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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 1952,

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ACROSS

1 Hold up (4)

4 Take the chair (7)

Skin (4)

8 Part (4)

10 Warded off (7)

1 Mulet (4)

12. Lake (4)

14 Quiver (7)

DOWN

2 Laboured (8)

3 Like better (6)

4-Machinery. (5)

5 Venerale (8)

6 Play noisily (5)

7 Reside (5)

12 Volume (4)

13 Defeat (4).

17 Regurd with great affechon 15 Spar (4)

(3)

10 Graven images (5)

22 Pays up (7)

20 Neglect to do (4)

27 Cue (4)

28 Hesitated (7)--

28 Strip of material (4)

30 Close hermetically (4) 31 Allows (7)

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10 Polat of the compass (4)

20 Unsmoked tobacco (0)

18 Command (0)

21 Clear (6)

23 Take out (5)

24 Unit of heat (5)

25 Teams (3).

32 Small whirlpool (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Studio, 5 Image, B Drama, 9 Method, 10 Plain, 11 Level, 12 Lime, 13 Terse, 10 Depute, 18 Trades, 20 Green, 22 Tomo, 23 Agile, 25 Obese, 20 Evaded, 27 Orate, 28 Plans, 29 Snared. Down: 1 Sampling, 2 Ultimate, 3 Idol, 4 Ordered, 5 Impetus, & Mallet, 7 Gains, 14 Records, 15 Extended, 16 Dangers, 17 Pellets, 19 Reason, 21 Rebel, 21 Even,

. YOU ARE GOING

UP A NARROW WINDING

STAIRCASE

by the She is astounded THE SIGN OF JONAH.

By Nancy Hale. Heine results. Her mother dies at the first night, The Southern Mann. 165. 441 Pages, politician, demands a divorce. Trouble is that, at Hope's own 46TIVEN if it is a masterpiece family there is a little curly

of straight bam, it comes naired rather durk, And over"

says a character on page the Hope's. 305. "I predict for quite a Hope thinks bitterly of "that

passion people had for identify Ho le talking about Hope Ing themselves with the charac- Crocker's sooond play, the one ters of fiction" which over- that made the break between rahelms "ay bjective appre Hope and her second husband, clation of the play." Many a the ono that killed Hope's writer his mother, the one about the half- the same thing. caste baby....

SU-VOCIS,"

-

complained about

For example, hore Is Narcy But he might have been talk- Hale herself writing 'in Ing about Nancy Hale's novel, preface to this very novel,

which

is

together *with

skill and writ- ten with shell self-confidence

but is from

(Books

first to last Irre By GEORGE MALCOLM

trievably HAM.

Why? Because

zituptions

THOMSON:

are one step too near melodrama creation."

Decure

A TI

author of tale

ing real people, real places, real

events out at

life and putting

them Into a

book is to mis-

understand the

whole nature of

and one step too far away from Can anybody have been plek- life. Because its people are taken ing on Nancy?

MRS. GODOLPHIN.

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from stock and not drawn from JOHN EVELYN AND Jife. Hope, for example, beautiful,

brilliant ambitious, stupid and incredible. A marble statue depased by Schiaparelli, en ego with an indestructible proffic.

By W. G. Hiscock. Mac- Millan. 205. 202 Pages. WHAT a strange love affait

is revealed by Mr Hiscock's researches among the letters of John

Evelyn (famous diarist of Charles II's time) to Margaret Blagge.

When a

ane look, and goes back to her social and business career.

courtier named

Sunsets offer the camera fan an endless source of beautiful views.

A Word About Sunsets

For substantial reasons, Hope hurried marriage, makes 4 leaving her home in the South

Evelyn, long disliked for his for New York, where she virtues, pretended to be de

With black-and-white,film... launched on society by rich, lighted when Margaret married NOT all of the wonders of nas. gin-soaked girl' cousin.

ture are inaccessible dis- you'll need to rely a little more Sidney her baby arrives; Hope takes Godolphin,

tanees from our own front porch, on the contrast between cloud The truth is that, by a species Once a day there occurs in every and sky. With a sunset rich in In of religious blockmall, be scught photographer's life, the phenome orange, red, and yellow, regular no time at all she is a she-tycoon to keep the devout young non of the sunset. They aren't (ortho) film will be wonderful. of the glossy magazines and A woman (aged 20) in a state of always beautiful or spectacular. If the colours are cooler and mere delicate, a panchromatic united But then, every once in a while, spectacular lady dramatist. celibacy,prayerfully with a play based (in a strictly with God and subject to the will you witness such a dazzling perm with a medium-yellow-filter

her gin at Evelyn (aged 52). impersonal way) on

formance that you stare with un- would be more satisfactory. But if a gorgeous-western sky sud- poaked cousin,

Alas for Evelyn's pious "blan-belief.

denly appears, shoot it with Now looms up a Southern dishments Margaret cscaped him politician, s man of her own to marry her lover. Another The complete lack of uni- what you have. That dramatic.

in horsepower, all set to be Presi-experiment "sublimation" formity in this nightly attraction effect may disappear in an in-

United States. had failed. There was nothing to the West makes it difficult to stant. dent of those

to establish hard and fast technical Hope marries him and writes left for Evelyn, to do but

There are several ways to on- a second play even mere spec write a life of the lady sup-rules. Normally, with the sun tacular, about a Southern family praising the story of his efforts obscured by clouds, but still hance the beauty of a lovely, sky. In which a baby appears, hala- to restrlet her to a "spiritual above the horizon, you could Sunsets over water can be strik easte and not at all legitimate. tove,"

shoot at about 1/50 second at ing, especially with the added

this is about· 1/18. Since

boat in silhouette. punch of a average snapshot exposure, Anything from grazing animale be means that even you box-camera to soaring sky-scrapers can fans

can try your hand at sun- worked in to create a pleasing. sets. Later on, during, the after scene. The handy device of glow, o Lomewhat longer ex framing the pieture with the branches of a tree can be very posure will be necessary.

effective, too.

WHEN YOU REACH THE TOP THE CEILING MEETS

THE STAIRS AND YOU ARE TRAPPED

-THIS DREAM MEANS:

To climb stairs may symbolise a number of things: the suriving of ambition, of the desire for social success, of spiritual effort: \ bren emotional experience of increasing jatenally.

The staircase being marrow and winding adds to the dimculty of climbing and suggests aoma anxiety about whether you wis succeed. This is borne out by the fact that when you do get there, everything closes in out you

This is undoubtedly an anxiety dream in which you fra: a catastrophic ending to your strivings or deres. There may be some guilt with the anxiety as there often las feeling that, if things to wrong, you have deserved 1

ди

Colour fim, of course, is the Ideal medium to capture the gor You may have to try a few geous sunset, hues. If you miss sunsets-before you get just what the exposure a little, you'llisti y you want but the results can Underexposing ove to be very rewarding. "Ond get a pleture, alightly will just deepen the of these nights, when that unfer- a bit, while a slight gettable western sky rapidly avercxposure will make them fades away, you'll have more delicate. Try the early pleasure of knowing that this is parts of the sunset of about 1/60, one sunset you've captured for at f/5.6, in colour, increasing posterity.

exposure no tho

colours

the darkens.

scene

the

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HOW SERSE:

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|| TODAYZA

APRILT WHEN A MAN OF FIFTY FEELS

A SPRIGHTLY THIRTY, FOR A FEW HOURS, AND GOES OUT TO LOOK

THE GALS OVER.... CHELL BE HOME IN TIME FOR DINNER.)

I TOLD YOU IT.

WAS TOO EARLY TO TAKE OFF YOUR WOOLENS

IN APRIL WE ARE LOADED WITH HOPE: SPRING IS HERE (HELVÉNS AND EVERY- TUING IS ROSYANCLUDING OUR VOSE.

"LOOK AT

THAT FIT/A

COTE. IT BY GENERAL TEXTURIS CORE, TAWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

*WHICH ONES THE "ONE YOURED

WEARING...OR THE ONE YOU'RE ·

•TUROWING?"

IN THE SPRING A YOUNG MAN'S FANCY OFTEN TURNS TO THOUGHTS" OF A LITTLE PLACE THE COUNTRY" WHICH CAN BE RE-- MUDDLED FOR NEXT TO NOTHING. AND NEXT TO NOTHING IS WHAT HE'LL HAVE LEFT WHEN HE AND THE WIFE MOVE IN.

THE APRIL URGE FOR NEW CLOTUES: HE WAS SURE, FROM READING THE ADS, „THAT THE SHIT VÕILD. “MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE "A CARY GRANT.

KNOW! YOU'LL

BRING HOME

ENOUGH

TROUT FOR.

A WEEK!

HERKER/"

ÁPRIL IS A TIME OF OPTIMISM. NO MATTER HOW OFTEN WE COME HOME EMPTY-HANDED WE'LL GO AGAIN; HOPE- FUL AS A PRESIDENTIAL. ASPIRANT.

WHAT GOOD IS ALL THAT STUFF IF THEY WIN

THEY WH...

SO WHAT?

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