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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1956.

KENNETH ALLSOP's Record ROUND

THE MELACHRINO MUSIC SOOTHES A. NATION....

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THE framed golden disc ahone down from the wall like a tropic sun. Beneath it, from the sofa in his elegant Cholsen house, George Melachrino's smile beamed upon me.

With

TERMOTI,

for this hand of gold has been pre- sented to him by a grateful

A British Crossword Puzzle

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a le (4).

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11 Entire (U).

13 Small wall (4).

15 Warlike (8}-

18 Coming out (9)

19 Dam (4).

21 Plunders (8).

28 Dukry (cdlog) (4).

25 Pula back (8).

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Smart (4).

2 Quiet (4),

1 Lazy (4).

5 Promontory (4)

Willow (5).

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10 Make reparation (5).

12 Suppose (5).

14 Cancel (5).

15 Foesli resin (5).

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20 Piece let in (5).

21 Fiste (4).

22 Despatched (4).

23 Sacred figure (4).

24 Stalk (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Mirror, 4 Tutor,

7 Anacable, & Bless, Secret, 11 Emerald, 13 Confue, 15 Re-

21 Dirvet, Down: lept, 18 Gapes, 19 Asassing, 20 Thane, Means, 2 Recur, 3 Rebates, 1 Treble, 5 Tolerate, Raised, 10 Conspire, 12 Merinald, 13 Cogent, 14 Unsafe, 18 Loser, 17 Tight.

American record company upon the occasion of his millionth long-player sale.

"In appreciation of out- standing service," reads the inscription. What is the ser- vice that Mr Melachrino per- forms, and which keeps his record sales in the United States dizzily higher than they are bi his native Bri- tain?

It is keeping the Ameri- can nation in good heart and a-brim with confidence. For is albums are adorned with paintings of young meb standing triumphal mountain-tops and entitled Music for Faith and Inner Calm and Music for Courage and Confidence.

A HORSE LAUGH

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There is Melachrino prasic to necompany almost every activity.. Music tor Day-dreaming. Music for Dining, Music For Reixa Lion, Music to Help You Sleep, Music for Rending.

Solace is provided by mich

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SCOTLAND YARD LOST ITS LUGGAGE THAT SOUTH AMERICAN WAY

ON COLDEN STOOLS. By Peter Schmid. Woldenfeld and Nicolson. 25%. 327 pages.

[Lezn

the residence in BEGGARS Chelson, a new plum-coloured Jaguar with while-wall tyres Bad chauffeur, and Continentai maid to help Noreen, his pretty ex-ballet dancer wild third).

HE WAS CONFIDENT

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George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

Very dintervent

Cat for

execution:

ne volunteered to spend a year un lonely Kergulalon, in the South Indian Ocean, the only snog was that other Frenchnien would be there, 100, But Migel lo write this pain, zurvived observant description of wild life and hard living in a bleak quarter of the globe.

But

a lively portrait of the composer can be built up.

its main ingredients are tems childish tantrums, sirong dhilkes (01 Rah anick Mussolini); despairs and exulia- tions.

After a faulty perfor- THE HUMAN PROSPECT. monet, Tosennini may assaul

By Lowis Mumford. Socker the furniture, call for the erring

319 orchestra...”Send me the port" and Warburg. 21s. [Swine) and denounce them m

pagos, body 1 feet they are my yutiny I want to kill then."

figh

u world against Or one wreich may be singlea PHE

"On what

dominated by technology day were you burn?.. Tuesday," may seen a lost cause.

he was a black "ay loss Citusta attract 14

gallant for muste,"

lighter; Mumford is one of short Mac tro La

cham- On the mal resourceful but adores stupation. PRVis 1 her He may mee iur werka or weep machine-made civilisation,

these varying essays he ranges fest hours. But something about

over art, hum remains calm and practical, widday a sturdy Hallan peu sunt. When sociology. a specialist told him his heart perfeet condition, Toscanini said, "Why shouldn't Samual be? it has never been used." Wha tee Use 1 is some- Hamish

thing else a delicate sensibility, 12s. 6d. 134 to powerful tempera-

stands unilnished, but a stadium ♫ME beggars on golden to hold 60,000 is complete-ana Pasion runs high, stools are the people 100 smiali.

When

and ge Uruguay beat Brazil n of the

South Ine 1980 100tball champion- in fact it was Mr Milnehring's Anterican countries who sit ships, cages with canaries were ondence in his own skill na

matering in the streets as symbols an arranger and in his concep-on the greatest tion of now sweet music, wealth of the globe and, e defeated,

List

eqanday rleverly mixing pop and classic

to thanks

ignorance, itul Is the pastime I LOV and served, with a rich sauce ut

tribe in Ecuador, who orchestration, that brought him superstition and prejudice Jio these rewards.

leave others to develop and kink human heads to it. -

of the original zize The Jivan

handest enien Roghanlal Sengem), enjoy their treasure.

furcibly ale major Melachring in the war.

over to the church but the food Peter Schmid, as

light-b

bishop has our hope of any ading the BEF Land," he told

of heart

"A change "Eric Maschwitz, who was fanted German with an eye real When t the War Offer, said, for country and a taste for bid.ous trood," he sold

hear Pennsylvanie Polka played by an orchestra of politics, saw the beggars in 80. I gave hun what we wanted, 15 separate republics, met and it was a wonderful sound. their big men and chatted

the breadth to their flimsy intellectuals. L i was exulted by

you had playing ROJ popular muste on this scale,"

But, un densbifikation, he handed in to the quartermaster's stores tot voly his kit but bas khaki-end symphy orebeatra.

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tarting of win with adhat, he pretasend ! hard happier #bare roomy and a telephone

And I gombled I knew I had a ready-made pubile all those who had enjoyed my

want >

WON

Following beland's narraday,

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umpassed by to the end, the ruler will be thin layer of tound under

Ini South America

U elvination

the journey was fun, temper ed by despite and kept alive The outcome is a by varfely book eny to ad and likely TOSCANINI. lo instruct.

Chatzinott.

In

Hamilton. pages.

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meignet s

feel in Bojlvin, everybody is in genial conspiracy against the state; the Argentine has 2,000 in milies, one of thy IP with

texada clans 14 FLONE formaliobl music in

known to history."

we could do n We

ntid

of their enthusiasm we

I put a pile aside uml

18 Army So I rang up any listened 10 this chubby, d musicions They, too, be cheerful, part-Greek part- Devel Turkish confectioner of were deep in the red for a long

finis lyrical light music explain- Royalty ing why it was that the Bri- pitted at off." tish public so far had been

50-PIECE ORCHESTRA demed the Melachrino Inus)-

bad en poutier for their nerves and slevplessness,

Today he rubs along with 1 is just a 50-prce orchestra. with this that he will be #c-

"Frunkly, if you put out a rolupanying Liberuc 911 hia recurd here labelled Music Binish concert lite next momb For Faith and Inner Calm About his personal views of this

candle-1.1

carpenter. ༞-I you'd just gel

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keyboard wod thril laugh," he confided. "Bul 1 crueldes

housewives think the United States is verywhere, Mr Melachrino was a more emotional nution- the Americans have a child- like simplicity and are not embarrassed by this sort of presentation."

As these long-players alone bring in Mr Mulachrino a confidence-building $100, 000 a year, he squeres his shoulders and puts up with any embarrassment the titles privately cause him.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE EYES

OF THE NATION

ARE UPON

HIM --

HES A

DELEGATE /

evnsive

"If

jackets

they like bus sequined and hair styles, "thal's

"He's # Ine," be sukl

show- but he's not a faker. He can really play the piano. And

hough 1 hate to e the word In The market, we're really sane market. Our musle has the SUITC appelsincere, Straight from the heart."

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CACI VIST palkate and THE LONELY SOUTH. By

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olatry, rewarded by avLOSA the warmth, char and buste Columblas opitul. Bogota,

plousness of a great tousletan the Athens of thieves," where Cholzinoff, who has known hin you may read an advertisement

In this entertaining little book countless micutes from wjeg

in the local new paper. "Memely for 30 yeane, rrealis Thler, 1 ask You most Fol to sell for courteously | prnetically nothing the camera And the typewrlier you stale last Friday from my house. Eni rendy to buy tick both ali- jewis at a coniderably better price."

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The Hasan Fuffer Lombard deeply, moved a Bogota audience on the then of Chrisllan soet it The mob closed responsibility.

Andre Migot. Mart-Davis. 211, 206 pages.

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VALES

OF

In

lettera and

THE

TALES

CRIMINOUS. By William 181 Roughead. Cassoll.

266 pages.

CRIM la. unhappily, always

RIME

readable.

Roughead,

The

old Edinburgh wizard, had an for making the urbane taleri most horrifying murders toler- able to the Bastidious reader and fascinating to everybody. of Here is a new selection from hils When studies of murder trials.

VIGOT VỀ a Frenchijan with

Ru 119.tke Human companionship.

FICTION SHELF BY PHILIP OAKES:

Aunt Dot Took A Camel To Church

THE

TOWERS

anci

Dot

and

slip

Into

OF

the

Futher

Aunt Eventually scholarly

to Father Chantry Pigg Chantry-Pige, on a mission TREBIZOND. By Rose en tien Turkish

women, the through the Iron Curtain Macaulay. Collins, camel went too.

Russia. Laurie is jeft behind head- to cope with the world 131. 6d. 287 pages.

Turkey WIN

lur, crowded

camel und a recalcitrant There were authors, determined line.

a conscience that is paining her other to the post to beat vach with next season's travel books. over an affair with a murriet There was a comunando group ma fram Billy Graham's mission. There were spies, in and out of disguise. And there was a BBC recording team, dredging up local colour.

THE

und, shaking him warmly by The hand The preneher did not Three we hi hotecost again Scolland Yard detectives, invit- THE camel had no name. ed to train the local police, had

was presented to at their kuggage slolen on

Aunt Dot

one of her arrival.

jaunts into the desert by a local tycoon.

And every where that Aunt Dot went, The camel had to go.

The national sport of Colom- bip is religious persecution; in Urtuny (after gambling) it is

:occer.

Latest Metachring heart-eries: Autumn Concerto (HMV Memories of the Ballet (EP) atd | in The Nosidipic Trap¤ller" (LP). | The

OF COURSE

A DELEGATE NEEDS

SOME SLEEP- BUT HE GETS THAT

IN THE CONVENTION HALL

PURING DEMONSTRATIONS.

In

on

In England It took Aunt Dol There are 2.000 football clubs

A population of 2 500,000. To church And when she went

tr hospital Montevideo to Turkey with her niece Laurie

Convention Assembled

Cum-

"Reporters for the BBC have Curbi un extraordinary effect on the people they meet," plains. Aunt Dot "Wherever they go the natives sing.**

BY HARRY WEINERT

man.

Aunt Dot gets back sate undi pound. But Laurie-whose lover is kited in a car crash-s casualy for life.

Miss Mucauay's first novel in alx years is a witty, complex sermon on living and believing. The priormance is briklant. But most of us will follow at a distance; admiring, as always, yet n le impatient with the Breworks.

IT SEEMS AS THOUGH MORE VOTES HAVE

BEEN OFFERED THAN ARE PROPERLY

IN THE CONVENTION!

ASTONISHING RESULTS OF THE MOCK CONVENTION CONDUCTED BY ENTHUSIASTIC

MEMBERS OF THE GARDEN CLUB.

WHEN MORE

BADGES

ARE MADE,

HE'LL

WEAR 'EM.

THE RED PRIEST, By Wyndham Lowis. Methuen, 15». 298 pages.

feel small," says Father

"Augustine Chato, is the essence of religion, "But Chard Ambitions is larger than llic, and egotisucal, be attempts to found a new kind of church whose cool ife in both Moscow and Rome. He kills a curato who disagrees with him, and is khaled himself by an exasperated Eskimo.

Steering

I

clumsy course between tragedy and Larco,

..

Lewis gives to impression that he did not care much about his book The feeling is infectious. THE WILLING FLESH by Will. Heinrich, Weldenteid and Nicolson. 16s, 478 pasen A novel of the Wearmant's re- treat from Russia by a man who was there. First-hand in เน impact, universal in ita feeling.

THE DEATH OF GRASS by John Christopher michael Joseph. 108. 6d. 231 pages. The world laid waste by a virus that kills off every green. thing. John Christopher's novel of the future starts simply. bullda

up in the grand merings. Story-telling

Hon; excellent.

and characterisa→

TEN DAYS IN AUGUST, by Bernard Frizell, Cassell, 18. 200 pages, Paris in 1944 with cho Germane in refrent; and tiss Allied armies At the gates. Should the Resistance riso

'in or walt for the

city to become a battlefield? Time and place are evoked efficiently, but too much heavy breathing over the nex lives of the characters.

SINCE THE ADVENT OF TV ITS DIFFICULT FOR THE CHAIR TO KNOW IF THE DELEGATES WANT THE FLOOR OR ARE MERELY WAVING

TO THE FOLKS BACK HOME,

WINERY

8-5

COMA, 193 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP, TM.WORLD FIGHTS RESERVED.

BUT IT WILL TAKE MORE THAN COMPATIBLE COLOR

BY ON SPEAKING TERMS.

IT TAKES A WIDE MOVIE SCREEN TO DO JUSTICE TO TO PUT ADMIRERS OF RIVAL CANDIDATES BACK "FROM THE ATLANTIC-TO-THE-PACIFIC”, GESTURES

NOT ALL CONVENTIONS ARE POLITICAL CONVENTIONS— [IN FACT, SOME OF 'EM ARE NOT

EVEN CONVENTIONS,

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THREE WINTERS: By John

Mortimer Collins. 6d, 254 pages.

ALEGANT,' excellently told story of the chract of, past, tensions on protsent Joyty.” Chy, frncy vand grim bý, KULD,

Mortimerni novel is Įmak's job.

MARY ROBERTS RINE.

HART'S MYSTERY-BOOK Cassell, 16s. 442 pages,

THREE of the best Amerion's quo thriller, Non now (the "nons: pubikbod. 13