SATURDAY, JULY 15;
Girls and Boys' Corner
1939.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
PICTURES AT BEACH AND POOL
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Dear Kildies,
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This is all my own work
Bone of you found It rother difeult to encione the haterfiles in their own square by only drawing three nes.
However, Jole of entries were received. Several of you did not colour the butterflies.
The prize-winners this work are:- Doreen Xavier (aged 17), 222, Tung Choi street, 1st Floor,
Michael Hourihan (Axed D). 102, Prince Edward Road, Top Plost.
Raymond Li (aged 6), 109, Robinson Road.
Coupons have been sent to Doreen. Kleine and Raymond whileh I want then Telegraph" to bring in the "Hongkong allces in Wyndhin Street. The cuupons
Puzzle Corner Answers
Cryptogram: "The worst dis- appointment you can experience is disappointment in yourzelt." ~~~Asian.
A Phimetic Rebus: Bee! you; uh! why-BUOY,
Letter Changing: Store, shore, thire, spire, spare, spars, spats, pots, spots corts, sores, soles, sales,
D.
What Are the Paris?: 5 and
Bibler Pairs: Adaan-Eve: Cain-Abel; Jarob-Esau; Mer za
Aaron; Shem-Ham; Ruth- Naomi: Ellah--Ellsha; David-- Goliath; Mary-Martha; Peter......... Páut.
Cryptogram: The purpose of "streamlining" is to reduce the re:istance to motion of n fuld medium such as air.
A Churade: Mld, Gel, Mid-
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I will then be exchanged for money prites.
Specially cominended for good work ar the following:
Senior: Carolina Cruz, Gillian Murray, Dick Dedear, Alico Lee, E. Brown, Ella Filenil, Ghazi Khan, Fantesson, Colin Cheung,
Kin, Catherino Lat, Johnny Nucks, C. S. Coom, Lionel Haughton. Les Koun lan, Myrtle Decker, Norman Hel Jevich, Liam Goss, Joan Gordon, John Tong, Stella Chelitle, Maria Lux, Mansoor All, Anthony Rapila,
Intermediates; Marcus Drewery, Lionel Sequeira, Shona Meintyre, Franels Razario, Shella Lawson, D. Ablong. C. BonhoT, Nancy Milou, L. Körner, K. Julyan. Pamela Pazu, Miney Branson, Ian Bhaw, Shirley van Chan Kan-wa Langenberg, S... Dux, Horatio Ozarlo, Habert Houghton, Betty Ildefonso, J. Daniel, Lela Corvisstano.
Juntors: David Ache, Drian Tumper, Doreen Houghton. Ines Law, P. Wone Tootle Gareta, Kwan Chuen, J. Wood- ward, E. M. Išray.
week's
I want to welcome Sheila Lawson ex « new member to our Boys' and Girl Corner,
winner n! Catherine Lal: The
last only
picked out competition ave fruits which was all I asked. I mention, however, that sonic children had found six fruits. In picking the Prize-winning entries, age and neatness of inredwriting are always taken into con- witeration. Of course in a colouring compellilan, the best painting or crayon work, wins the prize.
This week, kindles, We are baving a novel picture-puzzle and one easy enough for you all to try.
The six pictures above illustrate the names of alx English reina, No. 1. yati will quickly seo is half-crown. Can you "read" the others? As you do,
WILLO their values in figures in the columnat the side. The Aral amount will be 2a, ód: in the same way fil in the other amounts, then add them up and put the total at the Soltam.
Fill in the name, age and address coupos and send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph" Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END
SECTION
BOOK REVIEWS:
in taking pictures at the beach, remember that sunilt and and open water
are quite bright. Be careful not to overexpogo. WIMMING pools and bathing | next larger lens opening. With a box
Svenches are upy places in the
nummer time-and wherever there in activity, there's a field for your
cainora,
camera, on a sunny day, use the
large loss opening for shots of in- dividuals and groups, and the small lens opening for scenic views.
OG-DAIP
For shots of fast action, the duo Since you and a lot of rapid action camora is best-but you can also get at these places, the inor camera good pictures with a box camera, if with fast lens and raplu shutter pro you are alert for momentary payBOK vides depuite advantages. But if you in the action. These occur in most neo a trusty inexpensive box camera, games or sports. Naturally, they
during
with you'll and plenty to occupy it, too. don't happen
Among the things to picture area slow camera you'll have to pose kcach games, water sports, diving, the diving pictures. Your subject children at play, and castles, ehad-can halt on the end of the board, in ow patterns on rippled sand, and-proper position to "tako orr"-and it at the lake or the soaahore-sceale lie does it realistically, the pleure will be about as Interesting as a views and sunsole.
The chief thing to remember, ingenion action picture.
If you possess a fuer miniature taking pictures at the bench, le that
and sunlit sand open water aro ex-camera in the 35-millimeter or No. tremely bright. Therefore, expon. 828 size, by all means take a rull or ures can be shorter than when snup two of full-color fim along when you plag pictures inland. With "chrome" to the beach ar pool. Bright type film, 1/50-second shutter speed at 1.18 lens opening la sumcient for a beach scenle, and 1/50 second at 1.11 suffices for average alots of in- dividuals and small groups, Tiene, of coarse, are "sunny day" expos- oregon clondy-bright days, use the
„Cood luck, kiddies,
Uncle Eddie
Features of the FRIGIDAIRE 1939
Cold Wall Models
The Now Quickubo Tray will find favour with everyone. It increases the capacity of the freezer for freezing desserts, salads and ice cubes; also for storage of bulky frozen articlos and highly perishablo foods.
Three in one. All three functions of tho Cold Control, the Automatic Rozet Defrostor and the Master Switch are now controllable from a single dial which is known as the Frigidaire Uni-Matic Control,
Here's an added refinement that users will appreciate: a new Super Freezer Door which closes at a finger'a touch, but, most important of all, it opens all the way and stays open until you want it to close.
Storage space for the extra lee cubas needed 'for partios is an added use for the Most Tender. It holds all the cubos that can be frozen at one time, thus doubling the ico cube capacity of the refrigerator.
beach ambrellas, fyld costumes, blue water, and golden sand make these places Ident for full-color pho- tography, And today, it's just about na enay to use full-color film as to take pictures la bisek-and-white.
John van Guilder
Are You Sure?
QUESTIONS ARE ON PAGE
TWO
1. (a) Iraq (b) East Africa, (e) Scilly Isles, (d) Somerset, (e) Iceland, (f) South America,
2. All save yewberries.
3. (a) Umberto, (b) Michael, (e) Nong, (d) Frederick, (e) Gustav, (f) Oluf.
4. (a) Line connecting places of equal temperature, (b) Line connection places of equal bars- metric pressure. (c) Triangle equal with tivo
sides. (d) Gelatine.
5. (a) Octagon, (b) Morans, (c) Oliver Wendell Holmes. (8) ̈ Whitman, (e) Delphi, (1) John Brown.
6. All four.
7. Palace-Alhambra, Alcazar. Temple-Parthenon, Pantheon. Theatre-Scala. Burial place. Taj Mahal,
8. (a) Bible.
(b)
Paradise
Lost (Milton), (c) Faust (Goethe).
9. Mary Tudor.
10. Of gigantic size.
11. Queen Anne.
12. (a) France, (b) Ireland,
(c) Switzerland, (d) Russia. (e)
Portugal. (f) Morocco.
13. (a) Yes, (b) Yes, (c) No, (d) No, (e) No, (1) Yes.
14. (a) Two years Reven months. (b) Ten years. (c) Seven months. (d) Sixty-three years and a half. (e) Four years three months. (f) Two years nine months.
15. Area between 40 deg. and
50 deg. latitude. South,
18. At the mouth of a river. 17. (a) Venice. (b) Menai Walos And Straits, between Anglesey. (c) New York. (d) Bath. (e) Peru. (f) Venice.
18. (a) 3ft. to 3ft Bins. (5) 5%-5402 (c) 1.02ins.
10. (a) Abraham Lincoln, (b) Attack on Verdun, 1915. (c) French Revolution. (d) German naval toast to the day (of victory over Britain), (e) Rousseau, (f) Siege of Madrid 1938. General Mala spoke of the fifth column of secret Franco supporters in Republican Madrid.
20. Yes, Woodrow Wilson.
High Value Put
On Yellow
SAN FRANCISCO.
The Yellow Taxicab company of this city values its right to
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Dodwell & Co., Ltd. yellow of $100,000. It has brought
Alexandra Building
suit for that amount against the White Taxleob company charging the latter is Imitating the Yellow's colour design and furnishing its drivers with yellow cops.
Soft Mystery and Magic
Behold This Dreamer, by Walter
de la Mara (Faber and Faber, 18).
More About Me, by Naomi Jacob (Hutchinson, 103.),
One Pair of Hands, by Monica Dickens (Michael Joseph, 108, 012.).
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REMEMBER listening Mr. Walter de la Mare talk to me in a long, slow train. I remember listening to him again among the undergrowth of an Oxford party of tre- mendous porty dons.
Directly I took up with Behold, This Dreamer, I identified that in- dividual inflexion-so deprecating its own learning, so humorous at the expense of its own wit, 50 evocative in accent because it gently reverberates echoes from ail the poeta.
In a hundred pages he introduces GOO more of anthology, wherelu he embraces sleep, dream and memory in verse and pranc. Ils choice is sure, because he is a port himseir. By his arrangement and grouping he cunningly builds up cuinulalive in- tensity of feeling in his reader's heart; and so wrings new meaning and over- tones from passages which but for th artfulness would zeem most hackneyed and wearisome,
The pool, In this vast book, moves with the soft mystery of a magician. Mr. de la Mare concerns himself most with that radiant, yet elusive, world where dreaming and consciousness. meaning and caballatic spell merge Into congruitles which dely renson by satisfying the mind more abundantly than any argued philosophy.
Surrender yourself to this book. Like Robert Bridges' anthology The Spirit of Man, it will bring you great refresh- ment in troubled days, because it will nourish your Imagination and minister to your unreasonable spirit.
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AOMI JACOB has written two books about herself and her friends already. They were called Afe and e-again. If you remember them you will need no inducement to rend More About Me--if not, tel ne entreat you to do so.
Fresh gaiety of heart is a rare and precious Jewel. Miss Jacob certainly knows that she possesses this tremen. dous glit. But she never tries to init tate her own beat moments as almost She nil professional charmeran do. never decides here comes the momen for my fascination act"-and then turns on the 'fluence.
Bho talks on, artfully, but without artifice. And with what superb gusto! She talks to you with as much evident delight as a hungry child devours bread and jam.
She spreads the nm, moreover, good and thick. There are admirable stories about Edward VII, Ous Elen, Joe Elvis -you can go on all day looking them up in the Index, turning up the page. and laughing.
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FOUR NOVELS
Ball of the Earth, by Joseph Wittim (Methuen, 7a. 8d.). "A war book without a shot fired or a smell of the toe. Its hero is a peasant porter of a village railway station. Quietly and terribly it shows how war, ás soon as it in declared, murders the peace of the Belds, the beautiful routine of the coun tryside, and turns individuals into slaven of an unfeeling war machine. Prose poetry from Poland.
The Big Show, by Charles Cooke (Bles, Ba. Od.). An event- fully exciting novel about the Big Top--wild animals, clover animals. lovable animals, and human beings like them.
Four People, by E. H. W. Meyerstein (Martin Becker, 8. d.). A mercilessly intell gent book comprising three long-short stories pulling people to plecek, and not considering them worth putting together again. The best in about two rival poets who, discovered A murder.
Look at the Clock, by Nina Abbott Duckworth, Ba Sd.). Naomi Jacob discovered this sturdy Yorkshire novel among her mother's papers nt her death. Living characters, sicrn Victorian motives, and a Jel- surely manner of story-telling.
8. F.
towards none, and she never loses her temper or shrills up into virtuous Indignation. She takes an intelligent Interest in women, and men don't put Der in a flutter,
I hope she lives a very full, busy life for a great many more years. Then she can write some more books about herself before alte dies.
M
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ONICA DICKENS has a misfor tune Her great-grandfather was The Inimitable Boz" the man who invented the nickname of "The Sparkler" for himself, and wanted all his friends to call him that--because he knew he was so full of fun and originality.
In fact, the hortor of Charles Dickens perzonal character and the sold achievement of his novels must weigh heavily on a spirited girl ke Mian Dickens.
Well, she decided aim would like to take work as a domestic servant. She had tried hard at a dramatle school, but they told her she had no talent for the stage, yet I suppose her train- ing there enabled her to carry off her situations without being delected.
What she has to say about mis- treases maids conditions of work and I hours seem qulle sane and scu sible. But it does not strike me as specially new.
The pages gillier with, all the spangles of theatrical reminiscence-a kind of book I avold reading if I can. because I and the world of the theatre. as its great ones reveal it in their writings; tawdry-unbearably-snobble-ever-sliocouldn't bear being and uncharitable,
Theatrical folk always prate about comradeship" and "great-hearted practise mean tricks to do each other down professionally.
But Naomi Jacob seems different from the others, she shows malice
Moreover. all Miss Dickens' social criticism La marred by the fact that she was only playing at work. When- **skivvy any more, he could retrent to gather fresh strength in her mother's own admirably comfortable hame.
The real ones have to go on. They have to put up with the insu's and the cold, napissated gloom of their
Safety Driver Gives Dry Bombay Near
Rule
SAN JOSE, Cal.
Ross Burnes real estate man, attrl- butes 25 years of auto driving with
BOMBAY, India.
If Bombay goes dry, as is expected, Ilis rummer it will not mean that Britons residing in the elty will have their beer supply cut off. All Euro-
food and black-beotting underground bedrooms. They can nover escape, un- less marriage or death come to their
rescue.
No. As a social force Mias Dickens is not Inimitablo. She has none of great-grandfather's moral indignation. But she has the family eye for comedy. Bho has an eye, a smile, and even a laugh. I prophesy more than some what for her if she will condescend to remain just funny and vulgar-just in the vein in which great-grandfather did his best stuff.
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Do not be deceived into thinking that The Junkar Week-End Book. (Gollancz, n.), is muy relation to The Week-End Book. It is not related, but another, and worse, kind of book altogether. Having profited from and enjoyed The Week-End Book yourself, your generous heart might tempt you to buy this colourable imitation of a family likeness and give it to nicely behaved children. Don't
The New Propaganda, by Amber Blanca White (Gollancz, T. ed.), should be read by all politically- maided persons. It is an herolo at- tempt to tackle the spreading jungto of propaganda, analyse it, and control its essential simplifications. It la too didactic a book, and there is too much
But about what "we" ought to do. this truly is one of those books which "no one can afford not to liave read." It makes you think, even if it some- times makes you think not quite how its author intended.
T. D.
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THRILLERS
a rich and jealous
Awidow alone in her country
"house Ave assorted women relatives, all in need of her money and some with a pretty good title to it, hint strongly a foul play to come, stir to rovcal character and await results.
la,
That is Anita Boutelf's recipe for Deniti Has a Past (Michael Joseph, 78.04.) and triumphantly successful it Interspersed with the narrativa are fragments of a confession, a device which enables you to watch trivial events gathering to a tragle climax whose nature you mughly know but at whose dramatis person you can only guess.
Hung By An Eyelash, by Lindsay Anson (Collins, T. (d.). Murder b order for prospective heira mado almost credible by Hvely writing.
Mr. Moto Is So Sorry, by John P. Marquand (Robert Hale. 7. dd.). Bo
nice to meet again honourabio Japan- ese agent; such a dangerous man but so charming.
Dagger Drawn, by Lawrence Hill (Collins, Ta. d.). Good enough, par- ticularly in its Highland background, to outweigh Inspector Macsporran'a Inmentabla name.
P. E. H.
VOODOO GODS (Dent, 188.) was written because Zora Hurston was sent by the Guggenheim Foundation to Haiti and Jamales to study Negro religious rites.
Her chapters are grim, horrible and most ahocking-but also highly-in- teresting.
I would not have missed reading this book for worlda,
But I think I would rather forget most of its lurld horrors. The fact that she lazerious and sober anthro- pologist makes 'it'all much worse.
T. D.
Baby Run Over, Just Bruised
ODESSA, Wash.
The rear wheel of a truck rolled over the head of the infant son of far-
out an accident to the fact that "peans will be allowed to buy six units always keep 50 feet from every cur- of liquor n-month. A unit would be mer Frank Marshall, but the child and especially those driven by wo-one bottle of whisky, three bottles of suffered no injuries other than a cut men."
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wine. or six bottles of beer.
lip and bruises.
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