1956-12-01 — Page 14

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

"I um sorry to say, Abdul,

there's more

Cadillac rationing,”

W

THAT a

world it if al!

were

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER

Nancy Spain

brave now would be the in- proper

habitants ladies and gentlemen....

ON THE NEW BOOKS

i

Such a world does exist, but my in the toch aanten The old (71 this year) mamlju Major "Bill" Mercer, known to

treet of t as Donford Yates. Like Liberaer, you either love him or you don't....

A British Crossword Puzzle

2

3 14

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18

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20

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ACROSS

3 Frivolou (B).

#Shepuge (4).

Byg determined,

puzzle again? (8),

11 Bullfighter (8),

16

did the

13 Talksiinet Impression (4).

15 Scorned (8).

18. Abandoned (8).

19 Sharp (4).

21 Gulloped about (8).

25 Servant (8).

26 Cem (4).

27 Swells (8).

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26

DOWN

1 Conspiracy (4).

2 Blemish (4).

4 Fibbed (4).

5 Impoverished (4).

6 Striking block (5).

7 Hoyul line (5).

U Mud (5).

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19 Judge-ike?

12 Musical work (5).

14 Relative (B).

18 Carrying-chair (6).

$7 Hinder (5).

# Weary (5).

20 Scold (5).

21 Quite (4).

22 Tear (4).

29 Mature (4).

24 Unintresting (4).

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.— Arrows: Murasa. 4 Eired, 7 Disperse.

rowd, 8 Baird, B Seerde, 1 Notable, 13 Dmuose, 15 Talout, Bemente 20 Bund, 21 Merep Bown: Miles, 2 Ample, 3 Serpent. 4

Oilers. Eyelet.chable. Iddle, 10 Customer, 12 Didral, 10 Linge, 17 Part

13

Doctor

I have been a Dornford Yates fan ever since, at the age of 15, I was caught reading his first navel "The Brother of Dapline" be able in a botany under class.

This novel and 31 others are still in part. They have made him enbugh money to keep him in comfort in Umtail, Southern Rhodesia, with his second wife.

book 33rd

"WIFE 119 APPARENT (Ward, Lock, 18%) is out.

11

It is right up to standard.

Latest

on the

literary Liberace

And there is a description of two women fighting (Dawn takes on a big rival) that is on funny and touching as anything I've read this year.

TRAVEL

A big spate

י!

1956.

You Song-writers! Take Heart From This Wife!

D

hundreds of amateur companies had taken it for URING the course of out of

recording. a year thousands of songs.

Mrs Langdon, quite naturally. You can now hear it for would-be song-writers thought the doors of Tin Pan yourself on Philips PE 053, mung It's called sit down and write songs Alley would henceforth be wide by Terry Burton. and lyrics.

open to her talents, But, much "A Letter to a Soldier." to her disappointment, no one took any cotice of thein.

she was However,

not the tape of woman to be easily dis

Besides, she got couraged.

ND then, as usual, there is a

big spate of good travel, book MARA MOJA. From Northernmost

10 Benndinavia the Cape of Good Hope

by

to

These, they fondly think, only need someono publish them, or some kind- hearted artist to sing or play them, and they, the Just goes and lives with him

win And son well-bred,

writers, Insteud.

clean-living pair were behaving an well-bred, clean-living people do not behave,"

Lanta

Hearts

(Cape THE

Otioron 215.). and FOOL IN DESERT, by Barbara Toy (John COVET the Murray. 18.)

ali

elite tunes out of playing

Turry Burlon will be joining the Show Bind Saturday Shony poon, and you will be able to hear her sing the song.

The B.B.C. will be featuring this song in other programmes. They, quite naturally, want to her tunes on her dulcimer.

Ia hit song become During the next two years she be able to claim it as a

"Aflor all, they wrote deluged as many publisher with have gone through 1,400 songs her products. Rejection slips so far, and still have more than 1,000 to hear. So they deservo

good deal of credit.

came ground, more or less, but established in the income tell The adventures of tax bracket of people like Volkswagen Micro Bus, and a Cole Porter and Irving Der-

Honours Land-Rover,

even. n. They both break down.

Otletion is particularly good on "Legionnaires fect," "African beating." and French Customs house behaviour.

THE COOK She's a comic "Wife Apparent" is all about preposterously gentlemanly

for long, Not that this ques gentleman called Coridon (iore, Ma In a famous author, known of course.

They have

to tell 10 his cone

housekeeper the Major and the Major has Florence a The Major,

to get his memory

back; and Florence is ever such a char- they do get married, and every- Cacter,

proper one has a good sob over the drum

And Florence caution when she is licking off missing elm tree.

char⚫ of course, perven one of her other conie lower-class Lacters,

Inimitable breakfasts, luncheons

Chicken Froid".

Myself, 1 think they should have hud red hot iripe a lu But mode de Domford Yates.

the

But she is alto ever so lovint (in a thoroughly respectful way, of praise of those she walts Alperty. She is also a jolly good rook and her cold sweel-breads are urretion. They all live in Hampshire, as Indeed do must Durnford Yates characters,

the He talks

or

dinners.

Nobody can beat Barbara Toy on food, harems, and the actual Chaud desert atmosphere: There is a touch of sternlly in the great quiet.""

I hope I've made it clear that inipe 4 my favourite dish.

· Chicken chaud frold is sort of chicken in asple.

PICTURES

The Major has a sister called Cleopatra, who is very beauli- fil. mel in vins tree t bottom of the garden. to the elni a lot.

day the Major in WILLIAM Well, one chatting with the elm, when a lovely

comes In young lady through the gate with the care- Jez elegance of cat.

"Her buk denies the galety of her curls, A pale blue line dress becomes her mightily."

The Major thinks she is a "Crave Baerhunte." fler real and she name is Nlobe Coke

brain works for

specialist called Berserie

on.

Berserk comes in handy later For when wooing follows, in the good old Dornford Yules tradition, the Major promptly Joses his memory. (Old war day wounds, y'know.) The same the old elm tree is blown down,

The Major is rescued by the ex-valet of the Marquis of Eyre, who nimbly discovers the Major's identity by the ints in Las Savile Row suiting,

HIS BRAIN No worries

Soon everyone is conspiring to save his

("Remember, great

brain

ui stake.")

reason. mon's

they clear away the elm, worry him Niobe doesn't with a wedding ceremony, She

and

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

ANY GRANDFATHER WITH EXPERIENCE KNOWS BETTER THAN TO ATTEND THE KIDDIES MATINEE – WHERE THERE'S MORE ACTION IN

THE AUDIENCE THAN ON THE SCREEN —

HE'S YOUR GRANDSON?

YOU LOOK

SO YOUNG!

SANSOM'S

now

Incidentally she left London 48 hours ago for Australia, viu Budapest! and Indio,

YET,

NOTES

A story, too

(Rose

ET, strangely enough, some well known novelists are Near poetry

nowadays turning out travel

the books under

impression Wavey, poetical, nur novel they are writing novels. "THE LOVING EYE (Hogarth Macaulay pointed this out Press, 13s. 6d. is much more her exquisitely funny to

of all travel books TOWERS OF TREBIZOND (Collins, 13s. 6d. early this year,

like real life.

Matthew Ligne is looking oul of his window

nt the house opposite when he falls in love a beautiful girl called Lily, with

Lily Hves with her blowsy sister Dawn.

Dawn

embroidered Lutterflies on her stockings.

Dawn says "Wolcher!" thic chups In the suloon bar.

has

But now Ann Bridge, other wife Mary Dulling Saunders, who married Sir Owen St Clair O'Malley, seventh child of

mother seventh child three, huse

climate.

"THE

LIGHT

д

Lo

the

HEARTED

dozens of songs, and

fluttered Found her like the dravco from a teze in October.

Cyril *Stapleton

COLUMN

Some of these songs ar- rive in my office every day Mostly not worth the paper And they are written on.

the paper you should see they are written on some- times.

However, the

did have

050

She wrote a mali success,

called

Not the "I'm 201 Marrying

Kind." IL W15 accepted and published and it was even recorded, Slll no one look any notice,

Then "Aunty D.B.C." took a

created by them.

OUT

Another

Mis

of alt these, Langdon's effort is the only one which has attracted publie attention.

One success nearly always Teget another, Terry Burton nuy become famous through "A Letter to * Soidler,

She has been connected with alow business all her life. She 做 the daughter of a humpeter in Joc Loss's Baud, and although the us sung with

many smail bands, and with the Malcolm Mitchell Orchestra. this will be her first break into the bly Ume.

tr any However,

of you reading this column should feel a song coming on, please, I beg of you, don't send it to me. bul

of lo "Our Kind Music," B.B.C., London.

Guy's back

GUYS COME BACK"—

So it is with much plea- hand in her affairs by beginning "M that was the itle of a

Nevertheless her sister Lily is o QUEST (Chatto and Windus, don."

tier quiet girl,

And pl

A deluge

I

I

am

song which was very popular It looks as during the war. though it can now be adopted as a signature tune by all Guy Mitchell fans.

series of programmes ot of sure, and a lot of trepida a

compositions called tion, that I tell you

the British

"Our Kind of Music." story of Mrs Gee Lang-

These programmes consisted of five hours of music a week 15

Le so good a Travel book

devoted entirely 10 British Guy is the robust gentlemon Strangely enough, once Lily that it has all the prices of ull

Bengs, and 30 percent of them who has been missing from our gets to know him, she also loves the best hotels in North Africa

had to be original and untried. LEASURE, because the service.

ried.hit parades for so long. Seven Matthew. And so they get and nutes on

What

he took wekte:ful concert

усага ugo Which is a big pity,

also has A story.

always, happy to see some- married.

platform for would-be Irving Britain and America by storm. ambition. But all this is nothing beside one realising an

hit followed Dawn is much more because

another: "The now Berlins! Mrs Langdon decided One the fact that we have notes Trepidation, because fun than Illy.

submit 11 bundle

Kind," "Red Feathers," of Roving Marrakesh and what happens that once this story is in print to

her rongs. Among them she sent "Truly, Truly Fair" and many But the point of this story is

about where to stay true and

in 1, and many other people who not

the by now dusty and well- others." Everything he touched the emotion:

when

main falls on ancient oil have to deal with popular music thumbed piece of material which turned into royalties. subtle though it is.

will be deluged with songs, Nor does matter that factories

it

had won the first prize for her Suddenly he went right out the back of mar- Matthew has to outwit dear I must say I wish I were in written on

of fashion. Now, I see, he is racket. to

manuscript three years previously. It was this Travel Book ler and

wrappers, attempta

garine

accepted and broadcast.

on his way back

again. and Down

even

bus tised I would very much like to go paper,

His latest sister. It is the

record, "Singing corrupt her

The reaction was immediate. my pub- Uckets.

the Bluca," is already No. 4 in marvellous picture that Sansom travelling madly at

the way

In September, 1953, Mrs Gee Within 24 hours, two music men gives (some of it is near poetry; ther's expense all

the American best-sellers' list. of little houses, back gardens, from Eastbourne to the Arelle Langdon, a housewife and part- had been to see her and offered

It ought to repeat its success Within five or six to buy it. timo librarian, won a song com- la Circle, Just so long as no one Smells, clubs,

pubs cats,

in Britain, but competition ie the of the major record Her song was picked days, une pelition. asks me to go through Suez,

game is rather tougher London.

than it was, so he will not have the field completely to himself this time.

GRANDPA'S OFFICE

IS ANOTHER PLACE

WHERE THE

on

This Grandfather Business

HEIR APPARENT CAN HAVE HIS OWN WAY

AND PLAY WITH

SWIVEL CHAIRS

AND DRINK THE WATER COOLER DRY.

BY HARRY WEINERT

IT COSTS MONEY TO TAKE A LADY OUT - BETWEEN

TOY STORES, PET SHOPS AND SODA FOUNTAINS.

record

Decca, with the mell hit in its nostrils, has rushed

out a record of It's OWIL

of a

This

is by the new British rack-and-

roiler, Tony Steelo.

By some strange colucidence, same both records have the

11th

whistling Introduction, and the Semo "ukelele-laden" GCOOKI- paniments. The singing, least, is quite different, I wonder which one you will buy, back

Eddie's

NOTHER Guy who has come

back is the one who la always referred id as Princess Margaret's favourite singer,

Eddie Fisher,

His hit and make no mistake about it, it is going to be a big ono-is a folk-song type of tuna called "Cindy, Oh Clady."

THE TOP TEN

1 JUST WALKING IN THE BAIN, Johnnie Kay; Philips,

2 WOMAN

Á LITTLE MORE OF THIS AND

GRANDPOP WILL BUY OUT THE STORE,

"I'LL

HAVE

THE

SAME, PLEASE

WHEN GRANDFATHER TA HER OUT TO LUNCH EXPERIMENT AND

ALLTHE FOOD SH NOT SUPPOSED

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