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by OSBERT LANCASTER
SOMEONE
"Just in casa should say something about Nasser missing the bus.”
A British
The Rock' makes
a
million
TICK MULLIGAN, direc- Society, and is now,
as a fully
M'Cor Geven-piece fledgxxi member, entitled to open
jazz band by night, is Mr up a wine bar in certain dis- tricta without the tiresome Mulligan, director of a City neccssily of applying for a wine and spirit company by day.
leence,
The Chinese Poet Had A Roving Eye
By. GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Was
YUAN MEI. By Arthur tercas of his acquaintance
a high-class Waley. Allen and Unwin, being lunchet on 21, 227 pages.
now incarnation,
It Was explained to him; **That's not the sort of thing worry about here, The
After leaving the Army in 1049 Lieutenant Mulligan pre-most ferred the precarious excitement
་
THIS ls the story of a
pleasant, disreputable of the Dead is a straightforward Chinese who, during delty. One cannot imagine him
on what
people do in Off to the office in the morn
of the eighteenth ing complete with bowler hot
Arguments
of that kind did and rolled umbrella, and off to of "four beats to the bar of century, wrote admirable the jazz band ball in the even vintage Dixieland," rather than poetry and lived a less than Yuan Mei no good with the con
vention J. Ing with a lumber jacket, shirt, the dull routine of "how many admirable life.
Regardless of the frowns of bottles to the bar of vintage Yuan Mel was a civil a roll of music. and
servant until the age of 82, Chinese unco guld. Yuan Mel
went his way This trumpet-playing idol of Bordeaux."
through the left a
after which he devoted him- seventies, comforted by an excel- HOMEWORK Britain's jazz clubs was
self to literature. But not to leat cook and other attendants... literature alone.
company by his father. previously served his apprentice ship with the Free Vintners'
kalf- share in the wine end epirit HE formed a small Jazz band
He had of enthusiastic
amateurs who used to rehearse in the sitting-room at home, presum- ably when the family was out.
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THE GIFT DEPARTMENT.
THE DOCTOR
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By 1951 the band had pro- gressed sufflelently to turn pro- fessional, and that year they played at the Festival Hell ja concert which was attended by the Queen, then Princess Elizabeth.
The pleasures of the table and the gay quarters of Chinese
cities made a perennial appeal, The story of his life and work, for
it is pieced together, Western readers by Artbur Waley, is ilyenting but unedify-
In
"After I reached middle age," Yum Mei, "I ceased to
A tako any please in geisha People thought had Con- been converted to stalet fucianista; they did not realise that if one is to look at flowers they
must be 'flowers that take one's immey."
In fact, his fancy was all too eadly taken. He had a roving and discerning eye,
They have just recorded tune for Decca called "Mag-panties. nolia," This tune was originally put on disc by Paul Whitemin, when Bing Crosby was one of his Rhythm Boys,
had to Mulilgan has
make alterations in the lyric of this Zong to bring it up to date, as the original version contained references to fim stave such as Lilian Gish, Clara Bow, Mary Pickford, and Joan Crawford, These ladies have now replaced
modern by Monroe, Kiti, Bardot, and Ekberg
been stars,
Mick says that while he still prefers the "spirit of jazz," the battled kind provides him with the larger income.
A$
IN PARADISE
S predicted in this column 1Wo or three weeks ago, Frankie
has raced Vaughan through the Garden of Eden," the best- and is now top of selling record lists.
Philips tell me that the orders are coniing in so thick and fast they
getting hopelessly
are
behind with the praisings, ond that already they have outstand- ing orders to the tune of 75,000
cliscs.
NOT SO GREEN
14 Though alaimed went to the THE best-selling British record
front at the beginning (8). 18 Reach (0).
22 Spoken (4).
CROSSWORD-Across a Pestered, & Asylum, Dis
aules, 11 Termites, 12 Peer, 13 Magie, 18 Neam, 19 ilmu), 22 Disabled, 24 Auen, 23 Aerale, 20 Handbags, Down; 1 Nasty, 2 Dyers, 3 Puritan,
Creates, 4 st. 3 Toss, Roller, 7 Desert, 10 Seplo, 14 Genie, is Thrash, 17 Pullin, 20 Cloak, 21 Add-r, 22 Dumb, 23 Shag.
It's A Boy!
THINK OF IT/ ALL THESE PEOPLE GOING ABOUT
THEIR OWN AFFAIRS AS IF NOTHING
Wesert
HAD HAPPENED!
COPA. 1956 BY CINEJAL FEATURES COAP, IM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
GRANDFATHER SALLIES FORTH TO SPREAD
THE GLAD TIDINGS.
“HAVE A CIGAR !'
9-30
10
in America of the Beverley Sisters singing their modern version, of Ye Olde Englysh Fork Song. "Greensleeves."
This dis has already sold bul, so for, over 300,000 there,
scheduled for hug not been release in Britain. Is it because Decca
know that it will be banned from broadcasting Britain?
in
such
ile collected ghost storles, com-
plled a cookery book (helped by a Miss Fing) and improved his estate:
at sevenly still plant trees, Lookers-on, to not laugh at sp
folly,
It is true that no one lives
forever:
But nothing le gained by know-
ing it in advance, He lived to 81, and during his
lines told his visitors that, if they wanted to find him, they had only to go to the room from which the laughter was coming. The chirm of Yuan Met wit be apparent to any reader who, Waley LLS ด tolerant, with learned guide, is prepared to be interested in a strange land, and on unfamiliar pori.
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ROCKET. By Sir Philip Joubert. Hutchinson. 181.
190 pages.
there A
more exciting
Seeing a pretty girl in Nan- king being led away handcuffed by the police, Yuan Mei pro- tested to the Prefect: The Maker of All Things seems to
ave no difficulty
in producing humans by the million, but the in very greatest dimculty fashioning more than a handful that over have their eyes and chapter in the story of the noses more or less in the right war than the development place.
Having found a flower of the
German V-wespons? as this, I should have
the Maybe
chapter which thought your police would want describes how Allied Intelligence got on the trail of these weapons,
Joubert tells both stories, They begin with the raysterious Oslo letters, sent through the
cupitul by Norwegian
among Hitler's top foretelling radar, magnetle rines, flying bombs, rockets, Nobody paid much heed. Yet already, by that time, was using up a rocket research
of third
Hitler's technical research resources. The work went on at Peenemunde on the .Baltic with a staff of 12,000.
protect it from harm," Nor was his humanitarian impulse confined to words. Dis- covering that the girl worked in a hairdresseT'E, he offered her admitting employment, while that he was bald,
in
NETHER VALUES During Yuan Met's life (born 1716) China was passing through one of its puritanical phases. His licentious' way of life might have been excused in a poet. But he was quite shame- less about it, and that was a breach of the clecorum expected of letters. of an eminent man When he took in female pupils the authorities thought he was going too far,
his frivolous Persisting in ways, Yuan Mel told how he had on a visit to the Nether gone Region where he was surprised to find thai a notorious ndul-
BY HARRY WEINERT
HE MIGHT AS WELL BE HOME
HE'S NO USE
AROUND THE OFFICE.
"OF COURSE I'M THRILLED
ITS A BOY
BUT THEY MAKE SUCH
DARLING THINGS FOR
UTTLE GIRLS.
-THEN THERE ARÉ HISTORY BOOKS TO BE
HE'S SEARCHED FOR A SUITABLE NAME -- GOING TO BE THAT TYPE OF MAN,
unknown
some
The Dunes brought the Arsl real news-photographs of a rocket that had crashed txear
CRE Bornholm. Polish slave werkoera: at Peenemunde saw one of them close up like a small airplane; But where would the pilot alt? They passed
the puzzling Information
on
Alt photographs of Peene- munde showed mysterious emplacements with scorch- marks on the ground. The Chiefs of Staff ordered Major Duncan Sandys (former commander of
Jer of A rocket battery) to investigato
His guess, that the Germans. were developing a long-range rocket,
Was
rejected by Lord Cherwell, Winston Churchill's selentine edviser, and Dr Crewe, chler rocket expert. But Sandy's persisted and mercifully Peenemunde was bombed,
SMUGGLED OUT
The moot thrilling episode in the whole of Joubert's readable, non-technical narrative tells how an unexploded German rocket fell near the River, Bug and was hidden in the stream by the Polish underground. Luter, vital parts were sent to Britain by Dakota from a secret landing strip, with the Germans half a mile away.
Two impressions are left by Joubert:
1. The war might have been lost had the enemy concentrati their flying-bomb attack on the Invasion parts;
2. Britain's present 'air pro gramme lags behind the needs of tho guided missile Joubert doubts if our only two- peater, the Javelin, can be a satisiactory launching platform.
A sensible-in places exciting -book on a topic which is of Interest to everybody.
THE
KING'S
PLEASURE. The story of Louis XV. By lain Pilkington, Jarrolds. 211. 272 pages.
THE
HE French, who have no
excessivo distaste
for
Immorality in their rulers, havo never been partial to Loula XV. Reading Pilkington's account of the king. It is easy to see why
Louis's love-life (If I can be sailex
that)
lacked glamour, and
In the end became downright sordid. But the decisive point against him
That.
a monarch is
0905 while Instating on his divine rights, he neglected his
royal duties, and did not care a straw for his subjects sport from the girls whom his valtt cutained for him on the
Patte streets.
"At the apex of the pyramid, sayu Pilkington, there wom Vaculty, a king who did not govern, and a society which had
centre."
Louis
От his douth-bed, repented, and France moved for ward towards the Revolution: It is hard to soo what cleo either could have dose.
Pilkington writing a reáchable and not too censorious accouá» I of a land king und u prosted like...
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