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Notice how the shadows in this picture make a pleasing balance of light and dark tones and add Interest by repeat- Ing the design of the Ironwork.
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Just Published
Cronin's Struggle
ADVENTURES IN TWO, astér, during, which he crawled WORLDS, by A. J. Cronin, carth's rurface and amputated In water, miles below. the (Victor Gelfands.)
It is a well known fact that the author-of-this autobiography and
a man's leg. Here, if anywhere, job is brought home to the the stark horror of the minera
render and it is impossible to many popular novels was imagine why, only a few years successful medical practitioner.
He commenced his medical studies after the incident,
the miner
extra
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In his native Scotland when he was begrudged on was demobilled from the Navy Penules on hour. at the end of the first world war Probably the most amazing and two-thirds of this autobio character the author met while
was graphy give an account of his in Wales nurse. Olwen early struggles.
Davies. She was twenty-five when she first came to Tregenny Like so many students, A. J. and forty-seven when Cronin Cronin had to battle with meagre first met her. She had not been meares, is lodgings were poor accepted by the suspicious and and the pabulum prescribed by restaved. Welsh people at first his almost empty purse consisted but through sheer goodness and of a bim, and a cup of tin in a ruim she was at last re-
He studied warded Glasgow tea-room.
with their confidence hard and late into the night and and affection; and her dolly when his mind was allowed tom of ten miles was ended
tramp Stroy from medicine It settled by the gift of a bicycle. It was with pleasure and affection on a standing joke that the lived pretty girl named Mary, who on
that bike and such was her was also studying. medicine at humour and courageous charac the University of Glasgow. In his ter that when, after an accident own wonds he was measure a storm as she was visiting ably, tropelessly and utterly un- suitably in love."
The
was in a
Fame
a pallent, the campletely Lost the use of her legs, she con It was Si: William MacEwen, clinic she had started and ran tinued surving the sick in the an eminent ungeon, who first c
money with the doubted Cronin's own confidence on her own In this case the shadow was that he would one day be a suc- remark, "I'm back at work- TN achieving three dimensional
and still on whcela." She was surgeon himself. effects, long shadows often the most important part of the cessful
indeed. She
wheel- applied
for the the help produce a feeling of 'depth composition. It gave the plcture cuthor had in pictures.
a pleasing balance and it was vacancy of MacEwen's dresser, thair.
latter asked the For shadows often do much to clear that the photographer had When the
auther why he wanted the op possibilities. improve an otherwise ordinary sensed its
the author, pointment, may Commonplace elements
repHea shot. They may help to strike a
in
The author's progress as a balance between the light and often, be dramatised by the dis-thatshe wanted to specialise
tortion of their shadows. Or a stirgery. To which MacEwen, doctor eventually brought him Clark
of a picture, 46033
where after a great make a sriking compx of pattern of lines like an iron not kindly, said: "In medicine, to London
or some other field. I believe that struggle he worked up a lucrative one that, lacking shadows, would grill
grill may be given extra im-
the repetition which you may make your mark. But practice in Bayswales. A chrenle be unspectacular.
pact by
al one thing I am sure.
to You duodenal ulcer caused hám The other day, for instance, the shadow pattern affords.
will never be a surgzon."
take rest but rather than hul I saw a shef of a figure skater. a shadow alone-as that cast by It caught my eye and held it. people against a plain wall-may 3. He gained the position of tenens for a few months he sold The author remained undaunt- his practice over to a beum The skater had been pictured tell its own story.
clinical So don't just look at the bright Acum,
clerk
Lochlea, He, his wife and two children ugainst the sun, her figure in the
The poklon carried rered to Scotland where his first upper right hand corner. Extend side-see the shadows as well. with it an honorarium of 100 novel, something he had always ing from her foot to the lower All that you need to capture
born. It was of the shot, them is an eye for the drama sutras and permitted the can- longed to write, was
alfate appointed to attend classta HATTER'S CASTLE. written left hand corner across the ice, was her shadow- which shadows afford,
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despairingly on twopenny lengthened by the slanting rays.
van Guilder.
exercise-books, thrown out and of the afternoon sun;
rescued from the rubbish-heap at the eleventh hour, and publish- ed in the
Its spring of 1930. success was phenomenal and
PEOPLE SAY YOU! ARE MAD- BUT YOU SAY NO! YOU ARE THE SANE ONE. YOU HAVE FOUND THE SECRET
-THIS DREAM MEANS: The road in your life a way of living: and dancing is the sheer foy of living. Madness usually symbolizes responsibility; especially as in this dream when there is no anxiety and you feel quite happy about it.
Though you are so exhilarated you feel that others think you are irresponsible; and in the dream you try to justify yourself by explaining that you have discovered the true secret of happiness.
Apparently there is some concern and con- flict in your mind as to whether you are taking life sufficiently seriously.,
Or
Marriage
But days of hardship and poverty lay ahead. He married Mary and it was, and still is, a launched the author upon a marriage of devotion and ten terary career with such derness,
impetus that sortie
he hung up his bla and put away Tre- stethoscope
black bag - his medical
He was, for
time, the doctor of the genny Coal Cor
Company In the little Rhondda Valley, and the bleak days were over.
ness of the the Welsh mining
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force. The regular reader of Cronin fall to notice how the
town is explained with The countryside was depressing Cammet and as his practice was wide- incidents, places and people in this autobiography have been spread he had to tramp
over used in the author's navels. miles and miles of track, lost is a man who has, do the fullest amidet the black Carmarthen mountslos. He was not at his in two worlds.
advantage, made tine of his elfta
new post long before he was called out to his first pit dis-
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