Zurich Herald, 1957-02-07, Page 7An English View
Of Elvis Presley
'A nightmare of bad taste"
some call him in his native
Milted 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
from Tennessee. •
Presley, who gets the credit, or
otherwise, for the social pheno-
menon we know as Rock 'n Roll,
plans to visit Britain 'with the
leers and howls, the strutting
and posturing 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 disc is "Heartbreak
Hotel," which sold a million
copies in three weeks, although
nobody can understand a word
mf 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
stopped him' from taking singing
lessons when; recently, he devel-
oped cultural ambitions!
"Ah jes' glower an' .wiggle
niah jeans, and the women
(scream: out loud," is how Pres-
ley modestly describes his sue -
cess.
"Ah want yew ...
Ah need yew ..
Ah love yew ..."
he yells, and riot -squads are
called into action:`
This six-footer, weighing 11
atone 6 lb., gangling, with an
olive complexion, hurls himself
In every direction, twangs the
strings of his guitar, occasion-
IaIly just drops the instrument
to the floor. And in a screeching
grab for it, proclaims; "Ah'm
airborne!"
When Elvis says, "Ah'm jest
sendih' those dolls, he means
that his female audience is in a
state of frenzied hysteria when
anything can happen. His fans
rip off his clothes, smash his cars
or plaster them all over with
lipstick kisses. At Albuquerque
ft required ten policemen and
t• wo wrestlers 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 done about ban-
ning him. They haven't suc-
ceeded yet.
When one crowd of girls'
couldn't get near enough to
Presley to touch him, they sur-
rounded a press photographer
and touched him — not too
.gently either. "Maybe he's
touched Elvis!" they screamed,
I•Iow far can hero-worship go?
His squirmings and moanings,
hip -wriggling and gesturing have
outraged leagues of decency,
churches, 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 (as 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 tm jive to Elvis's re-
cords.
And when he appeared on
television 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, gum -chewing, 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 from
restaur.'itltit to restaurant picking
up th;#4 wads of dollar bills he
leaved Carelessly behind him.
He; , owns forty L 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 the Queen
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.
waders, 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' wee
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 in 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 tele h
!one 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
Bustin' the "telephone."
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ame, Before "losing face," the man In the striped shirt lost
.111s voice shouting so much In the earlier part of -the contest.
Where Whales Play;'
stretched out on a low cliff''
just over the sea. A shallow
rock trough lined' with Vaccini-
urns, 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,,ii
congruous- in thea 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 house;
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 ones 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, must 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 where
ever possible, Occasional small..
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 sea
weed "and scattered forms of
kelp.
Butein tide -water pools in the
rocks :were hundreds of cape
lin"s small six -to- eight inch, '
smeltlike fish — dark olive with
golden flecks above, sides of
bright silver shading into .lav-
ender and pink with brilliant.
rainbow sheens. As exquisite
as any tropical things. — From
"The Tundra World," by Theo-
dora C. Stanwell -Fletcher.
LOST IN ADMIRATION
Football coach Glenn 'Pop"
Warner's • fpvorite .player was
Jim Thorpe because the big In-
, dials had such :a great love for
the game: One day, Warner wa$
scolding Thorpe for failing to
break up an opponent's pass,
"You could have stopped that
easily," he shouted. "Why
didn't you?"
"I didn't have the heart,"
Thorpe replied. "It looked so
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