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For a Minute/ Explains Tom Jones
By JOAN CROSBY
NEA Entertainment Editor
NEW YORK—(NEA)—The
sudden success of a rugged
looking young gentleman
from Wales named Tom
Jones, due to his weekly ex
posure on ABC-TV and his
best-selling recordings, has
done absolutely nothing to
change the manner or out
look of the singer.
“I knew the success had to
come sometime, some
way,” he said. "It had hap
pened in Europe. I figured it
would happen here and
thought it would be through
either TV or films.”
He looks as strong as a
Welsh hillock, is much hand
somer than any picture he
has even had taken, has a
warm smile and a magnifi
cent set of teeth. His speak
ing voice is husky and musi
cal with the Welsh lilt that is
so appealing.
A few years ago, Tom
appeared at a New York
night chib, was known
through his recordings and
did decent business after
getting good reviews. Just
recently he appeared in an
other club where every night
wa s riot-tiine. let's-get-a
souvenir-tiine and he-looked
at -me-I -think -I’m-going -to
faint time.
The ladies wouldn’t leave
him alone.
He attributes it all to tele
vision: "It’s more powerful
than films. You’re on every
week. With films, in order to
have impact, you have to
keep making hits.”
His appeal is broad, from
young adults through those
on the dark side of the gen-
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eration gap. “I don’t have a
big teen-age following. If
you appeal to adults, you
have something more real.
What is my appeal? I’m a
singer. People like the way
I sing.”
Ask Tom to use three
words to describe himself
and he says, "First, I'm
male, and you don't doubt it
for a minute. I don’t believe
what's good for the goose is
also good for the gander. A
man should lead and a
woman should follow. If he's
the right man, she wants to
follow. Then I'm a singer. I
love to sing more than any
thing else. Finally. I’m Brit
ish and proud of it.”
k't * *
When Millette Alexander
is seen by several million
people each day on the soap
opera, Guiding Light, it’s
about as alone as she ever
gets.
Millette is married to
James Hammerstein (the
son of lyricist Oscar Ham
merstein) and lives in a
house that includes 28
bodies, counting six dogs
and seven cats.
Crisis is just a normal,
everyday word for this hu
morous, bright, pretty ac
tress. She and Jimmy are
the parents of four children.
The household help consists
of a family of nine, which in
cludes an elderly grand
mother and five children.
“When I go to the super
market,” she laughs, “they
see me coming and assign
two clerks just to help me.”
Her children all play elec-
BOOKS
The Three Daughters of Ma
dame Liang, by Pearl S. Buck
(John Ihy, $6.95)
Mrs. Buck’s latest is a novel
with a message. But is it a plea
for understanding the Chinese
character, past and present? Or
a warning against the Red Chinese
enemy the West faces?
Throughout the book, vario’
characters reiterate the idea fr
expressed by Mme. Liang to the
eldest of her American-educated
daughters: “In reality all good
things began with us.”
“We are the oldest people
on earth and the wisest, says
a young Chinese fanatic. “We
are superior to the West in every
thing except firearms.”
. . ours is the only true
civilization! ” says a high-rank
ing official to the husband of
Number Two daughter.
The book is subtitled "A
novel of China today”. It pic
tures life there through the eves
of the two of the three daughters
who return against their mother's
wishes. Mme. Liang, a matriarchal
widow, earns a comfortable liv
ing with a fashionable Shanghai
restaurant frequented by influen-
trie instruments. “You drive
down the highway and you
can see the house reverber
ate. If I were to ask for one
thing in life, it would be a
little quiet. The cameras and
lights and confusion in a TV
studio are nothing compared
to what I have at home.”
The house Millette lives in
is in upstate New York,
about an hour’s drive from
the city. It’s on a hill over
looking the Hudson River
and was built by noted
architect Stanford White for
a hunting lodge.
In her spare time (and the
wonder is that Millette can
find any), she copies works
of art in needlepoint. “It’s
quiet work,” she says. “I
grow things, too, because
that’s quiet. The plants don’t
talk back.”
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Millette Alexander
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
tial government officials, but she
holds secret reservations about
those in power.
Perhaps the message in this
usually interesting but only oc
casionally suspenseful novel is
that Chinese-style Communism
has not yet managed to .ob
literate the feeling of superiority
and traditional class conscious
ness of the educated upper class
Chinese.
Jeanne Lesem (DPI)
* * *
The Second D-Day By Jacques
Robichon. (W alker, $6.95)
On Aug. 15, 1944, .Allied
troops stormed the beaches of
the French Riviera. It was an
invasion hardly anyone remem
bers — except people who were
there.
Jacques Robichon s The Se
cond D-Day, written in French
and translated by Barbara Shuey,
is the first book devoted entirely
to the southern landings.
Even at the time, D-Day South
was something of a sideshow. It
was nice that Our Boys had
liberated Nice, but Gen. George
Patton’s tanks were thrusting
toward Paris, and that was the
action most people followed.
Casualties were light in the
south but it wasn’t all a piece of
cake. Troops of the 36th (Texas)
Division were driven back by the
bristling defenses of Frejus (where
there was no real need to land,
anyway).
The southern landings helped
to awaken Hitler to some sem
blance of reality, and his staff
at last was able to persuade him
to order a general withdrawal
from France.
Robichon employs what has
become the standard approach
in his story of the invasion,
combining official information
with personal touches obtained
by interviewing survivors.
Phe Second D-Day is an in
teresting, readable account of
a military operation that is no
less exciting for having been
little heeded nor long remember
ed.
Doug Anderson (UPI)
The Hungry Grass by Richard
Power. (The Dial Press, $5.95)
Father Tom Conroy was a
selfish corrupt old man to the
: young priests of his parish. His
contemporaries of the cloth con
sidered him a prickly but en
gaging companion. Some of his
parishioners held him in awe as
a wise, all-seeing sovereign.
But this interior novel probes
the mind of a rural priest in a
i decaying Irish parish and is more
i concerned with what f ather Tom
thinks of himself.
The old priest feels death
' coming on like the slow gather
i ing of an Irish night. In his final
: months, he attempts to under
: stand the internal forces that
; shaped his existence. Was he to
: blame for the decrepit state of
: his parish where the young em
; igrated as soon as they could?
Was he to leave anything worth
; while behind him, or did his
: life represent the waste of a
: human being? The author writes
: with a blackness that suits his
i theme. But his humor and grace
i of style rescue his story b’om
: any heaviness.
: Joan Hanauer (UPI)
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