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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1959.

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JAK AT THE BIRD SHOW

DADDY-O SHOCKS

LOUIS ARMSTRONG

Style is vulgar, way Reda

RUSSIA

BUT THE “SUPERB"

BENNY GOODMAN

IS KHOLODNI (THAT

MEANS REAL COOL)

Moscow.

DIG this, you cool cats. The Russians have labelled "Daddy-0" Louis Armstrong, as uncultured—and to be that in Russia is to be as square as a sugar cube. The man who objects to Louis is Tikhon Khrennikov, one of a group of Soviet composers which has just returned from a tour of the United States.

Says Khrenniko: "We al- tended the performances of a number of Jazz bends and erchestras.

"The virtuosity and input=" vising skill of these ensembles have indubitably attained not a few heights.

of

"However, the repertoires Jazz bands, and the styles in which they were presented, left much to be desired.

"We found it dimeult, for instance, to echo the delighted comments of the admirers or

Loula

Armstrong und his musicians. Their manner of persentation is vulgar, un- natural and is anything but good taste.

On the other hand Khrenni- key really digs Benny Goodman. "The best, it seemed to us, was the jazz of the superb clarinet player Benny Goodman, who appeared in

Variety gramme." he says.

n

The latest

BENNY GOODMAN The best joca-man

cat,

faith in man, and a sense of the beauty of our life.

"It arouses a desire to follow the example of the ane people passing before him on the screen. in all the glowing love of life."

That Can-Can

The 12 just Russians end their appraisal of Hollywood with a bitter comment on the Can-Can which so shocked Khrushchev when he was there

According to the Russians this was a political move.

"Evidently the Can-Can was

Some not shown occidentally, ono wanted to destroy the spirit of good, sound mutual under- standing which had arisen in Hollywood between Khrush- chey and the American actors." dress.

establish family In fact, the Can-Can was not relations, their attude to their only uncultured; it was also zn sweethearts. their children to instrument of the cold war, world events-by the flims.

-Chris Dobson "If jou ore interested in finding out why all the young other words Benry is men of America have suddenly kholodni-which is Russian for Kone in for crewcuts you nezá real coul.

Ko only to the movies and see Judgments

American the haircut of the latest male MERNETS and ways of living 8lm star. are sprouting all Ovi Soviet Prees there days.

'Selections are being given from a book about to be pub

bed, called "Face to Face with America."

In

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the

It is about Khrushchev's visit In the States and has been written by 12 of the men who toured with him.

Russian taste

"It the girls of some town or other within the space of just a day or so suddenly exchange their skirts for slacks, you may rest assured that this has been dictated by some motion picture star such as Kim Novak Shirley MacLaine."

or

The excerpts cre being read The 12 authors do say, how- avidly-especially the latest one ever, that "of course good films about Hollywood. This is how have been made there, kreat the Russiana £20 the Alm directors and actors have capital. ILS power, and its started their careerS In Jolly-

wood."

influence

"Hollywood L the giant This is how the Russians like cinema workshop directed by their almis, according to a erille New York cflees that cre whose review I read the other enggged in propaganda for the American way of life.

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the "Arnerican family motion pictures take the place

day!--

"There is a recent Soviet film Ballad of a Soldier' which I find excellent.

of books. museums, the Cof- "Although it has model servatory of mure, the theatre characters and a spirit that ig and a good argument among pure and chaste and

na friends.

emphasis is hid on the seamier **Aunericans re accustomed side of life, the film stirs the to measure their actions, to viewer, filling him with courage,

"Lock-wash and wear!"

Jamaham

Minalloa

"Of course I know who I am, who are you?"

PETER KOTE

DO NOT TOUCH

"I ain't squealin' I'm no stool pigeon...

London Core SORRIDE.

All right, the 'Fifties

gave me my

big

break

-but rebellion hasn't beaten conformity...!

THE PHRASE is hackneyed now: Angry Young Man. Its currency has been' devalued by joo many whim- perk Bui here now is the Old Original, at 29 slightly pluraper, quite a bit richer but with anger noi mellowed by affluence; John Osborne, whose “Look Back In Anger" ignited some dry powder that had been lying around waiting for just such a flame. Today the China Mall series "The Facts That Flavour- ed the 'Fifiles" gives Osborne a chance to look back again and see how the anger has fared, His con- clusion is honest and not jubilant....

by JOHN

[T would be easy for me to write about the 'forties. When they began I was nine years old, and this was the decade of my growing up. This period has been on deposit long enough, and I am able to draw on it, assimilate and study it. But I am still up to my ears in the 'fifties, and expect to be so for several years to come.

Decades do not consult calendars, how ever convenient it might be for the writers of newspaper articles. Nineteen-sixty-nine would be a good time to write about the 'fifties.

There must be something to be seen from this hardly bewn, rough chunk of history, what?

Time grew fatter

one could but prevailing mood as

conceive.

For this was the emer- gent mood of the 'Afties, not rebellion, BB some people seemed to believe.

Out of this decade has come were all those people the Illusion of Comfort and we threatened to emigrate have lost the sense of life's

General Election in dificulty.

How who after the 1945 to know that their anxle-

OSBORNE

everyone watches and no one audience, but tough to play a part.

takes part. It is good to be an

When

His flashy ineptitude

I was a small boy in

Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us," I believe we started out with hope, and hope deferred mekes the

heart elck, and many

The facts that flavoured the 'FIFTIES

NOW... BY

CHAPMAN

PINCHER:

The Five Facts I Rate Top

in the 'Fifties...

The

hearts are sick at what they • THE ARREST of Klaus ece In England now.

Fuchs In February 1950: Perhaps the 'zixtles wil begin discovery that Fuchs had to turn away from evasion, end, been an incredibly auccessful although I helleve Christianity spy for Bussia was a devastat- to be a hearty contributor to Ing act-back, to the Anglo- the 'forties, it seemned to me that that evasion. It was a wise American alliopee. It delayed only prosperous people owned Christian who said: "He that the resumption of the partner- cars. Few people I knew had increaseth knowledge increaseth ship on atom weapons produc-

tion until May 1959, We did not dictate the sales one, and simply to ride around sorrow."

making It of popular records, and no one in a car has not lost its novelty

necessary. „for Britain to apend was interested in finding

out for me.

'enormous runs to discover facia already known' to the Americans The British motorist with ́his what we thought of God or sex ("What about you, Tom? Do hopes of an extra car in the

—and, it transpired, to the you think there is anything in garage is a typical feature of

Russians. this idea of saying a private the time.

firm's tea With his mean little ego prayer during the break?")

and his flashy ineptitude,

•

We have lost a sight

milw

QUOTE

...

● THE EXPLOSION of the first H-bomb ai Eniwetok Atoll In November 1952: This 'colossal

the blast changed the entire delence

the British driver speeds by Sir Basil Blackwell,

the away in

wrong lane, publisher, at Eastbourne Gram-policy of the West ushering in but the right road towards mar School speech day. an England that becomes pecialise while still young manned bomber and 6ghter. It THERE La + tendency to

less pleasant and no longer I am quite shocked that à

green,

the age of "The Great Doterrent.” It put a premium on the ballistic long-range rocket, dooming the bor also created the immenso pro- . - twoblem of fall-out with its political

repercussions, including the mu pension of muclear tests.

• THE INTRODUCTION · of the Balk гвосіда In 1953.

The techniques of suppression ties arsd privations were to In polities, art, and communic last for no more than a few. tions became so perfected that austere years, and that, before there is no issue which need be long, they would be happily - allowed to interfere with our Language has become more conting "You've never had Individuel and national well permisive, but behaviour is no

[should specialise in ' only so good:" that the lean and sinew being.

Iesk-restrictive," and the

Even the French with their | subjectw in the sixth form. of the Tortico would becODIA If a lion should appear in spoken never threatens the inbred, hard-bitten materialism the fat and spineless 'Afties? the streets, we shall not com- unspoken. Words may be free drive -less savagely than the

The Labour Party's stumbling plain, We shall not see him, but conscience is,cheap.

Some English. imagination slowed down to the tn this time, we are not keepers words are appearing in newe- *I im distressed for thee my point where L sometimes of brothers because we

and being spoken no pepera

in brother Jonathan: Thy love toby Mr. Arthur Squire, chair-macking the first big victory that were seemed to be walking back- longer bellevo, that

we have playe

forbidden me was wonderful, peading the man of the Wholesale Clothing against * almost yesterday, but these are jove of women." Today in the Manufacturers'

pollo, the crippling wards and even disappearing brothers.

the more nolees of freedom that ties these

Association in disease which bad broken altogether.

wande could not an open letter to the women of, but ̈ ̈ ̈ ̈* girl" the, conformiam.

annual epidemic of the 'fitics be uttered sincerely or without Britain. Scilla with its commercial inhibition,

Jávery year after the war. The IGNORE the shine in your inmuniation programme

-mishandling of the husband's top-ofted-pressed the Health, Ministry enhanced Bait, His shabbiares" is really its hewa Impact, MA a badge of honour. The averREA Englishman rejoloss in his lack ■ THE OPENING of "Calder ef ́wardrobe so that his wife Hlaži, the world's lead man- and children may have the boat. merelal atom-power stations in ...

October 19581) Ahle ( enabled Britain to match al-world: Head In- the "deyalopment of

constructive, ator-powe

Childhood

was harsh

Kindness.

We have written our hende off about prostitution and Indeed weften, it off the streets. To ve the embarrassment of

When I grew up in the 'torilen, childhood. was private, harsh, and isolated. The world of adult smaidiah old men we have lost a

Hearts are sick

marriage

As the time grew fatter, so It became like a priest in a world without win and declined, {still trying to remember to native Socialist tongue when speaking, to its supporters, but` carefully, using the new, official language of succose and pros perity to the middle class - experience was remote, llen, eight which was one of the dow

bisa been carefully dare not dely,

and often repugnant. Even to remaining visible testamente to constructed into the pattern of. Mr Attlee became an earl, speak to an adult was often the stability of the English success, and has even become a and, what with such things as painful.

character.

secondary profession for many block votes, life peerages, and The word "teenager! had At last the Napoleonte Jibe of "Hi" and "hers" standing orders, no one. could not get benni, successfully im- looks like being confirmed; we becomes a meaningless." "harm," --by the Bishop of OSO 107 that the Labour Party did parted from Americs, and we are shopkeepers to be sure for and "there śre now great, holes Dr. Mervyn, Charles- not open new felds for pon- were' limored brosuse we wern technologists it you like). We where there was once passion i at his dibe forml

Damvaluable to no one tha could keep little else with our and Identity, on an In Ita recent electión exercise. We believed wö waje different shopkeepers, muralita2.j

Exea),^pgoaking with his prom come-book, the and unique, pod no one had a then there has been the felly, phet's voice? which, ia sa ortamı Labour Party even i tried to tried to convinced us that we The - Ellis halped to duke it, puperb, ance asideguero, endurs Powe appeal to fuelings Moout di sản, had a common laste, or a pro--and N° haped to make a them, The renalow winds all in mind: template matters, kas

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