1960-02-08 — Page 6

ANNE SHARPLEY reports from Africa

STANISLAUS! 'TORY'

-THE

FINDS PROFIT

IN CAPTIVITY

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY B, 1980.

Victoria Falls.

BIG, slow-speaking Dick Powell, whose parents, it is no surprise to learn,

came from Shropshire, is one of those men that the liberal thinkers in Africa call "paternalistic" and the traditionalists regard as justification for not changing their ideas.

Until last summer when he commis. He is a native

quickly sioner. He loves Africans was told that he mutt

prepare kuts and land for 60 16 -has given his life to to men, their wives-a muitable them. always living BO Agure, anything from one to miles six. and their children. AЛ many hundreds of away in the bush, solving experiment was to be tried.

Fifty-nine of the political their problems, learning agitators were to be taken out their Congues-but always of the jails and put to farming, regarding them BA chil. for self-support, tranquil reflec

lon and, it was hoped, rehabi- Htation.

dren.

And at Gokwe, up Un the Mafungabusi

JEALOUS

in Nobody England would credit the use tiny - veere, mak- ing of the Serpan "Conserva- tives" and "Labou."*

The Conservatives were the ones who wore conforming, who were tilling and tending their 10 acres (ar, more exactly. their wives were).

non-

The Labour were the planters, who refused to com operate, who did not order their wives and daughters out into the 10 acres to sow and weed. The Conservatives were in tho 100 miles from the nearest Their conditions were to be majority.

The Labourlies had organised same as the rest of Mr town, life has that quality the

Powell's awe-inspiring district a boycott of the railons that out 10 of 5,000,000 nerea Wooden stake Mr Powell had doted

CHANGED

platenu

are

of mixed Rbundance and Bhortage of fatalism and buts, their walls d'aubed with them in the first few weeks. For of three months they refused to propitintion that keeps mud and their roots macie

prepared, cat and a £250 fund was raised the African what we

were to be Krass,

sympathisers (in Britain child- borc-holes to be sunk for water. by pleased to consider

And o point that made Mr mostly) to feed them while they İlke.

Powell's own natives extremely stuck out fer money, not food. Jand He had not wanted to give Jealous: the 10 mereu of for each was to be cleared with them money because he be- bulldozers-completing in days leved, rightly or wrongly,

i would go on beer. He thought what it had taken years

he knew the African mind, but achieve on their own plots,

these chaps had certainly found They were to be rusticated some ways to surprise him. or, a more favoured term, re- visit the stricted. They could

earby villages and be free to see one another but they were restricted

Rousseau existence.

And although the emergency powern of inst year gave the government the sight to keep would then thus for five years without proper trial, their cases be reviewed onmally, they were told

Everything he did for them he knew was for their betterment. But now that comforting parity of doing good and doing one's duty is going as the great un. foreseen and still largely unbelieved change over Africa.

comes

Those Africans he believes in his heart to be still chit. dren have suddenly turned inte politicians, agitators, rebels even.

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Mr Powell, Nauve Commis- sioner, became a rustle jaller, Not hi natives, of course. As he driver in his Land

red, They are still their old sumy Rover along the

rutted but those others roads that lead through the simple selves,

camp and In the towns, intoxicated by villages to the

his reading and riding around in natives, each and everyone of cars, no doubt, thinking they them gives that trasting smile and salute that made him in the ought to be running the country because they are in the majority, old days feel so relied on, he Even so, when they picked must ponder on his change of them up by the hundred nearly role. a year ago all over the Federa tion of Rhodesla and Nyamland and put them in fall (and those other hundreds seem to have condensed into the one symbolic figure of Hastings Banda). It

was rather remole.

Ahead of him, through that thin but perpetual screen of trees that is as bright een as Shropshire, lies the camp. He wonders what the bother will be today. They were pretty sophis

tiented chaps for a start.

Joe AMPBELL

"I'll get it down if I can, ponny-where is it?"

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DAVE

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"It's tha phone company, dear. We're the first ones in town to make a millions apkka?!

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At the clearing in the centre of the camp where there is school for 80 of the restrictees' children (there are many others at school in their home-towns), Rover the Land

stopa. Mr Powell goes into the shop that the star-restrictive. The arch- Conservative, has been allowed

a haoihk atel run ...

PROMISES

Stanislaus. Marembo is one of those men who have to get on wherever they go. He was the "first African in the Federation He to become an undertaker. had had a shop.

And one guessed his entry into politics was largely due to the fact that the promises of the demagogues were 50 tempting it was something ho just had tỡ be in on.

Now Stanislaus, wearing black blazer with silver bultons, sponge-bog trousers and black suede shoes, is turning rustica- tion to commercial advantage (one of his wives collects the goods each week in one of his former hearses).

He has found a future la being a restrictee, In his rough tle shop Stanislaus has 1 ld a tin of condensed milk (1s. 1d.) to the wife of one of the restrictees.

Stanislaus chatters confiding- ly but a tle contradictorily: Yes, he liked being here, but he would like to get out, There was a good business prospect here, he was going to start a butcher's shop soon. When he got out he would certainly leave branch manager. Yes,

he was falshed with politics.

HIS MILL

And then, when he was ask- ed later why he was n Con- servative Instead of a Labourite (in the restrletee sense), he rẽ- piled that when it became their, the Africans', time to govern he would be able to prove that he was a responsible man because he had cultivated his land and | kept a shop.

Across a patch of sunlight awink with butterflies, be led the way to the grinding mill ke had just bought for £203 10%. In which he ground the other Conservatives' maize Into mealy flour for cighlpence a bucket

Another Conservative, Alfred

15 B. Mpofu,

handsome, serious-faced young student, who approaches with a book on biology, 30 years out of date, in his hand.

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He hopes to got a degree from London University while

he is under restriction.

NO QUESTIONS Across the way is a Labourite. His 10 acres are how indistin- guishable from the Bush around and his hut is in disrepair. t am introduced as a visitor from England Polltely he shakes hands, crosses his arms and aske: "How Is England?"

I say England in very well He has the Beautiful manners of all Africans, Why is he a non-planter, I ask. He is a stocky man with grey beginning to appear in the woolly cap of hair. "Because I am in prisom This is no different from the prison 1 was in before they brought me here. Why stioukl I work?"

BENNY

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London Express Service.

GOODMAN says:

I want to play Mozart at the Festival

**OME round.

Hall...

Let's Intely, Really, the public hos

The truth is 1's a very diff-

away with subterfuge on R.

about He reminisced

have a talk," said suffered, not the clarinet. the voice on the tele- cult instrument, You can't get phone which I had heard only once before: intro- bistoric days between ducing a famous swing the Swing Era wave. session on a long-playing record.

Minutes later

those 1935-9 when he was riding the crest of

"I met Teddy Wilson at one of Mildred Bailey's parties onc

I was sitting evening and that's how the Trio and Quartet really started. That sipping a whisky and water

music just happened. opposite the King of Swing himselfBenny Goodman.

It was In

1 silting-mom

in Pimlico. There was music on the radiogramine. Predict- able-Goodman.

DISCIPLINE

"Gene Krupa, Lionel Tammy-

He was smaller and stockier ton, Teddy, and I had Use than I had imagined, wearing ame ultimate goal-what you hear, But a lot of plain hard black hom-rimmed glasses. n

work went to it too. dark blue suit and tie to match, sprightly for his 50 years.

" would always prefer a good small group like that one to He was puffing away with playing with a big band. In fact some difficulty at a small hex- if I had to pick a quarlet agai agonal pipe How about this today I'd pick the same other for A cute ille pipe? Only three.

78."), looking more like อ "But the 38 big band was tough tycoon of industry than great, too. Those Fleicher Hen- a hot-clarinet virtuosa. But the derson arrangements, We had upice was rich and warm, the no anti-coloured feeling in that laugh frequent and engaging. bend, although there was a bit Benny Goodman is over here of prejudice around tico,

on a short private vin staying especially in the South. with friends. No engagements, "But I'd take Greeks or any- Just making piaus. The plans thing as long as they could play, were surprising.

"That Carnegie Hall concert

"On June 18 chances

are i 30-it all started as a pub-

I'll be playing Mozart's Helty stunt, you know, A silly Concerto for Clarinet with Ideo. I thought at Arst-311 full orchestra behind me suddenly 1 found all the tickets here at your Festival Hall, were sold out!" And in the autumn I've o New York classical tour scheduled."

NO RIVAL

Bo Benny Goodman, un- rivailed King of Swing for 25 years, is now, after years of

Then there was his reputation

a a strict disciplinarian which carned him the nickname of The Ray for his lethally disapproving glances.

"I wasn't terribly strict really. I didn't want the band to be soldiers or anything like that.

"But

some discipline was

intermittent courtship with necessary.

"it was more the norm in classical muste, launching into those days. A pride in what you a serious marringe with it.

were doing. As Tommy Beecham This news, following hard on sok: I just want them to start the 1959 Downbeat Jazz polls in and quit at the same time." which he was not mentioned at Any special sessions he would all among the 14 clarinetists never forget? "Yes. One with Ilsted, prompted my next Ella Fitzgerald, my favourite i question was this the final volee, the best of them all. It eclipse of Goodman, the star was way back in the thirties, swing

under contract to "No delinitely She mon? not," he answered. The dark another record company at the eyes gave me a very direct look. time but she forgot to tell me."

"I've always felt the classics were Д natural continuation from jazz. I've always liked playing them. But in futuro I

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NO HEIR

will be playing clasifoni more. How much did he practise?

"Maybe

I'm not so good a "Definitely not enough, I like classical player as I think, but to get two hours a day."

I get jurt as much emotional B.G. played a track from his and Intellectual kick but of latest

"Sound

LP of the Rodgers anal Khem ∙tis I do from Jazz Hamunerstein score for Improvisation.

of Music" a new show. recently opened on Broadway, "Of course, too much jazz The tone of the famous could spoil my classical play "iquorice "stick" was unmistak He doesn't shrug or protesting. Quite different qualities are ably Goodman, but (was it my This is his attitude. No need to

required. But I'll see. It's one Imagination?) had some of the emphasise or extend the st way of getting to play here in zest and it that was such a ment. The other Labourites, he explained, have gone off to the villages bochise "no todo staying here,"

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Their acres flourish in words and their wives who must be very glad they married Labourile, tako life casy.

And nobody qualiona why they are here without a charge! for trial.

Tokendon Exprem Beruice, +

England anyway, with crazy union business."

hallmark of his carller work

1 asked him why he had faded à Di?

Could it be that, after all. chosch to play the clarinet Mozart in the best vehicle to originally."rii, never know bring it back? why, I was never influenced by

I hope so, for today's musical any particular.

like person.

stage can 111 afford to lose the Homey Digard, Johnny Dodds, talent and technical Srivilaga Jimmie Noone, Edmund Hall. of musician lika Banay. Klond-

"But the clarinet has suffered man.

-(London Ehrete Survice).

a decline as a jazz instrument

by Robin Douglas Home

1980-a

pipe for the old master of the liquorice stick who

has now turned to classice.

ALANBROOKE'S MEMOIRSE

MIC

Sold

"Ike-on golf

links at Rouen

MONTCOMERY'S MEMOIRS

"Ah, I can love my enemy

EDEN'S MEMOIRS

Cummings

he doesn't write any mémólrs."

Landon Exprém MIESTO