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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1957,

MR LOSS WINS

IN THE

LONG RUN

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his gramophone records are not nudging the temporary greals like Elvis Presley in the Hit Parado.

In his North Gate, Regent's Park, home, he tooks up at two Carl Alan trophies (the Oscar of tie Conceband leaders* world and says: take my time, but 1 do all right;

"My records may take « Uds longer than Presley'ʼn to sull, but I get there just the same in the recorded in The Mood close on 20 years ago, and reckon that by now It's sold twe inillion records."

N Denmark Street, n gunge: "We just don't dig end,

London thoroughfare It, Man." that is paved with sour grapes, you can hear them say in their curious lan-

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Acrom: 1 Perinst, à Sumps, B Brew, it specie. 1 Aerii, 12 Dustal, 14 Pear, to Opera, in Shurt, 10 Ever 20 Frother, 24 dues, 25 ideals, 20′ Tire, 27 Soria, 20 Fagles Down; 1 Pen. 2 Hugh, they ↑ Trenses, 5 swallow, d Manor 7 Sidecar, ið Cider, 13 Escorts, 14 Í'optalas 13Allate, 12 Vence, 19 Kature. 2i idea, 21 Earl,

23 Apks

fact that

..

JOE LOSS

The public likes the old ones.

Play it while the lights are low. 1 particularly enjoy what Annabella Macauley Allan Short, from Mitchain, Surrey does to "Gipsy In My Soul." "1 Laye Paris." "Don't Worry Bout Me and Don't Let The Su

These I like

What they do not dig (or understand), Man, is the During the three months in

wo are the year that Jos Loss spends in Catch You Crying." here tin 1967 and there is the precincts of his home you relaxing with Joe Loss, the boy from the might and him

his family. With Mrs Mildred East End and now resident Loss as their audience, Joe Less in the Regent's Park area, will play the viollu, 18-year-old

will play still at the top in the band Jennifer Larss

the pluno, 14-year-old David Los9 business.

will play the clarinet.

After 26 years.

A pentitious maxophonist, 149 Inpel-less

enal. saya.

"Why urchate

sports

Only

The ፓነዳቫየጌ is positively last week I heard him play *Koets Up Mother flow in Ball"

dance

Hard way up AN malent Joe Lass, in a th

gunes sat with lapels), says: "Wine's wrong with Knees Up Mother Brown? The publle still like . Oh, I give them rock ' roll when the cension de- maruks But of the public like the old ones why shouldn't they gel them"

at et too cieve 171

Like playing - This Batistare

professiona| music refly Feriz11K and university jizz clubs can understand."

All Has Joe Los says while shli hol log on to the grin that from rat led his face in 20 years as a band leader,

In that unes not one grey hair. has managed to creep through ክንዱ Treacle-mouth, high-gloss

1k bur".

RECORD

ROUND

Humph swings CUR (Purlo- phone 33), Jazz, from Humphrey Lyttelton Band, Six tracks to choose from, with "That's My Home," the best of thơm.

by RAMSDEN GREIG

Jue Los", who makes reports a month for His Master's Voler, has issued his party piece recorit-, “Ilange At Your Party, (HMV, 78 г.p.m.),

twu €100 sinks British (Esquire 45). Fine, fluent singing by Cleo fuiste, with contingent from the Jolinnie Dankworth Band, Notable solos by trombonist Keith Christie. particularly in It Was a laver und lily bass.

Cabaret days (Mercury 33). Sophie Tucker stk) mises room temper

selection of old Lavourites. temperatura la

including "Margle "Nobody loves a Fat Girl," and "Some of These Days." Brussy. bawdy and in existible

J i ludes such mitigate pleets an "Come I saw congreed, **T Charleston, "John Bown's Body," "She'll Be Conan Round the Mountain ang - Karte Up Mother Brown," There is only a cursory ranti)-

bation concerned with modern juzz -- "Bock Around the Clock."

A

Picasso mouth

NNIE ROSS (formerly Anna- bella Macaulay Allan Short

1

Cuban fire (Capitol 33). Six rabbie-rousers from the Slan Kenton Band. Gaudy, inventive

and hot as i peppers.

MORE SERIOUSLY

is 24, has the sultry look, and a mouth that has been desertbett is looking * if it hud been unde 1152

the dark by Piensso. She has been in show By ARTHUR JACOBS husmess for 20 years and in a varied sarees that his included on all who long in eavesdrop ftiming in Holly wood. saging

on a pleat conduelo · rehears bi-lingually in Paris cuburet, ing an orchestra the recording

Olson Welles ani

of the year is "Birth of a Per- Cabinet Beting for

pealing #considerable.impres Formance" (Phillips, 2LP), jsplantment, Joe Loss came up slon the Lon ton joduction, reveals Bruno Walter suggest- the best way-- but

singing acquired among ing.

< smoothing shortest avallalile route.

various us

nities that

a French

IN

45 pre-

It

by the of some off-beat Mozart's Liz Symphony inte

At seven he was practising The violin in the hope of become ing another Kreision. At 15 he was playing beêkground musie to Hent ilma

By 1930 he was leading his London dunco

own band In hall.

A

recording 1

arlist be worries Ittle over the fact that

her

The

Nancy Spain

ON THE NEW BOOKS

THE NEW

A CULINARY ORGY ROUND THE WORLD

Blanch, a

(AT your way round the world. This am- bition is evidently that of Lesley small, blonde, pump, Intel- ligent writer who is married to a distinguished French- man (Romain Gary, Consul General in Los Angeles, California, and author of the Goncourt Prize-winning novel "Racines du Ciel”).

MANKOWITZ

Lesley has just published

PUBLIC FIGURE, NOW the eulinary orgy over title

"ROUND THE of

Yea, Lesley Blanch is WORLD 1 N EIGHTY observant, witty, and wise, She DISHES" (John Murray, i ulso surprisingly conventional. 188.). She is Indeed a Fancy, she All!! worries smart cookie..

because in Amerten she sow cowboys listening to the She has some sharp thinus to Brandenburg Concerto and felt say about foreign cafing habits. cheated by the sight of

Red "Tin-fed" Americans, "night- Indians sipping ice evenm soda more Russians, suffering from through a straw. indigestion caused by too much sour cream and caviar and therefore writing Introspective Dostoievaky and books-Hike Tolstoy,

His Honey

Wolf Man TALKING

of conventional, have you ever hurd of Wolf Mankowitz, whose great zoological collcetion, "THE A B C of SHOW BUSINESS” (Old.

Press, 88, Ed.),

AND what about the French? bourne

Well. Lesley's husband present hypnotising the

prefers

snails,

steak

now

and buns to vision audiences? And Lesley fa In London Wolf has magiscen kitchen snob If reached the status of a Public

Figure (in ever there was me střfkes a

between Bucking-

great blow for English cooking. "Unjustly revlied," she says It 1.

ham Palace and Parliament).

His book has rome wonderful potted blographies of Cople like Coward and Orson Welles and Prince Littler,

has &

nerve- racked Ustinov Peler It attempts to sum up Woll

calculated 11 3

+ I himselt. think) to bewilder anyone who varsled ders not breathe the uir of London's West End.

Our masterpieces are, apparently. Christmas pudding, Guards

Roly-Poly, pudding. and Steak and Kidney pudding, "Suct seilles on the his,'

Lesley.

is "Well, rays wecloute to seitle on mine." (A Mariene sentiment shared by Dietrich.)

then. As this spell- ppiriotism were not enough, Lesley also gives away

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tribuies

Someone once callest final shape. the coolest thing since Veral's " Trovatore" burate binding recumber

American exefiingly from three Deeda magzate Downbeat voted her 1.P, especially when Renata wanderful foreign facts, 1953's New Star Anotter

Tebaldr and Giulietta Simionato She once knew

Arab magazine, however, voted her sing "Aida" three HMV dises, chief whose favourite white Miss Neurotic 1953. MISH

(boxed) boasts Fedora Burbieri, } stallion had its mane and tail Boris Christof and Leonant Warren-but not Sven three operatie world-beaters compen- sate for thick-found-quality.

The remarkable Miss Ross has put eight songs on record under the ule "Annie by Candlelight" (Nixo. 33).

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

NOW NOW! TAKE IT EASY,

FOLKS! DONT FIGHT—

CANT WE

ARBITRATE

THIS ? **

– SO YOU CAN MOP UP THE MESS FOR ONCE !“

MAN INVITING HIMSELF TO GET HIS NAGAL DEPARTMENT FLATTENED,

WHAT'S THE MATTER T

YOU'RE WHITE AS

A SHEET!

INVITATION FROM UNCLE

INVITATION TO LEARNING ...... HOW MUCH WORK THERE IS TO KEEPING A HOUSE FIT TO LIVE IN .

SAMUEL TO EXPLAIN CERTAIN UND DEDĻICTIONS ON CERTAIN

PARÉRS

— ON-OR BEFORE...

ED WANTS TO KNOW IF WE CAN COME

OVER TONIGHT-

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CORP TMYWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

"WHATS BUSTED.

THIS TIME?

THATS THE TROUBLE WH

UNG A GOOD SET OF TOOLS

"WHO

YES, YOU,

Invitations

dyed a rosy red apricot colour will heuns. And she once talked to u Balkan bandit who ate potatoes cooked in honey.

1 uiro

le place by

So in all humilly 1 ubmit my cuitry to "The A B C of Show Businesa" on the subject of Mankowitz, Wolf. The fact is that Mankowitz and Wolf are two distinct people, plit down the midle in the new fashionable mixed-up

nanner.

They both

weigh 101⁄2s! and

they were both bom on

BY HARRY WEINERT

REMEMBER-

ONLY TWO SHOPPING

DAYS 'TILL

MY BIRTHDAY!

-INVITATION TO REMEMBER THE DATE --*.....

BUT NO REFERENCE TO THE YEARS, PLEASE.

"THEY WANT.

US TO COME

OVER AND

SEE THEIR HOME MOVIES- |OHMYGOSH/

WHAT'LL I 'TELL'EM?'

BRING THE"

CHILDREN

OVER SOMETIME GIVE US A CALL OR BETTER YET, WE'LL CALL YOLY!!

THE AWFUL MOMENTS

WHEN EXCUSES

ARE AS ELUSIVE AS AN [ARMFUL OF

{COAT-HANGERS;

November 7, 1924, In Walk- chape). London, whe

WIK

embarrassing verginblasfee

noticed to the Infant Pearly Queca le may

Yehudi. A

standing by cried:

not be

Menuhin but, boy, Can he dddle....'

Wolf who wears suede zipping wind-cheaters, is a poet who likes to eat and competitive sleep and hates Rames like Show Business. Ho su family man, suddenly wants to do things like buy hoals, country MOUECH and sheep,

يا

Ile was once a miner, studied with Dr Leavis at Cambridge,

he says

unemployable, "People who are short of ume," he says, "ure tho.e who work for other peopic: As soon as you sell your time

ure trying

it lo steal

you

back." +

ite is relaxed, gestie, happy, and gave his Mum the first money he made, which was 10, d. for a poem. Also, he is one of my friens. He wrote "A Kld for Two Farthings" and "My Old Man's a Dusman.“ Investment

JANKOWITZ is a bustuces mon who wetes &mart suriza and belongs to the Savile Club (Gilbert Harding put hlm up).

le is an expert on Wedgwood, owns stiperb premises In London's smartest sreade, Jods £30,000 ensily in a year 10 put on Fuch show's $16 "Moby Dick," The Three- penny Opera

He explains his love of his wife and three sons by anying: "I like to make the original investment pay off on a large

scale," tu

be controversial, Briliant, and sour by turn. He

has never written a line in his life and I carvi stand him.

FICTION SHELF

By Philip Oakes

THE GINGER MAN. By J. P. Donleavy. Spearman. 15s. PLOTLESS, picaresque story

of an over-sexed American, supposedly studying in Dublin on funds provided by the GI Bill of Rights. published in Paris, and

cer.cored for the

edition, it displays raging, randy talent that applies itself a tle too determinedly to the facts of jow life, Biliantly comic writing, but decidedly too gamy for gentle tastes,

THE REST IS SILENCE. By Erica Verissimo. Arco, 156..

and

п

SEVEN-DECKEN sandwich about five men, a woman

a boy whose lyc aro' affected by the suicide "of shop-girl, who jumps to death from a skyscraper Brazil. Incidentally impressive on the theme of the responsibilities of society, but too untidy to make the message, clear.

,

THE MYSTIC FINGER-

SYMBOL. By Veronica De Osa: Hale. 12s. 6d.

FICTIONAL blography of El Greco, the painter from

Crete who found fame in the Spanish court, Most detalled ond conscientious, with notes on painters and paintings that alow the narrative but add considerable depth to tho portrait of the

WIGGERY POKERY Hastings Draper. 12s. 6d.

Allon.

SHAGGY - BARRISTER A story about the struggles of a young lawyer, who finds troublo. both. In and out of

court, Moro good-humour than wit, but genuinely funny here and there. Likely to appeal to readers who fancy n, blend of the Law Report and Doctor in the House.

THE SEARCHING LIGHTS By Martha Dodd. Calder. 15.

A

FAIRLY dim glow cast on Aan American university caught in the political

Bro" of the wilch-hunt... preio Zonist: Proteator Minot, jätudent of Milion and. homespun Intellectual, whose conacianco. pula him on the

war

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