1956-10-13 — Page 14

POCKET CARTOON | by OSBERT LANCASTER

DULLES SPLIC

says

"I don't give the metal score, darling, but as fui #s I can make out Navier's still about lifteen vliches behandl but four moves ahead ↑**

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1950.

BING CROSBY WRITES A CANDID CONFESSION

HAD

a

letter this of the mellow, good-natured acien, and when this is absent,

philosophy of his life and his

week from Bing Crosby,

It is a remarkable lotter —a letter which will provoke comment wherever the name Crosby is known, and will be quoted and commented upon around the world.

Old

For in this lolor Bing, ""The Grunner," acin out kome

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

10

6

12

14

15

16

18

119

120

22

23

24

26

25

DOWN

1 Take without right 15).

ACROSS

3 Interfered with

(2)

8 Current (A).

2 V. grant (5).

9 Apropos (8)

3 N dhor (7)

1 Sign (4).

11 Stayed (8).

12 Rank (4).

11 Evil spirtt 15.

18 Itenovate (5).

19 Burden (4).

22 Fated

<B>

24 NCO (8).

25 Aerial (4).

Mugikombed 14).

Camionum di).

Laders (0).

10 Fruit

Talsostleg Mpyati sius (5)

15 Suggles up (7)

10

Calm (1)

24 Extasta (B).

17 Provine i governor (8).

20 meal (5).

#1 Revues (5).

22 Drug (4).

23 Rescue (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD --Across 3 Clry L 7

4 Epenres, 10 Chalar, 13 Malince, 15 Core, 17 Budiar I, 18 De tant, 20 A 21 Silence, 20 Rewis,

20

Ever.ful.

Itown:

27 BCA K X3 AL

1.

1 m. 25, 3 Clean, 1 tk, Ter #Darke 1, 9 Preens, ii Cavil, 12 Lys, 14 Eatre, 15 Cures, 16 act, 18 Dabble, 19 Sedute, 22 Legal, 23 Never, 24 Esspy, 25 Skit,

-

work.

thn ho

so is the stylo.

MY INSPIRATION Crosby has known more nua-

DON'T think increasing eg css than anyone clao in

has got anything to do with field — and now popular explains how he feels about the 11, or that the pipes ere getting other side of success.

rus y, Ucause i belleve voice Hiteter to me is promptedly his very hole to do with by my remarks in a column not the publie aceptance of a popu long ago about the tolmutable for suger. 's the style, the

ruby

Lumilable

mood they create that puts them longer.

hels

по

of his

fact I raid some Imitators. 1,40

Martin, Dean Peny Come, and Dave King, seemed to be dolug belier un the original.

AS A Cuddy read my com- penis and this is what he has to say..

"I'VE STRETCHED A TALENT SO THIN IT IS ALMOST OPAQUE

Hayden Lake, Itladas. Dear Cyril,

IDC

શ

And as for us my being Inimit- thle is concerned, it seems

to me that that's a word thag 15 much misused these days, In- has Imitable in show business

111-

no mean something unusuci tu sia neling. Certal:ty flung Is Herally inimitable mus; of all me.

a result

of

I've always thought that my siegang pyle wid

string to dolson and to Ethel Water

Wi

of

I Istered le both of thes. people an awful lot and to count- less others โด ~ listened them her won'ly when I youne and i suppose some

bestigers of today have listene ed to me and miltei jample to

extent, ma such Asten- han influener hur style or delivery, but real-

PENANG

01

JUMLONE, inteutily ull- voluntary, art I've never heard het i thought reminded diseired, sent copy of your column the elv ik me and, if he did,

Ieteve though; it was beau one you did recently entitled | Varded 1ks so many other "Is Bing Going Out llus fle Gome

b.

I

WO

Ja you

w

Or

Abel, sky, tas 1- Dagona qutty big in b

num uvely.

Bu, as yoAL TRADE C linn, I'm not too -

pressed abotul ik

Hasty, I think Pym zawar

Baker, which r So Tham Ke as when s opaque over at 41.0 uhi V. Ble write od 5 cura

AFTER

MY BIG HOPE

o game of

th The H 14 E we having a “moly for the bolean the br. We got a

*

sk.

Ju

of tam te ully and the fue +Ital one val for my teen, ús dis

wh aper 1 sub dad a fent tak cuprinsky to ne bet use I've inole gr Bas been expecting for 15 year

12%

1

zo much that pe jet

Pine yours, plnough tha.

Ring wou shut you

21 amal itve "harpengh And I said: "No inah, no- I could never be so lucky Hasti."

now ont again, and I'll always be hopeful that some day I can get another hit record that wil; give me a total of 20 which havá sold over a million.

Thanks again, Cyril, for your Interest, and all my warmest re- ads to you and your renders,

BING CROSBY

As ever.

THE TOP TEN HITS THIS WEEK

MR NICHOLS HIDES IN THE BUSHES When he sees his first Eucryphía

E

10

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

save his prose from complete

EMPRESS FREDE-

SUNLIGHT ON THE LAWN. There is a mement, described the careless render, the flush on On The Lawn,' his own checka hoightened by By Boverlay Nichola, in "Sunlight

whon Nichols, calling on Lord embarrassment, may overlook Cape. 16, 255 pages.

Aberconway, owner of the the most important fact about a VERY

years world-famous garden at Bodnant, Nichols book,

Then had just rung the bell,

It is the work of a very, sbrewd Beverley Nichols sciis he glanced over his shoulder and man. Nlenols knows what he is a house. A house saw his fist Eucryphial

doing

knows how for he can go; with a garden which he has

and knows when the little smile So shattering of self-mockery is needed to made beautiful with his

The impact was so shatter mawkishness. own gloved hands, plus some help with the rough work. ing that it would have been quite mow

THE Impossible to go in and meet the A house about which, tak family, and make polite con- K RICK: DAUGHTER OF QUEEN VICTORIA, By Richard ing his gloves off,, he has veraation, until one had got one's

breath."

Barkeley. Macmillan, 30%. 822 profitably written books.

So Mr Nichols hid in a rhodo pagus. Queen Victoria By the time Nichols sells a

dendron bush, to the bewlider- not forget that the Crown house is of no further use to ment of Lord Aberconway's Princess of Prussia (later Em- Film as a literary property.

butler, until his emotional storm press Frederick) was her sumes his authentic and

In 1936, he sold Allways, a had subsided.

daughter. The Empress could thoritative charting of popular cottage In Huntingdonshire.

the Fascinated by Nichols not forget that she was English. musio record sales, Ho details which 28 the inspiration

style, waving its

thin Blamarck could not forget-or the up-to-the-minute Jockeying "Down The Garden Path" het fingers, jewelled with tiny rings, forgive-either

one fact or the for the top spots among the made £25,000 for him in royal- overcome by the frankness of his other. Tho outcome ฟง

beat-sellers and 30 Kiven anties.

confessions (1 may at times dynastie quarrel and a tragedy accurate guide to what are the

In 1940, he sold 1, Ellerdale have dabbed a little paint on one of personal frustration. Richard best buys of the week.

of the les or heightened the Barkeley tells the and story Grows The CRy").

CYRIL STAPLETON

au-

and here they

| CUPC: Hamps.ead {"Grube

long.

And in the summer of 1986, he flush on the cheek of a rose"), brilliantly. put up for sale Mery Hall at Ashtend, 12 ute! position. lamidst delightful rural surround-

...

are-- "LAY DOWN YOUR ARMS,"

Anne Shelton (Philips).

The exqu the gardena "WHATEVER WILL BK, are 21 great feature," (heuse

WILL BE," Doria Day agents' advertisement), (Philips),

Readers of "Merry Hall" and "ROCKIN THROUGH THE now of "Sunlight On The Lawn" ป KYE Bill Hairy Comets will not need to be told whose

gloved hands made "The (Brunswick).

"“HOUND DOG," Elvis Pres- quisite gardens

loy (H.M.V.). WOMAN IN

Strong opinions

c.x-

LOVE." Frankle Laine (Philips),

In his time. Beverley Nichols has had several sirong, but brief, TONG "YING

SONG"/

He

firtation had a opinions. "BLOODNOK'S ROCK 'N'

with Nazlism, a bruch with the ROLL CALL," Ɑoona (Decca). Oxford Group.

I

could

KICKED HER IN THE BUSTLE

SAID GEORGE MOORE

who

GM: Memories of George plump, naughty and talented was in love with Moore. By Nancy Cunard. writer Rupert Hart-Davis. 25. 206 pages.

her mother and whom she knew

from schoolroom days.

Yel the reader

cannot help vodor

wondering how afield Parts,

BRING A LITTLE WATER With Pac" ("1 would rather W

An elopement WALKING through the how many

SYLVIE" / "DEAD OR fight under the white flag than

-Nixa).

soin

women

windows

of. and the invention of

streets of Paris with Gorge Moore had stopped, with

Bome aliractive

young friend, ALIVE." Longle Donegan the Union Jack") was followed his young friend Nancy and said, "Yes, it was there! 1 by Sew 3d were reininte-

by an estrangement. But to Cunard, George Moore, the For he was a dedicated man- "GREAT the old dry, and en thou

FRETENDER gardening he has remained faith eminent novelist, stopped and the twin objects of his do YOU," "ONLY

Platters ful. (Mercury)

To him it has been hobby, côn- "GIDDY - UP - A DING - | solation and asset. "Sniff the DONG." Freddy Bell and intoxicating scent of the earth The Bellboys (Mercury).

and you won't want a cocklal.“ "WALK HAND IN HAND,”

And, when war came: "It is

that Hiller a nice thought Tony Martin (H.M.V.).

has no power over a snowdrop.

At an

early date (1935) he found in himself strong affinities

botanic with the

side of life: "Winter Sweet seems to like me

1 upped keep reerding here and there

2nd

10

Stapleton: This Is My Reply

grow thred of bang om HAT is what Bing Cros

is eerainly rtaron enough, but

he real vidson is a fule more basic.

3.

latest long-playing

TA in whit Buys My album in which he sings togis

commenta

4

well as i preisv

3

I. W

He is over-modest

ed and there's good fatste fat chek 100. just not as en-hurtes le as I used

1. the ice! It here, the desire to sing, to be in

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE FRIED-EGG OR SQUIRTY SANDWICH

SHOULD BE EATÉN IN THE

GREAT WIDE OPEN SPACES.

HOW ABOUT

A BALONEY

AND CHEESE SANDWICH

WITH MUSTARD

AND CHOCOLATE

SAUCE 7"

WONDE

ROCK 'N' ROLL SPECIAL.

201

4.

1 enn i och style tve points veryona, else e bựa i happy counding good singer whose

humour Barugh to his songs much as in his writing.

very much. It waves is long

and gazed up at a third- votion were the pursuit floor window: Yes, it was stories. there; long ago; she had been a wonderful and he very much in love with her...

woman

George Moore was also a great dab at making remarks of the sort that led people to question whether he (of the cream the

Literary luck

Irish gentry was, after all, it takes a

(occasionally old-fashioned

Nancy Cunard, in an affec- tionate book

in an precious way) rebuilds, im a series of anecdotes, Moore's wayward pers sonallty. Thus she may help to bring his

his books back to favour. reputation 30 RTHOT'S years to recover from his death. rings, eld., otc.

He was, pouple said, one, whe. So, another seven. and they are jewelled with tiny gentleman,

He responded with A

like, kised and tol until the more pass before Moore's

Juck passion. He scoped to crime; sinister runcur spend the iterary His brother and manager Once in a greenhouse at Kew he

was one who told but did not "We don't stole Larry Crosby says:

a cutting: "Surely it did kiss. thank Bing is either going -- or not matter, taking one.

On this to sing too especially when I could provide Cunard comes

defence of it with such a happy home."

ther with Sinatra from the fum Thigh Society" le top seller in Amerien today.

4.

19 POZO.

Не

loves

much." Agreed.

Just A Sandwich

THE AFTER-THE-SWIM,

SANDWICH OF HAM, CHICKEN, TOMATO, CUCUMBER, CHEESE, LETTUCE AND MAYONNAISE-THIS SHOULD ONLY BE

ATTEMPTED BY PEOPLE

WHO CAN UNSHIP. THEIR LOWER JAW..

COPE. (956 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP. INLWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED. P

DETOUR

the

too

likely to His style is too careful, amooth and self-conscious for

charge,

Nancy modern taste. loyally to

odd, absurd

BY HARRY WEINERT

LIMBURGER AND ONION EXPERT— THE ORIGINAL ISOLATION BOOTH BOY-

I'LL HAVE A HOT SOUP SANDWICH.

DONY PEEP

THERE'S NO SENSE IN LOOKING,

FOR TROUBLE.

the

The subjects he chose do not as a rule interest BDOW eneration. His pre- judicee have a faded look, Even his famous naughtiness hardly shocks.

Yet "Hall and Farewell," a three-volume account of Moore', adventures in the Irish Literary Renaissance, is one of the most gally

ily malicious autobiographies of the century.

Hearing that his native Iro land was in the throes of a re- vival of her letters, Moore rush- વર્તુ to Dublin where ho colla-

borated in a play with W. B. Yeats, who looked like a large rolled-up umbrella left behind

BOMO pienie party,"

by

The play, on an ancient Irish theme,

was to be in the Irish language which neither Moore nor Yeats knew. Moore dec.ded he would write it more easily.

in French. Yeate agreed enthusiastically.

Light came

From French It would be turned into English by Lady' Gregory, then into Irish by an expert named Tague O'Donog hue; back into. Irish-English by Lady Gregory. After that, Yeats would put style into it,"

Moore laboured hard at /his Patriotic task until one day a ight flashed: "What a damned fool a clever man like Yeats can be when he is in the mood!"

In truth, between Moore and Ireland a great gulf yawned. ireland was and is - puri...”. tanical; Moore had been a young man in Ports who liked the society of attractive women and lked, after the affair, about It to other attractive

to

عتمة

red of being kept dangling by one brilliant and adored. creature whom be had met at a banquet In the Savoy Hotel, the frustrated author behaved in-

pulsively

and

my foot and kicked we were walking

her arguing in the park. v

will say it was nearly dark and, the park almost deserted." "E kicked her in the behind - 1. the bustie, if you' prefer *** and, of course, after that "--"

The guest

Nancy Cubardy memoring Sof this egotistical yet attractivÿ Irishman begin at the time wisen ho, used to stay as guost of" bug family' in 'a vast bolso in Leices: tershire, Thore he kicked Istr dog, while showing:of

Landing (E

Boston two-step) country walke bowler hat, buli

#Nancy: Cuniary

THE ON

THE HEAVY DI

MAKAR

TAFONE.

THE CALLY

TO FIGHT

GRAB A

BOOK FLOW