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AT ALL CHEMISTS & DRUG STORES
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1952.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
With synchronised flash it is easy to snap story-telling pletures
at the indoor reception.
A British Crossword Puzzle
19
20
23
14
27
29
ACROSS
3. Point out (8).
7 Inibeetle (5).
A
Put forth shoots (B),
10 Rcof-worker (0),
13 Grected
13 Put
sway
Bonds (7).
ected ceremoniously (7),
(4).
17
18 Proposition (7),
20
Listen (4),
21
Deserter (7).
Fret (0). Servant (8). Parson (5). Throttle (8).
Wedding Reception Snapshooting WEDDING offers a golden movement-and therefore pro- 20 opportunity for making in tect you against a pleiure's being 27 formal, story-telling snapshots,, spoiled because your subject, 28 Many people prefer to con unaware of your intentions, sud-20
Without syrchro- centrate their picture taking on den
denly moves. the gay happenings at the re- nised fast it is slightly more ception. There you can shut excellent results with the new, not 'difficult, but you can get some only such traditional pictures as excell
the ending of the cake and the inexpensive, handheld Aosh throwing of the bride's bouquet, guns. If you haven't used flush but you Tan uke pictures of the and have any doubs or ques- bride and groom is they receive flors, talk over with your the best wishes of family and dealer. Hell be glad to help you. friends, and of the guests is they And you'll be glad you tried it! chat together.
—John van Gulder
This
THIS DREAM MEANS:
However, in the midst of all
excitement happy
the camera user has to be very Jerk --or should have planned in ad- vance, if yours is on adjustable it is a good idea to de- camera, cide on one setting for most of your shooting. Then you won't dream you affec- run the risk of losing a good show
ret pleure because you had to take ton but time to just the camera, only hostility In return: the because you forgot to do it.
In
this
that
11 the reception is out-of-hand it
gives
doors, your setting will, of course, vary with the weather.
bitter; you musi By
to of
But if it's the pleasant, sunry the house day it should be, a shutter speed friend of 1/50 a 1/1 and a distance | where wetting of 15, feet will give you generally good pictures.
If the recepilon is indoors, the whole thing will be equally sim- ple if your camera has tulit-in synchronised fash equipment. The speed of the flash bulbs will make even the simplest camera fast enough to stop any normal
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
VELL WELL FRED: WHERE
HAVE YOU
BEEN
KEEPING
YOUR-
SELF?"
CHESE NE YOU BEEN?
ICA HOT
ONE: HE'S -Y EECH AROUND. EVERY DAY
FOR YEARS.
JUST GET IT NOISED ABOUT THAT YOU'VE JUST INHERITED A MILLION DOLLARS: THEY'LL CROWD AROUND LIKE ANTE ÄT A PICNIC LAND WITH SAME
· IDEAS."
HEY, 1.GOTA
WELL IDEA:
DRAW A
HUGE
CROW
OF
PEOPLE
sumably you
YESTERDAY'S
DOWN
Hoard (5).
2 Court case (5).
3 Insertion (5).
4 Press (4).
5 Shrewd (8).
咖照
燒
拨推
0 Makes provision for (6).
"
Like better (0).
11 Machine (5).
12 Royal line (8)..
14
Modest (G).
Binder (5).
Instrument (5).
18 Units of heat (0).
10 Church festival (0), 22 Pluck (5).
23 Finch (5).
24 Long for (5)..
25 Symbol (4),
CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Ardour, 5 Clted,
Sedan, Solves, 10 Ruled, 11 Debar, 12 Lace, 13 Feast, 16 Attest, 18 Tenses, 20 Evens, 23 Mere, 23 Swaps, 25 Endue, 20 Impet, 27 Erred, 28 Amiss, 29 Sensed, Down: 1 Absoluic, 2 Delicate, 3 Used, 4 Resents, 0 Carafes, 6 Inures, 7 Ewers, 14 Attempts, 15 Talented, 18 Answers, 17 Temples, 19 Ensures, 21 Venom, 24 Side.
YOU SENT US THIS DREAM....
src SUTO of retting real affection.
YOU WERE WALKING DOWN A LANE WHEN YOU SAW A LITTLE
GIRL WITH BEAUTIFUL
CURLY HAIR- YOU WALKED UP TO HER
AND TOUCHED
HER HAIR
To interpret a dream one must know quite a lot about the dreamer. Are you married? If so, have you a family?
Il rather looks like the dream of a wife who fears a daughter ; because she is convinced that she will show nothing but ingratief tude: or will rob her of affection in some way, posɛlbly by diveris ing some of her husband's affection-as a little daughter might'
Drawing A Crowd
" WE WERE JUŠTOIT FOR A
STROLL... HAD NO IDEA IT WAS
SO NEAR DINNER TIME!
Q
EVERYBODY WHO HAS AN IDEA TO HELP OUT", CARTOONIST ALWAYS BEGINS WITH "DRAW
A BIG CROWD OF DEOPLE.-.-.
JUST A HINT THAT YOU HAVE A ROAST OF BEEF CAGIED AWAY IN VOIR, FREEZER, IS ENOIGH TO PUEL IN THE CUSTOMERS AROUND ABOUT DINNER TIME....BY SHEER CHANCE, OF COURSE......
ANY TIME ONE GENT OFFERS TO POKE ANOTHER. IN THE SHOOT OR SKIN KIA ALVE HE CAN DRAW A CROWD QUICKER TIAN A POLITICIAN CAN CHANGE HIS MIND.
Here's
... Riches!
by DAVID FARRER
MAJORITY: An Anthology of 21' `year of publishing.
(Hamish Hamilton. 1,035 pages. 25s.).
TW
TWO full-length novela; two playa; seven short stories; three slices of nutobiography: two selections of poems; more than 20 authors represented by non-fiction contributions; 15 Thurber drawings; a thousand and thirty-five pages, price twenty-five shillings..
1.
On the face of it the book is of their Important American certainly a bargain.
- tilles. But, whatever their bargain- This asset may have enabled appeal, anthologies are a risky him to survive in the publish- speculation. Confine them to a ing doldrums. of the "thirties" single subject and you confina when many of his fellow.. their interest to limited publishers fell by the wayside,
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public. Throw in everything: you have got, and they are apt-
lo resemble that soup which
your
Lur hostess tells you hopefully Is-Scotch broth.
Majority avolds both these pitfalls. For though this compiler shows
holic/ bears
in taste, each item unmistakably a certain hallmark. It is the hallmark of possibly the most successful, and certainly the most enter- prising, new publisher to arise In England Aince the 1914-18 wer.
Hamish Hamilton started as
Dn independent publisher twenty-one years ago. Three years before this he had stroked on eight in the Olympic Games. He had also been called to the Bar.
RUTH PARK ... pardon the trowel.
The contents of this volume are umple evidence of why survival was followed by success.
Hamilton hos a passionate
In
the contemporary
and a flair for
He began with £15,000- and interest one great advantage. He had scene and a determination to let previously been In charge of the British public view it from the London office of the great every angle. American__publishing house of He has also a readiness' to Harper Brothers: they con- take a a chance tinued to allow him first pick spotting what names are going to make hows. The contents list of Majority is studded with authors, unknown, only a short time ago, whose new books are now eagerly awaited.
FAVOURITES ARE My personal favourites in this anthology? First Stephen Spender's description, from World of
THEN SHE CHANGED INTO AN-ENORMOUS DOG WHICH
FOLLOWED YOU TO A FRIEND'S HOUSE WHERE IT BIT YOUR ARM, THEN IT CHANGED BACK INTO
A LITTLE GIRL
If so, you are "ambivalent" to the possibility of a daughter, f.e., you both love it and fear it.
Warm affection is ALWAYS returned: ambivalence in your self alwaya oreates ambivalence in the ones you both love and resent. Until you can, give warm affection with no trace of resentment, you can't hope to break the vicious circle of wanting love, yet fearing it,
Bu
KEMP STARRETT
HAVE AU ART EXHIBIT WITH FREE COCKTAILS = FOLKS WHOSE INTEREST IN PICTURES IS CONFINED TO BILL BOARDS WILL FLOCK TO IT LIKE KIDS TO A MONKEY-CAGE.
ONE OF THE EASIEST WAYS TO DRAW, A CROWD IS TO START RATTLING. SOMEBODY FAMILY SKELETON .......
¡A STIFF NÉCK OR. ABIT OF CURIOSITY ABOUT NOTHING AT ALL OVER HEAD WILL: DRAW A CROWD IKE- HONEY DRAYS FLIES...OR KIDS.
World
Within
modernism In the Germany of the Twenties" "It was easy
to be
be advanced; you; had only
to take your clothes off."
Next
Frank Swinnerton's tribute to
Ping -* obituary
sion tha
Bennett. On one occo-
two men differed on the date of Marie
Having looked italip in th
his ro
ference books Bennett exclaim od: "Extraordinary, I've looked In a
≫ dazen
books, and they're
if wrong."
Terence Rattigan's best play,
The Browning Version, evokes the memor
memory oI Eric Portman'a beautifut performance as the aging and defeated school master, R.
- Cruickshank's
sentimental Journey through the. London squares contrasts with
the next Item-John Guather's extremely unsentimental Jour ney (from Inside U.S.A,) along the sidewalks of New York, during which he informs us that the city harbours eight million rats,
------THURBER, SHAW
And of course there is everý– thing included here by the la comparable James Thurber, from The Secret Life of Walter Mility to the
truculent
female
drawing of the confronting an unidentifiable carnivore with the question: "What have you
done with Dactor Millmosa?
Others may choose differently. It could be Bernard Shaw-or Angela Thirkell. And in so large a collection, everyone will find a few personal bugbears. My own Include the unimoreland unimportant gloom distilled" by Albert existentialist novel. The Outsider, of which the concluding Gentence reads: "All that remained was to hope that on the day of my execution there would be a huge crowd of spectators and that they
Camus's
should greet
greet me with
execration
But for But for
howls
of
everyone's bugbear
there will be several delights. Here are, scholarship and satire, sentiment and crime. If only t did not weigh so much, Majority would be the perfect bedside book,
THE WITCH'S THORN, by Ruth Park. Michael Joseph. 240 pages. 10s. 6d.
E KANO, a small township In the North Island of Naw Zealand, is the setting of Miss Ruth Park's new novely
And no one who reads. The Witch's Thorn will want to go spa live there..
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Tor To Kano suffers, it peers, climatically from the extremes of heat and cold, from intermittent earthquakes and regular eruptions of the local, geyser. And His in habitants, are addicted to drink, ddultery and mobbish hypocrisy, so almost equal proportions,
Little Bethel Jury, Miss. Vark's heroine, is the, legiimata child, of the neighbourhood's Aprize wariée). From first page to art aka Le scorned and maltreated. The galy people in this violent story whe take pity on her are the own prostitute, who is also her aunt, and a Moori family with whom she flods final sanctuary. In:, T Kane, It is the Whites who are All Black,
The Witch's Thorn is overloaded with faults. It is thick With melodrams, cloited with, soutinetil: and most of its characters-are-the too many sizes larger then(file.:)
But Mi Park Domes, near to converting theme "detiltal: Into virtues. Ebe weiten with demenEE? SAILO and tells an exciting
believes in her characters : Šegu ww; find it hard-to`share (her, Sa- Tiete.; Kha - Raya, it all on," with trowel,”-but-_}}_ti¬n good,
htimis