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ARTIE...

"Sight-seeing or buying?"

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.

Barbirolli puts over

a new record deal Cyril Stapleton's column

HEARD this week of a big now development in the record world. After nearly 30 years with one company, Sir John Bar- birolli hug switched to another.

He has left E.M.1 (he Master's Voice group) and in future record with Pye.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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119

126

ACHOSH

Injuring (B).

Mend (0).

9 Hearkened

(B).

1 Trespasses (8)

12 Press (4).

13 Headquarters (5).

18 Senior member of body (5).

19 Spoken (4).

22 Plunders (0).

24 Young fowl (8).

23 Carry on again (0),

26 Uncommon place (8).

DOWN

Feature (B).

2 Delage (8).

3 Weakened (7)

Purched (4)

5 Deeds (4).

Refuse to take notice (8).

Useful contrivance (0)

1 Indian soldier (5).

14 Might (5).

15 Places of worship (7).

18 Agree (8).

17 Native seaman (0).

20 Dudgeon (5).

21 Pulo (5).

22 Clever (4).

this time he will have a big financial share in the set-up, an director of a new company call- ed Pye-Barbirolli.

The reason for the switch

that Sir John was unhappy with E. M.1. "We couldn't see eye to eye over the repertoire," he says.

And 1

that ho can tell you wanted to record Elgar's "Dream will of Gerontius," but the job went But to Sir Malcolinn Sargent instead. I make this prediction. Nome of the big labels will be giving pops artists directorships. They will stay on their own. I'VE HEARD THAT

ONE BEFORE

TUNE which Introduced

to Britain over two

ago is already being

was written

your's

DISASTER CAME

SO CASUALLY

A NIGHT TO REMEMBER. By Walter Lord. Longmans. 16s. 188 pages,

medc rightly Sinaten at least some wonderful dimes during

T 11.40 p.m. on Sunday, "Ava-timo." It was just that

April 14, 1912, on her public attention seemed to gut

maiden

voyage, "the focussed on their private lives rather than on their professional unsinkable ship" met the carcers. Strangely enough, Irresistible iceberg. At first, Sinare made his big comeback

straight actor in "From the clash aroused interest

rather than anxiety, Here To Eternity"

"It's to

Dick Haymes's excellent sing- int abilities would

10. The numbers.

appear

funny ...we're

Two hours and forty minutes lates, "the unsinkable ship," the Titande, went down, She was Corrying

2,207 passengers and crew, of whom 1802 went down too. There were lifeboata for only (1 third of those aboard (this

In Wi

the of EXECER official requirements).

clusa

Aboard the Titanic ice-warnings. were treated too lightly. And ten miles away from the sinking liner was another ship with a wireless set

unmanned.

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

IMPOSTOR?

cnn

But in the enge of the man- dressed-as-n-yomas, the first-

·s. passenger

One frightened lad exculpated. admits that he wore a woman's shawl over his head. He was a third-class passenger.

have been forgotten until now, landing," said Marguerite time everybody heard about this when, having ported from Ruta Frolicher, a young Swiss disgraceful affair. There was a be comics back into the recent girl. "Well," said W. T. great deal of gossip in New York merlot in a big way. His new 1. P. on Capitol, "Rain or Stead, the famous publicist, after the Titanic disaster. Some times, it was disagreeable to Shine," is well worth listening | "] guess it's. nothing have been rescued. For instance, are all 41 serious," and went back to if by chance you left the ship irifle on the slow side, but theyhis cabin to read.

before your wife did are beautifully sung arch de- lightfully played by the orchez- tra conducted by tan Bernard revive!

Siontra's nowest album, 11's Remember "Carnivallio"?

of "Song for Swinging Lovers," s the title bul ngain under

I've heard wer one of the Onest "Kiss Me Another,"

The singer Every item IN A кет, ar who has made the dist made her

Frankie's singing is only equal- first record over 20 years ago

of Freidyed by the outstanding musieni under the nanka

arrangements of Nelson Riddle, Gibson. The song she sang then who also conducts.

by Louis Arm- Title

"If We Never STOK. Meet Aguin

Sart to say it was a flop as far Freddye was concerned. But After live she kept on trying. yeurs she changext her name from over started all and

t RETALI I wasn't But scratch.

What fat year, 15 years later, she managed to Fidz the Big Time. In that one year she had no less than three records which sold more than a million coples eth. This one might be her fourth in America and her first

Listen in Britain

to her Nibs, Miss Georgia Gihon, sing "Kiss Me Another" on Mercury. NOW THEY'RE

POPULAR AGAIN

It posible that two of the world's most beautiful women have been mistones round necks of their men?

the

This thought occurred to me when I was Istening to two new long-playing records this week

One by Frank Sinatra, the other by Dick Haymes.

Sinatra, for instance, was on a low cbb when he was inurled

to Ava Gurdner. It wasn't until after they

Ineflentally, Sinatra's newest 78" has just been banned by the B.B.C. It's called "I Never through it ve thues and failed to spot the offending line.

Know" 1 played

However, Johnny Johnston, who has recorded the number on Deres with his vocal group--

FATAL FACTS

I was cold in the water that night

those who swam would not swim long.

Piecing the story together, 44 yoars after the event, Walter Laird

shows who can be done The Johnston Brothers-teils by the methods of the assiduous me they have altered one word | reporter. Facts make a better story than adjectives, They are fatal to legends,

been has

and their recort passed by the powers.

They have altered the "chemical" to "magical."

ELVIS CLIMBING IN

THE TOP TEN

word

That mon Elvis Presley tinues to climb the Hit Parade. Last week his two records were 4th and 10th. Now they're No. 3 and No. 9.

1 "I'LL BE HOME." Put

Boone (London).

"LOST JOHN." Lonate Donegan (Pye-Nixa).

HEARTBREAK

HOTEL."

Elvis Presley (H.M.V.).

4 "SAINTS

ROLL

"NO OTHER LOVE." Ron- nie Hilton (H.M.V.).

"HOT DIGGITY." Perry

Como (ILM.V.). parted that

to regain the he had in "Nancy's

Frankie started popularity

ROCK

his Comets (Brunswick).

Billy

AND Haley and

day."

Ever

Bown: 1 Debar, 2

since Dick Haymes carried Hita Hayworth over the threshold as his wife he's hardly been heard of, agurt from being

The ***SL known

"A TEAR FELL."

Teresa

Brewer (Vogue-Coral),

"MY SEPTEMBER LOVE."

Ritu

David Whitfield (Deeca). "BLUE SUEDE

SHOES."

married."

WIN

probably The orchestan not playing "Nearer My God to

tite: Thee" as

went Timic down, but an Anglienz hymu hine named "Autumn." The captain did not commit suicide.

Did man get off the ship by dresslug as

At the a wornan?

REAL

many years,

KO.

Where you go 1

"A Night To Remenber" is a book not to put down

MIRROR FOR NAR- CISSUS. By Noglay Farsori. Gollancs. 161, 302 pagós.

FARSON, in

hia mid-sixties,

tales up the task of writing his autobiography for the third or, maybe, the fourth time. The alort reader la haunted by recollections of earlier Farson volumes.

As a restless swashbuckling New England engineer-turned-

Sir Cosmo Duff Gorden, being journalist, he has:

A gift for the map portrait

and the swift Impression: rowed away in a boat that had 1

Willian 12 in it (capacity 40) had the The Columbian poet imprudence to give cheques for Valencia lolla on his their kit. Ho ved to rue his covered

sidne generosity.

£5 to its crew, who

had lout

-A

raren

with

couch

black panther

and sense of drama

ΟΙ SONGE

comedy: little American

monstrous 0 Overtaisen by

people neted conven- Sweetle, the surpriso

seeing the Royal Mail The hairdresser said blonde, tionaily.

dock, Canal to John Jacob Astor: "Do you boat in Panama

"The power of the water mind chalding hands with me?" says:

"Not in the least," said John must be awfully strong to lift Jacob Astor.

that audacious big thing." because 2-A few trenchant judgments:

"The chi

chief thing wrong with

Ladles were shocked members of the crow began to And It must be confessed that the proportion al third-class occasion!""

saverl

rather DUESENBEFI low. In 1912 coste distinctions were more rigid than today.

Some people uchaved well,

Some wer? other not so well.

smoke cigarettes: "On such a colonial."

just unlucky.

Stead went ori reading Benjamin Guggenheim and his valet changed into evening clothes: "We are prepared to go down like gentlemen," Bruce Isny, managing director of the White Star Line, owners of the Titanic,

slipped abound & life- boat as it left the davits.

Old Mrs Straus said to old Me Strmis (of Mucy's store): "Wa for have been living together

Colonel UP and Mr. DOWN

GOING.

GOING

23 Dried up (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across:

10 Amin. 13 Riprese, 16 Made, 17 Anseres

3 Ligant, 7 Eerte. # Disciple.

in Asinine, 20 Dem, 21

Earner, 24 Roster, 27 Princess, 28 Elite, 20 Stemmers Grasp, 3 Ledge.

4 Inch. 5 Appear, 4 Themes, 9 Irmane. 11 Senze, 12 in me.

14 Smear 15 Means, 10 Den. 16 Adapte ip Imite, 22 Fe 23 Ek.

24 Tried 25 Srum.

It wasn't because their ability 10 had suffered,

1 remember

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Elvis Presley. (H.M.V.).

BLUE SUEDE SHOES." Karl Perkins (London).

"HERE'S YOUR OLD MOTH-EATEN SWEATER —

OUT IT GOES /

Throw-Out Week

"DON'T YOU THINK WE SHOULD KEEP M? IF THE MOTHS LIKE IT THAT MUCH, MAYBE THEY'LL LEAVE THE OTHER STUFF ALONE!

IF WE ONLY KNEW A

GOOD, RELIABLE ANTIQUE DEALER-*

SPINNING THE RECORDS

THAT HAVE BEEN DRIVING HIM BATTY

ALL WINTER.

"MOM, WHERE.

.ARE MY

BONGO DRUMS.?"

ANY GIRL CONTEMPLATING

MATRIMONY SHOULD THROW

AWAY ALL

OLD LETTERS—

THE GAME

GOES FOR

PROSPECTİVE

BRIDEGROOMS.

IT WAS EITHER GIVE THE DRUMS THE HEAVE-HO

| OR BE DRUMMED OUT OF HOUSE AND HOMEL

NICE

TRY,

PAL.

COPR. 1956 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, IN WORLDS RIGHTS RESERVED,

"LISTEN! THIS IS FINALI

IF YOU DON'T DE-FLEA |

THAT POOCH-

∙HE GOES

OR I GO/"

I TOLD YOU

LONG AGO.

TO THROW EM.

OUT? NOW

YOU CANY

EVEN

PICK'EM UP/

CASUAL....

too

The whole tragedy is haunted by curious air of the casual, Tee warnings werd treated lightly. Ten miles nway, Une liner Californian, with an un- manned wireless set, watched the strange ship that kept on Aring rockets.

Bat

Tragedy. Here is a big

in shown in strident lines but

human the mosaic of ordinary

It is a study in human nature. behaviour, a drama In a clip-

been

4-And

It has never

underlying dis- appointed ideal, that milions are healthy if they are close to the cultivation of their own soli.

melancholy Farson's inclsive, talent in ELA strong as ever, although some of his materlak is, necessarily Autobiography written onec,

a little worn. can only bo

THE CHINA

The remain

ELEGANT

ped. upper-class accent. third-class passengers out of earshot as they were the court of inquiry.

by Walter

went 10

GONE!

BY HARRY WEINERT

YOU MEAN A GOOD-NATURED SOFT-HEARTED JUNK MAN ? »

TO SAVE ARGUMENT WHEN IT'S TIME TO THROW OUT SOMÈ EYESORE, KS BEST. TO SIMPLY TAKE IT OUIT AND LOSE IT AND THEN... SILENCE,

THAT WAS

FLOWER, by Desmond Neill. John

Murray. 18s, 202 pp.

DESMOND Nell

Singapore

ut the end of World War II as a junior officer In the military administration. to the place Greatly attracted and its people, he decided to the stay and, after joining Malayan Civil Service, was sent

to Amoy to study Holden, the thu predominant dialect of Chinese population of Singa-

pore.

in tids book he describes his

with the irritat struggles language,

his encounters with his teachers and friends, Chintso and non-Chinese, in and around the Amoy district, and brief excursions to Shanghai, Peking and Formosa.

recent

It is a story of a China that belongs to the past, though of the recollection (OT take-over of the country by tho Communists has brought vast changes.

One is tempted to wonder whether the people he know have not already disappeared the rich Hokkien merchants back from Malaya who wined ^and dined him; the gentle rogue of

to whom. a teacher, Mr Lim, such a lot that Nell did was "kee kwai" or Kim Peng, the gentleman living quietly in the backwater that was Lungyen, who turned cusily from

and

to Boothoven

Chopin Chinese opera and American dance music, all in Д short discussion.

UNDERSTANDING

These characters and the type of life they led in a largely un- changing pattern are familiar to "old China hunds."

Neill presents with inaight and humour the many facets of their life their art, their food, their customs, their virtues and their vices.

Living close to the people be acquired in eighteen months a. deep understanding of what made them tick, and on his returzi to Singapore was better equipped to move around with the Chinese there, He now appreciated what once baffled him.

Alas for our Me Neill, for very shortly afterwards he was trans ferred to Pahang, where his perfected Hokkien

tho

foreign as Hottentot-for Chinese there spoke Cantonesel And he was, to start all over arsint

A pleasant, amusing book,

wall written, showing how a patient, human approach can break down many barriTS ACG,

LIBRARY LIST.

Escape From Germany. By Aldan Crawley, Collins. 10% 318 pages. A survey of the art and practice of escaping from POW Campe, written with the wuthority of one who was, head. of the Escape Intelligenon samiation in Stalag Lart 111

The Bles of Scotland Yard. By Douglas G. Browne., Harrap. 25%. 392 page. Cope and rob=1 bers, as played in London those Inst 120 years, Careful, ably. writion history of a remarkabin British institution, indispensable to the historian and of interest to everyone else.

Highway of the Banny Victor von Hsyon. GolianoMA 18. 284 pages. ¿The roacht this Incna built 500 years ago in the mountains of Peru provkās te

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