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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1952.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

A British Crossword Puzzle

Here's a dandy shot by synchronlood flash, properly exposed

by using the guide numbers packed with each roll of film.

ONE

Exposure With Synchronised Flash

which for the number of the greatest Improve table ments in cameras in the appears under this shutter speed has been the with the type lamp you're using. past few years

by introduction of the synchronised Then divide this number

distance. "fast" shutter built-in flash," your lamp-to-subject

The answer tells the lens as it's called,

operture you should use for good exposure.

The need for some means of synchronising shutter and flash arises from the fact that light. from a flash bulb lasts only for second and that a fraction of the shutter must be open at the very instant the light from the

is lamp brightest.

20

21.

22

2.3

24

25

ACROSS

3 Picked (8).

7 Motionless (5),

8 Gourmets (8), 10 Rubber (0), 18 Connected (7). 16 Tender (4), 17 in the middle (7). 17 In 18 Lose (7). 20 Da

For example, suppose you're using an SM lamp one of the walnut-sized ones, You're shoot ing from 10 feet. Your shutter speed is 1/100. The guide num Hall-caste (6). ber for 1/100 with your flm and 27 Earnest request (8); in the on SM lamp uppours

121

table as 80. Since you're shoot 28 Tremble (5). ing from 10 feet, you divide 8029 Loud and harsh (8), by 10-and get 8. F/8 is your aperture. And that's all is to it.

there

Prior to the synchronised Bash shutter,

this was accom- plished by a flash gun-a com- reflector, bined ballery holder,

Such and synchronising unit. flash guns were bulky, not in

For cameras without syn- expensive, and sometimes prone to get out of adjustment. Little chrontsod shutterbox cameras wonder, then, that built-in syn- and the like simple hand chronisation took picture-takers dusher may be used. Here, too, We'll have by storm. For, with the syn-, exposure's simple. chroniser built into the shutter, more to say about it soon.

was

all that was needed for flash simple flash pictures holder consisting of a reflector

battery case.

and

As a result, flash photography ww-once

chiefly used by press photographere has been brought

within reach of all. And as a

THIS DREAM MEANS:

This is a

result more and more people fairy Lalo

mak about flash exposures.

John van Guilder

dream; it

To aid in computing such ex- deals posures, "gulde

"numbers"

with a are with which is assigned to flash Lamps, These coming true: numbers vary with lumps of how nice if different types and with

ot different speedhutter

films they

Perhaps grown-up fairy tale, for thome

They

also oftener. vary with the

speed which you select for your shot. Despite these arverel variables, It's easy to use the guide num ters. And to get proper posure. Packed with your film is a printed silp which gives the guide number for the two types of flash lamp generally used by most amateurs.

To use these numbers select your shutter speed. Look in the

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

CORE, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

'DO YOU FEEL

ANY BETTER?

Z

CHRONIC HEADACHES ARE. GREAT LABOR SAVING DEVICES.

"A JOB IS OFTEN A GREAT

| LABOR-SAVING DEVICE IF

ONE CAN MANAGE TO GET ELECTED TO IT.

NFAIR

TO

ME

A SIGN ON A STICK IS OFTEN AN IMMUNITY FROM WORK, EVEN IF HE. COULDN'T GET INTO A LABOR UNION

WITH A STEAM SHOVEL,

THE HELPWANTED

·PAGES ARE GREAT.

LABOR-SAVERS D YOU CAN FIND 'ALL "THE JOBS YOU ARE NOT SUITED TO.

is romance. You

are be-

DOWN

1 Attendant (5).

2 Of first importance (8).

3 Mixed rain and snow (0).

4 Engrave (4)

5 Extreme tright (6).

6 Scatter (0),

151 Caronsal (5).

9. Summary (0)..

12 Material (8).

14 Spot (0).

16 Condition (3).

16 Famous composer (6).

18 Discourages (8).

-18 Kesilate (0),

22 Rendezvous (5).

23 Faithful.(5).

24 Drain (6).

25 Go in front (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-A: 1 Geisha, 5 Verse, 8 April, 9 Elixir, 10 Surge, 11 Rigid, 10 Neat, 13 Tests, 10 Modest, 13 Blated, 20 Sides, 22 Fuss, 23 Strum, 25 Pause, 20 Dogged, 27 Erred, 28 Means, 29 Delend. Down: 1 Gleaners, 2, Imitated, 3 Hair, 4 Apricot, 5 Visited, 6 Eludes, 7 Sight, 14 Struggle, 16 Sub- aided, 10 Masters, 17 Denuded, 19 Leason, 21 Inane, 24 Mode.

YOU SENT US THIS DREAM... YOU WERE WALKING IN A WOOD AND CAME UPON A WHITE HORSE AND A MAN STANDING IN A POOL

OF BLACK WATER

corping aware of the power and beauty of the strung-controlled masculinity in a man's love.

The man represents-man: the white horse symbolises power-- ful emotion controlled for a good purpose (whiteness seems to symbolise ila goodness): the black pool represents the mystery of these emotional depths Into which you cannot now see.

Labor Saving Devices

'I'VE MOWED THE GRASS

AROUND THE HOUSE-HOW ABOUT ME DOING THAT

FIELD BACK OF

THE BARN!"

'THE GARDEN IS

ALL WEEDED- WHAT NEXT? WOULD YOU

LIKE US TO-

TUEN THERE ARE THE WEEK-END GUESTS WHO THINK IT'S GREAT FUN TO CUT GRASS,PULL WEEDS AND DO ODD CHORES AROUND YOUR] PLACE THESE ARE RARE SPECIMENS - OF LABOR-SAVING DEVICES AND MUST BE USED QUICKLY BEFORE THEY WISE UP.

HOW MANY DID YOU FIND TODAY THAT AIN'T GOOD FR YOU?

When a

a wife falls for the magic of a cad

COLETTE, the greatest walisoot, to tease her loto wall

living writer, continues in just one more afternoon in to make literary news at the the bad magle of his charm.

That Colette can create' a nge of 79, although she is crippled with

beautiful pattern with su arthritis.

bankrupt emotional rot-up la She has been making news entirely due to her strength and now for well over 40 years. understanding of right and

She has been married throo times, to Willy (Henri Gauthier Villars, who passed off her work as his own), to Henri to Jou- venel, and now to M.. Maurice Goudeket.

She,

She has one daughter. adores cats. There are 'rumours that she considers the English "a race of barbarians."

However, whatever the rea son, she is still comparatively unknown in the Bri-

wrong..

tish Isics, in spite of BOOKS exquisite films (like "Gigi" and "Chmadine

at Sahool") baset an

her novels.

Reormily

two novels

hat have never been

into

1

by

Yet Colette only writes of.

NANCY SPAIN

translated English before, CILANCE AC- what she and ever such a lot of QUAINTANCES and JULE DE ordinary people know. CARNEILHAN

title

of

(Setker - and.

Only! My word, if all writers Warburg, 12s. fd.), make their could do this they, too, would appearance under the former

have discovered the secret And they make every immortality and learned to con- other book published this year centrate the essence of life into look like twopence farthing the minute compass of a work: Why?

women

Consider "Julle de. Carnell- han," a short and apparently simple story about a who has been married twice and is süll fascinated by, her call of a arst husband, now remarried to a very rich woman indeed.

Whenever Julio has arranged a small treat, for herself, this old reprobate emerges from the

YOU WERE WALKING KNEE- DEEP IN APPLE BLOSSOM AND MORE WAS FALLING LIKE SNOW-THE PERFUME

WAS OVERPOWERING

To wade knee-deep in falling, blossom is surely how every woman visualises the completest achievement of love. To dream of perfumes is unusual: spell is even rarer than colour in dreams: it indicates the presence of strong instincts.

All the dark mystery, sweet uncertainty and over-powering ecatigy of love seem to be symbolized by this dream,'

Bu

KEMP STARRETT

WHAT'LL I CALL IT?" "SOMETHING PSYCHOLOGICAL

THAT DOESN'T MEAN

A THING AND YET SOUNDS

PROFOUND!"

"LET'S GO TO THE

·RITZ TONIGHT

DEAR..

-THE PROVIDENTIAL DISCOVERY OF HIDDEN "GENIUS" IS OFTEN A GREAT LABOR-SAVING DEVICE AND SOMETIMES TURNS OUT TO

BE A GOLDMINE VY

BUT MON-IF

I PULL WEEDS, MY HANDS 'LL GET SORE AN' THEN I CAN'T PRACTICE":

THE PIANO

"A WORM ON A STRING ON A POLE AND A HANDY SUR, PLY OF WATER

· SAVES A'MAN) ALL SORTS OF

·LABOR

WA SUDDEN' DEVOTION TO: "ARTISTIC TALENTS OFTEN JAVES A BODY A LOT OF HARD LABOR.

of art...

Bravest Trick

Tone time. I thought “Mr- A Vivian Connell, whose new novel SEPTEMDER IN QUINZE WELK (Hutchinson, 12908.) published recently, was capable of producing a novel that was also a work of art:

A

Mr Cannell is an Irishman who deeply understands the im

of the Irish"? possible paradox temperament, and who thero fore prefers to write super- Alcially of things that, he does not understand at all:

His hero here is a Sicilian called Pietro who arriveš, in Quinze in the car of a rich American lady, wins a million francs at, roulette with a lucky gold; chip,, brawlz unceasingly, and is wooed by various Eng-

·}'lish,' Americans, and Russians.

As you can sco, Pietro Should really be called Paddy, and hist behaviour is that of the lucky Dublin, comer boy, throughout.

That Mr. Connell ahould attempt to make a book out of such vulgar rat secans, to mo the. bravest trick of the month.

Campus goings on

THANK Goodness therefore, for Bach realists as Mrs Carol Kendall, who has written a homely whodunit' called THE BABY SNATCHER - (Bodies Head, De, 6c.), about, a subject that all mums and dads under- stand perfectly-the horrors of the baby-sitter,

"

Mrs Kendall's detective is a charming tot called-Roderick Random, son of a Professor, of English Literature at Yosemite University, USA, who refuses to acknowledge his son's "nick- name: "Drawers,”

"Drawers and his girlfriend Holly Quest (daughter to the Professor of Psychology) are export sitters and together corn responsible for most of the tota

of University City, N

Several of them tisappear wiren their mothers "leave them. down for a moment outside the. stores': a body is picked up and eventually “Drawers"" Z surte everybody. "out to my entire satisfaction.

Honi soit

UNALLY there is an astound- ingly witty, well- documented, and scho ly, work Centitled WEINIEI+ CHLAFT, by Pencethorne Hughes (Longmana, 2007 MARUNONAMEN

BUX-

It was published in a sinister way on Midsummer Day, and contains, among other prising. pieces of information, the allegation that a well-known Order of Chivalry is based on witchcraft of the deepest dye, has a well-known. Batanic Symbol as its badge, and con- fains two covens (collections of witches) of 13 persona cach,. The answer? Belleve it or not, the Ortler of the Garlor..

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