THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1956.
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PRINCESS MARGARET
BRUSSLES-RETURN
Princess Margaret is seen at London Airport as she set off to the Brusstes Fair recently in an English The Princess went to attend the Brussles tailored suit. Trade Fair where products from all over the world met the scrutiny of buyers from all over Europe. But the best sales talk that Britain, could have was not in her elaborate exhibit. It was in the arrival of a Royal Princess wearing British wool-Central Press Photo.
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A Weekly China Mail Feature
Noel Barber Goes For A Walk AROUND THE WORLD IN THREE MINUTES
The First Gentleman Jazz...
DUKE ELLINGTON
By RICHARD BERRY
No bandleader in modern times has enjoyed such steadfast popularity as Edward Kennedy Ellington, better known as "Duke".
By HAIG NICHOLSON
London.
Scott
well-
un-
Exactly two weeks after kissing his wife good-bye in Paris, Noel Barber, a British journalist assigned to cover the British
He describes Dr Fuchs as
explorer in the Trans-Antarctic expedition, found him- "a
aloof, tradition, self at the South Pole.
manured, completely Interested In the passage Of Everything was "topsy-turvy" in one corner
Lime." at snow melter. and he did the time-honoured "All these huts were linked Or Sir Edmund Hillary, Mr tricks which the American Pole by tunnels covered with six Barber writes: "I believe he had dwellers pointed out to him feet of snow for insulation, the his dream of reaching the Pole { num "I walked round the world in corridors being used for food for more than a year. In 1933 he conquered Britain and won recognition as a musical three minutes", he writes, "by and fuel storage -- enough food convinced that right from the circling the all drans (placed for five years, though fuel for time he agreed to be assistant fo genius. Now, after a 25-year absence, he is touring Britain by the Americans to mark the three,
Fuchs, he hoped he would reuch "Altogether the station had the Pole first." again and the critics and fans still hail him as the First Cen-le) and then crossing every
zone on earth,
1.300 feet of tunnelling,
Mr Barber would like to go tleman of Jazz.
"I twiddled the lingers of my going down deep into the snow back to the Pole. watch haphazardly knowing for relentine work in winter, "I went there to record the others broadening out for the adventures of two great men erules of food and stacks of with no knowledge of what lay Epare scientifle machines."
In spite of the fact that he in store for me," he writes. " left three months later with an "ate like horse" he lost indefinable feeling of excitement "For the same resson, I was weight. The usual ration for to which is added secret hope, able to set uff in diametrically U.S. Nayyinan is about 3,200 that I hardly dare to admit even oppusite directions safe in the colories a day, but at the Pole to myself, that one day I may knowledge that on euch oc-
the men averaged about 5,200,
be able to relum."-Reuter. casion I was walking due north. "This was all nonsense and
Duke Ellington has been fenement In 1800. His mother whom Ellington taught to play that wherever they rested
would be the right time since salled Le world's greatest nude him read the Bible every the drums. bundlender--a description which day--a habit he has never lost.
every lime zone converges on the Pole. he accepts as a statement of fael. Stravinsky has described hiru as one of the
modern composera,
Kreates! Eligiun
In 32 years D a bandleader, Ellington has written nearly was only 15. when 2,080 tunes numbers like he wrote his Arst composition. "Solitude, "Mood Indigo, Yel be had no academicul and as a young man he was "Caravan,” “Sophisticated Lady' musica training,
for inspired by sering such plonists and "I'm Beginning to See the exeep! piano lessons as a child. In his as "Fats" Waller and Willie Light." schooldays his friends and "The Lion" Smith. In 1920, the family expected him le become first Duke Ellington band a commercial artist,
rocked the Jazz world.
Ellegant Ellington
some
South Pole Santa Mr Barber spent last Christ- mks at the Poin. There was an American Santa Claus in 3 with
fun." 3fe has also shown * great flair for writing revues, and for โต his
White book "The The Brst performnatice
Stoughton of his Desert" (Hodder & With six years he was pulte "Harlem" ho conducted | Led,, London—18/-), Mr Bar- making 500,000 a year. On his Toscanial's N.B.C. Symphony ber fells how he new 10 Duke Ellington-he earned the 1933 European tour his ardent Orchestra.
McMurdo Sound in Antaretien falry lights and the men were knee-deep in chucoines and tag at school by his eleganer fans included the Prince of
and went on by air to the Pole, was born in a Washington DC. Wales, now Duke of
where he was held up by bed fruit cakes many of them from
anonymous donors.
DUKE ELLINGTON
Windsor.
Prolific Mass
Although
weather.
a1
He found nie American he is one of the Navymen and ninc scientists must prolife of jazz composers, | Ulving the bottom of the Kington has no special method "most exciting und bering for inckling his work, "Mood assignment open to man." Indigo." was composed in less thou an hour; "Sophisticated Lady" took several months.
living room decorated
£50 A PINT BLOOD 'TO RENEW YOUTH'
There was a "fabulous" in- ner of caviar, roast turkey, a whole baked ham, corn munt, enndled sweet potatoes, nepára- gus, all sorts of sauces anu ending with the traditional He ducked under a tunnel of plum pudding, mincemeat tart
REY - BEARDED Chinese entered
There wa the snow and
main and pumpkin ple, living room of the camp.
champagne with the meal and millionaires are paying as The much as £50 for a pint of kuman Duke Ellington Is a massive
"The main hut had tubular huvana cigars afterwards.
only thing that went wrong blood in the belief that a fow eman with large pouches beneath lighting and aluminium wolls,"
was an hour's delay in staging chats enu give them a brief his eyes, He eats aking-size ho writes. Along one side were
the cinema show while the film dawn in the evening of life. steak every day and describes ve tabler placed end to ond was thawed out, his "recreations" sleeping with chairs or forms for eating
as and watching television. Now or writing. That-with a long- in his 60th year, he still makes long and strenuous lours and keeps turning oul new works at #prodigious rote.
His Gimmick
too, haw,
The blood comer from the thousands of unemployed who are prepared to barter it for a few shillings.
Barber tells, Mr playing gramophone at the end while at McMurdo Sound, be took up half of the rectangu flew to Cape Evans by hell- lar room.
copter and had "the strangest
Chinese "medicine men" · buy "Alongside for a quarter of meal of
iny lite." it was
and sell blood at an enormous the room was the galley with meal cooked and tinned at least
pront in their styglan-daric its hot stove and coffee pots. 50 years ago and come from the clinics in the heart of China The most conspleuous thing enormous cache of food left by Town. there was a forge block of snow
Scoll for use in emergency. from which the cook cut off a time every
he needed
Since the death of his parents.slice
and the separation from his water for the coffee-pot. wife in 1929, he has had no "Two modern electric toasters in one kept company with this primi-
reason to settle down pluce.
remarkable One of the most facts about Ellington's 15-piece
that changes orchestra la extremely rare; some strumentalists
are
tive water supply.
Magic Dateline
"The
other quarter of the in but was the recreation secfin.
He had cooked mutton Ironically, British influence is heated on modern cooking Indirectly to blame for this tablet followed by some ex-blood-for-sale.business. cellent stilton
and still crisp Chinese custom condemned biscuits. There was chocolate blood transfusions as sorcery-o let "devlis' dow" atlil good, and matches which sure way to stil Ht. The store had not in the asstem. been buried, but left in a small hollow half-way up
a hillside slition has crumbled before the onslaught of the steady Brlish surrounded by snow,
campaign for Chinese donors to The book describes the the island's
Government-run
But since the war this super-
have remained The gramophone was playing British expedition's 2,200-mile blood transfusion service.
with it for more than 20 years. Mendelssohn. Books This is partly explained by the magazines lined the walle ei fact that Ellington writes, not on a small bench was the for sections, but for individual Pest Oflee whicti cancelled
American samps
its with members of the band.
magical daletine so sought after by philatelists."
other huts Mr Barber says radiated from the main one.
a small radio crossing where Shackleton had "There was
But he has his own way of explaining the loyalty of his band. have a gimmick," he says. "I pay them a lot! of money."
Cashed in
and crossing of Antarctica led by Sir Vivian Fuchs, and the UB- expected dash to the Polo by Sir Edmund Hillary, conquerèr
The fallen angeis of the of Everest.
Chinese medical profession Mr Barber says that for long quickly cashed in by selling .Dr Fuchs hod dreamed of blood to toltering
moking the Trans-Antarctie
wealth, anxious to follow the printed exhortation: -
fuiled. His wife has told how honeymoon 23 years
shack, sleeping quarters, scleare rooms, a combined bathroom, en his The Duke can afford to pay tollet, and wash-house with Bs ago he took maps and books washing machine about the South Pole and oven plug," lic then mapped out tho very route ho was eventually to
his men well. Composer, placist, inevitable arranger. bandleader and song-and electric writer, he has made more than writes,
razor
a million dollars with his musie There was a garage for two follow.
weasels and two tractors and --and carned every cent.
Her Parents Were So Proud Of Her She Couldn't Let Them Know
spent five days in prison. gallery to hug her.
the appeal Allowing
the With tears streaming down Recorder, Mr Geoffrey Veale, their faces they walked arm in
THE bricklayer and his wife were proud of money he had taken. She had from his seat in the public
their pretty daughter at Leeds University. They expected great things from her. The girl knew that, and when, owing to a technicality over matriculation she had to leave the university, she feared it would hurt them deeply.
So every morning she left her the Leeds slipendiary magistrate home Brolihwälle Avenue. In September.
Betere the magistrate she had Keighley, near Leds, as off
back to prison.
Said Della: "After this night- mare I am now back in the sun-
q.C., sald ho did not think it arm out of the court and set off was necessary to send the girl for Della's home.
The web of deception was woven by Miss Foy herself.
"I don't think the position in which she found herself due to any conscious act of dis- honesty in the first place," said
to the university as usual. But, pleaded guilty
one charge of the Recorder. Instead, sho went to the re- theft, one ed attempted theft, ferenco library to study on her and the of obtaining money by means of a forged Post Office She toolt
examination withdrawal form. failed, and told her
Cause some coastal dis. Į own.. appearance, maybe (5).
but
14 It's diminishert, we're told,
חם
by an increase in haste (5) parents she had failed to get her degree. Later they
10 Number voice (8).
17 Trophy I had for Eros (3).
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Counterfeit in a smithy (5),
20 Fall from grace (5),
21 Sort things out (0)
22 Stage king who might be
real (4).
23 A bit run down! (4). 24 Welsh nome (4).
BATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Spirit, 4 Simon, 7 Off drive, O Nalls, Rococo, 11 Richard, 13 Evening, 15 Nectar, 18 Patti, 19 Scrape up, 20 Dresa, 31 Dorean. Down: 1 Spoor, 2 Radio (activity), 3 Tricorn, 4 Scenle, 5 Militant, 0 Nursed, 10 Cecoture, ja Ignored, 13 Es-pled, 14 Irises, 18 Caper, 17 Alpen.
Sho asked for 10
WEB
shine. I will never deceive any- one again."
If only....."
Robin sold: "I love Della. I she had been sent to prison I would have waited for her."
And her 52-year-old mother, 'Locked courage'
grey-haired Mrs Kathleen Fay "I think she lacked the moral who cried all through
the 90 courage to tell the truth to her minutes hearing, said: "If only parents, and step by slep one Dells had told us of her decep- 'Her own web' thing led to another until finally lion we would have understood. "We love her and have for- other she had surrounded herself with she had taken a job offences of theft and obtaining such a mass of deception that given her what she has done." thought
contributed £10 money by forged withdrawal she did not know whore to Were there now plans for a and she month to the bousehold forms to be considered.
turn.
wedding? "I think it is right to say "We shall have to save Her counsel, Mr Alan Gos, expenses.
But that too was part of the told the Recorder that after that she had built up a hell for first," said Mr Rowe. cruel make-believe world she being arrested she told no one, herself and I think that must Della has been offered a job the office of a had created round herself. The and nobody know alie was have been already a very con- as a clerk in money was given to her by her appearing in court.
siderable punishment for hoc." factory.
of Keighley, The Mayor He varied the sentence to flance, then an undergraduate. "She has for three years lived
Alderman Joha Binns, who st This story was told at Lects in a hell of her own making" conditional dischargo.
As Quarter Sessions when Della said Mr Goss,
soon as the Rocorter the time of the orginal hearing Her flance, лож a school announced hle verdict Delia's describor the sentence Foy appealed against a sen-
22-year-aidĮ. school- "savage," said: "I am of nine months" im master, was going to marry her flance,
the result," prisonment Imposed on her by and she was acpaying the lenchor Robla Nowo, ubod pleased to hear
tence
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"Get yourself a second deforc you take that extra wife."
A blood-transfusion oMcial said: "Wa
the are asking Government to stop in and pul an end to this trafic,
Pictured at his London hotel fast week is author W. Somerot Maugham, who was visiting England from his. home at Cáp Farrat, France. Mr Maugham, who will be 85 m January, és dun to publish what he sYR will be his last book. His first was published in 1897.. ---Central Pram Photo.