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Cut down on silly talk The ghostly sea

on that first big date

DON'T expect an explanation of how it happens:

just know that it does happen. One day you're in study hall or struggling to get your locker open, you look up and meet a pair of eyes. He walks over and asks for date just like that!

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Your first real date with a come life-time heart-throbs boy! The excitement of it hits The first date is the beginning you, and your stomach acts up of the preparation for the time in a

rock-and-roll rhythm as when your dream man does you realise how very_little you come along. actually know about boys.

So the first thing you do is seek out a girl who does know about boys. Maybe she is two

Plan

You finally come to the con- or three years older than you clusion that YOUR attitude on are. In a secluded corner of the this first date is going to deter- lunchroom she tells you, you mine whether you're going to have nothing to worry about.. have a good time or not. You

plan to be a good date by:

"Boya are one of three things,” the suave, blonde junior tells

BEING APPROPRIATE: you. "Unpredictable •... very If your date is for a

sporting congenial if the girl is popular, event, like football

a

game, Or he might ignore her. com- dress for the occasion in sport petely if he considers her 'out clothes and low heels. Just be- of the swim.”

cause it IS a date does not call for high heels and a date dress.

"Another," the experienced dater goes on to say, "is the my life-is-an--open-book type. No

fun.

℗ EASY TO TALK TO: Meet him halfway, with conversation. Cut down on the silly, giggle talk. It usually makes boys un- comfortable.

"The third type,” confides the blonde, "Is the eager. beaver. NOT SHOWING OFF: I He bends over backwards try- he's asked you for a date, he's ing to be the ultimate in dates. seen you when you were acting Wants to please you and is

normally. He liked you that overly interested in everything way. Make him proud to be you say. Boring!"

First

your escort.

SAYING

¿

GOODNIGHT WITHOUT LINGERING: When you get to your door, make the

I want to be free,

From the ghostly sea, Whase whispers haunt my

ear,

Creating in me a great

fear,

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Reel Corner

XATE O'REILLY

For it calls me every day, In an interview with a film

Bidding me to go its

way.

What is this grave mystery That lies beyond the

sea?

screams,

Are they creations of

my dreams? Are they voices from the

DIRK

correspondent

IRK Bogarde, one of the few internationally

stars to have remained a bachelor, lit one of bis special cigarettes and spoke with his customary characteristic directness about marriage!

What are these ghastly record of successful a remote mountain town

sald, is disastrously low. I am SONG.” marriages in our profession,” ha. “THE SINGER

speaking, you understand, of the acting profession when

I say that during the 25 years I have been working, of all the mar ried couples I have known only three have survived."

sea;

Are they calling, calling

me?.

Let me go! let me go!

Please don't call mei

anymore. away the soft. whispers,

Hush

Break away these strong

fetters.

Won't someone please set

me free,

Free from the haunting, haunting sea?

Credit card to Daya Gulab.

We were sifting at lunch in Pinewood Studios where he is currently starring the Boy Baker production "THE SINGER NOT THE SONG."

Shining examples

Diverse interests

“In my profession there problems, altogether outside world of show business"U: like, but it would be altogethe foolish to ignore them or prov tend they don't. exist.--

"There are problems of tem- perament, of careers that could Clash Of separations. Of friends, business and otherwise," whe move in separate compartments, "Don't believe, for a moment, that have no common meeting as it were. Of diverse - Interests

Institution," he went on. that I am decrying the marriage -point.-

"In-

deed, I have shining_examples "Most people have strong In my own family. My father sex impulses when they ma and mother have been glorious. When that sex - zifraction ly in love for all the long years blunted by time and other of their marriage and are as considerations, there must be much in love today as the day something left to sustain

marriage.

MEET THE they married.

But you use your own think- go ing powers and realise boys it, it looks like you are asking can't be labelled like lab speci- for the kiss-me-goodnight mens. "You tell yourself that routine. Not advisable on first dates are supposed to be fun, and are an established custom

goodnight brief. If you prolong MEET

in America for getting to know the opposite sex.

Suppose your first date does disappoint you? Well. high school heart-beats rarely be-

JUST

dates.

With these attitudes chances

MEMBERS

"My brother is happily mar- "Unfortunately in show, burd« ried. So is my sister. But mono- ness the common bonds - that gamy is not for me,” added Dirk ordinary people are able to fall who was still dressed in the back on have been strained to black leather trousers and shirt breaking point by the kind of

are your first date will be an PRAMOTH BOONSIRIT for the part of Anacleto, a life actors and actresses have experience you'll long remem- HAM, 20, Student, Mirador Mexican bandit who terrorises to lead" ber with pleasure,

—EVELYN WITTER.

Mansions B1, 3rd floor, |Nathan-road, Kowloon.

The Hit Parade By Ted Thomas

how did the Hit come to

Jus Parades

be the exclusive proper- ty of teenagers?

Few can argue that the music that finds it's way into the top twenty is almost with- out exception kept there by the younger people.

Adults Just don't crowd the counters of the record stores eagerly demanding the latest disc by Elvis Presley and Paul Anka-yet. these records are the type that consistently hog the top spots in the sales charts throughout the world.

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1 repeat, how did it happen? A CLUE to this came during our last session of "First Impressions," a Radio Hong Kong programme in which a panel of three furists weigh the potentialities of new releases. - It

feve seems that very adults buy singles.

· Most pop numbers are re- corded on singles and their` cheaper range brings them well within the reach of the teenagers budget.

Grown-ups tend to find the constant disturbance involved in changing records after each number too.fiddling, and pre- fer to spend more money and less time on the long players. Thus the market for popular music has passed almost en- tirely to the younger set

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ŋque name of Johnny (Cry)

Ray used to be about

1. Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini-Brian

Hyland.

2. No-Dodie Stevens.

3. My heart has a mind of its own-Connie Francis.

4. You mean everything to me-Neil Sedaka.

5. Romantica-Jane Morgan.

6. I love you. In the same old way-Paul Anka.

7. Summer's gone-Paul Anka.

8. Tell Laura I love her-Ray Peterson.

9. I wish I'd never been born--Patt! Page.

10. Seven Lonely days-Georgia Gibbs.

11. Come back, Silly girl-Steve Lawrence.

12. To each his own-The Platters.

13. Banjo boy-Art Mooney.

14. Come Back to me my love-Mark Dinning.

15. Love walked In-Dinah Washington.

16. Good timin’—Jimmy Jones.

17. Candy Sweet-Pat Boone.

18. Just a closer walk with thee Jimmy Rodgers.

19. She's mine-Conway Twitty. 20. Heartbreak-Jon Thomas.

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Johnny was out, and the hit songs became fewer and fewer. Nobody can explain what it is that makes a young man an idol one day, and a for- gotten name the next, but it happens.

Occasionally there's a come back-look at Al Jolsoni And there's going to be a come. back by Johnny Ray too. Can the Johnny still appeal to youngsters?

My guess is yes. Watch for his newest and bluest record- ing of "Let's Forget It Now". A lot of people are going to buy it.

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ERE'S

-the best known of all in Hit HERF

Parade circles a few ' years ago, but nowadays you hardly

hear a whimper from

ever hha

His recordings of "Little White Cloud," "Please Mr Sun" and "Cry" were holding position at the a permanent top of the top twenty, and then suddenly it was over.

new

something from Elvis Presley. An- other record; but a record without a song. On his latest dise Elvis doesn't sing a note.

Instead, Mr Presley recites! Will you buy it? Of course you will.. Tell me an Elvis' fan who wouldn't buy a record by their hero even if he only danced on it. Still they come.

The records made by the late and Eddie Buddy Holly

killed in 20- Cochrane, both cidents.

Holly in an aircrash a year and a half ago, and Cochrane In an auto accident earlier this year.

But the record companies carry on releasing the songs waxed before thel deaths. Since his death Buddy Holly. has had at least six records in the Hit Parades; and Eddy Cochrane at least two.

Just how long will it go on before the supply dries up?

HITS HERE AND THERE DEPARTMENT

America:

(1) I want to be wanted, by

Bronda Loa

(2) Save the fast dance for

me, by The Drifters Farland:

(1) Only the lonely, by Ray

Orbison

(2) As long as he needs me,

by Shirley Bassey.

Dirk Bogarde as he appears in the Roy Baker production "The Singer Not The Song".

CLUB

IAM

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MAILBOX

AM a youth of 26, studying in the Taiwan Normal University. My hobbles are playing Chinese chess and reading novels. I wish to correspond with college students, who are interested in physics and mathematics,

Louis Young

Taiwan Normal University, Peace-road, East, section Taipei.

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