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[*** THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1955.

The TOP POPS go in search of a SONG

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DAVID LEWIN spotlights Dickie Valentine David Whitfield

WENT searching for

one f Hong iny with Dickie Valentine and David Whitfield, Britain's top two "pop" singers. We went to London's Tin Pan Alley, which is off Charing Cross Road, and has an outpost In Bond Street in the west,

Searching for a song is just like shopping for a pair of shoes-only there is no cash transaction. All that is needed is Valentine David to persunde Dickie Whitheld that a song fils them perfectly.

They can take it home with them, and the publisher waits for the first gramophone record sales for his money.

OT

In Denmark Street big, friendly Jimmy office at the Philips greeted us in his

Peter Maurice Music Company. He pointed of David Whitfield and said: "Got Just the thing for you here. David. Came from Amerien

in

Bud night. It's called 'I Wonder, and it's right in the style of 'I Bes Jieve","

A pinnist played it through, Whitfield, 228 your cold, hummed it first, then pickest up a line or two here and there. Then his

41 41 musical director.

branded Reg Warburton, cloesn't have loo played it.

Whitfield read the words

"The words have closely

to

VALENTINE

A song with a beat

mony I notes.

Kell couldd uvxdiences," he said,

Jow it to

The two

in the record feld attract me first," he said. "There' singers are the popular best- are good...) con go along with "pop" in the busi ue43, Valen-

Urom

Be sag is few lines:--

"I wonder how each mother know what babies try to say,

une-Itme

theatre pipe like the former boy with numbers like "Finger Surpicton" and "There Must of

and Willietai. Be a Reason";

rement loader. the with operatie-mple songs like "Cara Mia Mine" and "Aurwer walk Me." But all the time they

need

fresh Ideas. new Bongs,

How little children learn to walk-an

day some away."

Whutneid broke off and zwed. I've got a little boy "You **,

my own-Lance is thawe--and

of that I know the meaning le, I could sing it."

Jimmy Phillips hovered near, "It's kicking big in Amr ten,' he said. They're biting it there."

But Whitfield shook his head. "it's a good song," he said. "But it is not for me. It would It 1 be out of my character.

nced more sung 1 It would behind and anyway, people would think I was trying to croon it, and crousing istý my style."

Dickie Valentine, 25 years old, came closer to the plano "I Wonder" and listener? again. "It's not too fast-and it

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new A

Italian," said Valentine. "We'll have special lyrics writion," Bald Jinusy Phillips.

"Here's a new Dickie,"

WHITFIELD

A song must have excitement

the

Mukes

GEORGE

know

That

These "pop" one for you, over-confident and mess it up

singers exactly what they need and said Holmes. "Called altogether,"

what

audiences "Tik Tika Tok." It's got a

expect. Teddy Holmes produced an- They do not BUY a song they clap-hands beat."

ono to record. other manuscriph "Here's n necept

the world," he makes their own-like Johnny lune to careas said. Valentine asked: "What's Ray and "Cry." it called Atom Bomb Blues'?" Said Holmes: "Oh, no, the title is 'Goodbye, My Love," "

Valentine kang it through, leaning over the pione. "I like to have a beat behind a song,"

spid "After five years

Heath's band "Don't make them too senti. singing with Ted mental," said Valentine. "Only I'd be lost without a definite

beat."

+

this

Al Jolson could get away with the words of 'Mummy' and called Mamma, don't

forget.

moved

west

I looked at David Whitfield, "No-1 can't sing to a beat,” he sold. like to get excitement into a song, and then relax with to Bond it to make people comfortable the august, vak when I sing. Relaxing is the

of Chappells. thing." panelled offices Inside, Lwo of the company's Holmes and chiefs-Teddy

out Junny Henney spread

We Phillips Jimmy

offered to play them

Street, demonstration Q record of

number, "Want ng You Mine." The two We Eingers said: "No thanks, prefer to see it cold."

They sang it together. "L's. got a lift for me," said Whit-

theid.

"Not Valentine.

for me." sald

We hunted through piles of theet music. There wing a new Italian song called "Mammu.” Whitfield sung it. then

stud- "The middle's O.K.-it's menta

enough for me. But the bem ghaninar needs

be lender or sweet for my style.

Dicklo Valentine suld: "Musically, It's good for me But the words

Whats

the with wrong words?" I asked. "They're in

to

more

PROFILE of a LITTLE MAN with a BIG JOB

Joe Brown is off to beat a killer

THE

And he has just set off from Liverpool elimb the third

to highest mountain in the world Kinchirunga the killer.

Kinchinjunga, in the South Eastern Himalayan is 28,148ft high only a few hundred feet snailer, than Everest. It has never been rilmbed. And it got its name of killer from the victims it claimed previous expeditions

the rock face.

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their wares.

MEET

Valentine nodded, "You can be too relaxed, of course," he wald, "And then you become

A

After it was played the talk "I could do became technical, it as a beguine," said Valentine,

"It needs faster backing me," cald Whitfield. It was like a conference of business men in the ornate West End office with chandeliers and good carpats.

for

Then they sing it on the radio or in variety. The song pub lisher gets his money on royal- ties from all sales. ('That can amount to £5,000 on 4 good-

SONG..

ECC," said Jimmy Phillips, "It' in't like the old days

DIVORCE

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THE ARCHBISHOP GIVES THE CHURCH'S ANSWER TO AN ACUTE · PROBLEM

HE Archbishop of Can- standard. It stands before the terbury, Dr Geoffrey world to proclaim that this is what Christ meins marriaga to Fisher, has just put be and what He sys to la?” forward a plan which he

More and mono divorced hopes will turn back the people knew they could not be mounting, tide of divorce remarried in church. sweeping through Britain,

He makes these two main points to save marriage:—

1 A single act of adultery Ja not a good ground for

divorco

No marriage in church of,

Very many of them," says that the Church is upholding a Dr Fisher, "welcome the fact

alandard from which they have chosen to, or been forced to, depart

Thus the Christian standard le being saved: the Church is doing its necessary work and any divorced person with a making people think *moto partner still living. Because, seriously before they embark on

Says Dr Fisher, Chrbt's view marriage."

of marringto was that anyone who divorced his wife and married another committed adultery.

are

The archbishop's views published in a is.n-time, 29- page booklet. "Problams of Marriage and Divorce,"

that

He traces the attitude of the Church to divorce through the centuries to toxiny when-

realised "The Church the mounting tide of divorce was threatening to overthrow the whole Christian conception of marriage.

"The social evlig springing from broken homes became the more evident as their number increased

**If the social evila were mounting, the moral grounds on which divorces rosted were also

alarmingly unsatisfactory.

Adultery

Hard Cases

Dr Fisher refers hard asked."

to "really

These, ho siya, "ure people who have had terrible spiritumi them suffering imposed upon by the

and,

first marriage

finding spiritual deliverance and renewal in the prospect of the second marriage may destro out of a good and sincere heart that the Church should marry them,

"I it not wrong and un- Christian to exclude them?

frankly "Let me say quite that in some cases where a first marriage has ended in tragedy 4 second marriage has, by every test of the presence of the Holy Spirit that we are able to re- cognise, been abundantly bless- ed.

I do noi For this reason find myself able to forbid good to me for people who come advice to embark on a second "Adultery had onco been the marriage"

puto,

the The archbishop anti ys before the way any more, only ground of divorce, when we look a new number, could

of Church's position before them, some claim

kind such in the and tells them that it is their set a release date on it, and recognition

Gorpets,

But while continuous duty, as conscientiously as they hoped that the danes bands and adultery was one thing, a single can, to decide before God what

gramophone net of adultery was not a good they should do

ground on which to break up a We tak

marriage for life.

"And adulteries ranged.'

"There was no longer BIKY security that the innocent party really was the innocent party, - and in any case the line be- tween Innocence and guilt in breaking up a marriage is rarely so clear-cut as a divorce docree

might suggest.

singers would take it up.

"Now it's the records that count, music from any country in the the numbere world-but it's with a kick in them that go."

MILLIONAIRE

WELFARE

ONE WITH A

Milun.

Mur-

YOUNT Gaetano

zotto, six feet tall and

By Bernard Ronald

AND

PLAN

were

"If they remarry, they will nover again be able to bear a full and clear witness to Our

of 'ar- Lord's declaration

marriage is, ...

"In short, the moral basis of divorce decrees could hardly be regarded ni safisfactory."

Dr Fisher first spoke up about single acts of infidelity two months ago in reply to a the question put to him by highly-

Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce.

most moder

Ho created a storm by stating "It in the law which has made a single act of adultery a ground for divorce, not the Church.

"The Church would wholly

bigger Italiani industrial centres. The name "Valdagno" does not do it justice. It should be called

"Workers' Paradigm," for Open-air swimming

has the time a civil

pools Marzotto empire 60, strode briskly into wing except

mosaics and skilled specialists, dentists, his silk-walled study at the servant may keep a citizen wait lined with fancy

borderd with green lawns and doctors and surgeons who look top of his Persian-carpeted ing in the queue,"

flower beds Clubs in marble, after the bealth of the workers. white marble staircase, Now a whirl of the arms, with lush lounges, Fitzy re- asalated by a smal smy of

ten raising of eyebrows, the indigon croation

rooms complete with nurses and the summoned one of his

tion terrifico: "Mm were not billiards, beer--and benutim equipment. servants to prepare 2

We must to serve it. bart to be numbers. fabulous dinner (and

48 all battle against bureauerney

I think, however, that Count approve if the law was no

accept content to many cocktails aa I

I had stepped into a private Marzotto's 'most shining victory Jonger WAB before it is too late,"

act of adultery pleased to sample) and told

enterprise waltero community in in the field of welfare has been single Gaetano man of seat which the worker's best friend scored in the sunset of his village | sufficient ground." me how ho became & walth, title, factories, villas, is the boss, who cares for his folk's Eyes. The State millionaire after working hotels, vineyards, marble quar- Employees from the cradle to the old-age pensioners only 23 a three months

enterprise, grave. ainemas, ap-ries, in

physical strength prentice

Yorkshire intelligence,

and

spoken. He guts had woollen mill.

bowed. "Now I must attend to His 13,000 workers call him the business,"" Gaetano the Generous--and they would seem to be right.

ад an

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This benevolent boas huge industrial empire is generous with everything-with

of a

Champagne?

"Champagne?" A white-coated

ITE

bennis

ini

month, which means misery for a country aged couples There'

courts, where a 2 lb. loaf of bread costs

fields bowling greens, hockey

is. 5d. and prime beet is 65, « Ib. and soccer pitchen. Hospitala with matervilty wards where bables are

born at the rate of and their mothers 500 a year", get month's leave from tho looms on full pay.

Wards

Miles Ahead

No Worries

k

Remarriage

60

a

His booklet, urging that there should be no remerringe after divorce when both partners are alive, posee the problem of "The Squire and the Cottager"

Buys Dr Fisher-

2.

country village

Disapproves

witat

whether

"They must decide this lasting spiritual loss is in their judgment outweighed by 'a call of God to seek spiritual gain in a second marriage.

"But that does not mean that Tematy Church hould the them. That would be asking the Church to compromise the otw way in which it can give a clear Ito Our Lord's testimony standard for their sales

"Thus, if they feel denial of a Church marriage to be a croes of suffering, they should bear it for the Church so that it may not, in its official acts of -the compromiso marrying, standard entrusted to it by Our Lord.”

Dr Fisher disapproves of the way the Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches exercise their marriage disciplines.

They even

hold

that D. Roman Catholic not married by a Roman Catholic priest but, for example, in an Anglican church,

be is not validly married.

"And "If divorced may'

the first time, (for married according to this theory) in the Roman Church"

the effect in a Problems Ahead

on the pastonal

Dr Fisher does not

Bromm

bolieva

Holy #tha

THE name is Joe Brown. congratulations with no fuss-

and he is 28 years old again, he is that sort of man.

He told me that he spent the and only 5ft 4ins. tall-a night on that climb standing on builder's Assistant from a tedge with his back against Manchester.

didn't get

But there are no worries for any sleep that night," he calmly

A second later, his huge bulk,

Marzotto's retired millimads. He said.

Bls money, with the list, 10 lbs colourfully clothed in a green

**Imingine for toddlers aged be- hus built a marble-halled, sun- For Brown even a climbing build that gives power and polse tweed sports jacket, grey pull tween a few months and three balconied residence for them, but is luxury. He belongs to to his made-to-measure "sults over, white Bilk shirt, bright years, where they uro ted. complete with a a restaurant that position of the parish priest If the Manchester Rock and Icend with the

gestures that tartan ue and impeccable grey, washed, entertained and given

Ve shines like a a now pin. He has allowed the remarriago of Club of 18 members. They accompany his gift of the gab: flannel trousers, went sailing out nios liitin cote to me in married quarters and roome for the squire and refused it to a have no hut, always sleep out.

poople who have remarriot Once Joe Brown

kwan Justidock." ""There was so much to learn into the world of malesmanship while mamina is busy in the mill single pensioners. If they have ( borger, even if his judgment that as a general rule divorced

arki wolt with the This service costs the mother worked for him since their young in my boyhood days. The and warp and some

Any clergyman left to decide thould be barred friends

it being Communion, English were producing

he giver the vigour a gladiator of half his only eight shillings a month.

days were swinging across | I

them porsions of ones on merit would be at the Church's bourden duty to give ancst, the most beautiful bge.

£12 a mon fast-flowing streaming

This nearly

mercy of every hard luck story I was

together With ear Ben Nevis when wordens in the world,

the State's con would lack the means of all the spiritual help it can to people who get involved in tribution of £5 a month, means securing reliable evidenos.” determined to become a master one

fell in. Joe

matrimonial trouble." Where it in a comer of that they can take the last years Brown

jumped in, of their technique.

Ho refore to the obvious rescued him then Italy to have

pubile, corporate act, such as

of register office ckingers** huge marble-walled, of their lives easily. refused

Count Marzotto to Industry, too.

also houses-marriage, he says, the Churchi

Ho naka if the weddings. his workers must have linoleum-florod wing as spot-

it rule and the intention of lifelong union can change his clother.

less as it is colourful,

accom- hundreds modates and foods youngsters families. They live in big, airy clergy must accept it loyally.

flats with bathrooms and contrad "It cannot be left to the vary. be assumed to exist in But Count Marzotto's per between three and six, About

cuser and, wards: -- And some pay only ing discretion of 12,000 parleh Omo can conceive of a situa lity was still enveloping me, 800 boys and girls were enjoying

10 a your rent for five-roomed priests, or even to the varying tion in which, the Church would It themselves on fun-thirtype pochments with built-in cup discretion of 43 diocesan blehops be usable any longer to recog declined the champagne. did not seem right to sit sipping Indoor roundabouts mad dby

bounds and inoleum supplied by millionaire's wines while my chairs and tables.

"We may speak of tho tame nice civil marriages for Church host was working like two men

their landlord.

of a person to be admitted to purposes and would be driven

hold

thunt only. those amid the rattle and clatter of The home of these Marzottians No wonder I ordered cham-communion, but in the case of 10

tho in the marriage,

question la married in Church are truly the Toora'oross the way.»

markod on the map' ar prime for breakfast

situation which It is 23 miles from militonaire's villa next morning whether the marriage le a fit married

rálne

sarious very one to be celebrated in church. would the wonderful things the Count Vernon, city of Romeo and and cinkod glumes will

The Church coriot Viva

cor- probleme and one that must be But in terms of pro- phaity waitress to say: Just laid on for the leisure hours Juliet.

porately marry below Christ's avoided it posible.". is miles ahead of much. Count Marzotto."

on

in 1905 and 1938. In this new, Bri- tish. expedition are nine men -- Charles Evans, a surgeon, the leader; George Band, McKinnon, Tony Streather, Joha

Tom

Jackson, Norman Hardy, Nell Mather, John Clegg-and Joc Brown,

Joe never

bas Brown been оп a Himalayan expedi

tion before. Yet, tho man most likely to

reach, the top is--Joe. He

that sort of man.

no

even

I wanted Venetian had appeared as i a great textile from newhere to stop out, trom behind a silver tray loaded with

"It was tough going. But sparkling drinks in glistening No-mow, Ice and always had the faith that I glasses. the wildest weather would succeed. To get on in life hold

fears for you must have faith, both in Brown.

yourself and in the job you are He has gone for a doing. It is not necessary to be week At "

Embitious. But you must have spaked to the skin goal-and put all your efforts but he never catches into reaching it."

ma

dry out," he says, "is

cold. "The way to

to get into a slevp-

ing bag at night.

You'll find you're

His Goal

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I went out to have a look at Valdagno,

dry in the morning,” His eyes, brown and bright of his clath-cappal workers, ...・・ gross, it

He has made under bushy block eyebrows,

is several rescues, and in turn has became fixed shafts of light that

had many narrow escapès, Six borod into me like gimlets. times He has fallen on climbs, "I believer in private entur- but each time he was roped on prise. And I bellys that, thosa and able to climb back.

¦

He has been climbing only six years. He began in a disused un · mixe at Alderley Edge, Cheshire. His first rope was a thick brewer's rope, "Then," he In fact, the only time he has we went to the other been injured was in the Army. Bemandised a clothes when a friend playfully, pushed

де

Since then he has led rock climbs in the British Isles, that other

climbers thought ime nomible. And for the past two summers he has climbed in the Alpa

the west

Lost your he climbed the

face of the Dru 12,6001

who dra fortunate, in biginosa

and amass great worth should spend some of their timo, help- Ing their fellow

My goal today is to leave the

him over in the barrack-room work looking better than it was

when

I

"I broke Στην

log in three places,"

pays Joe. NOW a woman's' footnote. His

frown, hat

the “qủ yone that paMANA

sister told me: "For six years he cracy medos ma has never apent a well-drid, at moro raves of the home He is always out climb-domi

Alpine peak in two days, ing We knew the pinnacle, he by red

compared with seven days taken'

was aiming at was this'expedí--

by a French, team that made the vin

JOHNNY HAZARD

HI JOHNNY? IT

STHIS LITTLE WITH THE

SURE DONS LOOK, LIH ZVE SEEN: GOING TO A LOT. OF TROUBLEWA JUST TO BEND LAF

By Frank Robbins.

VOCABULZ

I HAD AN IDEA 'SADZOOKE WAS:

WHAT HAS HE BEEN

SAYING LA

"AND THAT'S PLENTY.. ENDUSH TO MAGIHIM.

WORTH A MILLION.

(</S-EV) DOLLARS TO THE PENS

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this situation

Can Mignel

such

Chris Lincoln