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by OSBERT LANCASTER
"I hate to disappoint you, darling, but after all it's not Elvin the Pelvis!"
THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1957.
He built an Empire but lost in Love
SIR FREDERICK
LUGARD. By Margery Perham Collins, 42s. 768 pages.
of Lugard Road
gave the particular charac< UGARD WOR born ter to its administration Go pre- in the
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lived long enough to see Commonwealth. V.E. day; in this great span
His life reads like a novel
of years he, more than in three volumea, each by a any man, helped to create different writer, our Central African domain, shaped its institutions and
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Kipling being responsible for the first, C. S. Forester for the second, Joyce Carey for the third. Dr Perham is far from being a novelist, but sho has done a monumental work of research in as- sombling the facts, and sho wisely lets them speak for themselves. The result is a book that will be invaluable to students of Africa and will enthrall all those who exult in the triumphs of the human spirit.
Sir Frederick Lugard Governor of Hongkong 1907-1912 - sailed penniless to Africa but became the founder of an Empire based on Indirect Rulo.
by
SIR HENRY GOLDSMID, MP
She threw him over and fo found himself a half- pay officer with £48 in the world and an overwhelming urge to leave Europe but with nothing to do and nowhere to go.
ment, however, was apparently unreceptive to these notions.
His visit to England
inconclusive
and the elimac-
teric of his career was his ro-
turn to Africa and the struggle for Uganda from 1888 to 1802. Here he tuced dreadful physical conditions, dangerous enemies, aliles unreliable
and false friends,
Here the missionaries
Romon
He decided to join the Italian forces fighting in Abyssinia but his applica- tion was refused, so he went
and in down the East coast of Afri- ca almost destitute, sleeping on the deck of a coastal steamer because he could whom Lugard
East Africa
A serious soldier
born Lugard was India, where his father was a penniless clergyman, He returned to England as a child of five in 1863 and received that bleak sadistic education reserved for the sons of indigent. gentlefolk at the time. It must be ad- mitted that the only per- manent injury he suffered from his schooling was the impairment of his hearing, but his subsequent career showed that he had all the qualities nerded for success at school in such abundance to achieve that his failure
it is un apt commentary on his treatment there.
He then failed for the Indian Civil Service, and to his surprise passed into the Army. He served happily in India for nearly ten years, a serious soldier with a taste for adventure, when suddenly, to the amazement of all who knew him, he became infatuated with a worthless woman, and aban. doned his career to follow her to Englund.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"ARE YOU SURE THIS ISN'T YOUR HAT ?” SAYS SHE, DRAGGING OUT A NUMBER HE WOULDN'T, BE FOUND DEAD UNDER.
DEFINITELY. THE WRONG NUMBER:
TWO BOYS
AND
GIRL/
AND THAT'S REALLY THE WRONG AUMBER.
not afford a cabin and eat- ing the greasy scourings of the galley.
In grave danger
The offer he received from the Britisɔ consul ut Mozem-
bique was to join the Scottish missionaries
011 Lake Nyasa who were in grave danger from the
Arub slave rainers that preyed on the hinterland. Lugard spent his last shillings on necessities for the journey and embarked in a native canoe for the interior, in April 1888.
Arabs The fight with the Insted two years and ended in stalemate. Lugard never had more than a handful of white men and a few
un- wholly
Ho native aliles. reliable
He
reli smuggled in a small cannon and in one Dosoult he was wounded but sur- desperately vived undaunted despite the most rudimentary medical at- tention.
It became clear to him that it was only by enlisting the sup- port of the government a home that the tragic position caused by the Arab slavers could be remedied; the British
govern-
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HOLD ON TO IT'S
THE LINE
IS BUSY
GET A PAIL -***
GET A BUCKET...
••• EVEN A WRONG NUMBER IS BETTER THAN NO NUMBER ÅT ALLa v
British
were
divided into separate Protestant Catholle camps. remorselessly for competing important converts. The Arabs were unconquered. The Imperial Company, by ployed was continuously short of funds, usually out of touch with him, and addicted to the sending of contradictory In- structions by letters which might take six months to arrive.
wns em-
A Maxim gun
who reads this book can doubt that it was in Uganda that his character was forged and that
first sparked he genius
Into netion,
Mantovani and his pay
CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN
S he can't blow his In Austin, Texas, he drew own trumpet, I'd like 7,008 people at one performance. In Vancouver, the overflow to give a loud, clear from two packed houses was 30 blast on måte on behalf of big that an extra, matines had Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, to be arranged.
of Britain's
I
He is one major exporta, and
Opposition
extimate his dollar earnings IN several towns they ran into over the last year at about the sort of opposition which would normally "empty the '£50,000.
house,"
For Instace, in Cleveland, That is his personal earn Ohio, Mantovani's two Sunday ings from royalties and concerts coincided with the appearances, apart from the annual baseball game between amount of money brought into the Yankees and the Brooklyn the country from the gross sell-
Dodgers. The doly
records tig price of hla record sales.
broken were in Maniöyani'a box offe
NEW NOVELS
agony. Painful story
told
in
prose.
By PHILIP OAKES
Private
for the
In several placts he came up Against big rock 'n' roll shows, They call them "packages" in America. This one had Bu Haley and his Comels, The Teenagers, and about eight
other big name aclt.
There are gigantic box offe
BITTER VICTORY. By Rene ⚫ THE NARROWING LUST. ‡ draws. Mantovati outplayed tardy.
Hamish Hamilton, 138. By Henry Kane. Boardman. them EVERY TIME.
the two 10%. AL
Cye Peter In Rochester, New York State, ed. Conflict between
connection with the rock 'n' rollers pulled in returning to base after a desert the lenders of a Commando patrol, Chambers (no
Evening Standard TV 1,600 people, Mantovani hod. ection in 1942. The sun beats Reporter) at large in New York 5,500 down, the water runs out, the with a murder to solve and a He is the only musical attrac- war is absorbed by private brunette to console. Tough, fast, tion who can go to the United
States entirely on his own. and absorbing and readable, but the title is
Tennyson, well-musied red herring. Lord
No vocalist who colned it, was talking of gold. ⚫ SOME DARLING FOLLY.
WHEN Ted Health went last
• HANGMAN'S CLIFF. By By Monica Stirling. Gollancs.
year he had to play second Cole. Hutchinson. 16. | Addle to Nat "King" 128. 6d. The story of Sophie, Robert Neill,
marlel, who Brandy uneventfully
parson and When he goes again in February He was sustained by one of
he has to have Al Hibbler, June passes through an affair with bullets for the customs men: a two wise administrators and a
well - written swashbuckler | Christy, and Eddie Heywood to an actor, to fall deeply in love rescued Maxim gun. lle
the
attract customera, smuggling during the help him with her own husband. A novel about Sudonese troops who had been iridescent with the virtues: gay, Napoleonic ware. Expertise Mantovani doaurt even have to Isolated in Uganda since the fall
about ships and seamen and have a vocalist, of Khartum. He nnds treaties shrewd and highly moral.
real feeling for period. and was tortured by the doubl
O TALES OF GRACE AND
By whether Britain would ever be FAVOUR,
Doris Leslie. THE TWENTY-SEVENTH that able to protect the tribes
Hutchinson, 218, An omnibus DAY. By John Mantley. Joseph. 12N Gd. gave her loyalty: finally bo
volume comprising Folly's End, Michael returned to Engand in dunger The Peverills and
Aonther Watchers from another planet of impeachment
Warren Cynthia.
three historical suc- present five prople with o Hastings
cesses out for another airing, weapon which
con destroy the He was saved by the excel- Perlox covered: from the world at the end of 27 days tent impression he created on Roundhead to the Regency, Win they or won't they all whom he met and the care-
Treatment; romantle. Total it?
unconvincing, fut record he had kept in those effect: rather gorgeous,
the entry in strenuous days which enabled
of Tomorrow" series. him to answer effectively the • NORTH FROM SINGAPORE. Camell, wild charges made against him By Derrick Nabarro,
AND
• FREEDOM
DEATH. the by the Liberal Party and 13. 64. Political thriller with a By Nikos Kazantzakis, Cassirer. French government.
Fur Eastern setting. Problem 18. Eple, exciting novel of the Although he was not given posed; what happens when the Cretan uprising against Turkish He doesn't seek publicity and official employment In East men of war take over a country overlords with gunpowder, blood has 110 high-powered agent
the Africa again and it is as
Same excellent and seeking peace?
equal
parts, forcing his architect of the system of battle scenes, en offstage.rape Kazantzakis storms through the public throat. In spite of that, indirect rule in Nigeria that his and a note about democracy, fiction lists like a war horse. he has the biggest sales of fame now chiefly rests, no one Crude but effective.
Highly recommended.
long-playing records
of any artist in the world, His newest one,
rt, an album of Bailet Memories
Wrong Number
COFL. 1984 BY GÉNÉRAL FEATURES CORP, DAWORLD RISHTE RESERVED,
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BY HARRY WEINERT
I THINK A SIZE FOUR: TRIPLE A WOULD BE ABOUT
RIGHT-THOSE
SEEM RATHER
LARGE /*
MEETING THE
WIFE AT TWO-THIRTY.
A WRONG NUMBER
THAT'S GOING TO MAKE LIFE, FOR SOMEONE, AS TOUGH AS A SIX-BIT
STEAK.
AND NOW
AWORD
FROM...
SIX A.M. SUNDAY —— WRONG DAY, WROLIG TIME, WRONG STATION, WRONG EVERYTHING.
Ho takes three British musicians with him and forms a scratch orchestra in New York. Last week in London the British band leaders gova s dinner party In honour of Louls Armstrong.
The week before in Hollywood the American musical directors use gave a reception in honour of ufintantovani,
In England, Mantovani lives in modest style. He has just moved into a new that because his three children have finished their schooling and re.urned home to live.
wares down
the
and tha
Walizes of Irving Berlin,
Just
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on the market in Britain and should
sell s well да it doing in America, unicss of course everyone is too busy buying American products to take any notice of the "prophet In his own country."
Hit names
ERE ore
HE
put down
a few
new
names lo In your record diaries. Numes which should be in the hit-parade 1st this year,
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· First-Julius La Rosa, the only singer who has been sacked in front of 60,000,000 people,
He was singing on the Arthur Godfrey Show at the time, and during the performance Godfrey, told him to go home
Tho
resulting publicity, coupled with his excellent singing, made him into one of the most sought after stars on American television.
Then there la Johnny Desmond Johnny used to sing with Glenn Miller's Band 02 American Expeditionary Force in
Desmond's Europe. records have been very success ful in America...
Via Damone is one of my favourite American singers, Ho has just had a tremendous hit
In the States exiled "On Th Street Where You Live,"
But this will not be released in England until the end of 1957.
That's because it comes from the Broadway success "MY, Fair Lady."
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That show will not be seen in London until late this year and the muste publishers will not allow the record to be released until then.
Two sonm which shouta ba in the hit parade before January is out are called "I Dreamed
The
and "The Garden of Eden."
Decamed" has been recorded by
Beverley
a number
Slater and you will find quite
of people taking a walk through The Garden of Exden." They are Dick James, Winifred Atwell, Frankio Vaughan, Monty Norman, Gary Miller, and the man who started It all-306 Valino.
Competition
RÀCIE FIELDS has fust recorded two numbers,, Ond ia "A Letter To A Soldie
It will be interesting to s how Gracie makes out, since she comes up in directį, COM- petition with: Three other ladies who are slightly more, multed-m by their age -- to be writing. lettern to soklers; 3: Barbara Lyon, Terry, Burton, 'and 'Jane