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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1958,

FORGERY?—but my sovereigns are

worth more than

the real ones...

grandiose climax when tho, famous, once flamboyant city: truth was discovered.

Emperor Norton, mudman whom Counterfellers usually va to the whole city protected; Dr a ripe old age, William Norris Jones, who bathed in gold dust of Birmingham, Alabama, was to say nothing of Jack Lon- ective in his profession in his don, R.L. Stevenson and Isadore hundredth year. "Like horse Dustcon. A highly readable racing," -confessed another miscellany. operator, "it gots in your blood.

says the man who has made $2,000,000 I couldn't get away from it."

running his own Mint

By

THE

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

BOOK PAGE

MONEY OF THEIR OWN. By Murray

Bloom. Toigh

Woldenfold and Nicolson. 21s. 302 pages.

M

TR BLOOM writes, with moře verve than grace, about series of in- aividuals who have carried admiration to Its logical conclusion.

EX-

Seeing a beautiful object, who has not wished to reproduce it? Seeing an quisitely engraved banknote or postage sump, Mr Bloom's heroes were overcome by enthusiasm,

Where others might have suing confusion, the Habsburgs been content to admire or would be restored to the Hun-

Arion throne.

covet, they went further. They counterfeited.

The scheine the wretched

failed through the quality of

Printing

These were men who resented counterfeited notes, made by the monopoly of minta and Arthur Schulze, formerly of the banks. Their philosophy was Russlan Imperial stated Ari 1912 by Russian Works,

who engraved in thy Windischgraetz picaded "1 de group Cyrillic characters on the backs not feel guilty." He was given of their private enterprise half- four years hard labour. Thirty still bristles rouble notes. "Our money is no years after, he

when he recalls his country's worse than yours."

Mr Jose Beraha, bandsome ing:stitude.

nged 50, and holder Yugoslav,

Brander

After ending Mr Bloom's diverting book," It la casier to understand the Insidious power of a nefarious art,

2

LOVE. By Stendhal. Merlin Press, 211, 279 pugos.

NTENDHAL, who took Jove seriously na a writer and Ircusly as a lover, sums up in this collection his thoughts on the psychology, of the sub- TALES OF SAN FRAN-Ject. After 190 years, many of CISCO. By Samuel Dick- his dissections are still apposite and arresting. Men and women son. Stamford University have changed less than society, Press: Oxford University and lem, perhaps, than they Pross, 55%. 711, pages.

think. Stadhol'a cardeur and unwillingness to be deceived love a atómulating toriness and a flavour.

COLLECTION of 72 frue storic's about men, women and events in the history of a

—London Express Skroten.

A British Crossword Puzzle

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of Artur of a valid Spanish passport, were the operations takes pride in the fact that the Alves Reis, Mr Bloom's favour - sovereigns he made in his in ite. In 1924 els discovered formal int in Milan contained a tle more Fold products of the Royal Mint, London.

that the Bank of Portugal had the no official to detect duplicate numbers on the notes in elreu- lation.

Rels sent an associate with

10 When forged documeals

order banknotes to the value of 100

Beruha could well afford this generosity to his clients.

he went into the business, the

gold sovereign wos worth £2 or million escudos from Waterlow upward, more than the cost of and Sons, the London banknote the gold it contained. Working printers. These notes, sold the on this comfortable margin, associate, would be Beraha

circulated

made 2,000,000 in the Portuguese colony of dollars since the end of the war. Angola.

With the sovereign no longer what. legal tender in Britain usks Beraba, has he done that in so wrong?

The highest Italian court has recently found against this thesis. Meanwhile Beraha lives in comfor in a flat kt Vienna, At least he did so a year ago when tar Bloom kui heard from him.

In a less luxurious apartment In the scene city lives Prince Ludwig Windischgraetz, Hun garian patilo, who 10 1923 interested some of his fellow noblemen in a scheme to print French 1,000-irane notes.

The prince hoped by this mes to wreck the economy of France, at that time military master of Europe. In the en-

Heis

Exposure

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ACROSS

1 Tipster's head? (0),

An honour, perhaps (3).

7 Above buard” (8). "

A mighty, man was he 15).

10. The breůd of kleness (15. 12 Try to equal 17). circulated them it it's thy (51. Portugul. After bribing politi-in Carr's fatel date (4). clons be set up a bank of his 17 Thillest stoat!.14).

May be drawn at night (ŠE. noles Not likely own through which the

be shown at Crutta 13). were passed to the public. As anal, Napoleonic touch to his 1 Donate, but not stinty (4).

23 Hold-up (5) scheme, he began buying up shores in the Bank of Portugal. 25 Count the thieves (3).

24 Spiritualist Once he was the majority 26 Written in ink? (0) shareholder. he argued, the Bank could never proceed against him for fraud.

ite was within a month of realising this

FRIDAY'S

DOWN

Revolutionary doctrine (8). Geunirical figure of importance

is Washington (8).

Mysterious direction? (4).

Wulkag aimlessly? (85.

G-Landed property, 10).

9 Commna „sviise (8).

11 Attrnclive nazally (8).

12 Part of a dying" fire (5).

LONDON S

TIN PAN

ALLEY

4 NEW

*

BEHIND-THE-SCENES SERIES. WHICH

SPOTLIGHTS THE £18 MILLION, POR · RECORD

BOOM IN THE WORLD OF POPULAR MUSIC

by RAMSDEN GREIG

THE SVENGALI BEHIND

DAVID WHITFIELD

"Ho

or two was carefully g studios, then aild to

then

DAY

AVID WHITFIELD'S home is large, ostenta- wave

pressed in.

Svengall: "Now for the music- tious and expensive. The owner-occupier

said my teeth his?"

Svengali said: "Only when says: "If I put the house, fully furnished, on the weren't straight and took me to

n dentist to have them straight- you have a fast-selling disc market I suppose I could get £24,000 for it." That, rned and polished, The dentist behind you, and not a minuta

onc small before." of course, includes the private bar with the found that I hat

false tooth on a tiny plate and A· fast-seller wrought-iron grille.

raid wouldn't it be terrible if

T+

It fell out while I was singing.

"I Believe" turned out to be a

"Now meet your public." said Svengali, and booked bis dis- boy on to a music-ball' circuli. Whitfield returned from hia meninger.

voleo

The house is in Kirk Ella, From behind the mild and He threw it away and screwed fust-selling record. Just outskie Huil, where David bitter he said: "I was getting a in another one.

concert Whitfield was born 31 years regular 30 shillings a

"My work- singing ut

speaking the Trader and ngo, and where he ed until four years ago as a Labour Club In Hull when pleased my personal labourer in a cement works. Hughle Green, who had heard A Hull accent, he said, would first masle-hall tour triumphant

Не hod, of course.

less me work at Navy concerts dur be a dialingt diaadvantage to the if a bit missed up. The fans salubrious apartments in those ing the war, offered mo club man he was going to make the had loved every gentle wave so the prossed in by days.

work In London From there I heart-throb of the nation. So I cacefully

Mayimir barber and had tried He calls his new house Cara moved the Washington Hotel took elocution lessons from

a plece of lo snip them off with scissors. Mia after the title of the song (210 a week and free board woman who stuck

lodging), and that was wood In my mouth and made There was hardly a button laft that camed him his golden disc, and

tokeo of esteem recording where my Svengali came on the me repeat, hour after hour, on his Savile Row suits,

He now brown cow." An-

hod impressed local companies bestow upon their scene. Svengall said he would flow employees, they make a record make a star of me. He called other woman was brought in to mayors with tea-time chit-chat, Newspaper columnists had that sells more than a million hanself a personal manager, and lesen me which cutlery to use coptes.

he told me that for 15 per cent with which course when I was announced that `n star had been Mr Whitfield, just returned of my earnings he would guldo cating in West End restaurants, born

They were quite wrong of from a holiday in Majorca (it me along the rocky road of Yet another was paid to teach

me to say 'How do you do? course. A star hadn't been was Rome last year, Switzerland show business. Fifteen per cent

born. A star had been created. in 1955 und Madeira in 1854) of £10 a week didn't scom to Instead of 'tullo.*** sat back at the cushioned com- me a lot then. I didn't know

The mauling fort of his lounge, sipped at n that he would still expect Afteen

Wo drove home to have large brandy, and aid: "Decca per cent when I was carning have sold five million of my re- £600 a week, Ars that is a lot not usually very elegant. So supper with Mrs Sheila Whit- cords. I now make £40,000 a of money. And, by the way, I Whitfield next found himself In feld, mother of the singer's two sinco his year from my voice, That voice hed an agent who was taking of a manicurist ("at sons and his wife

109. 6d. a go"), '

coment works days. As Whit- may be my fortune, but there is len per cent

for of my money

His suits had a provincial field parked the £3,000 Olas- more to making the grade us a Anding me work,"

cut. So his manager took him mobile in, the garage, I asked pop music star these days.

Whitfeld's Svengall set to

a to Savile Row whence they ra Mra Whitteld, waterman's work. The volee of Whitfeld, turned with two smartly draped daughter: "How do you react to he said, was all right to be suits.

the mauling affection bestowed golog on with. But it would.

With a well-raanicured thumb, on David by his foto?" of course, have to be property Whitfeld flicked on his gold

She wald: "Nowadays trained later on. His bundlate lighter for my cigarette, and doesn't worry me much. Not problem, he told Whitcld, was gild: "That's what

call after I got over that disgusting That was when, haying gone

1

am."

supporo I om' "They say I'am the music business mogul created Iren scratch. And i suppose I

ster

a

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

́FIRST WE HAVE TO GO TO YOUR MOTHER'S --THEN TO MY

MOTHER'S — TWO TURKEY

DINNERS ARE

TOO MUCH!'

He put down

his double brudy and suggested that we should drive down to his local

pub and drink mild and bitter.

Because it was, ho said, in local pubs and local clubs that he started singing professionally. Furthermore, he said, he pre- ferred beer, out of a plain past glass to brandy out of a crystal

One.

"I SAID, DINNER

IS READY!"

Hands used to houving cement slabs on to lorries are

they

to smarten up the singer to grooming and it set the firm episode two years ago."

back over 200 quid or should glamorise him.

It

"I am not gonecited," Whil- 1, in view of my training, say, to bed, the Whiñelda Heard two feld

dear young said, "but I had always two hundred pounds, my

girls creeping under their considered myscit as a reason- chap?"

bedroom window and ably good-looking bloke. Ap- Svengall then- presented his cooling. "David, oli, David.”.... porently I

to wasn't. My hair, lightly-polished product said my new manager, was all Decca who put him on wax wrong. He took me to a May- with a song called "I Believe." fair hair stylist and I had my Whitfeld," all glossed up and blond locks all prettied up. A nowhere to go but the record-

Turkey Hash

NEXT WEEK -The men who write the songs

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HOW DID IT

IF HER FIANCE" OFFERS TO HELP

WITH THE DISHES, HE'S À GRANDSTAND | PLAYER —IF |HE DOESN'T.

HE'S A HEEL.

OFF TO A FLYING START.

SWELL-DIDN'T MISSPELL A FORMATION

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AND

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TWICE BEFORE AND AFTER.

ITS THAT LAST OUNCE OF EFFORT.

THAT WINS THE CATTLE