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TEEN

5

TOPICS

Rediffusion To Play PERSONALITY

Teen

Agers' Choice

(By "THE WREN")

Rediffusion will broadcast selections from some of the "Platter Chatter" Pall winners' Ideal Prog- ramme on Friday, May 27, beginning at 2. p.m. for half an hour.

Mr. Frank Harris of Rediffusion informed the Topics that a teen agers' programme will be set for next week when the Poll winners will feature Those tak- in the programme as disc jockeys. ing port will be informed by letter from the Topics Editor of all arrangements.

Meanwhile, we were also for formed that Mr. Harris is at pre-

working sent

to At Info his broadenst, regular weekly leen This will be agers' programme. nnnounced later when teen agers will be invited to send in their requests.

For Friday's half hour, the following dises have been chosen:

Shine On Harvest Moon (1909). Some Of These Days (1010). My Melancholy Baby (1910). You Made Me Love You (1913). St. Louis Blues (1914). Missouri Waltz (1014). Nola (1016).

Darktown Strutters' Ball (1917). My Blue Heaven (1027). Body and Soul (1930).

Begin The Beguino

The dates given are not neces-

THE WORLD IS WAITING FOR THE SUNRISE Benny Goodman Sexlette (Mei Powell,sarily the year of compostilon but pinno).

rather the year in which the tune attained universal popularity. As

IT MUST BE TRUE—Bing | in the case of Begin the Beguine, Crosby and The Musle Molds.

BUTTONS AND BOWS Shore and her Happy

Boys.

this was written by Cole Porter many years before Arte Shaw Duah revived it in 1939 t become on Valley all-time hil

ALICE BLUE GOWN-Glenn Miller and his Orchestra.

DUKE'S MIXTURE Jumes and his Orchestra,

Harry

SAY SOMETHING SWEET TO YOUR SWEETHEART-Jo Star- ford and Gordon MacRac with The Starlighters.

SULTRY SUNSET - Duke Ellington and his Orchestra (tea-

Hodges on turing Johnny Sax).

Alto

FEELING-Peggy THAT OLD Lee and The Capitol Jazzmen. Time permliting, the last record will be TEA FOR TWO-Joc Venuti, violin.

Next week, teen agers who ngured prominently in the Ident Programme competition will be Invited to Rediffusion's studios to get as disc-jockeys.

Excellent Oldies

Star Dust has just celebrated is twenty-first birthday and s undoubtedly the tune most heard and played in the last decade.

Two Latin-Americans, 'Mama Inez and Siboney, are still very active after having been in busi- ness for 20 years.

The year 1040 was a good one and perhaps, In 1970, we will still hear To Each His Own, Symphony, Five Minutes More, Can't Begin to Tell You and Laughing On the Outside.

I am quite certain that Star Dust, Night and Day (1932), Be gin the Beguine and a host of others will still be popular in the next century.

New trenda notwithstanding, After You've Gone will continuc to be played after you've got.

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May I add a little suggestion? REVIVALS: Out of the evils We are interested in the Teen uf last year's recording ban some Age Toples and read each Issue

several excellent oldies which like to have the whole page like: were neglected through the years. the "Children's Herald" with comics like Patsy Walker or Ar-

un.

We must not, however, confuse chle with sume sketches and so the resurrected tunes with the songs which because of their in- transient quality have never been out of the picture.

Lunes I append a short lat which have been récorded many times since Brat attracting atten- tion. These are songs which will go down to posterity and hardly

A day goes by without their be- ing played somewhere as jazz or dance music.

A pen friend column with also be un excellent Iden I think since ench teen age personality 13115 mentioned that he or she hus dozens of pen friends.

I hope you would appreciate my suggestion. I shall chy my best to help. Good luck!

Clara Maher (Thank 1/01 ttery much for your letter and suggestion: Clara.

1da, Sweet As Apple Cider I shall also try and see what can (1003).

be done.Ed.)

Very much in the news lately He was soloing after four hours was Dave Eggleton, born and of instructions as you have prob- baptised William David Eggleton ably rend in the "China Mall." on June 22, 1931 in Berkshire,

He has not yet, however, re- England.

celved his licence but will be Tall, dark and quite good look-doing so after he has done the Ing. (see cut if you don't believe it) Dave is a ane athlete and wants to fly. But let's start al the beglaning.

Dave left England in 1936, atd. landed in Shanghai where he be Enn his studies in the well known Cathedral School.

Just before the war broke out however, Dave found himself in Canada and he stayed there dur ing all the fighting years, living In Toronto where he attended an Institute of learning called Forest

(no, they Bill School

dil nal lench tennis, there he said.)

In Canada Dave began taking up the track sports, "I sprinted here and there but without very much success,"

he said.

In 1946 he came to Hong Kong! and joined the King George V Schoot where he mutriculated this

yeur.

Dave is learning to fly at the Far East Flying Training School.

POP

required numbers of hours.

Dave won the Victor Ludorum

SCHOOLBOYS AS

URANIUM PROSPECTORS

Britain's leading uranium pros-position to mine those il de-

ores from

pector has nomo unexpected allies,posits, They are schoolboys.

But deposits found abroad are, it different proposition. Since the Usually they are very intelligenturanlum Inant began in curnest in young men, but they can be #1042—the year the atom bomb firat inixed blessing.

| appeared the Ministry of Supply Theno days, instead of old-han thrown a security cloak around fashioned subjects like motorcars, uranium deposits found abroad. Britain's leading atom geologist, railway engines, or oven flying, your 1949 schoolboy, in interested who travels abroad a good deal in atomic energy and its potentiall-and would not reveal hla namu for iles.

"obvious reanana," had this to say

recent uranium trentisce and even of

lincoverfen They read boya fiction, in which are given abroad:

*** am telling no secrets when ! accounts of various which atomic energy haa otiorged. say, that recently wo have found Then, free with enthusiasm, some most useful deposits in new

spots abroad which though not at KGS in 1947 and was cham-they become amateur prospectors.

Usually they make a trip to a nearly so high-grade as are mined pion in the 800 metres at the 1948 quarry near their homes and begin from the Belgian Congo-the finest inter school sports.

a search. Often their eyes alight in the world-are a goed source of in RGS Dave was head pre-on a likely piece of material-and || supply." feet besides being

On his desk lay the rough draft the school's off by post goes another sample of sports captain, and also captain site or sing to be analysed by the of a 28-page "prospector's hand-

Atomic Energy Division of the book," which to be fated next. of Nightingale House.

thond broad Recking I hobby 1s chiefly making Geological Survey and Museum in month to uranium. South

Kensington, S.W.7. airplane athletics.

Every day at least five samples "But the men who make a sue- He wasn't very successful in uf ore, believed to have a high cess of prospecting will not be the the Colony Open Championships uranium content, are sent to the old rough-neck type of gold or din

mond miner," he explained. "Seck- but managed to place third in the Atomic Energy Division.

The team of scientists who ing uranium is a selence for which 400 metres running it in his best time: Just under 54 seconds, Dave analyse specimens and test them a high degree of informe back-

for radio-activity are not very ground la necessary.” intends to continue with his athle-hopeful about those collected in the He told me how atomic energy geologiata laughed recently when they read a report that uranium had been discovered on Dartmoor, "We knew it was there 20 years ago," he said, "but deposits are so small they are not an economie pro- position."

tles.

models.

ilis

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Musically, Dave has leaning to classical pieces although he is famillar with modern and popu- lar music. He reads anything that comes his way. particularly | magazines on planes.

YOU ARE TAKING THIS VERY NONCHALANTLY!

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ZAR. KIRBY, PLEASE FORGIVE ME FOR IN HARSH WORDS ABOUT MISS DORIAN. AFTER ALL, I DO NOT KNOW HER...I WAS THINKING

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