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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 8, 1951.

bids this the gaol is rushed, the chiets are rescued, and Sole is Bndly wounded.

He starts where Kipling finished...

by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

THE CONSUL AT SUNSET. By Gerald Hanley. Collins. 91. def. 234 pages.

But, In the crisis, Sole the.man of principle has pulled out his "the revolver, fired and killed:

to this Violence that belonged

PEOPLE

Publishers get U.S.A. challenge

Baby JON HOPE RUMUNIKĀ

Into the market for pocket- tortured and tired deseri moved Bized reprint books steps a new. him to a quiet and dangerous competitor Traneworld--Pub wish to punish, to beat downlishers.

subdue."

Note the edge on that writ ing; the distinction.

Hanley's book has the power to convey the misery of outpost

begins where his plays football the

HKipling left off. His with his Askarls, but he is pill- ininds, the aching loneliness, the powerful Curtis Publishing Co.

barbarity of the people. There

He has

Who are behind this firm? Big American interests. Trans- world is a subsidiary of Bantam Books, Inc., of New York, large shareholders the Director of Trans- less in discipline. graphic and power-

Not, "one of us," in many

fighting here, massacre, mutila-world is a Londoner, 34-year- ful novel, the BOOK OF respects a great deal better than

tion. After killing their enemies,ld Edward Morshall. the warriors smash the water Just returned from a long visit

to the States. THE MONTH, strengthens any of "us," Turnbull is a man

so that the wamen the industrial Bystem containers

Mr Marshall I Dunkirk British fiction with a new what

the scrap-heap threw an

and will die of thirst: "They leaped

before the women. Iveteran-lives with his wife and and original talent. It has

the whom

Army Have -

und danced hi: for its main theme the idea chance.

shining with

the blood of the two young daughters at Streat- Tham He has set up office in the of Rule, the conception and There is a chink in Turnbull's dead."

West End. This is what he tells me: "Although Transworld is problems of Empire in the armour, the chink the "natives" aru watching for. When they

financed by American money, we modern world, the relations and It, warna the Colonel, they

be operating independently, between a governing system will be in, through the crack, and its subjects.

like thirsting bugs! it is Aurelia,

plan to buy reprint rights of Milton's girl, who finds that

British authors"

It is not, be it said at once, a novel about the colour question. Hanley's imperial rulers Include -a Kipling's dld-the Atriem sergeant as well political officer.

chink.

ΕΤΟΣ

In the end, the trouble, instead of Apring up into a widespread rebellion, peters out. For Turn-We bull, in his frenzy, commits on act of violence which puls all the trump cards in the Gover- Rescued from out-of-print ment's

He sets the obscurily--"The Pretty Lady" handa.

Ore, destroying the written by Arnold Bennett 32

Frank in the village on

Swinnerton, The drama inherent as the British

And only stores.

the years ago, problem of Empire is crystallised Government has

of Bennett's friend, has described it a reserve

the as One of the most seriously weapon in a story sharp and fierce is u

It is a

under-valued novels Bennell skirmish In a war, a story which grain.

Colonel is quick to seize. as Its own eloquence,

novel has outstanding over wrote. Perhaps republica This and burning like a desert.

Milton, too fat, too sick with qualities: its theme has importion will mean reassessment,

swift and Its action is longing for his black girl, fails tance,

Flm star Gloria Swanson to send the wire asking for rein- implacable. Its scenes are pre-

She has has turned author. сус which

had sented to the he

written a book which will be forcements

Turnbull he would scopic immediacy. Its charac- Wri

titled, reasonably enough, promised

that ters, down to the last, means "Glamour, After Forty." Another Turnbull send.

knows

officer's of dishonest trouble is approaching the life most

actress putting prentice hand to station

paper is Ruch Chatterton. Her at El Ashinng because servants, are thoroughly Milton, influenced by his woman, derstood and individualised.

tribe permlaslon

For these reasons, The Consul first novel, "Homeward Borne," has given her

at Sunset" never relaxes its grip. will be issued next year. at wells water its camels

It takes its Somerset Maugham reserved by tradition for the For these reasons,

place among the handful of first shaved off his moustache. Why? rival tribe.

while and looked so novels of real significance pub-"It

silly." shed since the war.

Upon the basis of an Empire with 3 divinely appointed civilizing mission. Kipling built a stoic philosophy, which found expression in a series of famous Blorics. Ite celebrated tie

of unquestioning perialism Beller.

Manley's servants of Empire are undermined with doubts. All

Casey, elderly except Culonel

traight hard-drinking, the ancient mould; ne flaw in his clay. TIO faltering in his touch. For him the Empire in a Racred club, of which he is a senior member.

frum

But the Colonel senses that the world around him hos changed.

At home, there is "Buggins," apothenals of the mouthing Trade Union muddle-head.

Eritrea here"-it is after the Italian defeat-there is Turnbull. who has bern too long in takes gentlemen

to deal with The Colonel main savages," taina): Milton, who has gone to pleves with that black bini of maybe

ranks

his, Aurella and Sole,

worst disappointment of all. Sole, an intellectual. falls in

and judgment

nerve

to

Very complex trouble it is when it breaks out-conflict between tribe and tribe, rulers and ruled, civil authority and military.

natives pro-Italian stripped of. their old (now prestige) and the other sori, natives and Moslem, Christian the stately people of Abyssinian and the "Bat-nosed" stock Askaris brought in by the British -between Milton and Turnbull and, in the end, between Tum- bull and Sate. Sole who arrives to relieve Milton, and arrives to late!

For Aurello, Alled with sudden the contempt for Milion, sends one

uf crisis--and takes of her tribesmen to kill him (a moment

no ilitle refuge from his own fallure-in-feat performed with

whole relish) while she slinks into about the scepticism

Tornbolle bungalow. imperial idea.

Turnbull, wrongly suspecting But Sole is not the most

of Milton's rival tribe Interesting

these rulers, the

chiefs. Apart from the Colonel, crafty murder, imprisons its and cynical, Tumbull stands out, Sole arrives to and the gaol in a subtly drawn full-length por a state of slege, and Turnbull, than half-way trait of the British NCO lype. already He is hard, hide-bound, bitterly "round the bend," preparing fo

more

a

the mob down with

When Sole for- severe than machine-gun.

self-resperting. at once more maw humane and more

with stereo-

un-

WIN

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT--

YOU WERE WALKING ON AN ENDLESS STRIP WITH WATER LEVEL WITH YOU ON ONE SIDE

AND FAR BELOW ON THE OTHER —

-THIS DREAM

MEANS:

has

A British Crossword Puzzle

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

124

1 Snub.

ACROSB

5 Bar of metal.

8 Rest against.

@ Seat.

11

Mercenary.

12 Threefold.

14 Rescue.

10 Torrent.

in

18 Angry.

19 Valley.

20 Collision.

24 Drinking utensil.

25 Gratky.

20 Sungs.

27 Severe. 20 Roll.

YESTERDAY'S

1 Hazard.

2 Cask.

3 Escape.

4 Weak.

5 Opposite.

6 Common.

DOWN

Something special.

13 Optical illusions.

14 Surfelt.

15 Meat.

17 Locality.

10 Smart.

21 In addition.

22 Sharp.

23 Tackle.

CROSSWORD—Across: Sorts. 4 Gossip, Random, 10 Shies, 12 Roster, 14 Prevent, 17 Cede, 18 Gen- leel, 20 Sincere, 22 Plot, 23 Eiccted, 27 Tolled, 29 Adre, 30 Datum. 31 Hungry, 32 Tarry. Down: 1 Scrap, 2 Range, 3 Shore, 5 Oust, Soiree, 7 Pastel, 9 Mongrel, 11 Hectic, 13 Steeled, 15 Rbil, 16 Victor, 18 Dene, 20 Splash, 21 Notion, 24 Edict, 25 Tutor, 26 Dummy, 20 Lear.

AND THEN WATER WAS

RISING UNTIL YOU HAD FLED

You have a tricky enterprise in mind which demands that you step warily-very warily indood.

TO THE TOP OF THE LAST TREE

ON THE LAST HILL - AND

STILL THE WATER ROSE ?

The danger is oven danger on every side. greater than you at first realised; it is rising up to engulf you, and there seems no escape.

This is another dream of the typo that indicates you may have bitten off more than you Consult a wire friend; he may halp

can chow. The endless strip indicates that you can't be sure you WILL over come to the end of it. If you fail or make a falso stop. there is

you with a more modest plan which may be for more effective in the long run.

Left: Crewmen line up on the upper deck of the USS Coral Sea as the aircraft carrier takes its berth at a Norfolk, (Virginia), Naval Base pier after five months of duty in the Mediterranean area. The carrier was re-.. lieved by the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Made with a shutter speed of 1/25 of a second at a lens aperture of 1/4,5, this shot indicates the pleasing Indoor plc-

tures anyone can make with normal sunlight.

With Minimum Equipment

PERHAPS the simplest way

Idea to make not one,

ta

winter

through

the

bul

of making Indoor pictures several timo exposures. One at one second, one at two seconds, by day-light, using

and one at four seconds should streaming 'sunlight

Insure at least one excellent a window of your negative, house. About the only accessory needed for making pictures in

of

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a

CX-

With an adjustable camera

avold this way is a bedsheet, a piece and fast film, however, you can

the need for me

com- white cardboard,

by selecting posures will puratively which ather material

large lens aperture, such

as 1/4.5 or 1/6.3, Evez serve as a reflector.

with films of average speed, acceptable The need for a reflector of you should get an

some

sort arises from the fact picture at f/6.3 with a shutter that sunlight is one-directional speed of 1/25 of a second, --it streams in the window,

lighting

an

wben

Sometimes,

sunlight one side of your sub- ject but not the other. Con- In very strong, it's a wise idea

to sequently, you want sone way move your subject back a little, Too 21

from the window reflecting the sunlight to the shadow side of your sub- much light falling full on a face leaves little shadow and ject.

to model the no gradation One

of subject's fentures, By nudying makking pletures of this type is the lighting and the scene, as it

30

of the

best ways

camera's

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in

Jour you can determine is so and move the sub- accordingly. Or perhaps his head so that part of

seat your subject by the on

appears ander, window. Place the reflector a

this few feet away so that the sun- light is reflected back on his jeet shadow side. Then make your turn. picture

from an angle of ap- the face is slightly shadowed. proximately 45 degrees

In any case, as you gain ex-

Exposure in such cases will perience with indoor plciures depend on the, brightness of the by normal sunlight,' you

day. In general,

you should and

xe saticfactory results

bright sunilt days with a sim- you

will

that variations come to on you casily. The big point here In almost any type of box-type camera, loaded photography you know is to with fast film. In some cases, go ahead. Only by using your though a time exposure may camera in new ways can you

.ple

be necessary. This is particular gain now pleasure.

ly

true when using films of

average speed. And It's a wise

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Blowing the influence of mirth of the border fashions, Maria Martone blends a - Mexican hat and scrape with a Bikini bathing suit la Miami Beach, Florida The French-type_swimsult already considered “‹ old- Lashioned.

Right: Part of· ́a herd of over 1,000 elk, driven from the Cascade range. by the sub-zero weather near Yakl ma, Washington, le shown 4feeding hi am open Held, The Game-Department, which Is providing food for the cwkward animal is attempting to eda of Londoners turn a concentrate them at feeding; oria ́s and the heavy demand pools to prevent foraging ou

Oipe Indian braves from Red Rock, Oklahoma, set up camp among the Semipples at Musm Isle Village, Florida, while they train for the Miami Golden Gloves contests, Above, Chief Sugar Brown, manager-trainer-father, holds a towel for his two sons, Elmer, left, and Junior, while they get a work-out. Marvin Sugar Brown looks an at right.