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Merry Christmas I
Very simple table tops such as his make attractive greeting
cards.
Christmas Any. Time
THE days before Christmas Ere
numbered!AK
Opce again you're trying to think of a novel and attractive You'd like a greeting card: photographic" one this year and, ore sorry you didn't make some shot's last season for that parti- cular purpose, However, it is ndver foo late or too, early to make Christmas scenes in table top pictures that tell a holiday story just as well es rnapshots made At the height of the
season.
They
can be as simple or elaborate as you wish, The siky's the limit for your imagina
dress them 'costumes:
of
Year
in cloth or paper
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Since there is no action involved, table fons'åre 'usually time exposures. And, it you use
jong time exposure, you won't noed You specially bright lighting. can use ordinary household, Ga-watt lamp singly or combination, if you place them quite close to your table tops," of course, inexpensiva photo- food amps will
give you excellent lighting, not only for this type of work, but fer other Indoor shooting.kg
Table tops can be made with cny, type of camera you can set tive fights of fancy. You can for a time exposure. If you are really cive, your ingenuity. using a fixed-focus camera, such workout when You select the as a box camera, your lens open- reps and design your scene, ing is about f/11 In that case, Werking: materials are plentiful your
will be one to two depending on the thing that ure practically
long as it is on the amount of light,
ny-minute posure
colour and small side and is in proportion cljaracter of the set, and the size-wise with the rest of the datull you went.
Pine props.
cones. evergreen
Actually, you'll want to ex- twigs,
salt
soda snow
periment in order to achieve, the ngurines, candles, and toys will desired effect. I can't give you enable you to set uறர்
wide any hard-and-fast formule, but variety of Christmas scenes,
In tell you that in this way If you want to make your own you can have unusual Christmas characters, in preference to using cards--and fun making them.. dolls for ngùrines, you can make them from
pipe clearers and
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
THE CORS ALONG THE PARKWAY GET THEIR ANNUAL ATTACK OF AFFABILITY AND BIGI TO SAILE AT YOU.
✦ WHAT'S THE NAME
• OF THAT CHAP JEAN
MARRIED AFTER.
THE DIVORCED SAMLI
WHO DID.
GRACE
HURRY
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A British Crossword Puzzle Mr. Jelly Roll
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4 Stern (6).
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10 The world (8).
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13 Extol (0).
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16 Vold of pity_(6).
21 Steering device in a boat (6). 17 Royal line (5).
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The man who says started jazz prospered enough to wear a diamond
in his front teeth. MISTER JELLY ROLL By Alan Lomix.
Cassell. 181. 295 pages.
:Y. folks were in the city of New.Ors
M
leans lòng before the Loutajana
[ - Purchase, and all my folks. · came
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directly from the shores of France, that is across the world in the other world. .
Accompanying himself, the while with silky chords on the plano, and flashing the diamond
lost of many-embedded in hip front teeth - Ferdinand Joseph La Menthe, otherwise Jelly Roll Morton, opened the story, of, his 'life' `in stately Creole prose and in the eple style.
No other style would have been quite adequata to tho story as Jelly Roll envisaged. it. There it was, tho golden legend he had been spinning in Imagination all through his life; vanished. family wealth, youthful "BUITOW, Injustice, struggle, triumph, and of course, genius.
by:
GEORGE
MALCOLM THOMSON
Somebody (Mr Lemax to be exact) had set the Créolo musi- elen talking, and, playing as ho... elked: "Where were you born? › How did you get started, and why? And in the chamber New Orleans and the year 1965
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.—Across: 1 Asks, 4 Dor-music auditorium of the Library (or 6 or mant, & Poor, 9 Fico, 10 Partner, 11 Diet, 12 Fose, 14 Deleted, 17 Amiss, 19 Vault, 22 Emerges, 20 Stay, 27 Silt, 28 Planned, 23 Used; 30 Rent; 31 Aspects, 32 ́ Eats, Down; 2 Seldom, Spades, 4 Doped, 5 Orates, 6 Mitre. 7 Nicee. 12 Pale. 13 Sire, 15 Taut, 16 Duly, 18 Desert, 20 Astute, 21 Lament, 23 Melts, 24 Range, 25 Sides.
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YOU FOUND A. BAG AND IN IT WERE A
NUMBER OF OLD
COINS
DREAM
ол
LA
of Congress, Washington, DC, Explaining theaiulgulty of the answer came rolling out in being quite sure of 'such de
murmur. Ike oric, to be tails, Jelly Roll's half-sister engraved by the needle the Amede remarked: "Baybe some the spinning cylinder of
of Jus is outside children, bo- recording. angel. Beginning with cause I don't know for sum that Mama was really marrica to Jelly's daddy or to mine.
WHEN YOU 'WASHED' THEM.
YOU FOUND THEM TO BE GOLDEN SOVEREIGNS
Scraping away, thơ gilt with which Jelly Roll later endowed his family's past the historian comes on a youth spont. In gen teel poverty::ADA
“Jelly Roll tried. - the- rjew's harp, the guitar; fought sby, of the piano-after seeing "one ? the French opera" played by n gentleman with long haira. Besi
the plans
#in
our circle alan front for
a) laus, this: "confirmed me in It. I
would sierr
However, poverty b
povbrytbreaking down these inhibitions, he was
TOYSEN BLEACHERS (related seqnt playing it to yous; et. MEANS: pricelessness. In the love of a woman you are fablishments in the New Orf THIS
Tenderloin inding ramething whose great value you; did | leana....... Tenderli on sobres not at first fully appreciate (only when you which he knew insita palmiest Mcney, oddly enough, is often a dream sym-washed the old coins did you realise they were most wide-open days. Nor was hol for love: to seek money is to seek love, to golden), Does the oldness of the coins represent the boy above to drug- manhoodap Bud money er treature is to find love. In ille, an old friendship, he., one of long standing? - too. people often turn to money-making when frustrated in love.
This seems to be the dream of an older man
who
ched, he financial
trafficking; a proached
took a
As for Is 2 Common symbol of femininity: hau been accustomed to think of most things upon and interest in the local
gold is the age-old symbol of great value or bo changing your scale of values..
12 More Shopping Days
DADDY, DID YOU.
SEE THIS CAR CATALOG
EVERYBODY GITE SO DARNED CONSIDERATE ABOUT NOW....ABOUT: POP... AND FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS ..MORE
COPE, 1991 BY GENERAL FRATURES DORP, TH-WORLD' RIGHTS RESERVED,”
GETTING THE CARDS ADDRESSED
IS A COMPLICATED JOB 1 THESE DAYS OF MARITAL-SIB- DIVISIONS... ALSO TRYING: TO RECALL WHO STERT CARDS LAST YEAR AND WIO HEGLECTED YOU,
*IF SANDY CLAWS BRINGS PÁLL THE STONE WAY DO
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THE REAL STICKER: SHOULD YOU SEND A CHEAP, CARD, TO YOUR RICH AUNT JAND....... TIED BY GIVING THE IDEA YOU'RE BISTED, ORE: AN EXPENSIVE ONE, INTIMATING SACRIFICE AND AFFECTION ......OR WOULD. THAT SUGGEST YOU'RE FLUSH AND DON'T NEED ANYTHING ?
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KIN | DO ANYTHING ELCE FER YA, MANS
AND DOTT TORGET, 1 WÁÁT, THAT NEW.. FIRE COAT-OR
EVEN JUNIORS
GET POSITIVELY FELDOLATE :2 DEALONG ABOST":
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CHRISTMAS SPIRIT COMES
KABAIN IS
UNCERTAIN TERAS.
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The famby looked on a
the
| young artist with disapproval,
Cost out. Jelly Roll wept and went to play the piana in Mat de Bailey's house in Mississippi, never: "go hig!distura' say prayers and make
Amilch
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Belloy wasĒMA
Lynching (Matile threat. white woman) drove him backe
to the capital of: muĢle, at the
turn of Century, to
mansions of such as Lulu
the
and Josie Arlington ope
And somewhere in..
those streets where, the polles' walks ed in two, the great event took place.
personally originated Jazz:
In New Orleans in 1902. That
Jelly Roll's tremendous claim, furiously, denied by whole generation of Creola musicians.
Jazz brought him famo, and brosperity. Soon he owḥ- ed
smart gambling. tablishment and similar....in. vestments. He had deadle,
Anita, who
vho dressed very hand comely "with plenty diamonde. to elaborate the condition." He had diamonds of his own. His sock suspenders were festooned with them. When he wen
went one [Fummer" to Alaski, “I Wore And pinned to my under-
And
"WAS RIWAYA In his front
wear.
the
diamond
there
Anita had a temperament of
her own. One night in Tacoms she drank Worcester sauce with whisky us a chaser, "and all of a sudden picked up T big steak plaiter and busted it over my head. We decided to split up
for a while.”ZZMEN ME
Such was the stormy úlle of the Arst composer-of-jazz." No great art is born" without suffer. ing
There was worse to camo depres elon, a change in entirŝnal fuste, so | that the young people; turned away trom Jelly's delicate trángeles, on-the kayboard. Be" was "PUERUNA" by voodoo; mysterious, powderk “were faunch undeT. FILE UDEN it; he rouan- dered his diamonds, on cadlars. He played for this food in low divest way, sordina Whiingie night-club,"
But the sunset was bright>"Anay PORTIDER GLORY > ana-m (thal; looked, on Morton, as one of the Early and collected hic verbydak, 32′′) to tell his story, for the most machitra in, the Library & and died (104) in Los A the odour of "PRIMITE *n-Kalta teknisnąd: ffint: devout Catholics but Man, entirely, differené, atoon h617
-Siben ¿ely. Foll
wie no'Jooner in his front
its first einigent,prág
„TREY SAY THIS-GENERATION - CATCIES ON QUICKER-THAN-
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