THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1953.
A British Crossword Puzzle The SNAPSHOT GUILD
MISHAP RISKS
D
HAD YOUR CAMERA CHECKED?
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VALOURN
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ONE
ES DRES
D
113
NAMES
SCARE EGGS
LOOMED
23
ALERT PIERCE
CRIOS
CUS DESPOT
ACROSS
Accident (0).
5 Hazarda (3).
8 Violent wind (4).
Gallantry (0).
11 Goods vehicle (5).
12 Smart (6),
14 Intenu (4).
10 Nominates (5).
18 Frighten (5).
19 Incites (4).
20 Appeared (0).
24 Spry (5).
25 Penetrate (0).
20 Rank⚫ (4)
27 Cultivates (5).
28 Tyrant (0).
Shift (4).
DOWN
2. Dispored of (4).
3 Shivering fit (4),
4 Clergyman (6).
5. Dependent (7).
Shrieks (7).
7 Cunning (7).
10 Command (3).
13 Brave (7).
14 Warike (7).
15 Charms (7).
17 Tally (5);
10 Ran off (6).
21 Mud (4),
.
22 Let fall (4). 23 Inclination (4).
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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. — Across: 1 Swarms, Spart, 7 Having, 8. Weird, 10 Pins, 12 Defained. 15 Cedur, Rite. 17 Even, 10 Ripen. 30 Dirtant, 21 Silt, 23 Atone, 24 Casino, 25 Amber, 20 Recess, Down; 1 Stripped, 2 Advances, 3 Mend. 5 Prepares. & Cortet, 9 Merit, 11 Sentence, 12 Darns, 13 Minimise, 14 Destroys. 18 Vetim, 22 Bole.
THIS
YOU WERE RUNNING THROUGH A GARDEN LEADING A HORSE, /PURSUED BY YOUR
MOTHER WHO →WAS SHOOTING
AT YOU
DREAM
Hay vividly
MEANS:
the
dreams over-dramatise living. the horse, your desires-as distinct from mother shooting at you merely represents your feeling that her anger and disapproval ате almed at you.
The garden symbolises your life or way of lying, the horse, your desires—as distanci from your reason which you seem bent on follow-
accurate.
speed
NE of our renders exposure depends on these, it's recently sent us several important to know for certain
that your shutter light-streaked snapshots. A much slower shutter "What," he asked, "is the than you select can mean a bad matter? All of my pictures over-exposure. seem to have these same
Of course, such, a ehtek-up is) characteristic markings. not a substitute for personali And I have been extremely camera care--for keeping the careful when loading und un- lens elean and free of ger- loading film."
The answer,
it
prints, for dusting the Inside of your ezmera with a soft cainel's turned out, hair brush occasionally, for using camera case to keep it clean
was that a fight leak had deves and protected from bumps and Joped in the bellows of his camera, That happens sometimes Jars,
when a folding cuinera is rather old.
But till it's a good idea to So I asked him, out of have an annual camera check-up. curiosity, when he last had his And one that pays off in the camera checked by u camera long run. There's no point in dealer, "I never have had |
waiting for trouble to develop, checked," he wrote in reply to in missing good picture oppor.. my question.
tunities because you learn too Jate your camera needs adjust- ment or repair.
JOHN VAN GUILDER
In some ways, I suspect, my correspondent
somewhat typical. As long as a comera seems to be working well, why take it in for Inspection? Yet It's good idea to remember that a fine cumeris is like a nine watch. A precbion instrument, And just as a watch should be cleaned and regulated at in- tervals,
It's a wise idea to have your camera checked at (least once every twelve months.
For even
you
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
1
HODER
"How maddening! I must have taken the Director's umbrella."
Who can pin down the English!
A BOOK TO TALK ABOUT
by
MILTON SHULMAN
.
And the place they are most
тепл
"A public school Decent generally
that the speaker is a member of the gentry," she confides, wiserens bread country or cockney Recent denotes that he is not!
Thomas, adds three more names to the long list of authors who likely to find it is in the larynx, have falled to explain a people who have raised the paradox to the level of a national virtue.
Only the English refuse to see anything Incenclstent in their mutual passion for blood sports and domestic pets, buccaneering and lyric poetry, cricket and fet engines, haugings and This is not hypocrisy but faith In thedr
formula for mixed OWTI
strewn with the literary Trying to explain these con- A to foreignera la corpses of writers who have hopelessly unrewarding task. tried to find the way. What is needed in not a ̈ ucatise
ta catechism.
S
OMEWHERE between Drake aml Keats lie the English. The exact spot..has never been charted, but the route is
Meet The British (Newman Neame, 8s. 6d), by Emily Hahn, Harford Charles Rociter, and
Odd Spots in the News
though
take
A
shaken
SINKING FEELING
ground floor window. Flashing lights In his bedroom could Johannesburg, warn him of intruders. He had switch beside him businessman a master
which would turn on every good care of your camera, 11 slid on to a bar-room light in the house and he slept routine Inspection by a rellable stool here one morning this with a loaded gun. zamern denter pays on. For
week, poured inspection will
out 4thing, such an
include a check for light leaks, "shouldn't-huppen-to-a-dog" and internal dirt on the lens. story Lo the sympathetic And in addition, most
dealers barman. will check the diaphragm and shutter mechanism. Since proper
THEN YOU WERE RIDING
ON BUSES AND UNDERGROUND,
TRAINS NEAR YOUR
HOME, SEARCHING, FOR SOMETHING
YOU COULD NOT
FIND
ing: though presumably mount and ride.
one
you have not dared
Your mother hates the things you
Icel Impelled to do, which are leading you away from her. The something you are seeking in the solution to your dilemma: how to follow your desires yet win her approval. You searchi high and low, above ground, and below, in your most conscious thoughts. You search near your home evidently for a solution which will keep you hear it.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
FISH CAKE
⚫ON - RAISIN BREAD
Appears he recently married his third wife und accompanied her to sce solleitors on the seventh floor of a city block,
"We were coming down in the lift. It stopped at fourth. In steps my first wife. This was bud, But then the lift stops at three and in steps my recund wife.
"My present wife didn't know either of them but they knew each other. As I stood there sweating gently, my third wife kept up a prattle, the other two daggered me with their eyes.
"I felt like Ilenry the Eighth, but without his flair for dealing with wives, We got down with- out a riot and set off in "different directions to here."
CRACK IN THE SYSTEM
Capetown. A house equipped with every known device to baffle burglars
was "cracked" this week with- out a peep from the system.
The owner, an elderly widow- er, had burglar bars on every
survival,
tradictions
Chief Merit
roses.
EET The British” is
"Mather. It is a more or
le Hight-hearted attempt to prepare American visitors for institutions and customs that them over tre likely to baile
in Britain. Its chief merit is that It cannot be taken very serious ly.
order. In spite of this ban, the cinema has a huge portrait of Queen Elizabeth out frent.
Most of its pages are filled by TEA INTERVAL
Mr Roeller and Mr Thomas Paris.
with the kind of factual inform- Fashionable women taking ation that is suppiled much tea In the Marquise de Savigny's tearoom is wet, small, crowded, elegant, expensive cheaper by any tourist agency. on the Champs-Elysees, dropped Britain their delicately-poised cups, dived for the dours when an He had gone to bed and left elderly man walked briskly into the back door open.
But while he slept, a burglar helped himself to the sideboard silver.
SPAIN CATCHES UP
Madrid. takes
the salon, whipped out a pistol and fired two shots into one of the waitresses.
The women screamed and fell over the tiny, three-legged Lables in the panie. Another shot, and the man dropped be- side the waitress.
Spain.
republic. the time to recognise things royal in Britain, the kingdom. They Jgnored the Coronation up It all happened at 6.15 p.m., the last couple of weeks, then the time when Parisiennes meet showed as much enthusiasm as for what they call "le five
o'clock." anyone.
I
the
geantry, Spain rerecos a full- tength technicolour account for the first time.
But it is when the authors desert facts and enter into the calm of sociological speculation that they become both mislead- ing and irritating.
Miss
Vocabulary, too, should offer the unwary visitor some hint as to the circles they are getting up with. The
upper class, for example says "bogus" Instead of "phoney." A lower middle class woman will call a cackin a serviette, or ask you pass the condiments, please, when the wante
pepper and vinegar,
יין.
The mysteries of a week-end in a British country house are recorded with an appropriate air of reverence. Be about packing
careful shabby under- · wear, she cautions, because a domestic is likely to unpack it when you are not looking.
But circumstances in these grand homes are not what they were. "At a house party," she with a sigh, records, almost "gentlemen and ladles usually do their own dish-washing after dinner, in evening dress."
A Gleam
A CLUE to Miss Hahn's rather A blinkered view of English society may be gathered from
her contention that it is not good form to discuss polities at a social function unless you do it from a Conservative view-
point,
she
The worst offender is Emily Hahn, who is an Amier een journalist now married to Englishman and settled in
"It is a strange fact," Dore, She has gained & con- notes, "that even after the last
derobie
repulation for her
election but one, when the numerous books on China and Labolir Party won, you hardly. her contributions to this volume ever are probably as good a guide to who
Labour. Actually expect there must be lots of people B foreigner who is an around who did."
the English as one can
from
secined to meet anyone voled
the
The waitress was serving an Now,
month after
elderly woman when the well- Coronation, when most of the dressed, grey-haired man pulled world has already feasted on his gun. His bullets were The Almed record of
But her strangest observation the wildly placed and both camel-expert on the Far East.
In the first place she and her
Is reserved for her own sex. "An ties were taken off to hospital. It turns out the man was 4
Englishwoman," she says, fellow-authors have arbitrarily
14 fermer lover of the waitress,made cnything done somewhere usually long suffering, noble, who broke off the association south of Blemingham represen
and probably
just about and married another man a
most useful wife a man. call iative of Britain. Most of her mos month ago.
comments are about as relevant have, if he can't marry u or on of those to Scotland, Wales, and
the Japanese, North Country as they would be African women who do all the Kingston, to Lapland.
work;" As Jamaica aweltered under
She
can see only one hopeful one of the hottest Junes on re- The phenomenon that, fas- gltam in the dark abyss of cord, striking Icemen walked cinates her most is the class inequality in which Newspapers are allowed to cut of the Island's biggest ce consciousnes
English- of the English.
women, have been carry advertisements of the film making plant. Stores
immured. selung She warns her shocked Ameri- only In their amusement refrigerators have already hungcan readers that "the thought of "They actually like American
clars bermedics everything" men,
Madrid's classlest movie house was jammed for a gala per formance organised by the British Ambassador. Long queues have since waited hours 10 buy tickets. The film is cet
or a long run.
columns.
OFF THE ICE
No page spreads, by cut old-out" signs.
Time Out For Lunch
HER LUNCH. PROBLEM IS SOLVED FOR
QUITE A
WHILE ED
BY HARRY WEINERT
men,"
hust
"she
cxulis. "American say, make wonderful
Miss Hahn, before confiding her reflections on the English to print, might well have con- templated the example of the Frenchman who after threo weeks in Britain proposed to write a book on England. After three months he found he was not quite ready, and after three years concluded that he knew.. nothing about it
THE EXPERIMENTER - HE HAS TRIED
EVERYTHING BUT A SOUP SANDWICH,
"I'LL HAVE THE
VEGETABLE
PLATTER- AND
CHANGE THE SPINACH TO PORK CHORS
THE COMEDIAN.
•
I'M SORRY-
WE DON'T HAVE
THIS, TRY THE
BON "TON.'
SIX BLOCKS.
NORTH
THE LUNCH-TIME SHOPPER- BUYING A
FEW ODDS AND ENDS FOR THE WIFE..
WENGT
COM, 1993 BY GENERAL FEATURES
CORP. THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVEO,
THE DAILY GAB FEST — A PACK OF CRACKERS AND A PACK OF CIGARETTES.
"HOME MADE.
#
SAVE ME A PIECE OF APPLE PIE –
AND DON'T FORGET
FREE LUNCH
"MAKE
IT
RARE
THE CHEESE.
HIS LUNCH WILL BE ODDS AND ENDS, TOO. YOU CAN NEVER TELL BY APPEARANCES –
THE OFFICE BOY BRINGS HIS LUNCH AND GETS AN EARLY
·START.
FOND MEMORIES · LUNCH ON THE HOUSE.
ESCAPE TO NOWHERE, Francis S. Jones, 12/6, Bodlay Head.
jan
Francis S. Joncs Was R.A.S.C. driver, an‘escaped who
invariably started without usual advantages:
The
the
Most of popular escape stories of the war, Bre there of officers who, wille imprisoned, had leisure to plan their escapes carefully and who. were not usually underfed.
True, the author at one time had an opportunity to collaborate with one of the officers' escape committees, but unfortunately before the break materialised he was transferred elsewhere,
Escapees knew that besides.
their
14cing the vigile Ex. The
enemies there was
trouble with the jinx was that it was unpredictable, and 40 persistent. Many perfectly plan- ned escapes came to nought when the jinx showed his hand. The author's philosophy war to escape before or immediately cloped; So after the "bag"
many
prisoners got
got away simply because they used the opportunity, before the chemot could get organized. In
In the carly Corly days there were scores of
chances to
*OVERY single one
up later on. the that
The author's first terms of liberty was in Greece. Hers he was hounded from land to island, sometimes alone, some times in
Francis Gilber who WIS
Scarlet Pimpernel and to the reader
4.8
with Lt-Col
as
the
the Eish
of the
Frank, and
Now Zealand Bepper, Roy
Frank was often
uniting forte of
and the who also had a the trio, but Roo
streak
him in
of originality, could rival
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In toughness atii spirit.. HL ability to learn ·Jaroungen: the author's, exeatcat assessi
Hils knowledge of Greck was a tremendous asset during i tho carly days." On his recapture
tha added,
Mallaris, be Language to Ela equipment. The resultant task of interpreter put many pri- vileges in his WAY, the greatest of these being a freedom of movement and occasional oppär tunities to attempt an escape,