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DREAM MEANS:

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The reveals secret mis- givings - Joul have not yel dared to ad- mit them even to yourself

about the man you contcm-

plate marry

ing.

You feel

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1951.

YOU WERE BEING MARRIED TO A MAN WITHOUT A FACE

that his personality (symbolised by his face) is blank and means kathing to you. Accepting his ring would be a symbol

readiness your

love him faithfully ánd

completely: evidently you doubt both his ability to hold you and yours to

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3 Sent to the bottom (8)

B Ornamental cave (8)

Fame (8).

11 Soft drink. (U).

12 Equal (4).

13 Rich man (5).

18 Cokur (5)

19 Metal (4)

22 Scatter (8).

24 Undying (8).

25 Mild (0).

26 Falls back (8).

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DOWN

1 Spry (5).

2 Spacious (5)

3 Cut-out design (7).

4 Stupor (4).

5 Quality of sound (4).

& Bird

(6)

7 Dismel (8)

10 Perfect (5).

14 Finger (5).

15 Sperimens (7).

16 Orien Meinl (8).

17 As urval (6).

20 Anger (5).

21 Cenfu jou (5)

22 Let fall (4). 23 Wise (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across: 3 Baccarot, 7 Silence 15 Oust, 17 Lope, 8 Garrison, 10 Atomic 13 Elevens, 18 Realis 20 Auds, 21 Scenery 26 Treble, 27 Con verse, 28 Cheer, 29 District. Down: Alias. Spool, 3 Be- gin. 4 Cure, 5 Rescue, & Tenets Acres, 11 Tired, 12 Meals, 14 Elects, 15 Ovine. 16 Snarl, 18 Kan. 19 Adonis, 22 Erect, 23 Ebbed, 24 You. 25 Peas -

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WE AVERAGED 500

MILES A DAY.

EVERY DAY. SAW EVERYTHING..."

"DID I TELL YOU

I MADE A HOLE

IN ONE ?^

"I LOST A

POUND

AN A KALF AN NBIER MUSTED A MEAL

AND AS HE PUT THE RING ON YOUR FINGER IT SNAPPED AND SO MET DID EVERY OTHER RING HE TRIED

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accept him as the dominant figure in your life,

The dream is trying to help you to face the unpalatable facts: unless your maternal instinct is unusually strong your desire for the Tover in a man comparatively weak, would be unwise to matry a man you do not respect.

Sinclair Lewis

off wor signs off

in a minor key

WORLD SO WIDE. By Sinclair Lewis Heinemann, 121, 6d. 249 pages

FTER he has killed his ill-tempered wife by an im- patient tug at the steering wheel, Hayden Chart, plodding architect in that fast-growing metropolia, New- life, Colorado, decides that opportunity and conscience conspire to utter in his ear the summons to culture.

Confronting his

or

it

soul in the quiet of

B

by

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

CALL TO COLOUR

COONER 01 later

alnost everyone who uses black- films feels the urge and-white to try colour, For colour adds a whole new dimension to the plature lake's world. The green of budding 1.45 he blue of be

ali sky.

the colours which surround us in our lives--all nake il only natural that we should want to capture their brouty on film.

With modern COLUF flims we can do this almost as easily we make cur everyday bluck-and-white shots. The same

Basic

picture-taking techniques a maite for good monochromes make for good colour shots. And there's a colour film avail- able for almost every type of camera.

So. it you haven't tried colour yet.

chances are yot will want to. When you do, you will

study exposure want to

carefully than more

if using black-and-white films. For ex- posure Is the hurdle on which the beginner in colour is mus! likely to trig.

You will remember that not

we mentioned the 1.ng ago "latitude" of film-the "margin of safety" built into films which permits an acceptable print to be made when the regative has been either under- 05 overexposed. At that time we pointed out that most black- and-white films have a rather wide latitude, that you can be a full stop off the proper ex-

and get good results For

example, if the best ex-

Summer's Over

the hospital, where he is recovering from the motor ac- cident, Hayden is appalled by his ig- norance of the Finer Things.

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S

What does he know of music, Byzantine architecture, chemistry, his- tory before 1776, Goethe, etc.? is he content to f/8 cr f/10 will generally yield spend the whole of his life

posure for a given scene is 1/50 at /11, an exposure of 1/50 at

a fair print.

Colour fims have somewhal le's latitude than this. You nred to judge exposure more carefully. And for best results it's ideal to hit expesure on the

nose

The

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GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON

search of a "background." This is a story of mild philandering, guide-book in hand, of pauses before the masterpieces: "To And all this with you!" uf gentle satire at the expense of Amerlean expatriates.

Lewis's last book is slight, in a minor key and a wistful moud,

quarrelling with mean old THE women who want marble bathrooms for the price of Lited?

Well, then.

CRADLE OF NEPTUNE,

By John Lodwick. Heinemann. 10s. 64. 285 pages.

WHEN a brilliant uneven and truculent novelist like John Lodwifek goes for his theme to

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Self-inquisition translates his own public school, it is a fair itself into a year's vacation, sumption that Alma Mater is in for an unallal trouncing. On a ticket to Europe and an the whole Dartmouth scene of Italian grammar. In Corn- "The Cradle of Neptune" comes

How do you do this? best way we know is by using a handy, pocket exposure guide. Such a guide gives the basic in- formation necé à for proper Ex- posure of almost

say zabaglione, Hayden fails one any type of

In love, subject for clear or overcast

First with the days or indoors. And the 10 ur

brown Arno, the ancient Each page seems to bear at the 20 cents which you pay for a palaces, wonderful churches, top an invisible warning "For guide of this type is well spent if

Later with Men Only." it saves you the disappoinment and so forth. of clear shots poorly exposed. Dr Olivía Lomond, a decora- The future admirals bold for

tive

whom Lod- but chilly she-scholar England's sake, on

wick berds his sardonic gaze who can spare enough time include a smoothly vicious boy from the study of medieval named Shingle, and Don Carlos, a affable heir-apparent to a con- manuscripts to flirt with

tinental throne humbler seeker after an-

(momentarily overturned by revolution). This cient wisdom.

prince, who has chosen to be reader educated at Dartmouth as the those only way of escaping the Jesuits,

high reputation as a palmist.

Then there is Carnell who steals postal orders from his comrades, thus giving Roffey (central figure in the story) an opportunity to realise his (only) ambition, that is, get himself expelled by arranging to be caught with the stolen money in his Hands.

Roffey is an example of weakness of Lodwick's his readiness to sacrifice verisimili- tude to wit. Roffey is too adult, clever, determined, desperate, "tough." Lodwick, his creator, would be a still finer.novelist were he legs of a "how-o057. Phit let be said at once, he has plenty of talent to showi

wall he feels the first lifting well out of the ordeal of the heart.

Lodwick brings to fiction a mind singularly free from blas

In Florence, before he can in favour of mankind. Nor is he

of your

mealy-mouthed writers determined elther to ignore the worst or hint at 11.

is

There's one other point that it will pay

you to remember when you start using colour. Avoid heavy shadows on your make subjects Shadows often for striking efforts in black- and-white

but-as shots. gentral rule-with colour full, Olivia impresses the frontal lighting preferred. unfavourably as one of For shots of people, particularly, Finer Things that can easily be earns among his companions a have the sunlight streaming

from a cultural pil omitted

and

few over your left or right shoulder grimage,

there are when you click the shutter.

regrets when she deserts Hayden for a more photogenic pilgrim But try for yourself. You'll from Hollywood. Hayden con find in colour new pleasure in soles himself with Roxanna,

woman journalist from taking. picture

Your rowdy will photographic dealer

tell back home in Newlife.

These emotional crier-cross- you what type of colour film is

suited best

for use in your ings are of little consequence in a novel whose main concern is Camera.

to record the response to Italy

garnest American

your

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SUMMER'S ABOUT WASHED

IP WHEN THAT OFFICE BONCA STARIS VACATION POST-MORTEMS....... ON YOUR DESK..

"GREEN OUGHT TO LOOK WELL!"

A SURESIGN OF SUMMER'S END

IS FREQBENT REFERENCES TO PAINTERS, WALL PAPER AND A DISPLAY OF UPHOLSTERY SAMPLES.

* WELL!WHAT DO

YA KNOW! NO

MORE BUGS!"

WHEN THE BATTLE OF THE BUGS IS OVER, SUMMER IS SHOT.....6. AND OPERATION COAL EKOVEL BIGUS.

"DID YOU SEE THAT WONDERFUL SALE OF FUR COATS ... AND, EVENING GOWNS...P I'VE BEEN WONDERING.. I NEED..

ETO

WHEN THE DISTAFF SIDE GETS HOME FROM THE SHORE AND STARTS THE CAMPAIGN FOR VINTER, CLOTHES ........ SUAMER'S DONE FOR....... AND SO ARE YOU.

LETS SLE/THE

· PIANO MIGHT FIT OVER THERE:

COPA. 1957 BY GENERAL FEATURES *CORP. TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

SUMMER IS DONE FOR WHEN THE WAPE BEGINE TO POAM THE ROICE WITH A TADE-MEASURE AND TURNITURE MOVING GLIM WHID EYTE

"I S'POSE WE'LL

HAVE TO START PACKIN' TOMORRO

YOU CAN TELL BY THEIR EXPRESSIONS THAT SUMMER'S GOOSE IS COOKED AND THEY'LL SOON BE BACK IN THE BIG NOISY, DIRTY CITY.

SUMMER IS POSITIVELY ON ITS LAST LEGS WIEN

THE DOORS COME SUDDENLY UNSTUCK WHEN ITS SOUT TIME TO KEEP THE CLOSED.

TOO BAD! THE GRAFTENS CAN'T

AND THE SPONGES.

COME TOR

NEXT WEEK CAN'T MAKE

END!."

IT EITHER.

•TOUGH LUCK?

YOU CAN BE SURE SUMMERTS. OVER WHEN YOU WHO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY BEGIN TO GET GARCELE ATIONS FROM HABITUAL WEEK: ENDERS,

MEETING STONE.

AT THE MILE-

By

Sigurd Hoel. Secker SURRO Warburg. 139. 6d. 284 pages.

MOUNTLESS novels, reckle

COUN

to exploit our emotions behalf of the resistance nove ments, have enda by buri us. Here is one rushed by the wings of greatness.

The narrator is sent by the secret leaders of the Home Front

to investigate a leakage of information in # small Nor- wegian town. In an atmosphere poisoned with Iepr und suspicion, he makes starting discoveries. Heidenreich, a local Nazi sympathiser, is an oli ae- quaintance of his from the university; Heidenreich's

wife

is the girl he had loved and lost while a student; and Heiden- reich's "son" fanatical leader of the Nazi party in the town is in fact his son, whose existence he has never suspected.

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To a grim melodrama Hoel brings uneasy insight motives; fronie writingi; humour; above all, a personallyrl- cism. Best novel this week; an, butstanding novel any week.

THE WEST PIER. By Patrick Hamilton. Constable. 12s. Bd. 308 pages.

H

TAMILTON has his own ideas about how to tell a story and his own idear of what story to tell His method rather -day and mold-fashioned. He stands a little apart, prim lut unshockable, whispering in the reader calm little asides as the horrid story and it is

korrid story--unfolds; "Much as wo may dislike the character of Clone, It must be conceded that-- he did things thoroughly."

What Gorse did was to swin-

die

life

a

a poor young girl out of her cavings. But Gorse, it is plain, will not remain on this lowly rung of the Indder; He ban a futurel One day his photo- graph will appear in sil the newspapers as the Man with the Hyphotics noverbly Withë,

quality: Allerda.

coats

hypnotic und bake the

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