A British Crossword Puzzle
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ACROSS:
3 Alarms (8).
E. Deposited (4).
9. Bullfighter (8).
11 Abstaining from aleshot (8).
13 Formerly (4).
15 Rouge, for example (8):
18 Mock (5).
19 Intimate talk 4).
21 Apropos (8).
25 Buits in (8).
26 Successor (4).
27 Foreshadows (8).
YESTERDAY'S
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26
DOWN:
1 Conspiracy (4),
2 Suga (4),
Equine galt' (4).
Dance (4).
Endenc (5).
Jollification (5).
Heavy drinker (5).
14 Madt (5).
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1953.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD A Stockbroker In Search
Of Barbarian Luxury?
Bark lighting oflen helps to make
11 Punctuation mark (5).
12 Important period (3).
to Weary (5)
{ Quotes" (5)
19 Brittle (5).
20 Change (5).
El Direcurteous (4),
27 Advance (4).
23 Imitatori (4).
24 Sharp (4).
CROSSWORD-Across: ! Candid, 4 Sweat.
13 Confide. Dress, 21 Dexiuct. Down:
? Regiment, 8 Tram. 9 Spread, 11 Emerges, Reason, 18 Wages. 19 Uttering, 20
1 Corps, 2 Drive, 3 Devaded, 4 Salles, 5 Enlurges, 6 Tennis, Renegade, 12 Merdesi, 13 Coward, 14 Issues, 18 Aerid, 17.Night.
YOU WERE RUSHING
ALONG A RAILWAY PLATFORM WITH YOUR WIFS AND BABY, BUT
ALL COMPARTMENTS WERE JAMMED FULL BUT EVENTUALLY YOU CAME TO A VACANT
ONE
A straightforward anxiety dream: of young married man.
J
effective Seascapes dapping the water with bright flecks of lights, Marine Scenes
FEW scenic pictures ap
peal more than sea- scapes with their sun-flecker waves, their rolling, crested breakers.
Prudes are not likely to read lovely figures' who posed CkJC
THE INTIMATE JOURNALS companion, aged 13%, Arrived
his huf. Paul was not far in these pages which, even angels," OF PAUL GAUGUIN. In
surprised at the arrangement, at their most peevish and trivial, Heinemann, 15. 138 was one of the things the carry the stamp of a strong, pages.
wilful temperament.
RENOIR.
104 plates with Introduction by William Gaunt, Phaidon Press, 42.
VEARS after Paul's death
guide-book had mentioned,
Slight, modest, of a natursity gay disposition, Renoir a' life can be swifty summed up: a happy buit mech- One day in 1003, the
marriage. many girls, (0,000 5»l»n enemy of the churchies WOLS a fur found dead by Proterant in many of them done,
when missionary
his and burled
hands were no crippled by with arthritis that the Brushásfugin Catholic missionaries.
had to be strapped lobal veit There is a legend, for which he written it would have
Ilis autobiography, had
Thron years later ho returned to Paris with 40 pictures and a costume which included hat and a blue waistcoat with yellow and green collar. He lived in a studio with chrome yellow walls hung with knob-
wrist.
it was decided to forgive kerries and hatchets. A monkey Somoset Maughan's novel "The called: The Joy of Paint 14
#
Moon and Sixpence" is reapon. sible, that Gau-
died Quin ho died
him for having been a frisked about the floor, and genius. On the wall of the
anmed house in Paris where he was
played born,
commemorative. 41
Annah's plaque was unveiled by the fact with history Minister of Education,
young
Javanese Annah hostera,
con-
The narrowUNGS of NEW BOOKS leprosy. In fact,
whs
"Who exactly?"
"Didn't you hear? He was a sailor."
An
Dia! Remale's ha. artistle interest and of a sumplusur pleasure in sunburat venereal disease, female bodies are exhibited in,-**** GEORGE After his death many plates of the Phaidon!
The Houso of Pres volume, THOMSON Carnal Pleasure In the mid-nineties you could
sold to an
wha American trader for £19.
:
by is brier and mysterious. On the edge of the Ittle opera-singer of MALCOLM crowd that - watched the cert- the time, Mund
buy a Renoir in Parli for £20. mony, two paserry-by exchanged Nina Pack, had told a rich
An auction words:
love 10 banker friend: "I'd
of Gauguin's Last month £25,000 war asked of his canvases in have a File Negro girl" The pictures, and other possessions for
of palating Gauguin, banker
mer: London. The joy did a great deal of was attended by sailors,
has proved infectious, and chants, beachcombers, business with the Far East,
local drawing master turned One day a policeman brought publie letter-writer who bought for three to the singer a young Astatic. Paul's paintbrushes
girl who had been found wan- franes. A naval doctor bought de Lyons his palette. dering in the Garo
neck: with a label round her
Alme N.
Pack, They talked about a Rochefoucauld, Paris." This was Annah, who proved unsatisfac- tory as a domestic servant and in due course became a modet.
by
"Did they not say been a stockbroker?"
"That
becn must have brother.
he harl
;
a
ay na only central too of painter too."
has no single, central point of
Interest,
Paul Gauguin was an able interest is stamon
stoker for six
and
of a journalist
and
Such point of important for good composition years, a prosperous stockbroker and you'll And It helps to for ten, an impoverished artist introduce one in your pictures. 1849. son
for 20. He was born in Paris, A boat, o fight of sea birds, or In general, views of this type rock may do the trick. O his Creole wife,
dimcult a
brone you may find that a great white plie of clouds or 1 crested
will WHYC interest,
arc
somewhat than landscapes since a
more
*Amadimalles
THEN YOU FOUND THAT
18
THE GAP BETWEEN THE TRAIN AND THE PLATFORM HAD WIDENED, BUT YOU GOT YOUR WIFE AND
CHILD IN BY
STRETCHING NEARLY FLAT-THEN THE TRAIN MOVED AND YOU STRETCHED AND STRETCHED FINALLY GETTING
IN YOURSELF
on
THIS DREAM MEANS your mate and, to take the whole burden
yourself.
You de sucoced: you may fear fallure but you obviously don't anilcipate It.
Experience as a medical psychologist sug- You feel, despite your striving. you whit gests that at least 60 per cent, of a real sense is not be able to find "Lebensraum"- place in of security (the opposite of anxiety which the Journey of Die-for self, wife and baby, a sense of insecurity) comes from balanced Once got you have to strain to the limits of human relationships: with your wife, selgh- endurance to bridge the gap and keep it. You bours, fellow-workers (bosses, colleagues, sub- beemane wonders why-to expect le of ordinates) and your community generally.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"HE IS ONLY A PUPPY. WE HAD BETTER TAKE
HIM TO BED WITH US.
WATCHING
THE NEW WATCH- DOG.
"MAYBE HE
WOULD LIKE
"ISN'T HE CUTE!*
ONE OF MY CIGARS.
serve
to
ת!
The
bock
Rue de
him
דותיו!
As the
sale proceeded, the hilarity of the crowd increased.
The height of fun was reached when on early Gauguin, a Breton landscape, was held upside down by the auctioneer and announced as "The Niagara Falls." The naval doctor got it for
seven
afterwards'
45
THE PRODUCER, By Richard is Brooks. Heinemana. 15. 304 pages.
DROP a tear for Matt Gibbons,
hero of this novel of feat ridden Hollywood. He in the producer of The Great Man,,,a, pleture in which a million and a half dollars are invested, His troubles are about as numerous “ as his dollars.
il
1
francs. For years. TROUBLE with the Haya.
native Office over the script: “P. =95.3 Gauguin's
beret The direction, the stapa_hier servant were the green with the silver tassel.
playfully. Where does ho slap her?" The Intimate Journals make disconnected reading and throw
beams of light on ful strange personality. Fuller un
will derstanding of the man
und came from Gauguin's life }ls pictures,
A
Gaugui took her with to Brittany, where he got into a At the age of 36, Paul de Aght with some sailors who had insulted the girl. During the cided to sacrlice, stockbroking capture for art, in which he had been struggle, Gauguin's anide
broken by a dick.. While he lay dabbling for some years, Tho Exposure for murine
SCC burden of the sacrifice would helpless in bed Annah pillaged not difficult.
me important mainly be borne by his Danish his studio and vanished. Gauguin thing to remember is that less wife
to the Pacifte in and their five.
children, went exposure, will be needed
their disgust. han My family can stew in for
land subjects, most
own juice, sald Paul Brmly. This time Ko-Ke (as he was bost Seascape with a
His wite was left to support called by the stunders) went foreground, for example, might
the brood by translating Zola's native in costume. retaining
His creed as a painter is stated 1/100 require an exposure of
novels into Danish.
In his romark about one picture: unly a green beret with a silver second
f/1. The same
tassel of his Europtan get-up. I wanted to suggest by mcons with scenc
rio Idreground
His poverty grew worse,
of a simple nude a certain long object, would require a smaller
ness grew with it, in lost and barbarian luxury." lens uperture, say f/16, with
he had
મ contracted Misease the same shuiter setting.
which now caused him terrible Often in marine views you wil find that back lighting helps. Coming
He quarrellen with suffering. the water toward your bill-sticker for an advertising Su
the French officials and with camera, light will leave a dancing company. He painted doggedly the missionaricg, Protestant and pattern of gilnung waves to give "I am a strong man who can Catholic alike. life to our pleture. Don't fail to bend fato to my tastes," he told
$40134
$beld
your tens.
from however,
be done by using by having someone hold his hand |
Paul Rot work for a time as
who
THER luxury" That Gauguin
TROUBLE because an elderly Actor in the cast in charged with molesting a schoolgirl.
Natalle his wife, takes to drink, drigs, psycho-analysis, religion,
TROUBLE because
TROUBLE Trahan,
with Vinco who runs a nice little blackmailing business under the gulse of loyalty to America. "Nothing wrong with that, 19 there?" Trahan brings Matt's/ script-welter, Shea, before the un-American Activities. Comp mitice.
natal
All this on top of the terrora of a film-makers' life:
temperamental directors, Anseri can Legion, Lengue óf Decency etc.
THE "long lat barbarian
direct rays of the sun, This may one of the email
group
Towards the end of his life, sought in the Pacific, his con- lens houd of believed in his talent. Ore day. In the Sut he called The House temporary the painter. Aga
in tlie kitchen. or hat ze that it will east a shadow rending a popular guide-book, of Carnal Pleasure" to annoy Renoir found
liked painting on the tent. He sure, however, that he acquired a new taste-to go the local bishop, he wrote the Renal,
women The shading object is outside the to Tahiti, the French protec-
forceful more than anything else in the strangely Deld covered by the lens.
wayward, gord torate in the Pacifle. He would notes known his journal. world. Asked how he preferred The same rules will hold
You' leave civilisation and dwell in "Intentionally I write when making; snaps at lakes.
bit his It
models,
answered But that a point et interest and a
smuttlly here and there, It's "Naked." He thought house life is reading the derogatory short exposure will help give you better pictures whether of the ocean In Tahit, he was not alone because I want to prevent this maids made the most satlafac reviews of a close friend's pic
I have been ture, It is hardly enough to see w ut an inland lake.
for very long. In a day or two, miscellany from being read by tory modela:
nurr
the ordealalami through fortunate in having several with Ja pretty little
making The Great Man. golden-skinned prudes.”.
-Joha van Güller
the wilds alone.
Pets Or Pests It All Depends
EITHER
THEY LEAVE
OR WE LEAVE /"
SHE HAD BETTER LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE HE ALSO LIKES SNAKES,
13-22
"THEY ALWAYS WANT YOUR PET CHAIR.
"CRACKERS/
WRINETE-
HE IS SUPPOSED
"TO TAKE ME
FOR A WALK.
ITS A GOOD THING I LIKE PRETZELS,
CRACKERS.-/
ALWAYS
BLANKETY-BLANK
CRACKERS.-
AME WILL INCREASE HIS VOCABUL
·IF NOT HIS DIET.
COF: 1993 BY GENERAL FRATURES CORP.THWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,
kc
BY HARRY WEINERT
"CAN'T WE
IN HERE 7"
HAVE IT COOLER
ANOTHER
BATH ICAN
TAKE IT
SHE CAN.
"DON'T, YOU REALIZE THESE ARE
TROPICAL
FISH 7*
THAT. LOOK OF DISAPPROVAL IF YOU
SALVAGE ANY OF
THE DINNER.
TIGHT- WAD!
Only pleasure loft In Mall's
Somewhore along the line,
Richard Brooks has last, his way. In this story. Matt Gibbons a pleture is not completely honest yet not a total sell-out to the pressure groups. Resulta fumbled climax, neither a bang nor a whimper; at most a
shrug.
As the Alm magriate. mouins in the last pages,."The
times, they're not clean.”****
Matt is a hero to suit the times.
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the now no 1.4. LISTEN COMRADES,” katan El Campesino, Heinemann; 15%,%" 203 pates. After the Spanish Civil War, the brave Com munist general against Franco. E1 Campesino, went to Stalin's Russia, Soon he was one of many disillusioned comrades A labouring on Moscow's under th ground railway; later, Inani Arelle coal mine. Not all havd lived to tell the tale.".
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• THE GLASGOW STORY: PRE By Colm Brorum Muller, Eskim 223 pares. Trailing his raht after the manner of his race, th Colm 'Brogan conducts a livelyuns
doray
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Freas:
OHANNA HORE BỜ NA KHI Jones. Cambridge Universi
27. Ga.; 284 pardi? Careful, plodding study of famous blue stocking philanthropist of the century whom William Cobbl called "the
old bishop
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