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Column

The Steele

boy

now

Yes, you have

to admit it

-he's indestructible

Coben was raving to me that ho had discovered a natural film

slar

been I HAVE just

talking to that rock 'n' roller that was, aludio Tommy Steele.

$18.00

Tommy is cock-a-hoop 18.00 over his new film contract 18.00 with Anglo-Amalgamated

£50,000 for his next picture, 25.00

plus a fat 15 per cent of the 35.00 box takings, and two similar

7.50 signings to follow.

This

effective u most 9.00

answer to all those who knocked 4.50 Tommy as a herc-today-gone-

It looks tomorrow 1.00 though Steele, the entertainer, He has out- 1.50 Is here to stay.

rown the teenagers.

1.50

5.00

35.00

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KOWLOON

star.

His aim

D3

counis for more than talent. It in more than

seven times as

Ls Steele's immense good fortune much. that he has both, plus the It is a long step for the capacity Lo learn, and that Bermondsey boy who went is the best possible assurance for "Rocking with the Caveman.” A good future title would be: the future.

"The Sky's the Limit,”

HAIL

A cockney Runyon!

I KNOW THIS BOY

WITH A LIVELY EYE IS GOING TO BE A SUCCESS..

by

Nancy Spain

ME and two geezers were sitting in this Kayf having a bunny about the lagging one of them did.

Or, if you prefer it, I was talking to Frank Norman and his publisher in a restaurant book Frank has written about his prison experiences.

Frank Norman is a very good- Since then Frank Norman has lcoking young man of 28, son of a barrow boy, tail, modest, with scars on his face, and scars on his knuckles, and lots of them on his heart and soul, I dare say.

Humour

up

Ho

brought bos beep

at mostly in Institutions, and least one-eighth of his life has been spant in gol. But unlike

have TERSE COMMENT on rock- most people who

KODO from jazz

or an guitarist | wrong at some time F "Most of them | other,

own through their cruelty, he is not obsessed by misfortune.

Figures tell the tale. Tommy earned 42,600 for bis Erst Alm On his second film, sceptical and no cut in the take. When

technicians

underlined Nat reluctantly the box office conceded that the darling of the Coben's confidence, Steele was wailers

than an effered £20,000 and a 10 per Eddie Condon, teenagers had engaging grin and blond thatch. cent share the second. His should be plucking chickens stupidity or other people's There was a little lively gray xt three flims will bring him uslead of guitars." matter underneath.

more

THE TOP 6

1 STUPID CUPID

CAROLINA MOON

He knew very little about +fafchaffenfuhhoch÷÷÷÷÷||||||| stagecraft or acting, but he learned 183, Tommy will carry on singing because he likes it. But in future there is not much doubt that the concert publle will SCU him less. Tommy's quote on an impending pro- vincial tour: "I need another holiday to get over that lot."

What is the secret of the Steele success? In 4 word, personality.

He is a completely down- to-earth person, as cheerful as a To the girls, cockney crickốt,

he is that nice kid next door. To the mums and dads he is precisely the same

Assurance

Tommy is frank enough about his future ambitions, He aims to become a No. 1 draw as u film star entertainer од the international level. He does not need to worry that his latest re- cordings have not topped the best-sellers, There are indica- tions that he can make it. After the very first day's filming on

Tommy the

Steele Story," Anglo-Amalgamated

ot boss Nat

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

WELL, WELL, ARE

WE GOING TO

PLAY CANASTA OR ARE WE NOT?

"POP, WHERE'S ESPANA?

WHERE'S

LATVIJA ?

WHERE'S

MOLDAVIA ?”

FAIR QUESTIONS, WHERE ARE THEY ?

"DON'T FORGET-

·ANY PLACE YOU !

GO GET ME

SOME STAMPS – DO YOU THINK YOU'LL GO TO MADAGASCAR ?

'T

You need not like his singing, but you have to like his good- natured assurance,

In show business that sort of communication personality

SWAMPEREE HIGH

2 MOVE IT

Connie Francis

(M.G.M.) (

CT Richard (Columbia) (4)

3 COME PRIMA

Marino Marini (Durlum) (10)

4 "KING CREOLE

Elvis Presley (R.C.A.) (2)

5 BIRD BOG

Everly Brothers (London) (6)

Stamp Collectors

F

IF THEY DONT ISSUE A STAMP COMMEMORATING THIS VICTORY, I'LL CHANGE MY VOTE 1

STAMP COLLECTORS ARE DEDICATED MEN

WITH STRONG LOYALTIES.

17

HELLO, OPERATOR ! THIS IS AN

EMERGENCY /

TEN

IT'S ALL IN THE

GAME

Tommy Edwards (M.G.M.) (-)

7 A CERTAIN SMILE

Johnny Mathis (Fontana) (7)

7 BORN TOO LATE

Poni-Tatia (H.M.V.) (8)

9 VOLARE A

Dean Martin (Capitol) (3)

10 MORE THAN EVER

Malcolm Vaughan (H.M.V.) (—)

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He has broad humour, a lively mind, and a bright eye for unlikely details, people, and the way they live.

His book is called BANG TO RIGHTS (Secker and Warburg, 158.). A loose translation of be this slong phrase might "captured red-handed," and it tells what goes on behind bars numbustious, uproarious, irresistible cockney stang.

had one article published in Vogue, of all magazines, two in the intellectual magazine, Encounter. He has acquired a £26 grey flannel suit from a top-class taller.

He smokes voraciously, call- Inst cigarettes "soul, Ap- parently in prison you always call cigarettes "nout," and Frank thinks it is because when you need some you tap the side of your nose.

I think those twirla, who sald "He'll be back," would be astordshed if they knew how hard Frank has worked on the

of "strait and narrow path" writing since they smeared at him as he left prison.

Sometimes he has worked 10 hours a day. Once he wrote a play in three weeks.

Original

I know that this boy is going to be n

success. This is not Because His book is about books al- prison life. Prison ways attract a great deal - of attention. As a matter of fact Frank said that he was born it is in spite of this. (I for one out of wedlock Ho said the am desperately sick of what days he

institutions spent in

"goes on Inside."} were

He "rather sheltered." said that when he emerged from his "corrective training," the "ECTCWS"

"twirls" (gaolera, so-called because they serow or twirl the keys in the lock) never expected him stay straight

or

to

"He'll be back," they said. That was 18 months ago.

By Harry Weinert

STAMPS, STAMPS, STAMPS,

AND NOT ONE IN THE HOUSE THAT CAN

BE USED ON A

LETTER {*

THE STAMP COLLECTOR THINKS A GOOD PROVIDER IS A

MAN WHO LEAVES HIS FAMILY A GOOD

COLLECTION

OF STAMPS.

No, Frank is going to be a literary success. Ho is con pletely original. He writes 10 exhilarating, a "wonderful, bouncing language-a sort of cockney Damon Runyon, told Where Runyon stories of the New York under- world, and so became world famous, I believe Frank is going to do the same for Lon- don's Soho in cockney slang and backslang, I think he going to bring "The Beggar's Opera" up to date.

Soon everyone will be speak- ing Frank Norman's slang,

The smart cet are alroady, doing

Fo.

His imitation of the police sergeant who said of a gang- ster carved up on. his territory: "What? They would como into my manoc wiv bladen!TM* was pure Dickens.

Slang

то hear him speak of "tooling some flash tearaway"# "she gave me the belt," "this geezer did a neves (pronounced nevis)" is to be translated into the seventeen in sunny and a thloves kitchen as obl served by Daniel Defoe,

Talking to Frank Norman, I never had a better time-ro- cept, of course, that I could only understand one word - In

threa

"One of tho main things about slang which 10 very much," says Frank, "Is tha bond between one person who speaks It and another. It In like a club, and if you are member, you ara one of tho- 'chaps' and if you are not, you are a-mug, but please don't get the idea that it is easy to be one of the 'chaps because tình is by no means the case.

"There are a few people who rather like the idea of using a te slong in their PODVOTES- tlon just to make it a littlo flowery, but these geczars, even if they became proficient, ara sill not accepted' by the 'chaps'; because you hava to know the whole language back- wards."

Dog

ends

Feeling very for from

one

of the chaps," I loft Frank out- sido is publisher's office, and Frank, who 16 short months ago was plecing together dog ends of snout, picked up from the floor of the wardors”' club- room dropped a whole elguratio from his mouth, as he opened, the door of my car--and he pur ht foot on it. Nonchalantly.

I do not suppose those wardors would have...bolleved in that either.

.:

*Carved up SONG EGGEET ' with TAKOFE.

She led 20.

The man was: doing. BOYUN«Year | venienos" ("zavest backwards in "weven”).

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