1953-03-07 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 7, 1953.

A British Crossword Puzzle Che SNAPSHOT GUILD Linda's the girl

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ACROSH

1 Mariner (0).

7 Heroic story (4).

Ship's load (5).

10 Worth (5).

11 Goes wrong (4).

13 Exhibiting (10)

16

15 Rip (4).

18 Shakespearean king (47.

10 Downcast (10).

22 Cupki (4).

24 Crane (5).

25 Cosmetle (5):

26 Long for (4).

27 Purloins ($).

YESTERDAY'S

27

DOWN

2 Concur (5).

a Slack (5),

112

4 Bolts for bolding metal plates |

together (8).

5 Sortened (8).

of Seaside feature (4).

# Political clean-up (5).

12 Wok pumpously (5).

Throb (5).

14 Accented (B),

17 Derorale (5).

18 Supposes (0).

20 Pluck (5);

21 The same as (5).

23 Incursion (4).

CROSSWORD.---Across: Dircel, 4 Freed,

7 Silver, & Spoil, 19 Laps, 12 Decides, 15 Steep, 16 Res1, 17

Tier. 19 Tired, 20 Ensared, 21 Duct, 23 Range. 24 Centre, 25 Strew, 26 Trades, Dowa; 1 Desolate, 2 Relapses, 3 Crew, 5 Re- paired, & Exiles, 9 Tepid, 11 Suggle, 12 Deter. 13 Deducted, 14 Sluiters, 18 Intact, 22 Pear.

IN

Pictures that seem to run "down hill" result from fallure to hold the camera level. Sometimes you can correct a "tipped" horizon through careful dropping,

On the Level

Simply be sure that ONE of the ten most common checked,

mistakes of picture making horizontal or vertical lines in the the mistake of tting or picture scene line up parallel tipping the camera, Tipped skde- with the edges of your camera's. wise, a camera yields a scene in viewfinder. which the horizon rins down Mill. Tipped upward, it yields a vertical lines print in whiels Converge

Despite your best efforts, how- ever, there may be times when you find you've snapped a picture in which the horizon's "lipped." Unquestionably there are times Today's illustration, for example, when this latter effect may be was made from another boat. desired. The distorted perspec- Despite fairly crim water the tive it provides often will help camera was not held level. The produce a striking shot of a lofty result was the pleture at the left; building. But horizon that's a straight print from the nega inten- tive. tipped is almost never Clonal. More often than not it spoils a picture excellent other-

wise.

So as a general rule you'll find it's best to hold your camera levet. And this is

THEN YOU WERE TRYING TO DRINK EV

A GLASS OF WINE, BUT EVERY

TIME YOU PUT IT TO YOUR LIPS NÍ

AS YOU GAT EATING YOUR DINNER

YOUR CHAIR GREW TALLER AND

TALLER TILL IT WAS

IMPOSSIBLE TO

REACH YOUR FOOD

IT BECAME LIKE A

STORMY SEA AND

IMPOSSIBLE TO

DRINK

THIS DREAM MEANS : A common cause of depression is the feel- ing you are being deprived of something right- fully due to you, be it affection, reward, or some special pleasure. This is a dream of de- privation.

Food and drink are no sooner within your reach than they are snatched from you. The

easily

wine represents a special pleasure which you feel you have earned

Sometimes one falls to get one's rewards because one falls to claim them. If, however, you're convinced that the world is really be- ing unkind and unfair and that nothing can be done about it, well then make a point of being especially kind to yourself: go out and buy yourself something you don't need.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"

MASTERLY- SUPERB

SYMBOLISM ETC. ETC-

ONE MUST BE TACTFUL WITH THE ARTIST.

(HE, DOESN'T KNOW HE IS HOLDING IT UPSIDE DOWN.)

"QUITE A SPORTSMAN

ISN'T HE ?“

I WOULD

LIKE A

GOOD

DENTURE

POWDER

"YES MAM — DOES

„YOUR MOTHER

WEAR BOTH

UPPERS

曝常

In such case you can sometimes

de horizon elurt to "straighten

using it as a rulde to draw parallel cropping marks at top and bottom of your plesure. Thus crapped, you can eliter make, ur have a print made as at the right above This di not only a good trick

used..

in know but one that in frequently

!

-John van Gulider

ARTIE'S HEADLINE

Atie-

All right, Butch, you can leave off now-you've done your eight hours for today!"*

CAN'T

go

A plaque marks the (wrong) spot.

2 women made the Old Vic respectable

THE Old Vic in Waterloo

TRoad was a grim placo

of entertainment a century ago. A contemporary writes of it:

EMMA CONS

| 18:57.-1912. S' LILIAN. BAYLIS *1074/1937 TEQUNUNDS OF THES

VIC

آنان

Close-up of the turqắc,

who

wrong

WESTWARD THE SUN. By

Geoffrey Cotterell.

Eyro

and Spottiswoode. -12%. Gd. 288 pages.

"The lower orders On that occasion Ellen rush there in mobs, and in Terry, Matheson Lang and shirt sleeves, frantically Dame Sybil Thorndike ap- drink ginger-beer, munch peared. apples, crack nuts, call the

The theatre was enlarged in actors by their Christian 1824 in accordance with the names, and throw them demands of the London County orange peel and apples by forthcoming as a gift from Sir witted

Council, when £30,000 was way of bouquets."

in

Charles Kingaley Alton Locke speaks of the rascality of London pour- ing in to their amusement from the neighbouring gin- palaces and thieves' cellars."

At #1

later period the gallery was the scene night after night of boisterous drinkling.

Temperance

GEOFFREY COTTERELL ..the London parements.

FTER the rocket fell, A Mum called upstairs to Linda. "Are you all right?" Linda wiggled her toes: half the ceiling had fallen on top of her bed ("talk about startled"), but with his shirt sleeves rolled up "having taken all that the was all right.

trouble with lifting weights and all to build up the body." For Linda is stuffed with confidence. In the munition Linda thinks she ought to factory, where she works, get engaged "I mean, I don't want people to start worrying in her dance hall, in her over me. It's quite a hobby of West the English really.” But she London suburb, in a

go into End night club, in any sort will not

the thing of company-Linda will be "whoever says Linda,

blindly as Ethel is apt to do. all right.

buying Ethel a cup of tea sho was prepared to spend the rest She is sharp-tongued, quick- of her life with." Linda's gram- Cockney girl of 18 mac may be shaky; her mean- whom Geoffrey Cotterell has ing is at all times crystal clear, conjured into life on the pages The affair with Syd might of his novel. This is Cotterell's havo progressed smoothly sprightllest novel; I do not be enough (he is in regular em- lieve that a

ployment and novel with moru

favours Mum GEORG his sult) if only In 1884, the South London fun and a higher content of ca- Dwellings Company,

regiment with on Emma

Published MALCOLM THOMSON Yanks had not Orrived in the been buill a quadrangle of mover,

the war, since modern dwellings at the June-

neighbourhood. tion of Lambeth and Kerning-In the past, Cotterell has been It was that period in the wor ion Roads. Two of these, Nos. gifted and serious; here he is when Yonks were doing so all

and. 5 and 6; Morton Place,

gifted

brilliantly over England. were more the homes of Emma Cons and ¦ funny, Westward the Sun is Lillan Baylis for more than 20 gay and down-to-earth-or, at years.

least, down to the good London pavements, The estate has recently been

George Dance.

The nettvilles of Emma Cons and Lillan Baylls were not con-

interested in housing,

ned to the Old Vic. Both were

Cons as the primeJoyment

The two

been

women. It records

The atmosphere of the acquired by the London County Old Vic changed with the Council. A plaque has coming of Miss Emma placed on No. 6 to commemorate Cons who, in 1879, urged that

they both Ilved there, the Cuffed Palace Associa- although Emma Cons was tion to take

the tenant of No. 5. over theatre.

At first, lectures and temperance meetings alter- nated with variety enter- tainments. Later, as a re- sult of the efforts of Miss Cons, and her niece, Lilian Baylis, the theatre became £ centre for opera and Shakespearean and classical drama.

Miss Cons died at 74 in 1912, and Miss Baylis as- sumed sole management. In 1918 Queen Mary was present at the perform- ance to celebrate the 100th birthday of the theatre.

The Art Of Being Tactful

"OH, EXCUSE ME, I DIDN'T KNOW

YOU WERE ENGAGED-IN

SECRET WEAPONS

RESEARCH

WALKING IN ON THE

BIG EXECUTIVE

DURING HIS

PAPER CLIP TARGET PRACTICE.

1-25

WUNKER

COFR. 1953 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. THEWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

AND

LOWERS ?"

THE DRUGGIST"

IS AN EXPERT

TACTICIAN.

ER- IT IS

GETTING WARM ISN'T IT?

·BARGING HOME WHILE HIS WIFE'S FRIENDS

ARE TRYING ON HER NEW DRESSES,

CHECK ROOM

This is the house.

the

hns

of

"What hadn't

Linda's first reaction was one of Britannic hauteur: were Yanks to me? I even spoken to one though they were crawling all over London on their rubber soles."

Ethel was distinctly less TC- Linda's home in the bomb- served. Indeed, a night came

Mum when Linda streel; Linda's

thought it her blasted

duty who has a passion for attend- sisterly

to accompany ing smart weddings; her Grand- Ethel on # Jaunt with two ma who thinks that for too Yanks το the West End-a much is done for the modern fount which ended in a 11130 girl ("but," says Grandma, "I hotel near King's Cross Station, keep myself to myself, knowing and might have endect very nobody ever wants

my

all badly indeed. • vice"); her Uncle Jack, whose But, if there were wolfsh tree-and-ensy ways offend a Yanks and boastful. Yaoks there sensitive girl like Linda; and were also funny ones ("Mum Ethel, her younger sister, who and I were in stitches"), and makes free with Linda's finally there is a Yank named Lavourite bottle of perfume Holman, to whom Linda is (Nights

of Araby), to say notably cold—"I mean I wasn't nothing of her rosewater-alt bothered about Marcus Hol- this domestic setting is swiftly man, not in the slightest. Why, set before the reader.

I could hardly remember what

·

The narrative is put Into he looked like,' Linda's mouth; and Linda's

Onest work is the portrait of hersolf.

has

Such

arouses

the

Indifference When we first moet her-just our suspicion, which is deepen- after the rocket went of-ho ed when we observe that Lin

boy friend named Syd, da makes one of her rare visits whose hobby is body-building, to church (parson "with L.e., developing his muscles; usual college voice-I wouldn't and who likes to walk about trust him an inch myself"

and that Private Holman Is there, 100. So when pour Syd fades out,

BY HARRY WEINERT

"PARDON ME, SIR- -SOME INDIAN

JUST DROPPED

THIS

WHEN HIS "TOUPEE" COMES OFF WITH

HIS HATT

THOSE

RADIO

"GOOD AFTERNOON–

IS YOUR MOTHER AT HOME ?

SMOOTHIES.

THE SALESMAN-DIPLOMAT,

I'M SO-0-0 SORRY-

THE OBJECTE WITH "THREE FEET IS A

YARDSTICK. I WOULDN'T KNOW MYSELF IF IT WEREN'T WRITTEN ON THIS

CARD.

body-building and all. and Linda journeys to Colorado to marry her Yank, nobody can really feel Bur- prisc.

Here is a simple, sentimental, slight and (in its theme) _hari- ly original novel. But, what Humour, vitality, freshness! Cotterell's racy assuranceVin using the modern London vor- nacular is masterly; his insight Into the pertest filtie baggage that over walked on too-high heels is candid and profound.

★

ERNEST BEVIN, By Francis Williams, -H-u t'e hinson, 21. 288 pages.

TOBODY who reads Francis

N Williams's life of

Ernest

egg-

Bevh will doubt that he was a truculent man, with a brutal preference for smashing shells with a steam hammer. Nobody wilt doubt it who reads how

Bevin crushed gentle George Lansbury at the So Party conference of

cialist 1935,

Lansbury, leader of the party. told the conference he could not go on if the party aban- doned pacifism out of fear for. the dictators. The conference wept and cheered him.

Untouched by this emotion, Bevin bluntly accused Lansbury of "trolling your conscienco round from body to body ask- ing to be told what to do with It." When he sat town, the conference would not even al- low Lansbury to reply.

Told he had been too harsh, Bevin said Jocularly, "Lansbury has been going about dressed in saint's clothes for years wall- ing martyrdom. I set fire to the faggots."

His impious assault on venerated. Socialist figure had :' been both sincere and calcu Intod. Bovin's roughest acts generally were. He combined a bullying temperament. with astuteness that know how to exploit bad-temper against his rivalatu bat,

an

This was, indeed, the main quality that won him the greatest industrial empire of our time, the Transport and General Workers' -Union,

and through that empire gave him a political position of strength. Francis Williams paints the portrait of a man of rugged force, and puts a favourable gloss on his record sa Milɲis- ter.

And Mr Attlee writes a pre- face for the book, which, in a page and a half, contains; the words "rent"

"greatest! 18