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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1988,-

CYRIL STAPLETON

Column

AT LAST

BRITISH

NEWCOMER

Two of the Roving Kind!

By NANCY SPAIN

SEASONAL CHEER

GREETINGS

for

TRAVELLERS are n rummy lot: particularly women travellers. And DELIGHTFUL

TRA

since women have become so hopelessly emancipated they seem to vie with one another in travelling UNcomfortably, whizzing round the world on camel-back, in open boat, or raft. Etcetera.

Very low women nowadays English language. She has benn a three-masted schooner called favour First Class Travel. described as an aristocrat" the California Two such latrepid women have umòng stylists and the quality With the California's crow travel books out this week: of her mind, too, is something (four Americans called Art, Froya Stark (still undisputed care and wonderful,

ie, Hal, and Yvor), Lella salis queen of the off), who goes by

But the thing that really from Bangkok to Penang, frons perpetually collapsing truck and astonishes me about her la her Penang, by way of some dainty on ponies....ond Leila Hadley, stamina. She was born in 1823 little tropfe islands and a four- who obstinately progresses by and was for from healthy as u ful encounter with a whale that sali boat.

young woman, lu her twenties has a horribly smelly breath, to she often had to lie in a sich Ceylon. room for months at a time, Shu has had at lenst one major operation,

NEW bouquet of exotic names has sprouted in the get-rich-quick paradise of best-selling really records.

While Britain has brought to light only two Tommy outstanding vocal personalities since Steele, in the shape of Marty Wilde and Cliff Richard, the American recording scene has been repopulated several times.

There are Dusne Eddy, Cua- with the Kingston Trio'n way Twitty, the Big Bopper, original version. In Britair Kobin Luko, Bobby Darin, Little Lennie Donegan has also put

cut on interpretation. Anthony, the Applejacks the Teddy Bears,

and

Having made the grade in the American lists it's practically a certainty in pop astrology that the stars that twinkle America will shine as brightly in the sales charts in Britain.

I am happy to report a third British contender for stardom look out for 23-year-old Rikki Price from Sunderland. He i being hotly tipped along Tin- Pan Alley.

Private disc

A few weeks ago he was b dockyard worker Then one of bis private discs

reached the office of music publisher Sid Green

Sld, the man who discovered Dickie Valentine and the Kaye Sisters, raved over the phone to Jack Baverstock, of Foutana Records, with the result that Rikki Price was rushed to Town for his first professional record- ing session.

The boy from Sunderland is up against the big guns. He had to leave his job up there to make his bid for stardom.

While he waits for the verdict of record buyers, Rikki Price is sweating it out on a building ante in the Sunderland area. bumpint commen! around in wheelbarrow.

a

And it's not so easy pushing ai wheelbarrow when you Have your fingers crossed,

of

Freya Stark has written u

magnificent book ALEXANDER'S PATH (John Marray, 395.),

It i B brilliant, inspiring account of a journey nung the toastline of Turkey that roughly follows the armies of Alexander the Great,

Now in her sixties she ex- pends her physical energy un travel and experience, When uther women of 00 are passing the ime playing a tile bridge what to wear

and wondering

with what, Freya Stark is prob ebly making plans to cross the Caucasus on a camel.

When I started this book I Not that she is not perfectly knew nothing of Alexander, feminine. She is. She has a I thought of as a sort of scien for hats. ՒՈՑ

been

whom

Napolihitler, crazy about con- known to buy alx at a time, and quest for its own sake. ness how wrong I was.

Good- thinks a lot about cluthes.

Freya, Bs she rides along. shares with her renders her very considerable passion for Alexander, And it seems he was a fascinating visionary.

Ther

He dreamed of "uniting and mixing in n grent loving cup, us " were, men's Lives, their characters,

marriages, their very habits."

Here Is the final joy. For Freya Stark, in spite of herself,

is forced to share in a Turkish Loving-cup.

BANK RECORDS are going ahead and some of the doubters: will take notice of their first rigning-Johntry Dankworth.

No matter how she may pin Dankworth. golden boy

to put up her tent in happy Kritish Jazz, Is on

tang solitude, or snuggle down in her

sleeping

the contract.

bog,

comic characters who drive her truch positively insist the partakes of Turkish hospitality.

Ranke

C'

general

*

manager, Malcolm McGrady, is in America acgotiating and may enraroa top A. and R, man to challenge)

companies in Bri- established taln.

The song they gave him was distribution of the Top Rank fle will probably arrange for Indicative of his high prospects

"Tom Dooley It has been label in America,

American sellers

big in

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"LOOK! I'VE BEEN

GOING AROUND ALL DAY WITH A MAPPY CHRISTMAS

SMILE - ITS A FINE

NOTE IF A

MAN CAN'T

REST HIS FACE IN HIS OWN

HOME !

the

CHRISTMAS IS

COMING ?

Rank mean, business.

-WAKE ME UP

WHEN ITS

ALL OVER.“

HEY! LOOK WHERE YOU'RE GOING,

EGGHEAD !"

TIME OUT.

LISTEN, BUSTER! IF I DIDAY" HAVE MY HANDS FULL I'D ...

IT TAKES TIME- HE'LL THAW OUT

AT THE OFFICE PARTY.

H

TIME TO

TAKE STOCK AND HOPE FOR ENOUGH. LOOT

TO COVER THE EXPOSED PARTS-

FROM THE ELBOWS TO THE SHOULDERS.

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There she leaves the little ship und so docs Yvor. Yvor has to Bo home to du his National Service and Leila goes to India. Everyone sniffs. emotionally Lello agrees to meet the Calf- formin at Beirut.

And in spite of the glamour and clamour of Ceylon

and

india (s maid who actually eleens Lelli toe-talls before

he allows her out in the street in sandals) Leila placa plues for the California.

and

At Beirut she awaits their coming like Sister Anne, staring from the window and cajoling the port authorities to give them

bang-up

welcome; flaga, salutes, the lat.

the magle

In her saddle bag she always bas carefully rolled into a bail, An interchangeable two-plece The she rejoins the ship and that can be adapted for lunch enta to Cyprus, Rhodes, Creto, with the consul or dinner with

and Malta, through the governor. with the top of the Mediterranean for lunch," the explains, "or But somethow everything is even the other way round." without for dinner. Or maybe changed. Instead of Yvor Übere is a waspish character called After such historie Als-com- icoric who makes fort Lella Hadley, who only Jokes, and life is not so caro- tassed aside a well-paid publi-

free and relaxed on shipbaord. city Job in New York and set off, plus her seven-year-old son Kippy, to visit Hongkong, Macao, Bangkok, and places East, and tells all about it in her travel book GIVE ME THE WORLD

(Gollancz, 215.), scams almost

conventional,

sould b

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arrives' in: New York. tunal herb ten, and eats com- "an owlish young man wearing She thinks. She rings Vic. ibunal

cucumber and stewed spectacles and a white linen Three days later, to her own communal suit,” direct descendant of the astonishment and, 'I mun_sảy, bears, and lies on mattresses in the communal king part of "The King and 1” to mine, she marries hun. Later foom.

enjoys playing the saxophone in again they have a daughter and Everyone knows all about a night club called Chez Eve; christen her Victoria California, Freya Stark's mastery of the but she also falls in love. With Isn't that nice?

Signs Of The Time

By Harry Weinert

"WHAT ARE YOU GIVING us

FOR CHRISTMAS T IS IT

GOING TO BE WORTH

OUR WHILE TO

BEHAVE FOR

TEN DAYS 7. -OR ISN'T IT?“

TIME TO GET DOWN TO BUSINESS.

COIR. 1957 BY GENERAL FEATURES

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