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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1959.
Orde Wingate: the The three top jazz
final verdict
has yet to come
By GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
ORDE WINGATE. By Christophor. Sykes. Collins. 35%
"WH
WHEN I hear a feller.lock a door," Colonel Thornhill explained afterwards, "I don't think anything about it, and if I hear à feller fall down, that's his affair, but when I hear a feller lock his door and then fall down, it's time for action."
With no more ado, the colonel broke into the next-door room at the Continental Hotel, Cairo. There on the floor, unconscious, he found Colonel Orde Wingate, who had just driven a hunting knife into his jugular vein. It should have been the end of Wingate's life, physically and professionally. In fact it was neither. Thornhill arrived in time to carry out some effective first-aid,
Wingate looked, with smoul- Wingate lived to dazzle Chur- chill and Roosevelt at Quebec dering eyes and blazing faith, with his ideng about strategy to the day when he would lead
a Jewish army to victory over against the Japanese, and to perish han air accident while the enemies of Zion.
reminds
What in certain is that, with Wingate's death, the Chindit operations were quickly wound The Anal verdict up. Wingate as a soldier has still to be framed.
on
jazz
names now touring Britain talk to DISC PAGE✩✩✩✩✩
KRUPA
PETERSON
THE FORCE
BEHIND FITZGERA
By ROBIN DOUGLAS-HOME
ELLA PITZGERALO
"I WISH
I HAD THE NERVE SOMETIMES."
NORMAN GRAŃZ... NOT COLD, NOT CALLOUS and Ellington had given her most satisfaction.
"Well, I love Cole Porter's songs," she said. "But I've just done a Gershwin. Song Book with Nelson Riddle."
She played a track from it and it was out of this world.
How big & part has Norman Granz, that dyna- mic improsario, played in Ella's success?..
"I felt as if I'd been born all
when over · again
1
There are times when this leading the Chindita 131 the
Sykes has written of this re- Burma Jungle. In a war which atrange tilo iphatic
one of a very different man:
markable military nuncan- gave plenty of scope to the Hitler.
Dul he loved and formint a book painstaking and eccentele man, he was the most respected Jews,
.sympathetic. The formented fomour of all the oddities,
nature of the hero is drawn, The important question about and redrawn again and again. Wingate, however, is a purely the book suffers most through military ono: How good a describing small
THE First Lady of Swing in the Dorchester's Oliver Oliver had better not come Krupa in Jazz at the Phil-1started working for him," and intricate TH general was he? On the evid- milltary operations in loo great.
("Norman in here".") Song Miss Ella Fitz Messel Suite.
I asked which she answered. ence of Syke's books the answer detail.
gerald, of course was Granz called me and said) Ella is on tour with of her Song Books-Porter, "Without him I could not remains In doubt. He
had
said Oscar Peterson and Gene Rodgers and Hart, Berlin, hope to be as popular as I many advantages, apart from
sipping whisky and waterHow's Oliver?' I -(London Express Service). those he derived from his ro- lationship with Sir Reginald Wingate, former Sirdar of Egypt.
Wingate was a born warrior,' a man of wrath and action, with a streak of cruelly and a tough conscience. His Bible was the Old Testament and his hero was Gideon,
Unimpressed
ON
A man like Wingate is born to night-tot at the orders others but for a cause with which he can identify his belief that God has marked him out for some peculiar destiny. " cannot be a nobody" he said. "1 cannot be nothing,"
And he found his cause in the same place as he found his here
in Palestine, in the Bible, in Zlonian.
So he studied Hebrew, be- came the exerting friend of the Ziemlet leaders, behaved with amazing lack of scruple towards
He wrote frequent and brilli-- ant
lo con- military papers.
he was cloquent and ference inspiring a minor military pro- uniform, phet in an untidy uttering inflammatory words.
But were his ideas sound? In Ethiopia, his bluff succeeded: 14,000 Italian troops surrendered to 30 Sudanese
Expensive
In the end, he must be judged accomplished in
bis own loyalties as on officer by what he
Burma. Here options differ.
serving in Palestino, "The DSO Field-Marshal Slim, who liked does not matter, nor does my Wingate, obviously thinks that future as a British soldier."
the whole Chindit iden was little more than window-dressing, good for morale, but not much else, and expensive at
that
When he met Lord Beaver, brook, he tried to persuade him that Zionism was useful to the British Empire. Unimpressed, Sykes calms that, by his Lord Beaverbrook aid: "I have successful penetrations behind decided"
their lines, Wingate Jured Japanos0 commanders imitating his boldness, with results disastrous to then. he did so, it was unintentional,
Wingate Interrupted, crying out: "It is not you but God who decides." He strode out of the zoom and was not called back.
THERE'S MONEY IN DALI'S MADNESS
by Walter Allen
the
into
I
THE CASE OF SALVADOR DALI. By Fleur Cowlor,
Hainomona. 42s. -
"THE Lord Leighton of Sunset Boulevard”— that was how Osbert Lancaster dismissed Salvador Dali, in one of the most blistering pieces of art criticism ever written.
mad? Mrg Cowles
But Lord Leighton nover Is Doll boasted that at the age of Ave debates the question very he nearly killed a younger child seriously. The answer is not by throwing him off a bridge on entirely clear, but what emerge to the rocks below; or that at is that, if he is, there's plenty the age of six he broke the of method in it." It has paid off doctor's spectacles just as he splendidly. was about to pierce his sister's
cars
His perfume
Doll and hin wife spend half
Nor did Leighton ever entitie one of his canvases 1. Spat On My Mother, ang more than he "Kyunge." A Window display for the year at their home in Spain, Fifth Avenue store- manne- DA the Costa Brava-Franco has quin with a head of roses, a lay declared house, harbour
and figure wearing an "aphrodisiac unders national beauty spot dinner jacket with 61 gloses of half in New York; "gets fan- creme de menthe attached to it tastic prices for his paintings each containing a dead fis--and and gets then Glasgow Art then rush the plate glass and Gallery paid £0,000 for The walk through it into the street Chris of Saint John of the when the management altered Cruss; and designs jewellery. the display,
So solemn
Fier Cowles, laking Dali vor much at his own valuation, ha wellten a book about him in which all the mospades of this Bideant Leonardo, de Vigel of our mo solemnly and at length.
narrated
He has now become A par- Tumier. He calls hla perfume Rock 'n' roll
"I love rock 'n' roll as I love.
- that
dionysine, is anything violent and aphrodising, he de cared at a party in Paris to launch it as he sprayed the guests with a Rock 'n' roll-Giled “..., spray-gun..
One dying she does stabiel Peter Brook, that? Opil mat Freuk In Londers.
the theatrical
in 1930 Dall has always claimo lucer, describer one of Dall's thin as he eximed Freud as his pet games. Cet a dollar?!" he asken You give him one. He
maaleat he has not always pockets ita decan make about a been, bellevede med menundred dollars a day this why? Bording to Dati, Freud sekte prys Pest hook says ho "I have Jays geen a more cond: MILER. plote example of a Spaniard.
--(London, Express. Zervice),
JACKYS DIARY
BY
JACKY MENDELSOHN AGE 31%2
Yesterday Mommy WANTED to get Beautiful, SO WENT With Her to the BEAUTY PALLOR
Lady got her Head Stuck in a Machine But She Was Very BRAVE Didn't EVEN HOLLer but just Read
la magazines
Movie PICTURE
BEAV
PAL
harmonic.
There was lots of other Ladies who were waiting to Get Beautiful inside. Some [ of them Looked Like They were waiting
a LONG TIME
There Was A Big Sign ON THE WALL to help You Pick The Kind of Heap YOU WANT ALSO THEY Would Paint!
tany Color*
Finely a man came out & SAid it was moMMY'S TURNO 1st He Tied A big table-cloth on Her, Then he started into give Her head a shower
That's what's calle Dying. Only it don't Hurt as much
After that He Plugged in Her hair So it would have a Permanent WAVE *
*Which means It waves for
about & Days
ADD VICE FOR CHILDREN:
Then HE MUST of got mad At Mommy Sothen she gave the Cause he said he'd Like to give Herman Lots of Money of a BANG on the Fore-Heap Only WE WENT Home Can See if her hair is STILL She Said Don't, so He didn't
Waving Cause SHe got it Wrapped up in a BaNATALDY
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Slow Up & Marty A make sure she for
THE MAJOTALLY PEN
of
am, and I am very grateful. Howover great an artist, you always need a force to drive you. And Norman is my force.
"He's done something with Jazz that lots of people have thought about but no. one's had the nerve to do. I wish I had that nerve some» - times, but I'm the shy type."
A PORTRAIT
OSCAR
PETERSON, the technically perfect
today, i.. Jazz plonist: alive to write a jazz portrait of Frank Sinatra for his tripulacion
"It'
thumbnail won' sketch but a blonkeling of his influence not only, on modern music but on muźle as a whole,” he told me.
В
"The quailty, Frank primarily portrays is his swinging. Basle's got it too. And Smatra's" "got the timing of a jazz musièlan, Uke a vocal Lester Young” i
Canadian-born Peterson, 3,
bas as articulate - a turn; óf spoken phase as on the key- board. On Erroll Garner: "Hig piano sound is part due to his special pedal technique. That's how he gets that florid, fuld richness"
On Norman Granz, his close friend and mentor: "He lisy -a deeper feeling and understand- ing of jazz and, a more honest appreciation of it than anyone not directly part, of it... Jazz, impresarios are usually cold, callous promoters. Not Norman. If I had the literary talent 'I'd devole a book to him.”
On British jazz:"Lice Dankworth. And Ted Heath's drummer Ronnie Verrell, and bassist Johnny Hawksworth. But where do you go for jazz bere at nights?" 1' had a 'free evening test hight and I was stymied."
That makes two of us, Mr Peterson,
A LINK
Greatest 1£mbllion of "Gene Кира, explosive arummer- virtuoso who gave': the “zing; to the legendary, 1937-B- Goodman.. band, is 'to'write-ai consertol för в jazz trio with a full symphónṛ. orchestra necomparizpent.bybe
*1 feel there in a definite link' between jazz - and 'the: classics, and I would like to see them cumbine," he says, "After, hude year Let "study with the of the New York
Phille be should,; cer».
tainly be qualified.
5. Krups, who fa 50, plans toʻro- cord some sessions with Elling- Lon and Dakle on his return home
Frankly though, Tim a bit old for, the wear and fear of a big band. And § 1-silka, writing, my own lickat siowadays "ybe paid, And he had a big word of prales for his trio's Birmingharraw
bora planiat Ronnie Bullet Pitt "Ronale has quite a suputa». ...tion: fn, the bilen.Ü. Her obg, of: five ew modern gura who can stride. I can hour Fate, James
Teddy Wilman, închis, pas If the cat don se swin712 tes him but ene number-I know!