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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,, AUGUST.. 18, 1956.

NEW RECORDS by KENNETH ALLSOP

BECHET COMES UP

FROM THE CELLARS

Sit it wasn't hot jive session was rocking the

onough under the arc scenery in the Paris film

lights on French studlo,

窳

fried summer day,

B The cause of the tumult

bit-actor seized a continuity was a big brown landslide girl, an electrician yanked a of a man who looks like an make-up woman from her extinct volcano-until he an unscripted acts the BUX stool--and

to lips and erupts.

A British Crossword Puzzle

3

14

9

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18

ACROSS

3 Dending down (8).

# Lond mensure (4).

Gathers (8),

11 Exhausta (8).

13 Viclim (4).

15 Disturbs (8).

18 Apropos (8).

19 Catch (4).

21 Suffering (8).

25 Rusts (8).

20 Bucket (4). 27 Offered

(8).

20

27

26

DOWN

1 Unyielding (4).

2 Stumble (4).

4 Equine galt (4).

5 Lubricates (4).

6 Bring on (5).

Effervescent (5).

◊ Tree (8).

10 Horizontal (5).

12 Keen (5).

14 Birds (6).

16 Lukewarm (5).

17 Denominations (5).

10 Implied (5).

24

20 Protective garment (5).

21 Drug (4).

22 Withered (4).

23 Short lest (4).

24 Solitary (4),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOR D.—Across: 1 Prises, 4

Trash,

7 Artifice, # Merit, Seltie, 11 Nurture, 13 Forbids, 15 Utlers,

18 Treat, 10 Exploded, 20 Risks, 21 Denies.

Down: Plans,

2 Swift, 3 Stipend, 4 Tremor, 6 Aperture, 6 Hustle, 10 Tor- ments. 12 Usurped, 13 Father, 14 inters, 10 Thorn, 17 Sides.

Sidney Bechet, veteran New Oricans Creole jazz-

France's Old Man of Júss putN

aside the golden saxophone that

him £300. a

to

serca

# new apprenticeship as

film actor

BUFFALO BILL'S MILLIONS

Wa

eyes

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

Katherine

actress,

BUFFALO BILL AND THE Later he was assisted by an- ing West. In its prime, lie WILD WEST, By Victor other industrious liar. Preniles show matie a pront of $1,000,000

ingraham, who in his time wrote a year.

But Buffalo Bill was Waybright and

Henry 800 novels, and become general always able to spend more. Blackman -Soli. Hamish publicity agent for Buffalo Bill than he made. Hamilton. 351. 244 pages: a dice, agod six. So says this fallen in love with

In 1876, Buffalo Bill's only In 1905, Buffalo Bill, who had

a London THEN last I clapped new, careful, yet moving Clemmons,

for divorce, alleging by Weybright and petitioned Buffalo biography on

sell.

But in 1936 the death of that his wife had given him Bill, the oldtimer Charles Cody, 78-your-old son "dragon's blood" to make him was riding at a nice canter of Buffalo

Bill occurred at love her more and other women across the plain, while his Chester.

less. The case was dismissed. Cody was handsome, extrava- Baker, pardner, Johnny

PITIABLE gent and gullible, an easy mark threw up a succession of for

The end of the Buffalo Bill swindlers and spongers,

probable so 'A was pitiable--bad health blue glass balls. These the women.. It is highly

that he had several sons, But and worse finances; rash spocu- great scout shattered with

Charles his rifle Lucretia Borgia, the when the virilo scout

must have been born siens that came home to roost Wos 12 in his Wyoming ranch; "a tragle famous weapon with which years old.

sense of the vanity of youth in ho had slain Yellow Hand,

and The career of Buffalo Bill os ཐ

maturing the Cheyenne brave, in a showman

under Bunt- world "ting

Yet, in spite of all the exhibi- single combat.

produced in Chicago. On the tionism and the myth-mongering, Today, scoffers allege that, in first night all the characters it had been a saga, fact, Buffalo Bill used a scatter forget their ines. The audience Buffalo Bill was and loa guna demolish the balls and insisted that the villain should significant and legendary reality. that, in lator He, he was not

Through him, his show and now man, was now in eruption He was putting his gold-plated Paris lost year). And his auto-particularly good shot. But such

a world, growing up caso blography has just been

de-doubta we during coffee-break. Spatu- soprano sex away in its

for from those of the inspired idea of a vast open- und while we talked. Bechet glim- livered to a publisher,

us who watched the splendid air show in which scorts late workman's fingers flut-

of ful goodbye to something mers and glints with gold. Be- What has Bechet got that the brande

boarded gine on the white daring horsemen would re- had departed never to return tering delicate as mothe low the cotton wool turis of hair. French value so highly? Jazz in hos

horse crossing the

smooth and produce the spirit of the vanish- the Wild Frontier of the West. along the keys, he shrilled his broad face is pale golden- his bloodstream, first of all.

brown A way through "When

gold tooth winks when Then, a rich, powerful, throb-mply plaits.

It was as smooth as we could he grins. A gold key-chain loop- bing tone, emotional and pass- make it. It was empty, apart The Saints Go Marching ed into the pocket of his green lonate, with an appeal oddly from the thousands of people In,"

which moves the slacks. In the V of his open- similar to the vehement soul- French into transports only he gold locket in gold chain. Edith Piaff. Although he may Midillion

checked neeloed

sports

around it. It was in fact, shirt baring style of singers liloo

grouti of the Heart of a degree less emotional

football team, His income also is soundly not be quite the rage among the Edinburgh, setting for a week than the "Marseillaise."

the teenagers that he was five years of Buffalo of

died ago, his popularity

his

Lite Los Armstrong. Bechet

thriving is a surviving---and antiquity of Juzz; he was play

in the Storyville sporting ing

Now he houses 35 years ago, seems

the Bbou

most stable institution in France. Govern-

Pied Piper

hwak

gold-standard. Many first-generation Jazzmen with their boots on, on benches. But because he is better business man than most- Bechet is rich.

has spread

park

a

among mally non-Jazz public,

A message

He sold to me:

"I play Just

Once he pressed pants in Harlem to make a living. Now

And coupe,

old.

the

Biti' Wild West

its un- climax the Al- ога the Deadwood

line's "Inspirat 1, with a play

die twice over.

It was Buffalo Bill who had his stop down, said a regret-

that

MASS MURDER

HARVEST OF HATE. by Loon Poliakov (Elek Books, London 21/-).

"Y

"

The

story is about one of the most sivage, wanton and to- human episodes of bloodletting 1 has been history's misfortune And to be accurate, lo record. to an episode that one must associate with the Nazis, not the German people as a whole. To my mind the distinction but one the author is important tends to deny.

a large, general, nor-Show-the show of shows

This

OUR Arst impulse gorgeous spectacle (which had

on opening this forgettable

book may well be tack

to close it again rather Coach by Indians and Its rescue

our - he earns a steady £300 a week. the same sort of music I played by cowboys) had quite humble angrily; we have had monta come and governments His records sell up to 100,000 back in New Orleans when origins.

All of these shocking stories Thus, he says "the active role, go, but Bechet across the years each in Britain, France and Satchmo and

Way back in the sixties kids-but WETE

and we want to forget that of protagonist in tragedy, continues to rule the jazz roost America. He drives a 100 mph

more

sincerely, more temperance lecturer, drunk and

fell to the German people as a maybe In his adopted country.

custom-bulk

he melodically, now. My feeling is runaway-husband named E. Z. C. them...."

group, acting under the stimulus This is how Mr Poliakov of leaders of their choice." owns an estate with private lake that I have a message. I haven't Fudson, who wrote dime novels

under the name of Ned Buntline, begins the foreword to the

The remark 15 extremely for Ashing near Paris where he fully told that message yet, and lives with Elizabeth, the Ger- shall go on playing till it's told.'

was running Providential derick

short of material.

frequently CCA!- he heard French edition of his book questionable,

of Union rules being what they

text and ove tradicted in the man woman he married (to the

Cody, tune

a which, his introduction to that would have been bytter of 10 Jazz bands)

concessions Willorn are despite recent for the Kenton and Antibes in 1951,

Armstrong Western scout aged 23, who had the English edition inter omitted from what purports to ja no immediate

well-documented won the name of "Buffalo Bul"

and visits there

bearing prospect

in 17 months. message in Britain.

So here

recent ore some

EMERGENCY records with the maitre in fil

"Before that, Cody had been i blast: the The hard work includes about melodie

Vogue Volumes I and II of the Olympia pony express rider, who, in one Jews, men, 100 concerts a year-in French

covered 320 children." provincial towns, where jazz concem when he was presented emergency,

with a golden pressing of "Les miles in 21 hours 40 minutes.

to

But many claims were made celebrate of The Bastille of a million.

the sale Oignons well as in Riviera smart, pots of a

He has now blinked his way up into daylight out of the Lef Bank cellars (beer 12s. 6d, a |bottle), disciples in droves and un atmosphère like potage to make o colour movie, I drove out to the Studio de Boulogne to watch the 05-year-old pied piper serving his apprenticeship as on actor.

Impromptu recital

he over, pulled up a packing-case for a chat, "Acting? Well, I'm find

Ing

at

"I came to France in 1949 to rest up a bit," he said, swigging a bottle of beer, "But I'm working harder here than I ever did in the States,"

Station is modelled on the

of

Bechet's by shooting 4,280 head of buffalo tells us, "is devoted to the cholarly accou

had

most tragic page in JewishThe author would have been history-the extermination treading on safer ground it he

prove in cold blood of six million could

that the Nuzi women and leaders showed such hideous and

sadistic

ргорсп disgustingly sities in 1933 when Hitler came to power.

It hard work because I'm He has also written two ballets "Esquire" of corda, the tree far Coll. And soon there were persistent impulse to close the

a nervous sort of person." bre

I'm

said, looking about as nervous

"but as a Suffolk Punch. [enjoying it."

OF LIFE

VIGNETTES OF

THE ANCIENTS

LOOKED ON

WITH A

WARY EYE WHEN THE GIRLS FIRST

ENTERED THE FIELD OF SPORT.

THE

LORD OF

THE MANOR

THOUGHT

THIS IS THE END"

WHEN THEY

TOOK UP ARCHERY-

(a tribute to those two blood- stained American sweethearts Frankie and Johnnie, and "The Night is a Witch," performed in

a 1949 session with the New Orleans Footwarmers; and the Decca of "El Doudou and "If You Ever Go to Patco" with the Rewellotty band.

Back To The Showers, Men

EVEN THE GOOD BURGHERS WERE SHOCKED WHEN THEY BROKE LOOSE ON THE

BOWLING GREEN

--AND ITS NO

SECRET THAT GRANDPA WAS

HORRIFIED.

WHEN THE LADIES

PLAYED A SMASHING

GAME OF TENNIS.

2-17

many mores Buntline ached the legend of Buffalo Bill on its flight with a best- triumphant seller, "Buffalo Bill King of the Border Men,"

It was my first, Indeca my covers on this disgusting story. The photographs are revolting and certain passages absolutely

Mariscous.

I wish it hadn't been written.

BY HARRY WEINERT

COPR, 1956 SY GENERAL FEATURES CORP.THWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

TODAY, HOWEVER, MAN HAS LEARNED TO SIT

ON THE SIDEUNES AND YIELD TO PROGRESS

LIKE A GOOD SPORT.

POPULAR TEEN-AGE SPORT KNOWN AS

HOGGING-THE-TELEPHONE,

Did

As

DECEIVED

anyone really belle then that his intolerance and prejudice were wounds that in the course of yours would be- como gangrenous to inicel noi only Germany and the woria?

late

as 1934 Lloyd George, Britain's second greatest Premier ald stal be of this century, could deceived by the man, and

Mr Pollakov himself believes ` that the decision 10 exterminate European Jewry was not taken until 1940 or 1941 when events suggested to & clearly un- balanced mind the need to stimulate the nation to frenzy to achieve e unified' driving, force,

The

author's account-o

calls it a documentary and

psychological record, based Jargely on Nazi archives or re-

parts of the Nuremberg

Tribunally a damning indict= ment of Nazism which might rather have been used In very much, breeder and vastly

more interesting context.

He mys at one stage: "when one reflects that we are deal- ing with a highly civilised nation

M

that for many yenry was Lorch-bearer of Western.

society one realises that we are concerned with an anti-Semitic problem that is intrinale to our entire Western civilisation, an aberrant

pathological phenomenon that lay at the very centre of the 1839-1945 catastrophe.”

But he admits that such in rights are only briefly touched on la Harvest of Hate. might have been a more pro- Atable field of examination and a contribution of real value to the history of contemporary PRETENSIONS

The publishers, however, feel that at 0 time when...”, tha mensaries of Nazl diplomats, înd other opalos for the Hiler regimo are pearing by the

score

Pollakoy's coldly documented book will wer

thele

pretensions. How Counteract perhaps, but no

has not dila's bee done by war: crimes” triofa aubanquent authors well enoughs without the full scope of the totalitarian horror as this new, boɑle is called sta i cap it

publishers

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