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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1951.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Photofloods can open a whole new realm of Indoor pleture sup-

jects for you. Indoor Pictures by Photoflood INDOOR picture taking these you will and that the best la slightly above days seems to be getting al position most as popular as summer camera level and off a bit to side. Excellent pictures outdoors, arie

taken this way-with Indoor pictures, can be As you know, can be taken in a number of just one bulb.". different ways--by

time snapshooting & CO., LTD.

There's never been a soap like WRIGHT'S!

The Aclied soap which gives you a buoyancy in your bath, and a tingling freshness that stays with you all day long!

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Wright's wonderful triple-action Coal Tar Soap zives you cÈRE health, apa vitally, extre person Freshness.

Wrigh's special lather goes te revitsio workloantly."

bed and clour whole

bytem stimulated and refreshed.

"The coal-far Ingredient in Wright's protects your hesab, 15 pleasantly antiseptic, and gives you a personal freshness that lasts the whole day through

WRIGHT'S IS RIGHT FOR EVERYONE AND IDEAL FOR TOILET, BATH, AND NURSERY

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GRANT ---

photollash,

Add a second light if you

by diffused daylight, by wish, but keep that first light ordinary room lights, and, last as your modelling light. By but not cast, by photofood this I mean keep the second lamps.

light a bit farther from the on the opposite subject

and

In this the camera. to have side of

way, the first light functiona as the key and the second as

light to soften shadows. Additional lights can be added as you see fit; but, as I said, the lighting doesn't have to be claborate to get a good picture,

These photoflood lamps are really handy items. around. They're pretty much like, ordinary household, lamps,

cept that they burn many all-in times brighter. And with this brillant light you can take all kinds of plctures around the house pictures of the family, party pictures, room Interiors, table tops, and innumerablo others.

Picture taking with photo- floods is amazingly easy. Some types hove reflectors built right into the bulb. Screw them into a floor or bridge lamp, point them at the subject, and you're all set. Or better yet, get one the inexpensive, clamp-lights shop or de- et any electrical partment store. These can be fastened to a convenient chair and can direct your photoflood light in any desired direction, When you start out to make experi- picture of someone, ment frat with just one light, Move around until you find the spot where it is the most pleasing on the subject. Usually

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

... THE

"SEE THE NICE OCEAN LONELY SALT WATER...IT

WON'T HURT YOU....... IT'S FUN....

IT'S....

"NO!

100'

WANNA... I WANNA GOʻZ HOME!

THE WAY SOME SPROUTS REACT, TO. THE FIRST SIGHT OF THE OCEAN

·ONE WOULD THINK YOU WERE PLANNING TO DROWN THEM.

OH, HEAVENS! IT'S RAINING

THEY STILL WORRY ABOUT RAIN..... VILLE. IN IT UP TO HERE...........

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the

The exposure depends main- dts- ly on lamp-to-subject tance, of course; and with the proper set-up, actual snapshot exposures can be made even with simple box cameras. It's best to have an exposure table, or one of those handy pocket exposure guldes for use in set- ting the camera properly.

will you need more Seldom than three of these bulbs; and, since a 15-ampere fused house-

Lake

up to hold circuit can

six of the No. 1 bulbs or three of the No. 2's there's litle chance. of blowing fuses, These bulbs should be suffelent to give you enjoyable snapshooting for a long time.

Jolin van Guilder.

THIS HAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT...] YOU WERE !

DREAM MEANS:

This is tha dream of a strong but real. live personality Vory whose strength and dominates must have met a toi

of opposition.

Beratze you

Aro ambitious

and strong, you

have learned to padangan

EATING WITH FRIENDS WHO ALL ATE WITH SWINISH GREED, BUT

EACH TIME YOU PICKED UP FOOD

IT VANISHED

expect this opposition. The dream suggests that at the mo ment you have struck a bad patch ef non-co-operation, and you feel that some of your colleagues instead of helplar you

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4 Month (3).

7 Better (8).

8 Throw out (5).

9 Make beloved (8).

11 Paid up (7).

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Subdue (7).

15 Uphold (8).

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17 Trick (5).

19 Guided (8).

20 Skinfint (5).

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: I Abet. 4 Tclckle. 8 14 Sallics. 17 Shoc., 10 Avarice 11 Mopa. 13 Dado.

28 Invader. Adorn. 10 Adopt. 22 Treated. 20 Else. 27. Calm.

20 Able. 30. Dean. 31 Swathed. 32 Dash, Down; 2 Bchead. 3 12 Doft. 13 7 Lucre. Tremor. 4 Traps. 5 Reveal. 0 Carol. Dova, 15 Idol. 16 Sate, 18 Sece ic. 20 Demand. 21 Psalms. 23 Renew. 24 Apart; 25 Dared.

Beach Behaviour

HENRY!

I'M SPEAKING WHADJA SAYS

TO YOU!

STRANGE, HOW A MAN'S "MIND' WARDERS, ON THE BEACH 2008

• NOT TO MENTION HIS EYES.

YOU WERE IN A'BAR HAVING-

A DRINK BUT EVERY TIME YOU PICKED UP YOUR GLASS EVERYONE

RUSHED TO DRINK FROM IT

are helping themselves.

TODOO

It may be advisable for you to go a little casy in order

to father strengtly to try yielding

you want your own way.

or.seeming to yield comf

THE THING

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON : ex- plores the world of Muntz and Zweistein,

where a beard equals a B.Sc..

THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION cer Carr).. Does it impress

STORIES.. Edited by E. F.yout Even when Eomebody Blelber and T. E. Dikty, says: "Professor Zweistein must

Grayson and Grayson, be inside this thing." BL ed. 250 pages.

THE

state of science fic tion today calls, on pre- sent evidence, for Investiga tion and report. The form seems to be

And listen to Frederie Brown (Mouse). "It was elgar-shap- ed, but there was something about it that said alten." Cigar shaped! Any advance on the carly Wella? Not

Not a farthing. Even with "allen" in italics,

Bellor silek to the wise old

It The Thing TIME. Not too remote in the rule. Just call

-The great advantage of The future. The old device "197. Thing is that it will do for al- Ls going out. Some broad but

most

mysterious picturesque hint like "the hung- plague, repulsive immigrants, er riots that marked the second from another planet, or any Eevan administration" will be machine or gadget the author found near enough.

cannot be bothered describing.

SCIENCE. No knowledge of this tedious subject is called for, but tact must be observed.. Clients will expect remarks like, "This was before the ultra-microtome of course.". It's the "of course" that does it, of Course

anything:

In discussing the doings of No harm at all in expanding an idea,

was The Thing, a cool detachment is thus, "There hunger in her tired face, tissue desirable. "It's only a space- "But alitp from Mars to conquer the hunger for proteina, don't commit yourself. The earth says the hero of Mouse, lawyer in Henry Kuttner's Pri- stroking his Siamese cat. That is vate Eye (study of an age in the right spirit. which psychiatry, is given its

PERSONNEL, Very Impor

*

or

The

proper place in law) demands tant. A statesman is needed to a writ of habeas mens, No make statesmanko remarks doubt, he is sound enough on such as "Bomb Moscow law, but not so hot on Latin.

h. "I've changed my mind, gen- Trust nobody, Henry. Even a eral." He is known as dead language won't lie down Chief.

This brings science fiction up

A military man is also re- quisite. When The Thing hap- ‹ against the old problem of

TREATMENT. How to make Dens he arrives in a shower of graphic the strange wonders aides and says This is tanta- mount to War. He is known That The Future holds.

"The big red egg" which puts as Military Intelligence, one of out three square metal legs the rare faktes that science (Easter Eggs, by Robert Spen- Action permits itself,

BU KEMP STARRETT

#HEY! SHOO!

GET LOST.

∙SAND FLIES ARENT BAD ENOUGH: DOGS HAVE TO WADE THROUGH YOUR LUNGA AND SRAKE OCEAN SURPLUS, ALL OVER YOUR HEW CLONIES.

·REVER: CAN TELL. WHAT VOUILL. HOOK WITH SURE-CASTIRËS.

Ritter!

And there is, of course, à man named Zweistein or Muntz be cause whoever heard, of an eminent physicist being Anglo- Saxon7 Rutherford? Yah. Chauvinisti. He wears a beard so you will know he is, a seient-. ist. In science feilan, a beard fs worth a BSC Also, he talks. In funny Eriglish. He is known us Doc.

My personal vote is cait for some changes in this character. German hames have had too long run. Anything wrong » with Ibrahim Bey, Kekkolainen, Wa Tu Tsu, or Hikohoki? Thi is no time for a'narrow. raclat- ism.

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POLITICS, Careful", now. locks enlo onough, to have your villains come from behind the Iron Curtain. But remember what happened to the author who thought he was 100 per, cent OK when he picked on a Franco agent for his bad man.

Stick to a few broad sues. Freedom is a good topic. Un fortunately. Freedom, along with Know-how and Gracious la recognised as an Law can break.

patriotism to

English

·

monopoly which no are advised to rely on E

provide an quate motive, for heroism the defenders grimly buckle, on their atom-pistols standard? equipment la all armed forces); for the last desperate stand.

WAB. This receives the most, summary treatment. Strategy, tactics and logistics out of the window they go. Watch the two Martians in Easter Eggs as they "lash savagely. of each other with

Whips of blazing solar energy.

Descriptions,"

rhol's morceable,

should be terse, as in this im- aginary had

extract Whard Chicago stood "there was

vast crater of purple Ash."!

A touch of domestic pathos

may

be produced.

1.by.

pleking

some more modest target, ost; Where Blairgowrie had stood, there wasza amedium-sized The crator of purple ash,"

Thing Park

roached Belsize had g

Holiday resorts are particular-

ly suitable for this frontment. Nothing chills the blood like

and

ENGENERAL THEND. How is selenou, fiction developing? What is the future of r Future?

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