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POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER

NILLINERY

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1950.

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By Sir Henry d'Avigdor-Goldsmid

Once again-

Cyril Stapletong

with

the hot music-biz' story

【AMP'S the hero today, In her hour of CLARE BOOTHE LUCE: Am- tress, nor yet with Gentral heroine wore

American Negro band leader Lionel Hamp. bassador Extraordinary. By Evangeline Booth. She is a glory at President Eisenhower's Inauguration and even in Itome- Alden Hatch, Heinemann, successful playwright, she where she must deservedly have tan is the latest American, 21s. 272 pages.

has sat in Congress, she is cul.bone the cid wrecks of the

In their star music-maker to bring diplomatique married to Mr Henry Luce, corps

but. neither in his outfit to Britain and battered Binery, the publisher of Time, Life Burma nor Buchenwald are her make a hit. An emphatic

to germane

sound of the and Fortune, and she is at trousers

the hit, by the witnessed and "

Empress Hall roars. present the United States tragedie the

wiser biographer would Ambassador in Rome.

spered their mention.

RS CLARE BOOTHE

IA not to

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MEUCE

confused

with Miss Claire Luce, the well-known

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The accomplishments scare

Iv jestfy her publishers boast that There has never been zuccess ziory to compare with

way

have

Mrs 1.uce's politics arc strongly Repubilean and she has fought certainly stood up and

Niw Just look at the other file. Against the "Hump Hit" in London balance this item of musicana By news 18 British 3,000 miles to America and play

fer just six minutes.

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equality in exchange --- BA this in Insult to Britlah musiclans? That is the

the life of Clare Boothe Luce" for them. Hier range of epithets Nu olcon, after all. did not i alarming--but they did not

That icters to Vic Lewis and wrlie plays.

Florence

Night- doter General Eisenhower from

who went 70 Ingale

married, offering her the Rone embarry orchestra, never

America in exchange for Ramp- That Was in 1952, and by delus Caesar would have been

Lon four In Itome for lhely

So remaining Ambassador perhaps elittent evaluation of years without any major disaster he wet vemment (which is more she has done at least as well as thur Bir Alden Hutch permits Mrs Perle Mesta and Mrs Daisy

Harriman did in similar posis., queit.cn at the heart of the big Filmself any not be out

But by now she must be gelling | musk-biz tow which is taking place

bored with the mountains

place at this moment, States paper that the United Information service proliferates. and one wonders what is on her agenda.

of

next

The dream

TIL clute my position right away. I don't think there is

FLT1 inzuli. Eu first el me explain the situation.

SENSE OF TIMING Alri burg is above all things evurngrims and energetie; en- Jutta pas ut physical comfort

HER GREAT ADMIRER ere to play no part in her life.

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enine true The two musicians' unions agreed to allow the ex- change

Now

enel Hampton Is tha American orchestra de The red carpet is down for them as it was for Stan Armstrong. Kenton and Louis

who were the few two.

for Lionel Hampton

By the time Lionel Hampton simple, leaves Englund everyone

Box

will the door appeal.

be well aware of his visit, When Vie Lewis leaves America, the

tour in which every hall is sold Crowds out well in advance. meet him at the railway stations and besiego his dressing-room for autographs.

But then,

Mantovant is not

there on lease-len1. His is there in his own right because he mold the Americans a type of muric they did not have.

It is, however, much tougher for dance bands, This general public in America hardly knows that British dance banda exist.

Until a few years ago they

dance thought that the only music the British know was the rert that won with maypoles and powdered wigs.

DOES

The drive

of

OES this mean then that wa should give up these rel- procal visits Certainly not. We must take full advantage them, and show American audi- ences that we can do ni well na, and sometimes beiler than, they con

Wc must do what Freddie Randall and Ted Heath have done. Randali,

splic his obscure position on the hill, was a great success. The people

who did ses him ülked him. They liked him because of his persona- ty, his drive, and his trumpet outstanding

He has been playing. invited back at a much increased

fec

Ted Heath went to America Stan Kenton. in exchange for When he got there he clao had to play second fiddle. Nat King Cole was the star top-of-the- bill attraction.

Did Ted waste time worrying?

Cash-at- Not likely.

office.

American bands are a tremen-

He and his band put up ruch

0 terrine performanes of well- dance music the

to have made a poin! in 1900, being the lag is porter to be on

spod before disaster broke To the harassed generals in o 114 gipe so far as to dye ber

blond). The dutiered who

rose bair

have

equal heights. appeared lesz us midwife of new hope than

As the dret woman President would the in dertaker measuring the of the U.S.A. Mrs Lure

Dorothy this Its coin, but Life not simply be in Miss corpse for benefited by her reports and so Thompson's unkind words (they it be just, did the Allied enuse. Er the Powers model, the back to 1040) "The Brenda Frazier, Mr Hatch says of the opening body by Fisher of the Great of her play "Margin for Error in Crusade" she would be clothing

The Britons viking America a phrase that even her enemies in flesh and blood some of the

the fare being treated like some- brashly. would fel use quite

highest nspirations "The timing was superb. Tw American unconscious.

thing draged in by the cat.

Hemember how "Hamp"

dous attraction in Britain. They presented months before. Hitler had sent

The path from the log cabin

bad to admit he had have been built up over the criter could supened in Landon? Now take a his Panzers erashing across the

the White House

American band how Vanity

through Polish borders

Fair, ok at what is happening to Vieneral public will not even be aware that he has been there,

years

and shown vit go

Vie Lewis

This the third exchange of Nazi in droves to see

gramophone records. Also they they should rage a dance band show. The promoter: extenced banda, On the sugar, with and his band are on a bill with

previous one reign

own supreme in their sickness, ceine-uppance at the Plymouth."

umpteen ether American arts.

Freddic Randall's Disleland style of muste. Musical critics his playing times. Another

his Dulles as its prophet and Henry disservice to

They e Bley and his

Band was shipped to America in and them to the skies. subjce is Mr Hatch's insistence Luce its public relations ofeer.

Camicis, 1he Teenager", :nd

exchange for Loula Armstrong

Deservedly BC. They lead on describing Mrs Luce's clothes in this rock 'n' roll version of

the American dream, the

slar fathers.

What happened? null occasions.

Handall the way in jazz. We follow the by doing 30. Is clearly reserved for

all-star style they set. Dart

vas dumped into an

What is what the Clare Boothe Luce.

the answer? the South. Loula Mantovani found

swer Rome - years

ΟΥΣΙ invented his music which different from Americans had. The sult?

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People Bock and the tabloids, through Lewis in America.

his

ti is quite proper that hould know exactly

We

sex Bad

FICTION SHELF

"

For

The acts VICE la allowed six minutes

In which to show his wares.

w

only

rock 'n' roll show which played

la Armstrong was given the VIP. treatment cn a very big sonic all over Britain. He WH3 even honoured by the prescrice of royalty at his shows,

He is not even listed in the order of acts.

All the American acts have His assignment: 12 their photographs on went too.

the front write additional dialogue.

of a big 28-page souvenir pro- Homblett's account the whale.

is sold for gromme, which of what happened is fact, light-dollar. No picture of Lewis. The inside are blographies of all the ty disguised as netion. Canary Isles to finish his film af comedy is hilarious. The style American ects. Not a line about vastly

• countries?

Crazy

• The

Kit by Charita Hamblett. 256 pages. Sidgwick and Jackson. 15s. When direcior off to the John Huston went

Moby

Dick, Charles Hamblett exhausting.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

Lewis.

Same Old Haunts

Did Eisenhower go 10 Randall? Not likely.

Why

Alms

ari

the ago. Ho

He began by being allow 12 tour minutes and finished his

He even had to do an extra concert at Carnegie Hall the star attraction, without Nat

brand of THE TOP TEN,

WILD entirely

anything the

1 "WOMAN

more records in America than 2 "HOUND different In the two together. He is touring America 3 "L

Mantovani sells

IN Frankie Laine, Philips,

DOG,"

LOVE,

Elvis

put

Presley, H.M.V.

is

moment on a concert

"LAY ARMS."

DOWN

Anno

YOUR Shelton.

Philips.

is the treatment 50 ali their

answer The

ot this

BY

HARRY

own bands

WEINERT

·BENÍRAL FEATURES

Coff, I WORLD FIGHTS RESERVED

THERE IS NO SUCH THING

AS A HAUNTED HOUSE.

"ALL I SAID WAS

I DIDN'T THINK

YOU WERE

THE TYPE /?

THE BOY FRIEND IS GOING AS ́A

GHOST?

“THAT FIGURES –

HE'S BEEN HAUNTING THESE PREMISES

FOR WEEKS

"'WHERE'S THAT KID

FROM OUTER SPACE?

HIS MOTHER'S

COME TO TAKE

HIM HOME /

"

OH NO!

IT'S A COMFORT TO GET HOME TO MOTHER AFTER SCARING' THE DAYLIGHTS OUT OF THE

WHOLEVY! NEIGHBORHOOD.

4 "GIDDY - UP - A - DING - DONG.” Fradle Bell and

Mercury. the Bellboys.

5 "JUST WALKING IN THE RAIN." Johnnie H27, Philips

6 "ROOKIN' THROUGH THE AYE." Bill Hates Cometa Brunswick.

7 "WHATEVER WILL BE

WILL BE." Dorts Day. Philips.

8

"КОСК

AROUND THE

CLOCK." BIII Haley Comets, Brunswick

9 "GREAT PRETENDER"/

"ONLY "YOU." Platten. Mercury.

10 "BEING

A LITTLE

WATER SYLVIE"/"DEAD OR ALIVE.” · Longle· Donegan, Pyc-Nixa.

King Cole. It was a sell-out and he created, so much good- will for himself he can now gọ back to America on an annual visit na solo top of the bill.

He is in fact going back early in the New Year. He has been offered a five weekta tour as the star attraction,

The only thing which is hold- ing up negotiations is that the bookers in Britain say that no American band is big enough to do five weeks business. the same reale as

as Heath

on

That shows what can be done by hanging on and keeping i. The first “insults" do not matter half as much as the final cash busdress..

.at

❤.... IF you would like to com pare some of the latest record- inge.

I

of these bands, then

suggest you listen to the following:

Stan Kenton's LP. called "Kenton In ́HI FL" This con tains a

a few of the items which have become actociated with his

Pen Tunes such a

Rhythm"

Vendor "Aristry

thero

Concepta." Kanton version/ot

at the

EP

glompie ardalla

Freddie

Skinn

was issued in Odiober last, The

Da Da

Ques

That

his best

DOWN

the Jazz Band Ball."

Now

RU

World

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