cription of landscape or charseter No that the novel lives and scintillates from end to end.
The Mildly Eccentric Miss
Lindop Rings Up
£15,000
More important than shy of this, however, Mr Locke makes of Tot Lobma thoroughly
Marat's sponge and Robespierre's likable, good-hearted boy co boots.
that anyone would be delighted "Frankly." I said "Audrey, to stay in his company for 103 deal, I like my watch to belong pages. to me when I have one, and not to Oliver Cromwell.”
had
Enormous success has already crowned the book in America where it is known on "The Hell- Eent Kid”.......
[UST how eccentric can a best-selling author be? P'oct "It's funny you should say
Claud de Nerval led a pet lobster around on a ribbon that" cald Audrey, ....asthmatic novelist Proust lived in a cork-lined room, Oliver Cromwell's watch for a Now I *wonder why the wheezing away and writing his masterpiece. The greater bit. But I didn't like him, se 1 English publisher changed ? the sales the greater the eccentricity.
Daphne du Maurier can afford love to meet her father too some to be shy....J. B. Priestley can day. He says the world
and Willehall bog rats.)
sent back."
But to all you noveliste setting Quick flips.
*** JOHNNIE RAY. "Strollin' afford to be blunt, and Audrey divided into damn" nice elimps wouldn't really advise you to
Then I met the fountain pers, which, in their massive menog- any cigar cabinet are the most noticeable thing among the brir a-brac IR Barkston Gardens, Earls Court.
workbox. hovering
*Aurdey
half the
gif" (Phillips)..Ray could reach || Erskine Lindop, who has written the top of the record charts at least three best sellers: "The again with thin. Stroll la A Tall Headunca," **To Singer, current dance craxe in the лot the Song." and #on
FOOL Staten. This kong hua a reinxed | THANK A
(Collins, but call bent. Ray has a relax- 136, 64.) can afford to keep 197
ship. Beneath the gimmicky title and misses having the same spark of es but solid sense of showman-fountain pens.
In a wonderfully Imaelation about it.
And for that matter to collect cover picture
SCASION of light-
*** BARRY JOHNS, "Are You anything she fancies from Marie Another item is a entertaining
Ninoere?" (H.M.V.). Piedsant Antoinette's watch (cost her haunted 153 little hearted Jazz, recorded while the pianist Andre
unaffected ballad with better- £15) to Nelson's hat (£40) hand called Fanny. young French
In New York
then-usual words. New crooner to drink .champagne at 11 apologised that only Peeslany was November 1956. He teamed with
Barry Johns does an easy-sound- o'clock in the morning to be collection of pens (100) were kix-man group, including star
ing, experi vocal,
haunted, see visions and write there. trombanist
Dickenson.
books with titles that she admits MITCHELL SFER MALCOLM And
mean absolutely nothing at all. "Dance, ***** VIC DAMONE, "On The and his Trio,
(Foninna) LP. ON Street Where You Live (Phil- Dance"
The bi, beautiful love brat in being a record for dano. from
"My Fair Lady." ing done by a vocal group. ON- Lling melody, lovely tyrle. beat, too, in Ils witty selection Damont does it with Aken- of songs, Impeccalife beat, smooth style.
warm sense of fun.
Vie 20th Ces
CLUE NO. TWO: tury-Fox have decided to enter the Geld.
CLUE NO. THREE: M.-M., who blazed the trail some years ago. have reorganised their re- cording concern atti appolated a new president.
trumpeter Taft Jordan, bassist Arvell Shaw as leader to produce 10 exhilarating numbers in the broadest of mainstream styles, Jazz brows
ps). that should amuse all sung
him
HERB GELLER: "Herb Geller have two Plays" (Enurey EJL1208; 12in. Result: they now
**** WİN
wife, records in the Top Twenty-for LP the first time in their history. Lorraine, a fleet-fingered plan- "Whole 1st, the 30-year-old Los Angeles Mervin
"Who's allo-saxist Herb Geller swings Latte Woman." Sorry now?" revived by Connie through a dozen varled numbers Francis.
Rainwater's
and
It has been estimated that
recording Frank Sinatra's
of
by
Three Colna In The Fountain" boosted box-ofler takings Ground £1,000,000. The record-
a Many at "Love Is Splendoured Thing" was largely responsible for the great success of the film.
ink
Rank's, in fact, might have had a ins-seiler on their hands had they been in time to cash-in on their new comedy, "Rooney." The 1le song is very popular. It might have been a smash hli John Gregson with pussibly a recording.
DINAH'S BACK-BUT WHAT BECAME OF BILL? WELCOME back, Dinals Shore,
E
Л
First release here after long gap is her "Thirteen Men." Aiways nice to greet one of the old brigade. That is not being ungallant. We all know that in this business you can be veteran before you come of age. Dinely's You may have poor TV series on the B.B.C. She is such a polished singer, and just ar friendly the home ACTECN
as she is in person.
But her delivery over the years has, shall we say, lacked the shock value that sends the kids hotfoot to buy
ilke
"Thirteen Men" looks being her lucky number. The song is not new-just reshaped. Original title was "Thfricen Women," and it was ismed here on the other side of Bill Haley's "Rock Around The Clock."
Which reminds me: whatever becamo of Bill Haley?
ELVIS THE NAVY'S NEW SECRET WEAPON Teus just is not Elvis Presley's year. First, girl fans were refused locks of his hair when he was shot by the regimental barber recently.
Then Bob Hope made cracks at the Academy Award presenta- tion, "While we're here frolick- ing, Elvis is defending us.”
By JOHN LAMBERT
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of
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2
in fluent and original siyle, He can maintain a Evely Row ideas in fant-tempo numbers and decorate a ballad with the best. "Dawn East" JON EARDLEY: (Esquire 32-040; 12in. LP), *** A lovely, virile session of East Coast Jazz. featuring the fast- rising 20-year-old Jon Eardley on trumpet, with alto-saxist Phil Woods and lenor-saxist Zoot Sims sharing the honours. Turre of the six numbers were com- posed by Eardley, whose group out a specialty cartly, smreka virtuoso performance in a blues he calls "Koo-Koo."
SERGE CHALOFF: "The Fable of Mabel" (Vogue LAE.12052: 12/n. LF), *** Barilone-saxlsi dical last Berge Chalon, who August, aged 33, was an Ameri- five can pull-winning sololst years running. You can hear lis vigorous, forceful blowing at its best on the first side of this 1954 dise, with Boots Mursul a fluent partner on alto-sax. The rest. including the title-number, just
THE FIRST ELEVEN
"MAGIC MOMENTS.** Perry
Como
(B.C.A)
**WHOLE LOTTA WOMAN." Marvin Hal water (M.G.M.) (2).
3 "SWINGIN' SHEPHERD BLUES," Ted Heath (Decen) (4).
Cric-
4 "MAYBE BADY." kels (Coral) (5).
"NAIROBI." ** Steels (Decca) (3).
TEQUILA. Champs (London) · (0). "A WONDERFUL, TIME UP THERE," Pat Boona (London) (-).
The
8 "LA DEE DAIL." Jackie Dennis (Decca) (4).
aut in search of fame, lolly and the sweet anell of success-1
collect pens, ghosts and utterly meaningtes tiles.
Audrey Erskine Lindop suc. ceeds in spite of her eccentrici ties, not because of them. The thing she has cannot be bought, falted, or acquired. The girl had talent, that's all.
Hunted
along the shelves
BRINO 'EM BACK PETRI- FIED. Lilian Brown (Robert Hale, 188.) Brightly written travel book about Guatemala, where Dr Barnubi Browns and his wife last went hunting forell bance of prehistorie monsters, Crocodiles, native canoes, And
well <iscomfort
Mrs Brown's mild and sophisticated horror of the bones on which
Funnily enough thero is her husband's repulation de- another 1t:le
masterpiece pends make this the sort of out this week, THE ROAD TO book for the armchair warrior The other 97 are on Das SOCORRO Dance,
(Hutchinson,
sooner (like 12s. who'd
mo) read moor," she mid, along with ed.) by Charice O. Locke,
about such things than do them
and
9 "WHO'S SORRY NOW?"
Connie Francis C.-M.) (10).
(M.-
10 TT'S TOO SOON TO KNOW." Put Hoone (London) (—).
11 "DON'T." Elvis Presley
(R.C.A.) (7).
And the Twelfth Man.....
THIS WEEK'S Twelfth Man, who 'hos
jumped rapidly from 22nd place last week, 18 JERRY LEE LEWIS, singing "Breathless" London. Last week's Twelfth Man, Perry Como, fils to make the First Eleven. His "Catch a Falling
on
Star" is now No. 14.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE REFRIGERATOR SHOULD BE CLEANED
¡OUT ONCE IN A WHILE - THAT'S HOW HASH
IS CONCOCTED - ANYTHING GOES.
They think...
Thank A
Fool," I cald "I've read it and I love it and wild horses wouldn't drug a review of it from me before publication day, but is all about a man who hires a woman to look after his wife who's as utly as fruitenke, so why is it called "I Thank A Fool'?”"
"I don't know," said Audrey, "Come to think
"The of Shiger, not The Song' doesn't mean much either. But M-G-M, who paid £9,000 for 'T Thank A that Aundle Ingrid Fool' no Bergman could be the
dreary companion.. and paid another £3,000 so Dudley (my husband) and I could go to Hollywood and work on it, M-G-M think it's lovely title.
"But the people who seria Used it thought I was so meaningless It must be a quotation and they hunted through all the diction Aries of quotations and then rang,me up. It isn't a quota
on. I just made it up.
Nelson's hat. Dudley says he
10
University. graduate of Journalist
蠱
Yale Very good of its kind. The
Iant by Mrs Brown was colled "I Married a Dinosaur," which
As allergic to it. Most people think I'm raving to have many pens, but I need a soft
He spent years and years doesn't seem la me very polite, one for dialogue and a little thin brooding about in-year-old Tot but there. scratchy one for description,
Lohman who engages in a duel
entira THE "I Elke the Victorian pens to the death with an best, though it takes ages to family called Boyd. fill them with their little STUK droppers, 1lling in one of those lists for 1,000 words more than for one of these snazzy modern folia,i
For dialogue
The Boyds hunt him relent lessly across the ghastly water- less deserts of Texas and New Mexico because they imagine he
killed one of their kinfolk In
FIRST DETECTIVE. Gelton Cobbs (Faber and Faber, Good, colld, well- 108.). documented account of the early days of the CID. in the days when there were no less than 118,000 persons in London who cold blood. Actually he killed supported themselven by pur- Shorty Boyd in, self-defence it either "criminal, illegal, or Immoral," Some lively, some with a ixyonel, by mistake.)
blood-curdling stories, all with atmosphere Tot is a dead shot with a ride that odd Dickensy Audrey has early examples of every known prototype of tous and he is also a dab hand of that hangs cround the nine- Mr Locke tells teenth-century and makes it so in pen, including a massive keeping alive,
pink Parker salmon
(made his story in the first person, as hard to believe in it. 1920) that allegedly belonged to Mark Twain told the story of the late Jack Buchanatı,
Sawyer" and "Huckle- THE LIVING FOREST? II. L berry Finn and the narrative Edlin (Thames and Hudson, She generously gave this to has all the strange fascination 233.). me and since you ask I and B of those two is a pen for dialogue.
⚫ books.
Audrey's generosity is also a culpable eccentricity. She once gave Beau Brummell's walking- stick to im star Leo Gent
"It was sweet. It had B.B. on 11 (for Bryan Brummell) and was in a little case."
Tom
rk
Wonderful collection of great adventure facts about trees, from oak ond
of ash and thorn to the kind
Scintillating
wood they make musical in- struments out of.
(Did you
know that gulters, violins are whlic made from sycamore,
The reader shares in Tot banjos and mandolins are made
beech. experiences. from
harps come in "I offered to write a poem to
Lohman's awful
bagpipes can be Inch by inch he worms his way spruce, while go round il if they liked, but they were quite cross with me."
RCTOSE the desert, living on made from holly, apple, pear. All in all the apparently As Audrey is at present writ- nothing at all, afraid to make hornbeam, chestnut, yew, box- meaningless "I Thank A Fool," ing a novel described by her as friends because of the trouble yond, blackthorn, and cherry? has so far earned £15,000 to "A sort of 'Lucky Jim' set in the h will bring down on them. To be honest, the wonder to me tall, frail, fey soldier's daughter French Revolution" the way is occasionally throwing in a is that bagpipes are ever made +off+} | Audrey Erskine Lindop.
Danton's umbrella, Taconic, economic, brilliant des- at all
(or (I'd clear
For June Brides
DO YOU KNOW HOW TO USE THESE THINGS ?“
By Harry Weinert
I WANT AM EYE ROAST FOR A MAN FIVE FEET ELEVEN AND ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SEVENTY POUNDS ~~
Even the US. Navy turned on hian. Divers are using "Hound
·Presley's recording of
has
Dog to scare the fish away.
COPE IN BY DRSAL PRATZERS
CORP. WORLO RIGHTS RESERkran,
THE FAN WHO
WED THE BAND LEADER
TET me introduce you
Keely Smith, the girl with the smuky voice. Here is a sing- er who got in by the back floor. She started as president of the Then Louis Prima fan club.
aho joined his bund as vocalist 12 months and married him later. They have two chlidren.
obviously This girl Keely knows how to make the most of her chances. She in Alms- You can see her with Robert Mitcham in "Thunder Road"-- and you can, hear her necom- panded by Nelson Riddle's orchestra on a new LP. "I Wish You Love."
Now she has achieved what must be the goal of all ambi- love girl vocalists. She, has recorded with Prank Sinates. Their duels will be teleaped nort month. Titles: "How Are Ya Fixed For Love?" and "Nothing In Common."
DINING BY CANDLELIGHT HAS IT'S POINTS ESPECIALLY IF THE DINNER ISN'T RECOGNIZABLE ANYWAY.}
100 00
no
Louis Prima himself is alovich. Six of his records have gold a million and he must be one of the few musicians born In New Orleans, home of jazz, who has made a plle.
JAZZ DISCS
·· JARE CONCERT: "Skin Tight
(Columbia $1070 18in. LP), MARE
and Cymbal Wine
IN BOILING- RICE IT IS NOT NECESSARY
TO FILL THE SAUCEPAN WITH
RICE
BE SMARY-
IF YOU DON'T KNOW
ASK.