THE CHINA MATE, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1958.
AUTUMN
NEW YORK
I was dining in London with Sinatra... then listening to his.
NEW YORK
'Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?"
Duke wrote the song that, all IT is close on 25 years since Vernon
unconsciously, became one of the great musical tributes paid to any city. But places change in 25 years. So do people. So do opinions. Now Mr Duke declines the invitation.
He has deserted the sounding surge of traffle on Fifth Avenue for the
his home i swelling
I telephoned him at ut Pacific palisades. Why? California to find out.
"Well, at the time I wrote it Bustddn (who, for some reason,
trumpet I was quite ennard with the sny be playing: the
will
New It down une
"Autuna ir may eyJust jutted
York? afternoon for my own 42 18:40
Almost everything takes ment," said, "Then the temps on a new louk--like lust spring's of life in New York began 16 metalle ideas suddenly become grate on me, Intul whet they this winter's unpublished songs, "People came back from the started to tear down all my own.
with enormous energy haunts-The Murray Hill Hotel, summer the Empire Theatre, the Ititz-- and drive, and to them the city to make way for new intildings, vibarutes with
1 Just look of."
"Do
you mean to
Ambition.
Even
that
the rain cunnot dumper soy, Mr spirit, jual enakes It all the more
Duke," I asked incredulously, fresh."
"that
no longer you
in lines like 'Glittering
believe crowds
*
La
*Autumn in New York! It spell the thrill of nighting.
Brut-
sc1
clouds shimmering canyons of stel ***
There was cynical snort
Two of last week's frst nights "Fu! 1 from the West Coast.
A Involve Charlen Boyer and angeographical composer. city leaves far more imprint on Irwin Shaw.
why
Mr Boyer, playing a professor thun, say, resort. That is
unthropology opposite wrole Apri la Paris. ↓
smells Claudette Colbert in "The Mar- always taken in by And sights and atmosphere, thuge-Go-Round," st!! hus
Maybe,
York's
wwe...."
though, some uf New magie still holds
Fresher
Does R7 This is a city you either hate or udore or you do both simultaneously,
Drink with Errol Flynn at the Warwick, and you will hear tum say: "Autumn in New York? I hate it, The pressure seems to be on you all the Groc I con stund
Laur it for
twu werks and after that I've had it. "I often wonder how all these millions of people live here. think they should sell it back to the Indians for a few bottles of Kum!"
Irwin Show: 'Reputationi are made and lost,'
record 'Come Fly
With Me'... then Wham! ...and I am here
This week the Versailles put divorcees out the Gags for Stella Brooks, rendezvous, a crew-cut wait of fortyish who sings with
terrific no voice, humour and a great feeling for the blues.
season," he explained carefully. "When there are plenty of hits
She takes over the stand after playing It's like being in a dif- The
moods and
a Nordic-type blonde has given ferent diy.
the streets colour of
and a half-hour recital of Bach, change everything Scarlatti, and Gershwin oz a restaurants
huge, gl harp. becomes much more exciting."
(Let
Пора UN
the climate becomes more equable beestise, 50 far this season, the new pro- ductions have been dying ronthway as fast as grouse the Glorious Twelfth
Crucial
un
Author Irwin Shaw, normally
the
It's corny
Her voler is husky and not strong. "I sang this one for Jimmy Denn and he thought me wicked, but I think it's sweet," she says, by way of introduction,
Then,
body jerking like a
a resident of Paris, has done the puppet to the beat, she sings: Englis↑ adaptation of French comedy "Polate" which "Your eyes are lighted windows a party going on starring and there's has just opened here
in-side.... Your mouth's Tom Ewell.
roller-coaster and I wanna take a ride...."
when
are made, It's n
"Autumn's Says he everything starts to happen. the Lots of reputations
and some are finished. crucial troment: exclling, when you feel that all the must talented people In the country have come here to try their wings, but also exhausting.
D
Her repertoire stretches dawn, but she slips over to our table for a quick drink between numbers.
"Is it good to be back this autumn ¡Ir New York, Miss Brooks?"
"After a couple of months I have to move away. It seems black
She pulls the skirt of her
sock high above thin
to get worse every year--I've knees and pats her fringe ner- got so I can't sleep any more." vously." "I hate it. It is ridicu
(Or not, at least, until after lous. People here ure so the first edition newspaper sophisticated they're córny." reviews of his play have been
assed from table to table st
Sardis around
the opening).
Downtown
inidnight after
in Greenwich Villago there are openings of a moth head-walter charm that different sort. Musicians and plays straight into the custo-
angera, back from summer mers' laps-and ut the moment Yet drou tolo the Hound New York is the customer, Table for a nightcap leed with "Each autumn the climate is
the come cool jazz, and planist Joe determined by theatrical
WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?
*
Jaded roues and divorcees who lunch Ritz....
gay
at the
But as Mr Duke wistfully tours and enforced "rests," pointed out, the old Kutz is no return to their favourite joints, more. Certainly there is a new and the villagers crowd in to place with the name Ritz- give them a welcome home. Carlton, but the roues Ind
have
found
new
By Patricia Lewis
and
shic people competing with musle publisher, as he weaves kosher salt beef, salami, each other. You know, since 1 his Mercedes through the sauerkraut....the violent bril- was a small boy, I always had narrow side streets in search of tance of Broadway against the the dream not to die betere a familiar landmark. seeing the tali kulidings.
011. a
backdrop of the darkened gor- ment district. "We had no bath and a com-
whole Luchows 41' came
toilet for the here 30 years ago munal
Sunday ton how says "Glow," building. But look from Virginia,"
It's herrings marinaded in crea ....the Georgian Fraunces the coloured maid in my apari- changing You know, if I come
Tovern off Wall Street where The Twenty-one, for instance, ment. "People don't fall in love down here for a month or so I
Washington addressed his troops where you can lunch in night with New York, they fell in love can't recognise the place. club gloom in a room so crowd with the opportunities it pre-
....Del Monicos with the chairs ed by celebrities with smoked rents. At first eight It's like see old immigrant people
"Funny though, come of the stacked on the tables.... Aght to Harlem where it is wiser not to voices its ing glasses and high
Park like sitting in a cinema when ever publicised you're dis-tay in the tunements. I guess go after dark...Central
it's because the ghetto's the only with its early morning bird- 3-D stereophonic sound first appointed. Then you learn home they've known in the new watchers traming binoculars on
about it .... about the educa world." tional and economic opportuni- the ties
came out.
play that has
been
Or the Pavilion, where
It presents.... about its food 19 rich and the prices lack of prejudice....and then, richer. Last week the Pavillon's darling. It grows on you." proprietor, Henri Saule, opened
✩ ✩
with
rare migrators resting on way south
the
the ice-skaters
in front of the Rockefeller Centre....P. J. Clarke's P, O. with ita empty on Third Avenue exutle checked cloths, roast beet, and
imported British Bass....
another
'Dreamers new spot, the Cote Basque, But Sam Schulman. n taxi- hands may sigh for which enters for the less-loaded driver from across the river, lands.....
those who have yet to make thinks differently,
myps their second million.
born and raised here to my But where is there
he misfortune,"
told
me eity with such exole contrasts "Living conditions aren't good any more. Rents are high and The tea shop on Fifth Avenue the price of food keeps going where they bribe your custom and is Puerto Rican problem up and up like there's to it.
Formidable
I caught M. Soule between helping Henričtia Tlarks into n red coat and Greer Garson kto a blue mink.
me over coffee, He sat with fingering the Legion d'Honneur
Errol Flynn: 'You can sell
"I'm lucky, though. get away from this mess place in the suburbs. few rose bushes and a luwa....average person down to see me thinks big deal.
..
to end
with a free tea-cup reading.
I
I
to my
The caviar-terin Avenue.... the Chelsea-touch streets of Brooklyn Heights with
on
Madison
Gotta
bit of
comes
I'm a
But I'm o nobody. Wuy over my licad In debt-just trying to show off, that's all."
* ✩
'Autumn in New York transforms the slums into Mayfair....
Deluncey Street
Drive along
today and you have to search
for
down
Charles
Boyer: "The climate hangs on hits."
The Bowery with its cleaned- up near respectability since the overhead rolbany was torn dow
West Side with Ja docks, its riverside ....the
driveway,
It's good...
The minks and the poodles and the orchids....and the man roasting chestnuts outside the Plaza Hotel....the entire disdain for the past, the pushing on the present and the tense, hysterical concern with the future that makes this town so restless.
Jt Is the living-est clly I know.
"It's good to live it again,”
Footnote:
Vernon
Duko
It is called
New York to the Indians."
tenements, names liko Pineapple, Cranbery, the old-time ribbon in his lapel and beam- Whole blocks are being pulled and Orange Street....the card- has written a sequel to "Autumn
Yoric. Lower in New housing board cut-out of the and huge new ing as the paid-up bills whirled schemes rushed through on the Manhattan
skyline.... the "Farewell to New York," and in out through the swing door?. old foundations.
signs of red and gold in Mott it he makes his personal protest "Autumn in New York?" he
Street, centre of Chinatown.... against the frenzled demolition sald with a Gullic mising of "I was born here under the the galazarlas and the under- of old buildings hore. But eyebrows. "Ah, formidable) Il's shadow of the Willamsburg takers down Mulberry Street off nobody as yet wonderful to see all the smart, Bridge," saya Peto Kameron, Little Italy ...Katz's for publish it.
Four Years To Paint A Smile
HA
ITANGING in the Louvre, in Paris, is the most famous picture in the world. It is the simple portrait of a Neapolitan woman, La Gioconda, better known as Mona Lisa. The extraordinary quality of the famous picture lies in the elusive, inscrutable smile behind which an ordinary woman had hidden her thoughts.
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And exprcasions of the Apostles.
Biggest of all Biblical oll
Is paintings
the "Crucix- Jun" by Polish artist Jan Stya. It is 195ft. long and 45ft. high and portraya more than
To capture the expression 1,000 life-size figures. Christ is the great Leonardo da Vinci scen praying before being nalled laboured for more than four to the Cross.
Parrhasius then brought his own work to show his rival.
world's
said
most re-
ROUND
OWLS LIKE NAVY
"Remove the curtain, so that TWO short-eared owls which made a forced landing on the aircraft carrier, Eagle, want can see all the picture,”
to remain in the Navy according to a signal Zeuxis Bat Parrhasius
only received by the Admiralty which reported that smiled. The curtain was part the birds, nick-named Tom and Jerry, refused of his painting!
to fly off at a "launching ceremony" when the corrier reached Istanbul. They have been de- John Banvard, an amateur artist and traveller, produced Ignated "unserviceable and taken below for re- one of the
pair." One reason put forward for their markable pletures. It was called cluctance to leave is that they have become years. When the portrait Unveiled in Warsaw, the huge "Panorama of the Mississippi," o fond of the steak-und-vegetable diet which was completed, it arrested canvas was shown in Moscow in and was 12ft, high and 16,000t, they have been enjoying aboard ship.
miles, in length the attention of everyone 1898 and taken to America two nearly three
for the St Louis Queen Victoria saw it in 1848 PALS LINK UP who saw it and was good years later value for the 4,000 gold Exhibition. Afterwards it was and watched it for a hour and mounted on the curved wall of a a half as it was unfolded on crowns which King Francis big buliding In Glendale, rollers,
of France paid da Vinci. California.
FTER 13 years Mr Laurance Cudby, chief A librarian at Upper Norwood, has heard from a friend he has not seen since they were in the But probably the biggest
Army together. Mr Harry Forrester wrote canvas of all was a 300,000ft. from Yugoslavia after hearing a bridenst re- ed by Mr Danson.
It was amnesty
to all borrowers who returned long exhibited at the Surrey Zoolo-overdue books. "It was a complete surprise to beautiful gical Gardens in 1844. At night hour from Harry," said Mr Cudby. There were Last portraits of the Madunnu and it was illuminated to represent only about 10 of us attached to the Norwegian
Very few of the other Spider's web picture of "Old London," paint-port that Mr Cudby was allowing a no-fine
works of the Italian genius now remain. His wonderful
"The painting of Supper" on the wall of the refectory of St Maria della Grazla at Milan has almost
One of the most
Chlid was painted on fabric the Great Fire. woven from a spider's web and
Intelligence Service, and Harry and I were real pals." Forrester is now attached to the Cam-
preserved between glass, All Rights Reserved dian Embassy in Belgrade.
how hangs in the Lady Chapel
disappeared. It was painted of Chester Cathedral.
The
in oils on the stucco surface secret of the making of this
of the wall and in a short unique work has been lost, time the material crumbled,
Dawn to dusk
Probably the inost tiring-to- paint-mural was executed by Michael Angelo on the oft. high celling of tho Slunc Chapel in the Vatican. Scaffold- Jng was built on which the artist.
lay on his bock painting a small arca cach day.
Unhappily for posterity, the artist refused to work in fresce, the more permanent technique of mural painting, It took four and a half yebra In water colours on wet and to cover the 10,000 square feet caustic grounds of lime, with 340 human figures, in the central vault of the celling aro Commissioned by the Duke nine large pictures, telling the of Milan, the picture took da story of the Creation, the Fall of Vinci years to complete. Man and the Deluge. This Sometimes the artist would great work, was accomplished almost unaided by Michael toll away from dawn to dusk Angela, as the resistants he without eating. On other called to Rome did not full his occasions ho would stand requirements, and were Bent motionless for hours just away in disgust. looking at his work.
The energetic Dominican Prior was puzzled, thinking da Vinci was wasting time.
Lifelike
paintings
But the artist explained So reallatie was the work of
that when he was most idle
of the Greek artista Zeuxle, and
110 Wan really mont Parrhnalus, who lived about 400 laborious. Fortunately, B.C., that they became friendly many chalk studies for the rivals in the art of lifelike re- picture have been preserved, presentation. Zouxnis produced as well as coploun noton pecked at hungrily,
a palating of grapes which birds thinking describing various attitudes they were real.
JAK AT THE MOTOR
KAS
UP
has seen A to
THE "DOG WATCH"
CHEEPDOGS Don and Jock take it in turns to
keep an eight-hour watch at Lee Mooz, Dartmoor, to stop 1,200 sheep straying across a cattle grid. Their food is taken to them. They havo a kennel for shelter. Their owner, Mr Kenneth Skelley, of Bude Farm, Crownhill Down, hopes more efficient cattle grids will ba Installed by the winter so the dogs can be brought in.
SIX-FOOT NEST
SIX-FOOT pile of sticks left by jackdaws was found by builders in the beltry, of a Suffolk parish church. Now St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan authorities are making church wardens to inspect bolfries Os a fire precaution. A spokesman said: "The birds uso fantastic quantities of sticks building their Desta."
CRUISER CLUB
THE Converted Cruiser Club, founded 24 years ago, hopes to have its first permanent headquarters soon. After years of searching, the club has found a plot of land on Eet Pió
Thames Island in the
Twickenham, for which it is negotiating. The club intends building a brick clubroom where meetings, lec- fures and social functiona can be held. Tha club's Örst base was a barge on the Thames.
SHOW.
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