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WHILE YOU WERE AT WORK, A FORE- MAN WHO HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU BENT YOU TO GET HIM A SANDWICH, AS YOU RETURNED UP A LONG FLIGHT OF STAIRS TO HIS OFFICE YOU FOUND

YOU HAD BATEN HALF

THE SANDWICH WITHOUT KNOWING

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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

Enlarged from a 21⁄4 x3% negative, a ploturs such as this Increases in effectiveness as it increpans in size.

Showmanship In Your Pictures

x 14-inch

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

The woman who saved Hearst

THE LIFE AND GOOD. Davies, for whom, It was TIMES OF WILLIAM soon clear, he would do RANDOLPH HEARST. By anything except obtain a Jahn Tebbel. Gollanes, divorce from Mrs Hearst. 16. 386 pages.

Ilia comment on the associa. tion was concise and ade.

E was born to riches. quate, "I'm not saying it's His father's money right. empire was founded js."

The

I'm saying that it

on a big holding In the

great art commolkscur Homestake Mine In Dakota. including a brooch in the form

lavished gifts on his new friend,. biggest gold producer in the northern hemisphere,

In

of the American flag, diamonds, sapphires and ruble He made an empire of his

It was widely and wrongly believed that the devoted; couple own in newspapers, pouring had children. Hearst dedit sar- out his money at the rate donically with this legend in of a million dollars a year his will, in which he said that until he established himself, anybody proving he was his - spring would be entitled to one When he died, aged 88. dollar. enlargement,

his estate

death Just before Heart's was unofficially reckoned at 400 million

(1951) in Marion Davies' man- dollars.

slon in Beverly Hills a doctor, knowing she had scarcely

Blept for 48 hours, "came at me with that little old neede

and one, I was out.

NOT long ago a neighbour was 11

complaining that his pictures mounted it on a mat and framed rarely impressed his friends. it, and hung it in his home. A Many of them good pictures, too, week or so later one of his "'ll show guests half-a-dozen snapshots I think are fine," he friends dropped in for a visit, told me, "and they will mutter and almost the first thing he some polite comment and turn noticed was the big, new picture.

He thought it a wonderful shot Ho was saved by a loan of came to, the body hid Bre

the talks to the weather."

By way of illustration ho showed me several shota he had taken on his vacation. All were excellent. But all were contact prints just 21⁄4 x 3 inches, So we tried a stunt.

We took the best one of his half-dozen shots and made an

YOU WENT BACK TO THE CANTEEN IN GREAT EMBARRASSMENT AND EXPLAINED WHAT YOU HAD; -DONE, THE LADY GAVE YOU :

TWO MORE SANDWICHES *ONE FOR THE FOREMAN AND ONE FOR YOURSELF.

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The moral, of course, is that showmanship gets your prints the attention they merit. All of us are impressed by size. If you doubt this, think how quickly our interest is roused by tho) tallest building in the world, the largest ship, the biggest show on carth,

In the intervening years he had known one moment that of financial embarrassment. two, I

moved---"gone, whoosh,

1

sho

"Welsh

a million dollars from his that. They didn't even let me Nor did Miss closest woman. friend, say good-bye."

Davies appear at the funeral Marion Davies.

service In San Francio's William Randolph Hearst Episcopal cathedral. (born in San Francisco, 1863) grew up a million-

Using 20 pseudonyms In the aire with Socialist leanings sale rooms and spending on art which did not survive tho a million dollars a year, for 50 amassed one of And, by the same token, a harah realities of American years, Hearst

the biggest art collections Food enlargement from elife. standard size negative becomes

history. He bought' more impressive, compels more He hated (as the years castle; two. Spanish monasteries

he took to America attention by its bigness alone. rcled by) taxes: loved

Abraham Lin Be In Hinnis (from the beginning) dogs. coln's Thuz to Abov your best prints effectively, have

Не them

was both anti-vivi.. When hulf of his collection was enlarged. Mount them in an sectionist and anti-British, put up for sale in a New York album, on mats, or frame them. To the latter cause he sacri- store, the heap of goods cover- But use their size to draw atten ficed his early addiction to pro

three and a half acres. The proportion of

Junk was not tion. And, where you're show-

considered high.

greatest feat in journalism was to bring about a war be tween Spain and the United States:

provide the ple

:

ing number of prints, have English tailoring. enlargements of different sizes. With enlargements of varying sizes, you gain all the drama of "bigness" and at the same time avold the monotony of prints of uniform dimensions.

ed

His

Spyou!

in

As a tall, shy, reputedly tures, I'll provide the war. The

romantic man of 40 with coup of which he was proudest pale blue eyes, Hearst mar was the first cable from London, ried Millicent Wiliste, "a composed by himself, announc Broadway hoofer" (chorus Vil would de It

bly that VIII would

politics,

THIS DREAM MEANS: faking your proper share: when you take

you feel remorseful, confess and all is put

The theme of this dream is'embarrassment "right", "he about your errors, for which - because you have admitted them--you are treated lightly.

The reason for your mistakes seems to be linked with a resentment of someone because he has used his seniority and authorlly, unjust- ty, to make you do things which benefit him alone. Eating half his sandwich symbolises

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"WHAT HE EVER SAW

IN HER I'LL

NEVER

KNOW!!

Со

·OR SHE IN RIM...FOR

THAT MATTER

THE BRIDE'S FRIEADS WILL FIND LOTS TO TALK ABOUT .......... ESPECIALLY THE BRIDES CLOTHES, HER FAULTS AND THE GUY SHE'S MARRYING.

THE ALCO-RANS : SOME THINK THEY ARE THE BEST MEN.

" Songwho have rebelled against very strict fathers often find that one of their difficulties in life is getting on with their seniors ող superiors in rank; though they may be very. 'popular with colleagues or subordinates. Un- less this realised and corrected, It causes a vicious circle which makes promotion difficult.

The June Bridle

COEP, THE WORLD Kiskes

VISHING HER: EVERY HAPPINESS

WITH TRE INTIMAT- [[[ON THAT SHELL. HAVE, A NECK OFA) TIALE GITTING. ANY ......WITH.

THAT MAN.

„CUPID OR CUDIDITY-

THEY SAY THAT SOME OF THE OFFICIATING CLERGY HAVE A

TOUGH TIME SÅLVING THEIRS. CONSCIEŃCES WHILE HITCHING CERTAIN TEAMS.

"UGH!

COM. THE IT KEMBAL

COMEQUE MILL TAKE ON TOO MUCH CHICKEN SALÁD

OR COMETNINGEN

SURE TO TURA

UP IS THAT, ERI "DIETANT" REL

ATIVE VHO YOU WILL WISH HAD STAYED VERY DISTANT.

girl). They remained on

You'll find that enlarging has other advantages when you have once tried fa For one thing, It permits you to crop your ple- tures to use only that part of friendly terms; she called sued the negative which is the best. And this, too, will help you to got something more than a palito but uninterested, comment from friends who see your plotures.

---John van Guilder.

Dur

Heyatid

him, to the end, "the old like to have been President he secured the presidential nomina- scoundrel."

tion of Roosevelt, who became

But, after 15 years

of his political bugbearer marriage, he met a blonde actress named

By KEMP STÅRRETT

OF COURSE MOST GALS WILL KEEP THEIR.. FINGERS CROSSED WHEN THEY COME TO "THAT WORD "OBEY". (AND THE BOYS, TOQWAICH THEY COME TO THAT "ALL AY WORLDLY GOODS STIFT.)

*MY WAIST

-WAS ONLY

EIGHTEEN

INCHES WHEN I WAS D

MARRIED

FATHER VILL NOW

PROCEED TO DIY

OUT ALL THOSE HICE SIX-HUNDRED DOLLÁR İ

EXEMPTIONS HEL 'ENJOYED' TOR. A

FEW YEARS.

6.5.

OTHER GUESTS WILL BE RE- MINDED OF THER

OWN WEDDINGS) PWWHAT THEY

T. WORE AND-

OF THE CHAGES] DTIME, HIS WROUGHT:

His record in journalism has

harshly judged.

been

Marion denounced as one who distortor

truth and promoted hatred. But

his hates were too childish to do lasting harm, and his petamyth --of a naively idealist, Unued States perpetually

by n

by a cunning B

only those so simple would, in

any case, Hoved it.

Artfully presenting mány facets of Hearst personality, John Tebbel cannot add them up into a coherent personality. Having seen Hearst eating boiled sweets in public, dwelling in B fabulous palace on a ranch of 275,000

acros

being generous, a refo

reformer, safalsifier,

lover of beauty, the reader comes away with a puzzled in- pression of one who was never wholly comfortable, in the færdło which he had assigned himself. MADAME COLETTE. A FIG vincial in Paris By blar garot Crosland FAIRE Owen, 151, 222 pages.. THE old soldier, disabled in Napoleon ill's campaigns, wid writing a great book on the French

the future on Algeria, ahi on One after another, 12 bound volumes, each of pages of Ane crearn-laid) paper. were laid on his shelves.on the first page of the first volume was a dedication to his wife,

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"My dear soul! When he died, was discovered that these were the only words, in all the 12.

The old soldier's daughter, Colette, has written the books her father pretended he was wrling-although, she has.writ ten-on-different subjects, Mars garet Crosland's Ufo of Colette, the first in English, has its in- tervals of silence pad discretion. It has its moments of acute description, mostly supplied by Colelte, ..

Her

first

husband, the writer, Willy, "His narrow,simpering plement mouth.......... as for his chin, it was better to hide it... He has been said, to look stike Edward VII. 14,

would

sin.ho looked most of all like Qileen Victoria.

...wizarɔ2: When this marriage, camp

to

an end, Colefie, aged 39, said, "I want to dance In the mide. I want to write, and chase. books." She realised His first” desire first, although how, in old lady of 80 withere melkritisulpho Heclares she was not so nudo, as. all that. Earlier authorities are, however, ngainst herkin this matter.

For 10

She was on the

years, writing her novels in trains and dressing-rooms a

This biography, gives the pore trait of a powerful, rather rith- less character.quik inzoquedɔ a desire to know, and about Colette's life morts than the la-s

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