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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1959.

This pianist never

never really

a note-but I'm

WORLD IN A JUG, by Roland Gant (Cape, 181.)

NEXT time you go to a night club or watch u

really good band, take a look at the pianist. In his loose, full-square seat before the keyboard, his absorbed eyes, you may detect his degree of dedication to a popular entertainment that is between an instinct, an art, and an obsession.

In the days of racuon coats,

I don't care, This pioclst Stutz automobiles, and exials for me. sponkennies Larry Allen wus a medical student at the Univer

14

ty of Minola.

He took

hear

WIDOW

trip to Chicago IN PURSUIT

Betale Smith sing

"Downbear.c Blues" at the Paradise en Thirty-alth and Calumet....

Got the world in a jig,

The stopper's in my hand,

"Man, I was lost tu mediclie." probably gut lost earlier, in childhood, hy New Orleans when he began to sing the blues and to make a plano mix the wild throbbings el'Africa with the melody of Europe.

He played and sang profes

the Prohibition ja ronally

of henky unks

Chicago and Kaycee (Kansas City), and rose in the work of jazz V11 he knew Whiteman, Armstredig. Crosby, Bix Beiderbecke He was in- ng in Hollywood while While made "The King of Jazz" and Edward G. Rebinach made *Lantle Caer."

Intoxuted by jazz and by the "medicin:" he absorbed to keep hugh, whisky, gin, and mari- Juann then called "ten," "muggles," "vipers" he allowed his marriage with a Hollywood actress to dissolve,

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EXILES IN PARADISE, by Hary Selon (utchin- san, 130. 6d.)

CAR ferry arrives at Boulogne in the neonday hush. TIT the British

Into France cars roli

released schoolboja #chicol."

ke

from

In co Riley an attractive, lone widow, Cassandra Hamil ton, tours south and info Italy to hot for the Chadwickes, nephew and ount. A delicate mission.

Young Chadwicke, very wid, hud an affair with the wite of a prospective Lord Mayor of Landia, and when he skipped away an earring and a citatione necklace were missed.

The deserted lady has lent Casandra the Riley and urged her to clear the inalter up with before Scotland Chadwicke Yard uncovers the senndel.

Cusandra has the sense lɔ enjoy her motoring nbrond, and the sunlit, food-lit, pleasure of it is conveyed with great skill. She Ands the Chadwickes. The enormous aunt, puming spleen, loathes her; the outrageous nephew determines to captivate -

ke rocketed, coining money and splashing it with the carelessness that the ordinary her. Breadwinner And

either In the noble yet human splendid er stupid, but never losing his friends, ul fellow musicians.

He played Europe before the war, breathing the Gauloise. cented air of Paris so fervently that he returned to work there not long ago.

His private life, Interesting, generous, sometimes pugnacious, always cok second place su long as he played good plano und sang O.K."

We leave him recovered in London from near-fatal illness produced by hard living. He will play good piano he drops.

ellings of Florence, Rome, and the Alps the rake and the delightful Englishwoman Cross raplers and fall in love

This is a gay, clever, slight pleasant English novel, very cud easy to read.

IMMORTAL SARAH

SARAH BERNHARDT. Joanna Richardson (Max Reinhardt 21.).

by

played AND HERE'S

intoxicated

One Add to these qualities much distinguished and wild. determination that before her cannot help thinking that she death in the 1920's she would would succeed today as she did have herself carried on stage then, End, brandile, her beauty gone,

bring French audiences to tears. DRAGNET'S

In love with love, she had Levers by the score, among them princes. She know men's sleges and their devices.

Pierre Loti had himself de-

In his gift, a fine Perslan rug. ivered to her in Paris rolled up who sees, Yet the only man according to Miss Richardson, to have held her affections was her son Muurice, whose profligale father had been (when she was 20) the Prince de Ligne

AUTHOR GANT "TEA' AND GOOD PIANO

When she rented 77, Chester Square, then na today a demure address in Belgravia, on her

visit, she first London

livel happily with seven chamėleons, a wolfhound, three other dugs, a cheetah, Bizibouzou the parrot, and Darwin the monkey.

On a subsequent visit she rented a villa in St John's Wood where she kept live anakes decorated with jewelled rings and chaire.

Broomstick

It is in her prime that she should be remembered. Then, when women were plump, Sarnti VAN HARD, was slight as a Toledo blade. Dutch Jewess, Paris' So slight that they said she slid

Waz paradise.

16 through raindrops without

getting man, waiting by the theatre. zid, "Here comes the witch,“ his componion answered, "I see only the broomstick."

All our memories tle in with JUDITH turus, and for that reason this booic, fuelual

accurate, is bird of And nostalgie and appealing. seems to bo rather man fiction.

It

dutcblography

When I telephoned Roland Gant, who is English and works for a Londen publishing house, by insisted that his sager- pianist W19 an Langnary character,

when, in 1864, she gave birth to a daughter whom she named Sarah. The father was Edouard Bernhardi, n lawyer of Le Havre.

wet.

And when one

From this unlikely beginning a Her long, synoitive face was as sickly and unwanted child de- striking as the voice whosu veloped talents, looks, and per- micrest whisper would draw

nality that made her, through the very souls from rowdies in the theaire, a queen on cardi, the pit. She wig brilliant,

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KINGDOM

Jock THE BADGE, by Webb (W, It. Allen, 181.)

and lock down from Log Angeles's observation "lower you

IF you ride the elevator

by · GEORGE MILLAR

stand above 404 square miles of puckered landscape unduly wempt'ng to criminals,

To the north-west Hollywood restics ngainst tho Spola Monica mountains, ceth are the Sierra Madres, west Venico. and the Pacific. Bouth "tho bigast man-made port in the world," and cast and south-east the Industrial city.

crea of riches defended, according to Mr Woby, by an unusually eveloped. fael-rolling and hard-uniting police force, has to br.

It

Those who come seeking easy end rich employment turn often to crime, and there are always “strong-änn mea prowling for furs and jewels. There in the nest of hemosexuats, which live under constant threat of murder, shakedown, and black- mail,"

Vice queen

ANOTHER DAVIS TO SHOUT ABOUT

By NOEL GOODWIN

SKED to name the American jazzman I would most like to welcome to Britain, who has not already been my vote would go to Miles Davis.

For 10 years the Illinois-born trumpeter, 36 'next month, has been a major influence in modern jazz development.

Two new discs of his thot I have just heard are eloquent (Fontana evidence of his continuing brilliance: "Milestones" TFL5035) and "Relaxin'" (Esquire 32-008), both 13in. LP's.

The six numbers of "Milestones," recorded early Inst year with allo-saxist "Cannonball" Adderley us guest artist with the Davis Quintet, are the best value.

They projcet the flair for Webster's smooth, silky sax,

understatement, the hugging each melody, is a per

and feet foll to Trium's glittering,

Police Department. He did it eloquent

by producing the top American melodie imagination

TV series, "Dragnet and him-tyrical style characterisile of urnate planisim, lightly swinging self taking the part of. Sergeant Davis at his best, backed by on the rhythm of bass and Jov. "All we want is the facts, fine teamwork. ma'am," Friday.

A QUICK FLIP

drums,

*Relaxin' BD happy-go- Lucky affair of six other num-

JIAL McKUBICK:

(Esquire

!"Tripl

32-073;

but

the

bera dating from 1958-less Exposure"

LP). Easygoing less well 121a. rewarding because shaped, but not to be ignored no Armly swinging, jazz

specimen of Davis's creative modern manner from a quintet lcd by 33-year-old Hat Prowess.

McKusick, featured successive-

BEDS IN THE EAST, NY ART TATUM-BEN

Brenda Allen, the vicu queen, commanded 114 "pleasure girls" in Hollywood, She was arrested 20 times before the police could Anthony Burgess (ifelneman, WEBSTER: Quartet (Columbia- ly on alto and tenor saxophone

and clarinet. "make one stick.

158.). A really funny novel Cter 33CK.10137: 12in. L'). The story of the book is the about Englishmen.. Tams, Hall

а doxen

lunes "pop"

No starting ideas to pin down Police Department, but many Chinese, ond others in Malaya. transformed into something the ears, but softly driving crimes are covered. Including Intriguingly well written, worth while by the combined treatment of six numbers. the terrible and unsolved "Black THE PRISONER AT JALA, Krtistry of Tatum, the blind Dahlia" sex murder, and the by Gerard Bell (Hutchinson,

pianist who died in 1956,

TAL FARLOW: Guitar Rotos bombing of the Club Mecca 16.). A small British nction

330X10132: An (Columbia. Clef tenor-soxist Ben Webster, when aix Innocents were killed involving an Infantry brizade in

excellent choice for relaxed, 12in. LP), Since hearing and more injured while the Juke the Aden ures. A well told and leisurely listening that maken Charlle Byrd with the Woody box played.

Exciting story that sticks

no demands on the imagina- 11seman herd in Britain, some innocent and Jack Webb is an

there when ethics

Hon 'but provides losting re-thinking boul present-lug man who has made a million Involved, All-male cast,

pleasure.

jazz guitarists is overdue. dollars out of the Los Angeles

-(London Expren Series).

JACKYS DIARY

弟弟

JACKY MENDELSOHN AGE 3/21⁄2

here

ars

To Day I'm Sick In Bed because Yester pay went out in the Rain

and

got water in my shoes & now! it's in My nose guess that's

ON

COUNT OF Sleep laying down

The 1st thing a Dr. does) is to feel Your Purse, So he can tell how sick you

This Morning The Doctor Came to Ex-Salmon Me Me Must of been go fing on a trip cause he had His Soot-case Areo··

With HIM

*Which is

Short for DR

HELL

WELL

Hmm?

After that He sticks a glass Also it's got Numbers onit Stick in Your mouth to Taker which tells how many Germs the Temperture of your Are inside of You Healthy Germs Only You Must NJ People have leat it.

et 98.6

Gor A Hundred & one.

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SCORE

Then he Listens inside of Your Chest With A TELESCOPE so he can Hear if theress ANY Germs in there.

Not Suspenders But A Telescope

The reason you can't see Germs is Be Cause they're smaller then the Naked

Eye

71Nyer

GERMS

Even

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When The Dr. finished Looking he wrote a

Letter to the MAN in the Drug Store ONLY He did it Mailit, BUT Told Mommy to del iver it instead. What A cheap-skate

ess he

Stupied so hard To Be A Dr. That he never Had tine 70 80 to School Because he can

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THE DR, Says I have to

stay in Bed au Day To. ADD VICE FOR Morrows Som domgCHILDREN

all my running around Today

Germs are so tiny that 50,000 of them can fit On the Head of a Pin.

Which is why You Should'nt Put Pins in your mouthe 4-5 Your Friend, JACKY