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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 17,“ 1957.

To the

6 hour

Bay

Deuble Overtime

UNREST IN FILM FACTORIES

The demand for shorter hours for actor-hands Is growing. Ugly scenes Took place when a blackdeg.one Bill Shakespeare, was caught clocking on as usual.

"GREAT WHITE FATHER FROM

ACROSS THE SEAS"

Reports that Nye Bevan's visit to India has saved the Commonwealth have had tragic

results. Two editors of the onsi-Bevan Press have choked to death on their own, Telephonas

CRISIS IN THE TEMPLE OF MAMMON Lord Radcliffe and his vels begin Operation Creditat once. Anaesthetics will not be used since The Golden Calf is dazed already.

The Birth. Of The Count

THE

TITLED

CAL

SIMPLE PLUMBING JOB

Chapter 6

Banty Bigard, Johnny Hodges and Harry Camey.

With the Count's band at

MIXED BAG

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

Girls Go

New York

Four English Flat-Hunting In

—AND FIND NOTHING FOR

LESS THAN £13 A WEEK

New York.

their favourite band- BY this time, Basie was Count

known

throughout lesider. A leading Negro news America as "The Count." paper, the Pittsburgh Courier, presented him with a silver The story of how he came up by the nickname dates back The Count had come a long whose solos seemed lined with £20 is not a fortune when a freight plane,

that to 1936, when the band was way from doing a broadleast one night. club! over Kansas City radio station.

Reno

JENNIFER

'DAVIS

опо of four girls chosen out of 5,000 for training as an air hostoss in America, sonds.

It has

a progress report ...

TERRAIN JANTZITATUD KARALIERIAUSI

tree-lined avenues,

while detached villas, and the streets too have an English ring Mayfair, Park Lane, Audley Street

TOW would you like to live in New York and earn

one of four girls to be chosen out of 5,000 for training in America as air hostesses for an international airline. My friends could barely conceal their envy.

But New York is not all When we landed after various times during this period skyscrapers and night clubs., 20 hours in an unpressurised wag tenor man Herschel Evans,

we looked polguanty. shampoo and set costs near- night a kind of restless

rcre like refugees than Buddy Take an Imaginatively £3. And an afr-hostess

visitors. What was the Count looking disciple, and the great Lester does not spend all her time

Without a pause, for when he enlarged his band? Young, with his dry.

whealy

load ourselves £ bottle of we had to "I wanted my 15-piece band to

tone, who strung his chords posing with work together Just like those into solo

which be-champagne surrounded by with our luggage and begin nine pieces "did,” he says. "I cumie i a way single con- film stars.

to hunt for a flat. wantry 15 men to think and tinuous phrasca, making new My first taste of life as a play the same way. I wanted melodies,

There is no shortage of The late Chu Berry was an- crew member came sooner flats in Manhattan-as long trumpets and three shose four

rumbones to bite with real other great name in the Basic than I expected. The first- suts. But I wanted that bite reed section. His whimsical class flight on which the as you are earning £50 a think I'll call you Count Basie te be just as tasty and subtle playing contrasted with that of four of us were to fly to

week. For a bedroom, liv- No equivalent he said, Basic shrugged and us. If it were the three brass I Don Byas. Anchoring the

used to ure. The only reason I section was baritone man Jack New York was fully booked g room and tiny kitchen, the average rent is about topping the at the last minute. Passen- 113 a week. joke, And

then always enlarged the brass was to get a Washington. And * he was never against a joke, either harmonic structure." cocktall like a cherry was Tab gers come first. So for or against him.

Smith, Maur

whose tone on travelled as cargo with Д In July,

alio rux was just about the moved

grand piano and a racing ได

thickest to be blown out by that horn

any

The annouicer turned to Basic and said the music busi- like ness was full of royalty, Duke Ellington, Earl Hines, and Benny Goodina, King of Swing

From now on,

miled. It seemed like a good

York →→ there was

1938, the band 52nd Street, New

a jazz centre If ever antennd opened

It Swung

choruses

jazzman. car.

Earl Warren completed the line

Of his piano playing at that period, the Count says he felt he trombone sction was no

unwise to take chorus after chorus. "I fed dancers my own,

Ilustrious. Vic Jess

Dicken- Benny Marlon, son,

Jimmy piano in short doses, and when

Harrison, and the unbelievable I came in for a solo, I did it unexpectedly, using rhythm background behind

ΑΙ The Famous Door. The Coun dd capacity business. Night after night the standing room only" sign was put out- sice the club. The band's stay had to be extended to October. "Almost all the- names in the business dropped by to dig, me“ us," says the Count,

But as he fame spread, so did the rumours. Largest among them

A

we

Two horses

"You're lucky," said the strong Dickle Wells a man whose pilot as we took off. "Last

m-time we had two horses."

Hils style was wonderful for band along. He pushing the made the rhythm roll along; he to know Just what to do to 1 in the gaps.

The rhythm section of Jo

Walter Jones,

Page, Freddie Green and Basic produced a rhythm in which each of the beats in the bar became Like ballbearings, rolling with smooth- "

was that Benny always seemed Goodman had inanced the band. This ruched such pro- portions that in November that year Willard Alexander

denied publicly that "Benny had piece of the Baste band."

Broadway

crowds awaited

es ond equality. In Basic

was immenstly playing aginative, at the same time un- classifiable and uninhibited.

Buck Clayton, Harry Edison and Emmett Berry blew trum- pets with the band, Buck and Harry both still blower strong had easily recogni- sable individual sole stylca.

At the Top

Like the Ellington band

3

2 curious

sole, towards the end of a num- the same time, the Baste con hit ber, for instance, the beat Bregation achieved the would flow as though on loc.

the

distinction.

Big though

a

B

ing caters for every possible emergency, on land or sea, We escape down a clide from crash-landed airplane in hangar, We clamber on 0 floating rafts with life jackets round our necks in a swimmin pool. Very soon we will be dumped into Flushing Boy to escape again in deep sea-water,

Whatever happens we

mut

The atom battery is just

this big

BRITISH

firm is to be tactful. "Why should I fas en make an atomic battery my safety belt?" o passenger 20 bigger than a shirt may ask. The answer is not "So button to power what will that the crow can get out first

If there is an emergency."

bo

the world's hearing aid.

smallest

And wo must smile, smile, seven-course meal to 25 people the Harwell ntom station smile. The other day I served o The firm has-approached from a galley the size of a large about supplies of an atomic

look three hours

wardrobe.

Then

for five

To get to the bright lights we take the subway. This sounds at the first rehearsal, and I had by-product called prome

expresses travel at 40 every minule of the time, tory. the much simpler than it is, to grin until my checks ached theum 147 to fuel the bat m.p.h. And the doors seem to

In the air shut

cin anything You are even quicker.

A by prometheum battery either

or quick You are happen. The captain asked one capable of delivering a small squashed In

current fast-moving New girl over the Inter-com for omount of

some coffee. When she presented 'years without recharg ng has herself, tray in hand, the cock- been fr vented in America. The pit was deserted, the windows British battery will be based open wide. Thinking the crew on it. had all fallen out she rushed shrieking to the galley, Even to find the station seems she heard laughter from the to need some special instinct, toilet where they had all been There is no equivalent to the hiding, while the airplane was So we have settled far London Transport 'sign. The flown by the automatie pilot. away from Broadway and entrance Just a fight of Park Avenue, a long die steps through a hole in the wall, tance oven from Greenwich You feel as if you were visiting Not notice....... a speakeasy in Calengo, Village. It is a little place called Kew Gardens on Long Island, which is almost dis- appointingly like my home in Cobham, Surrey.

- Only a minu'e amount of current will be needed for the hearing. aid, which will contain transistors the new electroale device that needs

Jess power than valves.

The battery, which is safe to wear, could also be used to Sometimes we feel, as we heat power wristwatches and small We are back again at school

mlx

cocktails, radios, from 8.45 till 5 pm, each day, babies bottles,

Technical footnote: The from every evering, with rovision with anything

here is two hours of homework cook meals, learn how to cope

prometheum gives off electrons that which strike a small quantity every week-end, And the train- attack to an epileptic fit,

we wouldn't even notice it our of powder of the type used in crew did leap out.

How risky is that game of tennis?

10 Mr Glover and all those other people who begin the

it was, it play with I-wonder-what's-the-matter-with-me I say:

the

Next monk the bond Broadway, opening Paramount Theatre. On that The one common denominator like small band. Some 手 occasion, "Variety" found the to be found from the opinions this can be put group "an aggregation of solid of any who heard that rhythm simplicity of the

down to the Throw that bottle of medicine through the window, put

arranging sonders. This was during the section is once again, the word Many of the arrangements those tablets on the garden path and jump on them. height of the swing craze. The that coge Basie like a shadow,

were "heads," limited to one. It's spring. It's holidays. It's sunny. But doctor, my kich fived up and down the that It SWUNG. It was a beat

two or three aisley Just as they do to rock which set feet jumping Bike

rifts, and plain headache? Headache, bah. Well, doctor, my nerves? sectional figures, used mainly Nerves, bah. 'n' roll today.

grasshoppers under * na- off-setting cushions for turnist's net. Huge

many soloista,

"All the same I think I need a tonic," Mr Glover said Basie band everywhere it play- The section

had a different ed. Records and radio sent is approach to

Another quality the band had grimly when he came to see me. "Starting this new the 11p-tempo was fame on ahead. A gig at numbers like "Doggin' Around"

Just as rare that of taste business of maine really just has got me down." It bad deep sense of Laste, Roky Mount, California, drew and "Cap Hands, Here comes with no blare about it. And if 10,000

"Bob," I sold again; remem- 10,000 Charlie." At such fans. Another

Normal people don't have lo times, it

was lyrical. The net effect was bering the old Chinese proverb worry on that score were turned away. The Na- would abruptly lace up tight.

even if one of clarity, with a grea which teaches that a man with they are unused to exercise. The tional Guard was called out.

Above the section rode the reeling of unleashed strength on unsmiling face should retrain body gives out signals when it' The crowd was only appeased saxes. They, in their collective behind it, ·A kind of nery by the promise that the Count's and individual empolliness and restrained

from opening a shop.

has had enough exertion, Quency that Carnod; stay would be prolonged.

of fans and

Inspiration, have only been the respect equalled by

That was the talo all over America. Tours took the band men of that period,

ployed.

tu famous hotels, large thei- The Duke then had a mighty The Count seemed set for a fres and colleges. Under- sax team, graduates at Harvard voted the Webster,

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comprising Ben long run at the top. But it was Cedric Hardwick, not to be

Of course it is a matter

.of

Not too soon after lunch...

:'

"The troubio, is, there's just not time enough to lake exer- cise regularly," Mr Glover said.

"Walling in

doctor's surgery is less pleasant and as time consuming as a round of

Ellington's recd musicians wherever the band) front of the fire. I told him to north of forty then you should golf," I pointed out

I told him to stop moping in common sense, if you are well

go for a bills be mature enough to realise I thought of Miss Wells. She told your age and not whir round consulted a neurologist and he take like a youthiul dynamo. Also told her that her trouble was Bomo decent you should not tale exercise migraine, Sho BAW exercise in the Immediately after eating, when specialist and he told her that sun That the blood needed for the muscles her complaint was the rest of mobilised in the stomach, a crooked spire. She consulted Remember this....

by Nocl Wain

walk

I

All in a doctor's

to

CEDRIC CARNE

more good than iran. tablets, vitamin

сар

day-by would do him

bone

an endocrinologist and he told ber it was her glanda, Bha consulted a surgeon and ho said.

Aules, buck- "Nor right after a bath when the root of her trouble was her you-up tonics, the blood close to the open appendix. She went to a gastro- and thingam a porcs of the skin," I continued. enterologist and he said she had

lg health pow

ders. Still it was up to him. He that it is all right to carry on

The prificiple to remember it ́an ulcer., had the clear choice. Blue skies or just the blues,

"I would take some exercise Mr Glover wald, "but I'm got-

ting on in years. A don't want to strain my heart,"

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her?"

with exerclat with you

"What happened" to ord nicely tired--but not until you Mr Glover asked. are overtired.

“She's fino,” I told him. The truth is, much illness is: “She took up selling and now onured simply by inactivity, she marely consulta the boredom, and wobsoploss. weather chart.».

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heart

But when this training is done we make our first professional trip. Then we hope our friends will have something to envy.

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