SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1939.
Girls and Boys' Corner
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Dear Kiddies,
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This is all my own work
Last week's competition
was not at all well done. I can see that most of you did not bother to read the rules of the competition right through. You the were supposed to count number of erossings that the different lines went over.
The prize-winners this week
are:-
Alice Lee (aged 11), 48, Elgin Street.
S. S. Bux (aged 9), 55. Jar- dine Bazaar.
Azo.
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receiving your letter I have re- addressed the coupon and sent
it on to you.
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This week, kiddies, we have a new picture puzzle to be solved. Please read the rules very care-
attempting fully before puzzle. You have to lind nine words to complete the frame above, in stich a way that the last letter of each word (which is given you), is also the first letter of the next word. All the answers are things seen in the picture.
The Arst answer is MASTS.
The
Joseph Felix (aged 8), 10. Jast S also begins the second word. Lock Rond, Ground Floor.
I which is n 4-letter one starting with ∙S and ending with L. In that way, search the picture and find the words to fit the sparing,
Coupons have been sent to Alice, S. 5. Bus and Joseph which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" of fices in Wyndham Street, The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
Write the nine words in a ment list.
Fill in the name, age and address coupon. Send your entries to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph" before 2 pm. on Wednesday. Prizes will be awarded in order of merit for entries which are correct, or
Specially commended for do nearest, and, in my opinion, the best ing the puzzle in the correct | written according to age. manner are the following: Pauli Good luck, Itiddies.
Naidu, P. Wong, Maria Brum-Uncle Eddie
mer, Frank Correa.
Alice Pan: The coupon was
returned to this office. Since
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
The SNA
HALLOWE'EN
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END
"What's inelde?" This anspahot could well fit into a Hallowe'en series' telling the story of jack-oʻtantern,
and the light. Interesting aithunetix can be made in this way. A plain light colored wall is best.
MY snapshot calendar shows that Hallowe'en is just around the coraor. It's time for owls to hoot, witches to fly, jack-o'-lanterns to grin, and ghosts to walk through moonlit graveyards, no doubt clank.
a corner of the room, including ing their chalas. And for camera
aamo furniture. Then, without mor fasts, the weird-picturo scanea willing the camera or winding the tim
open.
Weird pleures are fitorenting to fake at nay time--but oven moro fun at Halloween. And with a few easy tricks, you can get effects that stunek of genuine witchery.
(Maka "ghost" plctures by double
table, and take a short exposure of exposure. Plato the camera on
hava a subject draped in a while sheet step into the corner, and open the camera for the second, shorter exposure. With correct expontre the "ghost" will be transparent-- and the furniture or wallpaper will show through him. To be safe, try overal shots with differont ex- posure times,
04d #ghting effects are simple, In a group pelare indoors, you can obtain a strange "Arrlight" offert
Weird pictures are not all of Ital. by placing your photo fights on thỏi fror in front of your subjects. Dou'llowe'en. There are children's cos Jet the lights low in the Ander or tamo parties, rich in possibles shine on the lens. To picture a face for "memory" snapshots. Take them daling in air, put the photo light with odd lightings and shadow ef At the battom of a long cardboard facts, and they will be all the botter. inbe-and let the subject hold the And Hallowe'en preparations pro top of the tabu hast below his chin.) vide picture chances. You can make The room lights must be turned off. splendid pleture-story out of the a series of pic- Weird shadows are picture-mn-Jack-o-lantern terial. Have a subject in which tures showing the purchase of the costume stand in front of a punto pumpkin, the carving, and the foal bulk, and pleture the grotesque j result grinsing from a front window. shadow cast on the opposito wail. Indeed, at Hallowe'en there's Or, place the light close to the wall, lo imate it brightly, and let Get yours ready now, your ansjeet alt between the camera
FRIGIDAIRE
Leads The World See The 1939 Cold Wall Models
never a dull moment for the camera.
John van Guilder
The Book Window
Dictatorships versus Democracies, by Harrison Boyd Summers and Ro- bert E. Summers (H. W. Wilson),
is in addition to the objective re-
ference shelf which already in-
cludes a wide range of political
and economie studies. It is a
pre-
compilation of representative views un various aspects of one of the chief political problems of the day, arranged in a form particu
arly adapted to forensle use. Here's New England (Houghton
Min). The cream of six vìounty issued Writer's Project guidebooks to the New England States, condensed into 120 pages of type and 31 pages of excellent gravure illustrations. It includes a large folding map of recreational areas.
Paintings on Parade, by Donald Jenks (Hale, Cushman & Flint). Some 300 reproductions of famous paint- ings, with the essential information who about them and the artists made them.
The Lord Helps Those, by Bertram B. Fowler (Vanguard, Fiess), is n study of consumer co-operative operation in Nova Scotiu. Mr. Fowler, as in a previous book, indicates his bellef that the moderni renaissance is to be found in the banding together of consumers create their own economic system.
The Art of Treasure Island, by Eugen Neuhaus (Universlty of California). First-hand impressions by a pro- fessor of art of the architecture, sculpture, landscape design, colour effects, mural decorations, illum!- nation and other artistic aspecia of the Golden Gate International Ex- position. With 53 illustrations.
Denmark, by Roger Nielsen (Copen- hagen: Egmont H. Petersen). A 144-page, handsomely Illustrated book illustrating the commercial, agricultural and cultural resources of the country, designed to com- memorate Denmark's participation in the New York World's Fair,
SECTION
What One Author Thinks of Critics
A. Journal Under the Terror, 1938, by E. the chief stimulus to comment
V. Luck Londent Cassoli,
ing on the commentators.
DRAM
rapidly lost. To tell the story of a play briefly in such a way as to cap-: ture something of the effect gained by the author on the stage, Mr. Littlewood considers to be one of the most legitimate triumphs of the critica triumph achieved far more rarely to-day than in the past.;
RAMATIC critics spend a
But this would be a mistake. great part of their working lives tolling authors what they By nothing is this shown so think of them. Rarely do clearly as by that very matter authors return the compliment, of style to which Mr. Lucas ap- And generally it conses to be poala. When Mr. Lucas really
Yet many people will be disposed a compliment, on the few occa- dislikes a thing, his pen bites, to agree with Mur. Luens that to tell sions when they do. For, Mr. Lucas were seriously proved the story of a play spoils the element curiously enough, dramatists by the critics reception of his plays, of surprise. The importance of sur ho would find a much more pungent prise, however, can easily be bre usually ignore critics when their adjective for them than dull. Iris estimated. It has part in plays succeed, remembering opinton, expressed in "A Journal pleasure that a modern audienc their existence only when Under the Terror, 1933, may be failure has made them angry, ng
taken as the unprejudiced verdict of 0. more than ordinary intelligent In the cases of Mr. Pricatioy and observer. Mr. Sean O'Casey.
takes in "Hamlet." It had no part In the pleasure that ancient audiences toole in Aeschylus or Sophocles. Leasing declared that he could write a play in which the denouement would be announced at the begin ning, Mr. Emlyn Williams has done.
This telling of the plot is a pro- It is pleasant, therefore, to
blem that crities have often worried come upon Mr. E. V. Lucas' over. With the restriction of space more than this, for in "Night Must measured comments on the con- that modern journalism entalis, it is Fall" he has actually written such a dition of London dramatic critica practice inuch less prevalent to-day play. Moreover, it proved to be one may of his greatest successes. The truc ism. Mr. Lucas is the author than in the past. Mr. Lucas
think it 1 nuisance that spoils dramatist deals more in the inevit- of two plays seen in London criticism, but Mr. S. B. Littlewood, able than in the unexpected; and to in recent years-"The Beara crille of eminence, takes the view him the most revealing of critics can Dances" and "Land's End." A that it is rather an art that is being do little harm.
don at King's, he 'la one of the most brilliantly epigrammatic, the most wittily learned writera
in contemporary literature.
ncs8.
On the whole, his opinion of !contemporary theatrical critic- ism is not high. Writing in his diary, after the production of "Land's End," he observes that the critles have been mainly kind, but exclaims at their dull- Why, he asks, do they cling to the old-fashioned habit of telling the plot, which kills surprise? Why do they con- centrate on what is often the. least significant part of the play, instead of discussing the more vital questions of treat- ment, character, ideas, and style?
"Land's End," presented at the Westminster about a year ago, was an attempt to show that vigour of story and tense- ness of situation are not incom- patible with distinction of writ- ing and depth of thought. It did not wholly succeed, and from Mr. Lucas's lack of en- thusiasm for the London critics of to-day one might be tempted to infer that mood of dissatis- faction which has been noted as
The Flying Dutchman
ARLEN'S
first
MICHAEL
novel in five years reveals that he retains the light, sure, skilful touch, the hard wit and boyish cynicism which won him fame overnight after the World War in Great Britain and then in the United States.
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JACKET DESIGN FOR "THE PRIORY"
England, Past and Present
The Priory, by Darothy Whipple,
York: Macmillan,
New
house for yours; the two daughters, Christine aix Penelope, lovely young creatures devoted to each other; \NE of the best-tested liter-Thompson, the cricket monager, and
Ory formulae is that the Marwood servants with their
nn
Anthen, who ac-
interesting house plus a varied hopes and tragedies seething under
the surface, and assortment of characters equals cepted the Major's arrogant invita a novel. If humour and a plea- tion to become hostess-wife and sant style are added to the left- quiekly disappointed him by burying herself in maternal duties. Anther, hand side of the formula, as in her twins, and Nurse Pye withdrew the case of "The Priory," the value of the novel is so much the greater.
was
to a world of their own on the
nursery oor: Christine and Pene lope, one after the other, murrled and left hume; the Major got more deeply into debt, his cricket manager. had to leave under a cloud, Chris- tine's marriage suffered disaster, and
to be put up for sale. Saunby, had
When.overything was.at. the dark-
The interesting house is Saunby Priory. Six centuries ago I had been what its name implies a place of monks and pilgrims, and people His new book is "The Flying from the villages comitist hither for Dütchmiin""(Doubleday Dorun), a help and advice. After the dissolu preposterous and highly interesting tion In the time of Henry VIII est, Christine and Nicholas patched up their marriage, the father of novel about one Chance Winter, a passed into private hands, but not
Nicholas bought Saunby, and at the conscienceless man who hates hu- until 1793, when the Marwoods in-
conclusion the Priory promises to be manity and dies at last of a surfeit herited the place,
It actually
come a scene for an interesting ex- of the of conscience. Winter is a British fenced in to the exclusion multi-millionaire, who uses his mil- vllagers. In succeeding Marwood periment in co-operative industry. Anthen can devole herself to her Rons in devious and plot-aiding hunds it gradually shrank. Trees
twins, the
悲歌门 Mojor
have his ways. There are plots within the fell and were
removed, gates not
cricket, and all apparently is going; plot, murders, suleides, seductions sagged, greenhouses were emply:
to be well. and a lot of rapler sharp phrases. bracken, thistles, and rabbits overran "The Flying Dutchman" is called the land. Major Marwood had n fuscinating psychological study. money to spend on a cricket team book variety, liveliness, understand- Well, it is fascinating. As regards and on nothing else. The great West Ing of character and, above all, the psychological part, it is an Arlen Front of the Priory remained, with warmth of affection in describing the house alongside that had been some place that surely is cherished novel, written a little more on the
memory-a place liko bullt partly from the stones of the in her own mystery novel side than some.
ancient structure, and Saunby was Sunby, where the West Front, with Arlen is never likely to write the
its high lace-work of windows, peaks great English novel of the day; he is still beautiful but neglected.
One by one the residents of Saunby Into blank blue sky, a place of never likely to want to, either. His metler is well defined, he seems to appear in successive chapters of the pointed yews and layered cedars, of be happy within its limits and if he book: the Major first, at his wits' crab-apple trees burning bright with light that gilda is a literary prisoner in it, he seems end to get decent service In his house rosy fruit, and t
to everything as if in a missal. It is well content, Those who have liked and resolved, in desperation his past work, as having the adamant marry again for the sake of getting a the kind of English home that in flash of a gem, will not be dis suitable hostess; next, the Major's itself makes a story.
sister, who had mismanaged the appointed with his new book.
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