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A British Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS:

3 Alarms (8).

E. Deposited (4).

9. Bullfighter (8).

11 Abstaining from aleshot (8).

13 Formerly (4).

15 Rouge, for example (8):

18 Mock (5).

19 Intimate talk 4).

21 Apropos (8).

25 Buits in (8).

26 Successor (4).

27 Foreshadows (8).

YESTERDAY'S

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DOWN:

1 Conspiracy (4),

2 Suga (4),

Equine galt' (4).

Dance (4).

Endenc (5).

Jollification (5).

Heavy drinker (5).

14 Madt (5).

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1953.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD A Stockbroker In Search

Of Barbarian Luxury?

Bark lighting oflen helps to make

11 Punctuation mark (5).

12 Important period (3).

to Weary (5)

{ Quotes" (5)

19 Brittle (5).

20 Change (5).

El Direcurteous (4),

27 Advance (4).

23 Imitatori (4).

24 Sharp (4).

CROSSWORD-Across: ! Candid, 4 Sweat.

13 Confide. Dress, 21 Dexiuct. Down:

? Regiment, 8 Tram. 9 Spread, 11 Emerges, Reason, 18 Wages. 19 Uttering, 20

1 Corps, 2 Drive, 3 Devaded, 4 Salles, 5 Enlurges, 6 Tennis, Renegade, 12 Merdesi, 13 Coward, 14 Issues, 18 Aerid, 17.Night.

YOU WERE RUSHING

ALONG A RAILWAY PLATFORM WITH YOUR WIFS AND BABY, BUT

ALL COMPARTMENTS WERE JAMMED FULL BUT EVENTUALLY YOU CAME TO A VACANT

ONE

A straightforward anxiety dream: of young married man.

J

effective Seascapes dapping the water with bright flecks of lights, Marine Scenes

FEW scenic pictures ap

peal more than sea- scapes with their sun-flecker waves, their rolling, crested breakers.

Prudes are not likely to read lovely figures' who posed CkJC

THE INTIMATE JOURNALS companion, aged 13%, Arrived

his huf. Paul was not far in these pages which, even angels," OF PAUL GAUGUIN. In

surprised at the arrangement, at their most peevish and trivial, Heinemann, 15. 138 was one of the things the carry the stamp of a strong, pages.

wilful temperament.

RENOIR.

104 plates with Introduction by William Gaunt, Phaidon Press, 42.

VEARS after Paul's death

guide-book had mentioned,

Slight, modest, of a natursity gay disposition, Renoir a' life can be swifty summed up: a happy buit mech- One day in 1003, the

marriage. many girls, (0,000 5»l»n enemy of the churchies WOLS a fur found dead by Proterant in many of them done,

when missionary

his and burled

hands were no crippled by with arthritis that the Brushásfugin Catholic missionaries.

had to be strapped lobal veit There is a legend, for which he written it would have

Ilis autobiography, had

Thron years later ho returned to Paris with 40 pictures and a costume which included hat and a blue waistcoat with yellow and green collar. He lived in a studio with chrome yellow walls hung with knob-

wrist.

it was decided to forgive kerries and hatchets. A monkey Somoset Maughan's novel "The called: The Joy of Paint 14

#

Moon and Sixpence" is reapon. sible, that Gau-

died Quin ho died

him for having been a frisked about the floor, and genius. On the wall of the

anmed house in Paris where he was

played born,

commemorative. 41

Annah's plaque was unveiled by the fact with history Minister of Education,

young

Javanese Annah hostera,

con-

The narrowUNGS of NEW BOOKS leprosy. In fact,

whs

"Who exactly?"

"Didn't you hear? He was a sailor."

An

Dia! Remale's ha. artistle interest and of a sumplusur pleasure in sunburat venereal disease, female bodies are exhibited in,-**** GEORGE After his death many plates of the Phaidon!

The Houso of Pres volume, THOMSON Carnal Pleasure In the mid-nineties you could

sold to an

wha American trader for £19.

:

by is brier and mysterious. On the edge of the Ittle opera-singer of MALCOLM crowd that - watched the cert- the time, Mund

buy a Renoir in Parli for £20. mony, two paserry-by exchanged Nina Pack, had told a rich

An auction words:

love 10 banker friend: "I'd

of Gauguin's Last month £25,000 war asked of his canvases in have a File Negro girl" The pictures, and other possessions for

of palating Gauguin, banker

mer: London. The joy did a great deal of was attended by sailors,

has proved infectious, and chants, beachcombers, business with the Far East,

local drawing master turned One day a policeman brought publie letter-writer who bought for three to the singer a young Astatic. Paul's paintbrushes

girl who had been found wan- franes. A naval doctor bought de Lyons his palette. dering in the Garo

neck: with a label round her

Alme N.

Pack, They talked about a Rochefoucauld, Paris." This was Annah, who proved unsatisfac- tory as a domestic servant and in due course became a modet.

by

"Did they not say been a stockbroker?"

"That

becn must have brother.

he harl

;

a

ay na only central too of painter too."

has no single, central point of

Interest,

Paul Gauguin was an able interest is stamon

stoker for six

and

of a journalist

and

Such point of important for good composition years, a prosperous stockbroker and you'll And It helps to for ten, an impoverished artist introduce one in your pictures. 1849. son

for 20. He was born in Paris, A boat, o fight of sea birds, or In general, views of this type rock may do the trick. O his Creole wife,

dimcult a

brone you may find that a great white plie of clouds or 1 crested

will WHYC interest,

arc

somewhat than landscapes since a

more

*Amadimalles

THEN YOU FOUND THAT

18

THE GAP BETWEEN THE TRAIN AND THE PLATFORM HAD WIDENED, BUT YOU GOT YOUR WIFE AND

CHILD IN BY

STRETCHING NEARLY FLAT-THEN THE TRAIN MOVED AND YOU STRETCHED AND STRETCHED FINALLY GETTING

IN YOURSELF

on

THIS DREAM MEANS your mate and, to take the whole burden

yourself.

You de sucoced: you may fear fallure but you obviously don't anilcipate It.

Experience as a medical psychologist sug- You feel, despite your striving. you whit gests that at least 60 per cent, of a real sense is not be able to find "Lebensraum"- place in of security (the opposite of anxiety which the Journey of Die-for self, wife and baby, a sense of insecurity) comes from balanced Once got you have to strain to the limits of human relationships: with your wife, selgh- endurance to bridge the gap and keep it. You bours, fellow-workers (bosses, colleagues, sub- beemane wonders why-to expect le of ordinates) and your community generally.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"HE IS ONLY A PUPPY. WE HAD BETTER TAKE

HIM TO BED WITH US.

WATCHING

THE NEW WATCH- DOG.

"MAYBE HE

WOULD LIKE

"ISN'T HE CUTE!*

ONE OF MY CIGARS.

serve

to

ת!

The

bock

Rue de

him

דותיו!

As the

sale proceeded, the hilarity of the crowd increased.

The height of fun was reached when on early Gauguin, a Breton landscape, was held upside down by the auctioneer and announced as "The Niagara Falls." The naval doctor got it for

seven

afterwards'

45

THE PRODUCER, By Richard is Brooks. Heinemana. 15. 304 pages.

DROP a tear for Matt Gibbons,

hero of this novel of feat ridden Hollywood. He in the producer of The Great Man,,,a, pleture in which a million and a half dollars are invested, His troubles are about as numerous “ as his dollars.

il

1

francs. For years. TROUBLE with the Haya.

native Office over the script: “P. =95.3 Gauguin's

beret The direction, the stapa_hier servant were the green with the silver tassel.

playfully. Where does ho slap her?" The Intimate Journals make disconnected reading and throw

beams of light on ful strange personality. Fuller un

will derstanding of the man

und came from Gauguin's life }ls pictures,

A

Gaugui took her with to Brittany, where he got into a At the age of 36, Paul de Aght with some sailors who had insulted the girl. During the cided to sacrlice, stockbroking capture for art, in which he had been struggle, Gauguin's anide

broken by a dick.. While he lay dabbling for some years, Tho Exposure for murine

SCC burden of the sacrifice would helpless in bed Annah pillaged not difficult.

me important mainly be borne by his Danish his studio and vanished. Gauguin thing to remember is that less wife

to the Pacifte in and their five.

children, went exposure, will be needed

their disgust. han My family can stew in for

land subjects, most

own juice, sald Paul Brmly. This time Ko-Ke (as he was bost Seascape with a

His wite was left to support called by the stunders) went foreground, for example, might

the brood by translating Zola's native in costume. retaining

His creed as a painter is stated 1/100 require an exposure of

novels into Danish.

In his romark about one picture: unly a green beret with a silver second

f/1. The same

tassel of his Europtan get-up. I wanted to suggest by mcons with scenc

rio Idreground

His poverty grew worse,

of a simple nude a certain long object, would require a smaller

ness grew with it, in lost and barbarian luxury." lens uperture, say f/16, with

he had

મ contracted Misease the same shuiter setting.

which now caused him terrible Often in marine views you wil find that back lighting helps. Coming

He quarrellen with suffering. the water toward your bill-sticker for an advertising Su

the French officials and with camera, light will leave a dancing company. He painted doggedly the missionaricg, Protestant and pattern of gilnung waves to give "I am a strong man who can Catholic alike. life to our pleture. Don't fail to bend fato to my tastes," he told

$40134

$beld

your tens.

from however,

be done by using by having someone hold his hand |

Paul Rot work for a time as

who

THER luxury" That Gauguin

TROUBLE because an elderly Actor in the cast in charged with molesting a schoolgirl.

Natalle his wife, takes to drink, drigs, psycho-analysis, religion,

TROUBLE because

TROUBLE Trahan,

with Vinco who runs a nice little blackmailing business under the gulse of loyalty to America. "Nothing wrong with that, 19 there?" Trahan brings Matt's/ script-welter, Shea, before the un-American Activities. Comp mitice.

natal

All this on top of the terrora of a film-makers' life:

temperamental directors, Anseri can Legion, Lengue óf Decency etc.

THE "long lat barbarian

direct rays of the sun, This may one of the email

group

Towards the end of his life, sought in the Pacific, his con- lens houd of believed in his talent. Ore day. In the Sut he called The House temporary the painter. Aga

in tlie kitchen. or hat ze that it will east a shadow rending a popular guide-book, of Carnal Pleasure" to annoy Renoir found

liked painting on the tent. He sure, however, that he acquired a new taste-to go the local bishop, he wrote the Renal,

women The shading object is outside the to Tahiti, the French protec-

forceful more than anything else in the strangely Deld covered by the lens.

wayward, gord torate in the Pacifle. He would notes known his journal. world. Asked how he preferred The same rules will hold

You' leave civilisation and dwell in "Intentionally I write when making; snaps at lakes.

bit his It

models,

answered But that a point et interest and a

smuttlly here and there, It's "Naked." He thought house life is reading the derogatory short exposure will help give you better pictures whether of the ocean In Tahit, he was not alone because I want to prevent this maids made the most satlafac reviews of a close friend's pic

I have been ture, It is hardly enough to see w ut an inland lake.

for very long. In a day or two, miscellany from being read by tory modela:

nurr

the ordealalami through fortunate in having several with Ja pretty little

making The Great Man. golden-skinned prudes.”.

-Joha van Güller

the wilds alone.

Pets Or Pests It All Depends

EITHER

THEY LEAVE

OR WE LEAVE /"

SHE HAD BETTER LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE HE ALSO LIKES SNAKES,

13-22

"THEY ALWAYS WANT YOUR PET CHAIR.

"CRACKERS/

WRINETE-

HE IS SUPPOSED

"TO TAKE ME

FOR A WALK.

ITS A GOOD THING I LIKE PRETZELS,

CRACKERS.-/

ALWAYS

BLANKETY-BLANK

CRACKERS.-

AME WILL INCREASE HIS VOCABUL

·IF NOT HIS DIET.

COF: 1993 BY GENERAL FRATURES CORP.THWORLD RIGHTS RESERVED,

kc

BY HARRY WEINERT

"CAN'T WE

IN HERE 7"

HAVE IT COOLER

ANOTHER

BATH ICAN

TAKE IT

SHE CAN.

"DON'T, YOU REALIZE THESE ARE

TROPICAL

FISH 7*

THAT. LOOK OF DISAPPROVAL IF YOU

SALVAGE ANY OF

THE DINNER.

TIGHT- WAD!

Only pleasure loft In Mall's

Somewhore along the line,

Richard Brooks has last, his way. In this story. Matt Gibbons a pleture is not completely honest yet not a total sell-out to the pressure groups. Resulta fumbled climax, neither a bang nor a whimper; at most a

shrug.

As the Alm magriate. mouins in the last pages,."The

times, they're not clean.”****

Matt is a hero to suit the times.

LIBRARY LIST

the now no 1.4. LISTEN COMRADES,” katan El Campesino, Heinemann; 15%,%" 203 pates. After the Spanish Civil War, the brave Com munist general against Franco. E1 Campesino, went to Stalin's Russia, Soon he was one of many disillusioned comrades A labouring on Moscow's under th ground railway; later, Inani Arelle coal mine. Not all havd lived to tell the tale.".

THE SWIFT CLOUD. BIS Sigrid de Lima. Chatto:!' and list Windus:

12. 04. 220: paguaj dug Dramatic and serious American' *

is a widow. novel. Clyde Cassen er with an idiot son, aged 1 Mer

mutter

The son is found dend

is suspected, the father is arre

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• THE GLASGOW STORY: PRE By Colm Brorum Muller, Eskim 223 pares. Trailing his raht after the manner of his race, th Colm 'Brogan conducts a livelyuns

doray

along these

Journen path of Scottish

commentary. If Glasgow is

the most Scottish city, 1 is the us most important and intereafing city In Scotland. Its vigour Hy fects Brogan's writing.

Freas:

OHANNA HORE BỜ NA KHI Jones. Cambridge Universi

27. Ga.; 284 pardi? Careful, plodding study of famous blue stocking philanthropist of the century whom William Cobbl called "the

old bishop

• LUCIFER AND THE LAN

By: Jenti-Paul "Big Iref

Bartres. Cout houth-doßg play) Germany during the

audiences to admiration fury can be imagined: Sartre violent rhetoric is here.