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THIS DREAM MEANS:

the

this dream you are la a mood of elation; swlin- nitag In water prab- ally Hymba- Bisex Anal 11- Renee in plen- surable Wish Fud alayking,

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBEP 6, 1951,

YOU BENT US THIS DREAM.

YOU WERE IN A HURRY TO GET SOMEWHERE AND

YOU JUMPED →

anan Fuzzest your Joy is a "polty" one: not a quiet bappy entiteti, put a genuine Jula de vivre, Theye is something ex- citate the parlaps "phoney" about your elation which Fans you are passing through an exaggerated reframing of mac which has na soild basis la your life and work,

You'

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

TRY TO ATTRACT A WAITERÉS ATTENTION ... AID SEL HOW TAST. THE NOSE TURNS UP.

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COPR 1951 BY GENERAL FEATURES

CORP, TWOILD RIGHTS RESERVED.

"HI

TOODLES

DRAGGING THAT CHILDHOOD NICKNAME RIGAT

OUT IN PUBLIC

RAISES THE NOSE

AND EYEBROWS.

Mo

AND SWAM ALONG THE ROAD, AND QUITE ENJOYED

DOING IT

are going sinowhere burriedly but you do not gulle seem tu know where. It sather looks as if you might stow down J Title: embark on no new enterprises while you are in this over-optimistle moud. Hold yourself IN a little: use a little curb..

CheSNAPSHOT GUILD

BACKGROUND BUSINESS

THE

SURPRISING

BO

DWARF NEWEDOK.

GEORGE

MALCOLM THOMSON MOULIN ROUGE, By Pierre la Muro, Collins, 129, Gil.

448 pages.

be-

TENRI TOULOUSE. then the other. After that,

LAUTREC, the sub- liner, leg grew. Henri.

came a man who had a body ject of this novel, was of nemal size but legs which an aristocrat by birth, a dangl$$ for a few inches from dwarf by accident, and an the sets of chairs, In particu- far they dangled from Smith artist by innate génius,

which was reserved fur alma every evening at the Moulin

cut in Paris.

Ha remote micentor, Ray mond of Toulouse, one of the

Henri, who had discovered

aders of the First Crusade, helped to wrest the Holy City from the infidel. Henri Cup- tured Wontmartre, and was in himself a passion for draw quite content that the inadels Ing, Was faecipital by ne hould inmain within that not- daucing places, wrestling acolo, e-holy city.

cabareta and In onz clazcs the stroller Icori's

father, Comto At- which beckoned. to

through the night-line streets Toulouse-Lautrec, thonte des

11 became thew w to cx-cavalry officer who of urls. Octly asked to judge incend

NE of my friends was of arbours or trellises, the pent a great part of his life in habitue and the court painter.

He immortalised such enthedral masa of a tent opposite the

ordinary apparitions of This dwelling he And Athi

actre shared with dogs and falcons.

On one occasian, ho rode in the Bois de Boulogne 011 П are on which he had put a Kirghiz saddle, He paused In the course of his ride to milk the mare and drink the milk.

At the age of 13, Henri, the

per on of this extravagant curly, broke first ons leg und

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an amateur snupshot con, criss-crossed latha. test, and not long after- some of the scenic and wards happened to tell me architectural shots → poten- about the judging,

tially excellent pictures It had, he said, gone. Werd spoiled by telephoite pretty well. But one thing wires or poles which broke Fothered him. A lot of up the view. "I can't help otherwise excellent shots but feel." He said, "that lust out because

of some contestants Tailed to distracting backgrounds. "1 look the scene over carefully Enow it's hard to believe," before they snapped the he laughed, "but one print shutter.” actually showed, a girl with the limb of a tree apparently growing out of her left ear." means,

Several others, he added, showed people posed in front long ago I snapped my small non squatting in the drive- way of our home, peering nt | the nozzle of the garden hose. I thought I had a fiue picture. Not until. I developed the negative did I notice that I had included an old, heaped-up trash can.

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

("Of course I know what im- nortant day October the 25th

13-it's my birthday i'

Upturned Noses.

EVERY TOM DICK

AND HARDY HAS A BEAVER COAT.

CHEAP STOP!

I WOULDN'T

BE TOUD

DEAD JI ONE./

#

SOME GALS CAN HOIST THE NOSE PRETTY HIGH AT ANY. SUGGESTION THAT SOMETHING CHEAPER THAN MINK WOULD

BE JUST AS WARK.

SOME GET THE ELEVATED HOSE

JUST FROM

MARRYING --MONEY,

I know exactly what he

for I've mate tha i game mistake myself. Not

All of which goes to prove it's important to study your picture as it's framed in your camera's view-fmier. Look at the subject. Look beyond the subject at the back- ground. Then try a slightly different view int and study the scene again. Ofton by changing your angle of view, you can eliminate Lanwanted details or improve composition of your picture.

John van Guiller.

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC.

BU KEMP STARRET, T

"SHE WAS ONLY

A BIRD IN A, "GILDED CAGE

WE LIKE THE SIMPLE, HOMEY, OLD SONGS HO MATTER HOW THE LONG-HAIRS RAISE THE SHOOT AND SHIFF IN CONTEMPT.

"SELAS

A LITTLE LOOSE!!

THE KOSE RISES' AT THE SLIGHTEST DUNT THAT THEIR 'LARGESS 15- SOMETHING LESS THAN

-A FIT.

THE DEBTORS ARE OFTEN

THE SHOOTIEST,

extra- Mont-

Valentin the Bonclass, a wali lordu bachelor who looked liko 11 corpse and danced like demon, and

La Upulto (the glutton) called Because the went the tablesal the round of the

Moulin Rouge emptying all the glasses. She had been a loun- dress: became a famous dancer

of the

us.u

lion-tamernished

The little gnome put these and countless other notorieties of the garish Parly of the nine- tles down on paper; he caught the sinister atmosphere of the elly and Immortalized it with an incomparable economy 'of line.

He also acquired a taste for spirits. When he invited his friends to dine off a kangaroo Eteak (roast lamb to which an oxtail had been attached) he was careful to put goldfish lu- that

to the water carafes so nobody thould be tempted drink from them....

*

In his carly thirties he was such a drunkard that a

police oilleer was deputed to accom- pany him everywhere. Toulous Lautree imagined that a local police commissaire had taken a liking for his conversation.

wrote to

Finally, his friends, wrot his fattier suggesting

should look after him. Comte Alphonse replied calmly: "Send the boy to England. There drunkenness ·pazios unnolleed since all the nobility are drum- kards."

His friends, however, sent the artist to a lunatic asylum from which he emerged to die a life later (1901) in one of the family, mansions,

His father turned up at the death-bed in great fetile, nouncing that, owing to his corns he would follow the hearse on horseback. Told us would be impossible he replied, "Very wall, I'll go barefoot,"

old comte had not lost his

Even cleven years later the

phy

spirit. Learning, that a a biogra-

of his son (by then

hen world- was being written, he atiuel:

| famil-the nuthor to o

As a noble man he claimed the right: to fight with lance, standing in a little french be- caure of his corns. The ouibur, a mere tert, would be allowed to defend himself, Recording 10 the lows of chivalry, with a slick,

of the comic, side cf the Toulouse Lautrec familly, readers of Moulin Rouge will glcan ittle or nothing. They may even decide that Henri was a pompous ass capable et saying "By the beard of St. Joseph, Maurice, do you know who I am? am Comte de Tou- louse!"

There are compensating glimpses of artistic celebrities. Van Gogh it seems, had a mad lough. Gauguin "Poor Paul! He is one of those people who can't adjust themselves

lo life,"

you ace Deyor, give him, my regards. We don't see each other any more since that miserable Dreyfus affolr."//

Every now and then, the author risks a blobd-vesel writing like this, With a sud- den jerk he pulled her to him clamped his mouth over herm lileo C bleeding-cup. Time censed to exist, As inful gurant dream etc., ele.!

Those for whom time has not ceased to exist might care in spend 10 minutes looking at a Toulouse-Lautrec drawing. They will find more fulgurant dreami In it, then - In the strenuOVA pages of Moulin Rouge, OUT OF THIS WORLD. By Lowell Thomas Mac- Donald: 188, 238 pages. IF you are going: to Tibet, as the Lowell Thomasas did, you are advised to take BELOW bottles of Beoich and, the best "Jamalenium Tibolan hòbles...”.

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