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Patricia

THERE'S NO LEVIS LIKE PAI LEWIS!

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1961.

Lewis

Integrated: Brubeck,

Brubeck, Mingus

RESULT THE BEST

JAZZ THEY

HAVE EVER PLAYED

I

ALWAYS thought that jazz was the great automatic integrator, and that wherever two or more musicians were gathered together to blow up a breeze nobody gave a crotchet about colour.

Not so as a telling little incident which oe- curred during the shooting of "All Night Long" at Pinewood amply illustrates.

The - Jazz version of "Othellos ret in a million- oire's apartment and the action is played out against a dusk to-dawn Jam session.

show miscegenation and-with the South the way it is-nobody would back it in America. And secondly, because of the under- Current between white and black musicians an out of it in

Now, why take Euch indigenous subject

America and make

Buckinghamshire →→ particularly when you have the expense at flying over musicians Dave Brubeck

Charlie

Mingus?

ond

Uneasy

ke

Bob Roberts, the executive producer, gave me this uneasy answer: We shot I here for two reasons. First, because we

い

"

This, I must admit, was news

to me,

Even in England Mr Roberts For had his anxious moments,

white one sequence he wanted pianist Brubeck to improvise a completely unrchcorsed Jazz-

The social barrier that beats Tony

Perkins at table-the searching look lowered

track with coloured bass-player looked me straight in the eye Mingus.

and said, 'But will he play with me?”

Now Charlle Mingus is fun- Dusly outspoken about racism, so Mr Roberts phrased his 10- quest with care,

+

"First of all I asked Charlie If he would play with Dave. He

"Eventually they both agreed end after the first few bors it was like a revelation. They im- provised on a blues for an hour

Perkins

UBINO aside his bread-and-butter pud.

a long, searching look round the hotel dining-room.

• You know," he said finally,

- chja 15 like juu all totgis where you're booked in by a film com. pany. The only people who can afford the prices are so much older than ine.

The trouble is I'm scared to walk into a realaurent or bar by myself." he explained.

I always feel people are maying. Is that Tony Perkins and He looks all alone, so let's Bak him over. Bo most times when I'm away, from home, 1 just go to the theatre,

Tell me, la there any fun in this hotel 7 I'm not inventively funny myself, but I love to laugh with amudag people." he Babed sadly.

The lean. 20-year-old star whose performance in Onɔdhşe Again" (the film ‘of Sagan's ** Almez-vous Bratima ?“ WOD him the Best Actor Award at Cannes this year-is over here to makePhaedra." with Melina

Mercouri.

and it was one of the most plays tax with the quartet, and emotional things I've ever heard, talked about this unhappy

"Afterwards they both told situation. me privately that it was the best they'd ever played."

Before Brubeck few back to the U.S., we got together with Mingus and Paul Desnioad, who

When it's all right to

infinite number of tortures men have invented to. inflict on each other, surely none is dreadful and terrifying than brainwashing, the deliberate taking away of a free mind and re-

Of all the

more

The Chinese invented the term (the words "hat nuo" İlter- ally mean "wash brain"), and the Chinese Communists are its master-exponents,

fall in love.......

The Party says you can develop, but the girl has

still got to be convinced!

By

PETER FORSTER

placing it with an alien that all the time the emphasis check with the party to see if is on affirmation rather than I was all right to be in love. ideology.

dental, On talk rather than Then if the party gave the go- silence.

ahend he would go to the girl The tight-lipped hero, deter- and say, 'So-and-So I am la- mined to give nothing away, terested in you, Can we do. would be lost in a Chinese pri velop? If the girl would say, 'I son where a group must talk, cannot develop,' he would con- talk, talk, day and night, dhout line arguing and returning," their ideological beliefs, about Possibly that strikes you as their mistakes, about Commun- too absurd to be true, but Dr ist ideas.

Lifton's accumulation Buch detall is too overpowering Dr Litton writes in a flat, be dismissed. And while you

manner, but the read this, brainwashing la guing Masened, I seem to remember Juman lilemma is there, on in China. screaming to be heard by any- one who will go beneath B psychiatrie jargon.

Yet brainwashing is much misunderstood, To judge by many plays and films, one might think it a matter simply of a few sessions with a single, sub- tle persuader.

In fact, the Chinese have learned to allow from ung to Ave years for the process, with out even then being able to guarantee results, and a crucial factor is that victims must live In groups and influence guchi other.

Objective

dramatic

Appalling

Imagine the web in which a

Oh, for a butt

But salutation

way.

heart,"

taking its glad

Lime

Charlle poured some lime juice into his beer and waded straight in..

"The blas oll starts because the Negro feels jazz belongs to him and he wins all the polls, but then someone like Brüberk gets the jobs. And after a while you get to hating him because he's successful and someone like Bonny Rollins can't get work.

"I tell you, man,

I didn't want to play with Dave because I hated him for years, but once we started I realised this

Buy has no colour and I knew I'd been wrong.

"That's why I think 1'11 get the background music written first and film to that tempo."

For the climactic "stream of consciousness" sequence_Cordla intends using a completely new cinematic process.

Experiments

started experimenting with

"After I made 'Red Shoes' I

new idea,

A

"It's roughly_golarisation, a way of 'fozzing The print to get a dreamlike, other-world quality. Everything seems to float I'm crazy about the whole sublect"

Mr Cardiff's Initial encounter. withUlysses" happened many years ago, when he bought a

Brst edition for £70.

"Sometimes we are all so busy haling we can't play together, and certainly for me the race barrier was dropped here for make 'William Tell things got

the first Ume."

"And then while I and my family were in Rome, waiting to

rather desperate. We'd sold the

with three children in school, I was down to my last 35s.

Dave, a quiet-spoken bookish Encyclopaedia Britannica and, man of 40, shook his head sadly, "I have to agree with Charlie there is, unfortunately, a feel- "So I sold my 'Ulysses for ing... a

£15. The other day I went into tension... between the white

the and

coloured a rare books shop and asked musicians.

them to and me another first "It's something. that's been edition. They said they would-- building gradually for a long but it would cost £150," time. One doesn't want to sec i bulid, but it's definitely there Dow--though when I first started out with the quartet I didn't know it existed

...course,

in our group we go around in a little padded cocoon," put in Desmond.

Friction

From deep receises of a loyal of New tu

While when it comes to Mr

that he was once responsible for an eulogy to Sir John Helth (now Lord Reith) of the BBC which began: "Lord of sweet music and of Langham Place!

1 fear the same unhappy strain that seems to go with his office shows through more than once in his new verse, as in the common self-consciously modern version of the Three Kings search for includes the

of sack... Bhat

priest was caught, who tried to PRIEF literary quiz:

cor!-

lie his way out by false fessions. then found, after two

in order to show had the following? Dry- Bethlehem, which years, that This I learn from a fascinat- you are more on their side, you den, Shadwell Tate, stanza Ing new book which offers an have to increase your crimes." exhaustive and objective an And the horror of testing Rowe, Eusden, Cibber, "Why no, the shepherds said lysis of the Chinese Communist prisoner's thought reformed" Whitehead, Warton, Pye, we're Mr

Wordsworth, chaps,

status by having him Interzogale

Southey,

wir.

'Perhaps.

brainwasling technique.

Jones's shepherd Its ulte is the grim, cold another. phrase which the Chinese zow Often the ultimate cruelty Tennyson, Austin Brid- Ola Mr Jones would know, I prefer to "brainwashing": has been to let men loose to Thought Reform (Gollancz, a freedom they

are no longer ges and Masefield.

But he'll be gone to bed by 30s,), and the author is Hatin equipped to understand, so that Fulshed American

diets, psychiatrist, one German professor in Hong Laureate of this land, starting

Ajurwer: Each

Poet WHE Robert J. Lifton.

However long before there kong longed for the "security" There are many detalled ac of his Communlet prison.

with Dryden's appointment on was a Masefield Poet Laureate, counts of the

there April 13, 1600. The present in- sufferings of

Masefield, a John Western and Chinese victims — How do scholars come to cumbent is Jobn Manefeld, who wrote some of the anest yet there is an inspiring aide to

careers whooo new book The Bluebelli narrative verso in the language, the record for, in most cases, which have brought them inter- and Other Verse (Heinemann, and sometimes the old master's

national eminence? How can daughter of a university chancellor be brought to the him into Basically, there are two stages point of leading in brainwashing confession to public disgrace?

denounce

after their release or escape, the they regained their normal bal- ance of mind.

uncommitted crimes and barely

thelr

own

realised beliefs, and then, when Ludicrous

the Chinese laundry of the mind

has expunged such marks of

former upbringing comta re- education Into Communist be liefs.

wan

Compelling

1) has just been published. hand shows plainly through.

Formerly Puets Laureate received some payment plus a bult (or 100 gallons) of sick to encourage inspiration. In lieu of this Mr Marefold is said to take

£27, on which hy is taxed, but stance, seek a more direct and

You could hardly, for ins

it

the

"We're not out in the jungle York looking FUT Monday-night dates. But

cliquy edge in the atmosphere." would still be impossible not to scasc the friction and

Behind his tinted glasses, Charlie looked pained.

"That's what I mean, man. You got yourselves all set and we had to lake out a Thelonius Monk collection for three months ago 'cos he was near-starving there

Spontaneously, he put an arm round Brubeck.

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up

"But I til say that until: v'e played together I didn't know this man had so much love in him.”

And If music really be "the food of love," play on, gentle- men, play on,

CARDIFF AND THE PERFECT

Cardiff is now in the £50,000- a-8lm bracket and will be happy to pay.

-(London Express Service),