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POCKET CARTOON by OSDERT LANCASTER

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"Dur, Maudie darling, you must realise that if it weren't for the collup we shouldn't have any army for the Americani to top

us from using!"

"T

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 19, 1957,

THE CYRIL STAPLETON COLUMN Mr Keats and Mrs Jones

Princess Margaret And

Her New

for The parties were given by Sharman Douglas, Douglas Fairbanks jun.. and Lord Glenconner. The Princess was at all of them.

PLAYED Princess Margaret three times in one week." And then ho had a "royal command"

ap pearance,

That Is the story of Confrey Phillips, a 28-year-old little known In- first dlun siger whose record for Decca was issued last week.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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3 Festive occasion (4).

ACROSS

7 Precipitous (5),

D Conceal (4).

Uncommon (4).

10 Negotiated (7).

12 Equips (4).

15 Roof covering (5).

18 Flock (4).

19 Bedeck (5).

#1 Creper

21 Cropped up (5).

22 Slender (4).

23 Hinder (5)

20

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Rume? (7).

play

30 Find fault (4).

31 Stupor (4),

32 Denude (5).

33 Discourteous (4).

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1 Begin (5).

2 Scolds (7).

4 Tolerate (5).

5 Extent (4).

G Plant (4).

9 Retained (4).

11 Weary (5).

13 Apartment (4).

14 Sent to the bottom (4).

16 Auctions (5).

17 Emblem of saintliness (4).

18 Cry loudly (4).

20 Guides (7).

walling 22 Pace (4).

24 Went astray (5).

25 Shun (5),

27 Press club (4).

28 Blemish (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD,—Acrom: 1 Fructs, 7 Peel, † Vorte, 10 Arure, #1 Lord, 13 Midingered, 15 Need, is ilɔp, 19 Contidénce, 2 Apes, 24 Enter, 28 Zebra, 28 Otto, 21 Yonder. Down; 2 Regal, a Clean, & States,

Opulence, & seer. Erode, 12 kige, 13 Malta, i Imposter, 17 Scunt.

18 Attray, 20 Dozen, 21 Notile, 21 Pets.

Rock 'n' roll and songs from the latest American musicals were the most re-

items

the by quested Princess,

"The rock 'n' roll was a great success," said Cortrey, "At one party we had to stop the band playing it aa the hosts were scared the floor might give way."

It was after that party that he decided to go away for a few days' holiday, only to be recalled to London at the express wish of Princess Margaret to play for a party which she and the Queen Mother were giving at Clarence House.

Confrey Phillips, who plays the piano in his own small band, tells me that he owes a good deal of his present success to Ava Gardner and

Clark Gable. They heard

him playing in a night club,

and invited him to join them

for a drink.

They asked him if he would mind their telling a friend about his playing.

Jiving Debs

"MIND!" says Confrey, “I A was delighted to think they were interested enough to talk to me."

Anyway, the friend turned out to be John Mills, the Mayfair club owner, who auditioned Confrey and then offered him the chance of forming his own group to play in Mills's Park Lane restaurant. The engagement lasted for three years.

It was during this time that Confrey formed the contacts which have now made him the rock 'n' roll king of high society.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

YOU HAVE A COLD IN THE

HEAD? THAT'S

THE LAST PLACE I'D EXPECT YOU TO GET A COLD!

www

WHEN I WAS A BOY

GRANDMA DOSED US WITH CASTOR OIL,

GOOSE GREASE AND TURPENTINE —

THAT DID IT/"

Crooner

SHE LISTENED,

LIKED-AND

'BOOKED HIM

“Some of these debutantes really love swinging it out,” he says. "They could show

of some our palais jive champions a thing or two."

"How about the Princess?" I asked him.

"Well, she knows how to enjoy herself, but most of all she seems to love Cole Porter's music. She always asks us to play 'All of You," from 'Silk Stockings.""

Confrey's first record for Decca is called "After Glow," and it is backed with a song called "Am I Going Out of Your Mind ?"

I'd say My Phillips might stay in our minds for quite a while.

Calypsos Wanted

HARRY BELEFONTE, the good-looking gentleman with the wonderful smile, has just chalked up a best-

by Edmund Blunden.

PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF HONGKONG

A STUDY OF PROBLEMS, published John Craze

Belling record in the States. It is a tune called "Jamaican Farewell."

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THE MASK OF KEATS: tell us as the result. In 1954 he the moment Isabella is

Kouts: the herself. **More about Mra By Robert Gittings, Heino twelve months beginning pre- Már

Living Year, a narrative of Jonce is a chapter-heading in Gittings new book; and mann, 16s.

cisely on 21 September 1810. AndĮ "A enigma-tho word now be adds The Mask of Kente: Keats's-the remaine." Mr Git- HEN John Koste

a Study of Problems, which is a angs is inclined to ascribe to Was alive, his set of ten casays on Keats's her request not only the com- genius and his

experiences and on posing of St. Agnes Eve but of I understand that through this many of the American personality made him ex- scene of the poems hitherto not The Eve of St. Mark too, (ho well annotated. Let me hope thinks Keals was describing har music men, foresee a revival coedingly interesting to his that these two books de nos ex- elegant rooms in that

friends;

ac-haust his ideas on Keats as still pictorial poem); and oven the interest in Latin- American rhythm, and they cordingly a great quantity imperfectly known to us. They Bright Star conset, as he dates are of a kind not too common it, would probably allude to this are already calling their of blographical information now: they are pleasing essays in little know

Mr Jones, It was my chase to be the agents all over the world to concerning him. He died iterary and local, history, and

nk of an author's first finder of letters from her to buy up.

calypso young, and that was more have that

than a century ago; but in happiness in his task which all John Taylor, Keats's publisher, and to print passages from them songs.

one way and another much good books have.

Of all the themes which Mr For what it is worth 1 may give has been preserved besides altings has discussed in these Jones was interested in Reats Seventh Rock

Impression that Isabella his poems to tell us how he two books, that of Mrs Isabella IN the making by M.G.M: lived and sometimes what Junca has most taken the public de a young pond but in his new flim with Dean Martin he was doing at a particular in England. This Mrs Jones, tantor the publisher as a man. and Anna Maria Alberghetti.

was the per- How did she, before Reals was before Today, I feel one of the numbers in it will moment.

son who suggested to Keats that so noteworthy, come to know safe in saying that all over he should composa a poem or Taylor? I can only guess, but bo "Rock Around the Clock,"

This will be the seventh film the world there are en- St. Agnes Eve and the old super-

she was a fashionable and cul- in which this tune

atition belonging to it; and we red woman, and Taylor & was thusiasts who fall under the have the poem accordingly in Hersey's shop was then the peared. The original one "Blackboard Jungle," and since spell of Keats not only as all a glowing exprenaveness. then it has also been used in

In those a Romantic poet but as

A But wen in recent years isabella bar in which to buy beautifully

poetry-books.

do, John two Japanese Aims, one

dirmissed as never days it was the thing to Jones Americanfriend, not to be met in this, having existed by one of Keats'a' Taylor would instantly have im- film, Mexican Any Training film, and now life, but still a vital most opulent biographers. That pressed such A cailer as being it's in "Ten Thousand Bed-presence and an energy, was easily disproved when letters an unusually able and attractive rooms," with Atina Alberghetti,

from the lady turned up, and smothered pandes of contributors When (after 1820). he Some song!

one of them she was passionately complaining about Keats's final and well-wishers to his excel- Approved

The intention of discovering inlafortunes; moreover she was lent London Magazine, it is move about young Keats is ever one of the friends who received

likely

that Mrs Jones accepted library as

an invitation. She subscribed to AST

Although I've activa in many readers of his books from Keats's never been one of Frankie work and his correspondence, mementoes of him when he was ble, fund for John Scott's family.

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when Scott the editor of the fans, I and even Laine's mool

minute additions to dead,

fell a duel of which Magazine Lin knowledge of him, his

HER HAIR must admit to a

liking our great

and so

Keals was the unwitting first for his newest record, "Moon- family, his acquaintance

A Dark Lady?

cause. In short, I should souredly on are counted ample reward light Gambler."

for, long and dour researches in think there is nothing to tell us think with Mr Gittings that she or could have been more than a manuscripts and printed papers whether she had black hair and volumes.

Keats" under Mr Gittings In truth, as ex auburn; but

has good friend to perience has taught me, there is elaborated the notion that she Taylor's influence; but he is a not much prospect of any over. was accretly Keate's love. Why capital investigator, and he may whelming revelations on the life excretly? For various reasons, yet go far beyond the halfway

and or the versC

se of the but one would be that perhaps Information he brings in his prose fil-starred Keats. I have toiled she was under the control of second book about Mrs Jones like the others, and sometimes guardian by whom her com- and her privato life.

de- fortable life was ensured, or happened upon some new

possibly she was a mistress with gold pos tails, never upon the real

Keats'a freedom. considerable a complete new poem. New

That she possessed books, and poems by him, after the labours known letters do not name her manuscripts by Keats is almost this various excellent editors, but apparently describe her and certain, and even now, such is in, her London lodgings (which the way in which old collections ever occur again, her may hardly

and in- Episodes Keats's life, too, were very elegant)

long stored in obscurity are opt wished him to dicate that she

forth in England, --- to come must be unlikely to come to Ught where for

appear. But among so many years keep his acquaintance with her these may

from the knowledge of their them would there be previously the experts have ransacked all

When we common friends, his publishers

hers unknown verses by her young promising archives.

Taylor and Hessey for example, poet? Another lyrical balled in just catch an unpublished re. Taylo

On the appearance of John the same field as La Belle Dame ference to Keats, even if it is merely "Remember me to Bir Keats: the Living Year, this Sans Merci? If there were, by Keats,"

ourselves business of Isabella Jones was any chance, it should fall into

selected by many people as tho thố hands of Me

with such

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Jo Stafford, lody always liked the sound of, has a really first-cinss song for sale, It's called "On London Bridge,"

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9 "HOUND DOG." Presley, H.M.V.

Elvis

Mr

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Frankle Vaughan, Philips.

4 "ST THERESE OF THE ROSES." Malcolm Vaughan. H.MV.

5

"CINDY, OH, CINDY." Eddie Fisher. H.M.V.

THE "SINGING

BLUES." Tommy Steele.

10 "LOVE ME TENDER." Elvis Presley, H.M.V.

The Common Cold

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN- COMMON COLD ?"

THIS IS A TERRIBLE" BLOW TO

|HE'S RIGHT-NO SELF-RESPECTING GERM SOMEONE WHO IS ACCUSTOMED

WOULD STAND FOR THAT STUFF

"RUM, HOT RUM,

WILL CURE

ANY COLDY*

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WHAT ABOUT. THIS MUSTARD ¿PLASTER?

TO NOTHING BUT THE BEST.....

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QUEER TIMES

is great novelty in the story, at has devoted humors who Robert Gittings, who hities and symbols enough Brave

a poet with imaginative last the prominent place talten imagination, such scholarly per-

Keats'p by

famous Fanny sistency, to living near Keats

the years, wha thought

and to illus to be pcYOSE has been winning a name latter.

of his poema

by the threatened. What a number of trating many of ly for his enquiries into blography of Keats and its con- young ladies might be brought recapturing the circumstances of

their

origins, Meanwhile his having nection with the poetry; these to

un books have aroused, some of the admired, enquiries have been eager and approached, or

these persistent, and he has much to adored, by John Keats! But for pleasmter disputes of

queer times, and wo are im- patient for the sequel.

notice

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BY HARRY WEINERT

"WHED I GET A COLD I'D BY HEAD - D'KNOW WHAT I DO?

I JUST TELL MYSELF ID'S ALL..

IBADGINATION—

JUST IBADGINATION!

EAT PLENTY OF GARLIC- AVOID CROWDS/\":

THAT SHOULD BE EASY. "HERES SUBTHIG I CAN

RECOBBEND-IDLL -KNOCK YOUR CODE SO FAST YOU WOY DOW YHAD IT/"

AND SO WITH THIS NOTE OF:OR GO BACK 16 BERE. WHERRIE HAVE STAYW IN THE TIMERET

been

THE WOMAN BEHIND GLADSTONE

MRS

GLADSTONE,” By Georgina - Batthcombe. Constable, 21s.

BATTISCOMBE

has

Muckled one of the hardest

of tasks the portrait of a happy marriage. She has brought it off triumphantly, too, in a book which is boch scholarly nak de lightful to read.

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(apart from their Innebands. That, however, was not at all Catherine Gladstone's point of view. She laughed at him, she stimulated him, she saved him from pomposity,

As one of her relatives Bald of her, "he always twinkled." And though in later years the may have overplayed her role of matriarch, she managed, in of a character, which ought to have - kept her well away from Downing Street, to become the central

every altuation into

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repeatedly not to love his let«- ters.about. Yet her discretion was absolute

There were, her children, There was a bit house In Cheshire to be kept gotog. Soon there were her orphaned. nephews and niecos na well. And

her private

there was to be fostered. But through it all, Caterine Gladstone moves not arly with same but with

was a beautiful, women; ay, well

bravely with

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