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A British, 'Crossword Puzzle

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ACROSS

1 Excessive fear (8).

ચોમાસ

20

Drug (5).

DOWN

3 Indian čoln (5).

12

Throws into contusion (0), Look after (4). LOOK

7 Jug (4).

9 Bird noise (B).

1

4

Dwell (8).

10 Hooter (5).

11 Puts or (4),

13

15

Kit (4).

10

Pruising (10),

Vivacity (4).

10 Talking (19).

22 Tie up (4).

24 Earlier (5).

25 Permission (5).

20 Inclination (4).

27 Fashlons (0),

8 Tightens by pressure (5).

12 Spray (5).

13

Best

1st part (5).

Smaller number (8).

17 Seed of the oak (5).

18 Wards off (0).

20 Necovery (5).

21

Foolish (5).

23 Frank (4).

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. - Across: 1 Scarce, 4 Squib, 7 Unduly, 8 Valse, 10 Term, 12 Condone, 15 Major. 16 Apes, 17 Eras. Usurp, 20 Denture, 21 Yore, 23 Flery, 24 Medium. 25 Needy, 26 Spread, Dewn: 1 Scuttled, 2 Alderman, 3 Calf. 5 Quandary, 6 Insaue, 9 Morse, 11 Mustered, 12 Court, 13 Opposite, 14 Esteemed, 18 Recite, 22 Keep.

YOU WERE KNITTING WHEN SUDDENLY THE BALL OF WOOL STARTED TO ROLL. TWISTING

ITSELF ROUND YOUR ARMS AND LEGS AND

THE CHAIR

THIS

DREAM

MEANS :.

you fear

it

This anxiety dream reveals a worry about some activity or plan of your own which is getting you deeper into trouble

you helplesa may tle you down and render What that something is, the dream does not reveal: though its general symbolism is prelty clear

The thing (garment?) you are knitting is

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1953.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

movement.'

"

Minimum Shutter Speeds

THIS AUTHOR FINDS AUTHORS

ARE LIKE

LIKE SO MANY RATS

CAPTAIN MARRYAT, a ro- discovery. By Oliver War- nor. Constablo. 20s. 210 pages.

H

for!

button on

which otherwise might be trans- mitted to the camera,

George Malcolm Thomson on BOOKS

A

serviee, the Admiralty rejected him, Marryat then burst a blood vessel and died within a year (1848).

"Peter

weck

come readers back to the naval tales that enthralled their grand- fathers.

|--

A LETTER from a high which is not apparent in a school student asked a small contact print, often

After holding his place as 'a pertinent question. "Not becomes objectionably

novelist of the sea for two or long ago," our correspondent noticeable when the print is

ANGING his clonk put his know on Neale's chest Immensely rich West

Indian three generatione, Marryat is wrote, "you mentioned that blown up.

over the palings of and struck him on the head with magnate, chairman of Lloyd's now scarcely read, Yet an age

bis conc.

4. and Radical member of Parla- devoted to Homblower might mnay pletures were spoiled

Another helpful device

the National Gallery, By a violent effort, Neale ment,

wall date another look at “Mr by what you called camera

eliminating camera movement is "the witty naval writer, rolled Marryat' in the mud and At 14, carried

Midshipmon Easy?' or away by simple" movement - moving the the use of a cable release a short head of English marine throw stones in his face. Both enthusiasm after seeing Nelson's

push camera ever so slightly BB cable with

Oliver Warner'a biograpliy, the shutter is tripped. I'm one end which can be attached novelists," advanced upon parties called loudly for the funeral procession, he entered

fellow-craftsman, Mr police. But if there were any the Navy and sailed to the timpy and awkwardly divided curious to

policemen in Trafalgar Square Mediterranean under the com- between the man and his books, know what to many cameras. The advantage his

who had he

that November afternoon In mand of his father's fellow is a reminder..rather than a shutter speed will help over. of such a release is that the Johnston Neale,

Rexible cable absorbs any vibra-

loaked the other way Radical MP, the Bre-cating, rediscovery. Yet it may draw come the effects of camera tion from tripping the shutter Just said in a loud voice, 1894, they to the bystanders outspoken Lord Cochrane.

"You are a liar and A and it was left

to Intervene. Nenie departed

Two or three times scoundrel and only want the

with dignity, and a a final Good there was courage to be an assassin !"

a sea-fight. At 10, morning" to tho captain.

Marryat

commanded his first A cable release, too, is of use

Mr Neale, not so famous' as a The occasion of this naval ship, a prize taken from the when working with the camera

Marryat had engagement?

enemy. In one action he got resting on a tripod or other writer an his adversary, Captain

so written that Neale's novel, "The three wounds in the stomach.

rascally Having fought with distinction support. Such support is neces Frederick Marryat, and not

plolt

Then, discovering production." sary at speeds of less than 1/25 heavily built, was able to ex- Fort Admiral" was a

against the French on one side hia superior-agility until

pages, or for time exposures; But even misfortune overlook him. Trip- that Neale had been a mere of the ocean and the Americans

ping over a heap of stones he master's assistant in the Navy, on the other, Marryat octupled THE objective was

he amended this fell headlong.

judgment to his energies

ries in the pence that mysterious Brazilian city Marryat, pupil in war of the "the production of a rascal." followed Waterloo by inventing inhabited, so It was said, by The episode does not show a code of signals which, to his clothed natives of European great Lord Cochrane and "per-

proft, was adopted by merchant

In appearance, sonully engaged, with the enemy him at his worst

Colonel He Was the

two hot-tempered, ships everywhere (thanks to the Fawcett and

companions over 100 times" (see his ---John van Guilder memorandum to the Admiralty), talented son (born 1792) of an influence of Marryat's father, went to look for it. The expedi

tion

wa to chairman of Lloyd's).

At the age of 27 he was made Fawcett's a Fellow of the Royal Society in explorer of South America, the recognition of his skill in carlca- tast attempt to prove his pas

sionately

held beller that the! ture.

relles of a high civilisation, older than

that of the Incas, were hidden in the Jungles of

Actually, as we pointed out before, the first step in overcoming camera move- ment is to hold the camera firmly with both hands, rest- ing against chest or check bone, and trip the shutter But smoothly.

Aufficient shutter speed will help, too. And in this connection the most important point is never to use a speed of less than 1/25 of a second when your camera is hand-held.

More often, you'll want to use a speed of at least 1/50. With miniature cameras, such as a 35mm., you may

ind 1/100 is better.

The

reason for this is that prints

from miniature cameras are enlarged. almost always And A slight fuzziness, caused by camera movement,

THEN IT CHANGED TO THIN STRONG CORD AND

YOU WERE BOUND TIGHT.

YOU TRIED TO CALL

BUT COULD NOT

Demar Vinables

the plan you are weaving or perhaps the way work "wear." Your of living are about t turns on you and binds you hand and foot.

You are so helpless, you cannot even call for help. Seeing that you are not gagged, why 10? Is it that you feel, as you are the designer no right to of your own troubles, you have appeal to others for help?

Your fears may or may not

be faced and your

- should sidered.

-

be justified.

plans .recon.

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

"THAT ISN'T QUITE IT

PERMIT ME.

THE HOME TALENT SHOW.

DROPPING IN TO TAKE HIS WIFE HOME

FROM REHEARSAL.

"OH WELL-

IF IT

MAKES

HER HAPPY-

THE POETRY OF MOTION.

BITTEN

BY THE BALLET

BUG.

WEING

SCRUNCH SAVED BY

A PIECE

OF CELERY.

with a camera setting on a table, it is pozable to jar it when pushing the shutter button, Which is in itself reason to try the cable release slow

at speeds,

own

NOW-TV SERMONS?

ROBERT CANNELL looks ahead from

OUT of all the loyalty, too: the vast majority probably

colour.

here

the pageantry, the people who rarely go to church.

and the glory of And they do not switch off. this Coronation season there is emerging a great new task for TV-to become the modern missionary carrying the Cross to the fireside.

ist

n great

Surely, opportunity for TV and the

to combine in " Churches modern-style missionary ~~ deavour.

the Abbey scenes

EXPLORATION FAWCETT," By Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Hutchinson. 15. 312

* Inheriting first his father's fortune of £250,000 and then a the Amazon, still larger sum from an uncle,

Last

1925

"2" the

be throw

Colonel as an

Fawcett, a tall, gauni, beard-

to the quest, apparently to go

wont by) 11 children at 5, Cleve no purpose. Just before citing On Coronation Sunday we land Bow, St James's. He be- out for the last time, Fawcett saw a sample of what might be. came a man of fashion, devoted

Bn account of his completed For ten minutes or so the Rev. to dancing and conjuring tricks, Lewis Charles-Edwards, vicar ofthe company of wits and women, get St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London He spent £7,000 trying to -the parish church of Bucking-into Parliament as a Reformer: ham Palacetalked quietly to his bluff quarter-deck" manner

Halled to appeal. TV's peak audience of the week. Everywhere that people

Never before has religion lind talk about "the TV Coront- such an opportunity to got right

He sat in a comfortable arm tion"-which is practically into the homes of a nation chair or leaned easily on a everywhere that people among the familles by the tre mantelpiece in a studio set like

a study.

He Alled his pipe and in willing ready and gather just now-there is a side.

tu punch heme his Ilsten. Many churchmen have used it general confession that it vaguely sven the chance. points. uplifted and inspired. That Gradually, the TV cameras have besides the spectacle of been going to church on the ancient ceremony there was great festivals. n feeling of spiritual glad-

Sundays the year, the search ugly Scots wire and (as ilmoitte te ish que had devoted his

WHAT SHALL

WE DO ?"

ness.

No question of preaching here: Just a mat talking about the love

of God and the Queen's need of our prayers,

earlier explorations, which his son has now arranged from his In ↑ manuscript. father's

Fawcett' writes: poignant last paragrap. Colonel "If the journey is not sur- To amuse himself he wrole cessful, my work ends in failure. novels. His first, "The King's I must inevitably be discredited

blackballed from one who had only personal en Own" on a naval subject, led as a visionary and branded os richment in view.” He speaks to his being

of

dillusionsment and the Navy Club.

When he had squandered his

wretchedness; wife and children. Inherited money, his amaze- ment became his occupation, sacrificed to the quaat: "Of our He wrote 14 adult novels, stories 24 years of married life only ten'

have been spent together." for children-in all, three mil- licn

words His books made' money, which he threw away on an unprofitable farm

Many years ago another vicar Norfolk.

in

of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the He had a poor view of pub- But something more is need- Rev. Studdert Kennedy-better lishers and writers: "I can only ed. TV and the Churches must known perhaps as "Woodbine compare the world of authors combine to find the mon and the Willie for ins work among the to so many rats drowning in a forcing each other down But was women with the gift of using troops in World War. I-won a tub,

national reputation as the Radio to raise themselves" camera and microphone.

Parsons for his Sunday broad- the Navy any better?

After his spectacular servien Fat seu Ht had denied him pro- It can happen again through motion King William IV. bear- flogging. Ing that he opposed refused to make him a knight. when the old shipmate of Cochrane's applied at 55, for

The Queen herself seems to have sensed something of the kind. For she allowed V to be present in St Paul's Cathedral for the national thanksgiving. And

Fisher, Archbishop of casts. TV was present again when Canterbury, had the knack He. she uttended St Giles' has proved it in radio and TV

-cimplicity, sincerity... and TV. Cathedral in Edinburgh. brevity. Since we cannot ex-

This might even be TV's finest And to be Now TV at church' means

the archbishop millions of people at church available more than one or two hour.

Dr

pect

Home Talent Capers

COPR, 1953 BY GENERAL FEATURES CORP. TM-WORLD, RIGHTS RESERVED.,

"HUMPH—IMITATION

SCOTCH /

THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN TOLD THEY

|HAVE A “VOICE” AND INSIST OM DISPROVING IT. THE IMITATOR=

TURN THE MOVIE CAMERA ON THE FAMILY, AND THEY ALL FREEZE IN THEIR TRACKS.

SEE IF YOU CAN

GUESS THIS ONE.

BY HARRY WEINERT

"UMM-UMM — VERY

GOOD APPLES /

"THANK YOU,

DEAR.

DID-YOU- EVER DO

THIS BEFORE,

POP ?

གི་

A COMPLIMENT IS

A COMPLIMENTTM

́ ́IF YOU WANT TO MAKE. [SOMETHING DISAPPEAR,

HOW ABOUT THESE

EMPTY DISHES ?"

OR IS IT ?

"NOW YOU SEE IT-

NOW YOU DON'T

his

"Whether, on that final quest, Fawcett found "Z" and vindi- citted his life-work, nobody knows, He never came back,:

foundi Search parties sent out

Here is his own account of the no trace of him. four Journeys be completed... It a story of dangers from snakes, insects, savages, diseases monument and hunger. Ti is a to an

extra- Englishman of ordinary courage and tennelly; a romantic and a fanatic. A fascinating book of adventure.

COLONEL CHINSTRAP, Tad Kavanagh, 9/6, Evans Bros.

The Colonel Chinstrap know is our old friend of Ha; and Tomtopia, the Colonel Chinstrap of mature vintage, 25 it-were. For those who have a thirst for the knowledge of the juvenile

Dod

up-and-coming-

Chinstrap, or even just a thirst,

has many

this

freshingmphy

moments.

re-

The whole truth about' the Colonel's zig-zag course of inlid and bitter memories is told," from

his brandy-balls and

flrat conscious recollection of The Dog and Duckto flery jugs of Jungle Julee.

seemed

Major indueneca in his fu drinking partners who to pop up at various stages from prep. school to re- tirement, but one of the characters whom readers will be specially happy to meet is hi sister Clara, the toast of Sand- hurst and a front-row member of the Galety girls. Other women

the in his te were barmaid Queenie Quencher from the "Happy Hussar" at Sand hurst, and Lady Thorn Threep, the only woman ever to win his heart, except one lady

fons will ha whom all radio famillar, none other than the re- doublable Hotchkiss, who comes on the scene with Tommy, the

of Foaming-at-the-·

Mayor Mouth.

From

this

moment

with

tha

narrative slips completely into style of Itma, giving the book an excellent nourish in its last pages, Even If the barmen grow crustler and one has to walt longer for service; times are changing and from Ilfo's cocktail the gin is evaporaling; of COLONEL

the

CHINSONA

that can be

is a pick-me-up expressed in the

anest words in our language::

"Good Health-I don't I do."

mind

#

• RHODES. By Sarah Gericudo Milin. Chatto & Windat. 188. 400 pages. Rhodesis with Livingstone, the greatest in- Buenco In Africa. His ideal: "Equal rights for civilised men south of the Zambest" Enlarged,! revised edition-in readiness for H Rhodes's centenary.

DON'T LOOK, ROUND, By Trefusis, Hutchinson. Memories of

violet

16 240ngland and pre-

Edwardian

war France wrillen on the

not lied

principle

have merely by-passed the truth

whenever unpalatable. Modiph drawings by Philippe Julian match the book'e molectivari nostalgia.