Patent Medicine
AND
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1957.
READING GAOL
HE bulk, and centre, expressed a variety of strong that his talents and training
Elixir
Та
Editorial in
"EUxor"
left their mark. The poem, in lla With
introduction by directness, is in straigo contraat Professor Blunden and haunting to all his other work. on Blustrations by Douglas Bland
is written
with the eharra the reproduction marshalls the
learne
.0 expect from best known talent in Hongkong une for a powerful production. As a
medical men who, 229 a pro- union of Poet, Painter, Scholar, fession, combine the Sciences and Printer In one work, these and the Humanities in their pages could hardly be bettered nudy, in any part of the world.
magazine opinion. of the Hongkong University Medical Society-now Aale at $2.50 is taken up with a superbly printed and illustrated copy of Oscar Wilde's only well known poem.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol.
As polol, d gut in an çoštorial, this reprmitellon la peluled 88 The it a porte contribution
abolition of on the arginent
and capital Punishment. particularly of capital punish ment by hanging, upon which medical authorities in this and ofber permiteals have nirely
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The editorial suggests that the see lon may be reprinted as myuruta book It should be. It is well worth the printing.
Quent
Witch
taments difettante, achieved little in his
fe
this
:entence prison would be regarded as his depth for by subded after it into menerden H
his death, In this one great porth,
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Cyril Stapleton's column
Watch out,
you Rockers!
IS THE GROUND SLIPPING UNDER YOUR FEET?
to
Just appearing musical horizon.
of
turned off like a ERE is a cloud no big- going to be ger than a man's list top. It has far too big a hold (40) this country for thal. the
Calypsos may become popular, but they will never have the sensational appeal that rock 'n'
all has bad.
Besides btroducing the major publication, the work of the Editor writes humorously aboal the flood of adversing through which a doctor must Fud his
The general public is assumed
Advertisers do not
lead medical practitioners by the
At the moment is impossible once as they do lesser vas mortals, to say whether it will develop "Ords a moron en boladay could In
to a hurricane or not. woul spurn
ure the thine to oper.there are certain weather-vanes but and study it all," he says, and which show the way the wind
THY
thgoing to blow. gront Antericon nath has
The first of these comes from forward 10 prosperity
incognition
Thi of a British record company which simple lef that there's one bott male à rather anusial and ex- we do like citing disc last week. It decided every minute, but
allowed A. cherish a ford to rent the record struight to belief that the medical profession | America, [1 suggested four contains slightly lower than different titles for the Item, all
contained of which average pe portion of the bread.
the word The red public hopes so "rock.
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TERRIBLE WORD DACK came
cable from the Amer lean agents saying that Rwy would not dream of issulog the dise there with that terrible ord on the label. "It is poison
but when he suggest Forthended businessmen who hate their fortunes upon patel medielnes
wasting their money by advertising the
the a wonder. we bigle
After all, we know
»few businessmen They are but men who enjoy wasting money, The comment
en the American market," they comes at a time when Medical, and we must have a new
on the other side of the Atlantic thu on this.
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FAILURE HERE
tune
TAB HUNTER ŽENO TO A MILLION
Immediately after the televi slon show he was signed up by Capitol. His first record for the company was called "Hep Dee Boutie, bucked with a called "The Teen-age Crush,” DURING the war "Rum and This record
sold more than Coca Cola," whleb
WER half a million coples on his first Calypso, became the biggest hit day of release
Uniter. in the Why? Because rock 'n' roll lo tive United States,
In Deltain States, and after only eight days been heard for was new. Nothing like I had
t was just another ng. 1 on the market has topped this
we many, many know that here had to gure by selling nearly 1.000.000, years. But calypsos have been change the title to "Rum and The record
be released known in some form or another Lemonardo," but basically the in Britain this week. all the time. Also, they have song remakeed the same and was
more appent a disanal failure. iways had
much
Is to
Skiffle
YOUNG
named Walt
HOW TO BE A STAR An, who works in an
NO EXPERIENCE
WONDER if, when you
REQUIRED!
There are two
iden.
The first onc
advertising agency in London. bought himself a guitar two yours ago. Last September he formed an amateur skiffle group, which he called "The Vipers."
Being short of material he furned his hand to song-writing. stories this and composed a plece of music "Don': You Rock Mr are reading this column, werk which lend support to this called:
Druddly-O," This was his first you ever begin to feel, as
IL do when I am
comes from attempt at writing a song. writing it. Anterica. A young man ned that the whole record in Tommy Sands, who is a close Way
paid off for him in a big.
dustry hus
stark friend of Presley. gol a lucky Not only is his own disc on
break on big television show staring mad 7.
the Parlophone label a big sell- the Brik National Health
January 30 last.
ing it, but the tune has also AL
Line Second, Lonnie Donegan tells origination. We fear public
artists styll
The show was called "The bein recorded by Lonnie Done- gullability
play may still
records me that although he has always Kanophone
because Singing lol." and It they had gulned 21
was gan on Pye-Nix, and this disc position of Targe
medical | sung folk songs in the past, veid a part in the
written for
4 in Presley.
the best-selling For is No. eminence world us fa any other,
the intends to go on singing Now
In their profession analely for Tommy, Elvis had folk songs in the future, he will, W.J.S.
date owing to
Mr Whyton meanwhile con- least to cry off the fessionalism on his next record, Introduce a
film commitments. Colonel Tom Unues to work in the advertising calyp beat into his music. A Important asset a recorring for his celebrated skiffle
Parker, Presley's munager, sug- agency by day, and to appear netist.
Tommy Sund; be with his group by night at suen you can delete the word "skille
yied that given an audition for the job. places as the Prince of Wales from his labels, and call it just
Tommy was rushed 10 New Theatre, where they have just a group.
York and won the coveted role, finished two weeks in variely.
Maroteus to wrtek
ELIXIR
Owing to the cx- tremely changeable weather we have been
hoving of late, the Spring issue of Elixir was issued løst Autumn, and the Autumn issue is with you now.
This Summer we hope to publish the Christmas number, but just to even things out we have decided to call this one the Winter number (except for the supple- ment which was printed when the weather was more favourable). Any further changes of soa- son will be noted in due course.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"OF COURSE I DON'T WANT TO
INFLUENCE YOU ON MAKING
YOUR CHOICE
BUT...
SO I SAID TO HIM. 'OF COURSE I'M VOTING THE STRAIGHT TICKET/
I NEVER VOTED
FOR ANYTHING
CROOKED
IN MY LIFE“
OUT TO SAVE THE COUNTRY
FROM SOMETHING
OR OTHER- THE OTHER.
PARTY GENERALLY.
CALYPSO HOPE
A Bruin and in Amerlea. Lit the music publishers, both
are hoping that calypsos
will take the place of rock 'n' roll.
They have a good reason for this. Although rock 'n' roll has of gramo- proved a big seller phone records it has not sold rach sheet music. And sheet music is the publishers' biggest
source of profit.
Take, for instuber, Bill Haley's "Razzle Dazzle,” Although the public bought hundreds of thou- sands of gramophone records they bought only 100-odd copies of the song. The publisher who had Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" did not even bother to print it. Don't, however, run away with the idea that rock 'n' roll is
ono
gone
it seems
that the
nf
pro-
Exemple: A Mm star who has never sung a song in his life makes record. Within two or three weeks his flest dise has sold mure than 1,000,000 copies. Example: Tab Hunter with "Young Love."
Amusement
N amateur
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song-writer, never having put pen paper before, whiles away the hours for his own amusement. The result of his handiwork out- sells Cole Porter,
Endsley, Example: Melville the cripple boy who wrote Blues," and who "Singing the has followed it with another his song, "Knee Deep in the Blues,”
Car, you wonder that the public thinks
easiest that the way to make a living is to walk inlo a record studio, sing the first amateur song that comes to hand, then alt back and walt
for the royalties to pour in.
Election Preview
NOTE
I DON'T CARE IF I DO LOOK NON-PARTISAN-
I'M NOT WEARING THAT STUFF!”
WHEN A LADY IS INVITED
TO WORK FOR THE PARTY
IT'S HER DUTY TO PITCH IN
F
AND LOOK HER BEST
FOR THE ELECTORATE,
COPA, 1956 BY GENERAL FEATUKES
~CORF, TH WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
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THE TOP TEN M
Tab
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"GARDEN
2 Frankie
(Philips) (1).
"TRUE LOVE," Crosby and Grace Kelly (Capitol) (8).
OF EDEN," Yaurban
7
(D).
RINGING TRE BLUES," Guy Mitchell (Philips) (3),
"DON'T FORBID ME." 4 Pat Boone (London) (4).
"DON'T
YOU КОСК ME. DADDY-O," Lonnie Donegan (Pye-Nixa) (7),
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