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THE CHINA-MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE

CLION FOR

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Reel Corner

THE YETI RAID

COLONEL WADDELL

and gaped.

WYNTER is a new kind of M-M-M girl....she | He was 16,000 feet up in went from Music to Medicigo to Movies careerwise.

DANA

Regarded as the most promis- ing and personable young actress to cross from England to the States since Vivien Leigh made the move, Dana has been de- scribed variously as "the girl who most epitomizes sex," the girl who combines the lady like qualities of Grace Kelly, the sultry grace and beauty of Ava Gardner, and the acting ability of Audrey Hepburn." But the truth is, Dana dd 301 15- resting beauty of her own.

UNUSUAL

Dana was born in London, the only child of a renowned sux-

Peter geon, Wynter.

Spencer-Marcus

Her real name is Dagmar, a well-known Danish name, bui little unusual for England.

a

The way that came about was that her father studied in many countries...he holds degrees Universities in many

frie

France, Germany, and Switzer- land, and he also lived for

various intervals

European country.

almust every

But

HENRY LEWIS INVESTIGATES THE MYSTERY OF THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN

investigating All have contri- in a 19,000ft. pass. At first he buted something to the data thought they were huinan, then on the Yet,

he realised there were no other bumans in the area.

During the war there was, of course,

110 mountaineering,

But they have not solved the mystery.

Contest WHAT'S YOUR THEORY?

AVE you

any idea

H what or who the

Yetis are?

They don't act quite like any known animal or primitive man. Yet, obriously they exist.

If you have a theory, write and tell us in not more than 150 words.

The three best en- tries will win prizes worth $15, $10 and $5,

the snows of Sikkim in the Eastern Himalayas. there in the snow before him were footprints. the footprints apparently of a big man who took big strides and went barefoot! The sight seemed unbe-

It was not until 1921 when though a party of five men who lievable but there could be

permission was given for the escaped from a Russian prison no doubting his eyes.

first time for mountaineers to over the Himalayas into india Waddell pointed to the foot- tackle Mount Everest that the claimed they

several prints, stretching away into public began to get interested Snowmen, seven to eight teet the distance, and Sherpa porters; "Who, or what, That was largely because the

respectively. Until 1951 scientists diamiss- | mode those?” And they told leader of the first expedition- ed stories of the Snowman as him a strange tale of ertature's L-Col. C. K. Howard-Bury rubbish. "Hallucinations," they that were part man and part saw what he first thought to declared, "brought on by lack

be a naked, hairy human walk- of oxygen in high places."

Then Eric Shipton, the famous Colonel Waddell had just be- Irg upright, across a snowfeld come the first European

to far below. The Sherpa porters mountaincer, and a band of sel uyes on the prints of the explained to him that it was a Sherpas found two sets of Yet!

tracks. Snow Yeti.

ape.

asked his in the Teti.

Yet, the Abominable man who strides the Himalayan peaks and whose hablis sum

1887.

Yeti tracks

tall.

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MA

.found by Dr

*

had

Send to: Yeti My- stery, 17-21 Club,

THE CAREER CORNER

By DAVID

LAN

"I hear the bell go ding- dong deep down inside my heart.

Each time you say ‘kiss me' then I know it's time for ding-dong to start.

GOLDEN volte was.

China Mail, 1-3 Wynd- A singing a popular hit

ham St., Hongkong.

song that has topped the hit parade for a long, long time in Hongkong.

Whether

But

near a waterhole he never saw

one's heart goes Shipton took photographs of Snowman. He did though ding-dong or otherwise on the the prints. This was the first photograph a Snowman's hand subject of kissing is a purely photographic evidence and strangely like those of man, From now on Everest was to zoologists were forced to admit

-mummified with age that personal reaction,

at been preserved Col. Waddell made his dis- be constantly in the news be- they needed explaining,

golden-voiced Carmen I had different Perina truly rings the bell each covery in

monastery. But the cause of the attempts to climb

the next three And mystery is still a mysury to- t.

many mountaineers tracks were

years finger lengths and joints from time she steps up before the day: is the Snowman a strange were to visit it, And so,

a man's but had a man-like | mike. of Eduard Wyss-Dunant, leader thumb. type of bear or monkey? Is be course, the reports of Abomain of the flrst Swiss Everest ex-

no wonder! Couples able Snowmen grew. Some of pedition, Norman Dybrenfurt, information

From all the reports and dancing to her singing on the pre-medical work. She also kept some other unknown

Or can he be the missing link most came

the-stories were hoaxes. But a member of the Second Swiss of a creature about seven feet and all eyes in the dimmed-off a picture emerges spacious foor swung around between apes and man?

from mountaineers expedition and and scientists whose word could Hillary of the conquering Bri- shaggy reddish hair, normally turned in one direction.

Sir Edmand tall with a pointed head and areas of the Kowloon night club be relied upon

tish expedition.

Dana look to music seriously up the piano and singing. when she was studying at Rosary Priory, a convent school a few Then Dana got bitten by the miles beyond north London,

enrolled acting bug. She

in She next went to the North amateur dramatics, and from London Collegiate School and there she decided to storm was in the upper sixth at the age London,

of 1631, too young to matriculate.

course.

FIBBED

+

She didn't do too badly, not good enough for her, got parts in TV plays, and roles as a bit player.

but

She

odd

to

The

Open mind

animal?

in September Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Everest, will lead a new expedition to the area. And one of its alms will be 10

for look

the Abominable Snowman.

Says Slr Edmund; "I have

in the

In 1922 a group of British Army officers saw several Yells run down a hill into a rhododet dron forest,

In 1925 Mr A. N. Tambazi, an Indian botanist, was called from his tent by his Sherpas to see o

in a hurry.

And

SPARKLING

In 1854 the first expedition to

walking upright but occasion-

Where investigate the Snowman, want ally dropping on all fours when

the coloured lights from Britain, They never saw

sprinkled the bandstand stood He lives among rocks in the the dainty figure of Carmen, cne. But they did photograph boulder regions above tree level the centre of all attention, tracks, finding them in lower but below the snow line, makes in a white lace stole, pink cock- places than before.

Man-like thumb Snowman 200 yards

that there is a mystery worth Everest party, found two

Pangboche and Khimjusts have suggested red bears Now WHAT is he? Scien-

With a song

in her

heart!

a wailing noise at night. He is tail dress, and silver slippers At this stage, Dana intended

shy, intelligent and not normally that sparkled with rhinestones.. to be a doctor. She Abbed

an open mind about what it away walking about pulling up And they did photograph Yet aggressive to man, with who At ân ́interval, she stepped London University a bit, and

But where London falled to is; we will try to find out." roots and plants. Next mom- alps preserved in manageries he avoids contact.

down and walked towards my managed to get in on a maths recognise an actress, New York Already Russian experations ing he found it had left foot- at

table. saw one, and invited her over for have gone into the northern prints like those of a man. for 300 years as almost sacred

"Interviewing me for the 17- Just at this slage, Dana's TV test

Himalayas, American expedi- In 1936 English botanist objects.

and langur monkeys, Of the 21 Club?" asked the enchantress. father was called away to South She never looked back.

tions have gone into the Ronald Kaulback found Yeti

drink In 1957 Texas vilman Tom red bear theory the Snowman A waiter slipped a soft Africa to perform operation. He fell in love with but it was 20th Century-Fox who has explored the high valleys Frank Smythe found prints in But they photographed tracks few steps on

special major studiou all went after her, south, and a British expedition prints 16,0002t up in Nepal. Slick took out an expedition, investigators point out that red to her hand.

In 1937 British mountaineer They did not see a Snowman. bears never walk more than a There was the usual formal the country, so gave up his rich got her name on the contract. north of Katmandu

their bind feet exchange of greetings. Then I practice in Harley Street, and So Dana seems lucky all the search for the

a valley in Nepal. And at the and made plaster casts of the and their footprints should let loose with my questions. Snowman, or settled in South Africa.

show claw marks, Red bears "When did I start?" way. The good fairies So Dana enrolled with Rhodes have been present when she was]

must Yeli, as the Sherpas call him same time John Hunt, later to 10 to 13in footmarks.

All have satisfled themselves leading

be knighted by the Queen for Suck also found two native kill yaks and sheep but the She chuckled. "You wouldn't University and did. two

the successful years born,

The bears believe it! I made my debut on 1953 children who said they had met Yeti does not,

sets a Yell while guarding a Yak hibernate but the Snowman is the stage at 9. At 14 I started

sten mainly in winter.

singing with a band back in They said it was two fees Of the langur theory they Mardla. Since then I have been taller than Slick, who is a six say langurs are too light to at it for 13 more years up to footer.

leave the deep footprints of the Dow." Silcje showed them pictures of Yet, their feet are too small But it was her climb up the CARMEN-A rich, golden voice, bears, and mokeys and a dow- and they walk on all foursed me. It has been phenomenal in Hongkong as well as any

salary scale that really impress- ing of prehistoric man,

Which They are always in a small from HK$30 a day up

to where else in the world! And was most like what they had troop, never alone, They have HK$105 a day in the short span she sings in Spanish, Tagalog, acen? Bo put a gorilla as a grey-brown colour, distinc-

in as well as in English. nearest, the prehistorie man tive faces and a long tall held of three years that was

Manila.

She couldn't help a giggle at next and then an orang-utan. aloft, And, of course, they are

UNLIMITED

a memory, On a second expedition slick's well known to the Sherpas who

"The first night I appeared And now she is under con with an army band in Manila, camp was raided by Snowmen would not confuse any other in the night

creature with them.

trast to a nightclub in Kowloon

I nearly forgot my lyrica. But I And though Slick set up a

at $2,400 a month working ve So what can the Snowman hours a day from 9 pan, to a get over the stage fright in a photographic observation 'hide' «be?

A NEW RADIO

A

NEW

SHOW

Is these beautiful melodies deserve an

even wider audience.

versatile

Spirituals" for this programme The creating lot of in- exactly what this terest among the young as

a

young lady does.

The album gets its title from the

well as old, is the show pro- fifth tune on side one of the record duced and introduced by Way To Get To Heaven. Ted Thomas called "Guitar I liked this record. These old Club."

The programme

is recorded with a live audience every Fri- day and goes over the air every Sunday evening at 5.30 p.m.

"Guitar Club,"

a brainchild

of popular disc jockey and "17- 21

Club

contributor Ted Thomas. started a couple of weeks ago.

By

NOTES

on

•

A

LIVE recording of the Dick

Contino show

A record worth shouting about,

On Liberty LST 7144.

at

the tunes were presented with a vitality "Flamingo" in Las Vegas, has and frealmess which pleased the car been staring me in the face for completely cause was the Billy May chorus and finally got around to listening Contributing mightly to a great the last couple of weeks, but I orchestra and have rarely to it-and I am really glad I'

sounded better.

they

NOTES

Carl Myatt

Miss Grant rune the gamut of did. For this is a very entertain- Hame," and Condino's soulful vocal emotions and expression in

ing diso, which shows "Mr Ac on the Bobby Troup album. She expresses sorrow, fear, pordian" in a variety of moods; Baby All The Time

tune. "Baby, hope, love and especially toy with Continu here is backed by

In charge of the recording session endous incerity.

qumlet widch Дот

Recording Director Miss Grant, who as you all prob- work

the most part was Mercury's unobstrusively behind him: Petz Rugio, e celebrity in his own ably know It features a resident trio-the Ash Blythe in the Laban Rath men come through well, particularly for dils date, and all concerned are He Bew war the value beting But when given the solo spot, the right is a band leader.

into Las Vegas with two engineers Frankie Fonseca group-and story, has not tried to encroach into tromboniat

Jimmy "İle guest artistsa.

the domain of the really great Gospel Blount.

tu be congratulated on a good job ac singers. Those that have already ap- songs more i tribute to the great work by

Rather has she eg these A typical example of the night's complished under what must have peared on the programme in- ones o well as in the belief that explosive interpretation of "Flying

was the been difficult conditions

On Mercury KB.60019.

clude Bob Elliott (guitarist and folk singer), June Elliott (who sings madrigals and the blues). Chris Daw (Spanish music and jazz) and Alec Peal (folk songs and jazz).

So listen in--if you have the time. Your station: Radio Hongkong the time Sunday at 5.30 p.m.

TAD PAUL is to the banjo JAD

What Les Paul is to the gullar. And the first Mr Paut Snakes his debut on wax for Liberty, using many of the tricks which his predecessor used on the guitar.

The sound is nevertheless un- usual, entertaining and exclling. In stereo the effect is quite startling at times. Paul Iz.becked heré by only a bass and a drum and he displays his talent on such olities as "Tiger Rag", "Wabash Blues" and "Lazy Elver."

Qu Liberty 7120,

THERE is tile doubt that tremendous re-

there is vival in big, band male these days.

Coming into the market with his third album is trombonist Sy Zentner. The album is "Sud- denly It's Swing" and his 17- piece group make the most of same grand arrangements on tunes such as "Tvp Found A New Baby," "Just A-Wearyin For You," Estrellita," and "I'm Cild There is You.!!

On Liberty LEP #129.

FTHIE Litle Zot the album Vis "Shout." It could very “have been "Clogs Grine?

By

the

group

Red"

The Hit Parade

TED THOMAS

667THE

667 THE trouble about Pop singers is that they just don't. 'lost," so says the old adage. But one or two of the names that are piling up tremendous record sales this week have been with us for a long long time.

Frank Sinatra la back in the Top Twenty in both the States and Britain, with a new recording of an old number, "River Stay Way From My Door,"

Then Jo Stafford will soon be knocking on the door of the Hit Parades with Her now. title "Indoor Sport."

Both these singers tiave.. been with us for over 20 years. You'!! agree that very few enterfaipers of. any sort have stayed at the top that long.

4

Wax is it that many of

the really top flight British singers never seem to entoh pa in Hongkong?

Tommy Biecia. Marty Wilde, Adam Faith, Craig Douglas and even Lonnie: Donagan are--prastically heyên Given pin by ipoal deejays yet they rula tha roost baoft In the United

1. Spring Rain-Pat Boone,

2. Why Frankie Avalon.

3. Cradle of Love-Johnny Preston.

4. Everybody's Bomebody's Foot-Connie Francis.

5. The Ding Dong Song Tai Chin.

6. Forever Ruby Murray,

7. My Home Town-Paul Anka.

8. Amapola-Tony Williams.

9. Young Emotions--Ricky Nelson.

10. Exclusively Yours- Carl Dobking, Jr,

$1. Theme from "A Summer Place"--The Fontane Sisters.

12. Chicken Thief--The Kalin Twins.

13. House of Bamboo-Earl Grant,

14. Lonely Blue Boy-Conway Twitty.

15. A Star is Born-Mark Dinning.

16. Why should I dream— Shirley Churcher.

17. Half a Love-Lou Monte,

18. Young at heart cha cha-Tommy. Thomas.

19. Sweet Affection-Sarah Vaughan.

20. (1

bp with you in) Apple Blossom Time-The Plaitėra.

Kingdom, and sell more re- cords than the trans-atlantic stars like Elvis, Pat and Ricky,

There is undoubtedly large percentage of our listeners here' who like the old. Home country's record.

⚫eppolafly" ino artista Amongst the service" fada but even the request pro- prammes are a veritable desert of British talent.

You know, it's now just

A tenytary-since. “The find Long Playing zon hit the mark

the greatest fan, years of

hus" 87" scen. Following the IP came Ht F1, fhên -and quickly

the 45 rpm. which turned the pit Taalloned 78 r.p.ku. into a xungesim plece.

Now with pre-rpporded tapos, tape recordora, HI FI playback units, each home Decomes a concert hall, t the outlay of a few hundred dollars,

Do you remember the vary first L.Pa-before-they, were widely marketed. They cost something like $180 ch!. You, times change.

OCK in Roller

berd.

The Path of Life

THE path thro' life is full of pins, For man oft fall into sins. Those who thro' this path succeed

Are very few indeed.

Many let riches smother their heart.

Thus when they from this world depart Their riches lie here below

And are of use to them no more. Others spend their time in pleasure,

Which to them is the only treasure, Thus their souls they forget

And fall into evil's net. Some give in to opium, smoking

Others give their hearts to drinking. Thus men are blinded by the vices

Which the Lord, Our. God, despises. Howe'er the right and only way

Is to think of God and pray,

And have our conscience clear

For our end may soon be near. Credit Card to Daya Gulab, Kowloon Tong.

17-21

CLUB MAILBOX

I HAVE heard so much about your 17-21 Club that I've decided to join. Please tell me why there is an age limit in this Club, while the South China Sunday Post-Herald's "Children's Corner has none. I tould also like to suggest that in order

promote more interest in the Club you have various contests every now and then Zachari McIntyre, Rotoloon,

as a

Thanks for written achary, You've been enrolled member na from folur. We would like to point out, however, that the Sunday Post-Herald's Children Companions Club DOES have an age limit of 16 years. You may have mined the last content (held in May)" wheis, peizer of $75, $50 and $25 were won by mous bers. However, we do run contexia, now and then,

Meet the members!

QUAN GWOK PHOUL 20, accountant, Flat 446, 81 | Shu Kuk Street, NP., Hongkong.

ZACHARY MCINTYRE, 19, private flor and part- time student Flat K-19, 11th floor, Comfort Building, 38 Nathan Rood's Kowloom.

am. every night with a half few months' time."

"How does one learn singing?" hour break at 11.30 pm..

Well, I just listened to "Where else can a singer use cards, radios any good sing- her talent?":

The scope is unlimited," she ing. For practice, I sing a tube three or four times while read- said. "I myself have sunging the music-and then I'm films, on radio, TV and the ready for my performance." stage. And I have also cut more

than 100

selling

over

records in Manila, The deceptive ease with which 20,000 copies Carmen sings, of course, comes throughout the Far East," she only after years of hard-earned recalled fondly.

That cost my mind back to the astronomical figures of

experiencel

REQUEST

royalties from records done by life of a singer?"

"How long is the professional

Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra,

"It all depends. Your voice. Patti Page, Nat King Cole.......and that of a Chinese singer whose that," she said, sipping at her and personality will determine spinning drink.

records keep

money

On

for her at $20,000 Д

month even after her death!

Another waiter passed a slip

parade. outside

on the

"One good point about the of pager into her hand a re profession is it International quest for her to sing the cur

rent favourite

bit nature," she said, "The field is not overcrowded America."

The band struck up. Carmen True, appreciation of music is stepped into the limelight once universal, And Carmen can sing confidently calm.

more sparkling, glamorous and

is your name Julia ?

THE MEANING BEHIND: JULIA'S LATIN NAME MAKES QUITE A KAIS RAISING STORYAITICS FEMININE VERSION OF JULIUS JULIA MEANS: THE DOWNY FACED.

Soon she was weaving her spell in the dimly-lit ballroom:

On a day like today, We passed the time away

Writing love letters in the

sand,

How you laughed when I cried

Each time I saw the tide Take our love letters from the

Band,

The closing notes died away ard Carmen returned to my table, w

What enables a singer to hold her audience spellbound? Carmen's answer: "Milest "Voice, experience, per allty, a knowledge of. music good health, and

Bolch bänd

Her advice to the beginners or aspirante: "If you weakly want to sing, leam your music theory well mid kissed the trend, know your voice: follow its limitations Then the band again"- and Chermen,

MY