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CYRIL STAPLETON'S COLUMN The Hero Who
Turned
The Cha-cha Bank Thief
She Is Back!
S-W-I-N-G-I-N-G`UP
ON ME-THIS FLOUNCY BOUNCY BEAT AGAIN!
SOMETHING seems to have slipped in Tin Pan
Alley's fortune-telling department.
The prophecies have been churned out -- Calypso would sweep the world, Rock-a-Billy would be a smash, and Kwela would get the record buyers in a frenzy.
And while the false-alarm predictions came thick and fast, Cha-cha sneaked up on
us.
It caught me on the hop -literally.
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Last week I took my band
In Britain, Ted Heatha has recorded "Cha-Cha ready Baby." The Rod Miller and Ken Mackintosh bands, in the panic, both recorded different numbers bearing the same title, "Muchacha."
"Choo, Choo,
The Southlanders vớcal group up to the Midlands for some have pealed the heights of dance dates, only
be alliteration with to
Cha-cha-cha?" floored by Cha-cha I just didn't have enough of them to meet the demand.
Here is how it went.
Magic tag
We played one Cha-cha number. Reaction: wild enthusiasm. Everybody seemed to get up and dance. They did it which obvious enjoyment. They yelled for
more.
have
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3
British bandleader Johnny Gregory adopted the ullus of 7 Chaquito to record his own cproposition. "Chaquito." 131 Cha-cha must
been convincing. South American publishers have paid out heavily 8 în doilers to acquire the song.
The при who started the snowball Wis New Cha-cha
Perez York's King of Mambo, Frado. His "Patricia” topped the record Hit Parade weeks ago and still lingers in the cliarts.
What is
that amazing la Cha-cha is hardly new. The
TOP TEN
We played all the Chu- Stateside smart set got on to chas we knew and still they the Latin-American Cha-cha 10 yelled for more. We played beat three or four years ago repeats and they didn't com- while our debs were airting with
rock 'n' roll. plain. All they wanted was cha-cha-cha.
For once, the record com- painies seem to be a step behind the public. But they are dash- ing bround trying to catch up. In the Stated, the misgle tag is
STUPID CUPID CAROLINA MOON
Connie Franola (M.G.M,} (1)
KING CREOLE
Elvis Presley (R.C.A.) (4)
VOLARE
Dean Martin. (Capitol) (2)
MOVE IT
Cut Richard (Columbia) (5)
Ponti Taila
BORN TOO LATE
(M.M.V:) (7)
BIRD GOD
Everly Brothers (London) (8)
A CERTAIN SMILE
Johnny Marthis (Fontana) (10)
WHEN
Kalin Twilig
(Brunswick) (3)
MAD PASSIONATE LOVE
Bernard Bressław (H.M.Y.) (8)
COME PRIMA
Marino Marink (Durlum) (-)
FICTION SHELF BY RUDOLF
KLEIN
Marshal Petain shamed France-and murdered 50,000 of his countrymen
by PAUL JOHNSON
THE VICHY REGIME. By Robert Aron, Putnam. 423. FEW episodes in French history have been so soaringly tragic as the five years of the Vichy, Regime.
Between 1940 and 1944 nearly 50,000 patriotic Frenchmen were put to death by the Vichy police or handed over to German firing squads and gas
ovens.
At the Liberation, 10,000 Vichy from the Nazis, finally French collaburators were exteated by politicians who flad supported the the triumphant Resistance--most war.
of them without trial.
This terrorism and counter- terrorism have loft deep scars. Even today, there are Lew
MILITIA
militia,
Frenchmen who chn discuss Gradually, Vichy adopted the Vichy objectively, can distinguish Nazl techniques. A between the men of Vichy who modelled on the Gestapo, was deliberately sold France to the formed and was soon operating Nazis, and those the great torture chambers against oppo- majority-who acted in what nents of the regime.
they believed to be the best in- terests of their country,
Petal and his Ministers help recrulling campaigns to unlist
It is therefore all the more Franch workamen for the Ger remarkable that the historian man- labour camps. Where Robert Aron, in this vast and persuasion falled, force was used. sombre volume, should have pro-
duced
COLLAPSE
As Germany's hopes of victory full-length study of
Jins Vichy which
met with faded, the decent elements In general approval in France. At the regime resigned or were Petain stayed on, Inst available In England it will arresteď, remain the definitive works for too vain to admit that things would not be worse if he left. many years to come.
The plour upholder of the Chris- tlan family virtues held his shrinking court in the midst, of a gang of drunlay degenerates, who indulged in nightly orgies, I read It with fascinated
One of the last nets of his horror, for it portrays the slow government was to hold up the moral collapse of men who, branch of the Bank of France having once surrendered a basic in Belfort and extract, at principle, were unable to pre machine-gun polot, £6 milión
nt themselves from sliding from its vaults.
12
er into the abyss of bar-
From a Marshal of France to
a bank-rabber. But Pelain never
tain: signed the atmistice in 1940 and came to terms with the cms to have grasped his slow Nazis because he wanted, at all declension: right up to his death costs, to prevent the "Poland-rison, he maintained he had
acted for the best, zation of France-the complete destruction. of
The French his country*@
nation scerns administration atul national equally purblind. The greatest being crammed into all sorts of NEVER COME MORNING. ing their savage, hopeless world character and its replacement dingle lesson of Vichy is that It la dangerous to entrust supreme unlikely titles. The Tommy By Nelson Algren. Spearman. of pimps, crooks and tartz is by the rule of Gauleiters. Dorsey band's "Tea For Two 18s. Chicago's Folish slums aro Bonifacy, the crippled barber
But it he is elderly and vain, Cho-Cha" is right up in the Hit the setting
Hitler's demands. First for the tragedy of and brothel-owner. A success before top. Petala gave way power to a general-cspecially if Parade There are "Trumpet "Lefty” Bicek, boxer and hood- ful safari Into one of America's he agreed to hand over foreign is a leason the French have not Cha-cha," Willle Doca The lum, and Steff, whose dream of unexplored jungleà,
Jews in France, then French yet learned. Cha-cha?" and "Hot Cha-Cha," [ leve ends in betrayal. Dominat- -(London Express Service), Jows,' Next camé Gorman exiles
~(London Express Service),
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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By Harry Weinert
WALKING RESEARCH UBRARY.
HOW YA DOIN'?
"HOW YA
DOIN'?* www
I HAD A DREAM LAST NIGHT 'ABOUT A
PINK MIAK
COAT AND
THERE'S A HORSE IN THE NEXT RACE MAMED ****
YOU KNOW,
I HAVE A
·RUNCH ··
HAY HAY
2.
PRE OFF!
AGAIN.
•The two faces of a viscount
XAMINE this framework for
EXAM
a novel: 'An officer who once received a, hend wound in desert warfare is working, for British Intelligence in Cairo.
Suddenly he begins to have blackouts. One afternoon he. walks into his hotel room for a siesta and finds a bundle of greasy one-pound Egyptian notes in an envelopa addressed to him. He enanot guess who sent them.
Sometime later he has à blackout as he sits on a hotel terrace. He wakes to find him- self with a young Arab girl in a squalid bedroom in a house of particularly -reputo.
Eventually he finds that ho has split into two perconalliles, He concludes
that a
Two persons lived in mij body-two so alike casual observer could not talk the difference, for all that two distinct people, each with his own thoughts, tastes and prejudiccs, his own vices» •»” \ A hackneyed theme, you say? Well, of course, it has cropped up in action time and again. Yet in an exciting new book it ap-
with pears
extraordinary realiem and frostiness,
The book is THE MAN WITIL TWO SHADOWS (Longmans, 12. Gd.), by Robin Maugham. who recently inherited the uitfu of viscount and lo also tho nephew of Somerset Maugham,
Why Is his novel so succosa- ful? I called on this literary vis- count at his beautiful home (converted from a slum House) at the World's End in Chelsea.
He told me; "The whole thing has happened to me, When read a classic book `about dlaż sociation of 'personality, 1 red- ifted it was my case exęćtly. The Three Faces of Eve is really nothing compared with it."
Maugharn talked about the head wound he had recolved in the degări, about his own Intelligence work for such nien as General Glubli,, Then, he talked about his blackouts.
Bald Viscount Maughamt “Oh, how I remember waking
In that dreadful squalid" bedroom?"
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