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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 18, 1957.

CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN

Glenn Miller plays again -bang goes an illusion

It

LENN Miller is perhaps for energetic performances.

pleasant Ittle song popular music's most is a very

about a happily married girl magical name.

who is expecting a baby. FRANKIE DOES

I was always a Miller fun. I thought his band of the American Expeditionary be the greatest Force to swing music combination of ind with

all time.

So when this weck a "new" Miller L.P. called "Polka Dola and Moonbeams" was issued I couldn't wait to play it.

This long-pinyer is made up

which

of 10 titles

Miller

uriginally recorded between 1930 and 1942,

ANTIQUATED

14.4

ALAS for nostalgia. Many Peo- ple are going to hate me for saying this but to soon as the record started to spln, the Miller Magle completely disappeared.

The band, so fabulous In 1944, sounded thin, gutless, and anti- quated compared with the great orchestras of 1957. I took tho Miller LP. ult before it was finished and sudly fled it away.

Miller disappeared on a war- me flight to Paris. But his music gues marching on.

Orchestra,

Last month it turned up behind the Iron Curtain. A new Genn Miller

directed assembird and

by Miler's

cx drummer Ray McKinley, had dusted off the uld Grrangements and taken them on a cur sponsored by the American Slate Department.

Their Warstw

concert WLS

olme literally a riot,

JUDY AIMS

FOR THE MUMS

LTHOUGH Judy

AL

A DOUBLE

who can NE teenage friol

now sleep with a tranquil 1g Frankle Vauzian, his first bid as a film

celor safely completed, Frankle makes a second in October,

Vaughan Just to console the fans, Frankle does sing in his fret (lim. 've just heard his numbers from These Dan- kerous Yeats," "What's Behind that Strange Door" and "Cold. Cold Shower," Verdiel? Another couple of winners for the teen- age market,

A British Crossword Puzzle

• НЕЩАДЯ

THE TOP TEN

| "OUMBERLAND GAR." Lonnie Doneran, Pye-

Nixa. (1)

2 BANANA BOAT." YIRITY|

Belafonte, ILMV (2)

3 "YOUNG LOVE" Tab Hunter. London, (3)

4 "NINETY-NINE WAYS." Tab Hunter. London, (8)

5 "BABY

BABY" Teen- Agers Columbla, (8) 6 "LONG TALL BALLY."

Litle Richard.

(5)

London

Guy "ROCK-A-BILLY." Mitchell, Philips, (—)·

8 "LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL." Johnnie Ray. Phillpa. (7)

9

"BUTTERFLY," Willlama, London. (~~)

Andy

16

CAN'T Little

19

13

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15

16

18

200

23

ACROSS

1 Straightforward (4).

4 Nisi (5).

7 Stew (0).

8 Material (5).

10 Applaud (4)..

Holiday 12 life (7).

has been awarded n theatre 15 Exclude (5).

"Oscar for being the best 18 Besides (4).

-record...

actress (71

21 Instigates (4).

musical

comedy

Broadway.

mrde her

she has

Grst

17 Post (4). only just 19 Gem? (6).

gramophone

20 Oppeses (7),

23 Comet (5).

25 Loud speakers,

(5).

we're

told

record

26 Execute (0).

It's the title song from her 24 Gun (8). new Bim "Fell of Life,"

1 Htened to the

the other day expecting to hear Mits mrgolic

Holliday burst

performanser

din-willed

into en uf sort comedy

the

for

which she is so famous.

But the life Miss Holiday is

Jull of is not the kind that calls

26

DOWN

1 Business chief (8).

3 Pol (4),

2 Classified anew (8).

5 Geological period (8).

6 Amphitheatres (B).

9 Strong points (5).

11 Withered away (B),

12 Social einss (5).

13 Grace (8).

18 City of canals (G).

some paint (4).

14 Diminished (8).

22 The fence

10. "THE GIRL

HELP IT." Richard, London. (—)

FICTION

SHELF

-by PHILIP OAKES-

STAY THE EXECUTION. By Daniel Nash, Caps, 15 Topical and tragic documentary of the kidnapping of a British soldir in Cyprus, as hostage for

of

a terrorist under sentence, death. Solution sought by discotchanted Englishman, who was a wartime friend of the terrorist chief, Told in sharp, heroics, sobor proac with no little comment, and pity for all

The

man who sold his PHILIPS wife's confessions

THE UNHAPPY COUNTESS.

By Ralph Arnold. Con- stable. 27. 213 pages.

by

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON EVENING STANDARD BOOK CRITIC

PARE a tear for Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, heiress, blue stocking, author, who died

The worst side of Bowes new in 1800 and is buried in Westminster Abbey, A tear, emerged. He kicked and punch even if it has to be acknow. ed his wife: threw a dish of hot potatoes ni her and then made ledged that Mary Eleanor's her eat them until she was sick. the wet nurse miseries flowed mainly from Worse, he got

ravished two the fact that she was a fool with child and beyond any reasonable nursery makis. allowance.

She began well enough, with a fortune of £600,000 loft by her father, a Dur ham coal-owner,

in

Ford was the radio operator, and at that moment, the loneli- est Christian in the world.

It was the Tibetan New Year and everybody know that, very on, the invasion of the Chinese Communists would be launched

Ford fooled up without farth

Having caught his wife some deception, he made her at the bright new prayer flags write her "Confessions," which on his aerial masts. He had

published at half crown.

he inter

a reasoned apprehension about the duture. As an Englishman and an employee of the Tibetan At last she fled to Bloomsbury government, he could only ex- from Bowes's

house in peat to be looked on with Grosvenor Square; her hus- suspicion it the Communists Communiata bond determined to abduct her. caught him. The which he did with the aid of a did catch him.

Edward Lucas, constable, "Four Eyes."

RESCUE

од

NAME ADDED After brushes with vari- ous fortune-hunting young men, she married the ninth Earl of Strathmore, "a hearty sincere friend, a

Lady Strathmore was carrice Scotchman and a good bottle

north. There, no companion." This noble off to the

doubt, she would have been man, warmed by the pro- certified as a lunctie, if she had ximity of a fortune, con- not been rescued near Darling sented to add "Bowes" to ton.

his own name of "Lyon" but, unhappily, could not share his wife's cultural in- teresata.

He spont the next five yearn In a Chinese prison being inter- Togated every day by humour- Jess and

Chinese tireless

your crime officials. "Confess and live! Hide It and die!" said the poster outside the interroga- lion hut.

Bul what was Ford's crime? He did not know. For instance,

untrue but it was

that he had

Lami, a

tone

Nor

Bowes, an unblushing oddly ineffectual rascal, was poisoned the Red

Tibetan monk who had sentenced to three yeare in. the

over to the Communists. King's Bench prison. There he

with was ho an agent of British lived comfortably enough Mary Eleanor wrote

Jenny Suitor, the accommodat- Intelligence. five-net drama, The Siege ing daughter of a fellow-prison-

His captors had him in a cleft of Jerusalem, and in the er.

stick. If he denied his guilt, he midst of a sentimental at-

So enti the story here fold was showing himself obstinate tachment for young James by Ralph Arnold. An interesting in error; if he adopted the whole and Marxlat vocabulary, he was re- Graham, of Fintry, "much glimpse of low comedy

shout with buked, "Anyone criminal drama, narrated too forward for his years,"

and much detall

100 ttle slogans; prove that you have allowed herself to be pur- vivacity.

progressed."

D 0

THE LOVING COUPLE. By Virginia Rowans. Muller, 13, 60, Blow-by-blow account husband and wife brawl after five happy years within the wedding ring.

gimmick of lowly effective sued by a gentleman from

the glory,

Here the eighteenth cen- irst from his corner, then from India, George Grey, until tury, cynical, rufflanly, scanda hers. Very bright and bitchy,"one unfortunate morning, lous, with its typical villain, the half pay officer, and is appro- with sniping asides at advertis-1 was off my guard."

priate heroine-victim, an heiress bright ing, exurbanites, and

When Lord Strathmore who, one unfortunate morning. young inen on the make.

was once too often off hier guard, LONELY

died in 1776, Grey expected

by

out-manoeuvred Andrew Robinson Stoney,

◆ THE FINAL CHAPTER. By to marry the widow, but Nicholas Blake, Collins. 12s. 6d. was could do with Hired to circover who reinstated 1wo libellous paragraphs in a General's

Jetective

a half-pay lieutenant with inemalrs. Nigel Strangeways eurns his fee an assiduous Irish tongue. when a woman novelist, is found For Grey defeat was shorn of murdered

on the publisher's

its sharpest pain by £12,000 floor. Suspects include a burned-paid for breach of promise by oul poci,

collared greasy

the courtesa, For Storey-now Bohemlar, and the Madeira. sipping head of the firm. Stylish writing, with built-in detection. Really vintage stuff.

FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Monsters, 8 Random,

9 Liming, 11 Smeretes, 12 Mere, 13 Strip, 10 Sates, 10 Agog, 22 Rebutted, 24 Intrudes, 25 Se-nl-e, 20 Serpents. Down:, 1 Omit, 5 Skis, 0 Exiled, 7 Sugged, Grass, 2 Knock, 3 Moleats,

10 Merit, 14 Rated, 15 Peruses, 16 Habits, 17 Poster, 20. Stiin,

21 Adder, 22 Rude, 23 Best.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"DON'T YOU THINK ITS ABOUT

TIME YOU SENT THAT

SUIT TO THE

CLEANER ?

YOU'RE GETTING

RUSTY/"

(London Expresa Service).

"MINK, SMINK! I'M SICK AND TIRED OF MINK!"

known

is Stoney Bowes-vle- tory was embittered by the dia- that his wife's fortune had been put out of his reach by legal instruments.

covery

Even In Those Days

CAPTURED IN TIBET, By Robert Ford. Harrop. 18%. 256 pages.

can

In the end, he confessed to o

pack of lies, was sentenced to 10 or imprisonment and in- stantly released.

Compared with his five years among the prim doctrinaires of Red China, Ford's life in Tibet. held nothing more obscurantist than a butter image and noth- ing allier than a prayer-wheel In a book without Hierary bas told the pretentions Ford

one iman's extra- story of.. wheels turned ordinary

adventure and de- THE prayer

unecasingly. The rosaries sabed, not without pathos, were never still, The dancing erkical moment in the history monks were nimbler than ever. of the strangest land on earth. There were bigger butter images in the temples: brighter butter lamps. All hearts turned to the god. All heads but Ford's,

a

Ford has the claim on our aftortion of the man who there,

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