Winston's last book
-IT IS his last,
his agent says
By TOM STACEY
THAT may well remain the last published words from the pen of Sir Winston
W
W
THE CHÍNA MAIL,
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1958.
Cyril Stapleton
THE ONLY DISC-WORLD WRITER TALKING WITH THE AUTHORITY FROM THE "INSIDE"
Coming up: The
3-D Round
Sound
}
fe
His recording of “Whole Lotta documentary. He deserves It. ■ it production outlay, was
our Hit Parade
fast that own lifolimo. There talic of that they will have fo Russia on an' 83,000. to make the ventu
50
E are on the brink of a revolution. Stereophonic gramophone records are on their way-sound-in-the-round is coming. The "Here is set out a long story of the English-Speaking
scientists have been at work for years, perfecting the process. Peoples. Another phase looms before us, in which alliance Rival recording companies have been anxiously awaiting "the off", will once more be tested and in which its formidable unwilling to go ahead with their plans while teething problems are still virtues may be to preserve, Pence and Freedom. The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope, tŷ be overcome yet seared lest some enterprising concern jumps the an exponent of the Country and Armstrong records change hands pictures of a sun-tanned Nor should we now seek to define precisely the exact terms gun. of ultimate unfon."
$1
These are the closing words aquiline nose, and dark, piercing of Churchill's fourth and final eyes, he slouched. In book of his History of the weather-stained English-Speaking Peoples.. This professor-warrior, yet greatly
uniform
coup
woman" rocketed to the top of He has become a legend in his higher. R.C.A. Victor American disc jockeys woke up sending him to and began playing it. Some amelally sponsored visit, Cer reasonably profitable pr ,, of them had not even heard of tuinly, he would be greeted just tion.
de rapturously there as any- Music is fine, as you' Marvin Karlton Rainwater whore else. Smuggled coples of And there are a
Western style-second cousin, to behind the Iron Curtain at shapely, MITZI GAYNOR rock 'n' roll and skime,, Hla ride'astronomical prices.
sings as Nelile. Forbush). to
Britain famoj. lu
has
are almost worth framing. Stereophonic sound in it- But the problem that felling trees in the backwoods taken six weeks. Apparently Secret of Armstrong's social
to become a singer, and, before- faced the recording industry
the success his bubbling, childlike self is no novelty.
you know what, people are call there was a bumorist in
department which booked Rain- humour and complete lack of We have heard enough of was how to get the process ing you Starvin' Marvin.
water's British tour,
He starts artifice. it in the cinema. Tape re- on discs. This has now been
To cat more regularly you in Manchester. told, be
volume carries the story through beloved by the few who knew cordings and special playing done and records will, I am welcome serving three years in
death of Queen Victoria in 1901. in publishers tell me that they are expecting no more manuscripts from him, and his agent and host in the South of France, Emery Reves, says that this in the last book Churchill intends to write.
strange power of commanding able for a long time. measurelees devotion from the thousands he ruled with an Iron hard."
Or this? "He had the good win the Derby twice luck to during his 16 months of office. Not much other fortune befell him."
So obscure
"
Or
And so Churchill passes on lo us-with that pat on the back that "the past should give us hope"--the responsibility of justifying in our continuing generations the mood in which
this?-"Ho had been he has written the extraordinary brought up In the Navy, and story of our people. The mood had passed life of total is one of vigour, hope, and, obscurity, except for a brief and above allatterly of purpose. ludicrous interval when Canning
Lord him
High Admiral in 1827. Fur nany years he had lived with actress at Bushy Pork."
So vivid
century
the
Now the Important fact cbout this lusty and vivid history, and notably this last book which - deals with the
"one of the most author calls decisive in the history of man- kind," is that Churchill wrote at
I can hear the crilics holler- ing that Churchill does not occupy himself with the political which were and social ideas
belling beneath the cavagely surface, even in English- speaking lands, during that cime of which he is writing
Victoria's lasi Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury,
had made
#
The first la General "Stone- wall" Jackson, the second Lord Rosebery, the third William IV. The undeniable quality of this book is its buoyant read ability, and its sense of the woven significance of events, both in time and, as the title suggests, in space.
But there is a deeper meaning to this last history of Churchilt's which closes upon the present
era.
upon
the
This the acceptance of the destiny of ever-growing world responsibility, which has fallen English speaking people with their phenomenal Cevelopment across the globe, no less in the Empire than in the United States.
FICTION
SHELF
by PHILIP OAKES-
very soon.
Snag: "We shall need special record players, and they will coat 20 per cent more than those which produce the old flat sound.
MOVING UP
your luck again.
Only this time you try
:
to
OH! LOUISI
royal- performance in
JAZZ DIS
HAMPTON HAWES:
At a the thirtles, Louis boiled down by NOEL GOODWI etiquette Into basic American. Nodding hiftably toward the THO Yol. 2 (Vogu royal box he growled: "This temporary LAC 12001; MY vote for
world's hyer next number's
for you, LP.)*** Los Angele greatest music ambasador Rex."
Hampton Hawes, goes to a 67-year-old Negro --- LOUIS ARMSTRONG.
too, and the M
write songs, royallies are so fat that you live like a king.
All that serves to Introduce
with an
the
Satchmo is in the news again yet another guitar-playing gent,
LP on Philips," It Yes, Rainwater really 19 his is from the soundtrack of a name, an he flew in to London Alm documentary of his good Airport the other day.
will tours "Satchmo the Cherokee He is of
Indian Great. The film opens in the two years ago
West End. extraction studied to wrote about a singing blue-extetty and son before he
from of stocking
Newark, New became a lumberjack. Jersey, by the name of CONNIE FRANCIŠ,
by
WAYS OF SUNLIGHT, Samuel Belvon, MacGibbon and Kee. 18-A "good book stories (some of which appeared in the Evening Standard) about West Indians back home and in London. Mostly
gay; ull of them avoured by a fine stylist with the rum and red pepper essence of real Jamaica.
THE BANK ADUIT, by Bruce
Armstrong is the first jazz- man ever to be dignited by a
++++++++*INTRODUCING ++++++++++++
THE FIRST ELEVEN
At New York University she t
the severely applies herself to mysteries of psychology and acts of debating in
the record business she has just entered the higher-Income brackets.
Her release of that oldie, Who's Sorry Now" (Number Five in the States) now fills the tenth spot in Britain. And she may click a fat part in the new to uncover banking PAT, BOONE nim, "Mardi fraud in Paris of the early Gras." irties, Teeming acters, encyclopaedic about tax- dodges, and utterly absorbing,
Marshall, Constable. 188.-Big ambitious novel about a band of underpaid British accountants, digging, like, while males
collored
with chor-
Like PAUL ANKA, she must be wondering whether the best course is to make her fortune Grst and then go back to schooll
FLYING IN
arc
AFTER THE RAIN: By John Bowen. Faber, 16s Witty, satirical fable about a raft-full of survivors, Including a body- builder, a ballet dancer, and an Socialism gels is mention in
accountant -
-who-would-be-God, a page and a holt (out of 320),
all adrift in a flooded world. A WITH a.name like, MARVIN GY! RAINWATER anything can walch is just about the propor-
plece of
of genuine myth-making tion of space it probably occupied in the mind-of Queen In our civilisation It Is the by writer (like H. G. Wells happen. Enter a TV talent. con-
end WIllam Golding) who test in America and you practice to nevere old men so one too sanguine about things hailed as a future star. long as they remain young in
virile in foresight to come, hope, and
perfectly So you give up n But is every historian requir- Therefore we revere Churchill:
respectable occupation such "ed to dwell upon contempor
ideas as auch? Or need he Include them, as Churchill does, only when they crupt Into event, or are plucked from the atmosphere of the times by the great men who gulde events
Churchill 19 equally uncon- cerned with the social life.
So personal
Above all, Churchill is writing in terms of the leading per- sonalities. The equntries them- aelves take on individual per- sonalities, and ore scen to strive and sufer and yearn like single human beings. If you should wish to criticise the writer for that, however, do not forget that it was Churchill's ablity to present. to us Britain SINGLE, recognisable character of endurance,
ince, humour. and belligerence which took to victory in the Second World War. In times of national crisis, when history is being made, this
is how nations cohere.
us in
He takes an infectious delight in describing the men who his stage. This, for example, is ....who?
"Black-bearded, pale-faced. with thin, compressed lips,
AT THE BIRTHDAY PARADE
Regiments of the Line had to clear right away. from the lino.of murch before the rapid paced Rifle Regiments of the Gurkha Brigade · camo tearing down the route.
Here the band of the 2nd K.EVII O. Goorkhas swings post the soluting base at 160 pacos per minute.
Staff Photographer.
-(London Express Service),
45
MOMENTS." Perry Como, R.C.A. (1)
1 "MAGIC
TEQUILA," The Champs.
London. (10)
"WHO'S SORRY NOW." Connie Francis. M.G.M. (22)
2
WHOLE LOTTA 'WOMAN.” Marvin Rain- water, M.G.M. (2)
10
"NAIKOEL" Tommy
Decca. (3) Steele,
11
"GOOD GOLLY, MISS MOLLY" Litio Rich- ard. London. (14)
4 "LA DEE DAH." Jackló Dennis. Decca, (7)
5
MAYBE BABY.” Crickets, Coral. (5)
6 "SWINGIN" SHEPHERD BLUES:!! Ted Heath. Decca.. (10)
"DON'T," Elvis Presley. R.C.AZ (4)
8 "THE STORY
OF MY LIFE,” Nicmel Holiday." Columbia. (6).
And The Twelfth
Man
YES,
.iLO
Perry, Como,
The Utle of his up-and- coming num- bér: "Catch Falling Star." Sca It he modes the
next week with this, too!
ANNE'S THE GIRL
HOW
Already a superb Jazzmaz
the finest plankt of
emerge for many years. styls has a modern flavou
roots deep in the blues
War Omee could do worst than appoint ANNE SHEL. Hon, and his technique TON honorary recruiting ser boundless whatver kind of geant. She could persuade a ber he plays, Listening whole army to follow the drum. nine latest tracks on the with excellent rhytlím = Remember how she clicked from baasist Red Mitchel with the mock-martial "Lay drummer Chuck Thompso Down Your Arms"? That was Rye-star ball.
a Swedish melody. Now Anne is a Danish staking her feme on
EARL HINES: ditly with British lyrics The Night Stand" (Philips BBL
Girl I Left Behind."
"Paris
12in. LP) MKER A
dogo record I know what you are think- round favourites ing. The greatest marching by the 52-year-old "Fath
Parla one night ing: No-
song of all time, "It's a Long P
with ba
1
Way to Tipperary," was British Jaks plano," through and through. would drums support. Don't
freworks, say the younger generation of keyboard
session of smooth, relaxe our song-writers have lost the
always swinging JAZZ, knack.
with impeccable stylo easy-going spirit guarant match an armchair mood
EYE-CATCHERS
a
"PIANISTS ``GALO
LAE.12007; (Vogue
THE LPs have been a gift to
the record dealers. They LPs something. make such eye-catching window anfbody's taste, and moss displays. About the most lush fight then all in this example I have ever
amoriment featuring R.C.A. Victor's "South Pacific," pianists of renown. Amot from the film soundtrack.
Бесп
is
are John Lewis, Bus FY
It is an all-colour photo album Pete Jolly and Hampton
all contributing solon with a gaily-embossed cover Individual styles, back which contains a written com-
mentary from Rodgers and different rhythm scotles "wide variety bi tuke Hammerstein II themselves.
1 costs a couple of shillings pleasant listening all thr more than a normal 12-inch LP, TOP RATING: FIVE 8