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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1953.
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: Tomato, 9 Adulated, 11 Penitent, 12 Free, 13 State, 18 Emery, 10 oul, 22 Placards, 24 Indolent, 25 Temple, 20 Prepared. Down: 1 Steps, 2 Among 3 Statute, 4 Code, 5 Mell, 6 Extort, 7 Sudden, 10 Unite, 14 Ample, 15 Erected, 10 Shrimp, 17 Muddle, 20 Grips, 21 Usher, 22 Plea, 23 Ante.
Komand Venables
YOU WERE TO BE MARRIED BUT YOU RAN FROM THE CHURCH PURSUED BY THREE PEOPLE. YOU MET THREE MORE PEOPLE WHO HID YOU, BUT YOU SOON RAN ON! YOU LAUGHED AND
THOUGHT IT ALL
A JOKE
THIS DREAM MEANS:
yout
The responsibilities of marriage alarm you: you run from the church. Some people, feri. look critically on all this (they связе you): others tako your part (they hide you). The figure three has some special significance here, but one does not know enough about you to interpret ti
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"I ALWAYS USE ARSENIC”
THAT. DOES THE TRICK,"
THEN YOU
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD Lucky that the
A shot such as this is a good souvenir to bring home from your
summer holiday,
Holidays
REGARDLESS of how you spend your holiday-touring cross-country, fishing clear or merely lying on a nearby beach you'll want your camera, with you.
streams.
Foreign Office winked
THE
ARABIAN KNIGHT.
By Soton Doardon. Arthur Barkor. 161. 256 pages.
by
BOOKS
GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Moalcin
worshippers
His wife, Isabel, was a plous Roman Catholle who idolized her husband. in Damascus she HATEVER Her carried a horsewhip with which Britannic Majesty's to drive any Inconvenient from consul in Trieste in
mosques she wished to admire.. '1872 was occupied with, it She smoked, and advised was certainly not the busi- Englishwomen travelling Fast nees of his consulate.
That was something Triestino society knew for wet blanket 10 the winer:
certain, since the consul, Sir Richard Burton, and his
to do the same, otherwice you will find yourself rather an allen in the harem, and be a
women."
that:
Burton would marry her; when
She prayed for ten years
wife, spent far more time he did. she drew up 17 rules
out of Trieste than in it.
bo
hour's notice. Perpetually work up liis interests with the world. Never ask him to do anything for instance with regard to visiting other women. Do not
him with bother
reilgious talk." This last rule Tibal found hard to keep.
for her own guidance. They in- They would be in Calo
cluded:
"Be prepared at any Jerusalem, or digging for ancient moment to follow him at an manuscripts in the Nile Valley or studying mineral deposits in Iceland. Anywhore but on the scene of Burton's official duties.
The Foreign Office indulgently winked an eye, thankful only that he was not making himself is there than through snap- a nuisance. There had been a way
different experience at shots? For more effectively than vory
Burton had. words, they can convey to other Damascus, where people a sense of the pleasure quarrelled with the local usurers with the and enjoyment which you've (British subjects), exper
Grocks at Nazareth and with a For part of the fun of any
So, you take your holl-misionary. Reponding holiday is in recalling it after
Lay, try to tell a complete pic-shower of complaints the Foreign day, try to ture story. Try the old movie Scaretary had recalled Burton. It's gone, remembering the view
technique the long shot which Some aura from a mysterious from a mountain trail, retelling ters die eene of an action; the oriental past clung to the couple the entch of a 3-pound trout,
distance shot which as they walked the streets medium lobster laughing again over n
Trieste; he, therocious looking cooked on the shore,
chows what the nature of the with cruel, sensual lips and action is; and the close-up which magactic eyes and a gamecock shows an individual's feelings under his arm; she with a bright
reaction.
golden wig and a bull-terrier For an example of this tech-under her arm. Both had. nique, let's take our fisherman.darkened their eyelids with kohl A long shot, which shows the as a protection against the sun. Brook and the trees, helps to set
And, If you want to share your experience, what better
SAW POLICEMEN' Closing in ON YOU FROM ALL SIDES AND YOU WERE AFRAID
You try to laugh the whole thing off, to take Н lightly but your own conscience (the policeman) will not let you escape the con- sequences,
caus-
The conflict about getting married ing anxiety with some gulli. It looks rather as if you are not quite ready to give up hay- ing a good time: not sufficiently mature per- haps, or perhaps you have not yet found some-
one worth accepting responsibility for.
ог
the scene. A second shot, taken
at closer range, can show that
Her Majesty's consul in his- flat at Trieste with its strange of Moslem revealing mixture to and Catholic bric-a-brae-what tratis- tuas lie doing? He wan lating the Arabian Nights, un- expurgated!
д
af
Ten volumes were planned at. A guineu a time; the names of 1,000 selected subscribers wery obtained. With the first volume went a circular instructing the purchaser that the book should cried
Burton profit.
be kept under lock and key.
"Oriental depravity." the outraged critics. made £10,000 clear Famous and well-to-do, he was engaged in translating an even more erotic oriental classic, The Scented Garden, when he died (1800).
he has a "bite." And a third shot, as he nets his catch, can make the pilgrimage
As a young man Burton had show his feeling of pride and disguised as a Persian doctor. Isabel threw The Scented
Accomplishment.
to Mecen
to
He was the first Englishman and Garden in the fire and brought The technique used for such a the second European to do so. her husband's embalmed body story
can be varied for
any He brought back the news that a to England. When Westminster situation. You can even employ mitiny was being prepared in Abbey declined to offer burial,
announced a movie titling trick when tour-the Indian army; nobody heeded she
that Burton Ing. using a shot of a road sign him.
was really 2 Catholic and, -Niagara Falls, 15 ml.-to lead From his early days a the scandal of his family and
story.
young officer in India Burton friends, had him buried off your pleture
The big thing to remember in had a black mark nginst him. Mortlake Roman Catholic
cemetery pictures like this is to keep them He was vedered to report on cer?
In a marble tomb alive. Mix them up so they not tata depraved bordellos in Kora- shaped like an Arab tent.
you've been, chi. His report
She also only show where
was exhaustive
bought an his superiors vault near by, being convinced but show what did, and how and outspoken;
you niuch you enjoyed it. That's decmed Burton's familiarity with that England (under Gladstone). was on the verge of revolution. where the long shot, the medium the deple excessive.
He had a passion for porno- Six years later, distance shot, and the close-up
the brave, was free in foolish, devoted woman, died in come into their own. And used graphle literature;
that day her In this way they help tell your manners and language; super- London."On story completely, convincingly. suitious; would never use the spectre was seen by a friend
word "goodbye"; and was In Brighton, "As a last experi
ence," John van Guilder member of a Dervish seet,
pays her blographer, Jean Burton, "nothing could
Running A Spring Fever
"IF YOU DON'T
WANT TO
PLAY FAVORITES,
'WHY DON'T YOU STAY HOME ?“
AT LEAST THAT CALLS FOR ONLY ONE
NEW DRESS,
BY HARRY
WEINERT
"IT'S A JACK-IN-THE-PULPIT."
have
been more Isabel's taste. It would be something to tell Richard."
Seton Dearden's revised ver- sion of his life of Burton, Arst, published 13 years ago, Is 1 brief, judicious workmanlike account of an extraordinary man, life and marriage...
IF YOU OVERHEAR SOMETHING LIKE THIS DON'T CALL THE COPS. THEY ARE ONLY PLOTTING THE DEMISE OF
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THAT'S WHAT
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ONE OF THE SWEETEST SIGNS OF
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SCALLIONS,
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MAXIM GORKY. Elck. 25. 616 pages.
D
was
YING In 1938, Maxim Gorky was burled, with full Soviet rites. Stalin stood on guard at, the lying-in-state, Three, statuest of the author were ordered. Hla birthplace, Nijni-Novgorod
renamed Gorky... In due. course, his Jewish doctor
wis charged with having poisoned him.
Gorky had scarcely deserved these honours. A crlilcal
his
had loyalty wavered. He had said that. Bolshevik rule was "the vivi. secllon of the workers." But he wad
moments
-
Was
a famous writer and, In doing him honour Russia proving that she was mindful of the claims of culture.
Hls real namo was Peshkov.. He was brought up in poverty by his grandparents.
Before becoming a writer, he scullery cobbled; worked as a hand an A Volga steamer: hawked apples; sang in the chorus of a touring opera, com- pany; was a railway porter: tried to shoot himself.
His early stories dealt with the lives of trompe and riff-raff. They appealed to tentimental progressives and others in search of new sensations.
Corky was mildly imprisoned for political activities. He had Moscow passed money from a millionaire named Morosov to Lenin, who used it to finance his famous paper, the Spark.. In 1906, Gorky left for tho Went to plead the cause of "enslaved Russia."
In New York a revolülibnary committee headed by Mark Twain prepared a banquet-on the ove of which a newspaper the published the fact that woman with whom Gorky was fravelling was not his wife)
The advocate of enslaved Russia was thrown out of hin hotel, where his wine bill had been" £25 a day. Disillusioned, he weole, New York is a
#great maw with black uneven tooth."
His Autoulegraphy, now pub- ished in an American transla tion, is an undisciplined volublu adcount of childhood and early the picturesque struggles in savage squalor of Trariar Hussia,