THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1958.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD A British Crossword Puzzle
A shot that nicely catches the mood of spring rains server Al
a reminder that wet weather offers picture-taking postles.
ALTHOUGH
Pictures on Rainy Days
to Junity
the lever to close the shutter as after exposure.
most of us util
days weather." the "picture-taking
striking ple- fact is that tine.
rainy fure may be made on duy
true
Remember, too, that some of the most effective wet-weather pictures are street scenes made night when the pavements rine with the reflections of This is particularly your camera's lens has a speed street lights. Here again, time or two seconds af f/6.3 er faster, since the light exposures should be used, rang
sing from one
Since night Is weak and exposure must be to say a minute, increased necordingly. But even
call for approximately a box camero, Inded with very fast film, will produce good the same exposure in wet as in you can use past guide here
John van Guilder
negatives of rainy day
TI
#venca
wenther, dry scenes experience when a short time exposure is easily. used,
Generally speaking, you won'!
find it necessary to get soaking wed. Some of the best
wet-
made
16
zweather pictures are shortly after a rain, between showers, or are snapped from the seller of a window or dour-
way.
Today's picture was made exposure of 1/50 at four -ximately
with an
times the expo-ure
that
the
same subfrel would have called for in sunlight. This is about an average exposure for most
When shots.
the rainy-day clouda
are usually heavy, Jiowever, you may need longer
exposures.
Naturally, with
posure.
us the
altern
2 person
picture, you,
o time. ex- rainy land- But Mapes or retaies a short time could be used with exposure the camera mounted on a tripod or other firm support. General- ly it is bea to use the "bulb" camera for retiing on your this, pushing the lever down to open the shutter and
releasing
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ACROSS
1 Mesticates (5).
4 Circulated (8).
10 Detest (5).
124
126.
1 Droll (5).
DOWN
2 Enlist (5).
a Kind of eement (0).
2 Disgrace (5).
5 Lifeless (4).
7 Constraint (6).
System of dieting (7).
11 Make white (8)."
12 Interfere with (4).
14 Extucational establishment
(20 19 Malady 20 Suppose (7),
17 Branches of learning (4).
(7).
22 Not so much (4). 23 Engravers (7). 27 Angle (8).
29 Make amends (5).
30 Protect (a).
32 Herb (5).
31 Decide (0).
6 Exist in (0),
13 Expunged (7).
15 Monster (4).
16 Lecture (0).
18 Emperor of Russia (4)..
20 Begs (0).
21 Retrue (6).
24 Badge (8).
25 Each (5).
26 Move nideways (5).
28 Actual (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. Acroba: 3 Startled, 8 Agug. 9 Imlisted, 11 Muriners, 13 Urge, 15 Moderate, 18 Tren- cher, 19 Help, 21 Intruder. 25 Military. 28 Loot, 27 Decamped. Down; 1 Calm, 2 Moor, 4 Tame, 5 Rois, 6 Later, 7 Dodge, Inert, 10 Irate. 12 Alone, 14 Geese, 10 Arena, 17 Entry, 19 Humid, 20 Lilac, 21 Item, 22 True, 23 Doom, 21 Rite.
YOU WERE IN
A LARGE HALL SITTING ON THE FLOOR WHICH WAS COVERED WITH CONFETTI
AND PAPER STREAMERS. YOU WERE BATHING A DOG WITH CONFETTI
THIS DREAM MEANS: Many people are dancing and pleasure- making: everybody has a partner, only you are alone, unnoticed, unloved; that is the pattern of your dream.
You lavish overmuch affection on the dog (bathe it with confetti), and are rather osten- tatiously showing that you too have somelking to cherish and do not need people.
PEOPLE WERE DANCING ALL
AROUND YOU, BUT
THEY DID NOT SEEM
TO THINK IT IN THE
LEAST UNUSUAL
* Don Roberto
...THE ARISTOCRAT AMONG THE MPs (SOC.)
THE ESSENTIAL 'R. B. CUN- He went into public life in ler writes his Me story up to the
NINGHAME GRAHAM. Britain, becoming a Socialist (by age of 20.
The first Koestler emerged Selected by Paul Bloom- Impulse rather, than conviction)
and a member
of Parliament, from Russia at the time of the fiold.
Cape. 15. 255 through the votes of North-West Crimean war; nover told anyone
Bartock.
He rode to the House what his real name was. pages.
of Commons every morning an assumed the name
mustang
ROBERTITO wrote
for
Newspapers called him
an angel or a dunce: Pampa in daya thore sometimes with the distinc-
stabling wat tion, more often with the provided shocking carelessness, of Parliamentary the aristocrat; with a hint horsemen. of exotic idiom like one who had, as a boy, spoken a foreign tongue as soon he spoke English. Never, never did Robertito write with mere professional com- petence.
Robertka
28
靄 boy, Don Roberto as a young man, "Pro-
fessor Bontini" in a professional
1. Rt. copacity.
Cunning- hame
the 10
world at large was sumciently aristocra- tle. In his ancestry he counted one royal line (Stuart), 11 British peerages, to say nothing of noble Spanish and Italian ancestors who came to him though his grandmother, Dona Catalina Alessandro de Jimenez.
Mexienn
Jack."
He led a riot Trafalgar in
after Square
to Pentonville
for gaol
wecks;
which he went
Bix Inside
R. B. Cunninghame Graham.
insulted Liberal attacked
the House, he
the Party, the
monarchy, criticised bishops..
NEW BOOKS
Ho "Kocaller"
he
In her own story, part-written i by herself, part delated, but all, n carrying the impress of a shrewd, cheerful character, a tells how, it came about: in
"My sister Celestia, saw my t worsted pletires and said, think you could punt better and fester than you could do worsted pictures,' So I did.".
because Jiked the sound, Hio grandson, the last Kacst- ier, writer of this book, was. brought up in The pletures were put up for Budapest (hern sale at the drug store along with 1903). His her jams and preserves. Shpuza father was an priced them, as the still docs, optimist
Her whe according to their size.. backed wild methods in art as in businesse Inventions (in are her twn, exhibiting a pro-in cluding tical approach to the problems! "ndio -
-aclive" before hir sap); Woo eventual
ly swindled out of his money.
Koestler's arst
the by
George After Malcolm Thomson ond
УСПЕУ "the
of concen-
To represent the effect of frost in a winter landscape she does not healtato. to put glitter on the mow. She thinks that it look more like snow that way, and who is to deny it? A political Act (aged nine) medieval artist would have cont Was to cheer exactly the same.
One day, in 1040, a passing the Hungarian
wor against engineer saw some of her pic Serbla; his sec- tures in the drug store. Next was to thing Grandma Moses knew, an cheer the rise exhibition of her work whe trated idiocy of the Asylum for of demoerney in Hungary when drawing all the town in New Westminster milliary collapse came in 1918. York. The critics declared her Incapab.cs
left And his third? Graham
To cheer the a genuine American "primitive." He was the rightful Earl of Cunninghame
short-lived Communist regime of
Surprised by ' tho upmar Mentelth and, in the opinion of political life for literature.
plewed by the money but seem Rome historians, "our uncrowned He wrote best when moved by Bela Kun in Budapest.
ingly quite unflustered, Grandmai He became a corps student h Mosca stud, "If I didn't stort pity-especially king," thanks to descent from indignation, or
He King Robert II of Scotland.
race or in Vienna and a Zionist. for some simple
have ruled painting, I would by After schooling (Harrow) and dividunt threatened the worked on a' collective Tarm in
chickens, trip with a slaver
31 Gallice, sold lemonade in the off the advance Di progress.
Her life, as the tells it, has st, he African co
went to live books were dedicated to a variety streets of Halfa, edited a weekly the good sense, candour, and
Scottish with the
in Cairo and became a journalist sober gaiety of her pletures of the South of on
e. E of persons, Ho
Paris, in the pay became
Moroccan pirate, an in poacher, a more American pampas.
of the which 16 are reproduced--11 and
Berlin his powerful Argentine, horsemaster in the
Argentine President,
newspaper colour. "Life is what we make and a fencing master in Mexien fav
favourite horse.
group, Ullsteln. selection of
it," she concludes, "always has City as "Professor Bontini." Kia
been, always will bo Sh had excellent qualifications for
may not be a "primitive," stie, both jobs. He was one of the
is certainly an originul—and she is still painting. best horsemen in the world and In youth number four fencer.
4
*
of
This "Essential"
He has pursued-and oban- his writing includes one-third of
doned--Ideas as some men pur- his best
travel book, Mogreb-el-
And Acksa, which tells how the Kald sue and abandon women.
Kintail in Moroccu held him he has pursued women, too.
of his beat In the last pages of this lively, captive, and some short stories, c.g., Beattock for egotistleal book, Koestler takes Mollat. It omits, which is a pity, the commonplaco, inevitable step He was tall, thin, immensely that great story Success, which of one in his position: he joins strong. He could tear two packs opens with this perfect epitome the Communist Party. The worst of cards. With red beard and of the writer's outlook: "Success, is yet to be. flaming hair, he looked like a which touches nothing that it should be does
not grandee of the 16th century.
vulgarise, One day
La Paris a trouble- Ita
own reward." he some horse
жла riding Untouched by success or vul- knocked over a beautiful French- garity, Graham died in Buenos
la Aires Chilean girl, Gabrielle de la (1936), is buried, as an un- Baimondiere.
Dan Roberto crowned king should be, on an married her. Twenty-six years island in the Lake of Menteil
she died of smoking too
his good Ilere is enough of later,
Gabrielle many cigarettes. Cabri in the work to give readers an appetite
After a lifetime of hard work later stages of her addiction, for the equally good items that
on the forms of New York, smoked his many as 200 a day, are left out. compassion
Cunninghame Graham
ARROW IN THE BLUE. By State, where she was born, and herited (in 1883) 10,000 Scottish acres and £100,000 of diebls. He had to sell the most beautiful of
18. 307 pages. (Gartmore) on the his estates verge of the Highlands; was able to keep the other (Ardoch). He paid off the debts.
There are animal-lover who hate 'human beings and animal-lovers whose
Bre
extends to all living things. The former trazio social failures to be pliled; the latter maturity of emotions and are people whose character is of the highest.
The real danger of loneliness is that you gmdually lose the capacity to love and' inspire love; do break the vicious circfa before you find yourself isolated,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
KJUST, ASİN THOUGHT— YOU FORGOT TO MAIL MY
LETTER
'WHEN ARE YOU' GOING TO THROW SOME OF THAT JUNK AWAY?"
Collector's Items
SOME PEOPLE ARE SO FOND OF ĮSTAMPS: THEY CAN'T PART WITH ONE.
DID YOU KNOW ALL RACE HORSES BIRTHDAYS ARE
ON THE SAME
DATE ?"
ALL COLLECTORS
DO NOT SEE EYE TO EYE.
THE COLLECTOR OF
USELESS, INFORMATION
WKING
COPI, JE) BY O ENTRAL STATULIS
CORE, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
WITH ART COLLECTORS.
IT IS EVERY MAN TO HIS OWN TASTE.
and
MOSES: My GRANDMA
Life's History. Andre Deutsch, 21. 148 pages, NNE MARY ROBERTSON A MOSES, widow, aged 02, of an old Sote-Yankee font won a place of her own in the story of modern art.
PROUST'S ORIANE, By Print coss Marthe Bibosco. Fal con. 12s. 6d. 89 pagos. MOST
M
incnorable
kenla
figure in Prout's novel. Remembrance of Things Past, fa Orlane,
Duchesse de Guer mantes, who in real. Ufe Laure, Comtepe
adorers.
Princess Bibesco's gushing little do Chevigny book recalls this personage of the Parisian smart set and herp ittle court of gilded but apping
One day a young. hostess lured away one of the worshippers, What would the Constesse say when she met the know. What the Comicsco Bald was: "I have always wanted to thank
you for sparing me The precious Jean Cocteau, wishing acquaintance cf. this famous lady, met her on the stair one, day when he was fresh from
barber's, Ho
picked up her little Pameranian dog
d the Comtease, "your will
Come
Arthur Koestler. Collins the Shenandoah Valley, where abductress? All Parts, waited to
Hamish Hamilton, the went as a young bride, she touk, at the age of 78, to paint- ing. And suddenly she
over the DURSUED by the psychological rich, and famous au
1.8 "Grandma Joseph's old age." furles, immensely neurotic United States and immensely readable, Koos:- Moses."
BY HARRY WEINERT
"OF COURSE I REMEMBER YOU... ANY OLD. TIME-BUT I'LL BE BUSY FOR THE
NEXT TWO WEEKS
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SHE COLLECTS ADMIRERS WITHOUT EFFORT-ALSO FRAT PINS - SCHOOL.
LETTERS AND PROM PROGRAMS.
"THE LAD
WHOẠ COLLECTS EVERYTHING AND." ANYTHING.
“IT SEEMS MIGHTY
FUNNY THESE ARE ALL FROM NIGHT. CLUBS/Y
THE MATCH FOLDER COLLECTOR MUST DO
SOME EXPLAINING
him on the bald
to
nosc,
make
the
This book will be read by, those to whom every word... on Prust is important: It can a Ignored by the others. LADY LITTLEHAMPTON AND FRIENDS. By Osbert Lancaster, Gryphon Books. 4s. 6d.
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ERISIVE, analous jewel glittering on the shallow boson of the Welfare State, Maudle: Littlehampton is one of the most untrammelled commentators on the classless society, ng, made di The private ife of this peeress may be given up to, charitable... work, as her publisher: suggests But charity does not exert, an undue influence on her ladyship's criticism of 1Ke and the martyrdom of the reniler class.
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