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MARCEL FROUST. By Charlotte Haldane. Arthur Barker. 7s. 6d. 140 pages.........
VEN seredned by M.1.5, integrates, men 'and
Marcel
Proust (who become monsters, Paris dis- once thought of entering cities of the Plain,
u viiton of the the French Foreign Office) His friends realised the sealo would not have been ac- and importance of ie book copted for the British, fent with incredulity, then Foreign Oflice. He was alto- with fear. They might appear gether too equivocal.
In the book. They might be exposed in the book. Some of
Hulf French, half Jewish, them had good reason for
alarm. half Catholic, half agnostic, half social butterfly, half
In the mere physicat and martyr to his genius, half
mental expenditure Involved, neurasitienie, half a dero, halt"
the otrange Invalid a but this could go on for achieved something comparable long time.
with, say, the building of the Boulder Dam. Paris had no sooner got used FRIEND of ours who de sunlight is rarely desirable. With he had changed it for another, monstrous work must be pre-
to Proust In one aspect than Those who A
approach this. lights in tramping the near- black-and-white film best results First came the brilliant, weak pared for sentences that may by countryside hay elected, oulders are obtained in early ly boy with the doting mother have 365 words, not one of over the course of several years, morning hours, er late afternoon, and the stern father, Inspector which may be the predicate. number of execent pigiures when the sun's rays strike the of the French Public Health They must expect psychologi If wild flowers.
blooms from one de.
Services,
cal dissection pursues to .Colour,
The hewever, a more diflcult to use After that the orchidaceous point where it becomes a form af torture. They must be will- Suzh 1 ecticellon requires at these hours. A hary day, with youth, little Marcel of the Ing to tolerate a view patience; wild flowers some the run unde #ght eleuds, pro- Ritz," who flirted platonically world that is
of the haunted vattellis parthùlaciy—are not vides good lighting conditions for with eminent courtesans
finally hag-ridden by the au aimes! cadly found. But
any other colour c; black-and-white. bound in material from
thor's own personal obsession. photographer might make, an in-
petticoat) and climbed on to However, shadows should not the lap of high society. teresting album of blooms with out leaving his cwn garden.
of whom Fent .him
(one poenis her
·
LIFE ON ICED BEER
be to deep. parilcularly when you are shooting in colour. A re-, He dangled after duchesses, Naturally, many people prefer fleeter of white cath or card-sent them extravagant offer-
Proust sat, like a sleek black with colcur boc:d, placed en to picture flowers
them cat on Ings of flowers, loaded
a rich, carpet, admired the 'hadow film, capturing all the vivid hues onde" of the bloom, will help to at a flash would, turn to a tor- shreds. In doing to, he wrote with oriental, flatteries-which it effusively and ripped it to of the original blems. Hawever, balance your Highling tes more, rent of reproaches, An one of the key books of the black-and-white flims, properly pleasing final results
used, can yield attractive results. This la caproially true of 'pan-. Closely connected to Eghụng is chromate Alms, since these re- the business ef backgroumis. cord in Kack-and-white the re- Single bloom show to best ad- lalive brightness of the various vantage in a pain setting. Here colcu:s as seen by the eye,
again, a sheet at cardboard may be helpful to you.
Regarṛllem of the type of film
generally
Ineffably caressing. affected, feminine creature, with sharp claws.
PINK COTTON WOOL
the
re
modern world. The petulant neurotic, llon of the ten-parties, became a great man.. Even an herole one.
was
At the end, conscious that death (envisaged as a hideous old woman in black) Then come Proust
hunting him down, aware of cluse, the invalid, the asthma- how much he had still to do, tle, who lived in a cork-lined ho worked on, seeing nobody, room where the windows were shutting his door on the doc-
who on the never opened,
emerged tors (whom he tried to placate only at night, wearing
puir
with bunches of flowers), cat- of dirty white gloves. The ing nothing, living only on iced pink cotton wool with which beer from the Ritz, given sleep his chest was covered showed by veronal, kopt awake by above his dress collar,
coffee, working, working.
you uз, certain general sig- Exposures for flower phole gestions will help you to make graphy are batter
Shots
of
lens
u
me,
Bower pictures. First, lengthy side, since pictures there's the matter of close-ups. this type call for a small
of massed blooms are aperture to creure a range of rdy as successful as pictures sharpcas sufficient le récord de- of individual blossoms or simple as. Generally, you will wish
All those werd, however,
"Death is close behind wrangemenu. And for maps of to me 1/10 or 1/32, and shutice only a series of preludes
for Celeste. Gallimard is waiting las sart, work as close as your speeds must be slowed accon- the final, true Marcel Proust, for the proofs" That cry to
Engly. You may wish to mount author of a novel so camera permès,
gigantle his typist is surely, not with- your camera on a support of that beside it War and Pease out sublimity, not unworthy to
is a plemy. Corrie! Ighting/to, is always some type, and you will wan: length of the English transla of a dying man, "We owe
(Approximate rank with that other remarke brezzes lon-1,700,000 words). Called cock to Esculapius," Important in pleturing flowers, to be sure na vagrant
will cause shadows
your blossoms are needed to
to Remembrance of Things Past, reprodusa form properly.
It is a vast social comedy, with Be. Sway,
a macabre under-tow. Under caure of this strong, overhead'
—John van Guilder Proust's neid gaze, soclety dis-
By KEMP STÄRRETT
since
The Golf Stream
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The book was finished in time. But more people will read about the writer than will ever read his masterpiece. For Proust is one of the most fas cinating men of his age, as nobody will doubt who
rendis Charlotte Haldune's brief, con- venient, guide to his life.
IMAGE IN THE DUST, By Warwick-Scott. Peter Davies, 9s. 6d. 254 pages.
Atain The Grand Prix for
NOTHER victory for Bri
static motor-racing is carried off by Warwick Scott, whose 2,000 cc. job does the full 27 laps at 90 m.ph. fiat. Flat? | Anything but fint. Power-lo-weight
rollo, of Image in the Dust is as high As you would want, From the moment Scott takes that arst glance at the Instrument panel (all pressure 80; radiator heat approaching 90) you realise that Britain has turned out new triumph In Action- engineering worthy of a place beside Shute, Balchin, Chand- ler, Ambler and other masters.
Q
of the
Scott is in 'that class; he i of that type the novelist action aiming to divert public with a cunning play on nerves; trick of making six- words do the work of twenty- six: knowingness; gentlemanly cynicism; degantly launched understatement.
But you are not interested in motor-racing? Postpone that.... rash assertion until you have teen, say, two minutes in the cock-pit with Scott,
A SINISTER HUSBAND
From the moment it is ab vious that Mr Belly (Scott'# hero), is having an affair with Rowens, not-so-loving wife of Orson Judd, who manages the racing pit, you know that troubles a plenty are on the Way
A man cannot be driving all the time. True, but those emo- Jonial, tangles are bad for the Herves and on the eve of. | big racò" 100,- AF. ME Selby anye, the whole thing a briguing with complexities.
For instance, lie question bristics: What is the maiter with: Judd-d'A VW-husband? Drugs. And we thought it must be something even moro Sinisi tor.Scott miujudigas: his bulld-: up there: Historie mistake In us crlap and Intelligent a thell- Joran the year har noen
Either Image in the Dust will bo vastly road on there WILL