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HOW TO WRITE

A SONG

I built a le mamer house

That I'd been dreaming of With roses to the garden,

I planted there for love. That when the sun was shining

down

Your heart should be at rest With only blooming roste

Because you love them best.

M

n DOUGLAS FURBER, who wrote the lyrics for "The Bells of St Mary's," "The Lambeth Walk" and The "Flies Crawled Up The Window" to name but three of his

manifold successes-docs not think that the lines quoted above make a very good lyric. cannot believe that anyone (except the man who wrote the lines) will disagree with him.

I

Wearled, perhaps, by the ar- of hundreds of similar rival

by Virginia GRAHAM

mers?--and

today, unless he definitely sets

The Enemy Within

Is this what Mr. Attlee

warned Britain against?

|

By Trevor Evans

LONDON. ment." Beyond that he union ANNY, A fair-hatred knew nothing

Czech, who flew with

the wartime R.A.F. believes he can answer the riddle of Mr Attlee's broad. cast: Who are "The Enemy Within"? The Premier left rnast of us guessing how those who work among us can work against us.

But not Janny., He works as groundiman on a B.0.4.C. airport. In his anguish, this

"Perhaps," he pleaded, "it was a coincidence and had nothing to do with our chat. Pl. find out."

He is still finding out.

affairs with "an unauthorised person.". His three "judges" were Com- munists.

"Are you going to pay?" I asked him. "I must," ho said, "even if we starve for n bit."

I have disguised that For if he showed deflanco story, but the facts are his union ticket would bo right enough. I hate using withdrawn, his job would be disguise, but the men whose lost, and he would be black- work forces them to mix listed." with fellow- travellers know. the wisdom of it.

normally reserved ex-pilat When Frank-a union feels that he has talked too contact of mine-asked me on the telephone: "Can you

cup and

much.

Within.

meet

Was

The strike man

THESE incidents may statio

you, but I know enough to tell you they are not rare,

The Communist Party ad- mission that it has only 40,000 members is meaningless when one is considering the potential of The Enemy Within.

Hle story is of a personal wear a cloth clash with The Enemy muffler when you

Months ago he me?" I thought he joined one of the indepen- joking. I told him so.

His voice soon convinced dent unious now toughly resisting the mighty com- me. "They're watching me." I knew what bination of the TU.C. and he pleaded.

he meant. the Stato boards. Janny

We met. Two weeks Inter

The known Commanualsts Te preferred the iden of a

he was "branched." and circumspect, particularly when union without politics.

positions they ars aulinity within the unions,

fined

£5 for discussing

-Make him a man without friends

He told his colleagues about his family in Czecho- slovakia. He had not seen them for 11 years, but there were occasional let- ters. Eighteen months ago WMr Attlee's they stopped.

About eight weeks ago, Janny was approached by a shop steward of one of the big unions.

He Said No

out to write ballads, more JANNY found the steward

A

likely to need tuition in the

- a known "Red" "Beat Me Daddy Eight To

an interesting talker. Ho Dar" style. (I know that's an

had been to Czechoslovakia old tune, but so am I

Old). Nelther

sophisticated and vaguely remembered favoured In "point"

Janny's home town. Janny revues, nor the swing number: told him about his parents.

comedy

the

Don

תם

cm-

nor even the musical

by What they did, where they Fong so admirably penned Mir Furber himself, are cover-lived, how the old man was

makes ed. Although he

ankeen on his railway union those issue, and rightly so, of he advises

years ago. to determined

burgeon into phasising the difference between verse to make, first and fore- a poet and a lyric writer, his most, another list consteling of booklet seems more dedicated

will try to the former, words which they desperately hard not to use.

porian!.

--No-guidanco...

guidanco

"Now what about joining

union?" the our

shop steward asked. Janný said no, he was quite happy in his association.

A month

later Janny

had been That was all ho

can be done to

warning about The Enemy Within? TREVOR EVANS suggests that unlon chiefs could achieve much by constderlag. these three proposals:-

PRODUCE Jour own peace campaign, TC- decting Britain's atitude com- and recornialog her

the Don't let mitments, Communists take sole rights in peace.

* INSIST on candidates for all offiora disclosing their political alations on ballot papers.

II & "fellow-iraveller" calls himself "Socallat" be wise to his route and ret the him expelled from Socialist Party. He will Look odd #

thên describes himself as “Jnde- Dendent."

BE PRECISE _in_at- tacking Communist tactics and campaigns within your unlona. Generailties are boomerangs. They raise a chant of "Tell us the old, old story" even from loyal

They must then, before any

HE thing else happens, try to find ITE also gives no nue for the song they have about whether it is more ex- of written. This is very impedient and profitable to trap a came white-faced to work.

first or to write a His parents composer lyric to one's own mental tunc. arrested. The latter mode surely confines know. the composer when at last he

Janny's colleagues went appears upon the scene.

furlously to the Communist *Though I hate to say it, com-

Ife, too, I do from a lyrical shop steward.

the seemed genuinely horrified, ing as family, in patter and the point song it but admitted he had men- the mule which counts,

tioned Janny'a story to "some people in the movG- ENCANT

Publishers, It seems, will not even quint through their eye

a lyric if it has lashes at boring tile. In fact, one can- not help feeling on reading Mr Furber's hints, that publishers are singularly unastule in many ways.

Not only do they have to be titles. pondered to with cutchy

them as

all cases cave

There is no reason why

corts In his letterbox, or sim- but ollen, when they are offer ric should not be as good as ed them, they fall to recognite it can be, but if a word or a note must go, surely the word such. "These Foolish Things" was repudiated ime must be sacrifleed? and again, and heaven it

days was, in "catalogue" songs became vague, a novelty number.

he la A ply moyba beatuse kindly man, Mr Futber has low written a booklet about the lyric-writers craft called "Sure ly You Can Write A Song" (Ascherberg, Hopwood Crew. 25. #d.).

the

the

knows Furber leaves composers out al- proceedings before of

the together,

and possibly he is right in doing so, seeing that rare they are infiiltely more

Jaw of writers. The the than From the romantic to

coca not allow for yo-ho-ho: Mr Furber delves in- averages

the R Furber gives a great dear to the lyric suitable for the more than a small percentage

latter meeting the

Many lads have pen-

Talent first....

Mof commentlible advice, a lay the for the Peter Lawson of

lot of which ppiles equally to or Sanley Holloway; and here former.

we have got to be more original cils: few Bechsteins. plumbing or slenography: work, practice, courage in the face of than ever. disappointment, a study of the masters and dogged determinus –

tion.

Make it

labours

to

THE

members.

In this war of propa- ganda men want an inspir- ing leadership. The Enemy Within is a less dangerous

man friends.

when he

has

10

The gure may be tru. but the danger is from the fellow-

who travellers, gistered,

are not ID-

I know one such man. When I mot him on Euston Station a few days ago he had lost th Jaunty, defiant air he sported in 1940.

At that time he was important Ho in a curious kind of way.

was high up in the peeret service list of what the Dally Express called "the men with a load of mischief."

Botwin September 3, 1939, when tho and June 22, 1941, Nazis invaded Russia, this matt

a skilled craftsmen, had worked and had In 15 war

plants started lightning strikes in 11 of them

As soon as the war became a Crusad because Russia attacked-this

10

man become star production-booster, and a national official of his union.

Not long ago he was d:feated ballot. and went In a union back to his trade.

"Back to the old tactics, too** I asked him.

Ho replied, sourly: "No, I'm rumbled. That's the worst of getting so well known."

Fight openly

THAT story explains why thire is not much to be -alarmed-about, for example,

Foulkes when Fink,

and Walter Stevens, Communist

chicls of the Electrical Trad: Union. By openly to Prague on their way to the Soviet Unton as guests of the Russion electrical workers.

ap- It the underground proach which Mr Attlee had in mind.

That is why could be dangerous to pullow Com- munism. It is better tought op-nly.

London Express Service)

C.V.R. THOMPSON reports the U.S.A.

ONE-STAR

T Macys

AUDIENCE

my

Mir

NEW YORK. "SOME FRIENDS and I were Taft: The war has taken all the TV showrooms of watching last week," sald Mrs interest away.

On him this is particularly anil

a whole year Gimbely, Neil Waterman, who started the

campaign. "Suddenly I realised hard. For New York's biggest stores, I was frightened by what I saw Taft, a would-be President, has and heard. Suddenly I was teen hammering away at every- my thing in Truman's domestic pro- So here are hope and en-were jammed today.

the fully aware of the danger enough Con Strangely

gramme. couragement for budding now

never customers writers and may they

did not try to country faces. pause from their Jolly jack lar-and, ncte the hundreds of abomin-buy the demonstration sein. But before trying to rhyme THE

though Furber does. not able titles and the hundreds of Still more strangely the should be sure he has a talent mention them, the stoker on ine ghastly lyrics which are pub- salesmen did not try to sell for this sort of thing. Mr Fur- 5.15 to Crewe, the captain of lished every year with consum-them. ber does not make it clear how to se bnd the fair ladye-have mate ease.

can been boomed about from every the few who have talent persuade the millions who have concert platform in the not to give it up and go black- try. berrying.

He

"home" with "lone," a

man

coun-

So for eardrums sake, Ir Furber, think of something

Depressed? No

Instead, customers and sales- ollently walching men stood "the show,"

And the show was UNO'S Security Council, starring Rus- Though ions of people can sla's Jacob Malk.

anys MAY they also forget that RAINY NIGHTS" tmself fouled new! (I am thinkstor. Air Fare hum a tune only about a dozen

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"I talked over with

THE NEW CAMPAIGN will friends, and we agreed that if try to lay the blame for Korea Malik they would wake up. The theme: Tou little prepared-

"The responce has been ness, too much muddling. enough people could watch Mr upon the Truman Government.

Just many Reds in high places. amazing. We began with one shop in my local suburb. Today thousands are watching."

too

also

preparedness

Will The Trumanites drop domestic issues.

Instead, they will be trying to HE men who hope to under- blame the "isclationisi" Repub- THE

mine President Truman's licans for Korea. Their grounds: BECAUSE of the efforts of

of suburban majority in Congress in Novem- The Republicans wanted econo-

deelded my before preparedness,

Even local elections my housewives, shops all over the ber's general eleelion ver, I am thinking, but I've got of them know more than the volunteer group

are being are inviting today upon a new way of doing delight....tl-ta-ti-tol, New York Drea

on the fought to farther than I work down first six words. "You are

heart's nir is Impower.t-in-ti-tum

rcople without TV sets to come it.

is IRSUC. In California three No more talk that Truman Mr Furber harps, very right- a sewer, the

In and watch Mr Mollk fice.

No more montira ngo. F. D. Roosevelt's Is, on the need for new themes, in perfectly shewer you'd hate

d:- Lyric-wrliers don't be

And the women are making a budding Socialist.

san James was campaigning for Roses he cares for not at nu. ...pom....pom...") Enough

telephone pressed. The thing is to get IN hundreds of

calin calling him "Igh-Tax Harry. and the moon and the stars he of that. Ands equally tedious.

Where I think this amiable Once you're IN you con thyme every day to persunde shops all The new and only issue will be the governorship with a pen-

Senators Republicans like

He has switched. His Until then just be campaign.

. Shadow clifes for: Capehart, promise: To help those who are ob- and confiding booklet fails is in "love" with "af" and nobody ever the country to join their the battle against Communism. sions-for-all scheme.

the will care. he Mr Furber's disregard for

The obiect of the campaign: Robert Taft, Homer

the ressed with nightingales

The lyrics he careful-or, of course, marry a

to turn Mr Malik's anti-Ameri- and Bourke Hickenlooper have 4,000,000 Californians in

-every gives a neat list of other fauna, modern Idlom.

domestle Sterras in case there is an afor can propaganda speeches at agreed that such as the thrush, the innet instances, como bad, some bas publisher's daughter.

of the

issue is now a dend duck. Said alinck. ballad world Copyright Reserved-Lendon

UNO to American advantage. and the snowbird-not, I should ter, are all

Lemn Service). have Jhought, very casy rhy variety, whereas the lyricist of

NANCY

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