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THE GIRL WITH WORLD'S MOST TERRIFYING JOB

By KENT STEVENS

SAT terrified.

hunda clutched

arms of my Beat. nerves were strung taut. could hardly breathe.

My Earth. She doubled for Betty,

too, in the long shots.

the

My

I

TOW they are in Britain for the first time, defying death for 20 minutes a day, and half.: An hour

Saturdays. I wondered if they were terrified as their audiences.

on

"Not so much," said Pinito. "We are afraid, yes, but we try n-not to think about it."

High above me in the Harringay Arena a lovely girl named Pinito del Oro was performing. оп-

She swung back trapeze. and forth, from side to aide and in ever-widening circles.

She stood now on one

Does anything #cally frighten Pinito, whose name means Little Golden Pine"?

"Yes," sho said, "la cucaracha" -the cockroach.

POCKET CARTOON

Dỷ QSBERT LANCASTER

"In day cams -ic's vertali to work out a whole lot cheaper than golag in the Abbey by bun!"

knee, now on two toes, now "TIME' AT 6 p.m. LEADS TO ALL THIS

on one toe. As a climax she stood on her head and read a newspaper.

ALL

-AND-SHE--DID

THESE THINGS WITH. HER OUT USING HANDS.

fect below her Fifty stood a man. He watch- ed, 03 we oll watched, with muscles tensed, his eyes never

DOWN UNDER

-THE TABLE

From ARTHUR MORLEY

politan Polico Superintendent

Sydney, PRASH, bustling Sydney, leaving the the New York of the crazy girl in the air. But

South Seas," la feeling so he moved; he circled ns she circled, walked forward much like New York these

side days that it hurts. and backward, from to side, always keeping pace with the trapeze.

Sound of Music

For he is Pinito's "safety net," waiting to catch her shoukl she fall. He is also her husband-and they are desperately in love.

Its British population is shocked to find that in addi- tion to American-style sky- scrapers, stores and big business they have an up- savoury mess of big-time racketeering.

The scandal broke when a Royal Commission Wa8 appointed by the New South Wales Government to inquire into the State's liquor industry.

pro-

Come backstage with me to meet them. Pinito is 21, beautiful, sloe-eyed and

Since then eight sleck; only five feet tall and weighs eight stone.

minent Sydney men have Her voice is soft and when been arrested for perjury she speaks it is like the (though not all were con-

and victed) sound of music. She smiles officers have been called into high police often when she looks at the witness box to explain Juan her eyes light up.

how they got their thou sands of pounds of savings

Juan, her husband, is 30 and small, too, for a man only bft. bin. and But he weighs 9st. Glb. is wiry and strong. He smiles often, and when he looks at Finito his eyes are proud.

Plalte is the youngest of 19 children. She was born in the Canary islands of circus par- ents and walked her first wire when she was 12, the day be

fore her mother died.

or assets.

Forty-nine Sydney night found to be clubs were peddling liquor illegally and lorries of black market bottled beer were being delivered to night clubs.

Informants, notably night, club girls, said they feared' "bashings" as reprisals,

At of the

Sweeney's assets Increased

by

20,000 between 1942 and 1850 when, Sweeney calmed, he had won £3,000 on racecourse bets. Metropolitan Superinten- dent Thompson's assets increased by £11,000. He told the Com- had won £7,000 miralon he betting.

It soon became evident that beer the much of the bottled ordinary Sydney resident could not buy was being syphoned off into expensive night clubs after being stored by the thousands of dozen in dumps around the suburbs. An army of racketeers and spiva were employed in the "Industry," protecting

their business by intimidation.

E

CORONATION CRESCENDO in Tin Pan Alley

By FRANCIS MARTIN

London.

VERY cther village

one

and organist suburban plano teacher

three .in share the illusion that they have written the song hit of the Coronation season.

This, at any rate, is my round of Impression after a music publishers from Tin Pon Alley (Charing Cross Road) to sedater and more historic housea a mile dr so further west, Ever since the Accesilon, manuscripts of Coronation ballads, marches and wallzes have been showering Цроп Individual publishers at the rate of up to 50 a week.

the whole. Not one piece in a thousand has the remotest chance of seing print.

EXPLOITATION MAN Charles Beardtail.

veniently ahead of the Princess's pojketed visit-early Last year. Then the King died. Music and records were withdrawn and scappot before they could reach the market,

The number is now in print a second time, with Princess deleted from the Utle and a retailored, lyric, rejoicing in Elizabeth as Queen.

To

3d. royalty

win the status of a Coron15++

to sell at least 100,000 coples

in SIN or eight weeks.

At threepence-a-copy royalty

R

the case of a half-crown ballad,.. this would

*the composer on undivided

yield

£1.250, supposing him to have written the words as well as the music.

1 Fees for radio and other per-

The manuscripts. uro-assessed by exploitation men known to the trade as song pluggers, who sit at upright planos or baby In smoke-fugged cubby- grands holes strumming and humming synod of shrewd, hard-bitten their way through oceans

of specialists

who know exactly formances would swell his fok- trash. For the quality of these what it takes In me and Ines, to £1,300; not a bad return Coronation compositions is poor

money to get u number sung for a couple of day's work in and played by the right people the case of a slick writer. on records and radio.

On the Tin Pan Alley wing, The experience of Beardsall where sheet-music still sells as and his velling committee is low as a shilling a copy, the typlen. Most plugges when royalty on a 100,000 male would asiced about the quality of the be only 2500, But Alley num-.

sweeter or hotter than

often have a ballads,

bigger vogue on records. Bearing in as well an mind gramophone radio takings, an Alley his should make its writer better off by £1,200 or £1,300 almost at a stroke.

a

A fair trial

£20,000 song

tending

to

avold

REFORE being thrown out stuff they are combing out, nlp bers,

their noses expressively: "It they are, however, given a suinics, brother." fair enough trial. They are

from all conaldered

musical angles, including the academic.

One of the bustest explolia. tion

[OST song writers are out for ar-old Charles Beardsalt M 27-year-old Charles who spends two hours

money and dame in equal

But, though publishers' and parts. They have all heard how gambles are many, hits are few. half daily ол manuscript Haydn Wood cold a million and Only one out of twelve "pops" sampling...

a quarter coples: of "Roses of

much as carns its keep: Beardsall came down from Picardy" in lers than 30 it the rest are printed

owing to high exploitation costs Cambridge with a Mus,Bas, making a carl £20,000 out

at a dead degree as well as the M.A. in Another thing: once a song loss. his pocket. He can analyse writer really gets into the vein Not Bach fugue, or a Byrd motet there is no getting him out of Alley s

surprisingly, Tin Par with the best, but three years it. At 70, Haydn Wood is n gambles. Publishers are thumb- One sergeant was suspended on the outskirts of Tin Pan full of tunes as a Juno black-

through in 1951 ing

back catalogues during the hearings and a num- Alley have given him equal bird. One morning

he

and and and disinterring songs ber of police officers asked the insight into "pops," short for sat down after breakfast

which made the grade marches laxation department's permis- popular numbers.

started writing a march-ang. In eight months Beardsall "Princess Elizabeth of England, at former crownings, slon to amend their tax returns.

Walter Partridge'a Coronation has Lasted 240

Coronation to words by W. E. Si L. Finny. That is how the matter rests. pieces, some of them from Before bedtime he had finisher Beils, written for the Corona The hearings have ended. faraway .addresses, including his setting, which went promptly tion of Edward VII (1902). atmosphere and a little more of Sydney is wondering hether Honduras, the Punjab, Jamaica, to the printer and the recording in the shop windows for a fourth a little less of the New York Kenya, Vancouver.

studio where It was sung by a time, with new words pinned to its middle-section melody. Tha the London might not be a good

A sheet edition of 3.000 and words were jointly written by thing. The Government is walt- The other 80 were thrown out a stack of records were put on three lyric writers under the ing for the data before making at fortnightly sessions of his liner for Australia. They collective name of J. Bull. Tha the inevitable reforms,

Arm's vetting committee, a were to hayo arrived con- publisher warmly praises the

Lyric.

ric, describing it as "tight and strong." Sample:

Long may she reign in-glory,

alt Muy her years bring peace

Berene.

Jected 160 himself as hopeless.

Of the 240 total he has re- girls' choir.

THE FOUR HUNDRED

BECOME THE 30,000

By EVELYN IRONS

Ring, ring out those Corona-

tion bell-

God bless our gracious Queen?

Peace, prayer

CORONATION song sentiments.

to not change much. The

New York. Pullman reservations and hotel at charity entertainments, where Queen is praised by published YORK, city rooma.

sho, spinetimes sings. Her hus- and unpublished writers alike,

In comes from Madrid. He hearing New South Wales N hitherto has been itch fusing, taxation and the end, "Sonny," is the third not only because che is young,

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15 Premier Cahill announced terested only in the future, affected American society babits has led American horse breeding

have generation of a family which but also because she is head of

Forces Fighting away from home at and later joined the navy. Oao that his Cabinet had is now turning back to its in New York as they have in and racing.

Peace and prayer are im- But also we must be portant. day his ship put In at Cadiz. approved a proposal that Mr past. People are getting London. There is no hostess now

in New York like the great Mrs

prepared. Nobody circus, Justice Maxwell, head of the sentimental about the old Comelhas Vanderbilt, friend of

is writing He, went to the local

MRE WINSTON GUEST, patriotic music atonally or saw Pinito, and fell in love, Royal Commission, should days when Society

was Que

Mary

and

the Duke of pre.ty blonde wife of the polo three

once. 'keys at

Simple travel abroad, particularly spalt with a capital S. ` Windsor. She was an outspoken player, who is a second cousin harmonies and swinging tunes Pinito combed Juan's hair

to England and the Con-

There is a sudden flow

autocrat "He

who entertained 100,000 of Winston Churchill, his god- are recognised as best. gently as she told me:

beath the Rulo, wooed me with flowers and "Itinent, to study other books about the old days, and guests. In one year more than father. He is the ex-husband of is no

the White House. Her Christ- a Woolworth heiress.

Britannia, idiom. wooed him by teaching him people's drinking laws and the public are lapping them up.

parties with tricks on the trapeze ord the habits.

Several of them quote the story re-conte orchestra wires because he wished

playing Mrs E. T. Stotesbury, the waltzes, and queues of visitors share my danger,"

The background to the

who ex- celebrated hostess, plained

'in the hall, were'n' Now Two years later they were scandal is the fact that all the 14-carat gold laps ning up to sign the visitors

in her bathrooms by saying, York Insulation.. married and

Juan begun his Sydney hotels must stop "They're very scanomical. You Her jewels were insured for task of protesting her from selling liquor at 6 p.m. This don't have to polish them, you

know,"

£1,000,000: death, twice daily. Three times has given rise to what is

she had 44 servants they have almost lost. Once-

Once upon aime New York in her old Fifth Avenue house, all was well, no one was hurt. known here as "The Great Society was limited to 400, They now demolished. She was the But one day, in Madrid a year Swill." Thirsty workers were the "best poopio in the first great New York hostesa to after their marriage, Pinito crowd into bars as soon as days when Mrs William Astor's receive the Duke and Duchess of silpped and fell head first,

they finish a day's work, parties were limited to just that Windsor after the Abdication. trying to cram down drinks number, How many are there

* OUTSTANDING before they are thrown out well, the Social Register côn- at six.

tainsome

something liko $0,000 But here is a list of the woinen names, (The Social Register is whom New York recorrises ha "In that moment one

Everybody deprecates the jealously studied list that is the outstanding hostesses, of to- not think," she said, "Panie position, but nobody dot care drawn up afresh every year by day; ¡OSSEBSON you."

thing about it. The pollilelons a secret panel of selectors who MIRS WILLIAM WOODWARD feel that a sensible extension of publish it. In a Utilo black wife.of the millionaire banker And wint was Juon thinking? drinking hours would Jaso book.)

whoso horres are trained in Eng- them the votes of church and

land by Boyd-Rochfort and who temperance people.

has been obstinately trying to win the Derby for the part 27 But a good many of thom years. His stables are aid to be

worth something liko Another factor is that botlled | 30,000 would certainly not

000, Belair stud is beer la scarce and so goes, into quality for Society as it was

defried in the days of the 400 of muste: likes to entertain Mrs Woodward is a great patron He was knocked out. Pinita the black market.

They fall into two groups. earried to her dressing-

people to intimate micals after One is Cafe Society-he me

Lown houso room, unhurt. But Juan was two days in hospital.

It was told by a ghl night chib go out to be seen at the Twenty homes with a great ballroom.

tow surviving private castler that police warnings had One, the Cub Room at the Stocks GEORGE BAKER, They laugh at that now. But been given to Caronia Club, Club, and other

York they do not laugh, or even Sydney, of the possibilty of resorts: Some of them

Bonaire banker's widow. talk, about "the great mal-pelice said The police received afford it hero is a name for giving a big dance shortly a Granada Avo years ago, Pinito chicken, beers and sandwiches them the wolld gold swizzle her granddaughter, Diane fell 40t, split her chin, fractured without charge there, the claim alick set. But there are the MBS GEORGE.J

·BAKER, her skull, broke her ribs and ed.

oy, JUNIOR, her: daughter-in-law. Leg and suffered cerebral hoemorrhage.

Metropoliton was in •Later,

ofice A recent questionnaire circulated -Police

Lowling New York charity committee woman,

for 23 conscious for 15 days.

Superintendent W.CB Thomp restauranta and night resorty years director of the Philhar son agreed bafore the Commis revealed that more than 60 During their four years of sion marriage they have travelled the were

"That "many night clubs Iount of the clients WETO DAI“ - monio-Symphony Society of Now York, a planist herself, Divorced conducted in flagrant

llents were people vincent Astor, who inherited a world. For months they were in breach of the law," but he did paying their way on gar million

fortuney

twelyo the US, with the world-famous at believe that police were bes accounts an

C.The expenet account spend £27

apendors years ago: there was a property Fingling, Barinen and Bailey ing paid protection money,

priority everywhere-not settlement estrelas 70

amS CORNELIUS VANDEZ-

"Only to catch her-in any way I could. I slapped her hold and back at the same time in opposite directions to make ber spin round. Sho fell on me. That is all I remember."

wha

Sho

The Royal Commission hear-

TWO GROUPS

ing started quietly enough. Then given to the rich celebrities who one of the

| And it was Pinito" who partne

.

t

Her

*for

Taller.

others expense account Society MRS LYTLE HULL. great

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