the mother's past history in muse
picft us. mistoscople scrutiny wil fellow.
CROWNING GLORY
WOM
T7OMEN patients will be able to get a morale- boosting hair-do in Lon-
don's first hospital salon, to be built at St John's Hos- pital. Battersea. The cost? A "token sum"
shampoo or set.
for perm,
Man behind the idea is a senior administrative assistant who spent one Saturday after- noon visiting ladies' hairdressing shops to get authentic detail for his plan.
A day-roon will be converted to house three wash-points, manicure facilities, movable
driers and easy-chairs for wait- ing patients.
"Anyone who can make it--
un wheelchair or crutches, it
necessary—will be tended.
We
hope to open in July," say the hospital.
THE 'CURES'
XTHAT would you put on
Woburn? The
answer
should be NOTHING—ex-
copt
cleanly-laundered
piece of linen to keep out germs.
But these are some of the things fond relatives put on the burns of 334 children attended Guy's Hospital for treatment afterwards:
Vinegar. Salt. Tomato ket-
Jelly. Butter,
Patricia Lewis
On holiday with
a piano... the men behind
Sinatra's big hits
Von Heusen and Cahn --they make
a combination as piquant
as a martini.
EDWARD CHESTER BABCOCK, known as James Van Heusen, chose a half-pint tumbler, filled it with crushed ico and gin, passed the cork from a vermouth bottle twice across the top, then took a critical sip.
"Not bad," he concluded, «p-
year's words.
piano installed in the uite," explained Van Ileusen,
chup. Cold tea. Warm water. praising the martin like a con-
But not nominted for yet another in this find a and noisseur of claret. matharine Jard. Flour and sorp. Eirar-potent. American gin's stronger. "Yeah, this is TL vacation," the "music" man. bonate of soda and eye ointment. SUI, we're on holiday...." Spirit.
Sammy repeated
Calut,
the
"We" is the hit-song-writing "words" mah. "But the "Perhaps." I suggested, "they It is a very unfortunate thing team of Cahn und Van Heusen Savoy don't believe it...." thought it unlikely that business for children that there are more who, with six Oscurs between "You can imagine how sur- portners would choose
cach 'fumlly cures" for burns than them already, have "been prised we were to walk in and other's company for pleasure.
there are for coldy,
OUT-OF-DATE
Ship's Captain's Guide is
THE Medical
somatimes the only thing that stand) botween a sailor and dangerous illness
ar death,
But the edition. now carried on British slips is more then 12 years old, and does not even
have modery advice about nai!- blotles.
This allegation is made by Dr Peter Cook, medico officer lo
the British Petroleum Company, 10 a paper to the Royal Institute of Public Health and Hyglene, He says, too, that there is mentiun artificial respiration—now much favoured,
of
no
mouth-to-mouth
TALKING
POINTS
Read no history, nothing
but blography, for that is life without theory.
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most
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RICHELIEU.
"Could you stand a little more to 'your left?"
You must admit I'y rare."
Guide
ago
to
"Well,
when we first got and just deal in punch Unes.") rhythmle numbers but together eight years write Love and Marriage' It turned out to be some sort of
an omen," said Cohn, "Anyway,
Family man
sur-
nothing more durable than good old-fashioned-type love
Ballads seem to song.
the frothy vive better than
My favourite?
He's also very much a family songs,
"The
I have no sense of geography, man, with wife and two Last Dance-il's Sammy's too."
Limitations
For a couple to close, Culin and Van Heusen could hardly he more different-If you except a mutual munia for inartlols.
Summy light, dapper and Ilke a spectacled-looks more tailor them a lyricist. Volatile and crackling at a party with,
But he also has a 'most engag- "Take that record of Brubeck of a the spontaneous humour
ner, Jimmy poured himself on-
ing personality with a sense of with Bernstein. They do what Groucho Marx. ("He has such ulher cocktall.
They take a classical gimmickry that puts him ahead I do. A brain for comedy,” says
base and then improving. Jimmy, he can get in a room "A sentimentalist?" he mused. of scme of his contemporaries. with professional gog-writers "Of course I am. I like good
You see, there's
he
"Similarly washes and
with Picasso and shaves, and conventionally Louis Armstrong-they have the same personality that grows dressed.
from a deep, involved base into something simple and puro.
Moretti has painted most of the jazz greats who have flock- He is punctual, well ordered ed to his villa-studio. In Nico.
the well- hand, never been a Cahn-Van Heusen night. He hates
And always to the accom-
huy
known Paris and loves the nest paniment of records turned up been never
married. musical en Broadway?
streets of London, A massive man, his close-
very loud, "Sammy Jimmy shrugged. Both Caha and Van Heusen shaven head gives him an al- (he was advised to change his most Prussian look. A more had High-Button Shoee and I·
And he lives in Nice with his dresser then
mother Sammy. did three or four, but they were
for name by those who felt Bab- casual
(which
0 Delf- tip to now we've confessed Don Jimm must pock unsuitable for a composer) he prosents an impression of alt flops.
Hollywood to
present certain limitations). have enjoyed success with other slow-burning power that seems been too busy collaborators, but since team, strangely at odds with the wrlie for the theatre, but some Ing up, their record is one at delicate airs that now through people in New York want us to colid brilliance,
his fingers. Immensely kind, do a musical based on 'toffies' he's also immensely loved. and I think we well may,”
Looks like that formidable As Sammy says: "Ho's the most faxinating man I've ever new team of Richard Rodgers "The Tender Trop"...."All met-in fact he's so fascinating and Alan Jay Lerner will have
Van some competition after all the WayCome Fly with that Sinatra thinks he's Me...."Come Danoc with Housen," Me"....."High Hopes"....the 1 asked who was the more 1st is seemingly endless.
whereas Jimmy used to be a children at home in California. pilot-I tell ya I swouldn't leave
the house without him 'causa Jimmy. On the other I'd get lost."
The hits
sentimental of the two,
even if he does paint all Why, I wondered, has there
U
Raymond
"We're considered Sinatra's Cahn jumped in quickly: "I'm the
punctual painter ONE
official writers now," quipped as sentimental as the music," Calin, "Mind yo, we
don't he said. "I don't care who the write just to be writing-w feller at the slano is, it's what write to assignment. We've ju he's playing. Umally-cause. finished the score for a Xick like I said, we're mortly, given. Tuglas musical...."
a piece of material to write-I do the words fint, Like today. "....But we did find Umo a giri said to me on the teld- to write "Finn,'" broke in phone, Ive just met Par Jimony'. "You see. Tina la well. I'm gonna write a cong Frank's younger daughter and on that. Dut sometimes Jim- when she learned that I wrole my oila down and Anda 'Nancy
the Laughing melody and I work on what it young Nicolze pointor, has Face" for her sister she bogat suggesła to mo. Now, excus hocómo amait.......... worrying us oil for a zong of me-'cause I golla get to the her own. It's one of the first theatre, Van Heusen can do all That he has a wearing talent. dlace poledood by Sinatra's new the talicam from here un♫s is proved by his mit Tandon resort cotpunÝ,"
the door closed Vitlitud his part- show.
with
NE can understand why Raymond Maiett, the
Wall of safety
"strong mic
cuts
nw of from the world,” he explained, "People think I'm bizarte waving at the typically brick- because I had a phone installed bound Mayfair slow out of the Amy studio," he said.
window.
"But it would be stripld to take two houre driving some where to talk to a person when 1 can ufc this instrument wall at sound." Avhich is surely an Instrument
of work.
They
༔
Jazz age
“After a minute I forget about Macmillan and de Gaulle nate behind my because I'm
He plays everything loud and strong from Buch to Badle.But favourites are Dobicsy and
Elington.
**The Duka in the mbet believe an artist, fort, M. Monetti revealed because of the nature of his after a brief estimultation with work, must live in the Middle is vocabulary,
Atos,
An artist must surely live in his own ake,"
"When he's good he's the greatest. But this is not always aller all, a man who searches cannot always bo good.",
Tipt is why M. Moretti has become so "occupied,” as he puts it, with jazz that he now
deep statement, which, paints the thune of Ellington, A
sinco. Morotli, believes, the arti Ella And Armstrong..
are Unshakeably, bound, dre- "Jazz to the great reflection::sumably encompasses: paktitero of us of cur tince," he says, as wall
It is thb abins testing whether Strong or should I you say it in paints or poetry "fort7tzat,
'withinten Kepwa mitati).
or putes,
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