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FOR THE

FESTIVE

CHRISTMAS EVE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1952.

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A picture such so this is grand for a permortal photographio Christmas greeting easy to make yourself with a negative printing mask and a contact printer.

Making Your Own Christmas Greetings

EVERAL readers have

asked for more informa- tion regarding photographic Christmas cards-readers who have darkroom facilities and plan to make cards from their own negatives rather

their than have

photo. finisher make greeting cards for them.

Unters these readers simply plan to slip their pictures into Christmas folders, they prob- ably will want to use negative printing mosks. "Masks" of this rort are simply negatives which carry Christmas message and design and have a hole cut in them in

appropriate

masks which is the negative or the desired. picture. You should have no dificulty. in this cs Juasks come in a number of

AUGUSTUS-The man who came to dinner and that fabulous woman — TALLULAH

by CEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON; THE YEARS WITH MOTHER. By Augustus Hare. Edited by Malcolm Bamsi. Allon and Unwin. 25s. 310 pages, DAPPER little man with narrow aquiline nose and beady penetrating eyes and an extraordinary gift" for telling stories, all of which seemed to have happened to members of his family.

The worst sailor of the Northumberland)

could

la excuse 5.

Towards the end of his life, The phrases (from two con te published his autobiography secutivo pages) may seem over- In six volumes and 800,000. emphatle; there words, and was undismayed by them. Joha Barrymore hoa the bitterly hostile reception it offered her a part and, simul- received from the Press, Mir taneously, tried to seduce her. Barnes has condensed the first Fame comes in New York; It is three volumes into one. It takes water fame in Londoni, the story down to the year 1870. based on beauty, temperament, for a reputation Mr Barnes has dug a most talent end readable book out of the vast exuberant living. hoops

of rubbish left by drink, gambling; frequently fell Augustus, The odd Victorian in love. She tried port, "This read will be read in future more Pretended to take cocaine.

Isa't a drink, IV's only wine."

nineteenth century; every prayers. At Belvoir, trumpets then he has been in the past.

mounted the hour for dressing; time he crossed the Channel and watchmen called the hours he had himself chloroform of night. At Hamilton Palace, TALLULAH: My autoblo-

ed,

life.

Cousin (al- though not

cousin)

first

to three earls. Augus- tus Hare, who was all of these things, would not. have doubted that the last was the most: important. He

W & B born

""Ilåven't you ever heard

a ghost writer!"

graphy. By Tallulah Bank head. Gollanéx, 16%. 288 pagos.

Sho

ked

At a New York party she dis- tracted the guesia- with cart- eventually lured outalde, Miss wheels and monologuea; was Dorothy Parker, the wif (in the humble role of hostess), sald has Whistler's

gone?"

he saw the mausoleum from which, on the Day of Judgment, Author of guide-books 12 dukes of Hamilton would and blographies, who claim- rise.

{4} ed that he had never had a In Durham ho met a dean who favourable review in his attributed the decline of England PEING an instinctive actress In London, she turned cart-

to pale sherry and crinolines. D

the middle and natural exhibitionist, wheels down

of In Exeter, he dined with a Miss Bankhead has nothing to Piccadilly-but it was three bishop who had tell about her ari. It is the one o'click in the morning and she excommu- ribject in life on which she is was in the company of Prince nicafod

Nichols of Rumania.. Denies an' notably discreet. archbishop .of Follow the first steps in that

"aloshed" Gladya Canterbury,

dramatic art; early brushes with Cooper with a beer bottle that, eidture: "I Was His

sponge for, she says, was Francis Laking. readers Shakespeare's poetry,

the who died, leaving Tallulah all may have won aauty reduced ine to rubble bis cars, only he had no cars. dered at tin:es

I had

of the British Ernest Dowson mo- Met the flower my whether his inents too. And my Madame aristocracy and mis-spells tho

Tames noble hosts wore Bovary phase. I was a sucker

of many of them. pulling his leg. for Rupert Breske. I man

In 1931, whes Miss Bankhead Lady Ruthven temperature over

Beaudelaire" left England, some sparkle left startled him by for the fever has affected Miss London with her; but a new age walking in and Bankhead's spelling.

i was dawning less hospitable to of out of the back

In the same crackling, high personalities so flamboyant, A ante-chambers at blood-pressure prose slic recalls Winton

day came the day of Dunkirk House

use the struggle for 'recognition on when Miss Bankhead 'prayed (1834) to a well-connected playing a concertina and wear the stage, a scaring experience; on her knees, drank three family impoverished by ing a ten of turquoises and My temples throbbed. I glasses of champagne, gin and extravagance and

pearls. "A very odd effect in was stabbed with an amalgam brandy, and announced that the WAS it half-light," Fald Augustus of pain and promise. I was on the wagon" until the

a mildly. adopted by his aunt. widow named Maria Hare.

tettered at his first suggestion British got back to Dunkirk, ...I was almost strangled by For time the candle would Augustus was brought up

my words."

burn at only one end. sizes. Then place the mask on to be a Christian, a gentle your contact printer and place man, and, if possible (there coachman's

a rich living in the playing on the violin 'cello." your negative over the opening was in the mask. In printing, priat

by both negatives at the same time, family), a clergyman,

picked his adoptive mother and foolish boy," say,

primrose in the wo

wood Double weight deckie edged her brother-in-law, Julius and it was so ill I have been SUE DAWSON goes round the bookstores * photographic paper is recom" Hare, a purson.

sitting up all night with it" He mended for cards of this cort

Flogged along the thorny path recorded the occasion on which and envelopes to match

Gladstone are self-denial, Augustus might

defended Cardinal

NLY three more shop books that they have ever had. are soro child- prig, but turned Manning who had been called ping days until Father Publishers

conscious available. To aid you in cen-have been a

theso days, and picture and greet-

out to be a snob, He declined "false and fickle" by a lady he Christmas is scheduled for

books, in the

on the card the masks are te enter the Church and leapt jilted as a curate. "False," thun his annual drop down the old favourites and new ones

practically all the equipped with guides pasted at with joy at an offer from Joha dered Gladstone, "but never one corner. All you need to do Murray, the publisher, to write fickle."

chimney, though in Hong- are illustrated in colours, print- Is be sure that the paper fits Handbook to Berks, Bucks and

overtook him kong, where there is a ed attractively and reasonably śnug, against

priced. prepared

Oxfordshire. It the first of Augustus was asked out diac scarcity of fireplaces, he Osories which mabled him to less frequently. Society as he has been known to surrepti- guides.

people were

new generation

A round of the bookstores-- window... of

revealed that Beatrix Polies is more than holding her own 10 were ghost stories, an art

bored by ghost stories.

time when with all

the newer children's He remained a bachelor; harassed parents-being respon outhors, and that the Winte if you have a printer or print-brought to an elaborate pitch of

for-what founded a hospice for broken- sible

this bearded The Pooh books, Struwwelpeter ing frame, it affords you the perfection.

Augustus caught the great down governesses and adopted a visitor delivers enter the Great added pleasure of making the

Allee in Wonderland are in tards yourself, If not,

of houses and their occupants at series of young men, most of Panic Zone where last minute greater supply than ever. Then photofinisher's the close of their golden age of whom disappointed him sadly, shopping is concerned,

and it there are Course, • Four

the Wonder books, ready to do it for you.

wealth

eccentricity. At He was thought to paint his should help, them to know that with fourteen different tiles, Alnwick Castle, bridge stopped face, after the custom of Hongkong's bookstores have the the Prince Charming Series and

finest collection ten, so that the Duke (or bygone age. Died 1803.

of children's the Golden picture bookca

as well

the

Actually, there's little moto work to producing a picisant and personal pictorial greeting in this manner than there is in

More remarkable still was the conduct of Mrs Grote, wife of an eminent historian "who sat aloft in a tree dressed in a

He heard Wilde "poor

brown

old age

overcoat,

dear

п

Buy Junior A Book!

ONLY

Audistus had found his metier. travel about the country and defined it; was chang tiously climb through

with people of title. never

never in a

He

designs and produce a greeting making any contact print. And, ten entertained his hosts hy duchesses had grown up who

which a picture negative, fils, They can be purchased from your photo dealer in a choice of. card on which your picture np. pears alongside or above message neatly lettered in black.

To make a card of this sort

the first select

picture you desire to use, and then get

VIGNETTES OF

OF LIFE

| THÒIGHT""

YOU WERE

GOING TO

MAIL THEM!

-" YOU SAID

YOU'D MAIL THEM!

A

ANOTHER ONE

FOR YOU, DADDY DEAR?

--John van Guilder. at

and

Merry Christmas!

Now

is the

By KEMP ̃ ̄ ̄ST A¶R EETT

"OH,BOY?"

JUST SARATI

WANTED!

series

|published

Denta

03 the excellent

Classics Illustrated

by

For the 9 to 12s there is Arthur

0 Ransome!

"We didn't mean to Foto sea and so on -- Dr. Doodle, the Wzzles Books and a Treasure book, new this year. Generations of young hooligans have lapped up "Just Willam" And all the other mischlet that Richmal Crompton has design- ed for William and his friends In a series of more than twenty books.

For tots and young children there is the Baby Wonder Gerles with washable covers. the innumerable rag books, the Pantruma Peepshows that are amali to carry about and big when opened up, the Ray books the Big Little books and the Mary Mouse series, Another Deries hero for the Arst time this year

is the Bokano one, with

pictures that unfold ingeniously and stand up. Then there are falry stories, nursery rhymes Christmas stories, the ever popular Enid Blyton tales and of course the usual ommibuses and armuals.

THAT HORRIBLE MOMENT....... Ol CHRISTMAS EVE, WHEN YOU FIND THE CARDS HAVEN'T BEEN MAILED.

FOR.

DEAR!

MAYBE I CAU UNDO

•THE.... MAYBE

I CAN GET

SORLONE TO KHIT

IT OVER]

GITS WILL

FIT...BUT

MOT

∙PORS.

WHATS

SHOODY TIME.. THAT

TAINE

TRYING TOR.

ADVANCE INFO

THE TREE ISN'T THE ONLY THING THAT'S BEEN TRIMMED...

PAPPY WILL FIND · OIT....WHEN HE GETS THE BILLS NEXT MONTH.

COPR. 191 BY GENITAL FEATURES

CORF, TM-WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

* A TREE,

OF COURSE! IT GIVES THE CHRISTMAS

ATHOSNIRE WITHOUT ALL

THE TROUBLE:

THAT GLAMOROUS LOOKING PACKAGE THAI TURK

OIT TO BE... YELL. NOTHING GLAMOROUS

AT TRAT AGE.

"STRE MODERIKOJES, STILL THINK A

GADELT LIKE THIS IS A GOOD STAND

FOR A RIAL

AS. TREE.

HOARY

GOSH!

SUDDEN DISCOVERY OF ACTING-

TALENT NEVER BEFORE SUSPECTED THE GUY WHO COULDN'T FIX 'ANY-. THING MORE COMPLICATED. THAN A - BUTTER:KUNIFE GETS A HANDY-MAN KIT.

ITCORY VLEVEN MOCLOCK.

THE LONGEST NIGHT IN ME YEAR

IT TAKES A STRONG MAN TO KEEP HIS LUNGS INTACT, AND; STILL NOT LET THE VITE KNOW POW AWFUL THOSE CIGARS KEZE

Older children. 13 and up4 wards, would enjoy

Paul "Galileo's lovely story of a cat

“Jaunie", "und "The Snow- flako while the book of the late

George IV.

A Pictorial Record of his Great Life", obtainable. at the South

A

would

China Morning sent for

make a wonderful

one.

From the Morning

aix 10522

too. comes the Daily Ex- rem Garden Book: with prem Dackets

of seeds,* and the 109 Rupert Annual, with; the China Mail's little bear in many now adventures. Among the "thou- sands of books written for teen-ngers. Mary

pount ales ́of the horse

"Fileka”,

to which ⋅ sho hag very recently added a new one, Eald" Bagnold's famous "National Velvel" are some that wouki torn a respected, place an their shelves.

Parents of young children are not to say: "Buy himla book? But how dužil, I'm sure, be'd much rather have a toy," "But Junior may not be so sure, and will·less if he know) what is in store for him in

read, pay

printed in the books

enar to

and colourful way

publishers have fount *pays of

of with the coming

generation. Fa and Ma misht frontember too, that readingt-like all invaluable habita, should, the [required young. B-YE