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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950.
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By Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid
Once again-
Cyril Stapletong
with
the hot music-biz' story
【AMP'S the hero today, In her hour of CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: Am- tress, nor yet with Gentral heroine wore
American Negro band leader Lionel Hamp. bassador Extraordinary. By Evangeline Booth. She is a glory at President Eisenhower's Inauguration and even in Itome- Alden Hatch, Heinemann, successful playwright, she where she must deservedly have tan is the latest American, 21s. 272 pages.
has sat in Congress, she is cul.bone the cid wrecks of the
In their star music-maker to bring diplomatique married to Mr Henry Luce, corps
but. neither in his outfit to Britain and battered Binery, the publisher of Time, Life Burma nor Buchenwald are her make a hit. An emphatic
to germane
sound of the and Fortune, and she is at trousers
the hit, by the witnessed and "
Empress Hall roars. present the United States tragedie the
wiser biographer would Ambassador in Rome.
spered their mention.
RS CLARE BOOTHE
IA not to
b
MEUCE
confused
with Miss Claire Luce, the well-known
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Iv jestfy her publishers boast that There has never been zuccess ziory to compare with
way
have
Mrs 1.uce's politics arc strongly Repubilean and she has fought certainly stood up and
Niw Just look at the other file. Against the "Hump Hit" in London balance this item of musicana By news 18 British 3,000 miles to America and play
fer just six minutes.
14 this
equality in exchange --- BA this in Insult to Britlah musiclans? That is the
the life of Clare Boothe Luce" for them. Hier range of epithets Nu olcon, after all. did not i alarming--but they did not
That icters to Vic Lewis and wrlie plays.
Florence
Night- doter General Eisenhower from
who went 70 Ingale
married, offering her the Rone embarry orchestra, never
America in exchange for Ramp- That Was in 1952, and by delus Caesar would have been
Lon four In Itome for lhely
So remaining Ambassador perhaps elittent evaluation of years without any major disaster he wet vemment (which is more she has done at least as well as thur Bir Alden Hutch permits Mrs Perle Mesta and Mrs Daisy
Harriman did in similar posis., queit.cn at the heart of the big Filmself any not be out
But by now she must be gelling | musk-biz tow which is taking place
bored with the mountains
place at this moment, States paper that the United Information service proliferates. and one wonders what is on her agenda.
of
next
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TIL clute my position right away. I don't think there is
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SENSE OF TIMING Alri burg is above all things evurngrims and energetie; en- Jutta pas ut physical comfort
HER GREAT ADMIRER ere to play no part in her life.
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ths ago the dream
The Odd-Swop
enine true The two musicians' unions agreed to allow the ex- change
Now
enel Hampton Is tha American orchestra de The red carpet is down for them as it was for Stan Armstrong. Kenton and Louis
who were the few two.
for Lionel Hampton
By the time Lionel Hampton simple, leaves Englund everyone
Box
will the door appeal.
be well aware of his visit, When Vie Lewis leaves America, the
tour in which every hall is sold Crowds out well in advance. meet him at the railway stations and besiego his dressing-room for autographs.
But then,
Mantovant is not
there on lease-len1. His is there in his own right because he mold the Americans a type of muric they did not have.
It is, however, much tougher for dance bands, This general public in America hardly knows that British dance banda exist.
Until a few years ago they
dance thought that the only music the British know was the rert that won with maypoles and powdered wigs.
DOES
The drive
of
OES this mean then that wa should give up these rel- procal visits Certainly not. We must take full advantage them, and show American audi- ences that we can do ni well na, and sometimes beiler than, they con
Wc must do what Freddie Randall and Ted Heath have done. Randali,
splic his obscure position on the hill, was a great success. The people
who did ses him ülked him. They liked him because of his persona- ty, his drive, and his trumpet outstanding
He has been playing. invited back at a much increased
fec
Ted Heath went to America Stan Kenton. in exchange for When he got there he clao had to play second fiddle. Nat King Cole was the star top-of-the- bill attraction.
Did Ted waste time worrying?
Cash-at- Not likely.
office.
American bands are a tremen-
He and his band put up ruch
0 terrine performanes of well- dance music the
to have made a poin! in 1900, being the lag is porter to be on
spod before disaster broke To the harassed generals in o 114 gipe so far as to dye ber
blond). The dutiered who
rose bair
have
equal heights. appeared lesz us midwife of new hope than
As the dret woman President would the in dertaker measuring the of the U.S.A. Mrs Lure
Dorothy this Its coin, but Life not simply be in Miss corpse for benefited by her reports and so Thompson's unkind words (they it be just, did the Allied enuse. Er the Powers model, the back to 1040) "The Brenda Frazier, Mr Hatch says of the opening body by Fisher of the Great of her play "Margin for Error in Crusade" she would be clothing
The Britons viking America a phrase that even her enemies in flesh and blood some of the
the fare being treated like some- brashly. would fel use quite
highest nspirations "The timing was superb. Tw American unconscious.
thing draged in by the cat.
Hemember how "Hamp"
dous attraction in Britain. They presented months before. Hitler had sent
The path from the log cabin
bad to admit he had have been built up over the criter could supened in Landon? Now take a his Panzers erashing across the
the White House
American band how Vanity
through Polish borders
Fair, ok at what is happening to Vieneral public will not even be aware that he has been there,
years
and shown vit go
Vie Lewis
This the third exchange of Nazi in droves to see
gramophone records. Also they they should rage a dance band show. The promoter: extenced banda, On the sugar, with and his band are on a bill with
previous one reign
own supreme in their sickness, ceine-uppance at the Plymouth."
umpteen ether American arts.
Freddic Randall's Disleland style of muste. Musical critics his playing times. Another
his Dulles as its prophet and Henry disservice to
They e Bley and his
Band was shipped to America in and them to the skies. subjce is Mr Hatch's insistence Luce its public relations ofeer.
Camicis, 1he Teenager", :nd
exchange for Loula Armstrong
Deservedly BC. They lead on describing Mrs Luce's clothes in this rock 'n' roll version of
the American dream, the
slar fathers.
What happened? null occasions.
Handall the way in jazz. We follow the by doing 30. Is clearly reserved for
all-star style they set. Dart
vas dumped into an
What is what the Clare Boothe Luce.
the answer? the South. Loula Mantovani found
swer Rome - years
ΟΥΣΙ invented his music which different from Americans had. The sult?
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People Bock and the tabloids, through Lewis in America.
his
ti is quite proper that hould know exactly
We
sex Bad
FICTION SHELF
"
For
The acts VICE la allowed six minutes
In which to show his wares.
w
only
rock 'n' roll show which played
la Armstrong was given the VIP. treatment cn a very big sonic all over Britain. He WH3 even honoured by the prescrice of royalty at his shows,
He is not even listed in the order of acts.
All the American acts have His assignment: 12 their photographs on went too.
the front write additional dialogue.
of a big 28-page souvenir pro- Homblett's account the whale.
is sold for gromme, which of what happened is fact, light-dollar. No picture of Lewis. The inside are blographies of all the ty disguised as netion. Canary Isles to finish his film af comedy is hilarious. The style American ects. Not a line about vastly
• countries?
Crazy
• The
Kit by Charita Hamblett. 256 pages. Sidgwick and Jackson. 15s. When direcior off to the John Huston went
Moby
Dick, Charles Hamblett exhausting.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Lewis.
Same Old Haunts
Did Eisenhower go 10 Randall? Not likely.
Why
Alms
ari
the ago. Ho
He began by being allow 12 tour minutes and finished his
He even had to do an extra concert at Carnegie Hall the star attraction, without Nat
brand of THE TOP TEN,
WILD entirely
anything the
1 "WOMAN
more records in America than 2 "HOUND different In the two together. He is touring America 3 "L
Mantovani sells
IN Frankie Laine, Philips,
DOG,"
LOVE,
Elvis
put
Presley, H.M.V.
is
moment on a concert
"LAY ARMS."
DOWN
Anno
YOUR Shelton.
Philips.
is the treatment 50 ali their
answer The
ot this
BY
HARRY
own bands
WEINERT
·BENÍRAL FEATURES
Coff, I WORLD FIGHTS RESERVED
THERE IS NO SUCH THING
AS A HAUNTED HOUSE.
"ALL I SAID WAS
I DIDN'T THINK
YOU WERE
THE TYPE /?
THE BOY FRIEND IS GOING AS ́A
GHOST?
“THAT FIGURES –
HE'S BEEN HAUNTING THESE PREMISES
FOR WEEKS
"'WHERE'S THAT KID
FROM OUTER SPACE?
HIS MOTHER'S
COME TO TAKE
HIM HOME /
"
OH NO!
IT'S A COMFORT TO GET HOME TO MOTHER AFTER SCARING' THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THE
WHOLEVY! NEIGHBORHOOD.
4 "GIDDY - UP - A - DING - DONG.” Fradle Bell and
Mercury. the Bellboys.
5 "JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN." Johnnie H27, Philips
6 "ROOKIN' THROUGH THE AYE." Bill Hates Cometa Brunswick.
7 "WHATEVER WILL BE
WILL BE." Dorts Day. Philips.
8
"КОСК
AROUND THE
CLOCK." BIII Haley Comets, Brunswick
9 "GREAT PRETENDER"/
"ONLY "YOU." Platten. Mercury.
10 "BEING
A LITTLE
WATER SYLVIE"/"DEAD OR ALIVE.” · Longle· Donegan, Pyc-Nixa.
King Cole. It was a sell-out and he created, so much good- will for himself he can now gọ back to America on an annual visit na solo top of the bill.
He is in fact going back early in the New Year. He has been offered a five weekta tour as the star attraction,
The only thing which is hold- ing up negotiations is that the bookers in Britain say that no American band is big enough to do five weeks business. the same reale as
as Heath
on
That shows what can be done by hanging on and keeping i. The first “insults" do not matter half as much as the final cash busdress..
.at
❤.... IF you would like to com pare some of the latest record- inge.
I
of these bands, then
suggest you listen to the following:
Stan Kenton's LP. called "Kenton In ́HI FL" This con tains a
a few of the items which have become actociated with his
Pen Tunes such a
Rhythm"
Vendor "Aristry
thero
Concepta." Kanton version/ot
at the
EP
glompie ardalla
Freddie
Skinn
was issued in Odiober last, The
Da Da
Ques
That
his best
DOWN
the Jazz Band Ball."
Now
RU
World
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