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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 1958.
Eric Delaney
66
says:
I'M QUITTING
FOR AMERICA
BY JOSEPHINE DOUGLAS
AMERICA for me. Ant al te to
får live bands,
Yes, the battle for the hand of Lady" is well and truly on. So 'nire are Philips, the original American cast that
I'm taking a one-way all the time. No opportunity "My Fair lekel. I shan't be coming "On the whole, I think Erie who publish the LP featuring lauk." Erle Delaney, Bri-
would be better of making his of noise with spectacular own special kclud
British numbers and exporting them on dises."
Ta' most. drummer and show band leader talking,
the record will be a top seller, they've increased the price from the usual 37 6d, to 400. Od.
TOO MUCH
My Rucss is that that extra 125. may be just 12s. more than the public is prepared to pay hit, especially with even for a such stiff competition at much lower cast.
Eric, one of the hardest- working musicians 1 know, Heard at A TV pro- is riding the crest of the ducers' meeting. Yet an popularity wave at the mo- uther univeraity KYR ment, so I was amazed to duate had joined the de- hear him say: "I'm emigrat- partment. Said
one pro. ing. I'm convinced there's ducer
with on all-show. more opportunity over there, business background to Someone who could beat them "None of the boys is going another: "I don't know all, though, s Major James with me. I'm going to collect about programmes, but we Collins.
A new name in the Major Collins first-class record business,
has just launched a new type of disc. Mude in new type of flexible, lightweight plastic, it looks like a pleee six by Elx inch paper to me. Very strong though, and can be played more often than the conventional dise, An album of 10 costs only
a band over there. There are
Brat-class musicians more
to
could
raiso A
choose from, and there I can rowing eight!" really make the top."
For me, tympani tonning Delatoy has already made the top, but he's a perfectionist and is never eatisled with his work, Is he right to, qult British show business for America?
I asked big-band leader Ted Heath, who has toured a lot in the States. wish Erte luck
I think he'll monke a bit tes a
BATTLE IS ON
sings
DAVID Where you Live" a
105, and can be carried in an
4
WHITFIELD
w Decca record envelope. Certainly solves
And record storage problem.
pressings by the Sidme Group. Is
first rate.
for release on May 2, and proves the quality, what I heard of himself to be
one of the Anest singers
wo have. Far Dod on the first away the best thing he's done, 1 Eden Street think.
It's one of the numbers from
Fair Lady," "My have pulled everything out of the bag to make this disc. Stars include Vera Lynn, the Bever. ley Sisters, Jack Worner, und Blane Todd. The Rex Harrison
If Major Collins decided to and Decca record "My Fair Lady,"
could do 10 numbers for 108,
drummer wherever, he goes, but I think he's wrong about Jack of Opportunity In Britain. There's plenty of scope, I've had 21 LPs released in the States, and
now Lee Hartstone, vice American president of Londini Hecords t Devca subsidiarys has come to Britain to tell me that they want
British artists on record over there, pant
"And in particular they want Specialist Pete Murray. British material, British music. Pete tells me Vera Lynn was They don't want always Ameri- quite surprised when he shouted stuft sent back to them, at her as Higgins. I don't think over she thought her good-humoures The
musiclan average there Is of a lower standard disc jockey Irlend could act than ours, and sound radio uses like that.
- can
more
is
ROLEX
DOWN BELOW
the points, under
GB PLATES
THE AUTOBAHN
Gloom.....the bedroom was cold THE Road to Vienna begins at
Southend, that is if you intend; na I did, to motor across Europe. This is not perhaps the ideal time of the year for such a caper, but I have always yearned to join that imperturbable band of British motorists who set off 40 bravely for Monte Carlo when the snowflakes start to fall and somehow contrive to represent the old Country.
It is true that Vienna is not Monte Carlo and I represented no one but myself. But at least I carried a G.B. plate and skid chains.
To
harden myself for the journey I decided to spend the flest night at Westcliff, which is next to Southend. The hotel recommended to me was even more rugged than I expected, I arrived very late-late that is by British hotel time at just after 11 in the evening.
Bed'n breakfast
Wa a bitterly cold night, was shown into my and I bleak bedroom by the only number of the staff on duty, the night porter. Them was a ghs re, but because to light it
per.ce in the slot no o had done so.
WONDERFUL, UNTÌL THE SNOW CAME
Herror... had booked a day early
Danger...the road was icy
Martin
Ah!... the coffee was delicious
A kitchen concert
started
my drive to Vienna
by
ROBERT MORLEY
KANALIMANJ
for
nut
cullent they would have been if structed ramps. No wonder they
Wo
I had started 24 hours earlier. As It was everything had to
Finally be improvised. took off for Rotterdam instead of Ostend Qust as good really, and a bit nearer).
I should explain that I was going to Vienna because I had been invited to make a film there.
I had never been asked to do pologised
having so before, and it occurred to me willed up for me the night be, that advancing years, and the fore.
present state of the industry, made it unlikely that the invi- tution would be repeated.
If he'd known It was I who had booked the room he would have done so, he explained.
So I signed the contract as quickly as possible and thought
don't have half the accidents wo do, The whole system is practically foolproof
One day on the autobahn was more than enough for me,
We arrived in Cologne rather earlier than we had been the night before in Westelit, but wa stayed up in the hotel a good deal later. And when we went to bed, around one in the morn 11 113
ing, the manager was still there to welcome the guests and hot food was still being served ta them,
But when the snow began to fall I soon changed my mind.
their Enormous lorries and irtilers added and skated and came to a sudden stop engaged in a mammoth spot wallz competition
Behind them, long lines of cars queued up to pass, alter- pately rounding their horns and flashing their Tights,
On the autobahn there is ne turning back, no place to park. There is nothing to do but keep going for as long as possible, pray for a alde turning, and some narrow road which may twist and turn,
but on which For about three hours it you can take your time when W68...',
conditions are treacherous,
played by Six-Five "**** The points, under the would have men putting six- would have liked to have told it might be fun to take the car.
points," not over them, as i st-Flve Special, as what
A warm bedroom in this sori P.B.C.'s do-it-yourself, danger- 10-ubject m when I met him in Manchester has to be paid for in cash.
was staging of hotel is not only a luxury;
one Sunday.
him a good deal about his hotel at that moment, particularly about the radio which woke me El seven, and the concert from he kitchen which started soon afterwards.
uld stay up Acel one.
Motoring across Holland after a delicious luncheon at the air port I hit the autobahn which ns to Cologne and then on
The autobahn may suit some people, it will never do for me,
Are
Even when conditions I would have liked to have
good the monotony of the asked him why he thought he through Munich to Salzburg. A
Why don't we have roads-like-Journey makes falling asleep at
the wheel tätally easy. Besides,.. Uls in Britain? I kept asking myself.
How disgraceful that such a road starves the coun- the British Government
try through which it passes, 60 that once prosperous kets down to the problem.
BOB DANVERS WALKER, Downstairs #n the dining- who has risked his neck time room supper was waiting. and again on BBC outside plate of overdone rust beer,
"Now," was
brand, of stale 1.reparing To do it again, by meagre natlon of butter, and a being run over by an express piece of jam tart. train.
broadenst
show
roars
He will be down in a shallow pil between the lines while the express
averhead. Viewers will get a view of what he sees as the train comes al him.
"Aren't you scared?" I asked him.
"Much too busy thinking obcul my lines," he said.
NVIL
few slices
0
All around were tables already laid for breakfast: the inserted tea cup, the hideous plates, the sugar and the butter waiting to attract the passing fly.
The next morning when was paying the Gill the pro- prietor mtroduced himself, und
guest and not bother to do so for another, but I was in hurry to get to the airport and, like most Britons, I seldom com- plain when I'm leaving the
always country. I'm
over- excited.
Foolproof
nover
towns
which used to rely on passing trade dwindle and become ghoot villages.
Never closed
You may argue that Cologne
is a great city and Westclu a small seaside, town, and that it isn't fur to compare them; but is there any big city outside London where you can get a meal after midnight ot And a hotel which (like the one in the Cologne) has no lock on front door because it is never closed?
It isn't the Wages and Catering Act which-wrecks British hotels so much sa inertia.
They have for so long failed to meet the demand of the public for better service in more sttroc- tivo surroundings that now the demand no longer exists.
To eat a meal in a British Rallways restaurant is süll pretty It is true that you can drive much of an ordeal and yet eny- enormous distances in a day, but one who has been to Switzerland if it's speed you're after it's n or Germany knows that often thá good deal quicker by plane and station restaurant is the best in much more amusing. In fact, the town. that was how I finished my;
It was possibly due to over- excitement that I had booked MILE after mile of straight, the car Wight for the day be- A kate road without a turn- fore. I had, for quee, insisted ing or a crossing and with the on making all the arrango- other traffe altering on to the nients-myself And very ex- highway up ingeniously con- journey.
Revealing – WHAT is WRONG in the BAHAMAS
One act
by this man
can end the terror
stalking prosperity
erupts in
E Bahamas in ugly, un mother British
expected ways.
much the very
at stake. More Americans visit the Bahamas Colony except Jamalea.
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
A squabble that seems insignificant seta off a un animous general strike, and tourist are evacuated in their thousands, A battalion of British troops flies in.
This is the time when the fashionable winter season should be reaching its climax in the Bahamas.
The
time
wealthy.
when articulate Americans gain their inipression of British and take 1 to the folks back
rule
The oldest son of the Speaker home in Washington, Baltimore,
of the House of Assembly, is and Philadelphia. fund guilty of funning down strike pickets in his car. An unrecountable explosion start
a dleastrous fire at a race track. Two -thousand pounds are but offered for information, valves, are silent,
Dynamite
BABANAS
JUL 200 GARIBBEAN SEA
What has gone so wrong in the Bahamas?
House of Assembly. They were The Negroes, who make up accustomed to settling Govern 82 per cent of the 100,000 popu- ment business pt
little, lation, were finally reduced to enbalistic luncheon party be- #mood for desperate action tore each session. last autumn,
Then it was that some pro-
were
have
take over the
isles
Mr Sonda's
Why is it that what is possibio in Zurich 13 unthinkable in Crewe?
We have the best food in the world and some of the best cooke. We also make the best beds, carpets, and fabrics.
So why must we always have the worst hotels: Hotel bedrooms on the Continent have all been refurnished since the war-most of ours. haven't been touched since the Boer War,
Silent
THE next morning the snow was thicker than ever and I decided to go back to Dusseldorf by train and catch u plane to Vienna.
It will, I'm afraid, "tritio some people even more to learn that we have nothing in Britain to touch the New Cologne rail- way station and that the train was streamlined and practically allont,
1
I drank a delicious cup ož Hell quirk in the electoral
the which party registered coffee
stewards lair which could theoretically the plural vote 130 times brought to the compartment and be used to keep them In Seventy of those votes were put on a small table. This folded company votes, aa belonged to Into the arm of the scat when residenta of Nassau who had not in use and seemed to have plots of land on Abaco.
been specially designed for the
job.
power for ever.
This tie plece of ho-hum silpped in 18 a siesta hour amendment one afternoon In 1946.
The vote
I asked one of the men who registered six votes on company tickets how one of his ́ com- panles was getting on, "What's that?" he said. "Nover heard of it."
It is the plural vote. One What does the vote is given to every company plan to do? registered in the Bahamas. | Ari
Despite the overnight blizzard the train was punctual. In fact trains
nearly. rua punctually everywhere in Europe nowadays, even in Italy. Only in Britain, the where wo still remember. opposition dreadful tate of Mussolini, they
don't run to time.
The next election is a few extra by-election voto la given to anyone owning property in a years off. With turk I might enough constituency even if he does not be possible to fully live there,
support to top the plural vole, throw it out, and bring in a a mozo The main object of the plural revised Constitution on vote, the Bay Street Boys ex- modern British pailer.
to establish businesses.
thek the name of the people is pro- pared to wait for this game to be played out.
Their proposals wero In effect, plain, is to encourage foreigners But I do not believa posed changes in the Constitu- Governor's powers. Mr Lennox-
an attempt to A newspaper office and print- ion worked up by Boyd came back with a sharp, is what really happens: at elec
Thele opponents say that this Ing works are bumed to extine- group of lively white Baha- Hon the oldest paper in the minns
edged "No." whose familles
on time the supporters of the The big explosion which the Colony. An Army barracks is lived on the islands for genera-
has told me must majority party form a large Governor A month later the Governor, number of nominal companies come dynamited. A l'quor store Liors.
"sooner or later" shows Sir Raynor Arthur, was given purely for the sake of piling up every indication hurned down. One of the
of coming largest hotels set on fire. Pollec
his golden chance to break the votes,
волдог, It has happened in can Bad no one to arrest.
complacency of the Bay Street
other British Colonies, Boys. When the strike bezan" he could have called in a royal commletion to expose the root of the explosive unrest,
Their enemies call them the Пау Street Boys, and it happens that they have a firm kold on economia and political power at present.
All this in just 11 weeks. All this when these islands, fil watered, unfertito, and on the brink of bankruptcy eight They are led by h certain
have found
All he did was to ask a affable lawyer with a bloodless YOLTE AEO, warce, of income which need handshake, Stafford Sonder, who committee of three inhabitants never diminish the dollar holds a large interest in the to arbitrato on its surface causo. Lourist.
dominant Equor' trado.
For years the Bay Street Boya So now the reputation of Britain's Colonial Empire is had held a safe majority, in the
And, the opponents arguo, the Bahamas are now wide open to There Is an alternative to foreign domination through the the destruction of Bahamian voting power of overseas prosperity from the business
offices in colourful Bay Street.
Thousands
Bahamians
companies.
of
I spent a dusty afternoon awalt it this day. checicing through the voting It is for Mr Lennox-Boyd Today the Bay Stroot Boys register of the latest by-election to bring the return of an siin zulo the rumbling islanda, in the Bahamas, which was on And there will remains & Abaco Island,
enlightened Constitution.
ARTIE
"I don't want"to"knew": hli agent Mer Pla
--ESYCHIATRIST,”