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RAMSDEN GREIG
FICTION SHELF by P
OAKES
Mixing Pops and Puccini
The man in question is a large,
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• GALER, MY SON. By Lunas a few weeks is touched by
sepoys pulling Danicla, Scoker and Warburg, love and death. In his first
to the svord. TEREWITH a memo to.
128. 6d. Painful, perceptive novel, journalist Keith Water A
correct (Information After his show in Newcastle Him, and like so many of his novel by a 22-year-old journal house proves himself the best
other night ardent fans others, has a slight and to my David Whitheid, Four years ago scratched their names and tele ming offensive religious theme, the birth pangs of desegregation childhood since Dylan Thomas and
Lak from North Carolina; about reporter on the wilder shores of m a forgotten set of told with squeals, screeches, oohs and he was heaving cement slabs on phone numbers on his ble shiny He is now preparing to make
Alicia vigour. Almed for ahs and little whimpering to lorries in hla nativa Hull for limousine with
in the doop South. Chief prow- nall files. He long player. And I am waiting gonists are a young Negro cam- ⚫ CONIES IN THE HAY. By do with the Wind noises accompanied à ren- £7 a week. Before that he was did not telephone any of the for him to put a bit of dering in
La paigning for violent change, and Jane Lane, Robert Hals. 10. sd, al could have the sams in the numbers, bat Royal an able-bodied scamon
he did tell me Boheme on record.
his father, who bellares that Dramalte, well-docurathte success. Theatre, Newcastle, of Your Royal Navy, and he still walks that his income-tax mas gava
send you a copy, black and white should slay covel about the Babington Plet about a stage as it he were him on allowance for fan Beniamino. Tiny Hand Is Frozen from negotiating the mess deck in an damage.. Puccini's La Boheme.
Atlantic well.
the
That is what happens when a "pop" singer decides to get rid of inhibitions and slips a slice of opera into the act.
You will be further astounded, Beniamino, to learn. that this new operatie oracle cannot rend
a note of music, and ho Gwears by Puccini dhat lumping opera with pops is no gimmick.
"It is in me. and it has got to come out," the singer says,
A
This
Fan damage tipped sutla, shirts ruined
ho has been
Since he became a big name in show business back to sea. This was when he led to America to appear on TV.
He travelled first class on this
occasion and when he got there was paid £3,000 for two ex- minule appearances.
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crisation. Elizabelk
a raddled tyrant; Francis
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By Brain W.
collection of science- with full marks
the Beverley Bisters (Decca 78) DEATH OF A JUNTSMAN, Walsingham as
the arch plotter, 124 cd. ́Quite |
Train Blues
Blow the Wind Boutherly, lý, with that Kathleen Ferrier olazato, is climax. allowance also соуста
by by now tackled harmoniously lip-stick smudges and a shoe he
The 2.19 akime Group in By H. E. Bates. demonstrative devotees. He says Freight once lost to one of his more
Michael A harsh view of history con imagination, and a cool, Not unlice 2 luded, style. nok-deap In the blue on Joseph. 128. 60--Four short veyed with conviction
with (Esquire novels dealing variously.
nerown Ray Bradbury, wllh he loves his fans, and, indeed, 78).
MAMBA, by Stuart Clorienhorrors instead of cine lie would not
the corruption of love by wicked fellow he is if he let them auger be the shrewd
The groove In which and ally women The titie Collins. 13. 60.-Lust in the shocks. Excellent stories Woody him.
Herman and the story features a nice dull busi- Congo dust, with a chubby sadig at level, and key documents He gets close on £700 a week Groove is shallow-
Swinging Herd are in Blues ness man whose love affair with who murder his unfaithful wife case for making science when he sings to them in the orc (Capitol 33) cure possessive mother, Stories two vengeful lover. Great narrative
young girl is destroyed by her and is killed himself by helion respectable. theatre. And they
TTH IN MELTING. buy his Pinetop Blues, Every Day I've and three revolve around a power, overgrown by creeping gramophone
the Got the Bluse, and Basin Street murderous wife, and a woman verbiage and patches of white.chard Grayson. million-terally.
I do not know where you are living
• Alma Cogan, the ut the moment, with that quaint catch in Beniamino, but this fellow's carnings permit him the luxury valce that is akin to of a five-bedroomed house out has a gay rendering side Huil. He is almost apolo- getic when he says: "It's in a road-but it's set well back."
records by
Your rival first came into show business in 1953. There is more to his story than the usual fable
in show of success business.
Large cut
Whitfeld became a big busi- ness proposition the night a Mayfair publicist found sliging (for £10 a week) in London club.
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The publicist recalls: "The good looks were there. And the voice, too. All the boy was short of was someone to groom him and present him."
For an agreed large cut of the large income he knew Whilfeid was capable of carning under his guidance, the publicity man took in the task of glamourising the singer. In one day' Whitfeld found he had acquired an elocu- tion teacher to knock the edgo off his Hull accent, a dentist to straighten and polish his teeth, two drape sults, a Mayfair hair trim and a manicure.
"By the time this fellow was satisfied with me the bill had come to a couple of hundred pounds," Whitfield recally,
An introduction 10 a record company executive was thrown In gratis. Within, weeks Whit- feld was on wax singing I Belleve. Within months he was topping Musle Hall bulls at £350 a week-which is a lot of mani- cures.
Mr Whitfeld's latest 13 Dessert, 10
record Beniamino, is called Without
FRIDAY'S CROSSWOHN-Across: 3 Singular, D Atuned, B Resented, Lacerate, 12 Meal, 12 Ceded, 18 Dupes,
19 Ugly. 22 Dissolve.
Partide, 23 Qrator, 28 Somerset. Dawn: 1 Rally, 2 Force. 3 Serried, Idea, 5 Glee, 8 Litter, 7 Riddle, 10 Sleep. 14 Darle,
Rumpus, 17 alarum, 20 Flule, 21 Merry, 22 Dior, za Sioc.
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VIGNETTES OF LIFE
Blues.
Funny (HMV 78).. calypso-style Funny.
on a
By Hammond. Privato yo hired to
artist
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• A QUESTION OF CHARAC comes involved in much more question. has a steel blacough, summer darkened by suleide, due TER, By Jean Hougron. Hutchinarlig
to the Innocent crucity of the
of a con, 128. od, Sleepless Frendeton's body been disposed of thinks he have furnace full of molten Technically superb, schoolmaster Funny, teenager,
now and then, too slick for their Suspects muscular pupil and rounds; brisk handling of -(London Express Sereleci. own good.
shoots him In telf-defensects and Ex, Action proceeds from the pollE MAN OUT OF THE THE WIDOW. by Francis cell. High-tension writing an King, Longmans, 108,--Excellent psychological detection. novel about an ordinary woman, miss this one. made remarkable by her basic
splendidly atmospheric, and only spotted the killer of local elize Good and grimy factoryW
CLASSICAL
By DAVID BLACK KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD i
LAB. By Philly MacDonálů. Done
Tonkina, 10%, sa, Six stories-- foton, thrillers, and plain
highly
hand. Mostly
and has bran ro- / snobbish son and blue-stocking Koestler manner,
with a fed up by 'n
tired for four years,
but tuckily for her admirers her output of "farewell performances" and records shows no signs of ending. Her latest record is a re-
goodness and will to endure. AN EASY VICTIM. Chief character: Christine Com- Luelen Faragó, Cape, 12s. well, struggling to rear her Political cat-and-mouse in
for magazine require- and best kept for ocen daughter in seedy Earl's Court Communist recalling his
reading. after high life in India. War while being grilled by Fread THE BLACK SPIDERS, BY work complicated by a Fascist police who want to expel fin
Ilodder Creasey.
and netghbour and peach-fed Ameri- from the country. Flashbad giburton. lis. તા. Out-of- can admirer, Final gumpse socs managed unobstrusively, her out-at-elbow but still caring dirty diaisetical washing gits of Department Z (£2,000
ณ For others. In his sixth and a thorough alring. Slightly year and all expenses), 10 arias, Including such faves book, Francis King shows miniscent of other (and bettet flendish foreign agitators,
compassion, control and staying books, but accomplished
Bined with poisonous spiders. power. Recommended with most absorbing.
subtle, and ingenuously respect
cling, Creasey presses.on where Hall-dog
Drummond stopped
cital of Bach and Handel
qurites RE "Bhoop may safely traze," "Jesu Joy of man's desiring" and know that my Rodesmar Hveth." This is a superb diac. (Decca.)
HMV continue to reissue cutstanding records of the past.
The Rachmaninov I plano concerto No. 3 played by no less a per- I former than Rachmaninov himself. What an extraor- dinary planlzt he was. A + lack of balance in the re- cording can eally be for given.
After a London season of A German version of John Gay's Beggar's Opers, the work reappears in a finely sung English version on two dlack (Argo.)
Elgar's centenary in hand. somely commemorated, by à find performance of the Enigma Variations. Hallo Drahostra, conducted by Bir John Barbiro!!!. (Pyè.)
• BEAU CLOWN. By Berthe
Grimaut,
poor
Andra
Deutsch
newspaperman joins the
Ex-
• THE FLIGHT INTO EGY By Jean Bloch-Michel Lonas breath. mans. 138. 6d. A moving, son 108, G-Another child prodigy times maddening, story of VERGE OF GLORY. By from France. The first book by family in fight from a war rederiek Wight, W. H. Allen, 14-year-old Berthe Grimault (she clly. Taking temporary ro
Detailed, and sometimes. has already written second), is in a mountain village, they storied
about novel
the the perky, amoral
adventure of that isolation gnaws at the b
Punter. chlidren who meet up with which united them in dailon" to drugs, giris,
Mcdigliani, with at- and madmen and jeep-load of An important theme is weltmiliar Left Bank eccentrics,
a leaning low very deserters from the U.S. down by Negro
busy in Shaped into narrative allegory, and a rash of itropping kind of form by a literary neighbour, for heart-searching: soliloquasically, a cheap copy of the but. quite unselfconscious, strangely surrealist, and fresh as spring water. Chiolly of curiosity value, but rich in other qualities.
army.
д
way,
name- but
SHADOW OF THE Moportrait of the artist, By M. M. Kaye, Longmans,
Gene
Mammoth historical novel UNTIL THE MORNING. By
Hodder Markey.
& pages) about the Indian Mu
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13s. d. American de Balesteros, betrothed toas post-Civil War story, with Major THERE IS A HAPPY LAND. By Keith Waterhouse, fohael corrupt Commissioner of a Aldan Kensal of Kentucky `rid- blue-grass re with daching back to the Joseph. 128, da. Untentimental jore, but in love foray into the rough world of Captain Alex
lex Handail, a country to raise thoroughbreds, ́find trouble waiting small boy living in a North coveted by wicked Lord Carbu,nly to Country
him: Stock excitements relayed council esiste.
Interludes of in a southern draw!. Told Tedious first-hand by an ugly duckling, slapping and attempled p -ti+++++++†| whose life-within the space of but grandly staged mutiny th
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