THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1959.
THIS FEARSOME
FRIGHTENING THEME
-SO CONVINCING WE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL!
By George Millar
NO ONE WILL ESCAPE. by Itans Hellmut Kirst, translated by Richard Graves (Weldenfeld & 180.)
ONLY
Nicolson,
NLY a German could tell this blood-chilling story with such impact and sincerity. It is a close-knit novel describing the third World War.
In August, next August, we must suppose, student clashes with the Warsaw police are followed by fighting between Ruslan and Polish troops, Nelther Warsaw nor the Kremlin wants a revoll is repetillon of Hungary 1050, Within 24 hours smothered.
the
of fire on civilians cutting tno shoekwovo Meanwhile sympathy for the Poles has frontier wire. Enraged, a com- reached East Germany. A kirike, pany of Federal frontier guards with some violence, at the big fires back. through the Tron Zeiss works at Jena. Demon- strations and shouting in Eart Berlin. Halle, Leipzig, Dresden,
Retaliate
Then and hero is the ulti- mate danger the artifcial East- West frontler sparks off. Among cry, the commcn people the "One Commany?" is rising.
Near Ulm, Germans, In the
Curtain.
They disubry the CONCIBU order of the German C. In C. of Nato Land Forces. They ligh! their way through the wire and got encircled.
Their colonel implores his ceneral for reinforcements. The general knows a terrible mistake has been made, but he is A soldler, not a politician.
# The Minister s disguised in D
sliuation,"
soldier At 5 p.m. that day Paris censen black sul. to exist. The Russian Black Bea chancing at the picture vtect fails to break through the Frederick the Great on his office cephorus, And so on to the end wall, he orders his Rubordinate of the Six Days' War. in Uim to send in a regiment,
What makes this book con-- then "clear the withdraw.
vincing, even more then Herr The Minister feels he
A best-selling hts Kirat's skill as upheld German arms.
has writer (he wrote the "Curiner betrayed Nato. The mistakes Asch" trilogy) is his fairness to uli sides. Britain, America, captain,
A a colonel, a Minister huve Flance, Germany, even Hussin, general and
All are to stop the holocaust. Nato unleashed the war.
functions Efficiently. speedily punished by order of the Federal Chancellor,
uz
Bre
He
Technique
Fontainebleau, Berlin,
☐ Moscow.
Interlanded with
are mense
AUTHOR KIRST
-NO NAMES
BUT NO
ANONYMITY
of
|
The Man Britain Neglected Arrives In America!
by NOEL GOODWIN
A LONDONER is a new star jazzman in
America. He is Victor Feldman, 25 this month, who first went to the States in October 1055. No doubt Britain will one day welcome him back with red carpet treatment, having almost
lack turned him out "originally through
of supporting his talent.
That's how it goes-and here mered songs makes this a anip- t how it boomerangs back, in diso choler, bringing a mood of the shape of the vibes player's hope In contrast to the blues of rst LP as leader of his own despair, and many a delight of three-piece unit,
deeply rooled jazz with it.
man"
Jeldman's
0%
"The Arrival of Victor Teld- • JOHNNY HODGES: ""The 33CX- (Vogue-Contemporary Big Bound" (Columbia LAC.18172; 12in. LP) is fluent 10116; 12. LP). Immaculato modern jazz of exciting vitality, and timeless big-band Jaxx by impressive style and polished the Ellington band, recorded in technique.
1037 under the leadership ́alto-raxist. "Johnny Hodges, na fast-growing In- dividuality is heard mostly on Ellington stalwart since 1925. A vibes, occasionally on plano, in few of the dosen numbers use a Hodges a rewarding eight-number-set, smaller group, but the
magnificent through- some of them his own originals, solos are
okt. ALSO
At Fontainebleau, the German Commander of Nato Land Forces
Bona, Dietrich in her prkne,
• BIX BEIDERBECKE: Vo. I shoote himself.
He has, however, evolved
strangely feline women met In
-"Bix and his Gang” (Fontana..... "Strategic" atomic weujams remarkably effective technique,
● MAHALIA "JACKSON: "ET TFE17030); Vol. 2-"Bix and these Am- Berlin before the last. war,
TFE.17000). used at first. Refuges. The world's leaders
Kids World" (Philips BBE12239) Tram" -dinings
|(Fontana he puts
The translation is excellent. the shortages, brutality. Russian described only by their rank stories of a dozen characters, While reading this important in EP). The more I hear of Both in. EPs. Handy 48 r.p.m.
to President, Prime armies bulldoze their
way
Df Minister, all but one of them German, a and exciting
eloquent novel I caught Gospel-ainger Mahalia Jackson, refazer
now the Kline,
Choneeller, But their utterances scientist, a millionaire, ther myself stening to jet engines the more I am impressed and tracks recorded by the Al 11.17 a.m., five days after are delivered as though by the women, a family of toymaker, in the sky And wondering moved by her eloquent artistry. legendary cornellst a few years the Initiat Polish disturbances, present incumbente.
Her "The War" is thus seen from uneasily, "Õurs?"
forvent singing of four before his death in 1931. many sides. At least two of the wemen remind me of Marlene
ile passes the buck Lo the the first hydrogen bomb strikes
Russlan-armed People's Army Minister of Defence at Bonn. London.
JACKY'S DIARY
Br
WACKY MENDELSOHN
AGE 34/2
Cast Week the Teacher' read us A Histerical Story called The Trojan Horse
HisteRY [BOOK]
For Some reason this Made The KING ANGRY one called His ARMY of WorrieRS
If fold them
to girdle them selfs for Battle
Finely after 9 Years The Grease General Who had Avery Quick MIND et aN DE TO Build a Wooden Horse
Grease
WORRIER
The story of operations taken from Washington, London,
at started out when The PRINCE OF TROY Stoled something from The King of Grease it was the Queen of Grease
ORE
Stick-Up
This is A
Each army fort Very Hard, but no Body COULD WIN
NFL Pretty SOON every BODY WAS Starving for LACK of food which they Didn't Have But they stilL CON- Jinued to keep on
• fighting BANG YOUR
Dead
So they quit fighting & Built A Great BiG ORse Made out of Wood Which ALL of the WORRiers SNEAKED INSIDE of WORRiers SneAKED INSIDE of
Pretty soon every fell A SLEEP from Drinking too Much Soda Pop Sothe Grease WoRRIERS Sneaked Lout of the Horse & CoNKered the
Trojan Soldiers.
got you
Ist
When The Trojans DiD 'N't see any More Soldiers they figured The War was OVER of they started to have a Big Portl ssing Games & Everything
So The Queen got returned to The King & that was The
End of the story.
ADD VICE FOR CHILDREN: When the Teacher tells A Story That is it true it's called A Mythology & she gets MONEY But When You tell it's called | A Bib & You get spanked So try Not To Tell FIBS UNLESS Your Going to be A Teacher
Your Friend JACKY
some
The island. And Another
fortress
TIE UNKIND LIGHT, by. Charles Elles Jamich Himmliten, 138. (4.)
"HERMOZA"
ix ✩ Pacine
island to which the
Americans have Added A
fascinating fortress, £ baby
Home-Made Beat Explodes A Myth
by ROBIN DOUGLAS-HOME
island with a flat top fer air-TT'S wonderful, but the orchestra isn't a patch
craft joined to its parent by an umbilical causeway.
Hermozans 'arc enchanting. End don't wear meny clothes, | but they delest the fortress.
on the one in New York." This has often been the airy comment of theatre-goers on an American musical hit which they have been lucky enough to see on both sides of the Atlantic.
But there is one musleal now munning In London whosa passage took him 65 days. Не arrived at the Cafe du Port Invidious comparisons. "West
orchestra Is Immune from such cheerful and well.
Le Toumelin is an interesting | Side Story2
Tho extremely picosant American governor doesn't think there is much to worry about and the nasty British consul "Call me Gerry"-follows proto |col, fudges his reports, claws at
girls, and loathes Pargiter, on cove. When depressed al sei Many who have seen both Englishman who lives up in the he cracks a bottle of champagne. Brillish and American produc- tilis among the natives and When he catches A tunny betons claim categorically that steama it, eats part cold with the London orchestra plays with mayonnaise, and pickles. the more vitality, more attack, and
"lets the side-down."
Juile Coolman, a
геромет
d'oeuvres.
from New York, comes to stay eat with onions to make hors niere intensity than its Ameri
In
with the governor and falls love with Pergiter. There are head-hunters and worse before the end, which dramatised,
I and
over.
Financier
But this author writes beau on trial
fully, keeps his story trundling, und can describe passion with- out being disgusting.
Champagne at sea
KURUN IN THE CARIB- BEAN, by JAV, le 201- metin, izanslated by
Davis, 138)
BETTLED OUT OF COURT, by Henry Cacil (attchaël Joseph, 231, ed.).
Is
WALSH, City financier,
business rival, -convicted of
framed by the wife of a
can
men
counterpart. Why? Two deserve credit perhaps more than any other-conduc- for Lawrence Leonard drummer Phil Syamsu,
and
Lawrence Leonard, a self- confessed "straight boy,”, saya: The orchestra is a mixture of the top Jazz and top straight players in London which, is right because Bernstein's music is a mixture between jazz and straight,
: It's great
"Up till now each art has
munder, incarcerated for life. His ended at a certain point with appeals fall, but he wen't give nothing in between.
in and his money can talk even is the only straight
Bernstein
composer
Capable or elevating Jazz into
three
Once he has organised a gang being a great art, and his music "outside" he escapes. All wit- is so difficult that I find it a neres at his trial are kidnapped new challenge night after night. APOUNG=====FECqguregand-marooned in the country Our top 1 Jazzmen are Toumelin is something of house of Mr Justice Halliday, drummer Phil Seaman, trim- on Idol in France, and he knows where a new trial is sizged. -
peter Ronnie Elimoni and The best of a really good trombaniat Laddle Busby--ihten Having called alone round the story la the trial; the best of the best in the country,” **
13 the world in his chamky, seven-and- character
judge. But o-bit-ton gaff* cutter Kurum, "Henry Ceef!" too is a pseudo-
ft.
Don Mckay, leading dancer
he had visions of procuring a nym-for His Hone Judge in the show, whose own taste is superior craft. These were un- Henry Ceull Leon, M.C. utiainable.
progressive music, says; "Wo wete astonished' on the opening
I think I hear the tinklo of night with this orchestra, that
So on September 28, 1854, he reproaching fim rights, Your again left his home port in Honour. Bilitiny, Le Croise, headed out of the Bay of Biseny, then south.
Escape
Hove-to ot night
beer
Madeira, and asleep below, ne
I read these, too
after only three days' rehearsal they could have givan: such a terrific performance at this complex music,“,
Chlia Rivers, Count Bazis fun, whose dancing in this show is regarded as tho most vital and exciting performance ever seen on the London stage, says: "We were a bit leory about the
was all but killed by a freighter, MEMENTO MOEL by Muriel drummer we might get in this
but escaped with damaged rig- spark (bfacmillan, 15%). A ging. He does not appear
country as we had never been to sneering. aniggering. always out of our home country or ex carry a wadar reflector as in new witty novel about weli-cft elder-perienced other musicians, common practice with British ly people with pasta, set in Lon-
yachtsmen...
.:.
dori. It Mms Spark would also
"But my, we were shocked- From Le Latz in the Canaries provide a plot she would be the drummer is just fantastic." he crossed the Atlantic in
mvincible. the Trede Wind belt,... Here la the MIS PANOPOULIS, by Jon stamp of his quality ho did hedden (Chatto & › Windus, not stop at his landfall, Bar), Hard-old Englishwoman,
It's due' "
」
bados, which He considers diamond-encrusted, lands on un: It has been a long tinte,, bul, "over-populated,” but kalled, on laland from a cruise liner and whit with the wild" reception to Grenada, reaching it on his acts unexpectedly. A pleasant belig given to `tho' Chrta-Barber twenty-seventh, day at s00,
novel, but a little brents [band] "now..on a tour. After fouT months' cruiring minded,
| Jahnby Dánkworth, and in the Windward Islanda he left NABOKOV'S DOZEN, by band going to the Newport fast Guadeloupe for Le Croisic. This Vladimir Nabokov. (Weinemann, Festival, und the bouquets being don't think Mr handed out to our own⠀⠀ "Wosk Nabokov's effulgency so effo Bide. Blory" orchestra, it seems
J
him
"'* TRO FAR 15 'S iber extending aft live in hie "Lolita"--was made that British jazzmen are 'at long Tresa šake muka sk the hood affthe-for 'short ariaries Some of thië || Iamt receivÄNEMAA HELIO of the Brimonio Triangular ay Hernia DIY mccoed as Jiterary Transitionile attention which is yachley and mare audiem, sextrina piecos Bonte don't.
undoubtedly their "dumm.EVA