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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1956,

RECORD ROUND...BY JAMES JORDAN

Mr Donegan Has A Chip On Each Shoulder.....

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room

'The jazz purists say I'm not original..... but all I do is sell a song the best way I know how....That's why skiffle has caught on."

London, of broken glass. Two, police perfectionist with a jutting gives him the UTSIDE the dressing- men were getting hot under chin that

emaciated Mr window, 600 the collar. But everything look of an

His peaking voice traditional fats sang "Lost John" was under control. It was Punch. with the fervour of an only when the stage door is n heltant cockney, which Hallelujah chorus. Someone began to give at its hinges switches in song to a hill- Married, with was letting off fireworks at that they brought out the billy whine. the hack of the crowd. fire hose. In Liverpool they a seven-month-old daughter, he has a fut in Wanstead, There was a faraway tinkle take their riots calmly.

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Likewise Lonnie Donegan, skiffle singer extraordinars

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Chief targets for his re- entment fre the Jazz OL

comin parists who criticise him been like this for

traditional deserting everywhere we've been," he jazz for the lusher pastures of show business. "They

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crowds.

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BOOKS ✦ BOOKS BOOKS

The Trailer Bus Has Ousted The Plodding Camel

By WILLIAM SMYLY

age of the world tourist has brought so many gruide books and He also travel documents that the book lists bulge. But the world itself seems to be dying around the publicity,

the

an alarming indication of extent to which the world has shrunk during this century. For the difference between a modern tourist visiting foreign lands and an enclent traveller doing so, is that while the ancient really w new places with fresh yes, the

der man sterils more than

Under his

present recording THE control. Donegan nets (an un-

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record. confirmed)

twice the nearly

standard royally rate on sales. collees his fee as arranger of rous; plua a per- centage of sheet muse sales and

and the books scek wider another gåere und d.rent an offelal Donegan blography.

HE DRINKS TEA

and stranger whva lu koegs nailertal devel pastat of the new

ubiquitous Interratoral eviure Donegna is close about up a flagging interest in

Now there is very it the in the earnings and is spending. World travel. Two recent world that is new. In Turkiy He drink; nothing stronger un efforts are by Bernard one torbidden to take phele-

And Gorsky -moite.

"Moun" (Elek) of emeli because he shups hotels i favour of

pt:ple are shined that an "Capecek to Capehot" forin of fret, part at it Theatrical digs.

by Richard Pape (Old» Plethorn : sit i je tourist intend te pl toyraplarry drive and ku ten-ion £10-pod klick,

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After a personal appearance at a Peered PA, where he

tographed the

bare armu nổ

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One in a story of a group nore devoled Tarts, the fof keen skin divers who the management presented kun | rigged out a small yacht with an electric teater, "Yours

Nothing New

IC around the

sea

for four quid," offered Donegan and set out | castle we had six policemen say I'm not original," he "I can put the money towards a work under sail to dive and

to control the

"I know I'm weird playe. Hight now I've harpoon fish in every In complained.

nolling to play THEY Uw they visited. I've copied rede" Hackpool they tore my original. clothes off.

tell you inost every singer you

But daddy, we're having a ball.'

it takes The ball began when two years to evolve a style Donegan's first record- a of your own. I'm working nasal, driving version of a cound to it.

Tolk

song called Line" 1-tanel

almost unnoticed best-selling brac-

Negro

"Rock

slipped into the ket.

WORST SMEAR "They also say I'm com- mervil the worst smear of all in jazz circles. But That was one year and all do in all a song the half a million copies ago.

best way know how. That's "Util that record began why skiffle has caught on. selling, nobody wanted to it's nothing new. It's the know about me," said kind of music they used to Damga.

"They didn't play at rent parties in New even know I was alive. 1 Oricans 40 years ago. Bu didn't get a single offer In the

I present it is Britain and it took a trip new." to

to Amorica

convince worth anyone that I was

having."

TOPS THE BILL

Way

Bucous

The presentation is precisely what offer.ds the purists. On :loge Donegan employs two amplified gullars, a string bas decked out in luminous paint, ond

and a drum kit that light up at Now he is in the ninth he psychological moment. And week of a smash-hit variety his act L " gaudy tour, dragging his clouds success, of glory through the pro-, Donegan acta as singer and vinces. And in three compere. Draped in a stake sult weeks' time he tops the bill of grey, silk lussore he cuddles UB:4) - Kettan

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at the Prince of Wales. a big guitar and shuffles in ne Gokarate, 8 Fitr, # Soleat, I besaying 11 Mousten, 13 Better, 38 Sheen,

to his own songs. Every twilch the Darkened. 20 Adet 21 Seethe Bown Mots 2 Azure.

Twenty-five 3 Starte.

years old,

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of 4 Streis. 5 Telleen), Sewers, 19 1. teted 12 Fasures, 13 Mu, li Tredo

Donegan is a frail, pale screams from the audience 14 Theme 17 Bioge

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ALL RIGHT--

DRINK BY DRINK /

THE ANNUAL MINCE MEAT MYSTERY— OR

THE CASE OF THE DISAPPEARING BRANDY.

WHO IS GOING TO

NOTICE DRAPES

WITH ALL

THAT GOOD

FOOD ?"

I KNOW-YOUR

EAGLE-EYED FAMILY / “

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Turkey Day Topics

WHILE MOTHERS ARE HOME'

STUFFING TURKEYS, THE KIDS ARE AT THE FOOTBALL GAME-→→→

STUFFING THEMSELVES.'

BESIDES FEEDING THE WHOLE CLAN-

HE IS ALSO EXPECTED TO

REDECORATE THE HOUSE

"GET HIM OUT OF HERE /

COPE IN IT GIZIRAL FEATURES

COMPTALWORLD RIGHIE BESARYID"

HOW DID I

KNOW HE WAS

ON THE

HOOF ?

THE LUCKY (7) WINNER OF THE

TURKEY

RAFFLE

"I'M "THANKFUL THATS OVER-

NOW I CAN GO

•IN TRAINING

FOR CHRISTMAS.

The other Is the ilear for Yourself: Eight mile-by-mile story of a race standardi LIS the 1. Lonnie from the Dona

northernmost She wen including Nosedly's Chiki Shall Not point in Europe to the Cape Be Moved," and "The Alabammy of Good Hope.

appealing or appalling, Bound:

Also, us 4 according to taste. 78, "Bring

1. the Water." by "Dead or "Sylvie" (Backed Alive"), the two Get Donegan site to dute, Both on Nixa.

A REMINDER

blue

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For other tastes: Historically Speaking--"The

Duke" Is reminder of the best of Duke Ellington: vintage 1920 to 1956. With MA,

ลาก moody contributions by Johnny Hodges and Harry Carney; on London.

"Rock Roll" the first Elvis Presley LẤY QUINCYzational but exciting: on HMV,

Circles

Both books are well written which is to say that the sullor have extracted a srei As possible from their miterlal and the book about diving with

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no dught be a standard work in divers' libraries for some time to cone, es it is the first compara- ve description of all the main diving grounds that has opptar- ed so far,

Racy Style

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The motor trip abo packed with incident, and told in an extremely racy tyle that makes one suspect at fimes that the author is extracting pint and a half of orange juice "My Conary Has

out of one orange. Under His Eyes,” tuneful and Both adventures are enter. robust Brilish jazz from George prising, and both are very much Melly and the Mick Mulligan | more unusual in human expert-

ence, more enterprising. perhaps more dangerous, say the journey of Marco Polo or the travels of Kingslake. But the books are by compałlsch as dead as old mution. Why?

bund: Devra.

Fours-star combination of Bing Croby, Frank Sinatra, Grace Kelly and Louis Armstrong, gluging both'sweet and hot from the sound-track of the new film "High Society"! on Capitol,

And on Vogue: farteful, tangy jazz in the second EP album by the Laurindo Almeida Quartet.

and than

The fault is rol in the writers, They have done their best, and done it well, to give interest to the most fascinating subject in the world

the which is world. The fact that they fall

BY HARRY

ER~ SOMEBODY HAS BEEN USING THIS KNIFE TO

SHARPEN PENCILS,/"

WEINERT

THE MAN OF THE HOUSE CAN ALWAYS COME [UP WITH A GOOD REASON FOR HIS LACK OF

DEXTERITY WITH THE CARVING KNIFE.

"GET OUT OF

HERE. THIS

IS MY JOB.

HMM, IT LACKS SOMETHING — RUN NEXT DOOR. AND BORROW A PINCH OF ROSEMARY

AMAN

DON'T FORGET THERE ARE PRACTICAL

WAYS

TO SHOW YOUR THANKS."

WHO IS ROSEMARY,T.

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Demarcus.

or

Grosvenor House or the Georges Cinque, and you would be better advised to go to Maytal: Paris and see the rual thing in- steed of Boghd d er DamásZUN to see the local imitation,

Caineli still exis but The modern ship of the desert is n vast trailer bus with Sleeping chairs, and it travels all night so you du nes see much of the desert anyway--and you have nothing to endure but the solence of customs men.

In-

It would seem that the great world shrinkago, even if it has not made all men brothers, has at least put most of them into identical city suilings,

The possibility of driving across the globe or sailing round to explore below the waves as well as above only underlines the foot that, wherever you go, and whalever you do about it, there is nothing new under

sun,

the

MR SCOTT MEETS THE NOBS

By Philip Oakes

TIME AND PLACE.

George Scott, Staples. 161. 220 pages.

By

XFORD, said Mr Scott, insurance

Othe

man,

was a place for The Nobs. His son George agreed. Ox- ford was a long way from Middlesbrough, hard hit by the hungry Thirties. It. was too far to travel,

Father sold his policies from door to door. Mother worked at the kitchen sink. The schoolboy games of cops and robbers were play- ed in the back streets and the wind of the depression blew cold.

Ten years later, Officer Cadet George Scott-gorging himself, on carrols to correct his short eight-looked his firs: on the Isls, with the Navy paying his way. Hils nèsignment; to absorb the background recessary for a future officer. And to do it in six months.

Scott--and many like him. met The Nobs. He surendered. to Oxford, but he reserved: judgment. "We are fortunately aware of how l-equipped wo are to take our place in good society," he writes, "For genera- tions of good breeding some of us can only offer the poor sub- stitute of brains."

Provocative

Ha

Scolt is 31 years old. experiment In autobiography, disclaims any notion of record- ing the voice of his generation. But it is a lively, provocative account of coming of age in our own time.

Groomed by the Welfare State, his education began in the Pink decade. Ar a cub re- porter he heard Harry Pollitt hammering

elected-Common qure:

for the world's libs. In Fleet Street he became ang of the most brilliant and forceful writers on the Daily Express, And he, realised:: The Noba are not what they

were...

Now editor of the virarou right wing weekly magazine Truth, Scott is that rare birt from an area hit by the slump unrepentant young Con- Aggymdivoj end."ti-

quiring

he view the world with a wary lays "Nowadays, he writes, we stu cautions not

to sing tooluality of our

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