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An English View
Of Elvis Presley
•
'A nightmare of .bad taste"
some call shim in his native
United States. Many swear he
must be mad, others acclaim
him a genius. Peaceful slumbers
• were never so golden as the
"nightmare" that makes millions
for Elvis Aaron Presley, twenty-
• one -year-old former truck driver
itiom Tennessee.
• Presley, who gets the credit, or
otherwise, or the social pheno-
menon we know as Rock 'n Roll,
• plans to visit Britain with the
leers and howls, the strutting
and posturieg that he calls
•"singing."
Earning $30 a week two years
• ago, Elvis ("The Pelvis") Pres-
• ley now gets $600,000 a year
from records alone. His most
notorious dise is "Heartbreak
• Hotel," which sold a million
copies in three weeks, although
nobody can understand a word
• of it. For his film debut, in a
Western called "Love Me Ten-
• der," 20th CenturY Fox paid him
well over $90,000.
Yet he can't read a note of
music and his advisers hastily
stepped him from taking singing
lessons when, recently, he devel-
oped cultural ambitions!
"Ah jes' glower an' wiggle
snah jeans, and the women
scream out loud," is how Pres-
rey modestly describes his suc-
cess.
"Ali want yew .. .
Ah need yew . . .
Ah love yew ••
he yells, and riot -squads are
called into action.
This six-footer; weighing 11
stone 6 Ib., gangling, with an
olive complexion, hurls himself
in every direction, twangs the
strings of his guitar, occasion-
ally just drops the instrument
to the floor. And In a screeching
grab for it, proclaims; "Ah'in.
airborne!"
When Elvis says, "Ah'm jest
riendire those dolls," he means
that his female audienee is in a
state of frenzied hysteria when
anything can happen. His fans
rip off his clothes, smash his cars
or plaster them alF over with
lipstick kisses, At Albuquerque
it required ten policemen and
two wrestler's to keep order — or
try to; the crowd of 5,000 went
into such a state of hysteria that
organizations throughout Ameri-
ca held formal meetings to see
what could be clone about ban.
ping him. They haven't suc-
ceeded yet.
When one crowd of girls
couldn't get near enough to
Presley to touch him, they sus:
rounded a press- photographer
and touched him — not too
gently either. "Maybe he's
touched Elvis!" they screamed.
How far can hero-worship go?
His Squirmings and moanings,
hip -wriggling and gesturing have
outraged leagues of decency,
ichurches, welfare groups, parent "
assciations and many news-
papers. , Some U.S. top disc
jockeys have elected not to play
his records any more( but they
go on selling.)
When in Ottawa Tas in so
many other places) police bar-
red rock n' roll sessions at a
dance -hall and disc jockeys took
Presley off the air, schoolchil-
dren broke into their own school
after hours to jive to Elvis's re-
cords.
And when he appeared on
televiskin in New 'York they
buttoned him into a tight even-
ing jacket "so that he couldn't
roll his hips so provokingly.
Presley says he was singing
in the church choir when he
was four. However that may be,
there is nothing of the church
choir about his present techni-
que. Cocksure, gut -hewing, he
neither drinks nor smokes, and
showers •around the money he
simply is not used to earning in
such vast sums that -a secretary
has to- follow him around front
restaurant to -rettaurant picking
up the" wads of dollar bills he
leavesk carelessly behind him.
He., owns forty suits and
twenty-seven pairs of shoes (at
"NON-EXISTENT" PICTURE—In its current issue, The Fisherman
magazine has an article "Queens Go Fishing," describing the
angling activities of Britain's Queen Elizabeth and theQueen
Mother, both ardent fishermen. The magazine asked Bucking-
ham Palace for a picture of Queen Elizabeth fishing. "There
are no photographs, in existence, of the Queen fishing" was
the unequivocal answer. But Fisherman finally unearthed this
one, taken in May, 1952. It shows Queen Elizabeth, clad in
wadars, tweed jacket and head scarf, fishing for salmon in the
River Dee on the royal estate at Balmoral, Scotland. Man with
her is unidentified. Her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, was
also fishing, two miles downstream.
the last counting), wears as
many rings as he can fit on his
fingers, and has three Cadillac
cars — white, pink, and yellow.
He says he's going to get some
more in other colours.
He will kiss with considerable
enthusiasm the girls who swarm
around him,' the girls who carve
his name on their arms and
bodies with knives and razor -
blades, but he seems afraid of
courting anyone. "Lots o' wo-
men are fine," he comments. "I
believe in safety in numbers.
One girl would scare me to
death." •
Apart from Cadillacs, Presley
indulges himself with . . . teddy
bears. He will sit for hours on
his hotel bedroom floor sur-
rounded by toy bears, and after
a show go to the nearest fair-
ground to win more teddy bears.
When he's collected enough
bears he'll ride the dodgems till
the fairground closes.
Born Th Tulepo, Mississippi, he
was given a guitar when he was
twelve years old. He has made
his father a return gift, a $45,-
000 house.
"I make in fifteen minutes
What Dad earns in a year," he
said recently: Dad promptly re-
tired — at thirty-nine — from
his job in a paint factory. Now
Elvis maintains the family but
is rarely at home.
• What ambition does this
strange young man have, with
his burning black eyes, his blue
suede shoes? Well, like most of
the Hollywood glamour girls, he
wants to "go straight" He wants
to be a serious actor! -- by
Frank Fairfax in "Tit -Bits,"
WRONG NUMBER
A telephone operator answer-
ing a call with the usual "Num-
ber, please?" heard a voice re-
ply "Duston."
"What number, Duston?" ask-
ed the operator.
"No number. Just Duston,"
replied the voice impatiently.
And then, since the operator
still obviously failed to under-
stand, the voice added; "I'm
dustin' the telephone."
WHO SAYS HE'S A flUBBLEHEAD9—Players appear startled at
,the sight af a ball -headed. referee ,during a recent basketball'
same. Before "losing- face," -the man in, the striped •shirt lost
:his voice -shouting so much.in,the earlier part of 'the contest.
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I stretched out on a low cliff
• just over the sea. A shallow
rock trough lined with Vaccini-
tuns, crowberries, and mosses,
made a wonderful scented,
springy bed, heated by sun,
cooled by breezes. Once you
know your environment a little
and have learned a few dodges,
you can be, just as at home and
relaxed in a tundra world as in
a New England garden.
Groups of white ice cakes, in-
. congruous in the summer blue
and green of the sea, floated by,
graceful things, saluting each
Other with metallic clashes and
tinkles. Some were fantastic
shapes like fairy castles. One
was as big as a small house4
there was a pure white, upright
angel, then a gigantic pelican
with great outstretched wings.
White whales, with young
gray ones (some people say
mature Eines are occasionally
gray also), dived in and out,
puffing and blowing with that
delicious soothing sound as they
fed placidly. Funny to watch
them standing straight up on
their tails or heads, which re-
mind one somehow of a sheep's.
Way out where wind struck
the water, were purple and
emerald patches. And in the
far distance, most wonderful of
all, great mirages like big
white cliffs. . . •
It was strange and restful to
gaze upon that great sea, which
seems never to bear a man-
made ship or boat of any kind,
and is always so . . . empty of
human signs. . . .
On the slow walk home —
Terry had told me it was some
two or three miles to a point
not far from my tent — I fol-
- lowed close along shore wher-
ever possible. Occasional mall
stretches of smooth sand and
gravel were almost devoid of
the usual sea life we're so ac-
customed to along , Atlantic
coasts. No barnacles, anemones,
sponges or sea urchins; only a
few starfish; very little sear:
weed and scattered forms of,
kelp.
But in tide -water pools in the.
rocks were hundreds of cape-
lins — small six -to- eight inch,
smeitlike fish — dark olive with
golden flecics above, sides of
bright silver shading into lav-
ender and pink with 'brilliant
rainbow sheens. As exquisite
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"You could have stopped that
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By Anne Ashley
Q. How can- I keep moist-
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glasses when going from a cold
into a warm atmosphere?
. A. Try moistening the tips
of the fingers, rubbing them
over the lens, then polishing
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Q. How can I serve a lemon
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A. If the knife is dipped in
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Q. How can I prevent white
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Q. How can I preserve paint
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