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Record Review
For opera
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1960.,
FOREVER AMBER GIRL
HAS ANOTHER TRY
lovers DEADING a book by
Kathleen Winsor IA
PARLOPHONE have like driving a fant car with foot on the throttle issued a act of eightono records of particular in-and the other on the brake. You feel there should be terest to lovers of opera.
Seven of the eight records more speed and zeat some- ure of known arias sung by where, but you never quite famous Italian artists-Glaoon find it.
Stignani, Cloc Pederzini, Ebe
I have
been taken for two
Elmo, Lina Paglughi, Onella literary car-rides by Mrs
Fineschi, Galliano Mazini and Cesare Slepl, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Della Radio Italiana and
Sinfonien the Orchestra Dell'Eur (Parlophone I 30001-7).
These recordings but I find the
and
KATHLEEN WINSOR
Tall, beautiful, talented
Kathleen winter points out on the dust cover: "This novel is in no senso aufblo- graphical. The emiral character is not and is not intended to be Maybe not, but there myself."
similarities between the lives of Shireen and Kathleen.
BOTH ir produce success- ful allegedly historical novels.
BOTH talented.
ΩΣΤΟ
are tall, beautiful,
Boff married young. Shireen loses her first husband's love. Kathleen is now married (for the lawyer the third time)
who helped her when her second marriage, to Artie Shaw, was dissolved.
BOTH climbed early up the "Ten thousand?" Shireen peaks of the popular Parnassus. And both found, apparently, lesa happiness in that rare air than they had hoped for.
Winsor. One In Forever Amber": In "Star Money."
two, This novel tells a simple, one dimensional tale that would Beem long in # woman's magazine, tailing off among the are good, beauty ads.
Врип out over eighth disc of 408 pages it is too long for even outstanding quality. On this the longest night. Gino Marinuzzi conducta chorus
the Orchestra
Realms of gold frowned. "Is that all?" Sinfonica
iri Dell'Elar
Go Thoughts On Golden Wings (Nabucco) std 0 Signore, Dal TAR Money" is the story of
Shireen Delaney.
"young Tello
Nalle (Lombardi Alla
Navr Prima Crociata
of an American Verdi. by This is as Anely balanced an who is overseas. She piece of recording as anyone writes an historical novel. But 302 books, The first writes it. "I read work in favourite of House wrote eight completo drafts, or in total of 12,038 pages, and spent wives' Choice,
but this new
on the These are described much better than altogether 6.202 hours recording that to far used by the BBC entire project." (Parlophone E. 2:098),
could wish to hear.
whic
into
No, that is not all. Shireen'a book-sales
high the realms of gold; editions re- multiply them- produce and
amoeba-like, with an elves. enviable speed.
After
her
Come
Shireen muscs comewhere:
"There are only two ways to make a lot (of money) when you're young. One is to mter. tain the public: the other la to
cheat it."
"Star
this book wins wealth. Miss Delaney turns her attention to affairs of the heart.
length, painted poles apacori al certainly [Miss Winsor wrote her careful intervals to prop up the money.... mammoth "Amber" five times, thin fabric of the novel to give covered 9,241 pages, spent 4,907 ar Busion of depth and mean-
Thus ing hours on her project. Miss Delancy wins by a thort head.]
Her book
Ja
In the summer of 1947 the Philharmonia Orchestra con- ducted by Nikolai Malko gave a terrifle performance of port of
Immediately the Suite No. 1 of Khachatu-stccessful. Saya her agent: rlan's Guyanch Ballet maste "They're offering you a 10,000- including the now famous Sabre dollar advance"
Dance. This month you can [Miss Winsor collected 50,000 hear some of the Suito No. 2 advance dollars for "S.M.") played by the New York
Money," by
Philharmente Symphony Wor, Mactonald, 121. ca. Orchestra conducted by Elrem
Counsel, and A Dream, but wonder why Mmc. does them
Kathleen
Just the same thing
VERA Britain's
153.
Into
Kurtz, Interpreted with in- telligence and well recorded. Personally I would like to hear the Philharmonia and Malko tackle this second sulle if only because they did such a fine job with the first. (Columbia DX 1641-2.)
excursion That
magnificent sopranu.
Puritan Englanes, "IN THE Kirsten Flagstad, sing three of Grieg's songo
STEPS OF JOHN BUNYAN"; in Norwegian- Heart Wounds, Thanks For Thy pulls the lid off that great man's
background.
Bunyan's age was oddly like Fingslad on orchestratout. Like Henry Cade, Bunyan accompaniment. The accompani-had his worries, his ambitions, ment of the Philharmonia con-his fear that he might always:
beat behind ducted by Warwick Braithwaite be that one gives the pololat
excellent band.
Says Miss Britain: Where- support, but the songs should სა
ever The Pilira's Progress" is sung with
plano
only.
and women read, there the men (II. M. V. DB. 21020.)
who
spring from the same clock Gluseppe Vandengo, with the
its author confront the New Symphony Orchestra con- challenge of the human crisis, ducted by Alberte Erede, gives Their place, new as then, is in a most satisfactory performance the van of the struggle for those of the Prologue to I Pagliarel Christian values He has a ne Bense of the dramatic axl theno
and resonance
to
(Decca L 303.)
the
It's phoney
What sort of girl in Shireen? "She was taller than average and huilt according to American standards. .She wore a rown of silver-grey jersey, moulded | and clinging, as if it had been rung out and put on wet."
found the ca histories
of Johnny and PAUL and Dallas and Ed dull nod un convincing. There is too much
well call it Factor X-and,
with sex."
Or: "Love crisis chiefly in the fancies of pets and ad-
urrtising men,"
'Resemblance ?*
Money" should
make a lot
James Leanor
-London Express Service)
of
SUPER-HAT-TRICK
DAD and FLOUNDER
by Walter
FIFENDER THEATRICAL
ALENT
BOOKS AND PEOPLE
Loch Ness monster.
has a rival
By JON HOPE
Mr Mackenzie never writes in the mornings, but, starting at p.m. he can carry on through the night-moslly to sousleal accompaniment.
Tho
a
Scissors, please,
Mr. Rice
THE SHOW MUST GO
Elmer ON. By Gollancz 12. 6d. 472
pages.
But already ho is in the train bound for Parls Sitting opposite him is a handsome woman who is obviously very unhappy indeed. Mr Byculla is regarding her with cad. sympathetic and speculative
Rice. NEW BOOKS,
by.... GEORGE
THE show must go
on.
:
MALCOLM THOMSON
☆
No doubt. But run off and married a French- need this novel go on Canadian
For Eric to write a play is the for 472 pages? Need it tost straw. become a kind of guide- book to the contem- American porary theatre? And need it, for long sections, look more like a traffic jam than a narrative?
it. And that in a pity.
Is theme resurrection
New York
OUT OF THE SQUARE.
By Potor de Polnay. Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. 352 pages.
HERE it in Another of those
novels that rollelt the sym- pathy of the British public for the pour little post-war Italian children, forced to live by beg- ging and worst.
This time we aro invited
But the play is accepied, and
all the triumphs mibs and persuasively, for de experiences
disasters that befall plays Polany is a skilful worker
The leading lady, let the tear doon-fa' on behalf in fiction. straight from Hollywood, has a of a squalld brat named Marko, nervous breakdown. Eric falls and Giovanna, who is not quite
her mind in love with her successor, who, right in
marry eventually runs off to the piny's producer, bittered genius Thompson.
angela
an
cm-
and geos
It is idle for a reader to nsk such questions. Elmer Rice likes this theme too much, dwells on it too fond- ly, and cannot bring him- self to take the scissors to a young actress in the cast, thur children in a tepid mist of 11-
forfeiting the
esteem of his ment.
Yet a moment's cool reflection mistress, the rich woman who is is two-fold: the backing the production.
shown what Italy really noods: foreign tears of a famous old
the play, not sympathetic In consequence, theaire:
standard and the
n higher launching of a young dramatist's modestly successful, is taken off but first play. Two sturdy old at the first opportunity legally parental responsibilty at home; more efficient school attendance, taples of fiction these; they avaliable.
The last WO see of Eric, he probation pad welfare officers. will stand a lot of knocking
has manfully rejected an offer about. They get it.
to go to Hollywood and is Eric Kenwood, the young Hending back Connecticut
PARA- dramatist,
to belongs
New He has a new play in his pocket ANATOMY : OF England, where "the Tugged and an old sweetheart on his DISE. By J. C. Farnas, settlers and their descendants mind.
Gollancz, 18s, 542 pages.
We are asked to bellevo that named Leroy the mad girl works a myrile change in the bad boy. In short, the we are asked once more to wrap In tho meantime,
of tho Italfam dynamic Thompson has seduced this problem
hod tried to wrest a living from the
A novel for the stage-struck
verance is needed.
and stony unrewarding Olliers are warned that pere. IN this engaging. Informative
Connecticut coll Surely, have heard that phrase where before!
Kome
MR BYCULLA. By Eric
Linklater. Rupert Hart Davis, 81. 6d. 168 pages,
necount of the Pacific Islands rince the white men found them, the reader encounters as pretty anallery of rogues as could be Imaginod. e.
Bully Hayes, the binckbirdor; Introspection, too much phoneyCCENE of next novel from Waugh's previous novels.
By the time Erie la beginning
frst saw the region on member philosophy.
SCENE of next novel from Waugh's
is called clean to write plays, the settlers have
of a variety troupe touring New basert on the life of Samt
Zealand. Hayes bought or stole Ast "Love is one of the im- | be fascinating,
the islands of Whisky
civen up their struggle with the Ticlens. heroine of numbericas
short novel is one of all his vives! When one of soll. Either they have drifted us ponderablex, You might Galore. Story centres on
terenda.
Linklater's mistakes. Ils them cried too much, she wa the printers. way to become bank presidents Big job for personellu. I think it rhymes the discovery of a rival to
Publishers Hamish Hamilton or mayed at home and become temperament is too genial to put ashore at Honolulu, where the Loch Ness monster.
have ora
ordered 50.000 copies of degenerates. A case of incest succeed with an excursion into she became known as Stormbirt
the aluister-exciting.
Emma. Annoyed by intruding 300,000 word among the latter supplies Erle
Neither sufficiently amuted missionaries, Hayes made them 032 - paged,
the subject of his play.
Accordion until American best seller, The Wall. Culture rather than box office is not sufficiently enthralled, the dance to hin
his target
reader remains steadfastly une they dropped exhausted. Chinn-bom Author John Iersey Culture the wrote Bell For Adano) is
In truth. Eric is no little of convinced to the very end of 'former war correspondent.
eventful private secretary to prig. When someone remarks Me Byculla's brief, From his Berkshire home he was once
to him how badly behaved New clay in London.
Walter Murray Gibson, one of comes to London "no more than Sinchir Lewis.
York children are, he replies, Tawny in colour and with a
over cheated of outmoded the few men who "Maybe they're just products of perfect comunand 1 can help."
Writing called thom: 1
Young, sent to win When asked how her memoira
Mr Byculla murders Brigham an educational system that axes slang,
Hawall for Mormonism When he was 17 Clifford cur attention on success rather people because they were progressias, Dame Sybil Thorndiko cigled! "There are Willing started working for than on what goes on inside of happy. It is his vocation. Mr Anally seen off the island by a mob, one of whom carried a so many other things to do." bank. Twenty-two years later-us."
Byculla is a thug. she hai cliosen her. In 1046-he decided to devote Which mouthful does not, Jane Bruce, Dr Lessing and rope. But
King Kalakaua, who restored himself publishers--Harrop.
entirely to writing however, prevent Erie's atten- Sir Simon Killaloe are all un-
Hawali religion the
and its with some happy on account of a young ceremonics" Good news for Evelyn Waugh Blace then he has written nve on being
Playing poker novels (the latest, A Bullet for exclusiveness on the success of can named Ronnie. Mr Byculla admirers. He has finished
a sugar magnate, he won murders compassionately, new novel which he has been Rhino, is published by Hodder his play.
the pot by saying "ve kings,” The Chthusinam is not shared three. Would it not have been lying down four and pointing nad Stoughton) and his carn- working on for several years. His publishers, Chapman and logs have allowed him to by his family. For come time neater and more economical to Hall, will get li out In the restrict his bank visits to the the shadows have been closing have murdered Ronnie?
One would round the Kenwood home. Pop
have liked to autumn. It is far removed in public side of the counter. time and setting from any of Mr -{London Exprint Servier) has incipient GPI. Daughter has detain Mr Eyculla and ask him.
which carry
the pilgrims of every century la beauty through
the river of spiritual- voice. death to the Celestial City."
Weldman takes 382 pages to say the same thing.
ROBERT TREDINNICK
--(Lendan Express Service). }
ÌRich and Cooân, Ltd., 154,
Fourth-formers and the fas ringed lonely in Kensington bedsitters
may enjoy such paragraphs as pass for passion. (His mouth had forced hers open and his teeth pressed painfully against her lips. But she refused to relax or give herself up to him. Johnny Please don't This n't right!"")
Indeed it isn't Miss Winsor. Wo have heard it all before.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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-(London Express Servia).
More Light Summer Fiction
BU
KEMP STARRETT
HONSENSE YOU'RE NOT INCONVENIENCING US IN THE LEAST. WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE
YOU
THE SAME OLD FICTION IS
STILL POPULAR WITH SOME
FOLKS ON VACATION.
#THAT PLACE IS A
DUMPY LETJ
GO DI TO
THE NEXT
"PLACE...
IT" A MAN CAM KEED UP THIS KOD OF FICTION KE MAY GET TO KIS DESTINATION WITHOUT GETTING STUCK FOR THE LUNCHES.
1 TELL HER
HOW LOVE- SOME YOU
ARE!
VRITING TO THE WIFE AND FAMILY, ADAY AT THE SEA SKORE, BRAGE OIT AANYA
HIDDEN
TALENT For
WHEN VE
ARE
ELECTED VELL
Thacht down mayons I Know for days, yesterday cleaned house and everythings in apple pie order to your whip to sunny abner-.
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COPE, 1150 BY GENIJAL, FEATURES CORP, TM-WIRED RIGHTS KUSKRYER,
THE FICTION TO THE LINGERING (AND LOAFING) WEEK-END' GUEST.
I AINT CCGCOLD!
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VA-VARU!
THE FICTION THE YOUNG ONES PRO- DUCE: PLAUSIBLE
AS A TWO-BUCK DWMOND
THERE'LL BE
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FICTION:
PLENTIFUL AS AKTS ON A
| PICHIC SAND- WICH.
*HOW DOES IT LOOK ON MES
*WONDERFUL!*