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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD: Across-L Fermit, 7 Edit, a Cream, 10 Revuz, 11 Ends, 13 Autocratic, 15 Lean, 16 Twit, 19 Disappears, 22 Calm, 24 Reign, 25 Usual, 20 Miss, 27 Dapper. Down-2 Event, 3 Mimic, 4 Turban, 5 Reveille, 6 Lled, 8 Dunce, 12 Songs, 13 Antle, 14 Optimist, 17 Idies, 18 Banned, 20 Plump, 21 Acute, 23 Arld,
YOU TRIED
TO OPEN YOUR FRONT DOOR BUT THÊ KÊY DIDN'T SEEM TO FIT AT LAST YOU GOT IN AND
TRIED TO OPEN THE "DOOR OF YOUR ROOM.
AGAIN, YOU HAD DIFACULTY, AND GETTING AGITATED YOU. BROKS THE KEY
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INDOORS BY ROOM LIGHT
ONE of the casier ways of mak
In informal pictures of prople indoors is by using your everyday room lampe and a brief timo exposure,
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By George Malcolm Thomson
Using this type of lighting and LOOK DOWN IN MERCY. fast film, you'll want to
By Walter Baxter Heina- about two seconds exposure with mann, 101; 6d; 288 pages. – most box-type cameras. WithTTERE is a novel which, had adjustable cameras and fast film,]■
any publisher been boid exposure will depend on the lens
over, a possibi dulls, how will move.
LETTERS FROM AMERICA.
By Alistair, Cooke. · Rupart. Hart-Davis, 12s. 6d. 261 Pagos, g
Brightest of these scripts
Since reading lamps or lamps aperture. At 1/11 an exposure enough to issue it at the time rescued from 12 years of broad- of similar type are far less bright of one second is needed at f/8 of the Wilde case, would have casting to Britain is Cooke's Interview with a tattools: "In than floodlights or flushlamps, one-half see:nd; and at f/3.5 caused a national uproar. The the first war, sailors used to ask exposures of as long as two one-tenth of a second. Naturally story is simple and malodorous, for hearts and their girls' names. seconds may be required for you'll want to use the largest
Now they seem to. want their shots made this way. As a result, lens opening possible since the the method is rarely practical shorter the time of exposure the when you are picturing young, less likely it is that your subject sters or reta. With
It's
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excellent pictures in this murner.
Generally, two or three lamps hould be used so the wattage of the bulbs totals 200 watts. These should be placed quite close to your subject-two or three feat. away. It's wise, too, to place them so that the light falls on both afdca of your subject's face lest one side be in dark shadow.
Kent, a young officer fighting mothers, just the word Mother." the Japanese in the Burmese Why do people get tattooed? jungle, finds time to farm a love- Just to show they are" tough, Jess laison with a Eurasian Sure It hurts. That's the What about the However, when working at nurse, to betray military secrets psychology. large apertures for close-ups, be to the enemy under threat of economics? Five dollars a square
to conduct death,
an amour inch for the forearm; ton on the sure you focus with extremo care. You have little "depth of with his batman, and to commit upper arm, wouldn't touch a
murder, At last, in reasoned cheat for 50 bucks." feld" in such cases, so measure
THE SPEND THRIFTS. camera-to-subject distance. Be scif-disgust, Kent kills himself,
Perez Galdas, Weldenfeld and careful, too, that your lighting in
Incidental to this main, un- Nicolson 12s. Bd. 2005 pages. arranged so that no lamp shines lovely stream of narrative are Classical Spanish novel Scene:
horrible the a activities of a directly into the camera.
royal palace, Madrid, Period: private named Goodwin, who sletics of last century. Theme: murders (with sex implications) struggle in the minds of mon--- nativa woman. To his horror, even more, of women-between the illusion of wealth and grand-
1-2-3 in the ARE ALL ON
WITH last year's sales figures
now sorted out, the book sellers are saying: "You can al- ways find people who want to read a good sea story."
For the books about the sea are at the top of the list of best- sellers in the year just gone.
Even after a year's record sales, the list is still headed by Thor Heyerdahl's saga of 4,009 miles on a South Sea raft, THE KON TIKI EXPEDITION (Allen and Unwin, 12x. Gd.).
Next comes THE CRUEL SEA (Cassell, 12, 8d.). Nicolas-Mon- sarrat's novel of British seamen In the Atlantic war against. U boats and storms. "The only heroines are the ships”
THE
Third best-seller CAINE MUTINY (Cape, 15). Hernon Wouk's wartime 'story of an American crew, their in- competent skipper, and a mutiny. during a typhoon in the Pacific.
AS YOU STOOD AND WORRIED - FRIEND APPEARED,-TURNED THE HANDLE AND OPENED THE DOOR THE DOOR WASN'T
LOCKED" HE TOLD YOU
REPROACHFULLY
John pan Guilder
best-sellers
THE SEA
the
u
By
she proves to be a leper, Guess Ing the state of affairs between eur and the reality of poverty. Kent and the batman, Goodwin THE SULTAN'S RENEGADE. attempts blackmail, That is the By Mika Waltari. Putnam. · 15s. moment when Kent commits 488 pages. Historical narrative his murder.
of a Finn who, in the 16th cen- tury, becomes the confidential Matching the theme is the agent of the Grand Vizler in extreme frankness and power Istanbul,
ar unusual
Josting for a place behind- the three best-sellers are:-
CHILDREN OF THE ARCH- with which Walter Baxter Tillotson, By Philp Trower. BISHOP (Collins, 158.), the tale dwells on the horrors and Collins, 10s, Gd. 316 pages. First by Norman Colling of. two humiliations of war, torture, novel of outstanding quality,
With Wit, insight and orphans, Ginger and Sweetle, vice, drunkenness, etc. who fell in love and ran away Look Down In Mercy, fiction story to tell. It belongs to the from the orphanage.
takes another step beyond the "South Wind" school, but has THE DAM BUSTERS (Evans, Iron Curtain of the not-to-be- its own individuality of up- 15.). Paul Brickhill's story of told. Bomber Command'a 617 Squad- ron.
Somerset Maugham's COM- PLETE SHORT STORIES Vol. 1 (fteinemann, 123. d.) bas slipped off the best-seller list because it was selling too fast.
After 30,000 copies, supplica. ran out but another 100,000 copies are in demand. So the 77- year-old novelist should be chal- lenging the sea for a best-selling place in the top three during 1952.
proach.
COMPTON MACKENZIE
has
a word for that tax
London.
COMPTON Mackenzie has been speaking to me about purchase tax.
He talks with rome feeling. For the authorities have clapped a tax on The Compton Mac
TN the book trade they cán It
the Novel That Did Not Die. It is Nell Paterson's Behold! Thy Daughter. Published in July 1950, it was picked as an Evening Standard Book of the Month. In three months 51,400 coples were sold. The publishers The book contains quotations printed 13,700 more. Now a fur- from the author's writings for ther 10,000 copies have come each day of the year. It sells at from the presses. "And," say the 12s. 6d. The tax amounts to 15. publishers, "we have only 3,000 244d
by JAMES BARTLETT kenzie Birthday Bock.
-THIS DREAM MEANS: You have difficulty in entering your room. your key doesn't anem. to it and eventualis breaks The bedraden ayenbolizes your int male personal life; the key gives entrance to it and is the solution to your personal prob lema Key ʻiaʼalso (a' pasculine symbol, and presumably reprpments the man who was ta: be that solution but who falls you' (the key breaks).
Your man friend-whom you have appar- seriously the
ently not taken piecococtis to show
seems to reproach
you how enally he can help you? · Isdeed, There is no próblem at all, so be intimustes. All of which suggests you are about to fali for him.
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
With Gestures
Why, when books are sup posed to be free of purchase does this book have to carry dao? Well, It has blank pages to alloy readers to make notes about other people's birthdays and the publishers have been told that it is therefore classed not book but as stationery.
publication 10 years ngo, Paul Galler's 8,000- worder, The Snow Goose, har found half ก million cu tomers,
The Now, with
about Small Miracle- all email. Italian boy and his pet with coly. 7,000 words this time. donker he is trying again. But Mr Mackenzie has a name for Already there are signs of sic this. He calls it “Nitwitted."" cess Aim has been made of And he makes a further obser- the book. The title has altered vation. "Our bureaucracy," says a bit on the process; to 'Never he, "is strangling the muses, onto Take No For An Answer. by one."
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