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Che SNAPSHOT CUILD A British Crossword Puzzle THE
Iowered tiy
An enterprising amateur photographer camera, with flash attachment, into a well and used a long string to trip the shutter in making this unusual shat, Dare To Be Different
I in easy to suit a parti.
snapshooting
cularly us for us camera angle is concerned. The traditional straight on shooting from directly in front of the subject has be- come such a habit that many amateur photographers sel- dom think of trying, any- thing else.
However, an occasional try at to a new angle will, do much enliven your snapshot collec- ton. If you will study Some of the most arresting pletures in newspapers and magazines, you will note that the professionals frequently create eye-catching photographs by merely placing the camera in a spot where you wouldn't
expect the camera to be. If it works in the magi- zines, it ought to bo worth
trying for your album.
Try a low angle shot once In laking advantage of the
a while provides an excellent
sky
for
of can
background
pictures people. In this Way you casily eliminate distracting de- talls of shrubbery and buildings. Or you can till your camera at n low angle when making pic- tures of peopic outdoors, and use the grass for a good, unclut- tered background.
If you like shooting street scenes, try looking down from a busy high vantage point on a thoroughfare with. case
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
"H'MM"
STARE
You can make very effective
pictures in this manner.
Of course, you can carry the iden of a different camera angle
an
to extremes. Unusund angies can be just as much of a llability as the
arset. Study your subject carefully through the viles discover the finder until you angle that will give you the best picture.
-John van Guilder
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29
30
ACROSS
1 Correct (5),
4 Calls out (0),
8 Animal (6).
10 Behind (3).
12 Fruit (6).
14 Dead-end (7).
17 Object of mirth (4).
10
Answering no good purpose
20 Eat (7).
22-Afresh (4).
23 Act of rubbing out (7).
20 Large Soul (6)
frult (6),
30 Denudes (6), 31 Coples (0). 32 Wander afield (5),
17
18
DOWN
1 Hebrew teacher (8),
2 Clutch (5).
3 Abounds (5).
5 Cure (4)
8 False (6).
7 Supporta (0).
Carries on again (7).
11 Legends (6);
13 Abandons (7).
16 Heavenly body (4)..
10 Reply (8).
18 Emperor of Russia (4).
20 Apprehended (0),
21 Dense cluster of stars (6).
24 On the move (5). 25 Coalition (5).
20 Follow (5).
20 Tool (4).
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Adopting, 8 Rook, 9 Operator, 11 Penitent, 13 Arms, 15 Depletes, 18 Redolent, 19 Stab, 21 Dividers, 25 Presided, 26 Tell, 27 Retreats. Down: 1 Grip, 2 Down, 4 Dope, 5 Pert, 8 Inter, 7 Garbs, Otter, 10 Ended, 12 Eject, 14 Miner, 18 Tepid, 17 Solid, 19 Super, 20 Alert, 21 Dire, 12 Vest, 23, Even, 24 Sat.
YOU WARE
BEING
CHASED BY A WOLF IN
A PARK BUT COULD NOT SEE WHICH WAY TO GO FOR THE TREES THAT SURROUNDED YOU AND
KID THE WOLF
PAT LAST YOU REACHBO HOME, BUT HEARD THE WOLF FORCING THE DOOR.
BUT WHEN IT YIELDED
THERE STOOD SOMEONE
OF WHOM YOU WERE
NOT AFRAID
THIS DREAM MEANS things about, och that alarm you. The man *you can trust represents the things about men There are so many types of anxiety dream that increase your sense of security. A park as of anxiety: It may be about your future, or garden is your life or way of living: home present or the consequences of your part. symbolises security.
The anxiety here is about your "ambiva- lence" to men generally: your contradictory at-
"Ambivalence" becomes lem as you grow
titude of "I love and hate and fear him." The up emotionally, Unless you can learn to love door-forcing wolf you try to escape from is without fear or hate, you never will be grown-
wolf: representing very much a human
the up.
How To Get Your Man
TRY THIS -ITS
A REAL SWOONY
SCENT:
WHEN IT COMES TO LANDING A
`MAN - THIS TASTY DISH
HAS THE ANSWER „
A BABY
IS ALL
SOME GIRLS
NEED.
ACCORDING TO THE
NAMES AND DESCRIPTIONS
OF ALL THE EXOTIC PERFUMES, MERE MAN HASN'T A CHANCE.
COPR, 1963 ST GENERAL, FEATURES
CORF, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.
"IS THERE ANYTHING YOU
· DON'T KNOW,
THERE I ARE TIMES WHEN A LITTLE PLATTERY, WILL SPRING THE TRAP
COMMON INTERESTS ONIONS, HAVE BEEN KN
AS STEAK AND DO THE TRICK.
JOKER
Even His Funeral Became A Comedy
CHEKHOV: ■ life by David arrived unexportedly it was Magarhack, Faber. 30%, plain thes meant to stay for
dinner. 431 pagan
mo.
To the end
Hot When Bat· last - they-ért, Chekhov, Chekhov quite worn
Russian dramatist and an avowal of love," [1319(80%)? short story writer, was true Lydia's hand in his, dropped 11 to his own spirit of wistful cold hand, looked soarchingly at once, saying, “Oh, what a
comedy,
When he died (1904) in a
at the clock. To the lonely, then world was still a desert,
German spa, his body was But the evening - wastnot. I
brought back to Moscow in a utterly wasted,
gooda wagon labelled "Fresh Oysters."
At
another
platform
In the same station an- other train simultane ously arrived. In it was the coffin of Gen- eral Keller killed in the Russo-Japanese war, then raging.
GEORGE MALCOLM
THOMSON
Chekhov P
echoes of it into
piny,
ro
The Seagull. He was born (1880 In Taganrog. in
South Russia on the Son of Azov,
His father way a shopkeeper who beat his sons brutally il brought ruin" on the o family by an excess of OA
The two groups BOOKS peasant cunning, w
of waiting mourners
Ordering ahouse!
were unaware of the
to be built, he barel coincidence, so that two funeral gained with the builder torga processions merged into one, led pay so many roubles per thol.
a white sand bricks. The builder, thent by a policed officer on horse, behind whom a brass built the walls twice the UNADİ band blared out military music. thickness; Chekhov's father had t
to flee from his creditors to this Indy mourner of the Moscow. Chekhov party sald to the old Chekhov was apprenticed to lat man who marched beside her, tailor; made one pair of trousers "Oh, he was such a nice man, so tight that they could hardly'r so witty!" From the look of be pulled on. To make money astonishment on the old man's he began writing short stories.ca/ face it was clear he could not and, on the proceeds, kept recall that General Keller had self at the Moscow been wilty.
At last the mistake, was dia- covered and the two corteges,
a
medi
school; also helped to support!!
mother, father
dipsomanine" brother, brothar who -hadis! children by a series of mispr) pendants,
མ
tress, half a dozen other; de-777)
At 25, to his amazement, how found himself famous, but parent were disentangled, amid roars, of
sisted
thinking that his stories! It Was laughter.
joke eminently to the taste of Anton ware worthless; in a year or two
would be forgotten... -llemal they Chekhov, who always thought
B would write a grout... novel; ho, mô that his play, The Cherry tried, failed. It was
vas the mont Orchard, had been ruined be tragic event
rent in his fc. equie Moscow actors produced it He practised a
as a tragedy whereas he had in-
doctorp
tended it as a light comedy. He generally his patients were fouti Was quite accustomed to the idea, poor to pay fees. He loved fishes that life's most serious moments ing; had a passion for visiting could become ridiculous.
cemeteries; was an enthusiastumb gambler; used to sprinkle himself
After countless
love affairs lavishly with scent. (for he was handsome, amusing and immensely attractive to women), Chekhoy fell in love with a married woman, Lydia ́
He was accretive about his
anthon
Birt
7::O?
Avilov. He scaled his letters to nitairs; would never admit thatju her with the inscription: To from his early twents, chem the lonely, the world is a desert." suffered from tuberculosisi He
would only allow a doctor to al After a struggle of conscience examine him when he felt -and at a time when her hus- Three years before ›
young actress band was visiting the Caucasus he married -Lydia invited him to her flat named Olga Knipper
The moment had badgered him to write: Husalan !!
genius the
in Moscow. come to reach an understanding. my
The ket
You
prop:12
Don't give way fo
Alas, two friends of the husband Maman Chekhov" nad bec
BY HARRY WEINERT
MANY A BIG
ROMANCE HAS BEEN LAUNCHED
BY A TINY MOUSE.
"I JUST LOVE
DUCK HUNTING!
EE-E-K
THE SPORTS
ROUTINE 15. RUGGED, BUT IT HÁS ITS LGOOD
POINTS.
SOME SNARE THE MAN WITH
A LONG LINE OF GAB ABOUT ART THE DRAMA
AND WBIRD WATCHING.
melancholy."
at, pains to hide from her
serious nature of his filñess.or
As his health grew worse,
urge to write something gay gray stronger, Ono day--he --wrote-em
on.a
blank sacet derpy
ulle
The Cherry Orchard
"I am writing
tour lines
be told a friend "and even
that gives me unbearable pain.
Five months aner first night
Chelshoy was dead. The cheered Arid
comedy
which
tormented the last year of hus Jite has the melancholy charm of a smile on the tree at one who
dying
From Magnishindi's biographys
a careful book but not an in- spired one, Chokhov, emerges ns. a puzzling Agure,' who enjoyeu life thoroughly, yet remained strangely detached from it. My business is merely tatented," he said
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