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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1953.
SO LOLA POURED CHAMPAGNE
A British Crossword Puzzle
Che SNAPSHOT CUILD
13
22 [123
126
I Locality.
4 Bounty.
ACROSS:
6 Bring up.
9 Adhesive.
10 Do well.
1-11 Meditate.
112 Bathing-place.
14 Marry
17 Bedecks.
10 Carried on.
22 Honour.
20 Tax.
27 Extent. 27 Exten
28 Truc.
20 List.
30 Qult.
31 Regale.
32 Check.
2 Won.
32
DOWN:
3 Quivering.
4 Fall front grace..
5 Stop.
#Enthusiasm.
7 Casts off.
12 Retreat,
13 Follows closely.
15 Strong desire."
10 Whirlpool,
18 In short supply.
29 Scares.
21 Develop.
23 Best part.
24 Solpetu,
25 Stop.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across; 1 Gossip, 5 Cease,
8 Total, & Drivel, 10 Pivot, 11 Mimle, 12 Burn, 13 Tires, 10 Dilnic, 18 Parcel, 20 Tasic, 22 Tale, 23, Tacit, 25 Humid, 26 Bouter, 27 Reels, 28 Feted, 20 Esteem. Down: 1 Gadabout, 2 Stirrups, 3 Item. 4 Politic. 5 Capital, Elleit, 7 Shove, 14. Repartee. 15 Spectrum, 10 Dreaded, 17 Legible, Azure, 24 Tas,
IN YOUR KITCHEN YOU FOUND TWO NUDE RATS SITTING CLOSE TOGETHER ON CHAIRS, FEELING VERY
STRONG VOU LIFTED AN AXE TO KILL THEM BUT YOUR STRENGTH WENT AND THE AXE DROPPED HARMLESSLY. THE RATS GRINNED
AT EACH OTHER
THIS
DREAM
MEANS:
Rodents bite and biting symbolises agres- sion, the two ruia close together represent people you loathe, who are conspiring-so you feel-to hurt you. Your confidence that you can cope has alven way to dismay,
This anxiety dream. suggests you've come to the stage of feeling people are "agin" you: common [celing this, when you've been driving,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
XX *HAH!HA/CUTE,
~AIN'T-
HE
AT THE TOP OF OUR LIST ARE
THE OWNERS OF FIDO:
THEY THINK THIS IS CUTE, BUT
VA DOGGONED. IF, I DO?
'WE'RI SENDING ONE EDGED
IN ARCENIC LACE
TO THE GUY WHO LETS THE
DOOR. SLAM. IN OUR
FACE
AVAILHOUSE IS DANDY FOR THE
DRIVING HEEL'
WHO RUNS HIS CAR WITH, NO: "HANDS OR THE WHEEL
# OR, YOU DON'T WANT
TO SEE THAT STUFF... LET'S WATCH THE VRESTLERS /*
"YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN
19 Attire, 21,
A low camera angle offers one of the best ways of making excellent anapahota of bables and amall children.
For Better Baby Pictures
DROBABLY nothing arouses ing snapshot. In many ways,
the urge to take pictures more than an addition, to the family, The father with a wallet full of snapshots is a familiar Agure. And hundreds of surveys have shown that babies and children are by for the favourite pleture subject of most people.
a
wall baby is among easiest subjects to picture.
the
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fow
| THE . LUDWIGS OF BA: This descripuca pilted her. In VARIA. By Henry Chan- the sense that she had bought
castanets, had taken a non. Lohmann, 15s. 187 dancing lessons from a Spaniard -and came from Montrose for Limerick), a
pages.
THE king was in his
Her first night was ruined by counting-house count the rude Interjection of a raffish ing, out his menoy-or, at peer who had met her in a non- fed least, trying to raise Spanish capacity. Lala
across Europe, pursued. from enough of it to build a rail-' one expitul, to the next by
Way
fo
-when an alde-do- torndals, ducis and requesta by
the police to move on. camp aimounced that a ..slie moves on at, last lady sought audience.
Aurich, having heard that is was, klup was harnless Innatie was will weakness for pretty but women. It was true enough. of although Ludwig's real passion
She was beautiful, which good dancer, which promising bad dancer, perhaps the Herr-Direktor
the Royal Theatre was mis had been for classical architec- Laken!
On balance, the king decided to ace the Intruder all un- prepared for the vision of dark, flash- Ing loveliness which dazzled him a few minutes later. Could such beauty be the work of Nature he asked with clumsy gallantry.
To this rhetorical question several answers suggest themselves, Bome convincing
more
than others. With- out
PL word. the
lovely visitor
His Majesty
ture.
gave
the
Her
rarely
・・・ just platonier
Granted the fundamentals of correct
m'o st convincing exposure and accurate focus, you'll find three simple answer of all. rules will help you to improve | gesture,
First, witnessed in a your pictures of babies.
LOLA MONTEX
lot them pretty much pose royal audience BOOKS
wher-
performed. by..... It is no Less Impressive to the
Fortunately, too, few sublects themselves. Second, shoot from chamber, are moro photogenic ·than the child's level. And third, pressive youngsters. Almost everything shoot fairly close up to the sub- | ever they do has natural appeal. Be- joot. cause of this, the picture tasker only need catch them at tho right moment to make a charm-
YOU WENT OUT AND SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND YOU. But you HEARD THE LOCK CUCK AND THERE WERE THE RATS FOLLOWING you
(29
Give the youngster stay of some port. Once you've done this the baby will "pose" him- self, in effect, as he plays,
Shooting from the child's level, is illustrated by the ple- ture that appears here. By placing the camera close to the floor you lessen the chance of any distortion.
Shooting from too far away you're likely to lose the child against the background. So it's closeups a good idea to make from five or six feet awny. Most fixed-focus câmeras can be used with good results at six feet and you can always crop and enlarge your pictures if you want a larger Image of
• driving, to achieve; and feel for the moment the principul subject.
pessimistio.
Food
Was a Boldier who delested
War on the ground 'that it used up money that could be better spont
building
in
palaces, and muscums the style of the Greek temples in Sielly. He lavished millions of marks in Munich,
rebuilding
gavo
his
children
black bread to eat and walked about his unattended capital and in the shabblest of clothes.
He had algo eman- cipated the Bavarian Protestanta
action
GEORGE
on
which his stricter subjects
regarded as
clent, proof
suffi❤-
mental instabli
Sonor
observer when MALCOLM THOMSON opportunity.
the
-for
Montez was now to give them which they hod he is 60 years of
been
waiting. age, vigorous and bored, as was The opportunity to bring Ludwig King Ludwig of Bavaria on 'to heel.
that autumn morning, 1840, Lola was Liberai in polilles, when he first encountered the anti-clerical In religion. The glamorous, if shady, "Spanish" adults spread stories that she dancer Senora Lola Montez
had
☆
was a witch, an agent of the English Freemasons and of what would now be called M.T.D, tw institutions which inspirod terror The Senora was in fact of a
over vast areas of somewhat doubtful social status, Europe. Ludwig retorted by She
begun Ilfe
countess and (in making Lola Montrose, Scotland, or Lime- conness of a religious order. rick, Ireland) 28 years carlier Angry students Kurrounded as Elize Glibert, daughter of an her house; she poured chain
Tho. on their heads. army officer. At 17 she had pagne
resigned, because cloped with her mother's lover, Ministry a Lieutenant James, whom the interfered in Government bus- ness; when a new one was op- accompanied to India.
pointed it was known as tha The Heutenant having deve, Lola Ministry. In the end sho toped an insulting partiality far-was forced to flee from Bavaria, followed shortly by portlier and ugly women, Mra 'an event.
In any event, try these sim-James returned to England, not the abdication of her royal "The real doprer is that you blame and hate | ple hints next time you snap alone. Divorce then drove her lover, who protested (with others when you would be more profitably em- small child. Chances are you'll from society. As Betty James Lola's rupport) -that their ployed reconsidering your objectives. Jour be surprised at how much they she became well-known in one friendship had been platonic; methods and your general strategy of life. will improve your pletures. For stratum of London life; as they had spont, their time read- You are "pressing," 1.c., anxiously trying to good picture making is always Donna Lola Montez she appear Ing Cervantes in the original Jo too much instead of keeping your mental easy with a little care.
ed in another-at Her Majesty's Spanish, Theatre as a Spanish dancer balance, relaxing and attempting leas-until the
from Sevlile. misi cicars.
Valentines
THE ITCH TO THE ONES : WITH THE TY. SET 2
WHAT THEY WANT TO
SEE
IS WHAT YOU GET.
ME BLEED!
TO THE CALLER: WHO DRIVES YOU TO
| SHEER DESPERATION WITH THE GÓRY
DETAILS. OF HIS OWN E OPERATION.
John van Guilder.
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Lola went to London, married a Guards officer in St. George's, Hanover Square, and was promptly arrested for bigamy. She diet in New York (1801) poor; devoted to good works, a convert to spiritualism.. Ludwig enjoyed being an ex-king; his old age was riotous and extra- vagunt; curviving Lola by zeven yeurs, he died at 82.
By this time the really-mad- king of Bavaria, his grandson. Ludwig II, was, on the throne. to the life of this pathetic and pathological monarch the, com- poser Wagner played for a time the difficult role of royal favourite. He was known in Munich as "Lolus"" (alter Lola). His successors were, men of decidetily less impressive calibre, the Inst being a sergeant-major.
In describing this Ludwig's. world of fantasy the identifed himself at one 'time with Lohengrin. atī another with Louis XIV) and his losing battle against his own Be- generate nature, Mr Channon,. not the liveliest of writers, hos a theme that quickens his stylo to compassion and harror: Mak BITTISEN TUTARELOSTICIES STREET FETIERE METEORDIENESTERNEN MENETES
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