RECORDS
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1958.
by PETER BUCHAN
Here is a sound that
makes you tingle
HAVE just heard the most exciting sound ever to come from a gramophone
I record
It is a new device called stereophonic sound, which produces from an apparent ordinary long-playing dine a three-dimensional effect.
Footfalls, recorded as a man has produced rare LP one of conducting the suite, but walks across a room, sel you where every nole is worth play Jorking for the man.
your eyes closed It Is With possible to "place" accurately the position of any instrument In a symphony orchestru,
How it's done
This, I belleve, in the greatest development iner electrical recording, greater in its even- tral consequences than even the Introduction of the long-playing records which began the record boom of the last five years,
How Is stereopliante sound produced?
calities
1.9
0
ins for.
the interests of economy all the excerpts that matter could easily have been put, on a 10in, long- player.
The Sleeping Beauty (RC.A. RB 10003, 12ln. 33 r.p.h.j. Excerpt fruin Tchalkovsky's train, faintly heard ap- ballet suite played by Pletre prosching from the left, roars Monteux and the London Sym- up to you and vanishes away to phanly Orchestra, Monteus the right with unbelievable makes a picusut, appealing Jos clarity.
• RAMSDEN GREIG'S RECORD COLUMN
Miss Carson strikes oil
through two THE 'SWEET GEORGIA BROWN' GIRL MADE A FORTUNE IN A NIGHT CLUB
# fow
right ear would heur.
feet
The result is that most of the sound uppeurs to come Irom 11:0 Kap between The two
prekera.
Ten are ready
! ป back room ut o Bat Suggested
her
in North London-the home or week's wages into an oil syn. Joho Musely, the engineer ticate.
A holiday job
pop songs are
quite
HOW UNFAIR TO THE SAINTLY SIR STAFFORD
IN
the
BOOK PAGE
The Baron Clouds The Crete Disaster
DAEDALUS RETURNED. . By Baron von der Heydte.
Hutchinson, 161.
HE battle of 'Crele has the rare distinction of being THE
assessed as a military calamity by both the victora and the vanquished.
British and New Zealand rescate silver in the sunlight." forces lost almost 18,000 killed, one can almost hear him saying, wounded and captured. The "and, on your right, Just have a defeat gravely threatened our look at Uint Cretan youth trying whole position in the Middle to press his entrails back into a East. Churchill's grandiloquent sicrnach that has been ripped prose hardly rose to the occasion the-when he called it in his memoirs
open by a shell-splinter." "a disaster."
said his brother going back to his steak and Burgundy
LIFE'S A GAMBLE. By Colonel Fred Cripps. Odhoms. 25s. 208 pages.
IN the Zurich restaurant, a cigar and coffee had followed the steak and
Burgundy. The diner, a tall Englishman, hnd just left the bedside of Sir Stafford Cripps. "I reflected how unjust it seemed that such a really saintly character as my brother, who had done ao much good in the world, should have to suffer long years of austerity and many months of pain before lying, comparatively young, while I, who had all my We sought the fleshpots, had suffered hardly at all, and was even able to enjoy a good meal while he was dying." /
Flights of colourful writing about oleanders in the bivouac orea and the Joyous tremolo of birds are sandwiched in be- tween detailed reeltailor of the tactical adventures of his three companies. What emerges Is that luck was on their elde, for one more Allied attack
The book jacket natures us
The Germany were по happler, "The Fuchrer WAN most displeased with the whole uffair," General Student, com mander-in-chief of the German paratroops, told me when I interrogated him after the wor In thig book, Colonel pased to give the counters back, The charge against Cripps Their casualties were almost would have found them on the as large as those of the British third day without ammunition Cripps writes,
no The Prince was deeply insulted collapsed. with
Colonel Cripps has written, and the experience discouraged to defend themselves. excess of remorse, about and was only half-appeased by
Crippa's apologies,
ofter a full and yuritd fe; a1itler. from other large-scale his adventures in search Later, a Ruselan diplomat, book that hus few literary air-drops planned for Cyprus that the author has been bitter- of the fleshpots. The search Nekhludoff, suggested that he pretensions, but plenty claims and Molta.
should return the counters is on the attention of readers who
ly attacked for his outspoken Baron von der Heydte was anti-Hitler sentiments. was not an onerous one.
Ourousoft, whom he saw 120- like goed anecdotes und glimpses | the battalion commander who
They arc curlously muled quently. This led to a worse of a remote and colourful age. | eventually captured Canea, the
here. A slight nod of dis- Crete capital, after it had been approval, explosion: Ourousoff and Nekh-
perhaps, bull. delf would meet with platots
abandoned by the British, His
glorious ¿welling of pride when, on the Polo Cround that some
book is chicly atmospheric; a
writes: after the baille, he morning. Only pfter
of low-level fighting General Student ext: THE WORLD UNVEILED. | blend
prosped me was this ordinary exertions,
mythology, descriptive writing, The Asphalt Playground. personal philcoophising; a kind John Wiles. Gallanes, 15%. The of Teutonle One hysterical outbresk
good.
of Asphalt Playground is in a poor fellowship; we all kitstd each
Wisdom.
area of London, a nursery for other."
Teddy boys dominated by bore-
ugliness When
This is A straight forward account of an era when ease, luxury and the pleasures of life could be enjoyed with small effort by a few. It is written by one averted: "There was a kind of of the few.
It was an age of mighty
Cripps
Prince
of
reallard," mildly, that, much as I liked suys Cripps the Russians, they and 1 hold
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By Poul Herrmann. Hamish Hamilton. 42s. 507 pages. THIS
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FICTION SHELF
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and senseless A bleak, pessimistic
It is odd; ico, discover that Baro, von der Heydte is now a professor of international law nt 'German university. 1 certainly trust his legal theories have changed from those he held when 1, as an Intelligence offeer, was trying to guess what he was up 10 on the Western Front,
Uluttered of all its techni-
explanation the cumple, Two microphones record the sounds acting, ikke peir of human ears. The sounds ave played buck loudspeakers, set apart. Tite toudspeaker on the left hears what the left end would hear.
It adds absolutely nothing to The loudspenker
HIS enormous work is the out the right hears what the E publicity woman had said: "She is the most
Tichiarating woman know." So, when Mindy gamblers. One nigh Charles married, he went to
story of exploration from the strategie picture we already dum, Yousoupoff
Paris for the time of Columbus down to know, and probably clouds it up
Fa bit.
book, Carson flew into London last week, I went to bei
is honeymoon. At a nearby Livingstone, with special alten- exhilarated. Miss Carson, who is a hent, petite blonde, Hawtrey the attor-manager, table in u restaurant, arrived a tion to the German contribution.
Guide book
by the hand and held it for a hard at work totting up brather-officer who had been in A work of popular knowledge The author has an almost long time. I thank you,' was said: "Let me tell you about my oil well,"
all he said: bai the grasp of his figures. "When I was a love with the bride, Yousoupelf by a thorough and expert hand. travelogue approach to
hand
and those three short afronted. It transpires that witen Miss dollars a week to sing at the little boy," he explained, was
He and his George Malcolm Thomson battle. "On your left, bruther-officer went back to St,
words were quite suffelent for "I asked the butler to put a Petersburg, where they met with
have the Carson was singing in a Texa club."
-(London Express Service).
Acropolis gleaming me." night club last ycar Someone On such slender foundations
me on a pistels on the Polo Ground. are disc stars built, Miss Carson half-crown for that she pul
In her best exhilarating mond horge. It did not win. Ever Yousoupoft was killed, went on: "Don't you think that since. I have been trying to many of the words of present get that half-crown back.
really trivial? I once flatly refused the It has cost me £37,307 15s. chance of recording a song the But I am still optimistic."" publishers sold would be ü smash hit because I didn't like The 18th Earl of Derby, a
After the Revolution he tried the words. Patti Page did it in-great racing man, told Cripps
from his Balthazar, Lawrenes Durrell The author writes about death, to rescue something stead. I was a thing called How | Why he never betled. As A Much Is That Doggle in the young officer, gambling wildly, business in Russia. It was un-Faber, 16. Second tier of a in particular, with the power of und inter-grand tour-decker novel about now Hemingway. A notable Window."
he had get into montylenders rewarding work, clutches. In despair, he raised a cupled by his appearance at the life, love and death in Alexan- first novel from America. Having since learned to few thousau pounds, put them Old Bailey on a charge of dria, in which the people and
Roses. Andre ¦ renunciation Of all. personal fraudulent
September conversion. Lord events at the first her friends. That's the real m. press her opinion of song lyrics on horse and put à revolves, Rosebery and Lord Benverbrook (Justine) are scrutinisef rough Maurale. Bodley [fead." 126. Ed. I wishes. Whoever swears on the
Prussian flag has no right to. wore his builors witen, during different eyes. Mr Durrell's grasp M. Maurois describes with sub- "Then one year I went u holiday to Miami. One evening
this action, he found it neces of chorpeler, his subtle feeling duct, Indulgent franý, a love personal possessions From the E celebrated, moment he enliste in the went with some friends to a
sary to go to Russia. "I getty for atmosphere and is precise, affair between
French novelist paratroops and comes to my esteem," saya
"The diamond-sharp prose are as im middle-aged Cripps. right club. All the girls among
and a predatory young Peruvian egiment, every and us wanted to xing with the band.
soldier enter NO REPAYMENT
generous gesture of Lord Beaver-pressive as ever.
actress, during a lecture tour of the new order of humanity.... You know how girls get in iight
brook. Our friendship સ
South America-and its after There is only one law hence- The biggest surprise of stereo-clubs." I said I knew how girly
St. In Trist
Petersburg. endured through the years and • An End Το Dying. Sam math in Paris when the Mas-forth for him-the law of our phnie records is the speed with gat in night clubs.
Miss Carson's latest- The Seal where Crips went to open a there are few more enjoyable Astrachan, Barrie. 15. Chronlele ter's possessive wife gets to hear -whion Aly have been frohired, "Well," said Mis Carson,
fortunes of a Jewish about it. "after I had sung my little song mental Touch (Philips 70). Like merchant banking houre, he experiences than to be invited, of the
wus lusing heavily at poker one as I am an occasion, to dine family over three generations, The company which has pro-the manager of the club told me: Miss Carson it is an exhilaralight. Pince Ourousoft offered with Max and stay overnight starting
The delicate writing has an in pre-revolutionary duced then is Dye, a compara-You've got a very gond vulee, ing little number,
blin £100 worth of counters, su' that conversation car con- Russia and ending in present grecably old-fashioned flavour. (London Express Service. The luck turning, Cripps pro- tinue."
-Londas Exprons Service),
primarily responsible for de- veloping them-I listened to the Bt of Be 10 stereophonic records Brat will go on sale at the end of the month.
"And now," said Miss Carson, "I've made enough money
the best give my two children Lasry Actor played his mouth- possible education." I asked Miss organ as if he were in the room. Curson to exhilarate
Marion Ryan sung a song
"Actually in nure. She said: from My Fair Lady with must the girl next door-the effect that almost put ber erreturial type who sings.
Jn
for the listener's lap,
My Hall, Orchestra under Sir .1km Unibirot crowded $12, Baking the roon seem as if it *****33 Manchester's Fire Trude Hall, where the recording was
nade.
rently.
BIS sorne
To records and young lady. We'll pay you 123 $34%, de Wester 1hought to be nowhere in the stervejawnie field. Pyn's recorda
onnte this month and probably est around 27s. O
the more than the price of
zm ordinary 100, tong-pkiyer.
Biggest snag
The cher major companies, H.M.V., Degen, und Philips didi not expect stereo records to appese with thes produced their awn in July or August;
One of the lilegest snavs to thei introduction of sterea dise: hasi been the equipment to play thew on.
Stereo bonic sound has been available o tape for nearly three yours. But the equipment needed to play it cost around £300. I was 20 massive Thut only the largest room would take it.
Now stereophonie sound will be avaliable from equipment priced at around 245, compar- pble to the price of a good, ordinary record-player. It w speakers will give their effect slanding on each side of the Areplace of any ordinary room
Aul, most important of all. ordinary records can be played through The
equio- some ment-without the stereophonic effect, of course,
But let me worn you.
After
hearing stereophonie rezords the difference is shattering.
New records
is
At last, lust - the long- ployer of My Fair Lady ready (Philips, kиL 1000, 12in. 33.p.m.). Rex Harrison, Julle Andrews, and Stanley Holloway sing the numbers that made the show the biggest hit Broadway has had Int years. Strictly speaking Harrison doesn't sing he talke in time. The result-- as with the whole record- inagnifcent,
The biggest hlt from Mi Fair Lady will be a song called The Street Where You Live. The best version I have heard is by Gary Miller (Nixa,! 45 r.p.m.).
The Melody Lingers On... T.V. CLP 1103 12A, r.p.m.), by Frank Cordell and his Orchestra. Of all the sounds I have ever heard on a "pop" record Cordell's version of 12 "standard" is the most dazzling, the most imaginative and the most technically perfect. Cordelt As the conductor behind much "pop stars as Alma Cogen and Malcolm Vaughan, With file soloists-particularly trom- bonist Lad Busby, who plays You Go To My Head-Cordell
in front of publishers Miss Cur- sen has gone on to make a great desi of money recording songs lice Memories Are Made of This, Two, he True to You Can'i Sugarer
Sweet Georgia Brown,
Dute for release, this month is
in his pocket. The horse won: made another bet, he paid off his debts, and never
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHEN A LADY'S BANK ACCOUNT
IS OVERDRAWA, SHE EXPLAINS
IT WITH THIS SIMPLE
STATEMENT ÷
"I NEEDED
THE MONEY!
ALL EXCUSES. SHOULD BE REHEARSEP AND THE
COUGH MAPE CONVINCING — IF THAT'S YOUR STORY FOR STAYING AWAY
FROM THE OFFICE.
"DON'T TELL ME THAT OLD. 'GRANDMOTHER' ROUTINE
STILL WORKS!“
PLAY BALLI
divergent views on the every. day amenities of life and death." | I
+++++By Laurence
Marks+++++
day New York:
Excuses and Explanations
EVERYBODY'S WEARING 'EM !”
COFA, 1167 BY GENERAL FEATURES CSAK IN WORLD HUNTS ALSLAYED,
IT'S HARD TO
GET AN {EXPLANATION
OUT OF
| SOME KIDS—
THEY DON'T
WEED A LAWYER.
volume
For in 1944 the Baron had this to say to the men who had Just been sent to his regiment: "I demand of every soldier the
unit." It is not a speech which Js recorded in the Baton's book
on Crete:
-MILTON SHULMAN
London Express Servtor).
By Harry Weinert
THAT'S AN EXPLANATION—
BUT ITS NO EXCUSE.
A WRITTEN AFFIDAVIT FROM THE SICK FRIEND YOU SAID YOU SAT UP WITH MIGHT HELP - BUT WE
POUBT IT.
5-18
"HUH? WHO
MET WHERE T
WHAT 7:
HIM ---
HOW?
HUH?"
KEEP OF
GRASS
*IT'S ME STUMMICK!"
SAYS THE CHARACTER
WHO COULD
DIGEST AAFES,
THE
THERE'S NO USE TRYING
SOME CHILDISH EXPLANATION
ON THE TRaffic com→ HE'S HEARD.
ALL.