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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1957.

RAMSDEN GREIG

FICTION SHELF by P

OAKES

Mixing Pops and Puccini

The man in question is a large,

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• GALER, MY SON. By Lunas a few weeks is touched by

sepoys pulling Danicla, Scoker and Warburg, love and death. In his first

to the svord. TEREWITH a memo to.

128. 6d. Painful, perceptive novel, journalist Keith Water A

correct (Information After his show in Newcastle Him, and like so many of his novel by a 22-year-old journal house proves himself the best

other night ardent fans others, has a slight and to my David Whitheid, Four years ago scratched their names and tele ming offensive religious theme, the birth pangs of desegregation childhood since Dylan Thomas and

Lak from North Carolina; about reporter on the wilder shores of m a forgotten set of told with squeals, screeches, oohs and he was heaving cement slabs on phone numbers on his ble shiny He is now preparing to make

Alicia vigour. Almed for ahs and little whimpering to lorries in hla nativa Hull for limousine with

in the doop South. Chief prow- nall files. He long player. And I am waiting gonists are a young Negro cam- ⚫ CONIES IN THE HAY. By do with the Wind noises accompanied à ren- £7 a week. Before that he was did not telephone any of the for him to put a bit of dering in

La paigning for violent change, and Jane Lane, Robert Hals. 10. sd, al could have the sams in the numbers, bat Royal an able-bodied scamon

he did tell me Boheme on record.

his father, who bellares that Dramalte, well-docurathte success. Theatre, Newcastle, of Your Royal Navy, and he still walks that his income-tax mas gava

send you a copy, black and white should slay covel about the Babington Plet about a stage as it he were him on allowance for fan Beniamino. Tiny Hand Is Frozen from negotiating the mess deck in an damage.. Puccini's La Boheme.

Atlantic well.

the

That is what happens when a "pop" singer decides to get rid of inhibitions and slips a slice of opera into the act.

You will be further astounded, Beniamino, to learn. that this new operatie oracle cannot rend

a note of music, and ho Gwears by Puccini dhat lumping opera with pops is no gimmick.

"It is in me. and it has got to come out," the singer says,

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This

Fan damage tipped sutla, shirts ruined

ho has been

Since he became a big name in show business back to sea. This was when he led to America to appear on TV.

He travelled first class on this

occasion and when he got there was paid £3,000 for two ex- minule appearances.

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apart Written sadly and sober- to murder Elizabeth I. Excellent JACE, TIME, AND

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collection of science- with full marks

the Beverley Bisters (Decca 78) DEATH OF A JUNTSMAN, Walsingham as

the arch plotter, 124 cd. ́Quite |

Train Blues

Blow the Wind Boutherly, lý, with that Kathleen Ferrier olazato, is climax. allowance also соуста

by by now tackled harmoniously lip-stick smudges and a shoe he

The 2.19 akime Group in By H. E. Bates. demonstrative devotees. He says Freight once lost to one of his more

Michael A harsh view of history con imagination, and a cool, Not unlice 2 luded, style. nok-deap In the blue on Joseph. 128. 60--Four short veyed with conviction

with (Esquire novels dealing variously.

nerown Ray Bradbury, wllh he loves his fans, and, indeed, 78).

MAMBA, by Stuart Clorienhorrors instead of cine lie would not

the corruption of love by wicked fellow he is if he let them auger be the shrewd

The groove In which and ally women The titie Collins. 13. 60.-Lust in the shocks. Excellent stories Woody him.

Herman and the story features a nice dull busi- Congo dust, with a chubby sadig at level, and key documents He gets close on £700 a week Groove is shallow-

Swinging Herd are in Blues ness man whose love affair with who murder his unfaithful wife case for making science when he sings to them in the orc (Capitol 33) cure possessive mother, Stories two vengeful lover. Great narrative

young girl is destroyed by her and is killed himself by helion respectable. theatre. And they

TTH IN MELTING. buy his Pinetop Blues, Every Day I've and three revolve around a power, overgrown by creeping gramophone

the Got the Bluse, and Basin Street murderous wife, and a woman verbiage and patches of white.chard Grayson. million-terally.

I do not know where you are living

• Alma Cogan, the ut the moment, with that quaint catch in Beniamino, but this fellow's carnings permit him the luxury valce that is akin to of a five-bedroomed house out has a gay rendering side Huil. He is almost apolo- getic when he says: "It's in a road-but it's set well back."

records by

Your rival first came into show business in 1953. There is more to his story than the usual fable

in show of success business.

Large cut

Whitfeld became a big busi- ness proposition the night a Mayfair publicist found sliging (for £10 a week) in London club.

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The publicist recalls: "The good looks were there. And the voice, too. All the boy was short of was someone to groom him and present him."

For an agreed large cut of the large income he knew Whilfeid was capable of carning under his guidance, the publicity man took in the task of glamourising the singer. In one day' Whitfeld found he had acquired an elocu- tion teacher to knock the edgo off his Hull accent, a dentist to straighten and polish his teeth, two drape sults, a Mayfair hair trim and a manicure.

"By the time this fellow was satisfied with me the bill had come to a couple of hundred pounds," Whitfield recally,

An introduction 10 a record company executive was thrown In gratis. Within, weeks Whit- feld was on wax singing I Belleve. Within months he was topping Musle Hall bulls at £350 a week-which is a lot of mani- cures.

Mr Whitfeld's latest 13 Dessert, 10

record Beniamino, is called Without

FRIDAY'S CROSSWOHN-Across: 3 Singular, D Atuned, B Resented, Lacerate, 12 Meal, 12 Ceded, 18 Dupes,

19 Ugly. 22 Dissolve.

Partide, 23 Qrator, 28 Somerset. Dawn: 1 Rally, 2 Force. 3 Serried, Idea, 5 Glee, 8 Litter, 7 Riddle, 10 Sleep. 14 Darle,

Rumpus, 17 alarum, 20 Flule, 21 Merry, 22 Dior, za Sioc.

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Blues.

Funny (HMV 78).. calypso-style Funny.

on a

By Hammond. Privato yo hired to

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• A QUESTION OF CHARAC comes involved in much more question. has a steel blacough, summer darkened by suleide, due TER, By Jean Hougron. Hutchinarlig

to the Innocent crucity of the

of a con, 128. od, Sleepless Frendeton's body been disposed of thinks he have furnace full of molten Technically superb, schoolmaster Funny, teenager,

now and then, too slick for their Suspects muscular pupil and rounds; brisk handling of -(London Express Sereleci. own good.

shoots him In telf-defensects and Ex, Action proceeds from the pollE MAN OUT OF THE THE WIDOW. by Francis cell. High-tension writing an King, Longmans, 108,--Excellent psychological detection. novel about an ordinary woman, miss this one. made remarkable by her basic

splendidly atmospheric, and only spotted the killer of local elize Good and grimy factoryW

CLASSICAL

By DAVID BLACK KIRSTEN FLAGSTAD i

LAB. By Philly MacDonálů. Done

Tonkina, 10%, sa, Six stories-- foton, thrillers, and plain

highly

hand. Mostly

and has bran ro- / snobbish son and blue-stocking Koestler manner,

with a fed up by 'n

tired for four years,

but tuckily for her admirers her output of "farewell performances" and records shows no signs of ending. Her latest record is a re-

goodness and will to endure. AN EASY VICTIM. Chief character: Christine Com- Luelen Faragó, Cape, 12s. well, struggling to rear her Political cat-and-mouse in

for magazine require- and best kept for ocen daughter in seedy Earl's Court Communist recalling his

reading. after high life in India. War while being grilled by Fread THE BLACK SPIDERS, BY work complicated by a Fascist police who want to expel fin

Ilodder Creasey.

and netghbour and peach-fed Ameri- from the country. Flashbad giburton. lis. તા. Out-of- can admirer, Final gumpse socs managed unobstrusively, her out-at-elbow but still caring dirty diaisetical washing gits of Department Z (£2,000

ณ For others. In his sixth and a thorough alring. Slightly year and all expenses), 10 arias, Including such faves book, Francis King shows miniscent of other (and bettet flendish foreign agitators,

compassion, control and staying books, but accomplished

Bined with poisonous spiders. power. Recommended with most absorbing.

subtle, and ingenuously respect

cling, Creasey presses.on where Hall-dog

Drummond stopped

cital of Bach and Handel

qurites RE "Bhoop may safely traze," "Jesu Joy of man's desiring" and know that my Rodesmar Hveth." This is a superb diac. (Decca.)

HMV continue to reissue cutstanding records of the past.

The Rachmaninov I plano concerto No. 3 played by no less a per- I former than Rachmaninov himself. What an extraor- dinary planlzt he was. A + lack of balance in the re- cording can eally be for given.

After a London season of A German version of John Gay's Beggar's Opers, the work reappears in a finely sung English version on two dlack (Argo.)

Elgar's centenary in hand. somely commemorated, by à find performance of the Enigma Variations. Hallo Drahostra, conducted by Bir John Barbiro!!!. (Pyè.)

• BEAU CLOWN. By Berthe

Grimaut,

poor

Andra

Deutsch

newspaperman joins the

Ex-

• THE FLIGHT INTO EGY By Jean Bloch-Michel Lonas breath. mans. 138. 6d. A moving, son 108, G-Another child prodigy times maddening, story of VERGE OF GLORY. By from France. The first book by family in fight from a war rederiek Wight, W. H. Allen, 14-year-old Berthe Grimault (she clly. Taking temporary ro

Detailed, and sometimes. has already written second), is in a mountain village, they storied

about novel

the the perky, amoral

adventure of that isolation gnaws at the b

Punter. chlidren who meet up with which united them in dailon" to drugs, giris,

Mcdigliani, with at- and madmen and jeep-load of An important theme is weltmiliar Left Bank eccentrics,

a leaning low very deserters from the U.S. down by Negro

busy in Shaped into narrative allegory, and a rash of itropping kind of form by a literary neighbour, for heart-searching: soliloquasically, a cheap copy of the but. quite unselfconscious, strangely surrealist, and fresh as spring water. Chiolly of curiosity value, but rich in other qualities.

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way,

name- but

SHADOW OF THE Moportrait of the artist, By M. M. Kaye, Longmans,

Gene

Mammoth historical novel UNTIL THE MORNING. By

Hodder Markey.

& pages) about the Indian Mu

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13s. d. American de Balesteros, betrothed toas post-Civil War story, with Major THERE IS A HAPPY LAND. By Keith Waterhouse, fohael corrupt Commissioner of a Aldan Kensal of Kentucky `rid- blue-grass re with daching back to the Joseph. 128, da. Untentimental jore, but in love foray into the rough world of Captain Alex

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him: Stock excitements relayed council esiste.

Interludes of in a southern draw!. Told Tedious first-hand by an ugly duckling, slapping and attempled p -ti+++++++†| whose life-within the space of but grandly staged mutiny th

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