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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1952.

You WERE RUNNING, AWAY FROM

SOMETHING

Finables

THEN SUDDENLY · YOU COULD NOT RUN AS YOU WERE BEING SUCKED INTO A BOG

THIS DREAM MEANS:

·A Ispical, nightmare" - this, Le, an acute Rakiety dream in willch you are “scared para- lytio."

* High nares, are popularly blamed on indi gestio... Indigestion is, of course, Utely to waken you and, therefore, lead to your recall- ing the dream. But any discomfort -ýist as any thought or feeling-may influence dream, which is the result of many such in fluences, not merely one,

The bog (water and dirt) symbolises feeling. of guilt (dirt) in your unconscious mind (water) which paralyse your efforts and slowly engulf you (you are sucked in).

The normething you are running away from--- you won't admit even to yourself what 11 1 Is presumably associated with temptation and quilt.

MANNIX MEETS A British Crossword Puzzle

THE FREAKS

MEMOIRS OF A SWORD. SWALLOWER. Dan Mannix.

(Hamish Hamilton. 12s. 6d.)

Sif ordinary people were not peculiar enough, the

A public is apparently always willing to pay good

money to see a real live freak, or someone doing some- thing thoroughly horrifying and unnecessary, like fire- eating or sword-swallowing or regurgitating live rats. So the travelling side-shows flourish, and America, as one can easily believe, is their Mecca.

Thy book. which is very funny and interesting Lif you have the stomach for it). is by t

professioni Sword - swallower

NEW

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and re-enter who went into

by MARBARET LANE The business on leaving college. to satisfy

Fakir trained ፡፡ craving interest in

from boyhood In self-torture, or the crultism.

fat lady Fascinated

by mugivians, sincerely thankful for her 50st. laura and other exotic perform- because “'m a real good freak ers, he joined a travelling cur- and I know every night there's nival

of people in the course of years hundreds

willing to pay money to see me."

One would not expect such a book & to be well written or intel- ligently funny, but this one is both and made me laugh aloud

and

Lecame a fair-ground star.

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ACROSS

DOWN

1

Disorder (4).

2

Delighted (6).

4

Brings into the country (7). Cattle (4).

3 Meat-pin (8).

4

Foolish (5).

Brandish (4).

&

Interfere (@).

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Small fasteners (5).

12

13 Part (4).

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Like the crowd, he loves the marvellous and frealtish, and "el himself to learn all the

the side shows mysterious techniques. His book is rich in information while teaching me a great many

i useless of the musi

and fascinat- very Lemarkable facts which I ing kind.

useful. If you wish to become shali never, alas, And sword-swallower. he tells you

V 8. Prit. how; also how to spew fire from MA BELUNCLE.

From chett. Chatto and Windus, petrol soaked torch (taking

12s. 6d.) not to inhale the fumes your lungs, where they come muse is a variable 10 Progress (7).

salacious, 11 sometimes

how explude,

uproarious O deadly. When 12 swallow neon tubes which can

she attends or Mr Pritchett, the be seen shining through your

in him that chiefly chest, and other exacting ways emotion

interests her is his passionate of earning a living.

distaste There

So much 19 loathing in this new comedy of 22 his that it as often provokes 28 shudder as a smile.

cure

The

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creature--sedate,

IS

Giraffe-like animal (5).

M...itude (4).

15 Heap (4).

Formerly (4). Withdraw (6).

20 Agreement (6)

21 Fisherman (5).

Staff (4).

Lake (4).

14

Oval (7).

17

Bedeck (5).

Book of maps (5).

Protect (7).

status goldfish

a jew

Urara agu

Human Ostrich, whose technique Mannix cagerly studied, took his art seriously Mr Pritchell writes only of He was unwilling at first to give what he knows, and he knows

T make

29 TB lower-middle-class suburbia and anything away

feels libly from my art and notural-

for it the fascination of 30 I don't wan

hatred. His everyone 10

vision

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fantily start

one These Betuncle

of ταιν. things can become

hypo- a fad. Look quarrelling, hatred and all Those college crisy started swallowing

thick

Torn (4).

27

Quote (4).

28

Shunned (7).

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Clever (4).

Skilled (4).

25 Appendix (5).

Mud-clearer (7).

32 Tale (4),

The drab atmosphere is as as oxtal) soup, and if the

af the way al

A repellent subject. Jes. But dish does not contain quite the

warmth of then, as Munnix learned, every comforting

body in the side-show business Todgers's gravy,

there are

Remain poised (5).

24 Landowner (5).

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Indoor shota such as this can be made without artificial lights, using only the natural lighting coming through

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INDOORS WITHOUT LIGHTS

the

seams that many people a bright day. the light may be want to know about making in- too strong if the subject is close door snaps of children by day to the window and facing 1-so light-without using Bash or strong that there's no gradation

flood lamps. They also asked what special gadgets or equip ment one needs for snaps of this type.

of tone to model the subject's features. So li's a good idea to place the subject next to the window, study the lighting, and move the subject back from the window so that the light is effec- lively softened.

To answer the second question first, all that is needed in the way of equipment is a window-- preferably one through which Or it may pay to turn the sub- unobstructed light from the sky ject's head so that his face is enters the house and a while partially shadowed, remember. sheet or piece of cardboard to ing that the white sheet or re-

flector car serve as a reflector.

be used to lighten the shadow area.

For one of the best ways of picturing people indoors is to When exposure's concerned, place them at a window so that there are no hard and fast rules Ás 1 light from the sky falls upon for pictures of this type. them. The camera is then placed general rule an exposure of 1/1 at an angle so that a line from lo 1/10 of a recond at 1/6.3 is CUB- the lens to the subject makes an approximately right with

de tomary roll film. With the Bome angle of approximately 45 grees with the window. The film and a

a box-type sheet or other reflector is placed time exposure is needed; some- YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. Across: 1 Morzel, 5

six on the opposite side of the sub- where between two and

close to the Items. 8 Ditto, Muscat, 10 Elite, 11 Metre, 12 Rare, 13 Adore,ject from the window so that it seconds should be

camera a

16 Pastor, 18 Collle, 20 Litre, 22 Tall, 23 Gangs, 25 Midas, 26 reflects the light on the "shadow mark. In any case, the wise idea Livery, 27 Newel, 28 Anass, 23 Touted.

Down; Memorial, side." Mre

at

is a freak of some sort, whether least whole lumps of character

which

shockingly it is the snake-rharmer, "crazy in it

in love with her snakes," or the complete.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

are

2 Restric, 3 Edam, 4 Literal, 5 Iterate, G Toledo, 7 Motor, 14 Omament, 15 Employed, 16 Pleases, 17 Singlet, 19 Organs, 21 Idiom, 24 Silo.

Company

is to try two or three different

exposures. One is almost sure to

John van Guilder

In trying a shot of this type, be good.

idea to however, it is a good study the lighting carefully. On

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