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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1953.

Crossword Puzzle

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Proper exposure and focus are combined with backlighting here to inake on effective snapshot which tells an unmistakable story.

MAKING THE MOST OF YOUR KNOW-HOW

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Abscond (0)

Went astray (3).

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Utter defeat (4).

Change (5).

Worth (5).

4 Attractive (6)..

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Run away to marry (5).

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Incited to tellon (8).

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Evil (4).

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Fith for two (4).

13 Freedom from excers (10),

Suppose (5).

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Conspicuous success (5).

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Outer (8).

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Perfect (5).

18 Extend (8).

15 Part of a ship (4).

16 Way out (9).. 19 Downeast (10).

13 Encounters (á).

20. Illustrious (3).

21 Come in (6),

23 Important periods (4).

ONE of the difficulties in produce a snapshot you may 19 Poy

writing a weekly column be proud of. The back-ophet (4).

124 Extent (6). such as. This is the need to lighting, although the sub-125 Star (5). confine each column to a jects are facing the sun, has 20 Fetu (4).

dark of uleture produced single spect

sindows 27 Dismal (6). taking. Because of limita- which lead your eye to the YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrors: 1 Imphet, 4 Relle, tions in space, we must dis- heart of the picture. And 7 Troupe, 8 Pelty, 10 Eros, 12 Prevent, 15 Score, is Aver, 17 Idea, 19 Unite, 20 Distend. 21 Ends, 23 Infer, 24 Demure. cuss exposure one week,, the exposure was increased.

25 Grats, 24 Spills. Down: 1 Intrepid, 2 Proposes, 3 Cape, 5 proper focus another time. sufficiently to Avoid 21

Enervate, lutone, Trend, 11 Scatters, 12 Prune, 13 Eventual, and composition a

effect. third, silhouette

even 14 Trustees, Dinner, 22 Keep. Yet all these elements enter though no suo falls directly into making every picture. on the backs of the children,

Because of this it is wise

The choice of a high to stop, once in a while, and camera angie, too, helps in a look at a shot which effec- snupshot such as this since tively combines a number of it diminishes the size of the The "tricks of the trade" youngsters in the picture which we have been dis- and thereby gives a grenter cussing. In short, it's wise sense of the spice of their to see if we're using our surroundings.

know-how to improve our You'll notice, too, that the snapshot",

picture is unposed and You will recall that a few

natural that it tells & weeks ago we mentioned simple story unmistakably that long shadows help to

... and that the photo. lend a feeling of depth to your pictures. And not long rapher has shot at the very moment when the position ago we stated that it was of his subjects and the necessary to. increase Tipples on the water make exposure somewhat with it clear what's going on. The subject lighted from the result is

a picture that side or back.

attracts the viewer's atten- Today's illustration offers tion and successfully holds a good example of how his interest. these simple suggestions

may

be combined to help

John van Guilder

YOU WERE BEING CHASED

BY A CAT

at Krables 125

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THIS DREAM MEANS: Biting la o very obvious symbol of aggres. slon. Nail 'biting in children, for instance, oc-

aggren.. with resentment and thwarted siveness which cannot find a constructive out- let and so is suppressed and turned inwards against oneself: one bites oneself. It doesn't occur where anger is venied externally say, in temper tantrums.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"NOW I REMEMBER? YOU ARE THE BOY.

WHO WAS SO GOOD

ON DATES.

HISTORICAL SHE MEANS."

MEETING HIS OLD SCHOOL TEACHER.

WE HAVE NICE

PRIME STEAKS.“

I DON'T KNOW,

WE HAD IT. TWICE THIS

WEEK.

STEAK 374

BETTER FORGET 'ALL'ABOUT THIS ∞

"DADDY, DO

NEW BOOKS

WHAT A WET SQUIB,

MR WAUGH!

by MILTON SHULMAN

fire to his former prison. Mount- Joy. We leave him, hopefully fingering his Cigarette lighter. Arson has become his protest, vote.

Even at his best. Mr. Waugh's satire tectered perilously elosa to the freakish. In this noveletis

behalf of Catholicism and the sly he is not to make it Royal he plunges headily into the ancient nobility if looking over. Al: Force-Miles, out of theer grotesque and tastelers. his shoulder is the only way he boreden, burns down the What he is agálost he makes can see where he is going. Training School.

chumally obvious-penát roform, But admirers of his early For this crime he is sent to psychiatry, politiclams, television, brilliance have an equal right Mountjoy, a graceful castle that Picasso, modern architecture, to be saddened to find that his has been converted Into a trade unionia, contral healing. one-man crusade against, the prison

molly coddling sex, docto:3, and divored; ! Inevitable has blunted his most criminals. After two years he By implication le préfers effective weapon wit. He is graduates 03 A perfect, res returns to the good old days of boglaning to sound 03 un habitated specimen of the New the lash, sans, Victorian paint- Ing, the landed centry and un- landed peasantry, the" dóir," the

comfortable as a man who has Penology, laughed until he no longer sees the joke,

The dishwasher

EVELYN WAUGH

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He is made a sub-oficial inquisition, and the rack,

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of the Euthanasia Department But Mr Waugh. W nát likely now part of the Health Service to make many converts to tha Tho Rehome WBS 51 "Tory Past if he abandons his'atural

designed to altruct

OVE AMONG THE measure

RUINS"

wit.

Banal jokes

signa in

said

is less a guffaw. voles from the ages and the #its of ood writing and sharp Graham Greene's last than a sneer. It is a prophetic moctally sickt." It is an expand- glimpse at Britain some time in mg department dealing with future the immediate future. A Bevon- growing queues of "welfare- book that 110 novel of his would be under- Eden coalition has wiped out all wetry citizens desiring exter

TULERE ano comitious signa

“Love - Among The Ruins" stood by anyone not a Catho the Welfare State has become a taticing who has grown a beard listened to the Light Programme.

major political differences and minetion

Here he falls in love with a. that Me “Wauch has never serigned reality. After reading "Love Among

oller a sterilisation operation Otherwice would he have dared Milca Plastic, the hero, is a

that event wrong. He adcecs her seat such banal jokes about and typical product of the New Era. The Ruins" (Chapman Hall, Bs), it may well be pre- s parents had been brought not only for her lookes but for the Welfare State as the anell dicted that 'Evelyn Weigh's to penury by the pollicians and he possession of some oracked of rourages, the Importance of and some French tea, the Indolence of the workers future novels are unlikely to he was educated by the State. Crown Derby

and, shades of Shirvell, lead- be enjoyed by anyone not a

"Huge sums were spent upon, paintings over 200 years old. him,"

shadding. shob.

writes Mr Waugh, in a Disikusionment sets in, how-

Now that Mr Waugh la la, his For this short work of 51 passage which is about a subtle ever, when the ballerina has her attic year one has the choice pages brings to an angry boil as he ever allows himself to be, beard removed by having her of attributing this cude ferary the indignant simmerings in his "rums which, 36 vars earlier skin taken off and substituting gesture to the precociousness of Brideshead would have sent whole quiverstul, for it something quite inhuman, he oldest enfant terribles in the postwer novels, Revisited" and "Men At Arms of boys to Winchester and New He has signed up against The Cemtion Man and The Welfare State for the duration.

has

Waugh, of course, every right to enter the lists on

WHEN FINALLY IT CAUGHT

YOU IT DUG ITS TEETH IN

YOUR ARM AND HUNG THERE AS YOU RAN

In this case, aggression is directed against- you by a woman (cai is a feminine symbol):. possibly a female relative. She "chases" you and "kangs on" while you try to avald the whole situation; at least, so you feel.

trould

Usually you hate the person you like to love but are not allowed to. And if you hate someone lon enough you end by 50 the butes you. and imagining that she vicious circle begins.

to the pronature College and established them in light, slippery mask, salmon

pink"

senility of an aspiring Grand the learned professions."

Miles, exercising the only Old Man. Neither excuses him After a period spent dish- washing in the Air Force-how form of protest he knows, sers being a bore,

SUMMING UP THE CITY

OF PRACTICAL JOKES

By George Malcolm Thomson ROME AND A VILLA. By perated captive to the city's

Eleanor Clark. Michool appeal. Joseph, 21. 302 pagos. But not for her the lush de

scription, the expected adjrati Miss Clark's impressions of the

OME; says

Luther running away ke:mad": nineteenth century English ladies bargaining for lace; the Fascists with "heir bad build- Ings; "imagination had been killed; a strange, ale of Vygiene

RClark, is everybody's Hollywood on

Eleanor city of Caesars and Popes, this. takes its placekeeps break-

the Tiber with

But the

and enormous ing In: hurried, incurious pil- memory; the thing is to find its tako ruins a way into. it. Instead, she cocktail parties, range from an grims; Communist musons build-

illuminating aside ("Everything ing a new monastery, has found a way round, the you came to revere turns In She has a distrustful love fore all physical andˇˇ cautious, devious course of the setting of some huge prace the churches,

Anglo-Saxon tive set-plece like her essay on feels his mind curb on her feelings and Hadrian's villa, climax of the lump of sugar in a cup of tea," keeps her prose as sleek as verbal greworks display.

She is not above passing on

usc She is aware of the past, of less information. In 1855 there an expensive perm. She ad-

all the pasts-Nera who started were 420 varieties of plant in mires; she is not abashed: a fire to push his city plan past the Colosseum, now there may it last, she falls an exas- the vested interests, "big, angry be thirty the Baths of Cara- calla could hold 10,000 bathers

ww GOING CONCERN

one who puts a New England Heal joke") to a grand imagina- close"'so that need ke

Don't Forget To Remember

YOU REMEMBER, A DANCE CALLED

THE CHARLESTON

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'DID YOU LOCK

DID YOU CLOSE

THE BACK DOOR ?'

THE BEDROOM WINDOWS

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY

DO 1 WHILE DANCING THE CHARLESTON. I BECAME SEPARATED FROM MY PARTNER AND FINISHED THE

DANCE WITH A

STRANGER → THAT'S

HOW I MET

YOUR MOTHER ♪

SOME THINGS YOU NEVER.

FORGET

COFL. 1913 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP, THE WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

IS IT SOMEBODY'S BIRTHDAY?"

BY HARRY

“WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO· APRIL FOOLS DAY/? WHY, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS A

KID

APRIL FOOL

"DON'T FORGET YOUR MEMORY

CLASS THIS EVENING.".

| [DID YOU REMEMBER

THE FOUR POUNDS OF

CHOPS ?*

WEINERT

"ARE YOU 'SURE 7"

FOUR POUNDS ? } "THOUGHT YOU SAID

FOUR

at once.

The Holy Year was admittedly success, since it showed the Church as a going concern: Eleaner Clark does not drop this subject, however, without men- tioning the plastic be loaves that were added to the marble athletes In Mussolini's Stadium -for Catholicism, too, has fis Puritan

fringe and the Aus- irallan pilgrims whose pockets were picked; others, were more legally impoverished

Her eye-passes freen Hizman fountains, "extremely endecent in varlow

lo (Roman women, by reputation the coltiest in Europe but probably also the [mnast candid; Bernam etits) Cew of which are in private ownership (a Bicaneso in the house is apt to be a sign of neurosis ori Infer- national marriage'); {und-Reensa murders, which usually Moccur - (within the dɛmily,

She visits the Roman painces, built through nepotism and kept up-by American Fund, South American, maertuges, video, finds; thefe noble, izmatos) y either in- suffersblo Gores dia hijmless (or) Ipes harmless) playboys mada arrogant by theiffỏch take in j | arts, notes thea, bration for American pars, Wafii lack of

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HADRIAN'S VILLA Leaving behind the

the

ta. host;

Jack of Cannot

ness, the grandeursh colour of Thu bly vi break into the fact tiousne

Leanon Clark Meststo, Hadr[bay's villag found it the cadunt?! most fascinating pin-on part Saddes "becaliso","pwn tha graveyard of the Roman empire. Most fascinating "böcause of the OCATIPLEKK parsenality****of The ane:Or who ransacked the world 'dos marble to clothe his Hoting. Christians and Jews, prgan Hadriánă wantai to learn beauty down the world's throat, above all the beauty of his stilky, bräibõrgs Antinour, Whose count- love, but

less statues glorify you iion.

its languorOUS |

Brooding over the vast kiin, Mira Clerc is stirred to deep, fooling, her welding warmed to prauty.

To rendikbud Bruin Villa" is liko

vulkisig Miscelain the antiqua city with

|ung philo-

sopiíical gutgi

REMEMBER AND HAVE A PLEASANT TRIP.

SHE HAS BEEN TRYING FORGET HER BIRTHDAY FOR YEARS

"GUESTS FOR DINNER, OF COURSE

for her past2

at ear ingulabod