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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 1957.

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GIRLS ARE BACK!

CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN

AND IF THEY'RE LIKE THIS ONE K

I SAY IT'S THE BEST THING THAT

COULD

HAPPEN

WE'RE bound to be hearing plenty of a song called WEHF. Wonderful and that, beleve me, makes me

happy.

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past

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10 Maid of the soil (4)

12 Took no chancest (7)

15 Hardly a woman for whom you'd

have WAIT Teelings [87.

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17 Large portion of wedding cake?

(4).

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20 Suffered for a lung Lime? (71.

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23 Auwing reductions? (5).

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IN

RECORDS

It's song of praise aimed at men-und that means it is a gift for any girl singer.

They've seen that the way to

heart--and a man's

Into the Hit Parade-is through his

So it looks like the girls have found their way back into the hit twee her too long out of it. -I'm getting tired of the monoton

bus mule procession,

But Exidic Joy 11 found time to make another star. He was in Much Miler's office one day when Frank Sinatra luned down on offer to record some Miller song,

have just the singer for these songs," Joy told him.

Miller said the word and the cords of Guy Mitchell vocal kok over the songs that Simula turned down, "My Heart Cries For You" and The Roving Kind." Both become No. 1 hits and shot Mitchell to the top.

Now Joy has arrived here with is two precious commodities, Mindy and Mitchell.

First giri back is Perry Lee, who hasn't fared in the best sellers since the charts were rat Published. She's edging in at No. 10 Spot...sharing it with...

again--our own Gracie Joy, yes, Fields,

"Mr Wonderful" was written

as a theme for the show of the same name. Star? Mr Wonder- ful himself, Sammy Davis Jun.- who isn't in the record lists at ul.

and Mindy is now Mrs Eddie

A MEMORY

PEGGY

LRE

OTHER NEW BOOKS

The king stopped

to stare at Lola

THER

was Her

HERE has never been They found that she had not

forever Lola. She teen anyone quite like Loln.

in India. English, born When barely of nge this maiden name: Eiza Gilbert. At dark-eyed. Paris dancer be 14 she had married An Indian named Captain came the mistrese of Dumas, Army ofcer of Liszt, And soon all James, Captain James was sti France was asking: "Who At Marlborough Street Polles exactly is she? What coun- Court Loin was charged with try does she come from? bigamy,

But the bridegroom was still Who was papa Montez?" faithful. He took off Loln to the

alive.

before the case was

Some said she was Byron's Continent daughter. Others that her father over. They quarrelled, They Still young, Heald was a Spanish bullfighter. But parted. Lola merely smiled an enigmatic finally died of drink, smile,

The came lite

turning point

in Lola's life. The man she really

She left for Californin, There CA Entranced San Francisco with her sinful Spider Dance.

Lola was now in her thirtles. In Paris she was still the rage. It was rumoured that Louis loved newspaper proprietor Napoleonsoon to be emporer- But Lola was made the mistake of duelling was her lover.

Idicals. Irue to her republican with the best shot in France,

After the funeral Lola went She invested her cash in a gold- off 10 mourn

the mine in the USA amony! of mountains

Bavaria

t:en ruled by King Ludwig 1.

Ludwig

elderly

and eccentric, Ile would stop women In the street, ask them to unveil, would admire their beauty for a few minutes and then move But after seeing Lola. he wouldn't move anywhere unless Lois gave permission.

Lolu, a feminist and repub-

on.

Was

LOLA MONTEZ, by Helen Holdredge, published by Redman, 18s.

tion in the world of legitimate lean, with the kind of political in the Guld

musle doved into the work of

Dr Sum-

Judges, politient leaders vled for When she danced her favour.

Rush lowns there wore lots among the miners.

There were dark moments too. Lola married again. The man died. Then she took up with years younger a young mor than herself. He became her manager.

vnyago

But

оп

back from her tour of Australia he disappeared in mid-ocean,

the Bard of Avon at the re-determination that quest

the Shakespearemerskill might envy, reformed of

of Bavaria. Festival organisers in Stratford. the Government

cilenced her critics Ontario. He came up with 12 She

with a riding-crop. She lived in her own palace. Whateve: Lola NEW people remember Generat musical conceptions,

Charles G. Dawes. He was And in examining Shake-wanted, Lola got,

But in one thing Lola was too Vice-President of the. Uniteu speure's plays Ellington dis-

He the successful. Gracie

with comes back

republican something that He also gave covered States in 1925-8.

These remarkable facts are "Around the World"

this name to the plon that put pundits had, apparently, missed, teachings were taken to heart.

already theme song for the film "Around. Germany back on its feet after Of Lady Macbeth he says: "In the revolution year, 1848, the

part of the history Bavaria expolled the World la

books. But author Hoklredge Eighty Days,"

the First World War-nnd was feel that she had a little rag-people

TJ which Victor Young

Ludwig and Lola will him. wrote

has researched further. Lola, unabashed, went to She

that Loin reports before he died last year, I have awarded the Nobel Peace Prke time in her soul."

In 1925 for itl

the other results of Among

There she married repented, ond England. a feeling that we're going to hear

went about the Dawes died in 1951 unawat Ellington's musical inspiration young Mr Heald, the heir to a streets handing out Bibles. plenty of this number too.

fame can sometimes be

are "Sonnet For Sister Kate" fortune. But Mir Heald's family

She reports (on thin evidence) bought more cheaply, and he (for The Taming

the of

did a tlle delective work. And that she actually contracted a probably had no Iden that one Shrew"). and "Hank Cinq,'

marganolic marriage with; the senilo, exiled Ludwig. And the reports fan better evidence) the manner of Lola's death

☆ STARMAKER

THE

that

of his lesser deeds might last the which should be interpreted as they uncovered Lola's secret,

lengest.

THEY coll hin Eddle "Saintly"

For his hobby was sungwrit- THE TOP TEN Joy, and this is one sainting and he penned a ditly called with the Midas touch.' He xes

"I's All In The Game" that

"King" Colo Nat

has just recorded. I will be released the second week in June,

come stars.

with distastels eye on singers-and they be

Carson. She Take

Mindy walked into Joy's office one day In 1949, Just to try out a new song. He signed her, and from that moment things began to hum for Mindy.

5 Sort of jacket that ties you in

knotx7 (0).

Come to a conclusion (5)

11 The healtent doubts of cheni?

(8).

12 Tree endtied to respect? (6)

13 Booked for one who prefers

be alone? (8).

10

14 Appeated to arrange Ned's diet

ID),

18 Not all there (6)

22 Maria's melody (4).

CROBBWORD-A¢Toys; 3 Roman-tie. 0 Linger, (\.e.), }) Patience, Consoled, 12 Bier, 13 Celed. 18 Dates, Race, 22 Silenced, 24 MIG-rates, 29 Stupar. 2 (wifeckless, Down: Pick, 2 Anona, 3 Re-posed, 4 Oral, 8 |DIAvid, a Ten-nis(rev!, 7 Cheers, 10 Tenstirev., 14 Davit S De-Testa, 18 Primer, 17 Trogic, 20 Sespe 21 Ade-R.N., Sab. 23 Less.

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Eddie got her booked Paul Whiteman's radio show

This the strand the round for the general's song; it was released a few years ago and enjoyed a falr run of success.

and into New York's swank SWINGING BARD

Copacabana Club, Mindy stayed

with Whiteman for a year: left after getting her name. up in lights

American sculptere named her

on

TLE of the latest Dukc Ellington L.P:: "Such Sweet Thunder." Shakespeare scholars

as The Most Perfectly Moulded may recognise it as coming from Girl; she guested Perry "A Midsummer Night's Dicam. Como's TV show, made records, was seen and heard in all the best places,

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

STAY CALM!

I'LL

PITCH

INT

"NO NO! GET OUT

THERE AND

ENTERTAIN 'EM !“

Ellington, one of the few-jazz composers to nchieve re.ɔgni-

KUDAICO

"Henry V."

2

"ROCK-A-BILLY," Michell. Philips. (2)

Guy

TRAIN."" Į. “BUTTERFLY." Andy 6 "FREIGHT

Chay, MeDevilt Group. Williams, London. (1)

Oriole. (10) 18 "I'LL TAKE

YOU

KATII-

JOSEPHINE." Jahanfo

Ray, Philips. (3)

4 "WHEN

HOME AGAIN,

3 "YES, TONIGHT.LEEN Slim Whitman.

I FALL IN LOVE." Nat "King" Cole. Capitol. (4)

5 TOO MUCIL" Elvis

Presley, H.M.V. (9)

6 "CUMBERLAND

Lonnie Donczon, Nixo, (5)

London. (7)

10

"NINETY-NINE WAYS,"

Tab Hunter, London, (8)

*NET WONDEREFUL" Peggy Lee. Brunswick.

THE GAP.10 "AROUND

WORLD," Gracie Fields, Columbla, (*)

Pye-

In New York Loin had a stroke, Dying, she was taken in by a couple named Buchanan leave who persuaded her to them her jewels and fortune.

When the wil was signed, Onc tiny they moved Lola to room in a shoddy tenement. A piece of old carpet, nailed over the window, served as a curtoin. There was no bed, no chair. The mattress was on the floor.

In that room Lola was

old woman. attended by an When Lola dragged herself out of the door to speak to the other tenants, they would see her pulled back by her hair.

In that. rcom died Lola Montez, former ruler of Bavorla, the most glamorous woman of

ÖFUIMONIAKINUORINETURTONAUTOBUSOYURVEDINAMAKIZUNE INTERESTINGENE ☎ í her century. Her age was 41.

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