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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1953.
British Crossword Puzzle Che SNAPSHOT GUILD THE CURATE'S WIFE
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5 Lies in walt (5).
Rellet (4).
9 Dieury (0).
11 Drive (5).
12 Claws
14 Grain (4).
10 Ceremonies (5).
18 Conscious of (5).
19 Litter (4).
20 Chase (8).
24 Boredom (5).
25 Bull (0).
26 Row (4).
27 Right of ownership (5).
20 Ambassador (6).
DOWN
1 Lose freshness (4).
2 Expel (4).
3 Actual (4).
Bar (0).
5 Freedom from work (7).
G Gives an account of (7).
7 Egoistle (7).
10 Army rank (5).
13 Crop (7).
14 Article of furniture (7).
15 interval of rest (7).
17 Result (5).
10 Piece (0).
21 Withered (4).
22 Volcano (4).
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..... YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Across: 1 Repel, 4 Strait,
8 Medlar, 10 Acorn, 12 Sermon,' 14 Trestle, 17 Well, 19 In- vades, 20 Studies, 22 Wand, 23 Verdan!, 27 Revere,.29 Arena, 30 Sample, 31 Silent, 32 Meels. Down: Remit, 2 Padre, Lenst, Team, 6 Aloned, 7 Tenets, D Relieve, 11 Coward, 13 Renders, 15 Rota, 10 Sudden, 18 Loan, 20 Swears, 21 Unreal, 24 Realm, 25 Ample, 20 Tress, 28 Vein.
YOU OPENED THE
DOOR OF YOUR FLAT
AND SAW THE
HEAD OF, A
LION COMING
UP THE STAIRS.
YOU RUSHED
BACK BUT COULD NOT SHUT THE DOOR
THIS DREAM
MONTHS LATER YOU DREAMED AGAIN. THIS TIME THE LION
WAS ON THE LANDING
MEANS:
Wild animals in dreams symbolise strong primitive uncontrolled instincts: the lion usual- ly represents masculine instincts.
Your desperate attempts to shut the lion oul represent your equally desperate attempts to shut out of your fe all thoughts of the male as lover; it is pretly obvious you cannot
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
· REMEMBER- WHEN I USED.
TO SEND YOU,ALL THOSE MUSHY VALENTINES
A
VALENTINE BY THE WAY —
This little miss makes a fine subject for an open flash shot. the simplest cameras far Open flash can be aed with
Indoor shots.
Flash For Everyone-Open Flash N acquaintance of mine plained that the term
Acquaintance
mouning the fact that he lacked a new camera. "One with a flash synchronised shutter," he put it, "so I can make indoor shots."
be
of
ןי
ENDED AN AFFAIR
By opinion, however, that Brook- Oxford held, while behaving abomin-
in, aji. 12s. 6d. bly to his wife, was
other respects a fine fellow.
THE BURIED LIFE
Gordon N. Roy. University Press. 148 pages.
Tthe
affection
famous
between
A Thackeray decume" mora famous, Brookfield became more!
novelist jealous. more resentful of the and the curate's wife was author's constant presence in: mutual. bot of unequal the house, and more brutal · to ardour.
June, his wife. Sho, for her Mru Brookfield was the great part, protested to her husband, passion of 'Thackeray's life. "It is not as if Mr Thackeray Thackeray was to her an enter- taining
"caller whose flattering Were some young Adonis in the attentions consoled for the bad Guards," while writing to the temper of her husband,
novelist, "I do think at near Poor Mr Brookfield! Allowance 30 une may take up a line or must be made for the disap- one's own, when one is intimate pointments which life had enough for it to be well under- heaped оп hini, Handsome, stood what one means." clever and much- admired
B3 Da
undergraduate at Cambridge,
he
the
had entered the Church out of a "open sense of career merely referred to the rather than voca use of a flash bulb in a hand-tion. It was held reflector not in syn- bad dechlon
Не дая
too chronization with the shutter,
theatrical In the Bast The beauty of open course, is that the method can puloit and in- sumciently with used
any camera unctuous out of equipped for
for either "time" ori He belonged
to I told him to cheer up. Afler "buls" exposure. Any camera, neither all, while cameras with bulit that is, where the shutter can High Church nor open the Low Church In flush may be ideal for work be set so it will remain indoors, the lack of a syn- until closed by the action of the party, Preferment chronised shutter doesn't-mean picture taker. For the method passed him by; ----- indoor pletures are out, "You can muke snapshots indoors by daylight, with common house hold lamps, or with Photofloods, Or you can use open flash."
That was a new one to him
open Bush. He'd never heard the expression. So I ex-
A YEAR LATER YOU DREAMED ONCE MORE, AND THIS TIME THE LION WAS AT YOUR DOOR
do this any more-tha Hon is at your door,
This is the dream of a maturing girl who is beginning to face the emotional facts of life: who is still "ambivalent" to men, le., fearful yet fascinated;
It is obvious that if no one has prepared you for theso emotional facts, you are in need of wise, sympathetia and skilled advice to dis- pel your unjustifiable fears.
simply calls for opening shutter.
JANE BROOKFIELD
But what did "one" mean?
The triangle had its complex-* ities. Brookfield, while at heart trusting his wife, Insisted on work- ing himselt up: into a frenzy of
about: muspicion her.
Jane was de- lighted to have a lover in whom. the could confide the unhappiness of her marriage: she had not the slightest Inten- of risking her reputation for him. When
-so Thackeray put do
it all in a book her husband
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being. the after setting off the flash curate
at St. James's, Piccadil- bulb, and closing the butter.
Naturally, since the chuttery, he was obliged remains open a long time by to become a school by GEORGE MALCOLM ETHOMSON
standards, photographie
open inspector.
Kinglake, flash isn't for use with subjects
116erary which are likely to move about paid of him, "He And the camera should never be hund-held but should be steadied the
wit of the period, awarded her a kiss for sending she was
never Thackeray a chilly letter trast
demoralised by told him, "I would be quite Holy Orders." It was too content to throw snowballs if ! an a table, tripod, or other firm optimistic i verdict. Brookfield have a kiss from you," support. But with these limita took out his feeling of fallure tions,
open flash offers fine on his handsome wite, Jane. He
Thackeray idolised her virtue,; means of making Indoor shots found her incompetent
and would have been happy As a generat rule for pictures of
It less impregnable, He her were this type, the reficctor should be held housekeeper and blamed
half-reconciled to the above the camera tilted alightly because (for 10 years) they was down toward the subject--and a little
She re- platonic relationship, especially were denied children. to left or right of the camera-subject axis. This provides lightly better warded him with adoration and as he could make frequent trips modelling than direct, fal frontal took refuge in tears
1 to Paris. | lighung."
health.
As for exposure, it depends upon the type of flash lammy used, the type of fun, and lamp-tu-subject distance. With box cameras and other simple , fixed larta aperture, cameras having a 1 the lamp to subject distances may be anywhere from 6 to 12 dect using customary roli fin and an SM lamp. A alightly more powerful No Glamp permite increasing the distance to 35 feet with the same film.
One, word of caution, however, which I passed along to my friend After you've pored your subject and are alf ready to make the shot, turn oul any room lights which may be in the camaro held of view. Otherwise you run the risk of exposing your film prematurely in the tiny interval the between the time you open shutter and the time the flash goes alf.
How To Annoy A Wife
THE BOYS ARE PLAYING POKER HERE AGAIN. ED IS HAVING HIS HOUSE
› PAPERED “
INDEED-YOU KNOW......... MY. BRIDGE CLUB MEETS THE SAME NIGHT!“
-John van Guilder
Si
Upon this clouded domestic
After nine uneasy years, hus Beene Thackeray entered (1842) band and adorer had a violent
a
in the state of emotional quarrel: unforgivable words tr.1stration natural to one were spotten. "I wish I had wrote the whose pretty wife has been shut never loved her." up in an asylum, leaving him novelist to a woman friend,
have been played with by with two young daughters...
woman, and flung over at a beck from the lord and master."
What does a writer do In such a crisis? "He has one compen sation," observes Somerset "Whenever he has Maugham. anything on his mind
wounded pride, requited love, anger at the treachery of some- one to whom he has shown kindness, he has only to put it down in black and white, using It as the theme of a story tr the decoration of an eray, to forget all about it."
He arrived as the friend of Brookfield, became the champion of Brookfield's wife and, in no time at all, was madly in love with that oppressed, sofa-haunt Ing invalid. He remained of
BY HARRY WEINERT
HOW ABOUT
SNAILS ?"
to
of the n
Thackeray flod from London the country and begun to Esmond. This write his novel tella of domestic tyranny, failure of love between Lord and Lady Castlewood and Hurry Esmond's passion for her ladyship. Scene by scene, the novel follows the pattern of the Brookfield affair; the end is. however,
wish fulfilment: Esmond marries the
Lady Castlewood, widowed at last.
Mrs Brookfield has been con- verted, as Professor Ray demon- strates in his careful excursion into literary detection, into model for one of Thackeray's insipid heroines, "the whimper. ing little goddess" as a dis- gruntled Victorian eritic put it, "whom he deifies in -every
novel."
“AND TO THINK
1 MISSED A
BASKETBALL
DOUBLEHEADER.”
TAKE HER TO SEE HER FAVORITE ACTOR, THEN GRIPE ALL EVENING ABOUT HOW
*TERRIBLE HE IS.
"THERE GOES
MRS. BROWN WITH A NEW FUR COAT.“
THE BOYS WILL GET
FRUIT SALAD WITH MARSHMALLOW -AND LIKE IT.
2- WUNCTI
COUR, FILWOHELD I
"WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL
ME ??
ALWAYS WAKE UP FROM YOUR AFTER-DINNER SNOOZE AT THE MOMENT THE DISHES ARE DONE
WHEN YOU FINALLY TAKE HER OUT FOR DINNER BE SURE IT IS ONE OF THOSE QUAINT PLACES WHERE SHE CAN'T READ THE MENU.
COME DOWN "TO ́ SUNDAY BREAKFAST LOOKING LIKE A FUGITIVE FROM A MOBO JUNGLE.
TRY TO PASS ME HUM/
WHEN YOU TAKE THE CAR OUT BE SURE TO GIVE HER
A GOOD
SCARE
Ray tracks down some other originals of Thackeray _char- actors the novelist'a naughty grandmother who may have. been coloured, gave him. tho
Miss for
Crawley in
hint
Vanity Fair Major Pendennis,
was drawn from his uncle by
marriage, & Regency buck named Major Merrick Shawe. His wife became Amolia Sedley in Vanity Fair, "a very Niobe of tears, drawn in cold contempt." as one critle thought.
*ke this
this milk-and-water in women," Thackeray told his mother. "under valuing your ladyships'
and caring only. the Mrs. Brook-
પા feld's heart was, in the end, mode tranquil by a fomniał reconciliation boween the two
for
men in her life. But the friend- ship was over,
For the most famous of all: Thackeray's women characters, Becky Sharp, Professor Ray puts Jarward. no candidate. for Bumour-gl the time did it him. It was said that the novel- Ist, after a love affair with his children's, governess "hed her the model of Becky, and that she, in revenge, had made him the odious Mr. Rochester of her novel Jane Eyre.
made
time. Charlotte Bronte's nuthar- ship of the novel was unknown. trackeray, was deemned *** too cynical at the time tip: wrote, and has since been dismissed as too sentimental." There I, pow mpre interest in him as a' man' than as an author. Ray's re- searches, of which The Burled Eite forms only a modest frae- tion, fun that”interest“
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