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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 4, 1956.
MEL TORME-A MILLION FANS IN ONE WEEK-END
high-spot of Among the young generation of radio listeners this past week a interest has been the arrival in Britain of America's big-selling recording-star MEL TORME. He has been talked of and praised (especially for his interpretation of the old favourite "Mountain Greenery") in thousands of homes as someone with a talent
the ordinary. quite out of
Mel Torme way Introduced to British listeners through the radio "Show Band Show" and the columnist Cyril Stapleton...
M
EL TORME.
pro- nounced Tor-may. It
new
yes was they
a man ad- man's mustetan" mited and studied by his fellow
call “a muSİ –
tha
4.7
like a soundla kind of chocolate. În fnet, it
the
the of biggest singing sensation in he Britain this year.
18
ONT
You definitely cannot
have £2,10 petty cath to pay for your wife's new hat!"
nanie
In the profession, this young Amurhusn singer has been
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across 1 Strest 4 Expl.
song-
CYRIL STAPLETON'S
Column
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to have Torine ecords brought over from America.
ROBIN HUTCHEON ON BOOKS
SCIENCE MADE
SIMPLE
THE FIGHT FOR FOOD, by J. Gordon Cook, Harrap,
London 10/6.
of
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Д
WAS
DT
PhD who Cook, educated at Durham University and has worked for Imperial Chemical Industries, hos estab- lished a roputation for himself
the BBC
popular sports cars he has owned six inflated prices
HIS is the second in a on
Authority on obstruse subjects—— of them, is looking for a vintage
new series by Harrapa bonin with the gift of the S$100 to take home with him--
which reduces
the gab. and
antique collection of
And this is my prophecy. By "frontier firearms,"
the end of this tour, Mel's discs mysteries of science to the Mel told me: "Driving in the, will be in wild-fire demand language
the hon- the record-buying public scientific public. - modern
automatic-transmission by
It's only in generally. car is a lost art,
the fast sports Jobs you really get back to it."
The collection of guns is for Mel +x- purpose. escapist
"When I get tied up in knots and worried about my career, 1 lock my elf away with my guns, olling them und clean-
quatrier of century. beginning with a weekly sing
ng pot in Chiengo when he Wins three ankl following this Binateur work on the with through his recording drums, plano, and as a Uly of "Mountain Greenery" has
writer in his teens. wider blle in remhed a
"My
only professional pearances in those days were in tlozens of radlo dozens ant
endless soap-operas - those saccharine serials," says Mel (in full--Melvin)
Britai
1a wek he started a three- Yet as month four of Britain.
personality he is still virtually So let me tell you unknown
[car
bout him
A 30 yours
Endolat, & Rouse. 9 Taleni, 11 Emerald. 13 Restore. 15 Liteti,
18 Stern, 19 Amicable, 20 Dodge, 21 Greens
Down: 1 Swin,
2 Elope 3 Shelter, 4 Entrer, 5 Petulant. 6 Legend, 10 Lastened,
12 Melling. 139 Rested, 14 Orni'e, 18 Stake, 17 Drenas
Hs spare-time pleasures of age he has
discovered, are driving British
beer in show business for more
VELVET - VOICED TORME 'I'm feeling pretty good'
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
SINGING THE PRAISES OF THE GOOD
EARTH AND THE JOYS OF PLANTING ---- BUT KILLING TIME DOESNT KILL WEEDS,
FERTILIZER.
"LISTEN TO ME!
GARLIC AND ALL THAT STUFF IS GOOD.FOR NOTHING BUT COLDS AND
THERE ISN'T. GOING TO BE ANY IN THIS GARDEN
COPR. 1956 BY GENERAL FEATURES
COAP, TM.WORLD NIGHTS RESERVED,
can
P.S.
ing them They're so unakin to shone businLERK,“
play Hearing him you immagine that hi approach to a song is selenit and virutaler
"In fe," he says, "1 just my mouth arui aut 11 ་ 1 ‛ft epines - good, bad, or indifferent, And there's nothing I can do
AS A PERFORMER Very Relaxed
This A
The first Astonishing
Was
POST ARTS, IN TALES Vol. II by Chu Chang- China Arts sing (The "Our
Institute, Atmosphere"
Hongkong. US$2). and others to be published
expert
in al
D11
Important news. It is news, not about recording artists, but about the later include such tities as material on
which they make "Water and its Mysteries," M" Chu
Chinese stamps and a good their recards,
"The World at Our Feel," raconteur with an eye for detail
• After years
researchVirus in the Celf." and and a head for history. Britain's newest record compally Electrons go to Work." has produced a break-resistant 18 r... record,
●
'em
1111
of
11
appears
that
One may go farther and say that the idea of his little book Mel Torme uses his voler liks
the is a good one; but why did he musicut instrument He Tings
You can stand on one of 'object of Trombonist might
the publishers is not take it along to an expert- The way
these records, you can bend 'em, to discuss these formidable ve
enced editor and well-known You can drop em from great
overseas publisher? heights.
But you cannot break subjects in popular terms, He has trad his book publish- providing accurate, but ea in Hongkong for the Ameri- Line of
this recret-formula above an, interesting infor- can market; but before he can new material,
which is very mation that will whet the lake it there with the hope of similar to that used in making
selling it well, the text needs careful revision and editing: high-Bdelity long-play records, appetite of the reader. does not impair the reproduc-
Thus Ur Cook begins on many words can be cut and the tion quality
the fight for food: "To-grammer improved,
The printing looks cheap and morrow morning the world
a few there seem to be quite will have 60,000 more bad misprints. Also the half- mouths to find breakfast fones, on the whole, come out for thun it has today, too dark.
is indifferent Within the lifetime of many quality will go against it.
To an expert It is a pity there are defects becouse Mr
BT Chư
of China's reached the position Deputy Postmaster-General be fore his retirement, has good ideas and could have provideu And then, Dr Cook shows a very interesting series,
Curiously volume 1 Is modern what
science id
first to be published because doing to meet the situation. covers 1949-1953, and Mr Chu "reinforce pro~ Soon, he says, we shall is anxious
I found him one of the most oriax d performer, I ever met - completely calm, nu tantrumu, And to big-time temperament VIP
work
Invich In love with his
During the rehearsal for our Show Hand Show, when wo Introduced him to the British pude, Mel went without lunch
nd
ad just sat at the plane with a few of the boys singing: playing
Since then be has done a TV show and the firt night of bis Sour at Birminghum He told
Jor The Teletabome
The reception W114 ensational tell you.
feeling pretty |h
Kid,
I asked him if the teenage
fans had torn the shirt off N. Ick.
"I don't
thing
Gx.
very
Forthrightly he replied
ག
Already Lonnie Donegan and Buster have recorded on Wie new dises and pronouneril the results exocijent,
● The price in illę same as the uid-lype record, What a boon to the collector with children in the house.
TOP TEN ···
I "WHY FALL IN
FOOLS DO LOVE." Iren ACT (Columbia)
2 I'LL DE ROME," Pal Bone (London)
WILL
3 "WHATEVER BE, WILL BE," Doria Day
(Philips).
}
"HEART BREAK Presley HOTEL." Elvis (H.M.V.)
zall,
RIT Q "ALL NTAR PARADE," Winifred Atwell, Dicki: Valentine. David Whitheld, Jean Re
Dave King,
Lita
Koza (Decca)
HAND."
Tony
IN Martin
Perry
Ru for that sort of It's wually a publicity
The fins anyway
were
polite and well-behaved Believe you me,
some of the
American bobby-soxers could
Take a lesson from them."
One particularly nice personal
welcome
came rom my bass
fle pro- player, Joe Muddel duced Met's late-t record.
Hi, World." for autograph- Ing.
That shook Mel He did not know ther were any coples available in Britain yet Bil Joe, like a lot of other Brilish musicians, hax been paying
Garden Spots
HER SHARE
OF THE WORK- KEEPING THE BIRD BATH
FILLED.
ROMAINE.
SALAD ADDICT
CABBAGE NFANATIC.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK FOR ADVICE IN GARDENING - IT IS VOLUNTEERED.
JEPANAM
#
WALK HAND
(H.M.V.) and "HOT DIG- Como GITY."
(H.M.V.)
*
WALKING **I'M BACKWARDS FOR CHRISTMAS/ BLUE- BOTTLE BLUES." The Goons
Droca)
D "WAYWARD WIND," Trx Kilter (Capitol)
ARE WE? 10 "WHO Ronni Hiten. (IL.M.V.)
of us there will be Home 4,000 million people living on earth; twice as many as there were before the war."
we now
these who
the
แ
the
The
good
be cultivating yeast to propaganda work abroad." But why 10 mix on earth does he have vide protein
with political get stamp collecting Gardeners will propaganda? from meat.
What he does--with look after roof-top water
of 38 yeary lunks instead of their allot- authority
Chinese post offices and 45 years ments, growing microscopic as a stamp collector-is to ex-
with ulgae that will have taken plain thoroughly.
conventional historical background, details the place of
Issues recent
of Nationalist vegetable foods.
stamps. This he does well. Fats will be made in fac- tories from petroleum che- micals, and farmers will press the juices from the leaves of their crops instead of growing them for grain us they do today.
GENTLEMEN AT CRIME, by Donald MacKenzie, Elek Books, London, 16s.
NYONE who rond Donald
firat Mackenzie's
brook will doubtless treat
These are some of the "Fugitives" changes that will be forced his second venture into the writ upon the world by the ever- ing field as a must.
"Gentlemen
Crime" increasing demand for food. cords further episodes in his 20
BY HARRY WEINERT
'DON'T GET ANY
IDEAS- THROW
THAT WORM
AWAY!
YOUR
FISHING
CAN WAIT!"
YOU'RE HOOKED, BROTHER.
YOU GROW THE VEGETABLES
-THE NEIGHBORS
WILL SUPPLY
THE CHICKEN.
WE SUGGEST YOU BEG THE SEEDS, BORROW THE TOOLS, | LET YOUR WIFE DO. THE PLANTING AND LEAVE THE REST TO NATURE IF NOTHING COMES UP.
THERE'S NO LOSS.
人民
་
at
re-
years of crime, and there is no doubt that no writing ability is equal to the talents he display. ed in his former profession
It is a book crammed full of action and not just u dreary chronicle of events; il is the art of skulduggery in the thirties.
MacKenzie denly with hla evolution from being a con man in Paris to becoming អ share- pusher and finally making ho grade as a burglar.
The book is a lantastic gallery of characters living on the fringe of society, whose main object was to trim as much as possible irom society.
.
at
As
As fletion "Gentlemen Arms" would be described "rubbish." As fact, 1 is astounding to and how stupid people con get under the plausible influence of k Don man.-N.C.
WATCH IRAQ
(Continued from Pago 8) Nearly £10 million, in the
same period, will go into finding underground water and increas-
ing animal stocks, 210 milion will go into housing projects, the same amount into hospitals, and Alightly more into ***.- panding the school and univer- sity systems.
In all, the development plan will cost just under 500 milion in the next five years.
For a country with a popula tion of just over four million this is
is spending on a colomal scale,
Falling a sudden upheaval in the government-and there la no sign of it-there is no little doubt that the plan will go ahead successfully and, by Middle East
with
routerkabid.
far, the big projects, haya cen ontrusted to major firms.
beer
outside the country, and there has been little if any evidence of graft or the diversion" of funds from their appointed uses, The outlook, therefore, is rony for Ten
Iraq
But what for the outside
If Iraq becomes a rich indus trial and agricultural country with a literate population, the balance of Middle East posée în bound to be affected. Saudi-Arabla has hee riches wildl dwindling srol. Nautor, Low all his
banduced litle in
and has
Jordan la · "DOOR: "
Aeverything but sirstenie location,
is likely to transcend there in power and stability. What happens then is [anybody" guers--but it's worth weighing.
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