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Record Review

For opera

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1960.,

FOREVER AMBER GIRL

HAS ANOTHER TRY

lovers DEADING a book by

Kathleen Winsor IA

PARLOPHONE have like driving a fant car with foot on the throttle issued a act of eightono records of particular in-and the other on the brake. You feel there should be terest to lovers of opera.

Seven of the eight records more speed and zeat some- ure of known arias sung by where, but you never quite famous Italian artists-Glaoon find it.

Stignani, Cloc Pederzini, Ebe

I have

been taken for two

Elmo, Lina Paglughi, Onella literary car-rides by Mrs

Fineschi, Galliano Mazini and Cesare Slepl, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Della Radio Italiana and

Sinfonien the Orchestra Dell'Eur (Parlophone I 30001-7).

These recordings but I find the

and

KATHLEEN WINSOR

Tall, beautiful, talented

Kathleen winter points out on the dust cover: "This novel is in no senso aufblo- graphical. The emiral character is not and is not intended to be Maybe not, but there myself."

similarities between the lives of Shireen and Kathleen.

BOTH ir produce success- ful allegedly historical novels.

BOTH talented.

ΩΣΤΟ

are tall, beautiful,

Boff married young. Shireen loses her first husband's love. Kathleen is now married (for the lawyer the third time)

who helped her when her second marriage, to Artie Shaw, was dissolved.

BOTH climbed early up the "Ten thousand?" Shireen peaks of the popular Parnassus. And both found, apparently, lesa happiness in that rare air than they had hoped for.

Winsor. One In Forever Amber": In "Star Money."

two, This novel tells a simple, one dimensional tale that would Beem long in # woman's magazine, tailing off among the are good, beauty ads.

Врип out over eighth disc of 408 pages it is too long for even outstanding quality. On this the longest night. Gino Marinuzzi conducta chorus

the Orchestra

Realms of gold frowned. "Is that all?" Sinfonica

iri Dell'Elar

Go Thoughts On Golden Wings (Nabucco) std 0 Signore, Dal TAR Money" is the story of

Shireen Delaney.

"young Tello

Nalle (Lombardi Alla

Navr Prima Crociata

of an American Verdi. by This is as Anely balanced an who is overseas. She piece of recording as anyone writes an historical novel. But 302 books, The first writes it. "I read work in favourite of House wrote eight completo drafts, or in total of 12,038 pages, and spent wives' Choice,

but this new

on the These are described much better than altogether 6.202 hours recording that to far used by the BBC entire project." (Parlophone E. 2:098),

could wish to hear.

whic

into

No, that is not all. Shireen'a book-sales

high the realms of gold; editions re- multiply them- produce and

amoeba-like, with an elves. enviable speed.

After

her

Come

Shireen muscs comewhere:

"There are only two ways to make a lot (of money) when you're young. One is to mter. tain the public: the other la to

cheat it."

"Star

this book wins wealth. Miss Delaney turns her attention to affairs of the heart.

length, painted poles apacori al certainly [Miss Winsor wrote her careful intervals to prop up the money.... mammoth "Amber" five times, thin fabric of the novel to give covered 9,241 pages, spent 4,907 ar Busion of depth and mean-

Thus ing hours on her project. Miss Delancy wins by a thort head.]

Her book

Ja

In the summer of 1947 the Philharmonia Orchestra con- ducted by Nikolai Malko gave a terrifle performance of port of

Immediately the Suite No. 1 of Khachatu-stccessful. Saya her agent: rlan's Guyanch Ballet maste "They're offering you a 10,000- including the now famous Sabre dollar advance"

Dance. This month you can [Miss Winsor collected 50,000 hear some of the Suito No. 2 advance dollars for "S.M.") played by the New York

Money," by

Philharmente Symphony Wor, Mactonald, 121. ca. Orchestra conducted by Elrem

Counsel, and A Dream, but wonder why Mmc. does them

Kathleen

Just the same thing

VERA Britain's

153.

Into

Kurtz, Interpreted with in- telligence and well recorded. Personally I would like to hear the Philharmonia and Malko tackle this second sulle if only because they did such a fine job with the first. (Columbia DX 1641-2.)

excursion That

magnificent sopranu.

Puritan Englanes, "IN THE Kirsten Flagstad, sing three of Grieg's songo

STEPS OF JOHN BUNYAN"; in Norwegian- Heart Wounds, Thanks For Thy pulls the lid off that great man's

background.

Bunyan's age was oddly like Fingslad on orchestratout. Like Henry Cade, Bunyan accompaniment. The accompani-had his worries, his ambitions, ment of the Philharmonia con-his fear that he might always:

beat behind ducted by Warwick Braithwaite be that one gives the pololat

excellent band.

Says Miss Britain: Where- support, but the songs should სა

ever The Pilira's Progress" is sung with

plano

only.

and women read, there the men (II. M. V. DB. 21020.)

who

spring from the same clock Gluseppe Vandengo, with the

its author confront the New Symphony Orchestra con- challenge of the human crisis, ducted by Alberte Erede, gives Their place, new as then, is in a most satisfactory performance the van of the struggle for those of the Prologue to I Pagliarel Christian values He has a ne Bense of the dramatic axl theno

and resonance

to

(Decca L 303.)

the

It's phoney

What sort of girl in Shireen? "She was taller than average and huilt according to American standards. .She wore a rown of silver-grey jersey, moulded | and clinging, as if it had been rung out and put on wet."

found the ca histories

of Johnny and PAUL and Dallas and Ed dull nod un convincing. There is too much

well call it Factor X-and,

with sex."

Or: "Love crisis chiefly in the fancies of pets and ad-

urrtising men,"

'Resemblance ?*

Money" should

make a lot

James Leanor

-London Express Service)

of

SUPER-HAT-TRICK

DAD and FLOUNDER

by Walter

FIFENDER THEATRICAL

ALENT

BOOKS AND PEOPLE

Loch Ness monster.

has a rival

By JON HOPE

Mr Mackenzie never writes in the mornings, but, starting at p.m. he can carry on through the night-moslly to sousleal accompaniment.

Tho

a

Scissors, please,

Mr. Rice

THE SHOW MUST GO

Elmer ON. By Gollancz 12. 6d. 472

pages.

But already ho is in the train bound for Parls Sitting opposite him is a handsome woman who is obviously very unhappy indeed. Mr Byculla is regarding her with cad. sympathetic and speculative

Rice. NEW BOOKS,

by.... GEORGE

THE show must go

on.

:

MALCOLM THOMSON

☆

No doubt. But run off and married a French- need this novel go on Canadian

For Eric to write a play is the for 472 pages? Need it tost straw. become a kind of guide- book to the contem- American porary theatre? And need it, for long sections, look more like a traffic jam than a narrative?

it. And that in a pity.

Is theme resurrection

New York

OUT OF THE SQUARE.

By Potor de Polnay. Hutchinson. 12s. 6d. 352 pages.

HERE it in Another of those

novels that rollelt the sym- pathy of the British public for the pour little post-war Italian children, forced to live by beg- ging and worst.

This time we aro invited

But the play is accepied, and

all the triumphs mibs and persuasively, for de experiences

disasters that befall plays Polany is a skilful worker

The leading lady, let the tear doon-fa' on behalf in fiction. straight from Hollywood, has a of a squalld brat named Marko, nervous breakdown. Eric falls and Giovanna, who is not quite

her mind in love with her successor, who, right in

marry eventually runs off to the piny's producer, bittered genius Thompson.

angela

an

cm-

and geos

It is idle for a reader to nsk such questions. Elmer Rice likes this theme too much, dwells on it too fond- ly, and cannot bring him- self to take the scissors to a young actress in the cast, thur children in a tepid mist of 11-

forfeiting the

esteem of his ment.

Yet a moment's cool reflection mistress, the rich woman who is is two-fold: the backing the production.

shown what Italy really noods: foreign tears of a famous old

the play, not sympathetic In consequence, theaire:

standard and the

n higher launching of a young dramatist's modestly successful, is taken off but first play. Two sturdy old at the first opportunity legally parental responsibilty at home; more efficient school attendance, taples of fiction these; they avaliable.

The last WO see of Eric, he probation pad welfare officers. will stand a lot of knocking

has manfully rejected an offer about. They get it.

to go to Hollywood and is Eric Kenwood, the young Hending back Connecticut

PARA- dramatist,

to belongs

New He has a new play in his pocket ANATOMY : OF England, where "the Tugged and an old sweetheart on his DISE. By J. C. Farnas, settlers and their descendants mind.

Gollancz, 18s, 542 pages.

We are asked to bellevo that named Leroy the mad girl works a myrile change in the bad boy. In short, the we are asked once more to wrap In tho meantime,

of tho Italfam dynamic Thompson has seduced this problem

hod tried to wrest a living from the

A novel for the stage-struck

verance is needed.

and stony unrewarding Olliers are warned that pere. IN this engaging. Informative

Connecticut coll Surely, have heard that phrase where before!

Kome

MR BYCULLA. By Eric

Linklater. Rupert Hart Davis, 81. 6d. 168 pages,

necount of the Pacific Islands rince the white men found them, the reader encounters as pretty anallery of rogues as could be Imaginod. e.

Bully Hayes, the binckbirdor; Introspection, too much phoneyCCENE of next novel from Waugh's previous novels.

By the time Erie la beginning

frst saw the region on member philosophy.

SCENE of next novel from Waugh's

is called clean to write plays, the settlers have

of a variety troupe touring New basert on the life of Samt

Zealand. Hayes bought or stole Ast "Love is one of the im- | be fascinating,

the islands of Whisky

civen up their struggle with the Ticlens. heroine of numbericas

short novel is one of all his vives! When one of soll. Either they have drifted us ponderablex, You might Galore. Story centres on

terenda.

Linklater's mistakes. Ils them cried too much, she wa the printers. way to become bank presidents Big job for personellu. I think it rhymes the discovery of a rival to

Publishers Hamish Hamilton or mayed at home and become temperament is too genial to put ashore at Honolulu, where the Loch Ness monster.

have ora

ordered 50.000 copies of degenerates. A case of incest succeed with an excursion into she became known as Stormbirt

the aluister-exciting.

Emma. Annoyed by intruding 300,000 word among the latter supplies Erle

Neither sufficiently amuted missionaries, Hayes made them 032 - paged,

the subject of his play.

Accordion until American best seller, The Wall. Culture rather than box office is not sufficiently enthralled, the dance to hin

his target

reader remains steadfastly une they dropped exhausted. Chinn-bom Author John Iersey Culture the wrote Bell For Adano) is

In truth. Eric is no little of convinced to the very end of 'former war correspondent.

eventful private secretary to prig. When someone remarks Me Byculla's brief, From his Berkshire home he was once

to him how badly behaved New clay in London.

Walter Murray Gibson, one of comes to London "no more than Sinchir Lewis.

York children are, he replies, Tawny in colour and with a

over cheated of outmoded the few men who "Maybe they're just products of perfect comunand 1 can help."

Writing called thom: 1

Young, sent to win When asked how her memoira

Mr Byculla murders Brigham an educational system that axes slang,

Hawall for Mormonism When he was 17 Clifford cur attention on success rather people because they were progressias, Dame Sybil Thorndiko cigled! "There are Willing started working for than on what goes on inside of happy. It is his vocation. Mr Anally seen off the island by a mob, one of whom carried a so many other things to do." bank. Twenty-two years later-us."

Byculla is a thug. she hai cliosen her. In 1046-he decided to devote Which mouthful does not, Jane Bruce, Dr Lessing and rope. But

King Kalakaua, who restored himself publishers--Harrop.

entirely to writing however, prevent Erie's atten- Sir Simon Killaloe are all un-

Hawali religion the

and its with some happy on account of a young ceremonics" Good news for Evelyn Waugh Blace then he has written nve on being

Playing poker novels (the latest, A Bullet for exclusiveness on the success of can named Ronnie. Mr Byculla admirers. He has finished

a sugar magnate, he won murders compassionately, new novel which he has been Rhino, is published by Hodder his play.

the pot by saying "ve kings,” The Chthusinam is not shared three. Would it not have been lying down four and pointing nad Stoughton) and his carn- working on for several years. His publishers, Chapman and logs have allowed him to by his family. For come time neater and more economical to Hall, will get li out In the restrict his bank visits to the the shadows have been closing have murdered Ronnie?

One would round the Kenwood home. Pop

have liked to autumn. It is far removed in public side of the counter. time and setting from any of Mr -{London Exprint Servier) has incipient GPI. Daughter has detain Mr Eyculla and ask him.

which carry

the pilgrims of every century la beauty through

the river of spiritual- voice. death to the Celestial City."

Weldman takes 382 pages to say the same thing.

ROBERT TREDINNICK

--(Lendan Express Service). }

ÌRich and Cooân, Ltd., 154,

Fourth-formers and the fas ringed lonely in Kensington bedsitters

may enjoy such paragraphs as pass for passion. (His mouth had forced hers open and his teeth pressed painfully against her lips. But she refused to relax or give herself up to him. Johnny Please don't This n't right!"")

Indeed it isn't Miss Winsor. Wo have heard it all before.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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TIME, WISH YOU

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A book to read.

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-(London Express Servia).

More Light Summer Fiction

BU

KEMP STARRETT

HONSENSE YOU'RE NOT INCONVENIENCING US IN THE LEAST. WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE

YOU

THE SAME OLD FICTION IS

STILL POPULAR WITH SOME

FOLKS ON VACATION.

#THAT PLACE IS A

DUMPY LETJ

GO DI TO

THE NEXT

"PLACE...

IT" A MAN CAM KEED UP THIS KOD OF FICTION KE MAY GET TO KIS DESTINATION WITHOUT GETTING STUCK FOR THE LUNCHES.

1 TELL HER

HOW LOVE- SOME YOU

ARE!

VRITING TO THE WIFE AND FAMILY, ADAY AT THE SEA SKORE, BRAGE OIT AANYA

HIDDEN

TALENT For

WHEN VE

ARE

ELECTED VELL

Thacht down mayons I Know for days, yesterday cleaned house and everythings in apple pie order to your whip to sunny abner-.

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| FICTION;

THOSE PLACES THAT TAKE IN GUESTS GIVE OUT WITH SOME IMAGINATIVE FICTION, LIKE, FRINSTANCE NICE,COOL, HAND-' COMELY FURNISHED ROOMS AND NOT A MOSQUITO UMIN FIFTY MILES.

COPE, 1150 BY GENIJAL, FEATURES CORP, TM-WIRED RIGHTS KUSKRYER,

THE FICTION TO THE LINGERING (AND LOAFING) WEEK-END' GUEST.

I AINT CCGCOLD!

TH' V-WATERK

1-1-NICE AU

VA-VARU!

THE FICTION THE YOUNG ONES PRO- DUCE: PLAUSIBLE

AS A TWO-BUCK DWMOND

THERE'LL BE

A LOT OF TAIS KUID OF

FICTION:

PLENTIFUL AS AKTS ON A

| PICHIC SAND- WICH.

*HOW DOES IT LOOK ON MES

*WONDERFUL!*