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THIS DREAM® MEANS:

The pictures, often like you' up fo сто Monat heights, then drop you. -with a bump when you came out,

Your-siding

down to the

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1951.

HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT... YOU

flim screen' and

back to «JOLIN

30

scat seems 10

AND, THEN YOU SAT IN THE GANGWAY WERE AT WHICH WAS HIGHLY POLISHED AND SLID THE PICTURES | || DOWN TO THE SCREEN, YOU DID THIS

AND WHEN |,"TWICE AND THEN WENT BACK

TO YOUR SEAT!

YOU WENT TO

THE EXIT

YOU WERE IN

WHICH TOOK

YOU TO A

GREAT HEIGHT WAND DOWN AGAIN

symbolise entering-sa, in a film - the woria of phantasy: - then 'leaving 16' again: Finally yon, end up an your seat-or åt - the boltom of the lift; that is to say, in: the world of hard reality,

7

Tea seem to be flirting with thoughts

Warm

A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

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Most uncommon (6). Push (5).

Unexpected (8).

ย Take without, right (5).

10

Scize (4).

12 Trace (7).

15 Fearful (5).

10 Soon (4).

17 Cupid (4).

20

10 Partics (5).

Guides (7).

21 Engrave (4):

23 Deluge (5).

24

Gun (6).

25 Unwell (5).

20 Strain (0),

YESTERDAY'S

26

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DOWN

6

1 Gave Up office (8).

2 Pant of a car (8).

3 Hastened (4).

5 Pause (8).

#

Harridan (6).

9 Grants (5).

11 Divided into two (8).

12

View (5).

13 Example (8).

14 Fascinates (8).

18 Small wave (6).

22 Agreement (4).

CROSSWORD-Acrosa: 3 Isolated; 8 Re lent, 9 Delivera, 11 Disputeil, 12 Flog, 13 Defer, 18 Salon 19 fron. 22 Farewell, 24 Bracelet, 25 Stupid, 26 Resolute. Down; 1 Grade, 2 Bliss, 3 Induces, 45°c). 5-Laid, G Treble, 7 Desigu, 10 Level, 14 Fatal, 15 Rosette, 18 Timber, 17 Moraes, 20 Leaps, 21 Glade, 22 Fell, 23 Rest.-

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

- ARD IF WE DONT

LIKE TT HERE VE CAN MOVE FORTHER

·UP TAE BEACH. AGAIN!"

SOME FOLKS MANITAIN THAT

THE SHORE IS THE ONLY PLACE TO RELAX, AND KEEP COOL, (OTTERS DON'T)

OFFERS TUNIS "THAT THE WAY

TO KEEP COOL: IS TO MAKS A REFRIGERATOR OF YOUR.. MUSIDES, D'

-EVERYBODY EXCEPT TH COOL AT TRES

CAOKE,

MANY SAY YOU CAR "KEEP COOL 'JUST “BY REMEMBERING

LAST VINTER HULL DIVER

COMPLAIR ABOUT - THE HEAT

AGAIN!"

glamorous dream-world where you achieve all your desires without any efforti only to be pulled back each time Into a colder reality.

I should scoopt reallly if I wore you: it will be less bumpy in the long run-and belter fun,

B

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

EFFECTIVE BABY, PICTURES

A few notes on l'amour

FROM THE FRENCHMAN WHO)

ALWAYS KEPT HIS HEAD

LAMIEL, By Stendhal, Turneilla'from, 9%. 64. 191. pagas.

Nan international novel championship "The Charter- house of Parma": would be the seeded player from France. Stendhal, who wrote the book in 52 days, is thought by the best of French judges to be the best of French novelists. He is read by hardly anyone else.

It is a pity, for Stendhal, whoso real nome WOB

Henri Beyle, is

a writer of the

profoundest insight.

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSOR: reviews the NEW BOOKS

His mis diary: "We do all that one fortune is that he combines two can ace of a battle-that is to qualities that go together; a say, nothing."

try style and д romantie tem- perament, med

The.

rest of his long ‚amilitarý

eareer he spent in (ho commis- He said that every morning he earle, There was an interval read the Code Napoleon to when,

an pursuing

Actress When the baby gets old enough"catch the tone of that "perfect named DABIES really do make cop-

Melania Gullbert ho tivating camera subicels, to sit up by himself, try some of They don't get still and uneasy your shots from a low angle yle." It was thought to be one went off to Marseilles and set up-

Both n front of a camera as to many down a baby's lovel, rather than of his jokes. It was the sober in a grocery business.

truth.

Melanie and "gittery: diasp- pointed. Steniligt wens off to action some plece of exact

In the midst of pasalonate Moscow with the Grand Army:: When Napoleon was hesten at bservation comes into his mind

wan drink- which defiates the emotion and Waterloo, Stendhal increases the realism. One of ing coffee on the Piazza of St his heroes kills a man in a ducl; Mark in Venice. It did not pre- he rushed to the mirror to make vent him from writing a brilliant sure that his good looks have description of Waterlou in one

by a knife of his novels..... not been spoiled wound. Such touches please a few; disconcert more.

of their elders do. Whether they from above. He will appear. are gleeful or unhappy, they are much more Important in the always completely antural. And picture if you shoot it this way his, of course. makes the And move in close enough, too. cameraman's job so much easier. He is tiny; and to show him off With a baby, the only trick is to to good advantage, you'll want be ready when he turns loose one to be up where the camera can of those priceless expressions. really see him.

Pictures of the baby can easily be taken indoors, and probably he most convenient method is photoflath. As you know, farn pictures are almost as easy to ake as outdoor mapshots, and *hat is really a big advantage when it comes to photographing active youngsters.

Some people have worried bit about the brightness of fash lamps cu children's eyes, but such fears are groundless. A flash exposure is about the same as an exposure in samlight; and Of course, the flash lasts only a small fraction of a second. The only precaution recommended is the use of a transparent screen of some sort over the reflector when the bulbs are being flashed close to the subject. In fact, a handkerchief fastened over the reflector with a rubber band can be used, especially if you wish to coften the ght a bit

By all means, the baby's plċ- Aire record should bo started early. And then, once If in started, it must be kept up with stelet regularity. You know how rapidly a baby grows a week missed is a picture

forever:

Keeping Cool

"I GIESS I'LL HAVE. HUNT UP A PHONE...? CANT FIXITAN

OF COURSE YOU CAN ALWAYS, GO, FOR, A NICE, COOL RIDE OUT IN THE WIDE OPEN SPACES.

"MAKE YOUR. OVA BREEZE, YOU KNOW. FORGET YOUR. TROUBLES-DRINK IN THE SCENT OF FLOWERS, ETC.

COPE, FISE BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED."|

SORE COUNT

TIRE WATER

losl

So, photo fans. If there is one of these new citizens in your family, or even in the neighbour hood, put your camera to work. He will be one subject who fa just naturally photogenie.

ROBBER

-John van Guilder.

******

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT- LANCASTER

1

Bye, Hercules darling, "you must remember him

he's the one who said such awful things about you la

que his memoirs 1”

Church:

Ruined In "The Charterhouse," Count

by the fall of the Мажа, the subtle Minister Emperor, he went to Italy pu

women and Lleraturo, (modelled on Metternich), con- suing cludes his advice to his mistress's with some succeTIR and In- nephew, about to enter the different scruple. Engaged to write a Life of Haydn ho found 31.

translation of a German but never raise any objection. work. At last he became French Do not yield to the temptation to Consul at Civita Vecchia, where shine; be morose; discerning eyes he was bored and lonely. Не will see your elevernes in yours. thought the police were watch. and it will be time enough to ing him.

"Bellove or not as you chece easier to produce an unackow.

willy when

be

archbishop."

You are an

intellectual

He composed epitaphs for himself, e. g. "He respected one man alone, Napoleon." In fact, when he met his idol he decided he was a vulgar poseur. "I lived, final epitaph was "L wrote, true there was loved." And

that It is A

His

'Cool irony and weight are a combination many find. unpalatable.

French- compressed,

never a moment in the life of easy to see what Goche meant: this burly, bright-eyed F

"I don't like (reading Stendhal,

He ta extremely impertinent. I man

with

recommend you to buy all his satirical mouth, but the rustle books."

of a petticoat was to be heard somewhere, not too far olt.

Stendhal was born in a family of magistrates in

Grenoble in

As each victim succumbed, ho

was the nearest he got to.

1783, and aged 10, learned with wrate her name on his braces. the livellost spproval

His

sentiment, y

execution of Lous of the instinct was right; the age of

'After writing unsuccessfully. Napoleon sulted him beautifully. for 12 years, he was suddenly He fought at Bautzen as a lieu-made celebrated by an ecstatic tenant of dragoons, noting in his review: wrilicn by Balzac. His

By KEMP

STARRETT

#1

CROOK!

TAKE OFF YA BLINDERS

THEN THERE ARE THE BOYS WHO,GO TO A BALL GAME TO KEEP COOL 1., MID PROCEED TO GET HOT-HEADED AS A DEPOT STOVE.

"DID YOU EVER KRE. ANYTRING":

• RIDICULOUS.

FOR, HOT WEATHERS UNLESS YOU RAVENO,

IPKERET A BREEZE

·AKWHERE IT'LL BE ON THE WATER... GUT GENERALLY ORLY WAILE YOU ARE DI TOM.

7.18

enemies swore that he pald Balzac handsomely for it Out- wardly he remained indifferent, saying, "I shall be read about 1935.

This amorous adventurer never ventured into wedlock, though. he had one. narrow escape, He devoted, a whole book of re- flections to the subject of love. It tells more about its author than about its subject. Sampica of its wisdom; "One can acquire anything in solitude except character," "Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all."

Tho heroine of Lamlel Cunfinished novel bearing the emphatic stamp of his genius) is concerned with the question, "What

precisely is love? Her

portrait

19

12 basod on Gluila Ranieri, an Italian girl of 19 who'alarmed Stendhal (aged 47) by a declaration of love. The authority on love asked two months to think it over, pro- posed marriage; WON turmed down.

The novel traces the develop ment of Lamiel from a Norman peasant into 21. fashionable cocotte.

THE WORLD CANNOT HEAR YOU By Gwyn Thomas, Gollanes, 10s. 6d. 288 pages.

novel

VERY Welsh, very talkative,

very funny, count this a by-product of the Great Slump Like Abeurin Bevan

Upon ite characters, known ne "the Voters."' falls, un' avalanches of misfortunes' which, they greet with in counterflow of dis- illusioned Cymric wit

They are unemployed; dwell in overcrowded conditions (leading to Incest, adultery... and plain Innocent confusion of targete"); have their wives stolen by un-" scrupluous painters, who do not even wait to finish painting the front door; Join a choir "frequent an ice cream that

From head adlensters, they emerge in a telo of eloquent and equable despair. If a remiÍDU comig is no nt/work here, my name Ele Gruffydd.

A Bouquet (for Brido: Folia and Carior, 18%, 251' DRSON/" Collecicu by G. C. Hädlite, an entertaining anthologyakat ön mariage. Frovided with a pale blue, marking ribbon will make an encouraging:gift for

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