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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1951.
DEMURE GIRL IN THE PARK HAS A SPARE-TIME HOBBY
Shaw and she lives in old. Seeing her
clusive.
thir
Demure, petite (she weighs under 851.), she takes the air
in the park. Her name is Lillan
Hammersmith, Ske is 24 yea
fragile beauty, you would say that knilisig was about
roughest thing she ever indulged in,
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
Four shots make up a simple, yoi delightful, picture story, Sequences
of this type are easy to make, can give added interest to your albums.
SEQUENCE STORIES
NE of die surest ways of dut terest to a supshet
album
i to intersperse your shops with simp'e shots
sequence.
ju
Such capsule picture stories are as easy to make as any other shot -caster sometimes since you de- termine your exposure only once for two, four, or six pictures. Often mey tell story which no single shot alone can tell.
Today's four shots, for exam- ple, need no word of explanation
O story's in the
the pietures, And
pl the
HE HELPED
'Come into the ring with me,'
said Miss Shaw
IT
T seemed churlish to turn down the invitation, to turn down any invllation, from the pretty, fair-haired, slip of a girl; churlish and yet. . . .
The girl repeated the invitation: "Come into the ring with me," she said prettily, "come on, do come."
Firmly, 1 said No, that I didn't want to get the fountain-pen that was in my breast-pocket broken; come to that, I didn't want to get my neck broken, or
even an BYDL
"Oh, all right," the girl said; and slipping through the ropes of the boxing-
ring, she proceeded to throw about 11 former middle- weight champion of Ireland ns if he had been a dun.my made of straw.
The girl's name was Lillan Shaw: the 140 24 years old. weighs just under eight stone, and lives in Hammersmith. By profession Miss Shaw is a fim- stunt girl, one of five girls and
15 men in 3 team of non- specialist stunt experts, By putting their
in own limbs Jeopardy they gave in stars the inconvenience of risking
theirs.
Not that there is any risk training, really, if you are in
At the receiving end of a throw Titon, reckoned by experts (no
by
Aubrey, Connle
of the finest stunt girls they have seen, prepares to make her landing as comfortable as may be. Like all members of the team, she is bound by contract to report at the gym, two days a week for traluing.
الحمله
TO MAKE ATTLEE'S
BRITAIN
But how he would
N°
have loathed it!
he
May
the stunt girls and men. Well.
low Indeed:
three only serious, in the five years the team have been operating.
there have been accidents nono that
"I think the worst thing Red to do," says Mas Shaw, re-
I talked to 1 del named flectively. "was having to sink 12ft, in a tank of water. They Couple Tilton about the career hact to weight me down le- she had chosen. Miss Tillon has enuse I was too light. Then jumped off Hammersmith they had to get a diver to bring Bridge, and Richmond Bridge, me up. enuldn't swim. you heen thrown over a 40ft. para- see I've learned to now." A pet, and in [act that must have bee seme period was thrown
to her when, a little 260 times. comfort
was not a
He talked a language working men under- stood. He used arguments they could follow.
ROBERT BLATCHFORD: he put his own genial, vulgar by the son of his old partner,
"old" journalism Alexander M. Thompson. Portrait of an English stamp. The
"written by despised as
But Blatchford man By Laurence Thomp: cynical young men with a taste while each snap is itself a picusing picture, all together | son. Gollancz. 16s 242 for cigarettes and cold gin" and force that could be ignored by entch and hold your interest in a
pages.
sounding like "a frozen oracle his shrinking allles. way no one alone would. Even
reciting blank verse through a the fourth shot, token just ofter
TOBODY was ever more telephone." the balloon had burst, gains ap-
The English than Robert
"new" journalism was peal from the build-up which the
preceding snups provide.
Blatchford (born a hundred "human, philanthropic and not Sequences of this sort are yours ago, on Sunday), who too hostile to cold gia. strictly up to you, the picture
was partly Italian, partly After a time, Hulton decided taker. Equipment makes no dil- ference. All that is needed is Dutch and look throughout it was too philanthropic for his imagination. and the same care life very much like an organ- taste. Blatchford then founded you use in making any success-grinder.
the Clarion, 'a Socialist weekly ful snapshot,
known to Its staff bs the "Perister."
And any number of situations Nobody ever did. more for lend themselves to this treat | English Socialism than this ex- ment. A child blowing out the sergeant of the Dublin Fusiliers, candles of a birthday cake, a who regarded Karl Marx, the group of children playing, other Kaiser, the capitalist system and children building a snowman,most of its ulternatives with an
The Clarion became some mother preparing dliner.
equal and passionate dislike. thing more than paper-a movement, with Clarion Scouts,
A
the
a
The snowman sequence could begin with two children pushing Blatchford's hatred of capi- Cyclists, Choirs, etc. Blatchford snowball, continue as the ball-tailam was emotional not ren was its prophet, a cross between gets bigger, go on with a second, soned. As orphan of a William Morris, and Horatio smaller snowball being placed strolling comedian, he had Bottomley, (with atop the glant one. Then there's known bitter poverty, and loathe latter's dishonesty)." a shot its the children carefully | ed st. place bits of coal for their snow- eyes,put an old hat atop
anan's
none of the
After one meeting, John Burns But his Idea! was not en im decided that Blatchford was "a his head, and finally, as the proved Industrialism supervised windup, a final shot showing by Ministers and civil servants, yellow press scribe lying like a gas-metor." Keir Hardle, heir your twe snow builders crouched He wanted to destroy Industrial of Scottish Covenanters, was bend their snowman, snowballe en ell-supporting, hand- lakón one night to meet Blatch-
threatening to pelt the clean, hand-or
Ele found. ford in Manchester. picture: laker.
made England of the Middle himself in what he took to be a Such simple, pleture: - stories Ages!
brothel,
a room full of men He was an anarchist, a senti drinking and women sitting on reactionary and their knees. He held out to Blatchford a hund, Ilico a cold fond" and fed back to Scotland.
are fun to make and mean more
fun later on. For What, better
way is there to recall n day in mentalist,
I
the snow, or a seventh birthday, one of the makers of the Gov. than a whole series of pletures ernment presided over by Mr
which fully catch the spirit of the occasion?
Attlee,
From the Army he drifted *-John van Guilder. -- Into Hulton Journalism, on which
It is one of the moments of high comedy in this sympathe- the portrait of Blatchford written
His Merrie England, a 200- page pamphlet, might be indif- ferent economies. Ramsay Mac- Donald sold it was "like a man explaining a car by describing a wheelbarrow. But 2,000,000 copies.
10
Bold
W. T. Stend called him the people's Plato. Dr Horton, eminent Nonconformist, said, "If Jesus Christ, were on earth today, he would read the book with approval,"
.by.
Robert Kingsley
Pictures by Victor Droes
כלום
six-month downstairs
later, she had to fall 50ft, into avile excited another tank of water.
She was even thrown about on TV-for a Cemonstration Elm that ran every morning tor that two years, a thought seuns to give her satisfaction.
"I look forward to it every Lime. Miss Tittoa said. "I get when there's romething new 10 do." She flicked her brow with of
Miss boxing-glove. which
fer she hod The team
bven performing Shaw is a member was formed just
the
A
*
Over ho gors. Stunt girl Litlan Shaw neatly throws in-
who Laught #tructor Paddy Hayes-he man
her how to fndulge in rough house for films without reittag hurt,
A
British
Crossword Puzzle
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16
20
121
22
in Taylor,
23 24
in 1hc specialist
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26
27
28
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in 1940 by Capatn Jack the ring with Laurie
back in jate Eaton, who is now
sergeant fighting in Royal Scots, tind Army Malaya, and Sergeant Joo buccaneer types of stunting. Powell, late of the Commandos. During Captain
Eastor's b-
Mr Tayler also specialises in sence it is being kept going by
with Alsatians, and Mr Powell and Dave Crowley, fighting
lightweight boxing bears a Iew scara that he champion, who himself has lightly laughs off, as a keep- indulged
being sake. The dogs are provided by thrown handcuffed from an ex- Mrs Dove Crowicy. press train,
former
in
stunts
Besides the 15 men and five girl all-rounders on Mr Powell's books, there are something like 300 specialists in daredevily, experts
slurts Involving horses or racing cars cr actor planes от ollier specialised media for danger.
on
According to Puddy Hayes, who has the right build for a middleweight champion, you can, if you stort elf reasonably in shape. be transformed into the to be a Tight
state of finess stunt artist in two months of training.
actual Forty-eight hours of
of work, someone clse suggested: there would be no doubt about it. I feel you would either be 1 or pathe- We called on the stunt folk_tically a failure...
Crowley's in Mr
gyninesium,
all be might it And what near Long Acre. They are
worth? The rewards are diff– iwo obliged to train here on
cult to assess, for each job is days a week for an untrained
weighed
and cartfully
up seriously priced stunt artist may get
according to the risk hurt and the Easton-Powell
involved. team
undertake that no Alm
is We met a specialist who training to do delayed drops is nome by parachute; her Phyllis Weir, and she works in a
insurance office os a City
parachute clerk, practising
the
compony hiring their members will lose a penny in compensa- tion for injured members,
Indeed, for a profession in which a layman might expect
at week-ends, lo broken neck to be an everyday jumps occurrence. casualties are very awe of her ledger-colleagues,
JOHNNY HAZARD
ORCHEED 7/ CURE, JOE...I [GOT LEEM/ YOU KNOW, IS FUNNY...
YOU ARE THE GEÇON' GENTLEMAN, WITHOUT A LADY, WHO BUNG THE ORCHEED/ YOU YEAR HEEM,
1-10
100/
HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT
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33
ACROSS
3 Defect (4). 7 Subject (5).
8 Practical joke (4).
0 Yam (4).
10 Behaviour. (7).
12 Gait (4).
15 Ways out (5).
18 Cut (4).
10 Savour (5).
21 Conspiracles (5).
22 Tub (4)
23 Feature (5).
29 Yearly payment (7).
20 Bonds (4).
30 Deposited (4).
31 Valley (4).
33 Bunk (5)..
33 Sage (4).
DOWN
1 Bundle (5).
2 Famous (7).
Minimum (5).
5 Sharpen (4).
6 Lower few feet of room-wall
(4)
Journey (4).
1 Have being (5).
13
Incautious (4)
14 Digits (4).
10 Blemish (5).
Discover (4).
17 Di
10 Solitary (4).
20
in harmony (7). 22 Gang (4).
24 Incursions
23 Express (6).
27 Frozen
(4).
28 Killed (4).
(5).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Spread, 7 Epic Wrong, 10 Minim, 11 Inns, 13 Immoderate, 15 Edge, 10 Snap, 19 Contestant, 22 Eros, 24 Arise, 25 Kalse, 20 Pint, 27 Sodden, Down: 2 Proem, 3 Egged, 4 Demure, 3 Penitent; 6'Limn, 8 Pined; 12 Scent, 13 Issue, 14 Opposite, 17 Acom, 18 Strewa; 20 Shred, 12 Aglie, 23 Rain.
YOU WERE BEING STRANGLED YOU DID NOT KNOW BY WHOM, THOUGH IT COULD BE YOUR.
BOY FRIEND – BUT IT WAS
QUITE A PLEASANT SENSATION ---
-THIS DREAM - MEANS :
A protty obvious sex dream.
Every droom is among other things- conflict between a wish and a fear, Nelthor the wish nor the four is difficult-to ̋unravel here..
This dream does suggest that you feel your
WHWHAT DID
| NOU SAY?! WOZAT
DID YOU SAYIZ
HEY, JOE? I DON'T MEAN NOTHEENG) P.PLEASE... ONLY MAKE "THE JOKE / BUT THE OTHER FELLOW HE BUY ORCHEÇD
AND PUT HEEM ON...
AND THAT YOU WERE FOLLOWED BY A MAN WHOM YOU COULD NOT QUITE RECOGNIZE AND, WHO WAS ARMED WITH A GREAT CWB7
boy friend may not be sufficiently aggressivo, You scom to be toying with an interest in somo other malo. It is all vory vague: just as vaguo as the man in the dream "whom you could not rocognite."
There is no need to take any action in the matter; except porhaps go for a long walk.
By Frank Robbins
HE COME OYAIR TO
JAE, OUT OF HIS HOUSE IN THE MARKET OF THE THIEVES, AND BUY THE
ORCHEED!
WHAT DID LE LOOK LIKE I HAVE YOU EVER SEEN- HIM BEFORE?
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