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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1952.
BARON, the photographer of celebrities,
answers here the eternal complaint:
Why do I look so awful in spans SO
TOW many limo; have you
THAT ENORMOUS NOSE:
Faid: "No, surg can't see The photograph Was taken, that photo-I look perfectly frightful in ? It's a sentence from above, by someone tailor
that crops up for most people than the
with every batch of
upto &
they
ting hack, from
their holiday.
The Home Pago invited photo- grupher
បង
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Guest for Tea, ent ke him to expla a some of the obviour
Dre
Casons for those | femillar walls;—
-"But 174 Nose looka enormous": "Pve got much rings under
eyes";
There's nothing but legs in the pic- "I look like midget": and
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"My face looks os though it had just bren polished with furniture crearn."
Says Baron: "Photography is Uke BARON digging for gold-the
poke
you have to
work
SAYS: Keep
natural.....
A British Crossword Puzzle
B
BECK'S
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silter. You should
take a big nose or
want to
a long face from below as they will then look smaller. Vice vers If you
make
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20
21
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cinall
all nose
face
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longer.
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SADIL
THOSE EYE RINGS and THAT POLISHED FACE: The pleture WOR taken at midday Instead of early in the morning or in the evening. If the Sun
directly casta
overhead it shadows on witter's face.
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1 Place of pilgrimage (8).
by GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON
Artist's Life Of Yesteryear
VICTORIAN OLYMPUS. By William Gaunt. Cape.
199 pages.
151.
UTSIDE Hollywood, art has never paid as it did in Victorian England.. Outside Hollywood, its grandees have never enjoyed such sociul esteem or lived in such state as did the RAs who congregated in Melbury Road, Kensington, in the mid-sixties of last century, round the central, the grandest figure of all, Frederick Lord Leighton.
His was, appropriately, the most fabulous of all the palaces owned by those wealthy artisță.
an
It had Arabian Court, with a fountain carved from block of black marble. It ecluitars
vne
And divans tiles of
3 Selective Instinct for what is in one of the
the And
ACROSS
3 Whimsical (0).
DOWN
had
7 Surpass (5), .
& Stopped (8).
2 Trophy (5),
bbu
15 Frenchman's name (4).
4 Ship's company (4).
5 Mechanic (0).
glaring sur makes skin. look terribly shiny.
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10 Dog (6).
13 Revile (7).
17 Nurrowed (?).
THOSE DOMI- NANT LEG 8: If you
Laite 1 Withdraws (7). photograph of
(4). 20 Spoken someone with their 21 Out of netien (7). legs crossed directly 28 Complete (0). facing the camera, or with in hand sticking forward you will28 Choose (5). 27 Unsafe (8).
gel & result which seems to be 29 Registering apparatus (8).
enormous knoeg and
to get good results. That's why it is never a good Idea to inke portrait of some-
You pase them very carefully but in hely a natural altitude.
one unawarez,
want to
"The most common mistake la to make people laugh too much -you get a picture which nothing but gums, teeth and
wrinkles."
Analysis
la
Taking the walls one by onc Baron analyses them like this:
THIS DREAM
MEANS:
The choc cr boot
**
of
symbol femininity: In
dream
you stem
be running in alarm from your feminine nature,
This is
common
enough temp- talion in the are e rist
one, vort hand..
The waist
THAT MIDGET LOOK: The picture was taken by someone taller than the subject. camera should be at level and should be held ver- tically rather than horizontally -the position used for land- scapes.
YOU WERE RUNNING
WILDLY DOWN A STREET
Bains Vinablus
the
woman or the woman who is compelled to compete with men rather than co-operate with them: And who thinks that best way to suppress her femininity and adopt masculine
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
#GEORGE/
IT'S TIME FOR THE GARDEN PESTS: CUT WORMS, BEETLES, POTATO BUGS, AND THE NEIGHBORS VIO SHEER AT YOUR METHODS AND BRAG ABOUT THEIRS
THOSE BIG TOUGH WEEDS |HAVE A WAY ORGIVING UP.
"THE TUSCLE WABA YOU | LEAST EXPECT IT.
الليل
["YOU'RE PLANTING THOSE"
BULBS TOO DEEP: BESIDES, THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN
IN A MONTH AGO {"
|*YOU MUST
PIACH OFF
THE BUDS
IP YOU WANT NICE BIG BLOOMS
good (5),
6 Resided (0),
9 Reposed (8).
11 Willow (5).
12 Flat (3).
14 Not so difficult (6).
15 Disprove (3).
13 No: so old (8).
18 Wandering (6).
10 Brings about (6).
22 Show contempt (5).
23 Temptress (5).
24 Decease (5).
25 Continuous pain (4). YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across:, 1 Murder, 6 Gloss, 8 Metre, Limpid 10 Eager, 11 Tuned...12 Game, 13 Testa, 16 Desert. 13 Erased, 20 Dares, 22 Smug. 23 Atlas, 25 Freda, 26 Down: 1 Maligned, 2 Towers, 27 Error, 28 Beard, 20 Recess. Remember, a Emit, 4 Reduces, 5 Greeted, 6 Leader. 7 Slept, 14 Stampede, 16 Suggests, 16 stard, 17 Senator, 10 Reader, 21 Agree, 24 Sore.
CHASED BY A PAIR OF BOOTS, BUT THERE WAS
NOBODY IN THEM
habits and attitudes such as smoking, drinking. wise-cracking, etc.
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aggressive
Really clever and wise, women know better. Why not you?
More Garden Pests
*YOU SAID
--YOU WEREN GOING TO SPRAY THE
ROSES CO 1 THOUGHT
* THAT'S
KEROSENE
"OH, MY
GOSH!
THE HELPFUL LITTLE GUEST FROM THE CITY WHO IS DETERMINED TO BE USEFUL IF IT KILLS HER... OR YOU OR YOUR FLOWERS.
THE MAN WHO HAS BEEN GARD-
··ENING FOR THIRTY YEARS GETS SOME VALUABLE ADVICE TROA, A NOVICE.
peacock blue.
studios a, ro plien uf the Parthenon
ran
frieze round south end.
tho
Every room was filled with
expensive
pleees of paint-
ing er sculpture..
LIBRARY LIST THE BROTHERHOOD FEAR
Harbh Hemilian, 12x. 46., D10 pages, in an anonymous totalitarian state populated by people named Konni Proiz. Kurg and the like, a mami De pf the secret police is ship wrocked on a small bland with the man he was sent out to gap- ture. Let nobody be out off by the odd-looking names
A SO LONG TO LEARN. -Ay john Masatield. Heinemanni. 185 242 1
In thes musings, the Poet Laureale allows nis mind to wander over the art of story-telling the pain. P expended on learning and, the man and women who Influenced him during thst aparenticeship Reminiscences full of charm.
nor man can
siderably exer cised by" (a
είναι τ practi-
tioner's) iude Venus. There might be artis- ite reasons to
justify such public ex- Posures
Thomas Car- could
lyle
think of none. Those Grecks- their
with
Khort
upper
lips and inade- quate chins showed a lack Intellect. God
"Nelther
get on with-
Leighton could afford it. He rut a jaw," declared the sage. bad private means; he was im- "I would away with them-info
mensely successful. And -pro- space!"
had по
"Never vident.
drank
Leighton himself maked (except on social occas dions),"
his sister sald doubt whatever of the rightness proudly, "and never in debt. of what he was, dolog, As, his it was an understalement. When sister put it, "He could not to tho exceptiocial Leighton sold his "Dante" for a be blind thousand gulmens be bought merits of his work." He had £1,000 of Eastern Counties Railway 414 p.e. debentures at Indeed some
par.
'Public exposure* -
Soon he was in a position to
Rs an talk to dealers
artist
should: "Gentlemen, you
Was A
reason for.. his
He nclf-confidence. very gifted man.
"I don't know what he 19 like as a paintor," said a girl, best
excuse me, I feel sure, I have "but I know he is the placed their ⚫ titles and prices waltzer in Rame." That was in upon the canvases I am willing Leighton's early days, Later, to sell. When you have made many a weman's heart beat your
selection, perhaps you faster when pressed to the pur- will kindly ring the bell and
my servant will acqualat me ple velvet evening coat of thy with your decision. I wish you hundsome courteous P.R.A... IL a very good morning.".
beat in vain, however. Leighton
There was a boom at that was as respectable as a bishop time in classical subjects, nude and a great deal more cellpate. but chaste, Greek but sent!-
mental, and Leighton stop tight sort of goods to his window: "Venus disrobing for the Bath," "Ariadne abandon- ed by Theseus," etc., etc.
No females
His co-iness towards the True not everybody was sure other tex was not, however, so that ho ought to like such ple pronounced as that of his pro- tures. The Bishop of Carlisle lege, Walter Ciane, who would sald, "My mind has been con- allew no female model, in, his
BU KEMP STARRETT
"OIL, WE HAVE
LOTS OF THOSE,
ONLY OURS ARE-
AS BIG AS YOUR.
HEAD... AND
MUCH PRETTIER
COLORS
THE ONES WHO TRY TO MAKE YOU FEEL THAT VOIR GARDEN! LOOKS A LITTLE LIKE THE TOWN DUMP, cor SY OTHEAL MEATURES
COFF, IMWORLD NIGHTS RESERVED.
*AH,YES/THAT'S
A TLORIA SUB- CORDATA GRANDIFLORIA. IT DOES VERY WELL IN A WARNER CLIMATE
TIRE ONES VICÍ KJOV, ALL-THE SCIBATING HAMES AAD REVER. LET ADU TORGET 12:
THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE' WIO
WANTS TO DIG. UP THE SEEDS
TO SEE IF THEY'VE SPROUTED YET.
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house. When Crang cama, to draw thè centrai figure in his Renascocice บริ Venus he adapted her from un Italian named Alessandro de Março.. The adaptation did sot satisfy everybody's taste.
EKVA
Leighton spoke three German. and three Italian dialects and Icamed Spanish' in" cix" months." He was a fluent crator.; "Don' you think, rather 'supáry," said John Bright. He was immense- ty industrious, painting a regu- lar seven-hour day. Finally, he was a man of action,
When a war scare, dame an 1809, Leighton was one of the moor enthusiastle of volunteers; up at 5 a.m. to drill with the tiuards at Welington Barracks. It's all right when Leighton is un parade," said an admirer.
Hearing of the paragons, ac- complishments, Whistler sald un his scoffing "Yankee
way "Paints a little, too. *bellevo. And Henry James, that, other American crite, put a catirical portrait of the
artist into a
novel: "He was almost as much a man of the world as the head walter and spoke almost as many longungos.”
His last words
He was with such graces be could hardly avold being- President of the Royal Acade- my.
He took his duties seriously. When Sir Robert Peel bed at RAs an "people of no very good tasto," Leighton consulted Lord. Redesdale. Should he call, the defamer out and vindicato the Acddemy will a duelling pls- tol?
Not long after becoming a peer, Leighton died - (1890)~- The funeral was watched by reverent thousands. The tomb in St. Paul's shows him bronze, in peer's robes,
Leighton's last words, "Giva my Jova
ve also gave it the Royal Academy.
£10,000
Gaunt,
in hie entertaining
sketch of this Victorian'. mag... nate, asks why Leighton's fame has declined. / Be -con- cludes that his paintings,, al-' though very refined very
beautifully "dobe *
eure devold
of the mysterious quality, quie. Leighton had overy gue or artist needs, except, the artistis | temperament, As PRA, ho was
better without it
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