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THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
A
1951.
24,.
British Crossword · Puzzle
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Puzzle Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Duff Cooper makes
them wait
-by-GEORGE_MALCOLM THOMSON.
roitical police, Informers and ether socially worthy elements.
PEOPLE
ESCAPE MAN STARTS
A WRANGLE
-by JON HOPE
And whereas, in monarchist times, tho entire Muranion economy seems to have been devoted to digging out sap- -phires---and--emeralds-for-the royal jewel box, there is now amplu employment in thu However! Willie has ostensibly uranium mines, especially for OPERATION HEART-
other idlers. 15 it wise to reveal to the BREAK. By Duff Cooper. a miserable war and dies of intellectuals and
world secrets about techniques Send your nine and six-evolved during the war to help Rupert Hart - Davis. 88. pneumonia right on, the eve of
thu North Africa campaign, pence to the Society for Peace Servicemen excape from enemy
Friendship with Soviet territory? He has no relatives, la death and obituary of Duff is not yet notified. He is, after Murania.
6d. 166 pages.
and ex-Servicemen divided over the question. So the news NCooper's story would all these years, just the man RETURN FROM UTOPIA. that a book called "Ways of By Richard Law. Faber. Escape" is to be published in 12s. 6d. 206 pages.
lot of discus- April will start a ston
it will be description of (with diagrams, photographs) of thoughtful disillusionment, the ingenious devices such as
comparses in buttons, hackenw book is both an index.
in shoe-laces. lethal fountain
be complete if it falled to the Army is looking for-or, at mention that the narrative least the Secret Service. turns upon a single idea of distinguished irony.
תמטי!
majur's
Willie's body, in uniform. carrying
Д
a
PRODUCT of
A mood
most of
packet waterproof
secret, most misleading, papers this a contribution, to modern pens-that were produced for is slipped into the flowing tide and off a "neutral" coast.
beneat of prospective
Whether the idea is original or is based upon some incident of the war is of no relevance
"Wille political feeling. It states, with the whatever. Dun Cooper IR
went to the war at last," says acrupulous moderation the case escapees.
Author is Clayton Hutton, He entitled to the praise, either for Duft Cooper. And the enemy against Ulopla-that is, agalas?
chief ideas man Biust was
in the In- the belief that man Invention or discovery. His mis- were duly deceived.
dwell within the framework of telligence department respon- fortune is that he has stumbled
It is a superbly sardonic con- the State, and that his happinessible for the escape aids,
Just now Mr Hutton is lectur- upon an almost perfect theme
ing in America. has clusion. But one for which we consists in making that frame- and for
story, a short
walted Httle too Tong, work comfortable and emcient.
Readers have been asking stretched it into a short nuvel, have
through too muny pages of
'n Whether embodied
the
me whether the famous Bernard structure of the Shaw-Mrs a young Duff Cooper's confident, hury-
Patrick Campbell "monolithic" It is the story of
ing prose.
Totalitarian State or the more letters will now be released for man who cannot find a war to
Wel-
publication, Answer
No. fight in. In this world! In this
*SIR DUFF COOPER, 00, war beguiling aspect of the
Oxford; Elon and
Show's fare State, the false ideal must when
correspondence educated at generation!!
since its goal is with Ellen Terry had an enor- marriell, with one son. War Minister in 1955; became. Firat Lord of the be rejected
the creation of happiness mous success in 1931, there was Admiralty two years later, resigning not
protest against Munich, but the destruction of freedom. a move to have his letterato Mrs s Arst post-war Ambassador to France.
"Ulopia," says Law, "spells Campbell printed. But Shaw's at
was:
as: "Time enough 60 the doom of twentieth century titude
from His escape
is years after my death 1 copy- man." doom depends on his ability to right expires" After Mrs Camp- restore his relationship with bell's second marriage publica- God. In the end, therefore, tion rights in her collection of Law's
solution is not politieni letters were bought but full allowed. but, religious. This may, indeed, publication
edited sampics be the book's most significant Instead, some
were used. feature.
.
The question at once arises. Is Willie Maryngton a genuine arrested mental of development? Does Wille realiy want to fight? Think!
case
Ivor Novello's KING'S RHAPSODY. By Hester W. 6d. Wille, orphan of a military Chapman. Harrap. 98. family, misses World War I by 288 pages. a maller of days. Through an
friends of the and BRITISH interlocking of accident
Democracy of malice, the gates of World War D People's
this at- II are likewise alammed In his Murania w resent ince.
tempt, in the guise of fiction, lo reactionary rehabilitate the monarchist clique, now skulking; in France from the People's wrath:
But during the period 1018- 1030 therË was not a minute but Wille in one part of the Mube Dr 40- could
other
have had his .belly ful
of
glorious war. Is there any sign that he has to
ba restrained by his friends from rushing
Gran
into battle in the Chaco, the Ruff, China, Abys- sinia7
Outt Cooper,
They will not be deceived by Linta sugary propagandist pre- tence that the notorious liber- tine, ex-King Nikki, banished Seenuse de espoused and the CLUST of peasants
the
factory workers landforde.
against
was
The truth (which leaks out Is that even in these pages). Nikki, typical Fascist, salted away five million roubles Ta foreign banks (Wall Street?) and thought of little else but wearing fancy uniforms, and making love to fancy women.
So, While it is necessary to accept Duff Cooper's premise that Willie is a monument of warlike frustration as well as Love! In Murania, under the Tather colourless character, old regime, there was too much and 100 little politics. there is a lingering suspicion love that he may simply have been How different things are now. the liberation, love is un exceptionally cunning draft- Since
reserved for shock workers, dodger.
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT
-THIS
DREAM
מרת
when
not
28
DOWN
i Instrument of torture
4 Quake
ACROSS
1 Outcome
5 Haul
2 Run before the wind
8 Therefore
3 Fower
9 Direction taken
11 Lies in wait.
5 Assemble
14 Beautiful
16 Offence
in Defeats
19 Knock senseless
12.Drear
20 Expressed derision 24 Best part
Tract of land
7 Hurried
10 Try to equal
13 Property
14 Nut
15 Neck of land
17 Regulations
10 Heavy food
21 River
.22 Low sandhill 23 Stalk
25 Forsake 26 Press 27 Gluts 28 High regard
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across, 1 Signs, 4 Gambli, B Proved. 10 Issue, 12 Aerate, 14 Repulse, 17 Acme, 19 Started, 20 Mariner, 22 Uses, 23 Reading, 27 Mortal, 20 Drone, 30 Tirade, 31 Reeled, 32 Event. Down. 1 Super, 2 Group, 3 Steal, 5 Arla, & Bisect, 7 Teemed, Dessert, 11 Stored, 13 Rotrent, 15 24 Alive, Eras, 16 Unison, 18 Mean, 20 Murder, 21 Remote, 25 Inane, 20 Greet, 28 Rede.
YOU WERE CYCLING IN CHURCH WA
DIVING SUIT
MEANS:
You have presumably boon made to feel ridiculous during the previous day. Your prestige has been rudely and effectively shaken and you have not yet recovered from it. In the dream you are making yourself, conspicuous in sacred and in high places where your ego is being com- pletely and absolutely deflated,
AND THAT YOU HAD TO COLLECT THE DIGS OF A BEN FROM THE TOP OF THE STEEL 4. ** AND YOU IN CHEMINS
DRESS?
The dream hero is serving one of its com- mon functions, La., working off emotions of the preceding day so that you are roady to start the next day with a comparatively now aloto. This is a useful function of the dream; acting as a vacuum cleaner which clears up the emotional debris and tidies up-so far as that is possible— for a new start.
it's always picture-taking weather. Indoors, so don't let your
camara ile idle during winter months. ABOUT PICTURES INDOORS
IF YOU'RE one of these people babies or other restless subjects, who customarily put their you will went enough ught to cameras aside for the winter, enable you to to a fast shutter you're missing a great deal of the speed. fun photography has to offer. For no matter what the weather is outside, picture-taking weather inside the House is as near as the nearest light switch. Regardless of what type camera you own. you, too, can make indoor plc- tūres.
In
general, there are four ways of making snapshots inside the hours by daylight, by light from. ordinary room lamps, by flash, and by photofood. Each of these methods has its advantages and, depending upon your equipment, offers a means of enjoying your camera throughout the winter schaar.
However, whatever method you use, certain points should be checked for each picture. Conse- quently, you'll want to keep this check llet handy for futuro use.
First, as with outdoor pictures, look to see what's beyond your subject.
Indoors or
oors or out, when pic-
turing people a pidiend
Is best. Where a
background can't
be helped, try to
throw it out of focus, or keep Hght away from it. It will be out of focus if you use a large lens ing and shoot dose up to opening
the
Second subject.
seek a natural pose for your subjects, just as you would outdoors. A picture of a boy care- tally pasting a stamp in his album will be more attractive, pine times out of ten, than a shot of the same boy staring directly at
your came.
Third, if you're using a time ex- posure or a comparatively slow shutter speed, make sure that your subject will be still With
Fourth, be sure you know what n you're using. Different black- alm you and-white films require different exposures. Colour films generally
lighting call för fiat
Fifth, measure distance from lamp to subject. The
light on your subject depends as much on the distance from lamp to subject as on the strength of the lamp. Unless you know this distance de- curately, you can't be sure of pho- per exposure.
Sixth, don't let light full direct- ly on your lens or be reflected into it from mirrors, windows, or other shiny surfaces.
And seventh, measure camera- to-subject distance so you're assured of proper focus. Proper
too, when exposure,
you're working with flash lampe at-
tached to the camera.
-John van Guilder.
"Now remember-the minute you hear me ask them if they'd like e second, balplog, nip in with the berl Löhlen Tržiška Korukon,
core"
Costume fashions are becoming "bearer and bearer,” Jacques Fath, well-known Parisian dress designer, wears his now creation to a Paris ball. Holding him by a chain is his pretly, wife, dressed as a gypay.
This unorthodox-looking floating tent is the first 20-man life raft to be produced in quantity in the US. The raft with its canopy is snug, dry and a highly buoyant refuge for downed firmen.
Right: creation filled by blonde Bunny Yaeger at Miami Beach. Rich gold en
a kulf broidery forms shell pattern at bust und hipline.
A strapless
This lovely litter of black-faced Siamese kittens was entered by their owner in a cat show in Lion. Their expressions, as they watch the photographer, give no indications of their, thoughts, but they were probably wondering when they could escape from fingers being poked in at them by silly humans who giped
admiringly at the group.
ÁÐUN Í
A now and unconventional Berodynamic shape enters: the worki wind tunnel for testing at Moffett Field, Calif. The model, more than 50 foot lon and weighing two and, one-hält: tous, is being lowered into the wind tunnel throu massivo doorn which clone to form the top of the 40 by 80 foot test pection.
Genata obtakisi will amsist ki Wielg
Atop the 1,000-foot San Cristóba „stands this: 70-foot státna vl
Bereen comit-Oliver Hardy minitud Käpplly as he prepares to: candies was his birthday cake
French staf Buxy, Deláž, right, looks tim
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