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THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1968. '
CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN How to live
Another Harrison without
Hits The Discs:
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INTRODUCE today a new record singer: His name: Harrison. Son of that other "singer" Rex, This one la 24-year-old Noet- Freed's last tour of Amirica Harrison and he has just made ended Ingloriously. Three of the his first E.P. records for H.MV. Ist dates were cancelled after The record company has sum upposition from city authorities, And Freed must now answer urges of inciting, a riot with his R. &. B. show in Boston in May. Fifteen people were in- jured.
erent felth in him to sign him up right away to a contract, and zo dispense with the usual form of introduction for a new singer,
and merely put on the trated jackets of the records the
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SUBWAYS ARE FOR SLEEP- ING. By Edmund G. Love. Gollancz. 151.
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is not possible), ex-
money
by George
The Secret Of The Great Explorer
claimed the New York Malcolm Thomson TN the black, cool night
Judge when he was told that even old women had been living for three montits in the rest rooms at Pennsyl- vania Station. But Mr Love was not In the least sur- prised by the news.
Two of his friends have been living in Grand Central Station off and on for 10 years. Of such friends, he writes is inform aive and diverting Little book.
sample line, "Noel Harrison." Freed was originally a dise
That is inmic Indeed-foru first effort. Harrison's recordings Jockey who did so much to pro- he mole rock 'n' Dil that ure: "San Francisco Bay Blues," "Evil Man Blues," "Wandering earned the title of the Rock
Holl Impresariu. and that old stand-by "Frankie and Johnnie."
To two guitars
He sings them to the accom- paniment of two gultorx tone his own) and a double bass.
Some of the numbers Hurrison dug up on his lours around the world. The session for the roue records lasted one afternoon.
Noel Harrison drifted into
finished singing when he Army service four years ago.
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☆ Now tactics
Mr Love met his subjects at a time when he was one of them himself. He was a tramp, a wait, a bum..
Is hard to generalize about these people of Love's.. They do not fall easily into
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the three little ships creaked onwards. The So far Henry is doing well th his historical gambling career.wind which had fol- Alta, when he tried his system lowed them across the on real-life meing it did not
unknown ocean, across work out so well.
industrious the sea of weed, still
Event more Charlie Knutsen, who for 10 years has tech a nomad living in the une not in tones when they are not in town.
the
rattled in the sails. But that was the only noise. The darkness was thick, silent.
At a critical moment in his life Routzen stumbled on mathematical truth that, if only he knew enough people in New
York, there must always be a Then suddenly at 2 am. monent when one of them was the moon glittered on some- going away. He bought a note-thing white ahead. A man book and began keeping a list of
screamed, a gun thundered. names and addresses,
-Was He A
Hero Or A Fraud?
fear that they will be squeezed entegory. Each is an individual, keeping in regular touch with mingled murmur of weep BOOKS by ROBERT PITMAN
The new
cultivating to the extravagance his own mous way of life,
autone
by
LOAK and dagger tactics are being adopted by some of
is hard work, for It means From the three ships rose d the new record companies. They
But the resulting and prayers. but by the older concerns which
about 80 homes, 1 that Knutsen, never needs to have the power to put pressure
And in the biggest ship French maritime expert, Jean "For the love of God, see that spend money on rent, on wholesalers, retailers, and, in connected with fact, anyone
What he earns is devoted to it was no bigger than & Merrien (Odhams, 258.).
noither he nor any, of his nation UNPAID BILL getting the records to the public.
Then I read CHRISTOPHER returns to these islands the grand aim and ambloit
COLUMBUS,
MARINER,
The reference can be only to Into what socialogteal pigeon which governs his lige: the music small pleasure steamer-n companies-It is
nation, since the whispered that no fewer than 10 hele, for example, would you at lessons that are going to make tall man with flushed cheeks S. 5. Morison who took a sailing the Jewisia
like Honry Shelby, him on opera stor. This is the and greying ginger, hair boat over the orginal course saine Franciscan also mentions His guitar was the passport new labels are in preparation-
his wich "to free this land that took him around the Coltare believed to be planning their graduate of the University of miracle which, after 10 years, bent down into his cabin, (Faber, Zia.).
Knutsen still belleves fa.
domination of King I consulted the biz from the cinemas, Michigant own distribution via
Finally Noel developed his style ruu- theatres, and big stores.
After some trifling argument Simpler and less dealistic is
With trembling hands he blography of Columbus (now Pharaoh (slang term for Jews. bing' elbows with the blues
about a bill, he walked out of the answer to life's problem took off his sailor's hooded out of print) by the Spanish But why should Columbus
Martha Grant has
Brains conceal the fact that he was a characters who perambulate the
his hotel one day in 1053 and has which
and B.B.C. scholar Continent-like that
jacket and began putting on man Salvador de Mada- Converso-if there were already not paid for his lodgings since. evolved. American folk-singing nomad Jack Elliott.
He is Vagrant, Observant,
the glittering uniform of a rlega.
Do many Conversos at the royal xhall be
vigilant and ingenious. Every
court? I predict that we hearing much more of Mr Hur-
second night he sleeps in the New York subway. In between, rison's on Noel.
tinent.
*Tour is off
DEATH rattle fmin rock 'n' roll. Projected tour of Alan Freed's Big Beat show in Bri- Sain has been called off.
The winnor
MY £20 prize for packing the MI British afar pop singer of tumorow goes to Mrs Maureen O'Malley, of 18, Lydeard Road, East Ham, E., who wrote:-
V
mari
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he dezes in hotel jobbles.
Henry is full of good advice on the problem of free accommoda-
"Inaudible rock 'n' rollers come line go, but Tony Hall holds the key to lasting succession, and how to gew it. with his powerfully clear personality, and good looks."
FICTION SHELF
By JOHN WATERMAN
Always carry something when sleeping in a lobby. Officials will respect a man's privacy if he has an umbrella-or-a-briot.case. In his lap. Even 50, Henry has to visit eight hotels in a day to get four hours' steep. His is a busy life.
• AFTER LONG SILENCE. By tuining and written with brittle comortable than those provided Robert Gulwillig. Gollanca, 155, ussurance.
A eaper round the mid-20th century campus with everyone
By
Van
All-night cinemas are much over-rated as sleeping places, No doubt the sents are more by the subway, but they tip back loo far to be any real use,
RACING
CHOOSEY
An Ingenious girt, she runs up bill in hotels and then, when the management proposes tu that she has no clothes either on throw her into the street, reveals her body or in her possession, Kindly accomplices have taken Martha's last garment to some unknown hide-out,
Droped in the hotel's towels she defies the management unti the climax of the drama, when Martha throws the towels off. This scene is much improved by the fact that she is a shapely young woman.
viceroy
'admirál to and
What is the evidence of these which he was now entitled.
consider the Well, Docka?
of the birth of Solemnly he took out the mystery
the Emperor of China, patchment scroll addressed to Columbus.
Imagining he had reached Asla, Don Cristobal Colon-the man we call Columbus had discovered-America-fnstead,
SO STRANGE
That journey we were all sup. posed to lenri about at school. But today, when mankind is teetering on the
Do
bleak edge of
COINCIDENCE
the calel
mast favourablo winds of all-but how did h know they were there?
Biographer Merrien,
ciling the evidence of a friend and fellow-voyager of Columbus, ex- plains that the discoverer had received Kecret information about an carlier discovery,
Some
years previously a merchant ship had been driven across the Atlantic in a storm, perhaps as far as the Bahamas, Among the few survivors was the
whom pilo1,
Columbus chanced to meet,
The man was in great poverty, and
fook distress, Columbus him into his own house, where eventually the plot died not
before he had given
Columbus a detailed chart of his course.
Because, while he was seeking At school we were taught sponsors for his voyage, à ferco Οξ anti-Semitism was that he was the son of a weaver wave from Genoa. But Columbus sweeping over Spalna wave was secretive about his birth, which swept many Conversos as sover mentioned Genca during well as unconverted Jews to the His lifetime and non-of-his-lake
Why? And writings is in Italian.
by coincidence, on 1492 the day on Madariaga explains that the August 2,
which Columbus sailed on his Columbus family were really Sponici Jews who had fled tu Erent voyage from Spain-the
At school we were taught Spanish ports were full of that as the landless days went Genoa to escape a pogrom.
pathetic, struggling families by on the outward voyage only carrying bundles of clothes and Columbus kept heart. But what belongings. For that August day of the part played by Martin- marked the culmination of Alonzo Pinzon? anti-Semitism in Spain. It was
INFLUENTIAL
novo Besides, there is the
lustead of from the screen.
court and many Columbus the getting some sleep Shelby finds
himself being enterialnedi
nci-
COMMON PEOPLE. majoring in crazy mixed-up Philip Callow. Heinemann, 158. relationships.
with The clink of lee An apprentice engineer
of ambition to become Ute In the rye, the whiplash smart Tumurka, the sound of Gogh of the Machine Shop
are continuous, leaves the provinces for Dixieland 1437.7. One character runs Codilla: artist's life in London. He has
seamy some predictable hearse (to sleep, six).
returns ventures, marries, an to hundrum respectability in Well drawn Mc Brimingham,
characters people this elrouter constant companion is killed, he progress, but its significance is marries, and the merry-go-round inadequately conveyed. ceases to turn. Highly enter-
Tom Freeman eventually be etimes the centre of a Carthyist investigation,
his
-London Express Services,
Ho prefers to seek his own entertainment -- reading the microfilms of old newspapers in the public library. He plays at the betting on the horses in ruces of one bygone day and in the next day's paper looks lo see which won.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
-AND YOU'LL NEED A
FEW BAGS OF LIME, BONE
MEAL AND A BOTTLE OF LINIMENT. FOR
YOURSELF..>
IF YOU WANT TO GET IT ON THE CHINA
··· BUT GOOD · · · ASK THEM HOW
THEY GROW DAHLIAS.
"ALL I SAID WAS
I'LL KNOCK YOUR
BLOCK OFF!'
THIS CHAP HAS
LEARNED ALREADY ·
"THAT “TWO
CAN'T LIVE, AS CHEAPLY
AS ONE.
Up
COP ris Y REKEKAL TEATURES
COMP. THE WORLO RIGHTS RESJAYED.
Then there is the mystery of Columbus and Pinzon.
EVIDENCE
To get rid of fer the manage- ment usually buys Martha a new costume. It has to be a good
space and the example of Colum- one, too, for she is chosey.
bus in bandled about once more,
Coloumbur himself, says the day by which all orthodox Compared with her, Helga is how much do you really know Madariaga, was a converted Jews had to leave the country a more orthodox operator. She about him?
Jew-a "Conversa"-as were for good,
Pinzon, a
shipowner from has three Idealistle "Dances,"
Then there is the mystery of Palos, helped Columbus and the 1 Bearly all the highest ofcials at you know about each of them-unknown to the strange controversies which are the Spanish
and the unknown
right ships before the journey other Innocents--contributes to
Spanish prieska, pilot.
began. He contributed a great the upkeep of her fat, As each paneeled with his voyage? Influential
Al school we were taught part Do you know even that he first including some bishops,
'of the capital: be in married, Heign is in no danger
bumped against America in the Years after the first voyage, that Columbus decided on bis recruited nearly all the crow. of matrimony.
when Columbus bed been route mere or less by his own He was captain of one of the What will she do when she middle of the night?
arrested and sent back to Spain unaided genius. But by what three ships; his brother was Krows old? To this anxious
didn't—until I for erielly and mismanagement instinct was he inspired koop certainly
caplain of another, ready read U
a book CHRISTO- th the lands he discovered, a bis course northwards for so question, Helga has answer: "Find older men." THER COLUMBUS—the Franciscan missionary wrote many days on his homeward
Mariner and the Man, by ■ home:-
enabled voyage? 11
-London Express Service).
Learning The Hard Way
CHILD |PSYCHOLOGY
STUDEAT
DOING-
FIELD WORK.
AS A |BABY-SITTER.
LEARNING MOT TO
MAKE CRACKS
ABOUT THE WEAKER SEX.
By Harry Weinert
"YOU BETTER
MOVE IN THE SHADE BEFORE YOU START SENDING UP SMOKE' SIGNALS !*
SOME PEOPLE LEARA THE HARD WAY THAT YOU CAN ONLY BRING SO MUCH, SUNSHINE INTO YOUR LIFE.
YOU TAKE. AN AWFUL CHANCE
ASKING YOUR HOSTESS IF THERE IS ANYTHING YOU CAN DO-
SHE MAY
"THINK
YOU.
MEAM
EVEN THE SMARTEST DOG MUST LEARN TO STEER
CLEAR OF A CAT
WITH FAMILY RESPONSIBILITIES,
him to
And the evidence of eye-wit- from Columbus nesses, apart
himself, makes it plain that Pinzon, aj times, had to put [ heart into Columbus,
When mutiny threatened Columbus on board' his ow bont Pinton halled him : with this advies:
"Sir, hang half a dozen, izbeg you, or throu them into the water; and if you dare not do it, my brothers and I will come aboard and do it.”.
ments
The eye-witness account com
blandly: да those words all took courage apulu.”.
BELITTLES
Yot Columbus, in his effied version of his own journal of the voyage, peavishly belittles Pinzon on every occasion. How did he manage to get away with it without *contradiction?. The explanation is simple: pour Pinzon, the man who could have contradicted him, died within a few weeks of the return to Spain, white Columbus WES elaying as a guest at his house,
Hiographer Merrien (why,” by the way, claims that Columbus was of French, not Jewish, descent) writes darkly: M
"Ins death was singularly opportune; for it written agreement between Pinzon and Columbus had existed, as seems probable, it was never found. Again, if the agreement w gentleman's one, a dead man cannot call for it to be fulfilled. Nor was Pinzon's log-book ever found."
THE EVIDENCE
Could Columbus have beets. responsible for Pinzon's death? Merrien, believes 50.
that
He pointe out unknown pilot had also died alone with, Columbus, And he points to a piece of evidence
bout the explorer's character, which has always crabarrassed the Columbur fonts.
Queen Isabella had promised. £200 yearly for ever to tho family of the sailor' who 'drat sighted land.
But the sailor who firat sighted the white sand in the moonlighti did not get it. Columbus explained that he, too, had juhen
■ kind of flickering light about four hours before, although ho decided not do suggest it was Turid at the limeling FeRTAMENT
Bo Columbus-in- ndikim to all the riches and prisions WIEN which he was heap took the look-out's prize as well,
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