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ACROSS
1 Plays a part (4).
4 Beatted (7).
8. Heap (4)
9 Inrect (4).
10 Fruit (7).
11 Trisk (4).
12 Carry on (4).
14 Narrowed (7).
17 Gol up (5),
10 Plunder (5),
22 Scarf (7).
20 Necruity (4),
27 Right (4).
28 Opin-handel (7).
29 Old (4).
30 Experiment (4).'
31 Ballca (7).
32 Whirlpool (4).
Puzzle
DOWN
V
2 Vault (6).
Refrains from hurting (5).
4 Gust (5),
5 Revoke (0).
C Direct (5).
7 Run off (5).
12 Rather but (4),
13 Ball game (4).
16 Prellie (4).
10 Exploit (4).
18 Tell (0).
20 Inborn (8):
21 Myth (0),
23 Joln (5).
24 Swift (5).
25 Vexed (5).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Mortar, 5 Tasty,
B. Celes, 0 Rustis, 10 Dying, 11 Devil, 12 Toll, 13 Ousts, 10 Resume, 18 Erases, 20 Ended, 22 Stem, 23 Sifls, 25 Mesca, 20 Limits. 27 Utter, 28 Meles, 20 Sented. Down: Martime, 2 Retired, 3 Asid, 4 Rezades, 5 Tedious, 6 Asylum, 7 Tenet, 14 Sentrics, 13 Sur
nized, 16 Radiale, 17 Settles, 19 Rescue, 21 Nieze, 24 Si:c.
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
are
Most school dream:3 examination dream and
апи therefore an- xlely dreams: but this is
"revention" dream. "Re- gremion" (op-
Cestio
plon") means ercaping baols
Into your
YOU WERE ATTENDING SCHOOL AGAIN
childhood.. Sohcol kere seems to represent a place where you have no decialons to make: all you have to do to gain the ap- proval of others is ta obey their orders and fulfil the tasks they lay before you.
It other locks as if someone has made you feel immature
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
VI....
THE TALE OF HIS RISE TO AFFLUENCE ALWAYS STRESSES DEVOTION TO DUTY, FAIR DEAL- ING ETC.. BUT NEVER A WORD ABOUT DUMB LUCK..
*MEPIA NOT
WORRYIN' ÅBOST "TI NEV TAXES...ITS
CHEAPER TO
QUIT WORK
SO I BIDY
DUMB LUCK OR GOOD MANAGEMENT?
SOME OF THE DUKE' ANIMALS SEEM. TO HAVE ALL THE DUMB.
LUCK.:
(SURE/RE'S AS CUTE, AR -
A BOIL IN THE EAR.)
✔YA GOTTA'
HAVE A SYSTEA, NOW HERES WHAT I
DQ:
That Shocking Monsieur Zola
W
.
EMILE · ZOLA. By Angur been asked two generations Wilson, Socker and War- ago, the popular vote would burg. 10s. 6d. 148 pages. surely have been cast in lenging favour of France and her *X/HO is the
writer of pornographic champion, Zola... novels? No doubt the title is now held by an American. But if the question had
The traditional opinian has all some life in 1 Consider this blurb for a recent reprint:
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
"Lo
Sparkling Sconics
OOK at these shote," B friend of mine happily urged me the other day. "Best. shots I ever made. I plekel' up a filter on my
dane wonders for me" and. It's
1 looked his pictures over and couldn't help but agree with him. He had some fine sceule shots. His filler, K2, had help el to darken the sky and bring out the cloud effects. It had helped, too, to cut down the haze that often mars, distant scenic views.
"No quesilon about it," I told him, "a filter
will snap up a scenic shot whenever the day is bright. And you couldn't have a better filter to use than picked the K2. It's good for almost all shots."
Here,
tured against the sky. 100, the liter heightens con- t:ast between tky and subject.
RN
"THE BOOK THAT MADE he decided that the high-classÊ ALL PARIS GASP! Piping prostitute In
Nana hic novel Hot! That's what Enkle Zola hould die of smallpox · (4 himself called this remarkable curious choice of death, hook..
More daring than Angus Witen justly observes), Nand, more sizzling than a ho wrote to a lend: (#11-you corpo dozen great French romances, could manage to sze Jere
a novel that will fas- who died, of the decuse, you cinate the most exacting, with would chilge me greatly.
Since Nona was to be visited its women of secret passions
by the, Prince and men of hidden lusts.
of Wales," Zola cquipped himrelt by attending
The "most exacting," If
are looking for the "say that Royal upper
party in the of д distinguished
kind of fiction, will be d'a- hemu appointed. So, too, will be courtean. Ha icok his note those
led astray by gloating de- book with him, nunciations of
mude enough the
"ithy- When he had Frenchman" who "elmi- nutes, Zola described the whole naled from man all but the apa covel in the form of a letter to and the
a plan was made, tiger"
himself. Then In the year 1880 such outeries a list of characters drawn up, a.
Henry detailed scenario prepared. After were frequently heard. Vizetelly, a respectable English that he wrote at the rate of four appeared in Bow Street pages a day, no more, no less,
three
books
counsel reading,
a
bad
La
In general, Alter such as the K2 is helpful for heach, marine, or snow scesce, distant landscapes and mountain shots, tail by Zola). and for pictures of near-by When peuple in marine, beach, or snow began scenes. Also, for scenic views from which include dark objects in the foreground.
Unlike some filters, which can enly be used with panchromatic An, the K2 Aller can be used with
both panchromatic and orthochromatic films. All that needs to be done is double the normal exposure you'd use with no filter. However, box camera users can make acceptable shots with the K2 when shooting
MALCOLM THOM
to
stopping if necessary in the middle of a sen- sche Buch.
in
cir-
cumstances were written the 20
of trandio'ion
Tegre a volumes known as the Rougon- lescription of the mating of a Macquart series, praying in bull, the jury begged to be the life of one fetilicus family French spared further horrors. Vizetelly the rolling scelely of the
war-novel Second Empire: a was fined £100.
In vain had he sought to make like The Debacle (defeat of a slum. novel Zola
British France in 1870) acceptable morailty by pointing out that like The Dramshop (Issued Jala-
do- He might just as well have he was "almost a total abstainer." ly in translation by Hamish
Hamilton. 15s.). clared, as Angus Wilson does, "nothing could be less at- that
and
·Wealth came; a house full of disease which surround the sex hideous furniture and indecent for this is that certain types of scenes, despite | tractive than the squalor blue sky photographs almost the fact that their exposure is life of his characters.”
Japanese prints. Also fame and because booch
ainan of There is in fact white. A medium yellow filter
a strong sus influence which, to and
scones, like marine
like distant like the K2, slipped over the
listant picion that Zela's real offence Zola's temperament, must mean are brilliant
sub- cuts down blue
landscapes, camera's lens,
that he made "sex less WDS
power, If it was to be satis- light from the sky and darkens result, It on the film. As white clouds contrast more strongly with their background. Since most acenic views will include clouds, this helps to en- also can help hance them. It to improve snaps of people plc-
The
reason
Bernard Prata
Axed. This
Jeets require less exposure than attractive rather than more so. the average
shot made by the Paris was as shocked as Lon-factory.
One day in 1097 a provin Brownle fan. So the K2 helps ton. Zola received abusive el cial lawyer showed Zola how he compensate for the fact thatters, parcels of an offensive Ca
aro
John van Guilder.
•
these
fixed exposure cameras nature, and improper proposals might indeed become a power made for average subjects from women. He rejected them in France. He produce uccu- which convinced the rather than brilliani subjects. all with equal asperity.
ments He was a hard-working man dovelist that Dreytus, who had will a dominating wife and a spent three years on Devil's sense of sexual incecurity which Istond as a condemned traitor,
was innocent. sprang from the sterility of his
All Zola's flair for publicity, maringe, Cycling in knicker. bockers about the countryside, all his gift of advocsey went to the an open letter Zola met a laundry mould, by Inlo
entitled. I whom he had children, After French President,
and demanding a re- that he was happ'er, but did not Accuse, write so well.
AND THAT YOU WERE TRYING TO CONVINCE. THEM YOU SHOULD
NOT BE THERE
and Irresponsible. You keep on protesting, you should not be there, but you cannot convince others; or some particular woman: or perhaps even yourself. Why not spend the next week or two finding out where your behaviour is lacking In maturity, and responsibility: and what you can do to really grow up.
Dumb Luck
"ISN'T HE CUTES"
CON. IN 4 GINTRAL FRATULIS
- GORE, TAL WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WE EVEN (HOW OLE WOMAN WHO,VIER 'HËR
LEMON PIE TURNS OUT PERFECTLY, ADAUTS IT WAS JUST DUMB LUCK
TO VW WITH THE HORSES OKE AWET STUDY
·PAST PERFORMANCES, THE JOCKEY THE TRACK)
ÁO THE WAY THE WIND'S BLOWING.JÖR TRIST TO DIAB LUCK..
FLORIDA EXPRESS
PHILL
BALTA
WASHIME
RICHM
CHARLES
JLOKEY
trial of Dreyfus.
The immediate result was that Through the misfortunes and
a year's early death of his father, Zola Zola was condemned (boun Paris, 1840) was reared in imprisonment (for Ubel of ex- bitter poverty in the South of pert witnesses who had testifled France. He hated it. Only later, against Dreyfuck and fled to
The when rich, did he learn to love England.
more distunt the poor. His first object, was consequence was the annulment to escape from their company of Dreyfus's condemnation, Proposing to make a fortune by was the greatest single-handed fiction, he set about the task journalistic coup in history. with method, industry and an eye for publicity,
at
IL
mo-
Zola spent a year in England, Sydenham writing one of his worst novels, Fecundity,
When he died in 1902 Anatole Evorywhere he took a note France said, "He was a book, accumulating impressions ment of the human conscience."
Twice during the Zola's hidren by the laundry-
wife ostentatiously
adopt- and details, Paris Commune he was arrested ed les a spy on account of it. When maid..
By KEMP, STARREND.
THE LAD WHO NEVER DID A STROKE OF WORK AND HAS EVERYTHING...AND THINKS ITS ALL DIE TO HIS CHARM, TALENTS AND
· PERSONALITY. AND HEVER, SUSPECTS DUMB LUCK.
"THANKS,
JUST WHAT TH WIFE
MAHTS CA
IT'S DUMB LUCK WHEN YOU CAN FİRD AN INTERESTING BOOK IN A GUEST ROOM •
2.25%
WHEN YOU CAN FIND A HOME TOR SIX KITTENS ...ALL IN ONE LUAPIS VERY DUAB LUCK...
(OR SUAPA
Angua Wilson, combining bio-, graphy with criticism, submits the man and his work to analysis and, on the whole, up- proval. His books is short, alert, intelligent,
LIBRARY LIST
SYLVESTER By Ed- ward Hyams." Longmaris, 10. 6d. 198 pages, Novel Sylvester, In an end-of-war frolle fartens a brokea perambu- lator and a pawn-shop.sign to the masthead of a foreign wor- ship. The mysterious apparatus creates an international panic. A wild satire and so near to | the might-be-true! -
ILLUSTRATED.
ENG. LIGH SOCIAL HISTORY. By G. M. Travelyan, Vol. Three Longmans, 218. 209 pages.
Enlivened by pictures selected
with
fine taste, the third volume of this modern standard work displays the England of the eighteenth cratiny, SIR FRANCIS DRAKE. By James A. Williamson. Collins, 78 6d. 160 pages. Excellent short biography leaying no doubt in the reader's mind that Drake was a very great man indeed. Most likely ho did not play that gume of bowls.
THE ESCAPE. By Mark Aldanou. Cape, 16, 448
pages.
Nevel. Petrotrad on the ove of revolution, and on the morn- ing after, A mysterious murder, in which the secret police are Interested. Willy portraits of Rucaian intellectuals, men who do not realise that the ∙Gun' is selling on them na well as on the Tsar.
I THOUGHT OF DAISY. By Edmund Wilson., W. H. Allen, 10s. 6d., 268 pages. Early novel by this American willer.
Scene: Greenwich Village in the mid-twenties. After a brilliant opening, stóry boys down in indecisive avo nflies and philosophie diquial- tion. Not even beautiful-Ung I gutie t
Laves it..
DUMB SPIRIT. By Doris Hedges. "Barker, Be, 6d 224 pagek
Killed insih war, Walld turna do enrth (in Morabat)za: spaniel puppy, Front) servation palat, haswa
Hoof, plaformer: fold His dose-eye vie lum Boything but happy
to