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BILANCIA
HONGKONG TIENTAIN
BORN 1826
0 STILL GOING
STRONG
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
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In "Be Look- ed for a City" (Michae Joseph, 99. Gd.) A. S. M. Hut chinson has made a long, sympathetic study of the life of a thoroughly.
February 8, 1941.
BOOKS
Story
of A
Christian, God- Humourless
and
fearing humo urless men'.
The Rev. Gor
don Brecque
starts his career
as a clergyman
Man
Walter D. Edmonds is the. author of "Drums Along" the Mohawk," and there is ro doubt that his present story of circus life in America In tho. very carly Nine- teenth Century
"Chad Hann (Collins 89. Od.)
fs written with an eye to the
as a curate in crowded cities, films. There are two excellent but spends the last 35 years of parts for young stará, plenty of his life in the vicarage of a good feature roles, and exciting small but growing country town. highlights well dotted throughout During that time his children the tale.
grow up and add their problems
to his own; the Great War
All this does not prevent
brings new thoughts and ideals Chad Hanna" from "being", an richly humorous into play, and the post-war excellent. years add their difficulties and story. disillusions to the burden of age Chad Hana is horse-boy at the
Yellow Bud Tavern on the canal
and ill health.
The vicar goes through good at Canastotn when the story days and bad with his parishion- starts, but he is restless, and ers, but when he dies just four when he meets trouble helping days before Christmas "one
a runaway slave to escape, he couldn't help feeling, it was just moves on and joina "Huguen- Poor Gordon Brecque. Mr tional Cireus and Equestriole" ine's Great and Only Interna- Hutchinson's portraits of him und of his dark, vivid and de- mostly for love of the dashing voted wife are masterly. Laura equestrienne-and her horse.
The circus is really a very is indeed a charming creation
like him."
and has the touch of life which small and poor one, in spite of is incking in her husband. The its resounding name, but the four children are also excellent performers are kind and accept individually, but rather heavily Chad and his fellow waif Caro- line at their face value. Their family, and A Laura remains the most sym- story is mixed up with the ad- pathetic character in the book, ventures of the road, with the snd death of Oscar the lion, with the fight with the toughs of a
contrasted as
Mr Hutchinson has simplified his larger and rival circus, with the style with the years, but he is stil desertion and subsequent return guilty of some atrociously involved of "Lady Lilian" "the eques- sentences. What can the average read.
er make
of the following without re- trienne, and with the country source to mental parsing: "In all those and towns which they visit en thirty years, right up to this week in route.
which they had ended, himself he
ever could recall that glorious swell-
Ing of his heart with which on the The story is delightfully human, afternoon of arrival, engerly stepping and there are some excellent portraits from the cab, he had put his hand on among the minor characters. Mr Ed- the vicarage gato and turned to Ļaura monds leaves his period to the and the children and Minna excitedly reader's imagination. Not once is erowding out to follow him." there a mention of the everyday
"He Looked for a City" has been clothes worn by the women, nor is chosen as the Daily Mail "Book of an exact date ever fixed, but it must the Month," and is certain to appeal have been some time in the 1840's to the author's large and faithful judging by the age of that goatish pubile.
old man, Ellas Proops.
"WHAT'S TI
MATTER? DIDI DO ANYTHING OR SAV SUMP'N »*
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
MAKING PICTURE-STORIES
This shot is from our “baking blocults” sequence—the best way in the world to tell a story in pictures.
DICTURE-TAKING is lot more fun, for the subjects, If the pictures have a story to tell, At our house, we do it this way. First, I pick two "story" Ideas- one for Ann to be the model, an- other for Jack, Then I jot down notes for six or eight pictures that will tell each story-picking the high spots, of course.
To decide which story shall be pictured frst, we toss a coln. It Ann wins, It's her story and she is the model, while Jack and I take the plctures. Actually, I suppose, I do most of it—placing the lights, setting the camera, and so on-bul I try to let Jack feel that he's really the “director." We tell Ann what to do, for each shot- and usually the whole picture series is made in a sliori time. The following evening, it's Jack's turn os model, and Ann helps me shoot.
Sometimes we invite the next- door neighbour's little girls over, as model, so that both Jack and Ann
can help supervise. She enjoys II—I my "story" [den gives her something interesting to do.
We made a sequence last week, showing how she learned to bake biscuits. Wo pictured her men- suring out the flour, kneading the dough, rolling it out, cutting tho biscuits, sliding them into the oven-and, Anally, taking a big bile out of the first one. It's a -Good story.
Tint outline, incidentally, is typical of our snapshot sequences. Just a step-by-step account of things the children do. Jack, building an aeroplane model or pocking his knapsack for a ħiko; Ann, learning how to roller-skato, or how to make a rag doll. And they have already made one story squence of me-loading my pipe, lighting it, sitting down with the evening paper, puffing away as I rend, and finally dozing off. Pretty good pictures, too, for youngsters.
-You should try this idea of snapshot sequences, if you haven't already. There's fun, in, it-and the pictures are more interesting because they fit together to tell a real story.
John van Guilder.
Try It Sometime
BY KEMP STARRETT
"HOT GOOD PAINTING AND A
VERY BAD LIKENESS/
WHEN HE USES A PROMISE TO DO THE DISHES AS A BRIBE... MAKE UM GO
THROUGH WITH IT AND SEE WHAT A LADY SUON LEGREE YOU TURN OUT TO BE.
TRY CALLING A CAREER WOMAN AWORKING GIRL AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS
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EDGE..CAN'T
SLEEP A WINK. EVERY TIME!
GET UP SUDDENLYC EVERYTHING
COES ROUND.
SPOTS FLOATING
WELL, OF COURSE, LAST WEEK. BUT THIS WEEK, I'VE HAD A LOT OF EXTRA EXPENSE...LITTLE SHORT RIGHT NOW...
ETC. ETC.
WHEN THE VOWS SHE'LL SCREAM IF YOU DARE TO KISS HER...TRY NOT KISSING HER. AND SEE WHO IS THE FIRST TO SUCCUMB TO COMPLETE BOREDOM.
WHEN SOMEONE WANTS YOUR HONEST OPINION LET ́EM HAVE IT.......... IT WILL BE AS WELCOME AS A FREE PACKAGE OF SMALLPOX GERMS.
WHAT DO YOU THINK I PAID
FOR IT
"A DOLLAR NINETY-EIGHT
WHEN FOREONE ASKS GLOW ARE YOU?" STOP AND TELL HIM. IN DETAIL AND YOU'LL ALMOST HEAR HIM NOT LISTENING.
WHEN A FRIEND TELLS YOU HE ROLD HAVE LET YOU HAVE THE MONEY IF RED CALLY MAJONNY TELL HIM YOU STILL -- COULD USE A LITTLE. EXTRA CASH AND WAITH THE PAST FIDE OUT
- WHEN A BUDDY SAYS SHET AFRAID HER.
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