THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1958.-`
PICTURE BY VICTOR BLACKMAN
Bygraves in the Bowler Bracket
THE TIE ISN'T QUITE PUKKA, BUT THE MONEY CERTAINLY IS
Stockbrokar Tudor house, and borrowed bowler-Bygraves stops out
"Well, I'm no Irving Berlin," sold 500,400 copies in Britain I HAVE been taking mused optimist Max, "but I alone,
a look at the empire night as well take a crack at In America it did not do 30 they call Max Bygraves. this composing lark."
It is a fantastic land of smiles ruled by grinning Emperor Max.
Amusien Midna, if ever. I have seen one. Nowinys, if he zo much as blinks his bank ac- count grows,
Underneath at homely coun- tenoner is one of the shrewdest brains in the musle business.
Take his latest enterprise-the film "A Cry from the Streets," starring M. Bygraves. It is pack- ing them indo'ng the best business since "Dunkirk" on re- lease.
All of this makes Mr Bygraves positively gleeful. He gets 10 per vent of the takings. That is not all. The producers wasted a song from Max. Four famous Jong- writern submitted efforts. They were turned down.
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well. A cute young cyelul by tho name of Eydie Gorme nipped In smartly with fier
In England the. Don Martin version (in English) is tops. Now "Volare la legendarynk hil to measure all new hits 'by,
Pop to the pin-ups. With the TV pank-on film stars are costing a waiful eye at the
CYRIL STAPLETON
her emotion in meaty melo- Do not
Imaging the record arama on the legitimate slage companies prefer it that way, Here is an odd thought. The One disc inevitably affect the naugh despisect singers scom lo sales of the other. make a better job of the switch of occupations than the actors.
quick fame and rich dividends of The Dilemma
recording.
Brige Of Success
Marilyn Monroe, Bardot, Debble Keynolds, Janrtle Scolt, and Bukan
Taylor
Hayward hove already had their There is only one trend I seo fling. Now Ann Sothern has in the record charts. To be suc- recorded "Katie" for the cessful you must now have two American Orbit label, and Liz diacs in the Best Sellers at the will sing it her next came time. Presley has done it. the song. The Gorme
record speakers to get the full 3-D movie, "Busman's Holiday." Connie Francis and Dean Martin was paying him off a 50 per cent effect.
have both brought off the trick. roynity anyway. And Max also
i is becoming common. had his composer's cut.
could be an embarra Add it up and you sea that ment to anyone giving a party, Imagine a solid knot of guests other on the hugging each
inove out carpet, afraid to
help themselves to orbit and
em-
even while he sleeps bis pire is coining money for him, And the future for Britain's golden hay of song looks even
more lucrative.
ile opens at the London Pal- laciom next Aprit as the star in u new revue. After that, he is due to make a new film. Then he steps into another starring rolu us The Music Man" in a West End stage play. How apt. He the Muste Man with golden uvertones.
RANK RECORDS have struck a sang. The original
This
drinks.
Not to be outdone, Errol Flynn is to cut an LP., but the music, I gather, will be purely incidental, It is called "Bawdy Tales of the South Pacific.” Ap- released utpropriately, it will be
on Epic.
It would not suit most of my record-playing friends, who love to perambulate the room extol- ling the merits of their choices.
All we can hope for is that the record boffins will eventual- system that dous ly produce' a hot turn a record fan into- chair-bound fanatic.
This Zip
plan of marketing the discs To Fortune
in cinemas and dance halls
the
RK wrong.
has had to be abandoned. Instead of launching
Domenico Modugno is now label this month, Ranks may monarch of the Stateside
D'urude--he can do no have to do a deal with one All because of his "Volare," the of the major record com- disc companies are grabbing panfes manufacturing wildly at everything he does. and distributing facilities.
for
3D-Don't
Her version and clicked the mujor Dare Disturb
So he handed in an entfled "You've Gotta Have Fales.
Didn't let on that he Rain,"
Friends in the business cluck- wrote It. Just went ahead, re- ed sympathy to Max. He grinned corded it, and jumped straight philosophically. He could afford into the Hit Parade money again. '10.)]
Then look at bis "You Need As director of the Lake View Hands." To date, the disc has Music Company he published
LIX TAYLOR
NOW BURSTING INTO SONG
To make the whole situation completely crazy, vocalists are ali affileted Crosby and the bug One firm has put out a record
success that he made four years 28% Presley, Publishers have snapped up two' new Modugno songs, Lazarella"
to
inter.
Here is why: While a hit, re-' cord in making hay over here, the follow-up is already leaping ahead in the U.S. charts.
This poses an awful dilemma for the disc promoter, If ha holds the new record in reserva until the first loses its sales impact, a rival concern is cor- tain to rush out the same song by another artist and reap the benefits.
So the poor old record com- ponies are forced to make their releases prematurely. It is tough fortune theso making a disc days!
The Ups
The
ANDA Downs
#YUFIO QUPID (1)
Denne Pranela (M Q-M),
VOLARE (2)
2
3
Dean Martin (Dublin),
PAYRA (1)
WHEN IT
Kuh, Twina Elrundwich)
EXTURN TO ME 443 Bean Marie Spaltet).
Praky Les CURPITSİ),
POON LITTLE FOOL (5)
Ricky Heller (Lengen),
MAD PASSIONATE LOVE (11)
with acting fever Sinatra incubated and the more recent enjoyed by Messrs. Steele, and Vaughan
Bernard law (1.M.V.).
RD DOD 12
8
Erly Scribers (Londan),
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Marty Wilde (BYRDOM),
FIGURES
INDICATE LAST
exactly discouraged has not Anyone. We have seen, Jill Day, and "Muselto.”.
Dennis Lolle, and Terry Dine. The whole 200m tutional fame and fortune begati That iconnge gloomster. unexpectedly when Modugno's Marty Wilde, la scheduled, to
"Volare," The trouble with the new composition.
was face the cameras next. Janie Stereophonle records is that they entered in the San Remo Song Marden, wl 5 once sang with my
now graces put the listener on the spot. He Festival. He sings it, too--and Show Band, has to position himself strate- his record in Itallan has swept stage at the Garrick Theatre.
between Lwo clyally
loud- ahead of everything in Ameries. Jazz singer Cleo Laine projects
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
the
SPLISH EPZABIJ (3) Charlie Brake (Perloon().
ENDLESS SLEEK (1)
WEEK'R
IN BRACHETS RATINGE PUBLISHED IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE NEW MUSICAL' EXPRESS.
Walking The Dog
IT'S A PROBLEM HOW
TO LET IT GET EXERCISE
WITHOUT GETTING ITS
FEET WET,
By Harry Weinert
THE POOCH AND ITS MISTRESS WHO THINK THAT A WALK FROM THE FRONT, DOOR TO THE CAR
IS SUFFICIENT.
Pride Pays The Price
By RICHARD LISTER.
JEPHTHAH AND HIS DAU- GHTER. By Lion Feucht- wanger. Hutchinson. 161.
MOST of us remember
Jephthah vaguely from our Bibles. He was one of the Judges of Israel who in the middle of a bactle that was going against him swore a mighty oath that, if Jehovah would grant him the victory, he would sacri- ficg the first person who came rumming out to greet him from his home.
And that person W23 his beloved daughter. And sacrificed her.
he
The story, rooted in a primi- tive people ruled by violent Rich and aayuge gods, the author of Jew Russ lifts out
of
biblical context, and tries to
bring alive for us today.
PROUD MAN
A
He shows us Jephthali as proud man with a sense of injury. the favourite bitt illeglilinate son of the warrior Judge Gilead.
When the tribe of Gilead ra threatened by its neighbours, his half-brothers beg him to save them, And it is in those wars that he wears the oath which Is the climax of the story.
Mr Feuchtwanger goes some way towarda re-creating this past for us. What is missing is the raw rampaze of life itself, that can fear people in pieces, an Jephthah must have been fora when Jehovah accepted the cruel barguin, "
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(London Expetes - Service).
TWO-SPEED DOG
SLOW AND STOP. ·
SOMETIMES IT'S THE OWNER WHO GETS MOST
OF THE EXERCISE.
IF IT REFUSES TO TAKE EXERCISE IT CAN BE SKIDDED — IT WILL LEARN.
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO SCOLD
IT FOR FIGHTING — BUT HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT
AWFUL NAME THE OTHER DOG CALLED
17 ?
COPA ME SY EDERAL FEATURES
CORS, THE WORLD ROUHEJ MASARYKEN
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THEN THERE'S THE DOG THAT LIKES TO TAKE ITS EXERCISE, IN THE NEIGHBOR'S GARDEN.
MAN'S BEST FRIEAD
IF IT WASN'T FOR WALKING THE DOG SOME FELLOWS WOULD NEVER : GET A CHANCE TO DROP IN SOME PLACE
FOR A
·SÄIFTER.
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