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RETURN OF THE WARRIOR

AMERICAN PARTY POLITIC

World Copyright By arrangement with Daily Herate

MISS MENUHIN IS GLAD

Beverley Baxter When men sing, the heart of a nation is stirred

7OU may not be aware. I do not think they intended

of it but the Arts to do it.

mean do-

Council has something What happened was this. very special up Its sleeve. On when Winston Churchill came June 1 there is to be a con- in Sir Waldron Smithers, who cert "unlike any other in the repute broke into that

an organist of no whole Festival Programme." pressing English folk song The event is to be called known as: "For He's a Jolly "Singing Englishmen." Thus Good Fellow." does England make reply to Wales and Edinburgh.

This set a dilemma for the rest of us. To Ignore Sir Waldron's exuberance would The choristers are to be have seemed a slight to our ordinary men and women

lender, so in British fashion we compromised

followed chosen from the workers, Waldron about an octave fat.

ond

Then

as the answer

came

and the songs will be gather- ed from the past. Herbert The Red Flag." There is no

Morrison 18 particularly question about it, the Socialists enthusiastic because, accord- sg better than the Tories, At ing to the official announce- least, they did in 1945. ment. It seems that in the NOW A SOLO, bad old days of Tory misrule THE JONES BOYS' our grandfathers and grand- mothers cang at their work and in their private affairs.

AN ELEMENT OF DOUBT HERE

THE most distinguished I have ever heard was during rendering of "The Red Flog"

the General Strike when Mr Lloyd George and the late Lord Birkenhead came to Lord Beaverbrook's flat at the top of the Sunday Express building."

That was, of course, just be-

declaration that he took

710

MR MORRISON wants to recover that spirit, if it is not too late. Perhaps it is fcre Lord Beaverbrook's sixth this element of doubt which part in the affairs of his news- has caused him to book it papers. for St. Pancras Town Hall rather than in the Festival Hall.

"F.E." had secured a copy of the words, and as LG. was known to be reasonably musical it was suggested that he should.

accompaniment on the

At first effect only

SHE'S MRS NICHOLAS... Portant, they de lave 1 of salt and the other was handy

O

By

EVELYN

FF from London to Paris soon to give three concerts

with brother Yehudi

is

IRONS

Does Mrs Nicholas, playing the busy housewife and mother, ever pine for the glitter of the concert pianist's life? Does the miss the applause, the adulation pianist Hephzibah Menuhin, and the bouquets that came the 31. next month. But what way of Hephzibah Menuhin? a pity, she thinks, that this

'SO HAPPY' will prevent her from going to Scotland with her hus TEVER for one minute," she bund to buy An Aberdeen

N says in the slight Austro- equired Jian accent she has Angus bull,

ishe speaks Russlan,

French German, Italian and Spanish as well). I have never been 50 happy in my life.

Look at my husband he is contented man. wish for?"

Thirteen years ago, this pocket-size blonde with the deep blue eyes, the pale face and the bright, brisk and practical manner threw up an already brilliant career in music to marry Austra- lian Lindsay Nicholas ant

greatest success

and a happy Isn't that the

anyone could.

says, being brought up in either faith, but will choose their own when they are old enough,

ond

WOMAN

of the WEEK

host

Beaverbrook

It is well known that a lead the others while I played nation's songs are more im- the

plano. than its laws. On fateful day in 1941 startling. Then Bs our when Yugoslavin overthrew rently got going it was terrify its faint-hearted leaders and when Lord defied Germany. I called at sings it sounds like an ailema- the Legation in London to tion of the Shorter Catechism, pay my respects to the a rallying of the Empire and a

gale warning. Minister and his wife.

They told me then that the peasants so loved their songs extolling love and pride of country that they would never bow down to a conqueror. and They

them atil sing

What is the year's big- gest excitement on the form that is three miles from the

17 nearest neighbour, miles nearest small town? from the Saya, F Hephzibah, The Woolshed Ball." To the Nicholas's wool. shed come 600 neighbours their children from a plays any musical instrument 200 miles around, Hephzibah is r drudges busy for days beforehand make that they should not be forced carried on the wind even to the erpeggios. Hephzibah bellevca Yugoslavia, and the sound is ing preparations which include. a heady wine cup called Jungle Juice to sell at 6d, a glass, Pro- ceeds go to her dearest project The children's travelling brary of 4,000 books which she

ກ

runs herself,

PLAYED AT 4 LYEPHZIBAH enjoys concerts,

at scales

in

to learn if they show no natural secret places of the Kremlin. Inclination. She herself gave her first concert in San Francisco at the age of eight but she is per- create a rabbie-rousing anthem The worst of all attempts to

evily content that Kronrad is a is "The Red Flag." Bernard born farmer, already handy with Shaw described it musically as his father's sheep and cattle, being only fit for a funeral

march for a fricasseed eel. Sho idolises her famous brother. When Londoners hear her for the third time (she

Not content with the Moscow aniheth, he gave a solo per- formance of an old song which, he claimed, was the whole story of New Brunswick in the days when he was a small boy there in his father's

manse. Here it is:-

Oh the Jones boys! They bullt a mili On the side of a hill, And they worked all night And they worked all day, But they couldn't make That gosh darned sawmill pay!

After that Lord Birkenhead remembered an important up- pointment and left,

docs not miss joves the theatre; in London played there with Yehudi when but how was he to know that INSPIRED BY

She certainly the money. She und Yehudi can, it is true, earn around

Airs. Nicholas with Marston and Ironrad in London

live on his 25,-000-acre £2,000 for one concert. But tall, sheep and cattle farm 137 handcome Lindsay Nicholas Is miles from Melbourne, Vic- not only a former, but the son of a proprietary medicine king toria.

and a near-millionaire,

with

From the it must not be

leisure,

she has been out every night. Her taste serious. ("The Con- the was 14 and again in 1847), sul excited me so much

they will notice how modest she couldn't sleep afterwards."')

islu. his presence..

I

But at home Mrs Nicholas is content to go to bed at 10.30 and rise at 7 each morning.

PUZZLED

This was rather hard on the nice old German who wrote it, his Christmas carol Tannen- THE 'MARSEILLAISE' baum" with its gentle words, "O Christmas Tree, O Christmas THERE is, of course, nothing Tree, Vou do not bloom iu to equal.. "La Marseillaise" in. winter alone," would become the power to stir the pulsts and the anthem of red revolution? inflame the spirit. It is a com

position of sheer genlus created If anything the words of in a moment of fierce exalta- There is a fortnightly in MANY people have puzzled "The Red Flag" are even more tion. Even to our British ears

vainly over the sudden out- feeble, How would you like to it crop of musical genius in these stand up with clenched, fist and emotions.

never falls to rouse the are children of

Then what must it poor parents who distended nostrils and sing:- originally came from South

to the French? Russla and emigrated Liem Most evenings there is music, Palestine to San Francisco. But usually from the family's vast there is no mystery about where collection of gramophone records, Hephzibah got the ideas which Nicholas plays led her to what most would ell Sometimes Mr the organ and his wife plays the wilderness. Her affinities the piano. Since-music-cessed-are-with-the-Kibbutzim-of-her

finds ancestral Israel, to be her work she she enjoys it infinitely more.

show at the Nicholas's farm, to which all the neighbours invited.

"I believe

in

Look round, the Frenchmen

loves its blaze, The sturdy German chants

its praise,

mean

I never heard it played more beautifully than when the French President and that усаг

his wife were received by both

In Moscow's vaults its hymns Houses

are sung,

Chicago swella—the urging

Song. Shades

Coloneld Mc-

community Cormick!

of

"But I don't practise," says living and that doesn't mean Yehudi's sister, "Only once a Communism,” she Bays. "It THE SOCIALISTS year or so when I am giving a means groups of people living SING IT BETTER concert, I pub in a spell of five together for the common good, hours a day at the piano,"

eating and working communal- Although their mother playly. I believe that the two coun ed the piano at four and tries of the future are Israel

clamour and Australia,"

Yehudi their uncle ed for his first violla at three, (World Copyright Reserved.-London neither of the two Nicholas boys Express Service)

of Parliament in the great gallery. As our guests and their entourage slowly orchestra walked up the aisle #hidden gave such meaning to the famous anihem that it WAS

at once poignant and

beautiful.

Lat

Us hope that the Presi~ YET on the day that Parlia- dent and his lady both had ment assernbied after the tears Socialist

in their eyes, for then sweep in 1945 the

they may not have noticed that Socialista sang that dirge in on one wall of the gallery was the sacred Chamber of the gigantic painting of Waterloo House of Commons, In fairness and a companion-painting on

the other wall of Trafalgor. OH, BE SWIFT, MY SOUL, TO ANSWER ...

IT would not be right in this review of national musical expression to leave out. the Americans even if it were possible to omit the Americons in anything these days,

LALA KILLED 17 HUSBANDS

#

By ALWYN TEBBITT

cording to Indian custom

But the fickle Lala will not

of 14 and murdered her hus- detective stories are unpopular. unvelling

and three When the police arrested

weeks

and made her work too hard,

In

New Delhi.

Yes, she admitted, she had A fortunate young, man. He NITTING dejectedly in the polsoned them, but all the would probably have been No.

todies had been cremated on 18.. local gaol at Bhatinda, Since then she has emerg-

The day of their deaths, ed only occasionally to make imagined that Hephzibah has in the East Punjab, is pret-

Their "Battle Song of the There was no evidenco to be hanged. Women have rare- Republic" to which the -an-uppearance-on-the-plat reted to a life of luxury and ty, 20-year-old Lala Wanti. form.

She is accused of murdering prove she had committed the ly been executed-in-India, and Northerners matched in tho

crimes.

murder Is not considered a Civil War, is only second The Nicholas's big, one-storey, 17 husbands in the last six

particularly Lala married first at the age the masses one She and her brother open red-roofed homesiced

serious crime by greatness to "La Marselllalse," has no years.

Teason why Few of us who were at the the Festival Hall on May 5 servants. Sons Kronrad (11)

of President Marston and

(seven next

later. He a sonata recital:, a

Roosevelt's statue in Grosvenor- month) make

In fact, their own beds. her, Lala had just sliced off she salt, month before that date, Husband Lindsay operates the the hand of Husband Num-

violent death is so common that unless it reaches square will ever forget hearing

those every one of the 4,000 places vacuum cleaner.

words sung in the vast The rest of her husbands she makes even a small headline.

famous a

it rarely quiet of that morning: person ber 17 with an axe. was hooked.

had killed when eho found Lala's 17 successful efforts were He hath sounded forth the Hephzibah docs a bit

someone moro

attractive-an worth only two paragraphs in That was not just because of everything. Her favourite chores She explained that, ahe average of one every four the local papers.

trumper that shall never brother Yehudi, Hephzibah-is—cooiding and making preserves, was fed up with him, and months.

call retreat; He is rifling out the hearts. acknowledged to be a great per. She is devoted to her children: that she had fallen in love

Of men before His ta đ former in her own right::sho, has ideas about education ("I'm with another young man

Judgment seat: may neglect her talent, but it an interfering member of the who worked on the railway.

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer never, rusts. When, Bir Malcolm)” parents' committee I Insist on As her husband refused to

Him, be fubllant, my feet! Sargent was giving o concert a say in how my worms are taught

Our God is marching on." and fed"): Ideas about diet release her, she had no alter with her in Australia, he we have plenty of vegetable native but to kill him,

Shakespeare himself would thought at first that little b. Julco, plenty of meat and never of Mozart would be as much, sugar which is why my elder When the police accused as she could manage. But she boy still has some of his milk Lala of murdering the 10 other insisted on the massivo, second, teeth"). She is a Jowess and young men she had married,

She can't understand why concetto of Brahms, and amazed a Zionist; her husband a Metho- she shrugged her slim shoul- have been Dve to go to the the police should create such 1-him" by "playing it likɗ'a master,, dist. · The children are not she | ders.

young man an' the railway, jhe fuss over sich ́a upali matter,

!

of

have

years.

Lala also admitted that it So Lala Wanti will now have an from ring riveted on her was a mistake using an axe to

lll her last husband. It had snap to let go and will be caused her arrest.

sent to prison for five or twelve If only she had used polson' she would not

boon. As she belongs to the aw GPPET caught. She would merely have class the "Untouchables" she have rejoiced in that phrase, Jamented her latest husband's will be given the dirtiest and "he jubilant, my feet!”": Thac, death, as elatom demanded, most arduous jobs, `

flame still burns in the spirit of followed the body to the crema-

America even if its tunes have changed,

-(London Expres Aerolos.) by

tion ground, and would then