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In this blunt (and eyebrow-raising?) piece of self-analysis ..................... a man who is known to millions explains the philosophy of his career

MY ATTITUDE TO MONEY

D

by Jack

Il y l to m

Number Two in a series (Lesley Storm was first) by successful people who have known what it means to be hard up.

AD was a Lancashire- My Dad took after Blatchford, I did a double act with Tommy sideration comes in,

man. He worked as a and I take after my Dad,

Handley. We flopped. twister in a colton I've made more money than

I played the plno in a night mill. Later he kept a pub. my Dad did. I've also lost more, club, I plugged songs on the In all his life I never knew The money I've got now is all sands of Blackpool; and I made

and the most of a piece of luck, him to worry about money, invested in varius shows not even when he had it,

copyrights and a run of failures could put me on my back, But 1 don't worry. I know I could set up cgain.

show

may or

my mind at that time that the mancy elemem really does not Later enter into it. It is, only when the show

either, A success or a flop that this con-

If it is a success then it does not matter so much, but if it is a flop I have very quickly to consider: Do I take it off, do I continue and give it a chance to make something-what do I do? I happened to hear the Arst More often tiian not I stert

for another. I realised that the straight away, which He wanted money, of

Paul Whiteman record brought planning

to Britain. Like most Linen

music which Whiteman played may not be successful. shiremen, he wanted to I didn't worry when my volc Mas properly orchestrated in-

I'm sorry when some of them the look after himself. But he broke and to stopped my Lanes- stead of being the usual hap-

I lost money over shiro music-hall career as the hazard improvisations, I started fuif.

music for in London Philharmonie Orchestra was sure that he could. So singing Mill Bay complete with to erchestrate

but I was pleased when an Old- eloits, dlaner-can,

rod English band. and

ham man, after saying, "Let's handkerchiefed basin,

The records of Wais

band go tut Palace and listen to this came were an immediate success. But stof Jack says la good"

the members of from the concert saying, "Ah'm when I asked the band to pay me 10s, each row 11."

'ighbrow and didn't each a rody out of the fees they received from the recording companies ass payment for my orchestra-

tions they

course.

he did not worry.

He could afford little schooling for me, But to make certain that I In my turn could stand for on my feet, he sat by me hours on end in the singing- roum of his pub. making me practise the plane until 1 was good enough to accompany hun on Saturday nights.

Not a penny

BEGAN a Now enteer

pubile houses and on the sands

WHEN you get to the top you

voted unanimously Work and fun accompanist to singers in and democratically-to-kick-me-

pantes voted unanimously and spired by Robert Bintchford. 35, a weet as touring panto nancially to keep me in, which Dad was also a Socialist, in at Fyl. I even got a job-att. But the recording com-

I'd sie mime conductor though

was the beginning of Jack

and jealousy. Your cries (1 was in the Clarion music

are quite glad to knock you off glasses thal learned the never conducted before and was Hylton's orchestra.

]

must have been

your stool. I must say I miss the plements of music.) Like Blatch only 17-"It

and help I My concert-party days taught friendliness

got furd, he wanted to help other your father I engaged," said the

nois own producer when he first saw me. me to keep moving. I moved when I was on the way up, people to stand on feet without Dimbing on some- When a

Rhyl concert pariy from concert party to band-

on putting on leading. Then at the beginning

I went bankrupt I did not worry. one else's buck,

shows and making money,

en more shows hope, to put They please a Ict of people it they don't always please critics--or my accountants, the only people who really try to

1

I took on the management and of the second world war i went For him, cs for Blatchford was still

not worrying when into theatre management at Illa

in time Majesty's. Maybe his political faith was not after paying all dobts I had not joyless doctrine. It was warmed a penny left for a cup of tea on shall move into something else

the train going back to London. Eut I'm not worrying about

by the fun of living.

BLATCHFORD.

A

Perhaps I was worrying it. I put on shows I like. lite round about 1914 when

• ROBERT

People someline say to me, brought up

became another concert party I was in poverty.

ex- do I not feel just before the Jounder of Socialist paper the running only just cleared Clarion, and died, aged 52, 1943.

penses. But Gillie Potter lent curtain goes up, "Well, there's His "Merrie England" was a hard)- me £3 on the train home and big money at stake" and do I book of Socialiam for many pears,

my not get cold feet? Blatchford' militani patriotimi text

through to to his estrangement from the move- Tent. His warnings about the German menace were too much fur pacifier colleagues. They never jo- save him for being right.

that saw me next job.

The answer is that it never After the fret world war 1. occurred to me. There are so

back was

in concert party, many problems see sing through

BRITAIN'S ODDEST 'TRADE UNION' -

The Stately

Stately Homes of England (Inc.)

London.

Lord

-But I'll go

make me worry.

зе

The

PARIS NEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

CHEVALIER

moves in

to Ike's village

Paris.

newspaper proprietor Col, Mp- Cormick gave me a piece of his mind in his Paris hotel sune.

On the Roosevelts: Personally. I prefer the Perns. At least Eva is prette: than Eloquor,

ONSIDER that modern Humlet. General Eisenhower,

pacing and pondering in his pre-fab Paris office and his suburban villa home. His "To be or and South Africa were the last 1. On the Brith Empire: India not to be" dilemma, is whe two countries left 10 burgle. ther to go home and seek Now the Bellish have lost tiem. the Republican nomination both they have nothing left, for the U.S. Presidency or On President Truman: A to risk losing it by staying slightly here as C-in-C of the Atlan- Roosevelt. tle Forces.

Eisenhower must make up his mind in the next 14 days.

analler

vasent

than

Da General MacArthur: Has evay quality but youth. Ho would be my choice for Pro- sident.

On Mr Churchill: My Ho- long confdans, but not us gooà autorator as MacArthur.

PEOPLE

A continuous stream of Eisenhower supporters flows into Paris by nir to try to

recommends 'an persuade him to go home. FRENCH dietitian Dr Charles These visitors give Press

English breakfast of tea, eggs conferences at the Supreme and bacon, tcast and marmolage Headquarters of the Allied as Powers in Europe. SHAPE balanced diet, begins to look like a political Sugar Hay Robinson headquarters.

at essential port

of

A

has

bought

a restaurant in Paris,

plans to serve, Southern Negro specialities,

Playwright Jean Anouilh has

IN AND OUT. So it seems that Eisen- written a play called "Tonight hower will be leaving Macbeth," in which police clear Marne-la-Coquette, the up a murder during an actual performance of Shakespeare's suburban Paris

village play. Last line of the

play where he and his wife have spokon by a police inspector, made their home. And into Not bad at all. Ought to keep in mind the name of the author. the

coming village is

Chup called Shakespeare," Maurice Chevalier.

For Chevalier has decided to sell his Paris flat in the fashion... able Avenue Foch and his villa

QUOTES

Neneral" "de" Gaulle: Itine UT. country does not follow my Cunes and settle down in

force, not humen Marne-la-Coquette, Thero he novice, no And I'll go on being mysalt. has bought a house built by Sir even my own, will be able to

"Get away Richard Wallace in the late put things right. Some of you say,

You can't with уси

19th cestury. The house will Socialist. You drink champagne bo painted and decorated in and own a couple of racehorses,"

no Socialist can be allow-ve the roof is to be converted

bito a roof garden, drink ed by his conscience to anything more fancy than port- Chevaller intends to install an open-air theatre in the house will be type wine or own anything more

villa dashing than a whippet,

grounds, The named after his mother. There will be a bust of her at the en-

35 it

I believe in working hard, in having fun and helping others to do the same. But then I take after Dad, and Dad took after Rebert Blatchford.

TOMORROW: PAY-OFF TO THE SERIES

By CILES

trance.

Playwright Marcel Pagnol:

of dynamite who you let tier You only find a woman is made

drop.

Former Finatico Minister Robert Huron, on being surn- for bicycle speeding; maned Don't be hard on 100, I am just ал unemployed Government worker.

McCORMICKISMS Car thief Emilo Soercas:

these

Financially there was nothing WHILE waiting for his Lon- in it. Like in other businesses

Anglophobe United

THESE AMAZING

Statra middle men.

AMERICANS

How little they know about us!

26-year-old of the big names in Society executive,

is opening his DRTY lenders of our -the Earl of Harewood Montagu, who

stately home, Palace House, most

distinguished (Harewood House, Leeds) Baru, Hants, to the public families have banded. got one; the Duke of on April 8,

(Alnwick together to create what Northumberland

Says he: "We must move with surely must be one of the Castle) another; and yet the times-or perish." oddest "trade unions" in another went to Lord De What of the lords and ladies the work. To help each L'Isle and Dudley at his who can see the sense in it?

Says Lady Pembroke: "What other solve problems that picturesque residence, Pens-

are we doing? We have sen! Place, Tonbridge. 2,000 leaflets to the bus com- may arise this summer hurst

panies telling people how to get when the portals of their Kent. stately homes

here and what they will find." flung

Every NAAFI

canteen on EARCH Britain for a place where political questions at a public wide open, they have formed

Salisbury Plain is plastered with meeting put from the audience are always prefaced with a polite a "combine" the Historic

the troops "Sir." Search here for campaign organisers who implore speakers Names of Britain Com Earl of Leicester declined posters informing

with thanks: the Duke of that they can view her magni- not to be too brief, since with anything under fifty minutes the

and gardens, the It: Lord Salisbury thought pictures and art treasures. for audience will feel they have been done out of their rights.

These and a dozen other contrasts to the British way of presenta- not quite the thing"; and the 2s. 6d., and park their Earl of Onslow pooh-poohed the inside the gate for is. (outside tion are what the guest lecturer, speaker, radio and TV performer idea.

mittee.

are

Industrialist, race horse owner Sir Harold Wernher -20,000 people paid 28. Gd. a time to visit his home. Luton Hoo, Beds, last year

is its leader.

'Not For Gain'

THE

Devonshire wanted no part of

that it

cent

house

car

.

by LORD BALFOUR OF INCHRYE who has just returned from a lecture tour in the U.S.

it is free).

"I did not wan to pour cold meets when he goes to work in the United States. "We are not doing this for water on this business," says

It is hard to sort out what impression comes but on top after a Sir Harold wrote, gain,

in the Duke of Mariborough at his effect. "Our aim is to stimulate 3,000-acre, £2,000,000 estate, Ifour weeks tour cover- the flow of paying visitors to but the original plan teemed,ing the Atlantic sea- From his Mayfair oflice, your beautiful home so

ambitious,

board Alabama, Cali- invitations went out to 97 may be prevented from falling "It seemed to me to be purely

the Middle into decay and be preserved for beneficial to those who have fornia | posterity."

been less successful than iWest and back to have" (more than 110,000 peo- New York and including 24 His plan was bold. He want ple vislied his home last year), speeches and 20 plus radio "small" sum to pay for publlelty What is the point in spending and TV shows. On the whole lots of money on advertising my on the cinema screen, on cross- home when its outstanding at- I put onthusiasm as number channel steamers and transattractions have already been pub- one.. lantic liners, and among caterers Helsed?" and bus companies, ta attract

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more sightseers and more Much To Learn

money.

others 3s,).

in a

British recognition of Com- Backers of President Truman,

The British visitor, arriving in America from a country of himself entering a boom elty at restriction and rations, finds boom time, TV sets are selling by the million. All talk is: order, the deep freeze; gel that 1952 cor; get it all now.

Move With Times for ancestral homes, has been family, their ages and c- the rest of the Dominions pay- wearing frowns.

and cupations,

for. 20 operating successfully.

munist China, trade through Mr Taft or General Elsenhower Hongkong and bitter resentment all tell you they would trade at the beating U.S. fighters are any of their candidates, any day reported taking in Korea from for Mr. Churchill Russian Migs, were uppermos: in audiences' minds, The United States is one great nation of enthusiastic that both Iran and Egypt, were There was a widespread beller

He suggested a close le-up with the Government-sponsored NEVERTHELESS, the Duke is salesmen. Meet a new man British colonies.

a leading light of the new

new city and in five Travel Association (thus en committee.

minutes he is selling as the It was hard to make lateners hancing their case for some tax

best-ever his town, his accept the fact that the British Commonwealth is a voluntary relief) and a possible standard- One of the first moves this isation of admission charges new aristocratle asso ation may mayor, his business, his association of free nations, each (some have been asking 26, make is to send a ro sentative club, his baseball team. In enjoying complete covereignty

But here and there, you find to France, where ti Demeure 10 minutes you know" his and not a federation controlled

from London with Canadà, and some big men in big business Historique, body which care

Rearmament demand may have primed every ing tribute to Britain,

consumer pump, but prices aro retail Americans flock to town hall rising and too, many meetings to hear addrerges on stores sales figures are below every sort of subject, Lecturers 1050, levels. These men declare are paid from 200 to 1,000 they see storm clouds of "reces- sion" gathering Pn the far horizon, dollars each tolk,

There is practically no per-

Let people who still eling to con anti-British feeling to be

the idea that Britain can over close the deltar gap by trebling

· Anglo-American relations were Our manufactured -exports to summed up by a New York U.S.A, remember this fact. Lant. taximan who said to me: time, a three percent recession are the Duke of Marion.

borough, Northants, and the My second impression Is the sure like the British, but I wish brought about n 37. percent (Blenheim Palace), Lady Fem- Marquess of Beth, of Longleat, high level of intelligence on they had not got marbles in increase in United States. PM- broke (Wilton House, Salisbury) Wills (last year's takings questions concerning U.S. over their mouths when they got tective tariffa pgainst foreign and the Duke of Richmond £10,000).

seas commitments and the low talking.” - standard of knowledge on.

popular Commonwealth and Mout Colonial affairs.

America in

ате you genuinely invited to his home.

CO. In a London hotel, a few years.

weeks ago, enough noble-

"We have much to learn from men and women to All 30

them," кауз Colonel C. pages of Debrett sat down to

He really has something Jaryls, of Doddington Hail, the foundation of Stately Times, "where the man with the to get across to you, his Homes, Inc.

Historic Homes of Britain (an smaller house is concerned. He national pride in the United

with organisation

must not be lett out in the States, his civic pride in his no official cold. status and no thoney) was farm-

city, his personal pride in ed.

The Earl of Warwick (Tha And this view is shared by Sir his niche. Castle, Warwick) was appointed Richard Proby, President of the vice-chairman to Sir Harold, Central Landowners Assocla- and on the Advisory

of Elton Hall, Peter-

(Goodwood, Chichester),

Chosen as 'secretary' way, a brilliant young public relations

Victor Sims British

dealt with.

¿

Briton in

Churchill,

imports. History; will repeat..

self. under like conditions,

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