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HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT-

Gerard Venables

-THIS

"YOU HAD GOND TO BED BUT YOUR BED CHANGED INTO A MATTRESS OF PORCUPINES, AND YOU LAY AND SUFFERED BECAUSE YOU SEEMED UNABLE TO MOVE?

DREAM

MEANS:

You are passing through a phase of self- mortification. Feeling guilty about something you've done possibly a cruel or tactless action -you fool that if you treat yourself harshly, some good will come of it.

Tho mattress of parcupines and the bites of wolves are the punishment you mote out for

A British Crossword

25

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1 Practice.

5 Pierce.

8 Suuni.

Hide.

14

Puzzle

14

29

ACROSS

DOWN

I

2

Beauty preparation. Vestment.

J Post.

&

Controller.

Offence.

10 Pick-me-up-

11 Bird.

12 Measures of length,

Revolts.

16 Meal,

18 Sung.

20 Swindle.

22 Accurate.

23 Mad.

Animal.

Word-for-word.

B Beau.

14 Alarms,

25

26

Cut down.

27 Pigment,

28 Indoor game. 29 Irritable.

15 Astutely.

10 Revolves.

17 Peace-loving.

19 Annoy.

21 Emerge from egg. 24 Costly.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Scab, 7 Hurry, 8 Urge, Sert. 10 Edifice, 12 Fast, 15 Adapt. 18 Anon, 19 Oriel, 21 Hovel, 22 Sped, 23 Solid, 28 Nods, 29 Recruit, 30 Claw, 31 Duma, 32 Astir, 93 Rues. Down; 1 Guide, 2 Profane, 4 Creep, 5 Buff, 6 Eggs, 9 Scan, 11 Idols, 13 Arid, 14 Tall, 16 Topic, 17 Shun, 18 Avid, 20 Redress, 22 Slow, 24 Orate, 25 Mimle, 27 Onus, 28 Scar.

YOU WERE BEING CHASED BY WOLVES AND EVERY TIME YOU WERE BITTEN GRASS GREW FROM THE WOUND - SENTEN

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yourself. They symbolise tho masochism of your nature, I.c., the desire to crucify yourself in order

to arisa cleansed of guilt.

The grass growing from the wounds sym- bolises the good that you expect will grow from that expiation.

While you are in this mood, it would probably be a good thing to treat yourself kindly for a day or two; coddle yourself a little and caso the prickings of a harsh conscianco.

PEOPLE

by JON HOPE

DRACULA PAYS UP

• Living in South Kensing ton is a man who drawn several hundred pounds a year in royal-

Red Indians go hunting mink

DED INDIAN trappers are out Roday in the now-covered taking a big wilds of Canada haul of beaver, mink, and the ferce spotted lynx.

The Indians lay their traps on and cover the animal trail

When them lightly with snow. the pelts are taken off they are stretched on wooden frames to dry.

stamp

This new Canadian shows the trappers hanging up the pelts near their wigwam.

(about Face-value: 10 cents

Price, perforation,

8d.);

unused, is.

Festival

12:

ties from a book written by his father in the nineties.

issue

is news

said

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

'Bosh the Empress

BUT MR. WAUGH

(品

LOSES HIS VOICE

HELENA, By Evelyn Waugh. Chapman and Hall. Is. 6d.

265 pages.

Hake Away the talent,

TELENA is what remains of Evelyn Waugh when you

This is how Waugh can write when his talent descrts him. "Helena's love, born of the mists and rain, grew tender and summer-sweet while the new life ripened with- in her."

As for the dialogue, it rarely Icaves the plane of prattle except to soar for a second or two, in some roguish little joke

tell the world" sald Helenn).

This

new novel

tells the

story of an Empress, Helena, mother of Constantine the

BOOKS

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON

burnunity.

by

Good focus and a steady hand combined here to produce a sharp nega tive, Notice how all parts of the hay rako are ofear and distinct.

Make 'Em Sharp

Great who made Christianlly good taste to invest them with the official religion of the Ro- man Empire.

Perhaps he is oppressed All the reliable

poverty of his historical information about her could be the written on a postage stamp.

ore blurred idea to check certainly it that his pictures

invists

the

a

rest

This

in

Is a case

kad

trouble is.

shake is

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ing

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YOUNG boy wrote us the must be. At distances less other day, complaining than ten feet, it's not a bad material. The man, 70-year-old accoun-

your estimato Perhaps no, tant Noel Stoker. The book

It seems likely that she was

and fuzzy, "I seem to have a against a tape or paco it off. that chilly thriller, "Dracula."

the daughter of an inn-keeper would have been better

he said, "in Stoker, Bram

author of in Asia Minor. For

decided that, after all lot of difficulty," Waugh political

When it comes He

to the busi "Dracula," died

ied in 1012. He was

reasons, she was divorced by Helena was not a nice British Setting sharp negatives."

to know what the news of stopping action, shutter at one time Sir Henry Irving's her husband, Оле legend girl with a convivial Papa, but wants

is of major Importance. speed the Lyceum (rather

nasty Levantine girl. business manager at the

late) doclares that

However, a sharp picture of a Theatre. Shaw called him "n

was British,

That's a hard question the daughter of daughter of an inn-keeper. The

to subject in ection isti't all

D of understanding Old King Cole. Another (earlier) Creator man of feeling.

Lady Metroland

without sceing the matter of shutter speed. You and integrity."

tells that,

Eat, in old age, she found might have brought more est answer

prints themselves. Any one can give even A fast shutter "Dracula"- Arst appeared

the True Cross

on Golgotha. to that job. As it is, his gifts of several things can cause A

"break" in the follow speed a boards Many belove this legend to be are misapplied. resplendent in yellow

blurred or fuzzy negative. But ing ways: One, be wary of So the talent of Evelyn chances are our friend's trou action crossing the camera at with scarlet lettering-stil finds veracious Waugh 15,000 buyers every year.

that Helena Waugh is borne to the church-bles result from camera shake, right angles. Catch it approach- is a dull,

open air girl who yard. Ah, no! The Loved Ona Improper focus, or too slow

the camera diagonally or to re-bores her husband Recently I referred

consecrated and grows cannot

shutter speed to stop the action head on. Two, move away from of Arnold Bennett's 32-

of of the subject he's shooting. into a brisk, bossy old har- ground. up

fast action. The closer you are year-old tale "The Pretty ridan full of sturdy common suicide.

to action, the taster the shutter Temporary I hope.

Camera ("It's all bosh, the Lady." Today

caused speed you need out thevival of another

dor a clear, sense

*ELEVEN WAUGH, born 1903 a truculent amateur

theologia

by moving the camera in the sharp picture. e. It is He sees her

married, three sons, three daughtere, as the sort of has novel of the same

Бесп

artist, schoolmarter, Mackenzie. "Sylvia woman

It's cally who scents the balle soldier, reporter, novelist, liven fr Compton Scarlett."

and Diar

puts on

the camera irmly on her Gloucestershing. WVS uniform, who bullies the THE SPANISH GARDEN- hands against

check or chest the shutter with ER. By A. J. Cronin, and tripping

flrm, Door (for their good) and has

motion rather a jolly way with the clergy.

Gollancz.

Gd.

steady the time Helena becomes

256th By the

than a quick jab. A shutter the new region

speed of 1/50 of a second 19 pages. a Christian,

safe and

for respectable. both

that don't pictures foster speeds to stop or at San Jorge, in lacked consul the

Use 1/25 But this does not mean that in R BRANDE, new American best

his loves

little Spain movement. the

a jealous, de- sympathy for

Of the Emperor Diocletian, Nicholas with

love, the dire effects massacred Christians by vouring who mas

of which are Cronin's theme. the thousand, Helena (still a

Mr Brande is a monster. But this, be sure to put the camera said firmly, "I don't. pagan)

en a tripod or other flrm sup- Ho a very small monster. think he can be very nice."

The comment, as usual, falls delusions of grandeur and perse-

neurotic, suffers

slightly from port. adequacy. Why does Waugh's imagina- cution maala, is heaven's gift

obstinately to

Lawrence,

Writing materials were short when Mackenzie wrote the story in Cupri, Using the blue part of the typewriter ribbon his wife typed it on the back of MS of an

work, "Guy earlier

and Pauline." The red half was used another by D. H. Capri resident for his "Fantasia of the Unconscious,"

Recalls Mackenzie: "I can see him now bringing back that his grand old typewriter head along the cliffs, a bottle of opened in celebration."

on

Camp benedictine in one hand to be

For Youth

for

An international camp young people, from 16 to years of age, is being planned by Essex Education Committee to coincide with the Festival of

from

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short tion

of

remain $0

has

with

any

95.

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of releasing

tion. son, when

exposure.

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is

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to nico

the shutter. avoided by holding

with both

--John van Guilder

THEY WERE: TORPEDOES

Men of the 12th Submarine

of a second Flotilla plan their first reunion you need the longer

But, if your shutter at the RNVR Club in London

slower than on March 10.

must be

Theirs was one of the most dangerous and ecrie jobs of the war: they fought either in mich- Forcussing problems vary, bi get submarines (K-craft) or in course, depending On the human torpedoes, known as

With fixed-focus "ohariots" or ramera used.

"Jeops" to thio cameras

such as box cameras men who served in them all you need worry about that your subject be at least

Among the men invited to seven or eight fect away. the réunion is Admiral Sir Max

will be in reasonably sharp chic. Four VCE decorated for service with the flotilla are also expected there."

13

simplicity, young gardener, he delivers Anything beyond that distance Horton, wartime submarine

over

• W. Stanley Moss, author of

that are chiatrist. "fil Met By unstirred by events 21 the well-received

after all, deeply

charged stupid.

So stupid that, in trying and grandeur poetry, Moonlight," is having a novel

"save" his boy from the Why is his published in the New Year. He with wrote it seven years ago when significance?

to the criminal he was Major Moss of the Cold- language. Goelting

magic, him never touched

Yet he ought stream Guards Title, of novel

Bats With Baby Faces." it eloquence, the power to move? lunatic butler.

-because he was told to have focus distrusted that butler. has a secret service background." Nowadays Moss lives in Eire his wife and young With daughter. (World Copyright Reserved-London Exorate Service).

Britain.

The camp

will be held of "Stubbers," North Ockendeon, for six

July 21, weeks from Many young people on the Con- tinent have already intimated they would like to combine a visit to the Festival with a stay at the camp.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

I TOLD YOU

YOU HAD TO TOLD

IT FIRST!

YOU SHOULD'VE,

LISTENED

WHEN...

BANK ACCOUNTS

ARE NOW INSURED UP TO TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS

Perhaps. Waugh overawed by those grandiose personages? ho feels would

In the end the consul, almost kills 18 slightly accidentally,

the young remote, gardener. And he almost, but Perhaps not quite, achieves the destruc- not be in tion of his son.

ARE YOU SAVING AS MUCH AS YOU SHOULD FOR YOUR OLD AGES

ACCOUNT WITH

However, with focussin carneros it is up to you to To lure Scottish members, judge the distance from camera the date of the reunion falls on subject accurately, And the eve of the England and the closer you are to your sub- Scotland match at Twicken ject, the more accurate you ham,

to

Controls

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