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ROCK TO SLIM, SHE SAYS

By BOB

CARROLL

YOUNG mill-girl in Scotland is giving de- monstrations in Rock 'n' Roll. She is an acrobat who turns turtle on the public stage; has been contortionist since she was two; and has been winning dancing trophies since she was six.

She is plso an exponent of Scottish Highland duneing. One night recclly whe Have แถ exhibition D the Highlan Fing In a music hall; Eben weat along to an Rudience of worker and, having exchange at Fortars Jatt for seaty skirt initiates them in ther

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I think, sharpened my sense of rhythm and improved my Rock 'n' No."

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536 MARILYN MUNROE

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"THE CHINA · MAIL,

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10/1056.

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*This is better than the Guy Fawkes business.”

To all those parents who

think

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of talent on their hands

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called it genius, "fun."

He called it

in

century. Yehudi Menuhin has out of sight of one' or other of ever since worn the PALITIE 1kw his parents until he was 20.

tanner.

1 full and remarkable life story is published now for the rst time. It is told with spu- Amerienu pathy and humour journalist Robert Magidoff, who writes with Mr Menuhin's entire approval.

BY NOEL GOODWIN

WO newly-weds went

T

It unlocks, the secrets of the man who has been

international figure since he was eight years old, who was hailed us

"The greatest chlid prodigy since Mozart." and who survived 10 become D mature artist.

Today he is a small, sandy looking for rooma man of 40, shy, amiable and one day in New utterly unspoiled, happily An English wife-- York.

Eventually married to

the former ballerina Dianu

Rock 1 ways Before they found 21] apartment Gould--and

who took it u e weighed they liked. Proudly the family. pounds After Day wek of those stoler thy the verses, superintendent she wengland, ture panini bera that it was an

house.

Ber splits and sjon She

ital forw

explained "exclusive"

father of &

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What is remarkable about his "But we are Jews," they personality is the way he grew

up completely unharmed by And what days the gal want cried.

the publle worship lavished on to take up, in addition to heg varied dancing activities"

him throughout his boyhood. Embroidery? Domestic science? No. Sho wants to bude uși judo

--for better spl.

"But not

thal," cutely ter

we

"You don't look il-and could make an exception [or you."

The couple walked away

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Luckily he had wise parents who, far from trying to make out of their strangely money gifted son, wrapped a protective she hastened to add. "For I'm indignation, The woman, who screen about him

like a glass first child, case. also interested in body culture." was expecting her

declared: "We

And Her

must Highland dancing (and

which wil nisa tap dancing

ballat name for the chud Rund

leave no room for doubt.** dancing) have won her bronze,

silver

and gold medals, and

A

He never read the praise

the Press Only the constructive erifielsm was read to him.

It all preserved the boy from harm, but it laid up a packet of trouble for him in the

yourx after he grew up.

For one thing. never being allowed to make

decisions or lake the millative, he could not bring himself to break away from his family until he caine at age.

Then, ilke any Victorian maiden. Yehudi emild

His teachers, famous

men among them, hesitated to do more than guide the impatient wonder-child from one euncerts or sonata to the next. They thought he had nothing to learn In technique.

Came the war years, and the in of constant performance tropics proizy Alasin to the brought the violinist to collapse.

And when

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next appeara concert platform in

those who have shared his secrets in this book will uke sce a And there came too the myself, understand a lot better frightening reailsation that this what has made him the artist

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was partly because he had never he is. properly been taught to handle a violin.

will realise too that the child domlopment of talent in

first deperxis

the of all on It takes courage to do what wisdom of its parents; but that Menuhin did then. He went wisdom (like the Menuhins back to the beginning.

to the classroom, to teach himself through the grind of scales and exercises consciously to under stand the technical secrets of what he had done instinctively for more than 20 years.

he

It was an ordeal-this inter. of "retooling"--but lude conquered. And he came back to public life again an artist who knew himself as he had never known himself before,

fascinating

Thus the

and Mr

means of escape only

His marriage.

two planist- sisters Hephzibah

and Yaltah eagerly followed his lead.

Pop went the Menuhins-all three engaged in the same year, 1938. All three were married in 1939. And all three marriages unusual double story that Buon crashed in divorce.

with Magidoff tells

affecting Yehudi floundered in the aimplicity-the man who grew social world outside that fight out of the child-genius and the little cloister

of his family. musician who grew into the And his private life was not the friendliest of men. only thing that suffered. HLs musiclanship began to show terrible weakness.

Yehudi never went to school, never mixed with other children except his sisters and a Key considerable prize moulstons Marutha

So when, on Aprli 22, 1910, a carefully-screened friends. boy was born to Moshe and

the

All road He never crossed Menuhin he was alone until he was 18, was never America Inst long named Yehuditiebrow for enough. she may well win the Jew," fey trophies in the Rock 'n' Roll department 100.

And if these latest

from

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• YEHUDI MENUUIN: THE MAN Destined to grow into one of AND THE MUSICIAN. by Robert the greateri violinista of the Magidon (Robert Hale, Ziu.).

THE SUEZ ACTION:

through boyhood and youth the violinist astounded his hearers

intuition. by his Once he learned the notes he Instinctively know how a great masterpiece of Bach or Beeth- should be played. We

oven

DID EDEN KNOW A SECRET?

London

THE gods of the Greeks

THE

stood ever ready to mock man in his greatest momenta,

It was difficult, in Britain Last week, to resist the con- clusion that the gods were macking both the Govern- ment and the Opposition.

The gods were amisled by

By Les Armour

do to keep the peace should

around to attack 'Gaza from bo- hlad..

A direct assault on the Canal

really The Government merely

An

And the MPs on the Govora- Granted that the attuation seemed like folly, and the Op- ment benches wailed with grow- called for such speedy action position did not think that the ing Incredulity for the Oppost- that consultation with the US. Israells ever intended one. tion to explain what it would and with the Commonwealth

was it was imposible,

President Eisen- alated that the Canal was necessary for

about the danger. Government's ultimatum from a news agency report? Was there not time to send a cable to the President before the official an ⚫nouncement was mode?

succeed in its attempt to bring hower to have to hear

down the Government.

-NO -EXPLANATIONS

many things. It was difficult, No Buch explanations

for Instance, under the sparkling came and that

ever

was proof, from

The Sociallals wondered, 100, Govern.

autumn sus of the midweek, to the Government's point of view, why it was that the get any clear realisation of the that the Opposition was mostly ment could not have waited fact that the world was going going through the sham

of three hours, until the UN Se up in flames.

battle, knowing full well that it curity Council had met, before It was even more difficult to would not succeed and probably announcing ita actiona distinguish principles from war deeply thankful for that. eries statements of fact, from opaganda, emotions from cone

the Gove

many

Perhaps,

then, they would not Surely, even the Tories thought, the Opposition lion?

deepest have had to veto à UB resolu-

could do better? Surely its con-

duct did not measure up to the Most of all though, the gravity of the situation?

Socials were unèasy", about

But it was not just, the Ops, based its

Äition which ·-seemed

gone, woefully AWZY.

abovskall owl the

Mr Buller, apparently cognising the Opposition's un easiness, sald history would vin- dicate the Government and the British people would know "shortly" how right the Govern~ ment had been.

FAIR ENOUGH ....

The suggestion was that the Government had information which it could [not disclomG fair enough proposition in a war. The Opposition could not challenge that view, and rot it could not make a real coro UD", Jes 42 did. Hence, perhaps, one. rosson for the switch from fact to emotion in the debates

And one Yaaron for tele, succénu

is.

can be too wise. To know when and how to relax their protec- tion as the child grows up the real problem of parents with genius in the family.

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