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SPECIA

Jo's big day in

the kitchen

NOW, I've always admired people who could

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1960.

SECTION, TOREON

Reel Corner

KATE

O'REILLY

HONGKONG

17-21

CLUB MAILBOX

P

FACH week I purchase a copy of the China Mall specially for its youth section. However, it was not until this week that I got up enough courage to send in my application for membership. I enjoy most David Lan's articles in "Career Corner," and would TERE is Pat Boone, one of the most popular stars in like to ask if he has already written one on stenographers.-

Lucilla Yang, Kowloon

cook. Really cook, I mean. Not people who H Hongkong, for if : Pat Boone film is showing, you

merely have a knack for operating the can-opener invariably find the cinema crowded. or even people who are deft at tearing the tops off cardboard boxes.

Normally, I am a passive sort Whisking egg whites is a of person, but I do get attacks of tough business It says here, diligence. And when I am feel- "Beat tilt it holds a shape, ing particularly ambitious, then add sugar there's no telling that I may Hold what shape? Will someone do.

instruct a poor ignoramous on how to measure egg whites with

The other day I was in just a protractor? such a mood;

"'1-can- my conquer-all" feeling knew bounds. I decided to make angel food cake.

Pat started show business early. At the age of tẹn, he was singing in a talent compalition. Of course, he won.

By the time he was seventeen, he was singing in his own radio by degrees." programme; at eighteen, he won the East Nashvilly Talent contes: and an audition for the To Mack Amateur Hour.

This latter' success took him to New York where many tempting - offers were made inviting him to

Here I am, -after twenty no minuses of whipping, and it is an still as walety as ever. My arms "pro." But he turned them feel as though I shouldn't have down for a was determined Now, my prowess with such called then 'my' and I am be complete his education at the David Lipscomb College J}] delicacies has never gone beyond ginning, to see lashes. I've no- the soggy, heavy, sticky, butter ticed too that the mess is streak Nashville. There, on November 17, 1953, he married his childhood cake. But here I was, deter- el with a silver-grey. The spoon mined to make an angel food seems to have scratched an in-sweetheart, Shirley Foley. They had been engaged for four years. tricate pattern around the pot 100.

cake.

NO-NONSENSE

I found three recipes for the said confectionery; ne requiring ten eggs, another for eight and

the last for six.

Aha! Brainstorm! Maybe if t

double in bulk.

put some yeast in it, it

may

I did not seem to have much more trouble after that until

I chose the one with six. The came to the baking soda bit.

lesser the number, the less there

would be to cope with, obviously.

VERY GOOD

Looming

The next spring, with parenti- hood looming, Pat and Shirley moved to Fort Worth, where he was able to earn $50 a week on a weekly TV show while allending

North Texas Teachers' College at name is really Charles Eugene,. Benton, Texas.

they called him Pal from the

From then on it was success first.

all the way.

Ho is

So, armed with a piece of

a very straight living Here I did some calculations; The fans will still recall "Ber- chap. He does not drink or paper and a fit of courage, I we women are very good at that nardine," "Mardi Gras,"

marched in my best no-nonsense sort of thing.

"April smoke, eats very simply, is fond Baking soda is Love" and in a slightly different of entertaining his friends, likes manner down to the kitchen.

something like baking powder role, "Journey to the Centre of kids, has a keen sense of humour "Separate the

they both have the same prefixes the Earth."

and a contagious laugh. anyway. The recipe

Separate the eggs?!

ggs.'

"You'll never believe me when

1 tell you this, but eggs have 3 nasty streak.

calls for Pat was born June 1, 1931, in

tar less soda than powder, there-Jacksonville, Florida. His father He likes dressing comfortably, fore the soda must be strongur. was a building contractor and a neatly, leans to sports wear, As Holmes would say,descendant of the legendary while his white buckskin shoes They tend to change thickness "Elementary, my dear Watson, Daniel Boone. His mother, a are almost his trade mark. on you; just when you figure it clementary." So I doubled the former registered nurse, had ex- hay a hard shell after a few measurement and used baking pected a daughter. In fact, she tentative taps, you think that a powder. It always pays to be had a sharp knock is safe. You knock able to improvise, you know. Patricia.

and spend a frantic time. Shows a flexibility in your per- scooping part of the egg off the sonality,

table and picking the

skell Well, of course it did not taste fragments which never fall onto like those you can buy at Chan- the table, but always into your tecler's or Gaddi's. But then, 1 bowl.

don't make their cakes.

Funny thing though, there Anyway, I have the whites of was a sharp acid taste to it and six eggs now, I mean the appro- I distinctly remember not having ximate equivalent. Something put in any lemon.

tells me I should have gone in Quick somebody, anybody, for the ten-egg recipe. But where are the mint tablets! what on earth can one do with (Credit card to Josephine E ten egg yolks!

Law, Kowloon)

Look at him every way you ice, success has not turned his head. He is one of the nicest Pat's people in show busincas.

name ready for her,

So although

Meet the members!

ROBERT BAU, 17, sindent, 928 Nathan Road, Kowloon.

LUCILLA YANG. 18, stenographer, 442 Matauwei Road, first floor, Kowloon.

WONG YIN CHANG, 18, student, 98A. King's Road, third floor, N.P., Hongkong,

Meditation

Credit card to Dawie Hung-Sang Wang, Hongkong

As you can see in the "Meet the Members" column, your name has now been added to the roll, Luelila.. and thanks for the compliment. Your request will be passed on to Mr Lan, and we're sure you'll see a "Career Corner" on the subject in the near future.

“VĖ“ been reading about the activities of teenagers in Hongkong

I'VE

for some time now. Rock 'n' roll contests, dancing parties,

THE CAREER CORNER

By ANNE

HEYWOOD

"H

radio shows are lots of fun, and I have attended most of these 66¶¶OW do you handle a myself. But there is one need in teenagers that no one caters

monster?" a friend for, and that is the need for some intellectual activity. Once upon a time, I am told, Radio Hongkong conducted inter-school who works as a secretary

but asked me recently, quizzes. Now, what we need is something like this open to the teenager on the street. What about one of the three

"I work in the office of broadcasting organisations starting a Teenage Foruma pro- gramme in which young men and women are invited to discuss, the president of the com- seriously, local or international problems, literature, music etc.pany, a very difficult man. Prizes should, of course, be offered to encourage the programme's Actually, I am a secretary popularity-Brenda Sun, Kowloom.

Thank you, Brenda. We shall bring your suggestion to the to his secretary — and she's attention of the broadcasting stations, but we would also like to no bargain, either. point out that the 17-21 Club encourages debates and discussions on these subjects in its weekly page.

Angular Kangaroo

-Credit card to Ricky Chan, Hongkong.

some

"Please give HITLO pointers for handling such people."

Fortunately, this friend is only in her late teens, If she were much older, with such a point of view her problem would be much more serious,

Are You To Blame?

First of all, either these two people are honestly difficult in which case it's probably bet- ter to and work elsewhere-Or else they're just normal people with human fallings,

If the latter is true, then it behooves this triend, as a junior, to learn how to get along with them.

Here's a list of questions for this friend to ask herself:

Do you really handle your job adequately?

When people nag and scold, maybe it's because they have

The faults may be

yours-not

your boss's

The young secretary saw them as monsters.

The French have a saying,

| horrible dispositions, On the "To understand all is to forgive

other hand, it could be because you're so slow, inaccurate and unpleasant that you add to their troubles,

Try To Understand

all Maybe the boss has nagging wife, a problem child, a sensitive ulcer. His secretary may have a sick husband, elder ly parents to support or bad Headaches.

Their "meantes” may not Do you honestly make be meant for you at all It effort to understand could be directed against life in them?

general

The lilt of Latin America

TOTES on Notes this

week features music

for Fiesta! The sometimes

NOTES ON NOTES

composer who gave us such be-

By CARL MYATT

2

Spend more time trying to understand them, less time re- belling against them, and you'll sec a big change.

If they really behave badly, have you tried treat- ing them as if they were |behaving like angels?

This is admittedly not easy,

wild, sometimes nostalgic, loved hits as "Blue Tango" CK now to New York and may treat it briskly or quietly, but it can be astonishingly

sometimes plaintive, but al- "The Waltzing Cat," "Belle of derings of the Joe Loco band.

The Latin Amerië^n mean? but always sweetly. ways exciting music of Latin The Ball" etc. America.

tempo.

them to raise their standards.

Typical example, of Loco's effective. If they keep snarling. A couple of weeks ago I re- work is his handling of that old and you keep purring, if you favourite "Tangerine." Original-meet bad temper with good All these tunes in fact are in- viewed a Loco album entitled by it was played at medium temper, it will eventually fores cluded in the album, and given "Happy Go Love." I now have First a quick trip to Mexico a fresh treatment. All the a confession to make. I have and an introduction to a group times are painted ever with a become thoroughly addicted to which goes under the colourful Latin beat. "Blue Tango" for Mr Loca and the music he the more modern jazz groups play

The likes of Bud Shank and Resign Pleasantly nemu of the Trio Les Bandidos. instance, starts off as a slow creates, and I am not ashamed it at a frenzied pace. Mr Lopez Remember The Trio Pancha? Well there is a great ends up again as a cha cha.

La cha cha, drifts into a tango and to admit I am now one of his transforms it imo a slow, ballad-wer "yes" to these questions,

most ardent fans.

like cha cha. Most effective. imilretty in the styles of both groups. The Los Bandidos Rizo has done all the arrange however appear to have far ments for the album and he can.

"atmosphere" in their be well proud with his efforts. singing.

On Tico BLP 1081.

This group opened fairly re- fashionable little cently at a nightclub in New York named very aptly El Toro." Everything about this club is Mexican. The. Les Bandidos-Jorgu Renan, Rafael Melendez, and Лозе

By

I therefore couldn't resist re-

Go Loco,"

viewing his second album "Let's Here then is Joe Loco. Hope you enjoy his music as much as Joe Loco has a beguiling way I do. of putting over a tune. Ha

On Imperial SLP 12014

-The Hit Parade

Montalvo, fed their sur- TED THOMAS

candings as perfectly as i well-cut Ivy League suit,

All three gentlemen play the Spanish guitar with tremendous thythm and enthusiasm, and manage to convey to the listener, that they are enjoying · making music-the stamp of a truly professional group.

My favourite

tracks on the record were "Cielito Lindo! and "La Bamba" on 'side one krvi "El Rancht Grunne", (comi Plete with whoops, shrilla, whistling and yipping of cow- boys). "La Cucaracha" add a beautiful folk song, "Aye Errante" (Wandering 'Bird),

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some of the faster- tempoed tracks, the Trio 'were backed by a rhyllan section in addition to 12 guitars! A rent blast off!

On Tico 8LP 1067.

WYROM

Mexico

to

Ameries and the South

-Lergy-Anderson as interpreted by pianist Marco Eizo and his orchestra.

This album is in realtig tribute to the great Amerik

THERE

the

Top

THERE'S ⚫ startling change in line-up of the Twenty this week, with last week's No. 6 shoot- ing to the top, and last. week's top tune way down at the half-way mark - No. 10.

of

The Browns" version "The Three Bells" id back in again, and looks strong enough for sustained second run-but otherwiss there's little that's new.

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I ASKED Frank Sinatra

during his stay here ho w... ho'd managed the transition from being the world's most successful swoon crooner, to a mature. and talented actor.

Frank's view is that there hover was a transition—thất

•he had always been an actor even when knocking in Vid", the sisles, with Benny

Goodman and Harry James v Asked which part of him. many sided carber ħu anjby? ad post o

of all, he surpriþið

1. Why Frankle Avalon.

2. House of Bamboo-Earl Grant.

3. Forever-Ruby Murray.

4. Why Should I Dream?-Shirley Churcher.

5. Amapola-Tony William,

6. The Ding Dong Bong-Teal Chin

7. Love Me, My Love-Dean Martin.

8.. Young at Heart Cha Cha-Tommy Thomas.

Am I That Easy to Forget?-Debbie Reynolds. 10. Spring Rain-Pat Boone,

11. The Three Bell The Browns,

12. Theme From a Summer Place-Fontaine Sisters

13. Stuck on You-Elvis Presley

14. Welcome New Lovers-Pat Boone

16. Deborah-The Crickets.

16. Young Emotions-Ricky: Nelson, 17. Bleepy. Lagoon—The Platters, 18. My Home Town--Paul Anka, 19. A Star Is Born-Mark Dinning. 20. He'll Have To Go-Jim Reeves

me by saying that he looked forward most to his record Ing sessions." "The earý ink formality of these times is very relaxing". he said; and it's fun to get in there with the engineers and, help with the balance before wo actually no ahead and cut a tape:"

AT

Latest news le that Frank will be back in the Top Twenty soon with; fila crèm Doord "River: Stay ? Way

From My Door

|JOHNNY__NATHIS. ZELL- Sas been out of the Hit Parades on both kidba of the Atlântio Umbe: “M[By”—D}}

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his leisurely and compelling treatment of his latest re- losso “Atarbright," - should lift him back with the stars again.

LOOK out soon for pre- recorded tapes of pop music. So far bnly clapel- cal and orchestral music has been distributed in this?! manner, and the Lapes have · proved pretty pricey for the'. tasnage pocket. But a now, company in Britain is aime

"Bhouldn'? be leag

this ideas and the produát angkang

When you can benestly an-

take stock of the "monsters.".

If they still seem difficult to handle, then resign,

Do it pleasantly and nicely "for a better opportunity.".

Reslat the temptation to give them a few well-chosen words, You may need references,

When next you job-hunt, keep your eyes open for danger signals,

Really look at the people who are interviewing you, Try to determine what they are honestly like. You might spot some signs of bad temper or worse. If you do, you can save yourself another troublesome experience,

is your name Dobby?

AN KAME