1956-08-11 — Page 14

AN

/ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1956.

MR DALLAM GETS A PEEP

AT THE

ORGAN FOR THE make SULTAN. By

Stanley Invasion, Mayes. Putnam. 21s. 272

pages.

SULTAN'S

HAREM

at

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

another attempt

Looking for allies, the Queen thought she had found a likely

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in the

his

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His life was a monument wasted ability; tris bulkings monuments to wasted were money and uncertain testo.

PICK UP THE PIECES, by Harrap, J. F. Straker, London 10/6.

Mr

I Straker must find his job M dull,

a

the Great Turk, Sultan of Padishah,

who ruled diet

of ment, marrow and

"My answer to the ambassa: THIS I an episode in the Ottoman Empire from

and his son suc- dor at this time I will omit," For aphrodisines) Seraglio at Constantinople. British diplomacy the Sultan disliked Spaniards,

For corded, the Queen neglected for says Daliam crisply.

more than four years

He tu send

для his workman ect which occurred at Frenchmen and 11ullans [11:

the customary grandiose present about the work of repair and moment in the reign of vehemently as any subject ok

The new Ottoman ruler. Use Virgi

nt nat-it is the climax of the Queen. And English

Meanness Queen Elizabeth fraught the Virgin

and

played Elizabethan procrastination story-he

He is a senior master at by visitors to his court, with danger and opportul phasising their Protestant

airs on the organ while the Sul- prep school in Sussex but this were jointly to blame.

A etli was felt in the relations. tan listened, ravished. There his second whodunnit and nity. It is also the story of lestation of idolatry, almost between the twe monarchs just was an awkard

moment when again Inspector Put, the hero of England about the time that the eventful

a made the Church voyage of

England the Sultan came forward to Mr Straker's first, by a fresh Spanish watch Dallam's hands on the

is called in to wad swept Lancashire craftsman appear like a branch of Islam.

man's Knock" The 1wo courts were оп

invasion peare,

keys. Knowing the Sultan's re- unravel the mystery. putation, the

maker organ

as its This story has

in- thought for a moment that

blackmail, gredients. murder, was going to be bobeaded.

But all ended well with purse of 48 gold plects and

named Thomas Dallam.

effusive terms. The Sultan add- ressed the Queen as a cloud of At the time when it occurred, most pleasant rain and sweetest

of had been fountain

nobleness and the Spanish Armada defeated but nobody in England virtue."

or anywhere else believed that Unfortunately, when the Sul- the Spaniards would call 19 tun died (owing to an exclusive

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A

A present for the Sultani

Queen Elizabeth present from paid for by the London mer-

*** chunts in the Turkey trade. The best diplomalle brains in Lon-

he

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dy, suspicion, hostility and

the

It begins unusually with don were mobiilsed to and glimpse

of a country garage of the Sultan'a harem proprietor something attractive. For, plain- at play. From this spectacle witnessing four of his men run ts, it would not du to send Dallam was dragged reluctantly aver an old woman while they simply another consignment of away. fle returned safely

10 are on an unauthorised drive in fine cloth, another fancy clock, England. having accomplished a customer's car. Thinking no At last an unknown genius pro- ha diplomalle mission. Later one has seen it they fail to re- posed a clock which would also proved that, after all, Elizabeth port it. be an organ,

was in no such need of Turkey's friendship. But that is the way of diplomacy in every age. And the London merchants had paid

Shipped

The Lords of the Privy Council gave a joint sigh of re- HeL nnd senkt for Thomas Dallem from Warrington, now practiung the trade of organ builder la London.

for the organ.

Unsavoury

FONT- The organ which finally THE CALIPH OF

he

HILL, by H. A. N. Brockman. Worner Laurie, Z1.. 219 pages,

constructed WEN a compendiuni

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ok Ingentity 11 was a clock us well as a musical instrument. If

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Welsh national einblen

Bruce 4

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21 Old sailor 14),

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Creats, 4 Shred, 7 Adawzakh, Evude, Masto, 11 Erected, 13 Provide, 18 Loners, 16 Copes, 19 Un- timely, 20 iend, 21 Diddle Down: 1 charm, 2 Spout, 3 Stried. ↑ Scheme, Homantic, Defend. 10 Stop-page. 12 Related, 13 Pleko. 15 Issued, 16 Nomad, 17 Style

was a pier of furniture 10 feet long, with statues

ihat sang in the most

Way

that bowed HORE is another biographical and angel that blew trumpets, A study of William Beckford. and blackbirds and rushes author uf Vathek. and 14 alike favourite subject with writers of imaginable in the branches historical anecdote

1 የኔ . a holly

Il He t After

a preliminary Inspection carillon nich pipe which made of Beckford's background, up- Brock- bubbling noises through water bringing and character, resembling the Bong of the man plunges into the story of nightingale

Beckford's building enterprises. He dues so with manifest relief, Beckford's life was singular and unsavoury. His buildings were singular. but have

have a certain interest for architects Brockman is an architect,

Chief among

the Beckford mock- buildings was the vast Gothic cathedral he had erected at Fonthill as his country house, Happlest incident in the life of this edifice was its collapse not long after Beckford had sold it 1 for £300,000.

They mogolfkeeni machine, after approval by the Queen. BA packed an stripped w Constantinople aboard the ship Hector.

Thomas Dullam went too. He kept a diary of his voyage which Stanley Mayes hos ingeniously tricked out Inte u book, by drawing on other material. Some of this is

more relevant than the rest. The vitality of the book is derived from the personality of Dallem who emerges as alert, sturdy, English craftsman, a man of address and character.

Easy reading

His adventures are recounted with imagination

Humour and in a book which makes easy and diverting reading

When the organ was unpack- ed in Constantinople, there was a moment of panie. It had warp- ed and was covered with mouki. Two of the pipes were broken.

ambassador The English

cried that it was not worth twopence.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

COME ON OUT-

DINNER'S READY!

w is

Mr

wns

By that time. Beckford

His feeling the pinch.

wealth cnormous (capital, # million; income £100,000), but it had been bused on West in- dan slavery.

With

Abolition harder times began.

Beckford's career in building was just what might have been expected of one who was "wil- tul, obstinate, generous and de- generate," und Wus pursued Through life by social ostracism, well-corned by the wild orgies of youth.

But the propriestor proceeds to blackmai his four mechanics they and seeing no alternative agree to pay.

Then Andrew White, the boss, is found dead in bed, his sav

but when In- gs stolen spector Pit sets to work to pick up the pieces he uncovers a sur- prising truth,

It's your meat if you this kind of story.-H

POCHET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

WAV PACTS·

** You know, darling, the gossip-writera ATE quite right this Yeu the London season really has recaptured that pre-war

feeling

Dining With The Ants

like

SINGING?

They want cave-man noises

nowadays, says MEL TORME

BUT THEY WON'T GET THEM FROM ME!

KENNETH ALLSOP

ON RECORDS

*HAT sort of singers do Londoners want only the ex- hibitionists and the extro- verts? Do they need to have a song flagged at them and flap- by flailing armos ping shirt-tails

well as them? The machine being sung to strange case of Mel Torme, my ear. the American singer now on his first visit to Britain, seems to prove this.

08

cry

tinued song-writing. He was BIL object of babby-sox adoration. " QUIT'

Came hard times. "1 was chainod to a record company and having to sing the WTK stuff,” he told me, "Things like There's An X in The Middie Of Toms'—you know. Finally fitted in the buck of

the teen-age territory I've taped the Sinatra good. Now I regard myself as albums, The Gerry Mulligan ä

cafe Sextet, Peggy Lee that sort of champagne-buyers,

act. I sing for the for those music and I run them through who like it sophisticated while I drive. It's like carrying subtle.

a casket of jewels around with

for

and

1 think:

For Torme is not a

"Don't think I take myself too guy. Nor is he a rock you in the jungle."

seriously. I think many per- roll raver. When he sings

We're Perhaps it is significant that formers do.

nli vastly he does not writhe and jerk rabble-rouser vocalists, Torme one like the pilot of the aircraft parallel with the rise of the over-pold and when I see some- worm, like a severed

He has had a personal revival. He that flew mo here does not strut on to the has become

connoisseur's Torme, you fraud.""" stage in cowpuncher clothes singer whose records are bought

be Torme is no fraud when making coyote howls. And by refugees from the Teen-Age

Terror. The Torme supporters signs. For me, "Blus Moon" in he has the quaint old-world are the discriminating and the all its long life had never been aberration of using words fastidious with a fine car for the properly treated until he wrap-

off-boat

10- and he is that raro ped it around with his instead of grunts.

specimen, a singer whom singers dividual weft of silk. Listen to All of which may explain why enthus about among them- Mel Turzio AL

Crescendo he has not so far been offered selves.

(Vogue LP) and the new "Mai Torme And The Marty Paich Dek-lette" (London)—suave altu savoury as caviare.

BIG CITY BOY

In

engagements Rt such star- enclaves as the London Palla- dium and the Cafe de Paris.

Torme--whose artistry, taste, Torme gut off to a smart start. swinging quality and the voice while still in buster suits, "1

was a big-city boy born put him among the handful of consummate stylists which Chicago and I grew up breath- Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald and Bulle ing the blues." Holliday has made his one and only London appearance: at the Kilburn State. From now on the provinces have all of him.

tho

HUSKY VOICE

•

the

I LIKE THESE:

un

LPs fronts

I like these new records:

Another singular singer. His father, an ex-dancer, took

Blackhawk Sarah Vaughan, presented him down to the Restaurant and there and then, three labels 12in. at four,

the Boy Wonder sang Philips and Emarcy and a 10in. with the Coon-Sanders Orches from London of this girl with tra.

the resources of an orchestra in Tho

Boy Wonder did not her jazz-soaked voice. atrophy. Between eight and 15

• A remarkable Issuo from he broadcast in "a million coup

of Columbia;

volumes seven operas."

He took up the drums Norman Granz's Jazz At Tho

Parker,

Not that the situation is any more degenerate here than in United States as a whole. Sitting in his Mayfair hotel suite at soven, the pleno at 14; at 10 Philharmonic, with stars iike Tomme....whose record of Moun- he began composing.

Lester Young, Charlie tain Greenery

become B

In 1942 he left school

and Gillespie, Jacquet and Coleman Choice standard joined Chico Marx's Housewives

band

45 Hawkins clustered in rich con- said to me in frail husky voler

vocalist and drummer. Soon stellatioris of modern music after he had his first, film port ike a turtle dovo's:

The music now being played in Higher and Higher. (In that MORE in the States is heinous.

picture another young

singer gone back to cave-man noises was making his screen debut: with this rock 'n' roll craze. Frank Sinatra.) Ho formed tho

"You can't listen to the radio Mel-Tones

He group. more. any

I've had tape sing with Artie Shaw, He con-

We've

vocal

BY HARRY WEINERT

IF YOU CAN DESTROY THE QUEEN, THE RANK AND FILE WILL GIVE UP/ *

SERIOUSLY'

10

By ARTHUR JACOBS

All disce 12in, long-playing, All Beethoven a music Goethe's play Egmont--not just the well-known overture is given by the Vienna State Opera Orchestrù (cond Scherchen) and soprano Magda Laszlo, Mag- nificent, reproduction and only a tow weak moments in this seldom-heard score (Ducretet- Thompson).

•

Rare, non-operatie Verdi.... is offered by Toscanini (HMV).

chorus is the Te Deum for and orchestra, thrilling despite imperfect recording. Backing it, the arresting "Prologue in Heaven" from Boito's opera Mephistopheles also earns Its Toscanini.treatment.

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