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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 6, 1952.
SNAPSHOT
GUILD
ENTERTAIN, don't, bore your
friends when you show.them the holiday pictures you made this summer, particularly, your exciting colour transparenélos.
Don't make them
.
In Bit
time
the
dork for a lung while you fuss and fumble with the projector and screen or look for your slides.
A minimum of planning avolds this. Experiment on the family. or set up the projector for n trial run when you are alone. Then you will know exactly where to place both screen
and projector.
The nex
next thing, and, as far as I am concerned, the most im- portant, Is that you organise your slides by subject matter and put them in a logical. sequence. This depends on the nature of your pictures and how you want to show them. Then be sure to Ale them so that you
find the
sildes you want when you want them.
can
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camera
Photographic departments and
shops have
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Glistened (8).
variety of metal file boxes of
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Reply (0),
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the proper size,
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Fell back (7).
As I indicated entiler, one of
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Position (4).
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Shackles (1).
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withdrew from (7),
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my pet peeves is having to alt in the dark while One of my friends exclaims, "I do want to show you the pictures we made 21 of the old flower woman Mexico City," and then fumbles 27 through numerous little boxes of 28 slides, Anally selects one,
and 20 murmuring something about the vividness of the reds and greens, proudly slips into the projector a very ordinary shot of the famliy at the beach two sum-
mers ago,
Perhaps I have been guilty of a little exaggeration, but do be a good showman.
-John van Guilder
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
A dream Is
in a sense an attempt of the deepest sub-conscious part of your mind fo tell
BU
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tho
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tive oldest
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Lucid (B).
Have confidence in. (8). Awkward question (5).
4 Sharp-tasting (4).
& Dog (6),
GCirculates (G),
9 Like above others (6).
11 Fresher (5).
12 Make broader (5).
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14 Inter (0),
16 Express
(6).
10 Essays (5).
18 Wins points in a game (0).
10 Pace of a horse (0),
22 Piece torn alt (5).
23 Goes ahead (5).
Prepared (5).
25 Tolc (4),
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Pathos, 3 Study, B Dobar, Eleven, 10 Valet, 10 Salad. 12 Type. 13 Gears, 10 Modest, 18 Snares, 20 Eases, 22 Liar, 23 Apple, 25 Vista, 20 Itobust, 27 Egged, 28 Metre, 20 Deters. Down: 1 Prestige, 2 Trespass, Odes, 4 Senator, 5 Savages, 6 Trades, 7 Drear, 14 Attitude, 18 Secretes, 18 Massage, Desired, 19 Nenter, 21 Ailke, 24 Code.
YOU WERE FALLING THROUGH A VERY NARROW SLIT IN
THE EARTH
mind it uses the language of symbols and images: as does in
1350 the deed poetry and art. The dreamer and the poet same language except that the poet is able to put it into words, In this dream you are falling into the underworld and are 'there surrounded by prehistorie animals.' The underworld is your subconscious mind: the prehistoric animals are the age- ald primitive instincts which dwell there. They surround you
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"NO, NO! THIS
IS ON ALLE... REALLY, I
INSIST!^
WHEN THEY FINALLY INSIST ON PICKING UP THE CHECK AND REALLY PAY UP.
WE'VE DECIDED.
YOU HAVE EARNED
À RAISE SO
WERE PUTTING.
YOU DOWN FOR.
·A TWO DOLLAR
INCREASE/
BATWO-DOLLÁR RUSE: NOT ·
› VERY LOUD MUSIC.......... BUT IT'S "MUSIC JUST THE SAMELTO
TRE DALY MUSIC SOME FOLKS EVER.. HEAR, IS THE SONG
OP THE CASH REG-
(STER RINGING OP RECEIPTS.
LIGHT ON A DARK HORSE. Dy Roy Campbell, Hollis and Cartor, 18%. 348 pagos.
AMONG other qualities (he is one of the
beat of living satirists), Royston Dun- nachie Campbell has the intellectual's innocent Jonging to be admired for physique,, courage etc.
"I know how to fight Negroes, not having acquired the European complex of inferiority."
"In the London art world, Jacob Kramer, Chile Guevara and myself were the three best fighters by a long way."
Also the special passion of British intellectuals for being loved by foreigners:
"I was the only Sacanag, or foreigner, that was ever persona gjata with the (Welsh) istand~. cra." Toledo "accepted us Toledanoa as she had, accepted no other foreigners,”
In the intervals of doubling his flats and admiring his biceps, Campbell claims other accom- plishments,
ROY
CAMPBELL. biceps in Bohemia. "SWAHILI, TOo expected from one "of bia raca I was not the way to
(Scola) and name (“which has ˇpopularity,- sapecially as Comp- He can address a barrack- inore VCs than any other"). His bell was always prepared to square as a' sergeant-major in father WAR an overworked back poetry with pugilism,' Nor English, Swahili or Chinyanja; doctor, who, when he felt 'death were ht Interests purely confer, in flowery Zulu or coming, went to his favourlio iterary. In a matter of days, Sintabele; lecture in French or trout stream, instructing his na-, he got engaged and married to a Castilian; instruct the Portu- tive boy every time he swoon- pretty girl named Mary Gar guèse (via BBC) in street fights ed to pick him up and put the inan, whom "to'shake up her ing: even more impressive, "I rod back in his hand. From illusions" he hung hend, down- know how to eat my way for him. Campbell takes the love of words from the window. of a
time wild animals that about three weeks at a through France
any other has inspired some of his finest country without begging. or
verse: as these harming poultry."
on horses
or
"With white tails smolting free,
MALCOLME THOMSON
fourth floor rodm In Book Street.
"This," he says, "worked won- ders,"
we
When tho As a boy in Durban, Natal,
police protested. where he was born (1902) his'
Campbell explained, "We're only favourite sport, described in this Long streaming manes, and practising our act, aren't
ddy" rollicking, uneven sometimes arching necks, they chow." careless autobiography, was to Their kinship to their sisters His wife not only agreed, but kill octopuses by turning them of the sea-
bansted of this rough introduc- tion to literature to her girl inside out..
friends, who were furlous, as
WHEN YOU LANDED YOU
FOUND YOURSELF SURROUNDED BY
PREHISTORIC ANIMALS
He is stronger in self-approval than in modesty, as was to be
And forward hurl their thunderbolts of snow."
To London after the 1014-13 their young men always gave. In war, Campbell brought his fists to them and they get no excite- and hle talents. He divided his ment or polarity"," time hetween Bohemian haunts
All for excitement and like the Cafe Royal and the "polarity? Compbell left Britain fo'c'ster of
vessels and Bloomsbuty, to earn. his where he signed on as a seaman. living
merchant
nsa sherman in the He was known in Bohemia as Mediterranean, to wrestle with "Zulu," and had his portrait bulls in France (where the painted by John-"like an angel" "Campbell throw" is still used) by El Greco," as one critic and fight them-In Späin, alleged.
The El Greco angel also re- vealed a gift for pungent and
IN SPAIN
memorable criticism of his fel-
In Spain he also fought for low-writers. This for instance. Franco-ageinst the Republicans, į "You praise the firm restraint having by that time, adopted with which they write
Christianity (and the name a highly in- I'm with you there, of course: "Ignatius") In
dividual version (appropriate to They use the suffle and the his ancestry). Tinctured: With a
and you cannot escape them. You are now facing some pro- foundly emotional problem: it may be love or the demands of love. The dream does not reveal the problem, but whatever curb all right. It is and whatever its solation, you will not be allowed neglect your instinctive emotions.
Sorry one cannot be more specifio-but then the isn't elther.
It's Music To Their Ears
DARLING, I'VE JUST DISCOVERED A WAY TO
FIX OVER SEVERAL DRESSES ARD HATS TO LOOK LIKE "REW...SO | WONT NEED TO :
BUY A STITCH
THIS SPRING
THIS IS THE SORT OF MUSIC A MAN DOESN'T HEAR ANY TOO OFTEN... AND WHEN HE DOES (IF EVER) IT'S A SWEET AS
EIGHT DOLLARS WORTH OF MOLASSES.
COL. 1981 BY GONAL MATURES COR,
THE WORLD JUSETTS KASENYEN,
́ ́ IT KURTS DOWN)
HERE ALL THE
TIRE
YOUR GROANS SEEM. QUITE MUSICAL TO THE SURGEON'S.
EIRS.
to
dream But where's the
horse?"
BU KEMP STARREND
MUSIC YOU DON'T HEAR. VERY OFTEN..
I FOUND
& MAN TO FIX THAT ROOF LEAK!
ATMEIE
THE LAST
ONE
IT JUST NEEDED SHA LITTLE SIST
CAR BRETOR VLJUSTMENT... AN A COUPLE O NEW GASKETS. COST YOU
·TROS
·BUCKS?
THE REWS THAT THERE REALLY 15-
A CARPENTER WHO WILL COME
AND DO A SHALL JOB FOR. YOU'S MUSIC TO
ANY EARS.
CHYPODERMICS THAT. UZEEL LIKESA HONK
OF REEDLE-POINT SABROIDERY
Nietzschean worship of strength and vitality it was, so to speak, bloody Christianity with a touch of the
sun.
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'Admiring the extent of men- dicancy in Spain, his political thought had also evolvea: ""The only possible idea of government is charity and generosity on the part of the strong and rich,"
*For his Spanish war activities be received the rebuko Fol Augustus John: "A meniber of: (he Axis, I believe," and the disfavour of everybody. In Eri-“ tain to the test of Eden and ine tight of Auden.
When it comes to exchanges. of abuse, Campbell is no fanatical exponent of the Ber mon on the Mount. Franco's non-combatant antagonists in Britain were dismissed "choir-borne parasite troopers of of the Knife and Fork Brigide," who banqueted so regally for democracy La Spain."
In a better cause, Campbeli served throughout the war, bes came a sergeant, was wounded and discharged. It was shrewder retort to his estranged intellectual chums than the most-vitriolle of his poems. But it did not silence the crifice
POETRY PLUS
Indeed, after attracts on his postwar book, “Talking Branco,” Campbell atiended - a poetry reading in the Ethical Church. Bayswater (1048),"After the Inceling" he is reported as may- went up to (Stephen). Spender and socked him."
"At first," the newspaper adda, "It was thought there might be serious
* consequences to. this affair
It would be wrong to write Campbell, down as" a' cafe bravo and philosopher, 11-tempered and prejudiced (characteristic phrase: "Yiddish and Calvinistic podanto ke Froud, Havelock Ellis"), he has written the most vigorous catirical verse since Byron-and wasted much of it on unworthy targets. He has written, vividly and feelingly about: wild
animais, peo
Now he trails his cool anew in the Vivid and readable self- apologia of a man of talent and
panache. At the risk of being
calleji" "p_ “wowscrn (yang bermi In the Campbell vocabulary), I should say he le moro, interesting than his opinions,
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