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TENNESSEE WILLIAME ... Roman holiday
NEW BOOKS
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON.
A BATH CHAIR NAMED DESIRE
whom she will throw down her keya. And beyond the vagrant Rome is not yet exhausted. And
The latter half of the story is whose mission in life is to make
a long sad decline. The final others better gardeners than blow is struck by the Ministry they would otherwise be Here of Town and Country Plarining, there is a Tangiers.
Merciful only in its brevity, which plans a satelite town as is a man, his life, character and
fore. Roman Spring traces the carcerere ali the kind hearts have of a belated "sinner whose 'tale
The book opens on the day from coronels and, chaperoned by THE ROMAN SPRING OF might have been saved
Mrs STONE. By Ten- squalor if only her heart as Dornford Yates, one can be sure 11 years ago when he was born ono's social to a Sussex shepherd and taken well as her senses had been of meeting
the story down to present fame Williams. John engaged.
equals, Lehmann. 79. pages.
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6d. 126 TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, DEBBY. By Max Steele. Secker and Warburg. 108. 6d. 316 pages.
of
toditer, author of A Streetcar Named Desire; 30: unmarried.
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AEG BISHOP is not fur LOWER THAN VERMIN.
is hard to write a novel wrong. To her candid, By Doinford Yates. Ward
about a mentally deficient Lock. 10s. 6d. 325 pages.
which is not either unkind eyes, the ageing, frightened face
painful or Mra BY heaven, sir, here is a gal woman
Innt blow struck in defence untrue. It is harder by a great Stone, and the crumbling, of a social order that has been deal to see the story through the golden antiquity of Rome too much reviled! both spell the same word: In this novel, Dornford Yates eyes of the woman herself, to brings us to the Nineties, and it inside her childlike mind and watch the world unfold, half- corruption.
Mrs Stone la rich and has introduces us to the nicest of wa
with
the most distin- comprehended or laughably mis-, Once she was a pushed of names. To Sir Henry been famous. Great Lady of the American Stage, costly married; now she Daring and Lady Ursula Bra bant. To Sir Oliver Bleeding, is forgotten, widowed; her hair who is, however, far from nice.
all, a certain grandeur.
Vivien. And all passion spent? By no wood rocans. In Rome, Mrs Stone ex-
live, as befits their Thay
The Great Hall at periences something that cracks
of her station, in the timid, frigid ahell emotional life. She meets Pasts, Poesy (now open to the public "Who is young, handsome, charm at half-a-crown), at Brocade (a ing and a count; who is also National Trust property, I fear);
and they have a house in Gros vain, perfumed, disgusting-and
venor Square (American Em- a gigolo.
bassy).
dire
greying, her beauty replaced by Above to young Lord Ring
and Jak sister,
Already, however, the Koman Spring is the painful, shape of the future la discern. at times quite unpleasant, story ible, Anderson, a hunt-servant, an elderly woman's passion is u Socialist ("Pricket says for a worthless young man. It they've got one in her village in is a story that has often been Worcestershire") who forcibly told before but rarely with such bloods Lady Vivien after the
to present a chase.
the Naturally,
Master, order Іл cruelty.
"The man har -clinical study, Tennesse Williams writes at once:
denies himself the pathos and been paid his. wages and will with it the tragedy of his theme, leave the country for ever be
The beauty and Insolence of fore tomorrow midday." Paolo is depleted, with
some.
No
thing of the chilly admiration But this is not all. A local that Manet lavished on his por- trait of the harlot Olympia. The girl is murdered. "What mon-
ster has done this thing?" lies and poses of the youth: his student of politics could be in venality see him pouting to the dou
doubt for one moment. As one mirror in the clothes Mrs Stone
en charneler says, sternly: "I can- I don't for the dove not nequit the Master. is 15 paying. flannel, the
blue midnight
believe in
in oppression, but Social- tuxedo, the shantung silk that istle huntsmen are out of place." Is the colour of a yellow pearl. After this fearful affair, young
But Paolo has the best of it
vhit Ringwood and his sister He has the last, shattering word their mother
But "Rome is 3,000 years old and France turns cut to be a dis-
and
Paris.
how old are you?" For Mis appointment,
ent, the French "know Stone there is no hope in the
one.
a man, when they see one-but future and so mercy in the they ply cannot produce
She is falling, failing.
Only in England, and present.
Garmeni
after
garment, there only in one favoured class, beauty, dignity, self-respect, de- are the ancient standards main. cency are stripped off. As Meg tained with minor infractions. Bishop says, "When Rome has When Algy Crosswood runs been exhausted she will move of With Mary Bleeding (married to. Tangiers."
to that cad) be sends in-his pa- Beyond Paolo there Is that pers and resigns from his clubs, handsome young vagrant who Lord Elmham think
he need makes obscene gestures before not have taken his name off at . Mrs Stone's window and to White's. But the code is rigidl
Max Steele, in his Brst novel, has attempted this tour de force, and has, by a remarkable sure- ness of touch made a success of
it.
and glory, with its burden of answering in six months, with- out a secretary, 7,000 letters from distressed amateurs.
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COLLECTED POEMS OF ROBERT Adam Smith Rupert Hart-Davis; '18s. mature passion or mystery; but there is humour, elegance and style. Verse that li immangaly readable.
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HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT—
YOU ANSWERED THE TELEPHONE AND WERE
SUCKED INTO IT ~
-THIS
DREAM
A British | Crossword Puzzle
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
2}
1 Term. 5 Vigilant.
8 Exploit.
Put on.
11 Essential.
ACROSS.
12 Begin again.
14 Present.
DOWN
1 Thrust.
2 Bellow.
3 Poems.
4 Subtract.
5 Contrary.
8 Supplicato
7 Natural gifts.
16 Barely suficient,
to
13
14 Enchantment.
15 Zealous.
17 Golf-club.
19
18 Affray.
19 Hal.
20
24 Black. 25 Probable,
26 Fasten.
27 Heron.
28 Damaged.
Wan.
21 Wicked.
723 Canvas shelter.
23 Franous explorar.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrom: 1 Wilts, 4 Stupor, 8 Gossip, 10 Opile, 12 Orator, 14 Scorned, 17 Toss, 19 Laments, 20 Nostrum, 22 Etna, 23 Dastard, 27 Ardent, 29 Tardy, 30 Tarpon, 31 Reaist, 32 Delay. Down: 1 Wazos, 2 Lasso, 3 Scion, 5 Trot, 8 Patron, 7 Recess, 9 Prelude, 11 Potent, 13 Adamant, 15 Coot, 10 Retard, 18 Stir, 20 Neuter, 21 Snares, 24 Stald, 25 Appal, 28 Dingy, 28 Dyez
AND THAT YOU WENT INTO
A CALL-BOX AND THE
PASSERS BY WOULD
NOT LET YOU OUT ?
MEANS:ot allowed to escape your social obligations.
The tele- The world is too much with you. phone is a means of communicating with others; in the dream you fear you are becoming its slavo. You are being dragged into relationships and communication with others which you do not sook and would gladly get away from.
But you are fenced in your call-bux; you are
Society in the shape of that crowd of people outside your call-box-won't let you escapo until I think the moral probably is that you do so. you need a quiet, solitary week and to recover from your social claustrophobia—your droad of being fenced in by people who make domande on you. Then you will be all right and you will fool swoot fowards people again.
Fasi motion 'like 'this' is ¬stopped-most-esally-
ONE
directly toward the camera.
SHUTTER SPEEDS FOR MOVING SUBJECTS
7
when
NE enthusiast has written) ward the camera than?
asking what shutter speeds } it's moving across the field of to use for action pictures of view. Amma restalt, various
order to you've a camera with Jalsh types in "top" the action. To a'ques-shutter speeds, It Să wise to tion ke this R's almost impoo avoid actions shots in which an- the motion is more across the sible to give a concreta swer. For part of à ploture-fold of the camera than to
ward it taker's success, in stopping 40- tion will be based on his abili- ty to recognise and shoot at
the proper moment.
Doen era
to
When
you come second rule, you will find that the greater the distance from to subject, the lem In general, though, two rules shutter speed you need to stop always apply to picturing mov- the motion. For example, the ing subjects. The first of these shutter speed needed to stop Leet troms the deals with the direction of ac-motion 25
tion in relation to the camera, camera is usually just about nooded The second deals with the dis- twice as fast as that lance between the camera and to stop the same mollen when the point where notion occurs, It takes place 50 feet from the
are impor camera. Both these rules tant.
Both of these general rules table As for the first, experience are evidenced in the will show you that it is easier which appears below-a. handy to "stop" B moving subject guldo to recommended shutter when It is moving straight to-speeds for moving subjects. TABLE OF SHUTTER SPEEDS FOR SUBJECTS IN MOTION
Characteristic
Subjects
Bhutter Speeds (in seconds)
Motion
Motion et Molion at
Right Toward or About 45 Away from Angle to Angles to
Camera Camera
Саглига
1/100 1/200 1/400
Distance
from
Camera to
Subject
Pedestrians, Slow-Moving Animals, Construction Work, Street Activities, Playing Children, Boating
25 ft.
50 ft.
200 ft.
1/50 1/100 1/25
1/200
1/50
1/100
Track and Field Sports, Baseball, Skating, Yacht and Horse Races, Motor- boats, Surf Diving, Views from Trains
#
- 25.ft.
1/2001/400
*50 ft.
1/100
100 ft.
1/50
1/100 1/200 1/400
1/100 1/200
Automobile Races, Motor". cycles, Aeroplanes, Fast Train
25 IL
1/400
1/1000
50 ft.
1/200
1/400
2/1000
100 ft.
1/100
1/200
1/400
—John van Guilder.
SECURITY N
Swedish-born: Blm star -Ingrid Bergman, left, is presenting candle-crowned Ebba Tamm, the Miss Santa Lucia of Sweden, an award during a recepilom in her, honour at the Swedish Legation in Rome, Italy. Miss Tamm is on" a prim trip to Italy during which she will visit St Lucia's native town in Sicily.
Left:
Singing star Helen Grayco has been chosen the most photo- geale girl singer of 1950 by a photographers' as- Bociation. Their choice shows there's nothing wrong with the boys" eye- sight.
Modesto Ramos, one of Puerto Rico's most expert net tossers, throws ona into the air to form a circle near San Juan. Lined with lead weights, the net `sinks ́ns" startled fish swim into its centre. 'The outer string is then tightened to close the net
and trap the
fink.
Carol Channing, right, the current, Lorelel Lee, of the hit musical comedy, "Gentlemen Prüfer Blondes,” tries her tiara on June Walker, in New York. Mim Walker was the original Loralel back in 1920, when the musical about the flapper.ern was done as a sizaight comedy.