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`THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1954.

MOSCOW'S MR MUSIC IS IN THE MONEY

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You Know He Wrote The Sabre Dance

Aram

THE ace money spinner. After a slight brush with

of Soviet mugle is the authorities, ntaying at water hotel

a Baya Khachaturian is approved by for a month. the Kremlin once more, and The name — Aram Khacho- prospers. From his Bayswater sounds liko a Hotel he tells`how" much... Aneeze, except for the Kh part, which cough.

furian

Lovely orchard.

has an out-of-date, almost tea- shop ring in Western critical cars. But that, apparently, is the sort of music the Kremlin pen- sklers good for the people.

There has been only one cloud on the Succer Boy's glory BO far. To mark the 30th anniver sury of the Octobor Revolution

even years ago, he wrote

All incidental parts for 23 trombone ปร was given ne by the soloists. The magazine Soviot

official Armenian Soviet Republic, They Musle,

professionn love and honour ine very much organ, complained that the

sounds like a pride, "ls in my cative Armenia, 5,000′ kilometros away from in 80, with frizzy black Moscow. Five rooms. Beautiful clamorous Symphony-Poem with hair, grey patches over the cars, garden. otal amiably bulbous features. When I met him he was wear-

ribbed shirt in pheri nyn, a sult and the which did not match in the least, and an 31173 expression of somnolent cardi-

"I am here."* said the coin- puser of the renowned and Dance, to meet Lowdy Sabre British composers. It is not enough that we exchange our music through the post.

lily.

Wo

cermot

more

roses in

Fourth award

0

In Armenta, Whenever I walk nudience sat in stunned silence,

streets of Erevan (the in fe capital), people strew my path

"Why did the KOVOJCATIOnt give me this house? Because, !

Three months later Khaela- want to 'capture' think, they

list of me. They wont me to seitje turian was No. 8 on

six eminent Soviet composers Unfortunately 1 down there.

condemned for writing anti- whats gix греты weeks a year in Armenia"

people music by the Central must shake each other by the

Committee of the After all, Aram is a preposter Communist Party, whose mem- Russian hand, look luto cach other's A

He does the Com

Пуста eyes, read each uther's thoughts."ously busy inany,

were entirely work of six. He composes com- 200 missiooed music

for the State specialist musical training. But ("As soon as they say, 'Write that was in 1949. Lis

seems to be forgotten. OT thet I

lunp sum, He composes also for cinema and routine radio, publication. He writes articles in magazines and about music

He teaches compo. Envy wspaper. sentiment?

ใน rillen in two academies. And he ecptrives to be a star conductor as well.

Two flats

eyes

arc ♫

Aram's

rich Armenian brown, When British Composers look to them, what 13 Ther

£1

perhaps.

Aram goes about at home in a chauffeur-driven Pobedu (Vle-

roomy and relatively if 1 conduct a etneart outuude 10) D sleek Jub lavoured by Soviet Meacow," tre says, "I get paid embuustes. "I don't drive my for that cue concert enough for sell, Arstly. because am myself and my family to live on tervulis, recondly,

bermise 1 for it month. Just before don't want to become chauffeur coming to London I conducted to my extire family"

treugh concerts in Armenia In a month and four days to keep us for a year and a half. I am the best-paid musician in the

USSR today."

He has two fluts, two country. houses and the use whenever he wants it of a State-owned coun- Iry coltage (three roums, plane and full service) for spells of high-speed work.

This living

space allowance will maks Eng sh omposers, however pros prvous, stare furiously.

The two flats, one on top of

the other, are near the heart of floscow, n cily with an Beute

Leasing problem for all but

starred" workers. Each dat as three rocins.

Composes, too

"1 140

KISS

Arum. "and

fut," explains

iny wife, Nina You

Makarova, uses the other.

Cap.

seo, Nina 19

Much of the catchy, quasi- Oriental muste Aram compose

without

The cloud

"I received my fourth Stalin Award after the Central Cont mittee bod spoken," exults Aram. The Stalin Award now- wlays Carries with it 100,000 roubles, bringing Aram's prize money so far to 360,000 roubles,

"How

Inanj

Pobeda Cary could You buy

100,000 roubles?"

"Six and aquar.er." replies Aram.

English composers may well feet envious, But, thinking of hivyings by Central Com- miltees," they prefer to slay home,

Francis Martin

OKLAHOMA WOULD

LOOK SILLY

REPORTS

Join

of

She writing an opera about

a 17-year-old Soviet

Arc

Je

mylo was hauged

Moscow by the Fasclets."

"Nazis, surely"" "Well, yes, Nazs.

By LES ARMOUR

that "Okin- Oklahoma farmhouses to Arizona,

there would have весть ΠΟ excuse to write this.

STR

DANGER CHILDREN

"It's worth trying-didn't you read whore a girl got suspended from school for wearing a beach suit this week?"

"

London Express Bervice

SIR WINSTON OF WESTMINSTER: A BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE

CHURCHILL'S 54 YEARS

T

HIS year marks not only Sir Winston Churchill's 80th birthday but the 54th since he first entered the House of Commons us the young M.P. for Oldham. No other member cun span comparable period of

a

boma la to be filmed And what is more Important history; none has occupied Arizona will possibly

so controversial a position excite the more excitable to

in it. comments like "Oh, that's Hollywood Tgain.”

But this

So Nina Point.

must have a fia; to her elf, with plane ard wck-dest. We breckfust together, then separate

the day.

for

is to miss the

The more fuel that Oklahoma

volvod

come.

A

IN THE

HOUSE

By lan Waller

It may be a major statement, be a bland but wilty

it may

refusal to impart information,

or

a devastating rebuff - to the delight of the whole House, Whatever It is M.Ps like to bo there to hear it.

Members have come

to cognise the signs of Sir Wlaston going into battle at question time. "When he is going to be controversial or hit hard, you can see it coming," I was told. "The chin goes out and the right leg steps fummly forward with the heel on

the ground. And then comes the bombshell,"

His speeches are at their best when dealing with broad) issues of world affairs-that of May 1952 calling for a four-power meeting; at their worst on-de- talled matters such as the de cision early this year, for example, to equip the army with a new type of rifle,

The Immense meulues kłam There are few survivors

in moving 13 feet Ol corn and peach blossoms to an of those early days and of Arizona valley just

for Ye the first government-the occusion will keep the publicity 1906 Liberal Ministry-in writers happy for mouths to which Sir Winston held office DA Under-Secretary Then there is the far that for the Colonies, a normally a land of cows, corn and c.1 wells and is much given to dust Oklahoma, being When Renik and

a place de-quiet position. Not only, business of voted to hard work, would have however, was the The sad, and come home from school-he's

Colonial while Arizona leoked mighty silly as a setting our little boy, 14- he losters inarning a living.

a desert inrgely devoted to for

Secretary cowhands

peer, which the

stair

flut or the down-

spending their sunning the rich and the famous, days singing Rogers Hanuner- meant the Under-Secretary wtroope stairs

dexording to

eside the point. music interests him more.

stein songs and generally moon-had full responsibility in the The 20,000,000 people who ing about.

Commotis, Mother's or Paper. When I get

but colonial back

paid £15,000,000 To see I shall be in wing inlo

On the Arizona dude ranches policy was then a source of during the there is a fair chance that this violent and bitter with bl 8,000 performances

contro- 4.200 days since Rogers and sort of thing does, in fact, Hammerstein wrote

the thing on

versy. The recent war in

In his great speeches he gives Lord Samuel recalls how, he has an undying affection the impression of brooding aloud were not concerned wata But the crowning point in South Africa, and the pence was the Churchill of young as he was, he was for the House, and its and almost spontaneously. But, realista.

Little did they care if Okia- is this:

favour of the Hollywood move treaty negotiated by the Westminster like in those none too pleased at being a members have an affection in fact, his speeches, unlike those

government, the burning early days? The recollec- mere Under-Secretary. He for him

of Lloyd George, are the result oma looked like Arizona or not.

that has nothing of many hours of work. Every Moreover, filming the thing in Oklahoma

Issue of Chinese labour in tions of those who knew says that Churchill called to do with party politics. word he uses has been carefully Oklahoma would have had a customers would have nothing the Rand, all provoked pas- him then create a picture the insignia of an Under-

chosen, every phrase polished serious effect on the publicity. to talk about afterwards. As it aion at question time and of a young man, intensely Secretary on the ministerial

It would not have been pet is, the customer can make him heated debates. The youth- ambitious, brooding deeply uniform

What then do those M.Ps say ill it has extelly the effect he

intends, sible to crow arch

at great Jergih self feel' superior indced

then by ful

worn for of him? Firstly, they point to Under-Secretary about the millors of dollars whispering to his companion:

was on the issues of the day and official functions a "badge his achrodt versatility n't tha moving authentic "Oh It's really phoney you plunged into battle from the conscious already of a deep of shame."

despatch box, his wit, humour LEADERSHIP sense of mission.

and ability to carry off difficult situations,

new and better fat.

#

i

Nins will stay where

stu io. she is."

On a little wooded estate an hour's run from the Aram's

first country house, two rooms upriairs, three below, with two verandahs en which the Kha- chaturian fanity, include an 80-year-old grandmother and daughter Nume, who is 22 and just married. fake the kummer evenings.

"My second country house," | sunt on says Aram, swelling visibly with Oklahoma

cows,

LD

HI Oklahoma looked Like In The Dim, the

authentic low-filmed in Arizona."

start.

You get guarded precision

Stainless steel sweep second hand 19 gold applied dial Agures

$160,00

Same as above with 14

yellow gold top and stain. lera stesi back

$120.00

On his visit to his old School, Harrow, earlier this month, Sir Winston gives his famous Victory sign as the boys cheer him after the annual sing-song.

How did he fare? What

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FULFILLED

VES, he is a House of Commons in everything. Flow Baker White, Tory MP. for at Westminster. are surprised

"I remember," saya John Y LADY Violet Bonham Car- Canterbury ill recently for very that he stays on to polities. The ter, Asquith's daughter, many years, "how on one oc- House is his second home, and recalls meeting him for the castor when an embarrassing he would be lost without it. first time when he was 38. situation was developing, as the "Unlike some; who'į doubt it He was sitting at a dinner result of a questions about the they want to be in politics at party, sunk in thought, Civil List, he turned to the Welsh all," says the Liberal MP MA when he suddenly turned to member wha· had raised the Arthur Holt, "Sir Winston has her and launched out on a matter and replied to him in never had such double, he has

Welsh."

an enormous zest for political long diatribe on the short- ness of human life for all

But the next thing' M.Ps 503. that had to be achieved in about him is that he is essen just strand at the despatch box: * Saya another M.P: "Ha doesn't it. Many years later, in tially a House of Commons man, 1940, when the nation at "He would hate the Lords," I laat turned to him, he was told; "the Commons is ta wrote:

him the very breath of life."

"As I went to bed at

about three a.m. I was DEVASTATING

conscious of a profound sense of relief. At last I

he actually strokes

Montgomery Hyde, Tory M.P. for Belfast, is most struck by Sir Winston's personal! courage. "I first saw him and heard him speak," he says, "as a boy in Belfast 30 years ugo. He was then Conservadiva Chancellor of

and he addressed

the Exchequing in Belfast's

arrec

had the authority to give AND he has such infinite a directions over the whole

respect for its traditions and historic: Ulster Hall. It was his privileges," Mr Baker White first visit to Belfast since 1912 scone. I felt as if I wore odds. He points out that during what, as Liberal Minister, be walking with destiny. and a division Members are supposed had been prevented by force that all my life had, been to give thele numes to the cleaks from making a speech advocating but: as a preparation for at the voling lobbies as they go Home Rule for Ireland, as this

in. Many MPs don't do this, very ball. It appeared to me as this hour and this trial." expecting the clerke to know particularly briew costure on his

them by sight, Bus Sir Winston part to revisit the clly in 1920 || The young man brooding never forgets to say as he enters and to meet the Ulstermon whi to Lady: Bonham Carter 80 the voting lobby, “The name is had been clamourion for him years before had fulfilled Churchill himself and had boon granted time.

blood not ichs before. An ode of those same Ulstermen I recicon

At least twice a week when it a rare privilege to have set in Parliament is sitting, be ls in to the same Hour of Commons On his 80th birthday to. lake questions be to listen and Sir Winston Churchni and

speak in. major debatem. He alte wonderful day Sir Winston will be in front of the despatot, box, chin beca Inspired

every Member of the House on his lap. However slight the

krivena book signed, by, on his chest and hands crossed" leader blevet to hav

of Commons. Of all his pre-, quortion -

quartioner, the a

monta, he will probably the man of careful-

cherish this one most. For by Si Włosini,