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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1959,
She's twenty, she's at the top
BUT CONNIE FRANCIS,
BEST-SELLING GIRL SINGER, STILL FEELS A HUNGRY YEARNING
by JOHN LAMBERT
CONNIE FRANCIS, the girl who has sold 5,000,000 records in one year, looked at herself in the mirror and said: "The trouble with success is that it makes me want to eat the whole world every day." At 20 Miss Francis has enough to satisfy an Amazon's appetite for success. She is the world's top girl pop singer. She has 300 fan clubs and £1,500. a week to show for it. But she hungers for more.
With a Berceness that sounds surprising from a girl of 5ft. lin, with big, brown eyes, she says: "I'm the sort of person who has got to be the best at anything I do. It may sound concclted, but I just gotta."
Concell, aside. Connie Francis seems the sort of girl who would be a suc- cess at anything.
AT FOUR she could play the accordion.
AT TWELVE che published
her first song.
AT FIFTEEN
won
American typing championship.
AT SEVENTEEN the won fuur-year scholarship to
York University.
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AT NINETEEN, disappointing her professors, she became a big pop star.
"I know that I'm poi really a sur yet," she Buys demurely. Then her brown eyes suddenly glow feverishly and she adde "But I'm equally sure that I'm going to be a big star, and 1 always have felt that,
JACKY'S DIARY
BY
"JACKY MENDELSOHN
AGE 3/2
"SHAKE-DOWN" FOR CONNIE FRANCIS: "E LIVE AND DIE IN THE TOP TWENTY," SHE SAYS.
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"That is why I have kept diary ever since I was 10, be- cause some day I think it should interest a lot of people." Success
That diary is as formidable as Mrs Dale's even listing every- body she meets.
"That way," says the girl with a reputation for making friends und influencing dis Jockeys, "I never forget a name. it counts, I reckon.”
I asked her what the diary had noted on the first year of being a success. She answered; "A much more assured approach my work.en the outside,
to
towards meeting people too. But ao calmness inside my head, where it counts.
"Three months after 'Who's Sorry Now?" caught on I a sorry character myself, I had 10w blood pressure, anaemia, a life that only seemed to spin on wax.
YESTERDAY SAW A COW-BOY PICTURE IT WAS ABOUT HOW THIS COW-Boy
MOVIES
THEN THE BAD GUY COMES & PICKS A FIGHT WITH THE SHERRIF YOU COULD TELL HE WAS BAD BE CAUSE HE HAD ON A MUSTASHED
NOW! PLAYING
CON-BOY PICTURE
CAME TO TAIS TOWN & THEY STUCK! HIM WITH A AND BUT HE DIDNT EVEN CRY SO THEY POINTED HIM SHERRIFO
BUT THE SHERRIF WOULDNT FIGHT CAUSE HE WANTED IT TO BE A LAW BITING COMUNITY
FINELY THEY STOPPED TALKING & THE GOOD GUY THE BAD GUY BEGAN SHOOTING EACH OTHER
SOON A RANCHER IS SHOT.
THE SHERRIF GOES TO SEE HIS BEAUTY FULL DAUGHTER WHO TURNS OUT TO BE A GIRL
SHOT RANCHER
THEN THEY STARTED IN FIGHTING FOR REALO ONLY IT TOOK THE GOOD GUY A LONG TIME TO BEAT HIM UP AS HE HAD TO FIGHT FARE BAR
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AFTER THE SHERRIF LOCKS THE BAD AS YOU CAN TELL IT WASN'T ADD VICE FOR
GUY IN JAIL THE PICTURE HAS A SAD ENDING HE MARRY'S THE RANCHERS, DAUGHTER
A VERY GOOD SHOW SO ONLY STAYED TO SEE MORE TIME
CHILDREN:
OF YOU TELL THE USHER YOU LOSSED SOME THING HEEL SHINE A UGHT UNDER THE SEATS + SOME TIMES YOU CAN FIND SOME GOOD THINGS TO EATE BUT YOU MUSINT EAT CHEWING GUM OFF THE FLOOR SPECIALLY IF ITS BEEN STEPPED ON
YOUR FRIEND JACKY
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"I told Nat King Cole about "I still live and die in the Top one night, ard he told me Twenty. And I envy that was the pay-off to being an like uvernight sensation.
Why Were These Men Forgotten?
|THE LAND GOD GAVE TO CAIN. By Hammond Innes, Collins. 15s. HORNBLOWER IN THE WEST INDIES. By C. S. Forestor, Michael Joseph. 753,
HE rattling good yarn:
THE
of today requires not unly a first-class story, but also a highly, authentie background, technological if possible, accurately and vividly described. Mr Hám“ | mond Innes acores on both counts in his new novel.
it is net along and beyond the Construction camps dra gress railway being driven ́yard-by yard into the wastes. of thu of the Labrador.
The author has put to superu Use the two journeys lie made there. The world of this great" engineering project, pressing forward in the iceth of the inost hostilo of climates, is brought vividly alive and tho harsh and desolato landscape of frozen lakes and eternal"jack= pines, is sharply drawn for ús. P
Bewildered
While to this background tư
Frankie Laine or Peggy Lee, who have been through all "He told me success was
not this and survived as big talents. has welded a tense and exciting In material things, and he was Wat
I asked her why she wanted
story, so right. I used to think that success.
A Sho wrinkled her
young Englishman, lan if I had big record sales, it
Ferguson, 1 pitched Into this putty, titled nose. could buy my mother a house.
tough world by an innocent_de- and a fur coat, and send my to be different,
"I have just always wanted aire to offer information which kid brother to college I would from the crowd-but with
to be apart inay load to the rescue of two nave life made.
the prospectors Jost 100 miles Be-
yond the furthest camp,
"Well, all those things have swd right there watching me," happened, but there is no sweethe saki.” contentment.
---(Lendon Ezprqia Service),
The Many Sides Of Barney Ross
by GEORGE WHITING
He is bowlidered to find the search for them already aban doned when he gets there, withough his father, a keen radio kmateur, had picked up a message from them a week after they were pronounced officially dead.
Why? Why do the hard- bitten engineers at Head of Stel discount us information? This privato quest for the triath takes him up the railway under construction, beyond into tha furthermost camps and then out on a nightmare trek into the Bleak unpeopled wilds, to the scene of the prospector last encampment. And there 'do la to discover that the trunhin such pico as these is some-
NO MAN STANDS ALONE. By Barney Ross and Martin times better left undiscovered,
Abramson. Stanley Paul, 168.
Authentic background detail, f though vi a rather different kind, is one of the important ine a
WEEPY books about the American fight game gredients of C. S. Forester's suc
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and George IV's navy.
are not infrequent. Joe. Louis came up ceas in his tales of Hornblower with the colour bar, Rocky Granziano gave Rear-Admiral Lord Hom' us juvenile delinquency, Henry Armstrong waxed eloquent on religion. And the script-buyers of Hollywood did not pass them by.'.
blower is now Commander-in- vessels in the West Indies and
Chief of His Majesty's ships and
here are five long Incidents in that tormy command.
Mr Forester sketches in
his
Barney Rocs, to whom I ence tracted malaria, lost 30th, and had the pleasure of introducing look to morphine shots to ease historical backgrounds lightl English shandy-gaff. on a hot his nightmares; the guy who but with a convincing accumula Litemoon in the Catskill Moun eventually got a grip of himself tion of detall. And against It tains of New York State, pours in a narcotics hospital and who moves the familiar figure of the out more biller a brew in this now talks genes and sympathy crusty, tone-doar admiral, find- seamy but sincere chronicle of, to ather less fortunate "Junkiesing it always little harder to the life and times of a fighting, No love interest? Sure there exercise his self-control.
A is Cathy. the dancer Barney
But he is as full of guile as met backstage of Boys and Girls over, though hơ is, I reem to Together, is beautiful, tall and notice, gelting a little', over- slim, with coft brown hair."
sentimental in his late middle-. It is with Cathy that Barney uge. He Ross makes his point-no man the stands alone.
Buл.
Ferocious
of
Rosa has colla establish- ment in puglistic history, beat Tony Canzoner for lightweight championship the world. He took the world welterweight title off Jimmy Malarnin, and lost it to Henry Armstrong.
He fought ferociously, hc fought well, and never disclosed, the handicap of a left arm per- manently disabled by a crowbar in a street fight.
But this kefar-from-bejgs only: nboxing book. Not even the American big-fight trade, for all its curious angles, con cläimi precedence in a life that HEQ | Tech Intimate, with murder, gambling gangs, religion, war, romance, divorce and, perhaps most tragic of all, hope.
34 you like, you can have the Barnoy Ross Who won and lost a quarter of a million dollars in the ring.
Or you (and Hollywood) can
| have ~ Barnet" Rastisky,
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Richard Lister, ~~(London Express. Service),
An Expert Beats The Angry Men
By RICHARD LISTER
THE WOMAN IN THE BACK SEAT. By Marguerite Stean,
Collins. 15.
THE fly-leaf of Miss Marguerite Steen's new novel reveals that it has had no fewer than scinny little Jewish kid whose 22 predecessors, to say nothing of three Immigrant father was shot biographies, four plays and a book of short stories.
dead by a couple of hoodlums in
the family grocery store in a
Chicago ghoito.
Brow-beater
Professional novelists of this her to live in the provicelul standing too often get dismissed university tonyri "Where by the reviewers with a sentence touches.
or two of conventional praise, if Paul bos himselt ecme up the Or Barney Ross the street the ens not overlooked allow hard way, by scholarships and
gether, while the latest new grants, and society corner is cried up and tented at identifies himself with the angry passionately
young generalose. As to his
arab, raging against · when his father's killers 'cheated the gallows. The wielder of brais length. ksuckles and boer, bottles, tho | Yet Miss Stern in a novelist already warned Eller, they and spieler, the small-time martie, every bit
their angles are his first. as intelligent, per- the · Mirumbenti” (trouble aptive, honest and entertain- tutereat, maker). The backer of reluctant ingon, Miss You-know-who. Ellen a hopelessly ut-equipped horses, the coform-school condi-And hero abio toloca wholly for dealing with this bauch, saw, dete. The boy who ran erranda contemporary fer Al Capone-from whom he treats it with a great deal earned the label
of "goddain as sulf-pily sexi peritian round of post-war provinciak dunce."
tality than the player young life relentiably, but with en metler, you con have their Go-and-...
remarkable sympathy and sho pule up, through Paul, the most understanding defence of Young Austion that, I
tha lavo
Barney Ross, who, at 33, brow- bent bis way Into the Aintrican Marines and got himself shipped
canal....
aubject
Raw life
and
angry, sirulty layer of life," Miss Ster describes the back-
to glory in a hole at Quadat- The Woman in the Back Best Juk
lo a sort of Look Back in Anger Ellen's struggle to adapt is One detects the profcasionet told from the wife's point of paloud and prolonged, and the hand of co-author Abramson in view Instead of distrusbond's. la finally defeated chly when fils part of the book, and there Ellen who brought as in this hat Oughter, cow se In a silver alar for trevory pampered, pro-war mládle class, student, folow the Angdies and between the lines. Three Ameri- married band who adored the alliance between datapbteni can marines owe-Darney Road.apotiod tick without rousing and step-father, becaBOR. IONO their lives. Twenty-seven "Jays her, und was left after the war thin, apichumi," overKERT, haven't had shy lives since they a widow with a small daughter, Thorn is no solution, only met hith in action her In Franker she moots Paul, hair grey compromise, dod". Minn Finally, or mather, monal-firmant, holl gah, who in hile- toon doow not sink in A monk 15, there le Barney Home the dring | grade; angry way wwiiga fier oft. Skandaling, honest and Faddict; the soldier who con- her dot marries ther-and takes absorbing modern mayed,
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