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SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1938
The SNAPSHOT GUILD
The
GET AN IDEA FIRST
Bodtimo-and an excellent "story-telling" snap. Learn to build your pictures around a central idea.
BEFORE you snap a picture, de yawning and stretchlag. In pajamas.
you have in your mind a clear ider of what you want the picture to "ny"?
This is important, because overy picture needs a contral "picture Idea" to giro it 11 and meaning. Especially, every picture with por noua In It needs guinn sort of actius tor activity) to give it interest.
Dy "nction" I don't mean rapid malion, but merely that the person pletured should be doing something. For vanmple, suppone you have Antall daughter, and every now and then you want a new picture of her. Woll, don't just get her to alund in a corner of the backyard, and look at the camera while you map. Relato the picture to her personal life, her daily activities, Look at these llena:
A picture of her climbing out of ted to the morning you can take It at night, really). A snap of her
Hubbing sleepy eyes. Talking to her dolls. Playing house, Pertag over picture books, Loaving for kinder garion. Helping Motor in tho kichen. Riding a tricycle or aconter. Munching a slice of buttered bread, Being tucked lato bed ni night. Bleeping noundly with a doll or Leidy bear or tay dog.
In a hrne, sho in doing nowo- thing. And, she will help you got your plctures, if you make a game of it, and muggest that she "play
ke" nho is doing this or that. In- dead, this la a good way to entertain her on a dull day or evening.
It's a good pleture method. Start with a clear idea, and make the pio turo to it 1. When one picture isa't enough, snap a eories, Mako each picture "my something”—and neta how they gain in life and appent.
John van Qulidor
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A Pianist's Dream Bridge Problem
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O you ever think of the nddter or the planist who plays to you on the concert platform, not as a celebrity, but as A mant
Does it ever occur to you that the poor devil is little more than a human parcel, being posted day in day out, week after week, month after month, year after year, round the world?
How would you like to spend your life. like this:----
Monday-Arrived in London from the Continent.
Leeds. Six hours night
Tuesday-Five hours to Evening concert, Journey back agnin,
Wednesday. - Arrived Worked.
4
a.m.
Thursday-Threo and a half hours to Cheltenham, three and a half hours back, and in between a concert, Friday-Four and a half hours to Liverpool; rehearsal with Kreisler; concert; at night to Glasgow.
Saturday From Olasgow to Edin- burgh; concert; at night back to London,
This tour schedulo I quote from to his Wife" "Buson's Letters (Arnold, 10.), Ferruccio Busani led in Berlin 10 years ago. He spent 28 years touring the world as a planlat!
THE other day nn Internationally famous plantat naid to me: "How wonderful I would be. If for only once, to go on to the platform not feeling tired!"
But Busonin tragedy-and there Wonderful letters, so full of wisdom, humour, vivki observation of people and pinces, simulating ideas about everything under the sun, are scarred by bitterness-was that every moment men's lat spent performing other muse took him away from composing hals own.
Again and again the cry goes up
Puzzle Corner Answor Cryptogram: Success in tifo
In your with ease, But you must learn The way lo please. 10-Letter Words: Inactivity, finan- etern, Chinatowns, ordination, origino- tar nordinate, aboriginal, concerting. Severer, reverno, Letter JuRINK tenerve, soverom
For English tenders: 10 pounds, Fun With Antonyma Hallow--njera- tion; inconsistency-agreement; acfl- Yltideless; learning ignorance:
falsity-truth; hindrance-in ne-dislike; humility-prido mainel- ty-minority; juxury-elmpitelty.
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from these pages. Here is a felter home about a concert in America:-
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FROM the standpoint of a touring artist the concert yesterday was very satisfactory-a full house, a feel- ing of excitement, and enthusiastio criticism... I was dead tired..
Froin the standpoint of a thinking artist, no longer young, it was an un- forgivable waste of strength, time and thought, which enn novor bo recovered. In order to make a momentary im- pression on a small number of insigni- feant people."
And hero is a note from Newchstis: "Life here is horrible, groy, and joy. leks... Everything sleeps in me, but nt the same time I dream unquietly of unattainable things, big works, beautiful countries and Rest!"
What a life. Remember it next time you go to a celebrity musician's recital.
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Musicians"
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TWO excellent additions to Dent's
Master (48, Ed. each) are J. H. Elliot's Boz" whose life was as picturesquely melodramatic as his music, and Henry Coston "Palestrina."
In "Discord and Harmony" (Heine- mann. 7. 04.), Cosmo Hamilton has mado a vivid novel out of some of tho perpetual disagreements and quarrel- lings during their life of those two men who are so absolutely at one in their art, Gilbert and Bulliver.
Stuart Fletcher
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Spades are trumps. South leads and North-South have to win seven of the ten tricks.
Solutions by Wednesday to Bridge Problem, Hongkong
Wyndham Street.
Telegraph,
Rolution of Problem 18
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trumps. North leads
his Recond trump
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and South the
three West follows
with the spado 5, North and East dis- card diamonde and South wins, South jeada jack of clubs, which East wins with the queen, and North wins the last two tricks,
The only rest variation in that if West refuses to play the space are to the Art irick, North discards a mnall club and South leads a club to the second trick and West wins with the ace. West leads neo of apadra which North ruffs and Han overtrumps. East leads diamond nine, on which Weat discards a pacto and follows with the and North wins king of clubs. He then leads his losing trump to West and Bouth makes a spado.
In the main solution North's discard of the king of clubs at trick three, and South's Jead of a club Instead of his mas- ter npade at trick five are essential play. A.E.G. D.W.. Correct Bolutions from B'Easy", 30923, Mira, A.K.
PLAYFAIR SOLUTION
The danger inherent to n__150_notej tind been clearly realised by Eddio: Butcher, it had not occurred to him. however, that not only had the num→ ber of this note been communicated to banks and police-atatlans, but that the notes given to "Misa Spruce" carefully in exchange for it were followed up. The payment of some of these notes into a bank gave the clue to Eddie's whereabouts, while others were found in his possession.
fortunate young men who enter the new Naval Air Branch direct os midshipmen will soon be seen. They will make naval history, for dying la to be their only concern; hitherto the Navy has taken its pliols from officers who have general service.
spent years in
With five 76-acroplang carriers building, and every large warship now carrying aircraft, the Royal Navy requires at least double its present number of 'flying ollicers,
After three months of preliminary training at Devonport, the new midship- men of the air will have learned womb. thing of the glamour of naval life and Its traditions. They will then receive fying training under the Air Ministry for ten months. Finally, six months will be devoted to Fleet Air Arm work at the Navy's own nerodromes of Ford, Gosport and Lee-on-Selent. 1.M.8. Furious in to be training alreraft-carrier to the mid- shipmen of the air. In her they will become acquainted with that most fan- einnting of naval evolutions. flying-off and landing at sea.
There In a magic about an alperafi- carrier under way that belongs to no other craft: it has something to do with the union of men and sky. Twenty-two thousand tons of steel rushing through the water at 30 knots into the wind while her machines #oat up and away over lor atern in a sight that remains vivid in one's memory.
Saldo,
And later, when her brood comes back, she spouts steam from a jet up forward and it traces & midship line fore and aft of her vast atcol Alghit-deck for their guldance. Down they come, one by one, Man land gracefully and taxi gently. walking in the nela along each of this sea parade-ground rush forward and secure the machine handsomely on the it; then down it goes out of sight; and up comes the lift again for the next. In An incredibly short me the whole fight is back on board and marshaled inside the cathedra)-ke hangar beneath the swaying fight deck,
And the wind! Those old seamen who
lives spent their
and among st shrouds surely never experienced greater Halen than those that blow along an air- Craft-carrier'a deck when she's "ying- oft. it howls and shrieks, too, along those run-inert and tunnel-like passages that pans for upper deck beneath her finred sides,
For
galvanic life and overwhelming sensation an aircraft-carrier doing her Job-of-work at sen wants a lot of beat- Ing
Excuses and Explanations
ALL EXCUSES SHOULD
BE REHEARSED-AND THE COUGH MADE CONVINCING-IF THAT'S YOUR STORY FOR BEING AWAY FROM THE OFFICE.
WHEN THE LADYS ACCOUNT AT THE BANK IS OVERDRAWN SHE THINKS IT EXPLAINS
EVERYTHING TO SAY SHE NEEDED THE MONEY,
IN SOME CASES AFFIDAVITS MIGHT HELP IF THE HOUR OF HOMECOMING IS LATE. ...BUT
WE DOUBT.
•Ledger Üzadiente
MADMAN LYND.
ME STUMMICK
WENT BACK
ON ALE!
THE ONE THAT A DIET
OF NAILS WOULDN'T HURT, COMES IN WITH "THE OLD.OLD STORY-WATTR
GESTURES.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
By J. NORMAN LYND
EVERYBODY'S WEARING
THESE
HATS:
́I TOLD HIM AN
GRANDMOTHER
WAS DEAD!
HOLY MACKEREL
DOES THAT OLD
STORY
STILL WORK?
THERE'S NO USE IN TRYING, SOME CHILDISH EXPLANATION ON THE TRAFFIC COP--- HE HAS HEARD ALL
THE EXCUSES THERE ARE,
{#! HEAR YOU KNOCKED
JOHNNY JONES
DOWN AND JUMPED
ON HIMLE
... WHY?"
IT'S HARD TO GET AN EXPLANATION OUT OF SOME YOUNGSTERS... THEY DON'T NEED A LAWYER-- THEY JUST SAY, HUH?". "ME ?K-WHAT?*-*- JOHNNY JONES?” WHEN?"HUH?". **WHY?" "WHERE!!
THAT'S AN EXPLANATION BUT IT'S NO EXCUSE.