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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 29, 1958.

THE NEW DISCS

BY NOEL GOODWIN.

HANK

CINQ'S

`A HIT!

O

ROBERT PITMAN'S BOOK PAGE

Explorer Swan brings his

UT of the green shadows of the jungle the native stepped forward to greet the Englishman. Above them in the clammy Gulana air bright-beuked birds. screeched and chattered. The native was naked, except for a strip of linen tied at his waist. But it was his greeting that startled.

Elegantly he stretched out a brown hand. In a perfect public-school drawl the bare-limbed native sald:

I say, how absolutely delightful to meet you.”

The explanation? It is given in an enthralling new book by the brilliant young travel wriler Michael Swan.

DUKE ELLINGTON: **Such Sweet Thunder" (Philips BEL. 7203: 12in. LP), ***** The Duke rides out on the crest of a superb invention a 12-part juzz

figure from the Colony's past. But his name has now been suite on Shakespeare themes

given to the larger vampire bal. and characters, dedicated to

Writes Swan: "He comes the Canadian Shakespeare | Swan tells us, that the Indlana silently to the hammock and

choosta (of South America are the most tually

the festival.

foot, necomplished mimies in the particularly the big toe, for his Henr Clark Terry's mia-world. They can trap the long operation, very gently scraping chievous muted trumpet tsaling call. They can bring fob

socuted taple by simulating its away the skin. Puck in "Up and Down," for to the surface of the dark rivers instance, and almost speak by splashing the water to sug- ing the famous line at the Fist the falling of ripe seedia. end: "Lord, what fools these mortals are."

SIMPLE TRUTH' Alto saxist Johnny Hodges THEY can even get too expert as when one Indian, furing soars high, wide and hand-

succulent jungle rodent by Rome as Cleopatra's barge using is call, was jumped on floats down the Nile in the and killed by a jaguar which sultry "Half the Fun." imagined it had found its There is Lady Macbeth

As for the Elon-voiced "with a spot of ragtime indian, the ample truth was her soul." and brilliant that he had once been on nih trombones in the sormets Englishman's expedition. He for "Hank

did not learn any English. and he could remember was the "Sister Kate,”

Clng"

ftvourite morsel.

All

The victim is not only un- aware that he is being attacked but apparently is lulled into u deeper sleep by the rentle action. If your foot is in contact with the mosquito net the bet muslin will chisel through the

and get down to work"

Another moming Swan awoke to the roar of what seemed to be a tube train passing by his hut in the jungle.

والهدا

He explains: “The rear roso ta a climax of sound and agonyult was the dawn chorus of a

red howler monkeyn, whose, rost carries a dozen mites through the forest.

"The red howler is a morose little animal. The vast volume of sound which issues from the male is caused by an enlarged

exact Intonation of what his employer sald when he met other Britons on the roule,

Swan' book is callen THE bone cavity in its throat, which MARCHES OF EL DORADO acts as a kind of megaphone."

Cape, 25.) Ils subject: Swan's own journeys deep inte

• CLEO LANE "She's The Tops" (M.G.M. C.765; 12in. LP)

Veted top female singer in n British nation-wide. poll last year. 30-year-old

Laine hows herself a considerable artist in her latest showcase early album of 12 songs.

Cleo

British Gulana-the land which

El Dorado, where,

Spanish explorers cher

REMARKABLE

SWAN saw some remarkabla animals, and come even more remarkable men,

One was the Man without a Swan met him in u bar in Georgetown, and later Swan checked his story and found it to be true,

they She started with the Johnny with gold.

thought, the rivers ran thick

Daekworth Seven seven years

Swan

not locking for Country. WAS ages, and bis terangigments on

His goal was the glant, As thee me these which suft gold. Ber best. especially, a sultry lat-topped Mount Roraima, up

Conan Doyle based "Stormy Weather," and "Taln't on which

of a land of anclert What You Do," Some others story

off by mountain tracks suffer from mashiness in reptiles cut

walls from the rest of the earth the arrangements,

-The Lost World,

• WOODY HERMAN: "The Three HerER" (Philips ABL.-

***Big-band 7123: 12in. LP), swing with style and finish from

of

FORMIDABLE

The man told him that he was the natural son of a British prer. His mother had been packed DI to Paris for his birth, By French low. he thus breame a citizen of France.

The peer's son was educated

but later he went DOYLE'S reptiles were fiction. in Britain,

But Swan met some formid- to France again, got into money the three post-war bands

able creatures too. One morning, troubles, took up petty stealing Woody Herman, whore group paddling up river, he noticed as a career, and was finally sent have bred more top modernthal an Indian who had been to Devil's Island. solo jazzınen than any other, sleeping near him the night

Four of the 12 numbers here are 1946-0' recordings featuring drummer Dave Tough.

before had a deep wound in his -JUST DRIFTED foot, from which blood flowed freely.

fantastic world

to the fireside

'He imitated the call too well

.. he was leaped on and killed by a jaguar

Gulona, prospecting for gold came to Gulana gold-prospect- The end of the Melville bars. eadging rum in the Georgetown ing, and

Не was found almost story is unexpected too. dying of fever by Indians of the settled his sons and daughters;

who Who

Wapishana tribe,

cured he left his agoing Indian wives he? Swan gives him. is

on his extensive lands. He re these hints: his father was o

turned to Scotland, married in created peer; his half-brother Melville,

the kirk, and at the kirk in 1930 has inherited the title; and in the savannah lands, repaid he was finally buried. imiting the field still more the Wapishanas, He taught narrowly, Swan adds this them cattle-raising. He became comment "I looked into his their face and could recognise distinctly the inherited features of the great man whose son ke claimed to be."

Then there tecre the Melvilles,

the Arst

Briton

But even more fascinating are the natives Swan met →→ the

chief. He took Wapishung wife, Mamal Mary, Caribs, the Warraus, by whom he had five children-

and then an additional wife who produced five more Melvilles.

Swan writes: "In 1024 ho -organised the aboriginal section Wherever Swan went in the of the British Gulana Pavilion savannah country in deepest at the Wembley Exhibition, and Three came from the "Four

Gulona he found that

those who, on the opening day, vielt AFTER are the big Brothers band of 1947, which

saw the big, distinguished non "Him sure has had a hud Stan Getz and Zoot Sims, from Dr Blair," sald one of the. He was allowed to stay, but he half-Indion, half-Scottish, called In the morning coat. and silk

are man's companions. and the remaining Alve

Dr Blair was not allowed a passport back Melville.

hat did not suspect that he was doctor to Britain. old-fashioned

with played by the "Third Herd" of wrs an

When Swan

Endian chief

two met The original Melville was the an 1954.

with a zest for blood-letting-a him he was drifting about son of a Scottish minister, He squnws:"

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

COMPANY

COMING

例

LOGISTICS.

THE

PROBLEM

IS WHETHER

TO ISSUE THE

FANCY NAPKINS

AND TOWELS

FOR WIPING OFF

THEIR LIPSTICK,

OR TO GIVE

THEA

PAPER ONES.

"

· Company Coming

"NOW DON'T MAKE THOSE COCKTAILS TOO STRONG – REMEMBER THE LAST TIME THEY WERE HERE? AND KEEP AWAY FROM THE

CANAPÉS – WHERE'S

THE. PICKLE FORK ? “

WHEN THE

MISSUS STARTS

MAKING

LIKE A COMMANDO,

YOU CAN

BE SURE

THAT

· COMPANY

IS COMING.

Cannia

15

the man

REMEMBER

?

By Harry Weinert

ED LIKES HIS MEAT WELL DONE, LIZ LIKES HERS RARE, RAW IN FACT —— DON'T GIVE PEN ANY

FAT- AND DON'T FORGET THE GRAVY

AND DONT TALK- JUST CARVE · ·

DETAILED CARVING-

ORDERS.

-AND NONE OF,

·YOUR FAMOUS STORIES -I WAS MORTIFIED ·

THE LAST \TIME ! »

Swin Lells A Warrau legend-how they once lived in the skies and had only birds to hunt, Then ons day the greatest Warran hunter wetit to pick up a bird"he" had shot He found a bola In the clouds and, looking through,. Baw animals moving on the plain below.

Swan writes: "He madoa Tape, lowered himself to the Plains, shot a deer and found its flest good to eat. He went back to the skies and told the rest of the tribe, and all decided to vist carth with him.

"The last to leave was, a fat woman whose body stuck in the hole, where she remained, making it impossible for the tribe

to return home agala. This unfortunate woman's name was Okonakura, NOW the Warrau name for the sur."

SUCCESS, YET.... WHAT of Michael. Swan hin

belt? He began his career

in books as a critic and essayist.. Then he went to Mexico, and wrote B fine book called Temples of the. Sun and Moon, Now comes his magnificent book on Guiana. It is his high moment of success.

In his carly thirties Swazi has made himself into easily the foremost travel writer of our age.

Yet I must add another fact, At a time when thousands are enjoying warmth and adventure through his genius young Michael Swan himself is in a London hospital ward.

He has been gravely ill. He can barely read, he must still talk by nods,

It Is End footnote to such

splendid book of action.

--AND DONT START ANY "ARGUMENTS!. THEY HAVE

A RIGHT

TO THEIR

OPINIONS /

MORE ORDERS.

3-16

COMA, 191 BY SHIRAL PEATUKIE

COMA, THE WORLD LIMITE RESEÁTIA,

-GO AND SHAVE, THEY'LL BE HERE. IN HALF AN HOUR-

AND PUT ON A TIE!“

WHERE ARE YOU GOING T`

"MUTINY.

"OUT

TO THE GARAGE!

FICTION SHELF

A FERSON OF DISORES TION. By Allen'Aoland. Collins. 13s. Cd, Slow-moving- - novel about Louise Gruneval and her two sisters, one of whom is be- kayed during German occupa- tion of Belgium Was Henri van Curingam the traitor? The ques len exercises Louiso when she Ands him a respected neighbour of her fiance's family In Scot- land. Well-written but lacking In power to interest,"

• GREEK FIRE By Winston Graham. Hodder and Klaughton, 12. Ca Exciting sophisticated thriller with political " - back- ground in present-day "Greece. Murder with a knife, old bronze, Infald, and by running-down, Plenty of escapes, disguises, searches, chases; all in aid of a, Communist coup, Good churns- ters excellent dialogue.,.

IVAN YATES -(London, Express Bervice);

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