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RAMSDEN GREIG'S JAZZ COLUMN
I Sing Better Than I Act, Says Cleo Laine
CLE
"LEO LAINE, the 30-year-old Southall-born daughter of a Jamaican factory hand, is a cafe au lait coloratura who went down an octave or two and found jazz,
She burrowed so deeply to Monday week she starts re- the groove that in the past 12 hearsals for the play-about the norith she has headed two na-
South velourci problem in Lional pulis as the best British jazz singer of them all.
Africa.
EOKA
BOOKS by ROBERT PITMAN
Warned Her: If Attlee spoke out
'You Will Die'
By ANNE SHARPLEY BELOW THE TIDE. By Penc;
to the stalls
IT WOULD BE IN LINE
fope Tremayne. Hutchin- WITH SOME OF THESE
son. 16%.
"You wouldn't like
to
go to Cyprus with the Red Cross, would you?" What cigs could A well- brought - tp Greek speaking daughter of an English a marshal say but "yes"?
BOOK-WORLD ANTICS
IN
The book is dedicated to Mr Nehru. But who writes the fore- word? Nou Mr John. Gollan, Not the Dean of Canterbury. Not even Mr. Krishna Menon, Astoundingly, this saint's. ita
Moscow-loving of the
Mr Robeson is introduced by Sir Arthur Bryaııl, Out comes his
megaphone.....
Having once acclaimed
Prime Minister of the century;
the
Germans dbring the "It is scarcely to be wuntered of that they regard
"thirties:
N the scented stalls of a West End theatre the Sunley Baldwin as the greates fashionable first-night chatter is hushed. The having written of Hitler ana house lights are dimmed at last. In the darkness a thousand eyes watch for the curtain to rise.
But on this particular first night the curtain does not rise immediately. Instead, a solemn, red-cheeked figure pops out behind the footlights. The audience gasps. It is the figure of Earl Attlee.
The Jazz world here, which to its rhythmic chutches Clo Last May, however, Mas busom as the only girl who cuts Laine took temporary leave of really sing jazz in Britain, fears ine jazz
and fancying that Miss Laine's histrionic suc Feene
Penelope Tremayne was in herself, na straight actress,
inta went
cess might go to her head and Cyprus for a year and because the Royal Court
Bweep her "off the Jazz band-she tells her tale so calmly it is Theatre
Barry stond. production of Heckford's Flesh, to a
difficult to appreciate her amaz- Tiger. Milton. Shulman sakd she guve
I sought assurance that courage. the
not wosis
from Miss Laino herself. The lady party of Cyprus, living in a (christened Clementina Dianah) house
A mountain said: "I think I sing better than village, knowing and seeing el. I am still first and fore-death and terrorism constantly most a jazz singer."
she is one of that small, so- rowing band of philheitenes who, more than oilleialdom, musi mourn the souring of the longthia love affair between Greece and
a tempestuous intensity" to her role.
This encouraged, Mis Laine has now elected to appear in a
piece called No Love Lost. Da
FICTION SHELF
By JOHN WATERMAN
• GABRIEL COMES TO`zi
Hutchin- By Russell Braddan, Kal 154.
This is a novel at tocking psychiatric treatment of mentai palients, portraying ap- paling condition in an obser vation ward, and overwhelming. โ
the eunveying
uneasy zungestion of truth in a fletion wrapper.
Environment?
Driving round the remoter
I asked her what made a jazzBritain. singer. Was I environment?
F , оя
alone in
Marked down
now.
tares,
An impossible scene, you think? Well, of course. Ot
I
Season
the humble corporal and hote
with feelings 1:at pater who has achieved this amount to dauration having
Taracte
assessed Lord Alanbrooke. pite of the greatest strategis in history, Sir Arthur, master of the far-flung panegyric, gel
vocal technique is
Robeson's praised 100, Booms Sir Arthin,
the foreword? Why, out is barker's megaphone lot "I have known the author of penned
Paul Robeson, play for many yeurs, Earl Mountbatten, of course.
For nobility of character, soys And so season by the earl in cilpped announces
"i admite him. I have the pens of the foreword men Sir Arthur in his foreward, have grown buster. There have Robeson is comparable to r seen the play in rehearsal,
been forewords by Earl Attlee, Johnson and Sir Walter Scott, commend it.”
Lord Birkett (three, so far, this your), Sir Laurence Olivier,
Again and again polishers "Paul Robeson is probably th
greatest interpretative artist of nye dangled gilded sprigs of
before their wine, Now our time."
an amazing piece of course he has never thought of busn
What wook BIT moved to telling a theatre audience wint this they should enjoy. Nor has protest,
For this week there writing it is. No less amazing, appears a book with surely the when you consider Sir Arthur'ʼN. anyone else.
Yet is the idea really so fhr- most astonishing foreword of quelineations for the job, than i voralist Robeson wrote an Is LL Tetched?
any more all,
fot the next ronetion Brynnt book on Drilish history..
Of
She said: "Would you call working
hairdreser's
She was not only marked apprentice for seven shillings a down as an Eoka victim, but week, or t
library assin- was also aware of it. Lant,
N pawnbroker'a "We were going to shoot you feourse Clement Attlee has never valuce or as a cobbler the right a day or two ago but It's all made such an appearance, grounding for a jazz singer? Foright
Don't give Ive been all of these.
another thought," she was told, "They're bound to shoot you in "No, I think that jazz 1s a
the long run," was the view, state of mind, an understandingcheerfully expressed it seems, of of rim. Ask the necessary an Army securlly officer.
strange than a growing busi- The title PAUL HOBESON tack of inhibition in singing that "As the weeks crawled by I makes you 'bend' a note just bo-
(Dobson, 318.). The author: Miss came to enjoy Ure excitement of ness in the book-world? cause you feel it will sound bet-ftar utmost in the way in which to the business of getting Marie Seton,
Admiring Miss Seton telix people enjoy drink," she writes, celebrities to write introductions
to books.
how Robeson came to Britain A compliment
in the 'twenties 10 Bet k
The Emperor Jones,
Inn Marshall Is an accountant who is put in Ward 24, underter that way." psychiatrie observation. He goes In normal but for one unaccount- able action, and at the end of the novel is still there, a raging psychopath.
The art of Cleo Laine attract- ed members of the Moscow Arts
Theatre to one of her concerts when the Russian group was here earlier this year.
Marshall is a victim of the
"They gave me a medal," said squalld surroundings, the eloso company of mental cripples and Cleo. "I was happy that such an the psychiatrists who are allegedly unhep group like that supposed to know best but act was impressed," like 20th-century witch doctors. But for a slügle inexplicable lapse from professional standards sutelde is announced with lingering chetails in
TV bulletin as a turning point of the story--Russell Braddon conveys horrifying credibility.
This is the "exciting" side of The pens have
I refer
grown busier The beat of
So why has it best printed? Walt, perhaps a clue can be Liken from what happenea when another book--The Ginger Mon by J. P. Donlenty.was published In Britain.
The
This novel about wild doings in Dublin which arst appeared but brillant the tom-toms Parls was
remarkably Rabelaistan. Woulet She tells how the London respectable Brilish booksellers audience was driven almost to allow it on their shelves? hysteria by the beat of tom- publishers neatly answered, that toms on the slage: how Ilobeson question by geting' a venerable
Honlsed
Mayfair Irish scholar to pen on intro- hostesses when it was fright duction. fully daring and smart to have 'His name would ton
WEN
by
a sickening situation. Because he is an intelligent, compas- sionate person and one of the
Take books about flight, To could pay few in Cyrus who
be really fashionable today the fundamental compliment to an insulted people of speaking they must have an introductio their language, she does not by Lord Tedder,
As for books about adver I asked Miss Laine, who is overplay this elde.
But insight and knowledge of ture at sen, everyone knows who very hep indeed, where that got
the introductions for her. She said. "Apart from my the Cyprus situation unhappily writes medal ull I got were scores of can only do one thing. Illumia- them. If Sinbad the Sallor were Com-ate the deep and perhaps incur alive to write his memoira te letters
from British
a Negro at n-party; how Robe- munists."
able hatreds that have developed would almost certainly get a
ook up Left-wing ideas In case, however, you think in an island where it was tew lines of foreword from Earl
after talking to Ramsay Mac- that Clementina Dianah Laine assumed too easily that Greek Mountbatten..
Turk had learned to live The foreword-writem do not Donald about the Colonies; how might be too help she will point and
even have to be specialists. Robeson then went to Russia out that she has lectured to the together.
n The sharp and cured flavour Recently a book was published and gazed at, Lenin,
In awed phrases the preteu- fusillute of Contemporary Arts,
of Cyprus is in this book. And entitled Commonsense Therapy by Thought Police make the Canford Surruner School of
for Horges Injuries. It was tious minstrel's story is spelled tragically believable substanceMusic, and has sung in a Third fis sadness.
written by a scientist. But who out. for a sombre und moving novel. Programme poetry recital.
(1
Most of all, the sad inmates of 24-imagining bands of light round their chests and persecuted
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
WHEN A FEW FRIENDS DROP IN FOR A I'MINUTE AND THEN PROCEED TO RATTLE THE PICTURE WIADOW TIL ZAM., BEWARE... DON'T WORRY
ABOUT, THE
NEIGHBORS
THINKING
MURDER IS
BEING DONE
WHEN IT'S ONLY
THE TV- AO
DOUBT THEY'RE WITNESSING THE SAME MAYHEM.
(London Express, Seruica).
Careful-Neighbors Watching
|| YOU WILIÊ NEVER CONVINCE THE NEIGHBORS THAT THE WIFE IS ON A REDUCING KICK.
THONKEY CONFINE THERAL MEATURES
COR WORD NOMIS KERÉKYEO,
By Harry Weinert
WERE FOR COMFORT WHEN [WASHING THE CAR-OF COURSE
A LOT DEPENDS ON WHO DOES THE WASHING.
"YOU LEFT. YOUR KEYS. IN YOUR CAR!" SAYS THE OFFICER OF THE LAW - BUT...
WHAT WILL
THE NEIGHBORS
THINK?
-AND WHEN A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY GETS A TRAFFIC TICKET THERE'S
AC) USE ADVERTISING
THE FACT
IF YOU MUST
HAVE A
HOBBY HAVE ONE YOU
CAN KEEP
INDOORS - SUCH AS TROPICAL
FISH
OR YOGA
*RETURÀ HOME QUIETLY FROM A FISHING TRIP —
SINGING AND
WAVING THE FISH ON MIGH
IS OUT.
look better
Can It then be that the Toty Bryant is serving as a thin blus veneer over Robeson's Tecordy This week I spoke to Mr its Dobson, publisher of the Habeson book,
"Well, I suppose we could have got any of the usual names. But Sir Arthur is auch establishment man, In view of the nature of the book, we felt name would look much nts better than someone leg Bertrand Russell."
HOW TO GET AWAY. WITH MURDER...
H with
row can you get away murder? The answer is given in an amusing, informative, and highly anti-social little book called STRICTLY LEGAL, by Fenton Bresler (illus trations, David Langdon Wingate, 88. Gd.),
Lawyer Bresler explains that the secret for a successful legal murderer is to be extremely rich
or at any ralo rich enough... to be able to give away at least 10,000. With this eum behind you, you can go ahead and do your inurder.
Eventually the crime wilt ve traced to you. You will be tried. But on the final day of the trial your counsel will call a last minute surprise witness.
In return for your promine pf, say, £10,000, be announces in a clear voice that he did the crime instead,
Of course, he will be crush examined. Of course, the judge Indy suspect perjury. Ekat, Bresler tells you, your acquittal 14 assured. No British Jury will convict
when they have heard another mean a few feet from them confess to the same crime; The result--you are free. For, by British law, you cannot be tried twice for the same offence, As for your witness, ho may be sentenced to about five years for perjury; but, at capital gain of at least £2,000 a year, he may reckon it's worth I,
Can you be charged with counselling or procuring perjury? Certainly, but not 'it
smartly left You have
country. For perjury is not an extraditable offence.
tho
Breslor does not silck at murder.
There is a chapter on getting married. under 21 without parental consent. (Instructions; Morty at your parish church. I le an offence if you take a forged note of consent to a registrar, but not if you take one to the bloar,))
There is a chapter on legal theft and another – on "¦ Ingal blackmail.
My verdict: Parfeet. roadlang for the bench at Bournemouth or Frinton,
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