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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1953.

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A low camera angle makes this shot a good example of what

can be done in plcturing carnivals.

Carnival Capers

A British Crossword Puzzle.

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ACROSS

3 Cudget (4).

Surpass (5).

Cooker (4).

Unaccompanied (4).

12 Mild (7).

10

Lively (4).

15 Hoard (5).

10 Cut (4).

19 Earlier (5),

21 Welcome (5),

22 Column (4),

23 Theatre seat (5).

20 Molet (4).

29 Joins up (7).

20 Solitary (4)

31 Nought (4),

32 Ward, oft (4).

33 Sharp (4),

BOWN

1 Banish (5),

Relevant (7). " Plunders (3),

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Expreses disapproval (4). Rip (45.

Bienk off (4),

2.3 12 Sends out (5).

13 Brace (4),

1

Mousure (4).

10 Upset (5).

In old (4).

In Appear

20 Ease (7).

(4).

22 Sheet of glass (4).

Purport (3).

25 Narrative (3).

27 Imitates (4),

28 Conspiracy (4),

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Gratis, 7 Oral, 9 Plump, 13 Roméo, 11 Pale, Prescribed, 15 Type, 16 Tu-ts, 19 Interested, 22 Toad, 24 Press, 25 Dwell, 20 Gear, 27 Duress.

FF hand I know of nothing with the cage, near the ground. | Down; 2 Rouse, 3 Tople, 4 Sortie, 5 Competes, & Gaol, B Ready,

than drive post a carnival with- out stopping to look at the rets, take a turn or two on the ferris wheel. or iry to knock down a pyramid, of bottles with my Fuding fast ball.

picture.

camera angle makes le mead, is Post, 15 Ceased, 20

Imagination also played 2 major part in another excellent carnival pleture I raw rezently. It wea

time night shut, D exposttre

severel seconds' But for the picture taker a duration. The camera fan who earnival has even note to offer made the picture had been in- For there are countless picture

trigued by the streaks of light subjects everywhere on the mid-traced in the darknes by un air- And all the fun of such ear rotating about a shafi.. So he hud set up his camera firmly, opened his chuttor, and let the lights trace a pattern of ovals and circles on his negative,

way.

ta affair, con be explored OR Alm.

A ready camera, Imagination, and an eye for good subject malter are afl: you need to mak

These are merely a few hints. piztura pery, of course, for pictures you might Watch for the interesting shote try. The big thing la to try baker extolling the merits of them.. For there's no question his that show child pating that you will

find dozena, of spun cotton candy, a couple vid- picture possibilities if you goto ing the ferris wheel.

carnival with your camera loaded and ready to shoot. And, in shooting them, you will nod yout learn is you go along. The pleasure you get from your camera and your skill in using it both increase the more you make use of it..

None of these chols are But that's unu nal, pehapy. where. imaginatism remes Take tede's sanp for example, It's more effective picture --telun witch the cage we high in the than a shot of the same subject would be it taken

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

TURN ON THE LIGHTS, MIKE/"

BE SURE TO BUY YOUR NEW HAT BEFORE YOU GET YOUR HAIR CUT-

AND THERE IS. NOTHING. YOU'

CAN DO ABOUT IT.

WELL, AT

LEAST ITS

CLEAN

بود

-John van Gallder

21 Tress, 23 Open.

YOU WERE IN A BIG ROOM WITH A UTTLE

DOOR AT ONE END

THIS

DREAM

MEANS:

Boxes, rooma and hollow objects are usual- ly female rymbols; this roam symbolists-master- nai influence: here in the restricting not the sheltering--sense.

In tish elatistrophobic dream, you have the usual panicky feeling of being fericed in, with Ino crcape. A common cause is an over-strong

Haircuts And Hairdo's

POODLE CUTS —

HORSES TAILS

PHOOEY!

I'M GOING

TO GROW

A BEARD!

THE LADIES ARE WITH US.

AGAIN.

"WEINERIT"

DON'T YOU WANT TO

LOOK LIKE

DADDY 2

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THOSE LOVELY

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Sir Arthur Finds A Magic Life...

A PATTERN OF ISLANDS. the comedy and the magle of By Arthur Grimble. Mur-island life, even, If the "magle"

bas ot LIMO

ord fight, ray. 18%, 250 pages.

against insect plagues, tedious IDWAY between

food, scanty medical -services Mall and Australia

end other afflictions.

string of coral atolls, the Gilbert and Ellice Group, their, palm fronds

lift

above the Pacific surf.

They are peopled by a handsome and dignified race. From eng island vast quan

lifes

of phosphates ere exported, without which the pastures of the Southern Hemi- sphere would fall,

They are adminis

by tered a handful of! devoted British colonial offteers, who were joined not long before the 1014-18 war by aroniantic, Inquisitive und aklany young endet named Arthur Grimble, Nearly 40

years

bles

now Immensely

perienced

bul

this

But the reader, will, neverthe less, carry away from Impression of the boon confer- niemigable book an Judeltble red on a fine race by Britam

rule.

The Giberso,”.

nya

Grimble In * Rignilic- cal sentence, had few waterride villages bo- fore, the British pro- teptorate" (of 1892). Un: then, cach house must be a' fort; eken feuds

were deathless: war was ferocious and unceasing-

The islanders love oratory, ne manners, nobic gestures. dwell

"We

among gentle. folk In these parts,"" Bald Grimble's super- icr

Before long, Grimble was adopted into ele of the clans.

The

after his first gilmpse sir arthur GRIMBLE ceremony, solemn ant of the Pacific, Grim-

island flink. painful, included the ex- taltcoing of a snake on his arm. less As tradition dictated, two little puts girls wept and sercained an his re- behalf during the operation among while Grimble, with a people. haggard emite kept murmuring apologia how agreeable it all was.

on

no in romantic than

1013. down

soinc paper collections of his re the islands and their It is in no sense an for British colonial ruie.

rather

It was not his only Pacife Grimble (who was knighted ordeal. The young Gilberteso In 1938) is mainly concerned to hunt the giant octopus in pairs pass un to readers his own ad- under-water. One mon acts miration of the islanders, and as bait, allowing the menster above all to convey the beauty, to pinion hilmay,

dives, prises

YOU TRIED TO GET OUT, BUT WITH EVERY STEP THE DOOR BECAME SMALLER AND SMALLER

11is partner the octopus from

between

its rock und bites it

the cyes, causing instant death.! Any other method of killing a big octopus would be regarded us unsportsmanilke,

Incaus

Grimble thowed 013 tus interest in the hunt, its emusing simplicity was expluhie ed. He was offered the role of dzy. Retreat was imposible. "Remember, one hand for your eyes fald someone, as Grim- bl dived. A creditable episode, the horror and humour of which lese nothing in his telling.

Native customs are a snare for the young officer. A tricky emotional tie to a dominating possessive mothers eftunti: arose when Grimble's, sometimes loosely called a "mother-complex." wife, Missi expecting a baby. Yours is a tough sarignment; but you are chanced to give scent battle to trying, First step is to distinguish clearly Ina village girl. Vocin-of-the-Tide, your mird between the affection which respects | who Inter called your personality and the selfish fondness which Grimbles, in tears After half an weekens and cripples it: second step is to hour, the matter was cleared up. gradually ferge warm friendly emotional links with as many people of both sexes and all ages pa possible.

BY HARRY WEINERT

"THE BEST THING TO KEEP HAIR IN IS AN OLD CIGAR "BOX /

HEH-HEH?

THE BARBER SHOP COMEDIAN.

THE VERY LATEST. THE 'CAREFREE

OR OWL'S NEST.

R

THE CREW CUT SET. THE REGULAR MODEL AND THE SHIPWRECK VARIETYS

tho

A high-born Cillbertese lady, In the last months of pregnan- cy, celects an unmarried friend for the comfort of her hus- band, handing over some unco scenics object as the sign or her choice. Volce-of-the-Tißr. deeply appreciative as the was

the creur, had÷awost.... heart.

"And If you had not had a sweetheart?" asked Mrs Grim- ble. It was painfully evident that Voice-of-the-Tide Would not have felt differently. left them to their laughter, I had a few words to say in the, village-alone."

Grimble's emaciated frame, which made so little appeal to Volec-of-the-Tide, brought ''hlm, hig most remarkablo perience.

CX-

A Gilbertese friend prescribed porpoise-meat as a cure for this misfortune and Engageri the services of his cousin, n hereditary porpoise-caller. This functionary went into a swoon, which ended only. when chouted, "They come! Dur friends from the west.

....they. come." And there, out in the lagoon, approaching and finally flopping gently on to the beach,

vna a wns

polses.

The

whole flotilla of por

ho

men leaned down sia throw their arms around. the

great barrels and case them over the ridges. They showe not the least sign of alarm. It' was as if their single with

meat

was to get to the beach."

A

chief's portion of the was set aside for Grimble,, Ho could not bring himself to cat': it. Nor does he altempt to explain the strange occurrence..

Grimble tells how a bankrupt. trading concern Became' :the wealthy and beneficent British Phosphate Company because a sharp-eyed young man thought that a plece of rock looked like phosphate. It was almost pure phosphate. The Phosphate Company has been one of tho most enlightened enterprises in the world and a prime factor (Spys Grimble) in savingthe Gilbertese from the

disintegrat

ing effects of Japanese

zion and American occupa

If the British Empire were

to be wiped out tomorrow and

ottier

no her role of it survived, A Patter of

Islands would enable, futura readers, to

"So that is, what she Empire was like; such were the who manned fis out

mah

and to regret the passing of a unique, even if fallible, Instru ment for the diaseminatich of happiness and civiliantion through the world