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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,
Mr Crombie Cashes In
T
On Rock 'n' Roll
WOelderly women..
stared fearfully, 'ncross the staid restaurant as with fork and spoon Tony Cromble executed a drum break around the table. Rattling on chair rail, mus tard pot and glasses," he ended with a mellow clang on the wine bottle and exulted: "Never soon busi- ness liko this. They've all gone crazy."
The business is that hot commodity rock 'n' roll. The crazy customers referred to
A British Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
3 Meat balls (8).
14
16
DOWN
1 Frighten (5).
8 Hang around (6).
2 Scc..e (8).
3 Remainder (7).
4 Metal (4).
B Consaling (8).
11 Servant (8).
12 Border (4).
13 Deceives (8).
16 Went astray (6),
10 Reverberation (4).
22 Provided with (8),
24 Set alight again (8).
25 Flaherman (8).
20 Industrious (8).
5 Blemish (4).
6 Landowners (8).
7 Drooped (8).
10 Bar (5).
14 Haughty (8).
18 Snoke (7)
16.Prepod (8).
17 Jewish coin (19),
20 Pluntier (5).
21 Bedeck (8).
22 Comfortable (4).
23 Scheme (4).
YESTERDAY'S CHOBBWORD-Across;_3 Tempests, 7 fanver, 8 mm- proves, it scrope, 13 Precede, is Rule, 17 Interim. 18 Retract, 20 Elan, Drachts, Entire, 27 Retained. 10 Event, 20 Tantrumns. Down; | Clasp
Medico, 11 Croni, 2 Aware, 3 Tripe, 4 Port, 8 Bavour, & System, D Acorn, 1 Entree. 18 Besel, 10 Liber, 18 Regret. 19 Tartan, 22 Andur, 23 Liven, 24 Bects, 28 Tier.
There's no money in highbrow jazz says the drummer who has formed Britain's first Rock" band. “This is what they want, and from now on it's the law of supply and demand for me.'
By
KENNETH",' ALLSOP
are the citizens of Forte mouth, where Bernard Del font's rock 'n' roll show has started its Blitzkrieg, on long list of defenceless Bri-
tish cities.
Crombie himself. His career has suddenly gone explo- aively commercial. For years
A he
has been deep in the Arctic ice-wastes of cool jazz, almost cut off from the outer world.
NO MORE CULTS
The music was complicated as calculus, The receipts we simpla addition, being in tiny units of copper and silver....
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ODD TO FIND
MR MAUGHAM IN THE BLACK MAGIC SET
By ROBERT PITMAN
·N a Paris cafe the man with the cold eyes and the big white face sat boasting about his all. as a Binner, round, form about the monstrous Black Magic rites in which he in-
to It was the beginning remarkable story. The story of Willie and the Beast.
Around The Clock, R-O-C-K faced about jazz, of those a week and I'm
too. What am alming at? darling of Edwardian hostesses,
an
to
show
enthu-
au-
13
m
FASCINATED-
Yot it is also oddly cory Each afternoon in Paris Mar
arawn_by_mag.c
to the horrible Olivér's Bait But what takes placo on thosa shocking occasions?
A kiss. She had an inmeritedesire that he should take hoy, again in his arma and press her lipa with khak
red
voluptuous
tipouthin
Then they marry. And Mar Kuret's corruption is complete. in mixed company, to the burn- Ing shame of Arthur-hor de cent ex-flance who still loves her dearly-this once-pure woman actually tella á blue joke,
KILLS HER
In the end, i mood hardly say, Oliver kills her. He wants hür blood to further his own 142- tempts to produce lite.
in 12 Binda
SIMILA breaks
And
But
an
ho
sierlood in all her loveliness?"
crius JAKLITYOELS.
ory today?
succulent
By
uncovering the
Au readable story
no means. A no
And the other story--the
Willia
the and
story Beast?
As ho stokos himself up with Curry for his second rock 'n' roll
evening, dulged. of the rumpus Crombie spoke his vaindicion
And near by a spruce upon that period of experimen- tation and bard-up idealism; young man from London Shortly before I had been
had a wonderful modern barwi looked on, revolted.
lost thousands. Now, --and it sitting in the Theatre Royal,
for me, it's the low of supply while from the stage Tony
and demand. Cromble and the Rockets Still vibrating slightly as "With this rock 'n roll stuff
Willle was Mr W. Somerset the wiso blasted the plaster from the he ate dinner, he told me: I'm getting applause, And Maugham. But not
I'm getting money at and wrinkled Maugham Wo walls with such currently "I've had enough of cults, love it, popular serenades as "Rock of people who get all white last the band's drawing £400 know today. The Willie of this Joving that story is the Саррет young
Rock," and "Let's You and bóp clubs where it'a Money. And applause."
д Wille Maugham whose checks Firs! record nuo
whose smooth, the were pink and 1 Rock." Due, no doubt, to 'square'
Crombie Rockets: "We're
fringed with they met Arnold Bennett,
into the magician's private lab. there they met Aleister Crowley, as for use vas mSAG- oversight, "Rock of slusta
you throw every- Gonna Teach You to Rock" and upper lip WES
roguish whiskern. Ages" had been omitted. thing you've got at them, "Shor'cn'n' Bread Reck, trotu
Crowley was still young. And the Beast?.. .Well, he was
dilite that Margaret Was the 'only
mly genuine self-styled: he was already quite a bit of To give the audience the and they just stare at you Columbia, October 1.
Beast that Britain has ever pro- Bust. Young Willie took If you're out of
the awful approved
cosh treatment deadpan.
THESE I LIKED
duced. He was the late Aleis- Instant dislike to him. touch with the public you
ter Crowley, the ¿TOSS Balan- these were performed by a
An wither and die.
LIKE these new records.. worshipper who claimed to be tenor saxophone honking
The Brazlian
mentioned in guitaris the Great Beast
But he was fascinated too silco of ham in the Bram Almeida (A3
who forced like a frenzied taxi, ampli- dience is the soil a musician
his When he returned to London ho Stoker tradition. grows in. Now we've got Laurindo
Ux-Revolutions; Kenton soloist) fied electric guitar, a pianist
and Д
who, Instantly wrote "The Magician." Boi disciples to drink blood; Shank group
would its chlor introduced to a woman, in
ceful, a vocalist audiences to play to."
character: the evil of (standing up),
marriage of Loin bestow on her a “serpent kiss" corpului Oliver Haddo (based Maugham did noe sʊe the Beast (tottering), A bass player For this East-Ender, who glinking
Jazz with tooth specially filled for the on the evil corpulent Crowley) years later he received a telo- rhythmns and American
again after
this novel. But (thrashing his instrument looks like
elongated
Further experi- purpose.
Ita chief (here: round the stage), and Mr George Raft, success dreams (Vogue) Britain's Victor Feldman
Olivar corrupta puro and lovely gram: "Please send £25: as onco He was with Kemmy Graham's Atro-
Margaret, an art-student.
starving. Aleister Crowley Crombie attempting to bat are coming true.
It is not what we would ex~
Maughan
money. ter his drum set to a parch- born in Potticoat Lane in Cubista in a piquant cocktail of
idioms freal
and techniques Dapper Wille and the Beast pect from Mr Maugham, The But Crowley did not starvo, He ment pulp.
1925. His parents were poor (Esquire).
how could this unlikely pair book pulses with rich melu- died finally the age of 72. -"no. money at all. But
And
a luxuriant
of ever crop
come together? Mr druma. It hisses with hints of Not in Paris, by the way,: At honkytonk a few records vocals, that there were
hussy Maugham himself explains in a sin.
St Leonards on Sea. fale Ma Rainey yelling spinofa new preface to "THE a novel he arst and a gramophone around the
30-year-old laments (London) w nearly 50 ycara ap. the house, for his mother "Dead Drunk Blues" and other MAGICIAN." had been a silent-era cinema George Melly showing that (Heinemann; revised edition.....
jazz. a pianist and liked
a Briton can sing the blues-in 15.).
and "Organ Grinder
He now tella
how in 1907
1 and in
of all those hostesses. He lewating. For
being a poorly-paid At 12 ho built bimsel bistro really winging wel worn pyjamas and in minor, Non He tired of having sducepan and man on unobtrusive guard chair seat for bass drum, At H
Jam Bjarg
's Only A Paper Moon at By
revivet Dick work in the circle, and, said to be was a £2 108, a week ware (Philips)....
Haymes
Love reviving coloured girls of star stature:
MORGO
plaintively After that he moved steadily Carmen
"Never Loved bluffing
Him West into the Mayfair night
(Brunswick). aad spots, then in the la.e 40's back Anyhow"
Area come ferocious trilling by Dinah to the Leicester Square
ECSTASY
The audience responded with hourse bays of ectasy and rugged hand-beating. But no rating.
an
others
UNLIKELY
Crombie's cradle lullabies with the Mick Mulligan band, young, Willie Maugham-suddenly
in a confusion of appre- were early. Armstrong and hension and box-office Ellington96 euphonia, manager Sydney
hobo
articles" encered
Webb pointed out the police- drum set from "bíscultatire, 3kg including LOVELY MOCOW at fashionable
me:
"No real trouble far. But I wouldn't like say what would happen
wock-co
So he packed the pyjamas and so house boy-then he got his walked In" (Capitol)... and two tollet articles, got rid of his flat
1:
band job, in a Soho drinking club at £0.
If
It went on a minute longer. They get worked up to A terrific pitch.'
excitement
of
How to Get Ahead
Making Royal Hats
By Nancy Spain
near Victoria Station (to "a DON'T tarny
mistress
IW.R.N.S. on parade this one of those sad was really very embar. middle- -aged gentleman who wished to install his
cases who cannot wear a rassing."
So I approached 40-year-old in it"), and set off for Paris, hat. It actually hurts me.
In Paris he contacted a young
My hair grows so fast Age Thaarup's HEADS AND
TALES
(Caazell, 21x.) At m almost equal pitch and into the developing world Washington in "Love For Sale" painter named Gerald Kely that hats leap from my caution. I thought I should bo
Together they ate at a rostit of British modem jazz, cen-ret and other tracks (Emarcy), is Tony Tourd Club 11.
rant called the White Cat. There head, and when I was in the bored stiff by all this millinery
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
HIS FOOTBALL' COACH FIGURES HIS EXPERIENCE SHOULD MAKE HIM ADEPT AT HOLDING DOWN A BENCH ON THE SIDELINES.
THE GIRLS AGREE LIFEGUARDS ARE DREAMBOATS-
BUT THE
SMALLER EDITIONS
ARE A PAIN IN THE NECK.
THE TIMİD BATHER WHO ADMITS THE LIFEGUARD LOOKS OKAY, BUT CAN HE SWIM? WUNKIT
(COPYRIGHT)
The Lifeguard
·COM, 1964 BY ČÍNERAL FEATURES CORP, T1-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
BY HARRY WEINERT
NO ONE WILL EVER CONVINCE HIS EX-SCHOOL TEACHER THAT HE'S THE SAME SKINNY MOPPET SHE TAUGHT IN THE SIXTH GRADE.
BEACH)
HE'S "TAKING
O, CHANCES.
with
discussion.
But I need not have worried. Mr The Queen Mother's, who makes the Queen's,
and Princess Margaret's hats (and nevertheless managed to go bankrupt, which 1, must y is talented), has produced a wonderfully entertaining collee tion of the facts of his. If kine
He was born in.
Copenhagen,
he crumpled his leg, playing school football, he served in shops in London; did not really bats until
start manufacture
1928, in Boprion premises
He opened
in 1932, when the Duchess of Windsor (Mrs Simpson in those days), Mrs Claude Beddington, and Nellie Wallace all bought hate. Nelle Wallace had to roll hers in the gutter t to make 56 "just so.**
Then the Duchess of York (now the Queen called on. Me
Was
"mado,"
Mother)
Thascup, and he
Marlene Dietrich ordered a Bedouin's head-dress, a hat with
a plato crown and a aquare with miniature Buddha's hands, and two mink half,
Anna May
coolle hats,
Wong
bought
Elisabeth Berger ordered a pixie-ish hat in forest green and a "comely high-polmed wimple
in white-and-silver lame."
M
IN THE WAR
sat a loss, trimmed hats, with real, vegēt- ables, safety-pine," and (in wak- time) red tape. In the war 100 bo rode a bicycle, until an order was passed: No bleycles for aliens."? So he sold himself his bicycle and, then 97 as a director of his firm was-
to ride
has
Ts shoet anchor always been his royal He fitted the Queen's deemi milkary tricore for the Troupe
Colour "In front
cudy fireplace Hood a large, ilfo-streă: stured: harveykbridled
maddled.
RICE
moumbad. The King sala it, was
At all
not
what he had expected
He made
One
naked for more
Queen's
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