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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1951.
bids this the gaol is rushed, the chiets are rescued, and Sole is Bndly wounded.
He starts where Kipling finished...
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
THE CONSUL AT SUNSET. By Gerald Hanley. Collins. 91. def. 234 pages.
But, In the crisis, Sole the.man of principle has pulled out his "the revolver, fired and killed:
to this Violence that belonged
PEOPLE
Publishers get U.S.A. challenge
Baby JON HOPE RUMUNIKĀ
Into the market for pocket- tortured and tired deseri moved Bized reprint books steps a new. him to a quiet and dangerous competitor Traneworld--Pub wish to punish, to beat downlishers.
subdue."
Note the edge on that writ ing; the distinction.
Hanley's book has the power to convey the misery of outpost
begins where his plays football the
HKipling left off. His with his Askarls, but he is pill- ininds, the aching loneliness, the powerful Curtis Publishing Co.
barbarity of the people. There
He has
Who are behind this firm? Big American interests. Trans- world is a subsidiary of Bantam Books, Inc., of New York, large shareholders the Director of Trans- less in discipline. graphic and power-
Not, "one of us," in many
fighting here, massacre, mutila-world is a Londoner, 34-year- ful novel, the BOOK OF respects a great deal better than
tion. After killing their enemies,ld Edward Morshall. the warriors smash the water Just returned from a long visit
to the States. THE MONTH, strengthens any of "us," Turnbull is a man
so that the wamen the industrial Bystem containers
Mr Marshall I Dunkirk British fiction with a new what
the scrap-heap threw an
and will die of thirst: "They leaped
before the women. Iveteran-lives with his wife and and original talent. It has
the whom
Army Have -
und danced hi: for its main theme the idea chance.
shining with
the blood of the two young daughters at Streat- Tham He has set up office in the of Rule, the conception and There is a chink in Turnbull's dead."
West End. This is what he tells me: "Although Transworld is problems of Empire in the armour, the chink the "natives" aru watching for. When they
financed by American money, we modern world, the relations and It, warna the Colonel, they
be operating independently, between a governing system will be in, through the crack, and its subjects.
like thirsting bugs! it is Aurelia,
plan to buy reprint rights of Milton's girl, who finds that
British authors"
It is not, be it said at once, a novel about the colour question. Hanley's imperial rulers Include -a Kipling's dld-the Atriem sergeant as well political officer.
chink.
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In the end, the trouble, instead of Apring up into a widespread rebellion, peters out. For Turn-We bull, in his frenzy, commits on act of violence which puls all the trump cards in the Gover- Rescued from out-of-print ment's
He sets the obscurily--"The Pretty Lady" handa.
Ore, destroying the written by Arnold Bennett 32
Frank in the village on
Swinnerton, The drama inherent as the British
And only stores.
the years ago, problem of Empire is crystallised Government has
of Bennett's friend, has described it a reserve
the as One of the most seriously weapon in a story sharp and fierce is u
It is a
under-valued novels Bennell skirmish In a war, a story which grain.
Colonel is quick to seize. as Its own eloquence,
novel has outstanding over wrote. Perhaps republica This and burning like a desert.
Milton, too fat, too sick with qualities: its theme has importion will mean reassessment,
swift and Its action is longing for his black girl, fails tance,
Flm star Gloria Swanson to send the wire asking for rein- implacable. Its scenes are pre-
She has has turned author. сус which
had sented to the he
written a book which will be forcements
Turnbull he would scopic immediacy. Its charac- Wri
titled, reasonably enough, promised
that ters, down to the last, means "Glamour, After Forty." Another Turnbull send.
knows
officer's of dishonest trouble is approaching the life most
actress putting prentice hand to station
paper is Ruch Chatterton. Her at El Ashinng because servants, are thoroughly Milton, influenced by his woman, derstood and individualised.
tribe permlaslon
For these reasons, The Consul first novel, "Homeward Borne," has given her
at Sunset" never relaxes its grip. will be issued next year. at wells water its camels
It takes its Somerset Maugham reserved by tradition for the For these reasons,
place among the handful of first shaved off his moustache. Why? rival tribe.
while and looked so novels of real significance pub-"It
silly." shed since the war.
Upon the basis of an Empire with 3 divinely appointed civilizing mission. Kipling built a stoic philosophy, which found expression in a series of famous Blorics. Ite celebrated tie
of unquestioning perialism Beller.
Manley's servants of Empire are undermined with doubts. All
Casey, elderly except Culonel
traight hard-drinking, the ancient mould; ne flaw in his clay. TIO faltering in his touch. For him the Empire in a Racred club, of which he is a senior member.
frum
But the Colonel senses that the world around him hos changed.
At home, there is "Buggins," apothenals of the mouthing Trade Union muddle-head.
Eritrea here"-it is after the Italian defeat-there is Turnbull. who has bern too long in takes gentlemen
to deal with The Colonel main savages," taina): Milton, who has gone to pleves with that black bini of maybe
ranks
his, Aurella and Sole,
worst disappointment of all. Sole, an intellectual. falls in
and judgment
nerve
to
Very complex trouble it is when it breaks out-conflict between tribe and tribe, rulers and ruled, civil authority and military.
natives pro-Italian stripped of. their old (now prestige) and the other sori, natives and Moslem, Christian the stately people of Abyssinian and the "Bat-nosed" stock Askaris brought in by the British -between Milton and Turnbull and, in the end, between Tum- bull and Sate. Sole who arrives to relieve Milton, and arrives to late!
For Aurello, Alled with sudden the contempt for Milion, sends one
uf crisis--and takes of her tribesmen to kill him (a moment
no ilitle refuge from his own fallure-in-feat performed with
whole relish) while she slinks into about the scepticism
Tornbolle bungalow. imperial idea.
Turnbull, wrongly suspecting But Sole is not the most
of Milton's rival tribe Interesting
these rulers, the
chiefs. Apart from the Colonel, crafty murder, imprisons its and cynical, Tumbull stands out, Sole arrives to and the gaol in a subtly drawn full-length por a state of slege, and Turnbull, than half-way trait of the British NCO lype. already He is hard, hide-bound, bitterly "round the bend," preparing fo
more
a
the mob down with
When Sole for- severe than machine-gun.
self-resperting. at once more maw humane and more
with stereo-
un-
WIN
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT--
YOU WERE WALKING ON AN ENDLESS STRIP WITH WATER LEVEL WITH YOU ON ONE SIDE
AND FAR BELOW ON THE OTHER —
-THIS DREAM
MEANS:
has
A British Crossword Puzzle
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
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1 Snub.
ACROSB
5 Bar of metal.
8 Rest against.
@ Seat.
11
Mercenary.
12 Threefold.
14 Rescue.
10 Torrent.
in
18 Angry.
19 Valley.
20 Collision.
24 Drinking utensil.
25 Gratky.
20 Sungs.
27 Severe. 20 Roll.
YESTERDAY'S
1 Hazard.
2 Cask.
3 Escape.
4 Weak.
5 Opposite.
6 Common.
DOWN
Something special.
13 Optical illusions.
14 Surfelt.
15 Meat.
17 Locality.
10 Smart.
21 In addition.
22 Sharp.
23 Tackle.
CROSSWORD—Across: Sorts. 4 Gossip, Random, 10 Shies, 12 Roster, 14 Prevent, 17 Cede, 18 Gen- leel, 20 Sincere, 22 Plot, 23 Eiccted, 27 Tolled, 29 Adre, 30 Datum. 31 Hungry, 32 Tarry. Down: 1 Scrap, 2 Range, 3 Shore, 5 Oust, Soiree, 7 Pastel, 9 Mongrel, 11 Hectic, 13 Steeled, 15 Rbil, 16 Victor, 18 Dene, 20 Splash, 21 Notion, 24 Edict, 25 Tutor, 26 Dummy, 20 Lear.
AND THEN WATER WAS
RISING UNTIL YOU HAD FLED
You have a tricky enterprise in mind which demands that you step warily-very warily indood.
TO THE TOP OF THE LAST TREE
ON THE LAST HILL - AND
STILL THE WATER ROSE ?
The danger is oven danger on every side. greater than you at first realised; it is rising up to engulf you, and there seems no escape.
This is another dream of the typo that indicates you may have bitten off more than you Consult a wire friend; he may halp
can chow. The endless strip indicates that you can't be sure you WILL over come to the end of it. If you fail or make a falso stop. there is
you with a more modest plan which may be for more effective in the long run.
Left: Crewmen line up on the upper deck of the USS Coral Sea as the aircraft carrier takes its berth at a Norfolk, (Virginia), Naval Base pier after five months of duty in the Mediterranean area. The carrier was re-.. lieved by the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Made with a shutter speed of 1/25 of a second at a lens aperture of 1/4,5, this shot indicates the pleasing Indoor plc-
tures anyone can make with normal sunlight.
With Minimum Equipment
PERHAPS the simplest way
Idea to make not one,
ta
winter
through
the
bul
of making Indoor pictures several timo exposures. One at one second, one at two seconds, by day-light, using
and one at four seconds should streaming 'sunlight
Insure at least one excellent a window of your negative, house. About the only accessory needed for making pictures in
of
от воде
a
CX-
With an adjustable camera
avold this way is a bedsheet, a piece and fast film, however, you can
the need for me
com- white cardboard,
by selecting posures will puratively which ather material
large lens aperture, such
as 1/4.5 or 1/6.3, Evez serve as a reflector.
with films of average speed, acceptable The need for a reflector of you should get an
some
sort arises from the fact picture at f/6.3 with a shutter that sunlight is one-directional speed of 1/25 of a second, --it streams in the window,
lighting
an
wben
Sometimes,
sunlight one side of your sub- ject but not the other. Con- In very strong, it's a wise idea
to sequently, you want sone way move your subject back a little, Too 21
from the window reflecting the sunlight to the shadow side of your sub- much light falling full on a face leaves little shadow and ject.
to model the no gradation One
of subject's fentures, By nudying makking pletures of this type is the lighting and the scene, as it
30
of the
best ways
camera's
if
in
Jour you can determine is so and move the sub- accordingly. Or perhaps his head so that part of
seat your subject by the on
appears ander, window. Place the reflector a
this few feet away so that the sun- light is reflected back on his jeet shadow side. Then make your turn. picture
from an angle of ap- the face is slightly shadowed. proximately 45 degrees
In any case, as you gain ex-
Exposure in such cases will perience with indoor plciures depend on the, brightness of the by normal sunlight,' you
day. In general,
you should and
xe saticfactory results
bright sunilt days with a sim- you
will
that variations come to on you casily. The big point here In almost any type of box-type camera, loaded photography you know is to with fast film. In some cases, go ahead. Only by using your though a time exposure may camera in new ways can you
.ple
be necessary. This is particular gain now pleasure.
ly
true when using films of
average speed. And It's a wise
-Ừphn van Guilder.
carriages, bicycles and old-fashioned manpower to car
works to buy coke to loput thele' dwindling fusi
Blowing the influence of mirth of the border fashions, Maria Martone blends a - Mexican hat and scrape with a Bikini bathing suit la Miami Beach, Florida The French-type_swimsult already considered “‹ old- Lashioned.
Right: Part of· ́a herd of over 1,000 elk, driven from the Cascade range. by the sub-zero weather near Yakl ma, Washington, le shown 4feeding hi am open Held, The Game-Department, which Is providing food for the cwkward animal is attempting to eda of Londoners turn a concentrate them at feeding; oria ́s and the heavy demand pools to prevent foraging ou
Oipe Indian braves from Red Rock, Oklahoma, set up camp among the Semipples at Musm Isle Village, Florida, while they train for the Miami Golden Gloves contests, Above, Chief Sugar Brown, manager-trainer-father, holds a towel for his two sons, Elmer, left, and Junior, while they get a work-out. Marvin Sugar Brown looks an at right.