1957-08-17 — Page 14

URDAY.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1957.

Marry Sinatra? -‘only a rumour says Miss Bassey

ISS Shirley Bassey, with eyes like

MISS

"I

Aldis lanips, was explaining away a minor social indiscretion. She said: apologise for keeping you."-

We had an, arrangement to meet at three o'clock. And it was now oight o'clock. Miss Bussey's Press agent offered me as consolation a large drink and the "Well at least she did get the 'words:

dute right."

Miss Bansey, who had also failed to appear at a recording session that day, said: "I was so absorbed in my driving lessons. I'm in a different world when I'm learning to drive."

A mystery

Back again in this world, Shirley Bassey talked to me about Miss Bassey, the singer with Napoleonic ambitions. She tad my what a success, she had been on her recent jaunts abroad (including Las Vegas "where they stopped gambling to listen to me").

But would 1. she asked, do her the small service of helping her deny Tumours that had arisen from the American trip!

Would I she raked, tell her pubile that she was not going to merry Frank Sinata, " haven't the foggiest iden," Miss Bassey said, "how that rumour got going."

I sald neither had I and Frank Sinatra, and who was she going to marry if she wasn't going to marry Frini?

"AL

foo

moment. no Miss Basscy said.

"I am busy building a reputation. You see, one day I ran to be an in- ternational story

Shirley Ressey. who egies from the Tiger Bay Cardiff, where she worked is an enamelware packer and the colour of milk sheke (choco- late flavour), explained how this ambition was going lu be achieved: "I will "eoncentrate on cabaret, Caberet, you see, is the door to International fume. And the door to cabaret is sex. That's the product you have to sell in cabaret."

RECORD ROUNDS

By RAMSDEN GREIG

could tear herself

away from her driving lessons long enough to get into a recording studio,

After that, Mira Barscy sald, she might get down to miking a home for hersel! in

some fashionable crea in London.

"My house," she said, "will have the biggest bed la Londen.. And a miak bedside rug."

"The Cypriot girls all fell

for their English teacher"

But Enosis was their homework

BITTER LEMONS. By Lawrence Durrell. Fober. 16s. 255 pages.

DURRELL would have been better Mensed und so would his readers had the ond of his ok been us happy as the begin- ning. But luck was against him. He is a man attuned to sun- drenched landscapes and the wild humoura of life. He is pawky ironical, passionately curious alicut matters which, since the dawn of time, have been the proper concern of men.

He went to stay in Cyprus at a time when antionalism was about to stage a formidable outbreak.

When did it all start and how could it have been prevented? Durreli has his own Idees,

A British Crossword Puzzle

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After all, at 20, she already has a mink cape.

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Hear Shirley Bassey on Fire, Down Below (Phillips, 78). I has all the warm of a white he rivet.

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I'VE HEARD

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album

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Here comes another of calypsos and folk songs-this Kline by Cy Grant on Cy Grant (Donegall 33). A pood mixed bag of 19 numbers In- cludes Babalu, St. Jamos in- firmary Blues. Foggy, Foggy Dew and Grant's signature tuna Wanderin'.

• Frank Chakefield and or. chestra

alve the lush treat to

Miss Bassey called for a glasa Binge area cl

of port, explained that this was the stuff for the vocal chords

"This month and said:

I ozn leaving for a three-week engage- ment in Belgium, where, I am teid, I am something of a sex symbol. By September I should have completed a long-player for Philips-Shitey Bassey Sings the Blues. I will follow through with a tour of the British music balls. And In November I'll be back in Ameries doing cabaret in Las Vegas.""

Belgian date

I said I would mention this fact to Mr Robert Marley, who is a well-paid exponent of cabaret without sex, but mean-

cn time would Miss Bassey lighten me un her future plans, her And would she include recording plans-assuming sho

The only sophisticate to come out of Tiger Bay, Cardiff, added: "And If my luck holds I'll be of The Jazz taking the im Train while I'm in America,"

The star of this film. I threw casually into this piece, is going to be a Mr Frank Sinatra.

The Desert Song, Wunderbar, 'Alice Blue Gown and Will You Homember on Waltzen to Ra. member (Decca 33). Ted Heath does the same for the works of Raymond Scott an A Yank in Europe (Decca 33).

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Actor John Frazer produces a pleasant volca for Bye, Bye Love (Nixa 78).

#10

Ronnie HIRon docs a work- mantike Jab

Wonderful. Wonderful (HMV 78).

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THEY'RE A VERY RARE.

GOBI DESERT FISA —

· THE ONLY WAY TO

CATCH 'EM IS TO

SPRINKLE PEPPER

ON THE WATER,

AND WHEN

THEY COME UP

TO SNEEZE –

GRAB 'EM /

(London Express Service},

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ACROSS

What a relieving liver durs? 15. Go all out on a horse (8). Turnkey (0),

Distress (8)

12 Not a frufu place (0), 14 Take the påser of (7).

Metāl ejuv (0).

19 Water, for instance (7) 20 Do prolininary work (7).

Demigod

31

Runner's eclour? (1)

They're to caza criali 10). Supporter of art (8).

Narrow waterway (0),

Feils to enact the girls of

32 Staggered dances? (3):-

32

DOWN

1 Possibly regal composer (0).

Make the luat elege (5).

Edile European 15).

It gives one the cord shivers (4).

Fine nish (0),

It's obvious (0).

Defeat or the opposite (7).

Bock-detonator (0).

Pleks out (3).

Modern Ireland (4).

Set As a task (6).

38 At one time in concert 14).

20 Murgh indiffertat

(6).

Scrubs, in modera paricace (0).

23 Getting gracking (8).

25 Permission to depart (51. 20 Mr Dates? (3).

wild fruit 14).

FRIDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 3 Epidemle: 6 Loud; & Eremites; 11 Aperture: 13 0.H.M.S.: 16 Barteret: 18 Rudiment: in Lew 21 Saveloys; Thiation, 26 Mali: 27 Regiment, Dawn; I Fla; 2 Pure; & Peru: 5 Dam: Match: 7 Casts: 9 Ether: 10 Erted: 12 Plane: 14 Muncy: 10 Rural; 17 Des; 10 Later: 20 Swing: 21 Stem: Velo, 21 Ovel: 24 Salt,

Hook, Line And Sinker

ÉD WANTED

TO COME HERE

FOR THE

FISHING ----

AND SO FAR

HE HASN'T DROPPED

A LINE!“

who

Nobody reads Durrell's hil - arlopa chapter "How to buy n house" will

derate the ennelty of the Turks.

For the hero of that eple of bargain- ing with

Greek peasants Turk named

by

THE

BOOK

PAGE

George Malcolm Thomson

EVENING STANDARD BOOK CRITIC

is a Cypriot

up her diary, "Tuday he looks Sabri, TC- TOES, my teacher, his faw is commended by a Greek - "He set, his brow grim, but I-love is the one I would go to. But him all the more,"

Bewarey'

Only too soon. alas, these

beauties Cypriot

and their As the climax of the negotin- brothers were at grimning work tion approached, "Now what-throwing hotties at policemen Some ever happens, my dear," said in the name of Enosis. Sabri in a low volce tremulous went to gool, where they con with emotion, "de not surprise. plained bitterly that the crowded You must never surprise, And conditions prevented them from you don't want the house at all, studying for the General Certi-

lezte of Education.

"Don't," pleaded Darrell's friend, the British official Foster. "Don't tell me

I can't more. They are mad.

throw lalte it. First they

Л bomb, then they want to pass their School Certificate, and I'm a Faselt because they can't." The exusperation, the un- TEKSUI

Dighonis, ("Yes, even

British, though he fights the

pain

Before he became the owner of the house, which he wanted Durrell bad very much, so? ample reason to surprise.

His

book superbly written, steeped in affection and humour and sensuous delight-tells how he settled down as a Cypriot by adoption.

ony

He had two advantages, one rcal;

really loves them") the he spoke Greek like a

of the divided heart, the utter Greek, which fow Cypelols do.

needlessness of paradise lost-- The other fetitious. He invent-

brother

his is Durrell's theme, cxl a

-killed ot Thermopylae

for lighting Grecce. When this brother turn- ed up in Cyprus, there was momentary awkwardness,

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were

П

. Durrell became En English teacher at Nicosia High School,

The girls of the sixth "uncanfortably unified in one

Enosis, thing, besides passionate, heartrending deter- mination to marry their English teacher."

Each was too busy with work of her own to attend to the business of learning. Oce spent the lesson period entering

The Cyprus he arrived in- Burgy, lazy, negligent, alm.st stupid Isluru-has been torn up and cast away. He went in ci- hope and left in surroW, though not in despair.

But he has written benullfully about the pezee and, friendli- ness that his gone, and regret- fully of the rising tide, of im- ported fanaticism that 1159 swept it away. And his charm- ing book contains the promise that cechow, somelme, peace will return to Cyprus.

By Harry Weinert

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