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Johnny Mathis is coming
I
HAVE just heard that Johnny Mathis is com- ing to Hongkong.
My source of information hasn't falled me yet, so you can be almost certain - that Mathis will be here shortly.
I am also told that plans are in the making for him to per- form here. He is reported to be making a Far Eastern tour that will take him to Manila and Tokyo before coming here.
NOTES ON NOTES
By CARL MYATT-
Thomas whose brain child the club is
an
E. Law
By Josephine E.
HIS week, let's attack
The problem of having
driving music supplied by tenor saxophonist Sam Butera and nothing to do. Never Among those appearing in the Witnesses.
worried you? Consider Sam recently made his film the big, three-quarters of hour "live" variety programme debut in "The Rat Race" cur- yourself lucky. So many of friends complained are Lavy Allen, the Fabulous rently showing at the King's my Echos and Thelma Toledo Theatre, and has Low come out about being bored, I went to with an album featuring tunes the lost and found depart- among others.
heard in this picture which ment to retrieve my think- TWO of the three records I incidentally stars Tony Curtis
ing cap.
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showing
I sincerely hope that who- ever is attempting to put Mathis stage here, will succeed.
have chosen for review this and Debbie Reynolds, There hasn't been a singer in
With the exception of parts the last ten years who has week are connected with movies
local one and two of "The Theme captured the imagination of currently
From Rat Race," the tures are the record fans as has 'this thestres.
From the Franz Liszt story, old ones. endsome young Negro vocalist.
"At Sundown,” "Out Of Mathis raised the ballad to "Song Without End" Carmen proportions no other vocalist in Cavallaro plays his interpreta- Nowhere" and "Two Sleepy years had been able to do.
tions of some of the great music People" on side one and Lullaby All we can do here is to heard in the film. Cavallaro as Of Birdland" and "Manhattan keep our fingers crossed.
you all know, supplied the on side two were my favourites. A good record for dancing. music for the Eddy Duchin, HAVE also been informed story, which album turned out The beat is infectious. I HAVE The Voice' will be story, which alles. It now looks
making a return visit in the
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smiddle of next year.
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moment. But don't be surpris- ed if he comes armed with a movie script.
as though Cavallaro has another best seller on his hands
On Dot DLP 3306
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Capitalising on the Off-Beat Yes, Frank Sinatza is coming In order to enhance the beauty back, and I am told, he will be of the music, many of the pieces Cha, Cha craze in this part of here for three months this time. have been slightly condensed the world, Tico have put out a
What is he up to? Well your and
adapted for orchestral complete album of Joe Loco's guess is as good as mine at the accompaniment. The orchestra interpretations of this new and
Jack fascinating beat. under the baton of is
This is indeed a prize collec- Pleis
include tion and the first of its kind. Tunes you'll hear
For my money, Joe Loco (real "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"; Name Jose Esteves) plays the the . lovely and exciting finest Latin American dance "Liebestraum", and "Hungarian music. It's tremendously excit- Rhapsody No. 1.”
ing stuff, but at the same time a hand in all Cavallaro has
simple and yet original. the arrangements.
(On Decca DL 78999.)
NOTHER well-known' setor AND are well-known
is the "Viking" hamself—Kh Douglas.
We expect him sometime in January of next year.:
BASIL Rathbone is due in on
RADI
the 20th of this month. ADIO Hongkong's “Mun Wu
Club holds its first big meeting today at the Queen Elizabeth School:
Compere and host is Ted
The 17-21 Club's five rules
Membership in the 17-21 Club is open to all within that age group.
Contributions and all ac- tivities of the Club will be limited to - members
saly.
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can
Actually, there are thousands of things you can do. And you entirely come up with unexpected results too.
During the summer vacation,
A little per- many of my schoolmates took a summer job.
my brother had suasion from me feverishly answering adver- never expected tisements. I anything to come of them - fresh out of school, absolutely inexperienced qualifications nil. If your father practically owned a company, you could be
human beings? There all of that and look like some- long ride just to observe your are so many different varieties thing out of a bad dream to fellow boot and still get a job.
Anyway, what did happen of this species, it ought to be was that a couple of my wacky interesting.
Experiment letters went astray which re-
getting to know Perhaps you are more cul- sulted in my
tured? What about a concert, some pretty nice people,
I do not suggest you dash off art exhibition, browsing at a Put on a pair of now and write a letter; such bookshop? things only happen to me. One glasses, muss up your hair, wear of my letters went to someone a slept-in version of your school
an amah! Most who wanted
I can uniform, and with tie askew at the imagine myself
near-sightedly in a peer
and shelves. If that does not work, pigtail, scrubbing floors falling over them. It just goes mutter to yourself occasionally, to show what could happen to stop in the middle of doing something and look around you!
vaguely, that ought to do the trick the sales personnel will do more than avoid you, they will run!
of the material on this album is taken at a medium to quick tempo. Nothing too slow or too fast.
Be
Some
I wonder how many of you have heard a Louis Prima- Some of the best tunes are:
If you "There'll Keely Smith Album.
Changes have heard any of the record- Made", "Stardust". "Why Don't ings of his wonderful husband You Do Right", "Way Marie" and wife combination, you must and "Tenderly".
On Tico LP-1006. surely have been struck by the
Reel Corner
XATE O'REILLY
completed filming at Associated British Elstree
Just despleted in. Hands heart-warming study of a little Roman Catholic boy and a Jewish girl whose friendship is threatened by the differences in religious beliefs.
just
No
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Seriously though, whichever it is you choose, here is a pretty
Gardening Ever try gardening? green thumb? That is one argument you don't have a leg to stand on. Let me tell you something. Try Climbing Ivy.
How? Just walk up to a wall-way of going about it. What I have illustrated could either be and tear a piece off. When
made as a sleeveless dress worn you get home, stick it into a with its short jacket or as plot of earth any plot of shirtwaist with its skirt marked earth. Water it. It will grow. by panels of fine, knife pleats. Then with your self confidence! For a stunner, make it in firmly established, try ferns. brocade.
Walk up to a wall, or the hill-
|side; tear a piece off, etc. When
you have tired of them, graduate MEET THE
to plants.
or
You like flowers? Try a crocus
a violet. Unless your Angers MEMBERS tion, they will grow.
are a moving mass of destruc-
The results are guaranteed to
TERENCE CHAU,
-19,
give you pleasure, especially it their you have forgotten about it, student, 40, Bowrington-
You plant your ill-gotten crocus road, 3rd floor, Hongkong. which, in your haste, you pulled NG KAN SUEN, 20, How they overcome their who established his reputation from a flower bed completely student, 41, Woo Sung-
а top director with his rootless. You water it, but it sort street, 3rd floor, Kowloon. problem with typical childish as
on you and lays TONY L. ORCHEZ, 17, logic and a refreshing disregard memorable "The Kidnappers" of gives up for adult narrow-mindedness, with a warmth and feeling in down its arms gracefully. You provides the central theme for the
finest traditions of the decide its dead. You leave it in student, 26, Cumberland-
the garden and forget about it. road, Kowloon Tong. this unusual story. “Hand in cinema.
Two weeks later you happen to YAN MOU-TONG, 21, Hand" is produced by Helen
Playing the two children who pass by the spot. It is flowering! student, 98, Thomson-road, Winston for Associated British
eventually overcome the basic The flower may look a little and directed by Philip Leacock.
differences between their two mangled, but there will be a bud ground floor, Hongkong. religions, are Loretta Parry and to console you. It's uncanny, DOREEN LAI, 18, student, Philip Needs, while the adult but immensely satisfying. 24, Mosque-street, ground The screenplay by Diana Mor- cast is headed by John Gregson,
floor, Hongkong. gan from an original story by Dame Sybil Thorndike and Fin Leopold Atlas-provides a bril- lay Currie, with Derek Sydney, Hant insight into the minds and Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron reactions of two children who and Arnold Diamond. And sadly that the older they "Hand in Hand,” photograph-burning them! All contributions MUST get, the more complicated life ed by Freddie Young, was shot on location. around Landon and be original.
is at the Associated British Studios
in Borehamwood, Herts.
Contributions may consist of anything that publishable -- articles, letters, stories, photo- graphs, drawings, verses, But only the best will be printed.
Written contributions should not - consist of more than 350 words, photographs and draw- ings will only be accept- ed in black-and-white.
-MEMBERSHIP-
Fill this in and send to the China Mail, 1-3 Wyndham Street, Hongkong.
Namu
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TOP DIRECTOR
becomes.
The finely-observed story projected by director Leacock
Or you could try vines or any other kind of plant that is an example of vegetative propaga- tion. There is nothing you can do to discourage them short of
The arts
JANET WAL, 17, student, 1, Chun Fai Terrace, 2nd floor, Causeway Bay.
JIMMY DICKSON, 18, student, 80, Pan Hoi-street, 3rd floor, Hongkong.
ELEANOR MORONNA, song our 17, student, flat 7, Mirador' modern definition, or a miser-Mansion, Nathan-road, Kow- able excuse for the real thing. loon. Behold!
How about writing poetry? Painting? Composing a song? Writing a song is easy- especially a
hit
Boy ya-ya-ya-ya, Boy meets
girl. 0-0-0-0-ohhhhh!
Boy ya-ya-ya, girl ya-ya-
ya 0-0-0-weeeee
Boy ya-ya-ya-ya, Boy meets girl. 0-0-0-0-ohhhhh!
wah-oo-wah-oo-wah,
wah,
dum, dum, dum, 0-0-0- D-ahhhhh!
Finis. Top tune of the week Who knows, if you chose that for a career, you might earn enough not to afford paying
your income taxi
NOTICE
BOARD .
ROY FAY: Sorry that you assumed my Bilence was deliberate, Roy. But in actual fact I wrote you on Sept. 18, asking you to For the more conservative come in with your credit people. Have you ever taken a cards, any afternoon-and busride to a strange part of collect. Have you had a town, somewhere you have never
Travel
been to? You might be surpris- change in address? Any- ed at the many spots you will way, you have the message discover. What about taking a [now.
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