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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1959) !!
PICK OF THE A QUICK
NEW POPS
By JOHN LAMBERT.
• PAT BOONE: "For a Poung"
#1
(London), Standard Boorte has
ballad with,
Blair Is a new name
with the
LOOK ROUND
TWO STUDIES IN CRIME. Ilutchinson.
Bridges. But aboYscult
21.
old, mouldering style of Lena for him, thu Horne to her valec.. biggest selling potential in a has a dash of individuality, too, long time. Heanors: It has and the distinctive. really strong beut. to back-up
the sentiment; Boone els a batter sense of feeling into the lyrics.
• MAURICE "Today"
ม
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CHEVALIER:
(MLG.M.)
LP. does
Chevaller shows that he
not settle for second best.
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TOP POPS
• MUCHO' ROCK: Rene Blochy relaxed study in sophilalicated And his Orchestra (HLALY.), { the th
or The conviction William Herbert Wallace (sentenced to death in 1931 for the murder of his wife) Was quashed by the Court of Criminal Appeal. Most recent that the commentators hold
jury was right, and that Wallace
A
HARD LOOK AT
AN ECCENTRIC
THE CASE OF SALYA- гол DALL by Flaur Cowles (Iteinémann, 478).
NOME say that Sal- vador Dali keeps his skewerish antennae
curiosities of our age. His su hate simplicity in all its forma cess is a symptom of the hunger "The populace.big, the 'aris- for colour of the world's "Inter- tograpy MAGNIFICENT, national set" which provides his. middle-class-middle." patrons and friends,
In this handsome, and in no sense cheap, book, a member of that "set," Fleur Cowles, under».
“His... dreama
The
takes thorough
П
portrait Without giving her own moustache- clinical in places of the Catalon opinions on his painting,
eccontrle.
assoclate Cowles discusses Dali's purpose, that dreams are · tho with editor of Look, now wife of Mr to prove
erect
Dail does not mind what peo ple say, so long as they talk about his moustache.
Former
CHINA MAIL BOOK
REVIEWS by George Millar
Next door the icon stands above he did his job, I happen
it red-lamp.. "2"
Strong, new people.
writing.
Miss SHARK
PRACTICE.
IBARK
ATTACK.
to
know, having been in the same Strong outfl
by
V. M. Coppleton (Angus and Robertson," 256.).
AL last tho Vichy polico caught him. He escaped from Perigueux prison and across the Pyrenees,
His features
After that, with his remodell- ed features on the Gestapo Ales, he had to be used else- where. He served in the in- vasion of North Africa and the liberation of France,
was the murderer,
Mrs. Bridges, who shares this by PETER EVANS
belief, Bsks: Why was Julie Hungarian wax sold in Tom Meyer, of the London tim real work.
ber-importing family, Miss Wallace killed" With
Mr In paint certain fetishes rule herthe Faubourg St Honore, cowles was nominated by not need to, rely on nostalgia
examplo, he GEORGE SHEARING: usual subtlety, and persuasive for warmth or wlt. This is t
Camem- (Capitol)
the Coronation. She is a friend, likes ripe and ruany
the of vintage talent that stays fresher "Barnished Brass"
Windsors, the Sheh, bert. It reminds him than ever. The songs, too, are LP. Here is a new Shearing news, the makes out a case for a Paris, others that it is. Eisenhower to represent him at his dreams. For
"soft watches" he has. so often ship which may be the clue.
white-of- Danny Kaye, and others.
Other fetishes hero. Indicative of an arilst who does sound, blending the distinctive paychopathie Jave-hate relations done with honey, or bril- Cor
painted. stylo of the Battersea-bora But more valuable than her liantine and
As Dall, who is 55, growa Ilated with their supposed blind pianist with a big bram- theory is the admirable way she egg.
plumper, his eyes become less Freudian associations are: powered orchestra. A pleasant handles the facts.
claims, soulful while, he
his
ME COPPLESON, a Sydney Shoes: crutches, teeth; Blas surgoon, has
I vouch for the authenticity, made a as well as the engaging and un- work improves.
(Dall claims he keeps a private survey of all shark attacks on usual modesty, of this cloak-
them); Neither he nor his enigmatic pack of
rhinoceros men since 1919. Ho describes and-dozger book, Mr Langelaan Russian-born wife forgets how, horns;
Chila many of them in all their horror, is both loyal and discreet. He food); gooseflesh; and draws his conclusions. Uses material that might when she left her first husband another Surrealist, Paul Eluard, moustaches, of
course; And They do not coeur, in cold serve for a dozen more phoney they struggled.to live in Paris.
waters. Although there have war booka. been
the isolated attacks in In his violent youth Dall Alediterranean yielded occasionally to a crave and I nearly witnessed one
www.my wife A LOOK AT ing to fling himself downstairs, Malta a few years ago, and relishing the resuiting bruises.
girl was carried off once from SOME OF All in all a book that enter near our anchorage at Corfu lains and observes without they have been frequent mainly preaching, sneering, or praising. on the east coasts of Australia THE OTHERS
L.F The charms of the cha- cha are woning. But the Latin beat gets a lift from these big band arrangements with a rock favour..
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RUBY MURRAY: "Goodbye, Jimmy. Goodbye" (Columbia), Blandard. A plaintive ballad that could put a needed push into the declining dise career of Miss Murray, The sad, but
haunting lyric is just her style,
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"Cool" The
KALIN TWINS: (Brunswick), Hlandard. Kalin twins hit the top yeur ago, then hit the bottom. They could find the return route with this really catchy rock number.
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BLAIK: "Squeeze
• SALLIE Me" (Parlophone), LF.
Misa
with
БЕД urchins
No doubts She prefaces the story the tale of another, less well-
favourite Mis known crime-the brutal mur
der in 1840 of Lord William nussell by his valet, Francols Benjamin Courvoisler.
ROSEMARY JUNE: (Pyo) Standard "I Used to Love You But It's All Over Now," Jane, who made her name sod hit the one-iune Jackpot with "Apple Bloseum Time" seems to have found the vital follow- up hit which could keep her in the Hit Parade. A sentimental the familiar election "Apple Blossom" beat.
wila
the
There is no doubt in this case about the convicted man's guilt. The connection between the lles in the strong two crines probability that both murderers were naked when they struck the fatal blows.
CLIFF RICHARDS: "Cun" (Columbia) LP. The gruelling LP. Here test of talent-the
AND PROMENADE. HOME. teenage rock 'n' roller Richards Agnes de Mille, Hamish flamit- takes his first plunge into
101. 259. Equally talented as
and choreographer
auloblo- demanding big-ime of a long- playing disc, And very nearly
grapher Miss de Mille, in her second volume, tells the back- drowns. The voice that ref
fa stoge by in small standard doses
story of her successful revealed in all its brutal ilmila-yeurs, from Oklahoma!_on. tion.
II.M.SI. -(London Express Service).
-London Express Service).
JACKYS
DIARY
弟弟
WACKY MENDELSONN
AGE 3/2
Yester DAY Daddy & ME
Went to a big Deportment
Store To Buy a Present
for Mommy
Jinside they got a Elevator Driver Whose
Some, taking Dal the Sur- realist painter at his own value, pay him £13,000 to £15,000 a find his work canvas. Others glossy, allck. Some are repelled by its traumatic implications,
others are fascinated.
So long as they argue Dall is satisfied.
Soft carpets
madly enamoured of the "now Dall, says Miss,Cowles, is still fiftyish" Gala. He once said, in English: "Every his broken good painter. .must.. .mor- ry my wife,"
staira
He still paints her in every kind of pose and costume, és well as with lamb chops on her POETRY AND shoulder, bluebottles 17 her hair, skeletonle rocks for her pillow.
All this, they say, has boosted his sales until he and his wife Gala can live like reigning monarchs of Dall's native Costa
The Brava a spond five months
with book abounds one of New Dalinlan pronouncements like; every year in York's softest-carpeted hotels. "My favourite perfume? "The caull- Whatever we think of the fel- Essence of Dolk" low, he is ane of the living flower is the base of all art," "f
BiG DEPORTMENT
STORE
+'s called a Deportment Store Because if your conduct isn't | Good they send you home
a real Show-Off He kept on bragging But it was Lots more fun riding on the Escalator
About all the Presents they got
BRD Floor Toasters, knifess Silver Where & Stuffe
1st We Went over to Where They was selling some Lady's Junder Where Only We (Didn't get anyo
Which is Like A Machine that Lets you run up-stairs
without
THEN WE went to a Counter Who Sold Perfume which is the Stuff Ladies Put on to make Them SMELL GOOD
•Moving any of Your feete
No
feet
So instead we got Her A BathRobe, which is good to Wear in CASE YOU Gotta take a Baths That Way You Don't get so wets.
PUNCH
COAST TO COAST, Atte tralian Stories chosen by Dai Silvens (Angor and Robertaz, 1ĒKJ.
/HILE English and American
writers seem to become
and the United States, and the Natal coast,
His charts
belloves
at
on
• THE NILI SPIES, by Engle (Hogarth, 25%).
Anita
Tho
Aaronsoha family, Rumanian Jews, settled in Palestine, then
From his patterns and charts part of the Ottoman Empire, Dr Coppleson
inat od during the First World War altacks are made by rare rogue spied for the British and died sharks,
for them. A remarkable story that shouting water does not scare sharks, and obcut remarkable people. that they attack coloured people as readily as whites.
Under
THE CENTRE OF THE But why do sharks kill 20 GREEN, by John Bowen men for every one woman?
mare mannered and inhibited, MODEST
the Australlans are concentrat-
ing on describing with "poetry DAGGER-MAN
and punch," as Mr Suvens claims for this fine collection, the amazingly varied settings and populace of their virila. land.
Here we meet a girl who, asked if she is Indian or Pakistani, szys
12I om Australian. I will wear a dress like the other girls. I will de the same."
KNIGHT# or THE VLJUJATING BILK, By Georg Langéla an (Hutchinson, 2143,
(Faber, 15.). A middle-class pair in Devon have trouble with their two sons. A topical, even typical family. Sharp glances at contemporary Eng-
amusing and novel,
land. An written
well-
TRIALS OF A TRAVEL COURIER, by William Honey (Robert Hale, 10s). A glory, about coach" touringon the Continent, something that, like holiday cumps, has always far- cluated me because I have not tried . An agreeable read. English by birth, school- Mapa would help.
EORGE LANGELAAN
19
Inir tradition," but "Parisian at
A talking rat gives expert heart," und bilingual, evidence 10, a coroner, and” is... Ho was, a natural for the... - BABY FACE, br Dolcią. Gray. paid with half a pound of Field Security Polico at the (Arthur, Barker, 12a, td.). Baby
checso.
outset of the last war. One of Faceio a murderer And, a the last away from Dunkirk, sadist, and he is extremely Munyarra, an aboriging, he volunteered for facial sur- vivid and convincing, But the travels 1,300 miles from
people are lifeless gery so that he might return to other
by home between the Timor Sea France as a British ogent.
comparison, which is a pity. and the Gulf of Carpentaria to
His ears were remodelled, his kill. with boomerang and chin was rounded out with bone spear, one of the white men's taken from his thigh. It hurt. DARK FILGRIM, by Frans
rockets,
But no false heroles from Mr.
Venier (Collins, 15%), A
In the steam and stench of a Langelaan. At first he refused thoroughly good novel from Greek restaurant the Australian to be paratimited. Then, after South Africa. It keeps moving and takes no sides. ⠀ Excellent training, Greek farity strains to provide thorough
he con. dialogue. those mighty platters of steak quered his fear and was and eggs, those buckets of chips. dropped near Lyons. Right well
-{London Express Service).
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dor COLONE
BUT The Price COST Too Much Maney, So We didn't Buy any of that Ether
Going out was Lots of fun as we Went ThROUGH A REVOLVer Door
They call it That cause if you get it SpinNing Good & fast, it shoots You out in the street.
this Morning we gave Mommy the
on her. But guess SHELL grow into it Like I doo
Bathrobe, only it's way too big
Tirita resental 5-10
ADD VICE FOR CHILDREN
Don't ever try Walk D AEscalator when the steps are Walking Up Stairs, cause YOULL never get there.
Your Friend, JACKY
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