and
In 1936, he sold Allways, a had subsided.
daughter. The Empress could thoritative charting of popular cottage In Huntingdonshire.
the Fascinated by Nichols not forget that she was English. musio record sales, Ho details which 28 the inspiration
style, waving its
thin Blamarck could not forget-or the up-to-the-minute Jockeying "Down The Garden Path" het fingers, jewelled with tiny rings, forgive-either
one fact or the for the top spots among the made £25,000 for him in royal- overcome by the frankness of his other. Tho outcome ฟง
beat-sellers and 30 Kiven anties.
confessions (1 may at times dynastie quarrel and a tragedy accurate guide to what are the
In 1940, he sold 1, Ellerdale have dabbed a little paint on one of personal frustration. Richard best buys of the week.
of the les or heightened the Barkeley tells the and story Grows The CRy").
CYRIL STAPLETON
au-
and here they
| CUPC: Hamps.ead {"Grube
long.
And in the summer of 1986, he flush on the cheek of a rose"), brilliantly. put up for sale Mery Hall at Ashtend, 12 ute! position. lamidst delightful rural surround-
...
are-- "LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS,"
Anne Shelton (Philips).
The exqu the gardena "WHATEVER WILL BK, are 21 great feature," (heuse
WILL BE," Doria Day agents' advertisement), (Philips),
Readers of "Merry Hall" and "ROCKIN THROUGH THE now of "Sunlight On The Lawn" ป KYE Bill Hairy Comets will not need to be told whose
gloved hands made "The (Brunswick).
"“HOUND DOG," Elvis Pres- quisite gardens
loy (H.M.V.). WOMAN IN
Strong opinions
c.x-
LOVE." Frankle Laine (Philips),
In his time. Beverley Nichols has had several sirong, but brief, TONG "YING
SONG"/
He
firtation had a opinions. "BLOODNOK'S ROCK 'N'
with Nazlism, a bruch with the ROLL CALL," Ɑoona (Decca). Oxford Group.
I
could
KICKED HER IN THE BUSTLE
SAID GEORGE MOORE
who
GM: Memories of George plump, naughty and talented was in love with Moore. By Nancy Cunard. writer Rupert Hart-Davis. 25. 206 pages.
her mother and whom she knew
from schoolroom days.
Yel the reader
cannot help vodor
wondering how afield Parts,
BRING A LITTLE WATER With Pac" ("1 would rather W
An elopement WALKING through the how many
SYLVIE" / "DEAD OR fight under the white flag than
-Nixa).
soin
women
windows
of. and the invention of
streets of Paris with Gorge Moore had stopped, with
Bome aliractive
young friend, ALIVE." Longle Donegan the Union Jack") was followed his young friend Nancy and said, "Yes, it was there! 1 by Sew 3d were reininte-
by an estrangement. But to Cunard, George Moore, the For he was a dedicated man- "GREAT the old dry, and en thou
FRETENDER gardening he has remained faith eminent novelist, stopped and the twin objects of his do YOU," "ONLY
Platters ful. (Mercury)
To him it has been hobby, côn- "GIDDY - UP - A DING - | solation and asset. "Sniff the DONG." Freddy Bell and intoxicating scent of the earth The Bellboys (Mercury).
and you won't want a cocklal.“ "WALK HAND IN HAND,”
And, when war came: "It is
that Hiller a nice thought Tony Martin (H.M.V.).
has no power over a snowdrop.
At an
early date (1935) he found in himself strong affinities
botanic with the
side of life: "Winter Sweet seems to like me
1 upped keep reerding here and there
2nd
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Stapleton: This Is My Reply
grow thred of bang om HAT is what Bing Cros
is eerainly rtaron enough, but
he real vidson is a fule more basic.
3.
latest long-playing
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He is over-modest
ed and there's good fatste fat chek 100. just not as en-hurtes le as I used
1. the ice! It here, the desire to sing, to be in
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE FRIED-EGG OR SQUIRTY SANDWICH
SHOULD BE EATÉN IN THE
GREAT WIDE OPEN SPACES.
HOW ABOUT
A BALONEY
AND CHEESE SANDWICH
WITH MUSTARD
AND CHOCOLATE
SAUCE 7"
WONDE
ROCK 'N' ROLL SPECIAL.
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4.
1 enn i och style tve points veryona, else e bựa i happy counding good singer whose
humour Barugh to his songs much as in his writing.
very much. It waves is long
and gazed up at a third- votion were the pursuit floor window: Yes, it was stories. there; long ago; she had been a wonderful and he very much in love with her...
woman
George Moore was also a great dab at making remarks of the sort that led people to question whether he (of the cream the
Literary luck
Irish gentry was, after all, it takes a
(occasionally old-fashioned
Nancy Cunard, in an affec- tionate book
in an precious way) rebuilds, im a series of anecdotes, Moore's wayward pers sonallty. Thus she may help to bring his
his books back to favour. reputation 30 RTHOT'S years to recover from his death. rings, eld., otc.
He was, pouple said, one, whe. So, another seven. and they are jewelled with tiny gentleman,
He responded with A
like, kised and tol until the more pass before Moore's
Juck passion. He scoped to crime; sinister runcur spend the iterary His brother and manager Once in a greenhouse at Kew he
was one who told but did not "We don't stole Larry Crosby says:
a cutting: "Surely it did kiss. thank Bing is either going -- or not matter, taking one.
On this to sing too especially when I could provide Cunard comes
defence of it with such a happy home."
ther with Sinatra from the fum Thigh Society" le top seller in Amerien today.
4.
19 POZO.
Не
loves
much." Agreed.
Just A Sandwich
THE AFTER-THE-SWIM,
SANDWICH OF HAM, CHICKEN, TOMATO, CUCUMBER, CHEESE, LETTUCE AND MAYONNAISE-THIS SHOULD ONLY BE
ATTEMPTED BY PEOPLE
WHO CAN UNSHIP. THEIR LOWER JAW..
COPE. (956 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP. INLWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED. P
DETOUR
the
too
likely to His style is too careful, amooth and self-conscious for
charge,
Nancy modern taste. loyally to
odd, absurd
BY HARRY WEINERT
LIMBURGER AND ONION EXPERT— THE ORIGINAL ISOLATION BOOTH BOY-
I'LL HAVE A HOT SOUP SANDWICH.
DONY PEEP
THERE'S NO SENSE IN LOOKING,
FOR TROUBLE.
the
The subjects he chose do not as a rule interest BDOW eneration. His pre- judicee have a faded look, Even his famous naughtiness hardly shocks.
Yet "Hall and Farewell," a three-volume account of Moore', adventures in the Irish Literary Renaissance, is one of the most gally
ily malicious autobiographies of the century.
Hearing that his native Iro land was in the throes of a re- vival of her letters, Moore rush- વર્તુ to Dublin where ho colla-
borated in a play with W. B. Yeats, who looked like a large rolled-up umbrella left behind
BOMO pienie party,"
by
The play, on an ancient Irish theme,
was to be in the Irish language which neither Moore nor Yeats knew. Moore dec.ded he would write it more easily.
in French. Yeate agreed enthusiastically.
Light came
From French It would be turned into English by Lady' Gregory, then into Irish by an expert named Tague O'Donog hue; back into. Irish-English by Lady Gregory. After that, Yeats would put style into it,"
Moore laboured hard at /his Patriotic task until one day a ight flashed: "What a damned fool a clever man like Yeats can be when he is in the mood!"
In truth, between Moore and Ireland a great gulf yawned. ireland was and is - puri...”. tanical; Moore had been a young man in Ports who liked the society of attractive women and lked, after the affair, about It to other attractive
to
عتمة
red of being kept dangling by one brilliant and adored. creature whom be had met at a banquet In the Savoy Hotel, the frustrated author behaved in-
pulsively
and
my foot and kicked we were walking
her arguing in the park. v
will say it was nearly dark and, the park almost deserted." "E kicked her in the behind - 1. the bustie, if you' prefer *** and, of course, after that "--"
The guest
Nancy Cubardy memoring Sof this egotistical yet attractivÿ Irishman begin at the time wisen ho, used to stay as guost of" bug family' in 'a vast bolso in Leices: tershire, Thore he kicked Istr dog, while showing:of
Landing (E
Boston two-step) country walke bowler hat, buli
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