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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, OCTOBER 13th, 1928.

PICTURESQUE KWANGSI.

· PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT.

CHATS ON PHOTOGRAPHY

Why is

2.-PORTRAITURE IN THE OPEN AIR. (By J.O.W.)

on amateur's snapshot feasjonal for he is almost always a so much more charming than on friend of the sittor, and a care- elaborately finished_sludio portrait | free feeling exists from the start. of the samo poryon ?

He also has opportunities of study: lag the moods, mannerisms, and the more charming characteristics of bis sitter.

The answer is "atmosphere." The professional may produce a photograph that has better tech. que, but he invariably fails to in fure into it that indeftuable qually which we call charm.

For instance, what is simpler than for a girl to unobtrusively manoeuvro Into the right position to take a plcture of her father

The atmosphere of a studio will Its strong unusual lighting, sitting in the garden, smoking and stage like properties, its imposing reading in the cool of the evening,

The altar

moment да sho

presses the button?

And whore will you ind a more charming picture?

apparatus and the fact that à percalling on him to look up just at the fect stranger is operating, all helps paychological to produce a. profound feeling of camera-consciousness. is obliged to set up a pose and pas ing is an unnatural trail to all who art outside the "movia" profession; so the operator delicately poses subject according to his idea of composition. Charm is not within his provinco. His result shows in unnaturaj stiffness and an omply

·wooden staro.

It is, then, up to the "button Presser" to master the art of apply ing the correct exposure, the use of the largest aperture and the essen. tial features that are necessary for good composition.

Good pictures are not the result of mere chance. There is no sense whatever in haphazardly snapping Toff half a dozen exposures in the

On the other hand, the amateur has the advantage over the

vain hope that at least one of them will prove satisfactory. There is no reason why everypleture you také should not be a good one. It is only by the amount of thought, patience and attention of detail before pressing the button that will ensure a good result. Nothing can be done afterwards to alter the im- pression on your film.

A sitter who la facing the camera squarely rarely makes a pleasing portrait. A half profile should be inken as ideal, as the modelling is always better. It puts character into a picture.

Wuchow, the Gate-Clly into Kwangsi Province, is situated on the West River at the junction of that stream and its tributary, the Fuh River, or Kwei River as it is often called. Wonderful progress has been made in the City, which now bids fair to become a really modern centre. On the foreshore may be seen buildings belonging to the B.A.T., A.P.C., Standard Oil Co, and quarters for foreign membera of the Staff of the Maritime Customs. Floating, wharfs of the various steamship companies may also be seen.

A TRIP TO JAVA. HONGKONG PARTY'S EXPERIENCES (By J.D.B.)

The celebration of the twenty fifth anniversary of the Java |China-Japan Line retently evoked aone pleasant memories of a tour that a small party of us made through the Dutch Indies.

Direct sunshine in tropleni lati- Our impression of a country in much like that of a book or a per- tudes is your enemy! Why?

Owing to the strength of the in-son, as Walter Pater says in one visible ultra violet rays, it causes of his essays-whether it is favour violently harsh contrasts between able or unfavourable depends in a the high lights and the shadows, thus preventing that softness of gradation in tones which is the very essence of good portraiture. It causes, the eyes of the sitter to be screwed up to mere slita and the 'eyes are the soul of a picture.

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measure on the precise moment of its falling our way. Often by some happy accident, an impression is left that counts for much.

the few of us started out together, It was by a happy accident that from Hongkong in the early part of The composition of a picture

June on the a.s. Tjikembang to seek shows the taste and individualism

To sum up; the ideal conditions change of air and scene down on of the operator. No two persons

are therefore, diffused lighting, the Equator. The idea of visiting will take the name viewpoint and it

Java in mid-simmer. might sound is this. infinite variety of taste that preferably in the evening; a care ridiculous. But few seem to know makes photography such a fascinatally selected background; half pro- that the best part of the year is file naturally posed and modelled; during the dry monsoon, when Java ing hobby.

absence of camera consciousness.is free from the discomfort of With full aperture and the longest equatorial rainfall. Someone said possible exposure that can be given | to me jokingly that to go about without moving the camera, you Java in a motor ear during the will find you are on the right road rainy season la not as adequate na to confidently expect a vast Im-in a submarine. provement in results,

In composing portrails in tho || open air, the first essential is choice of background. It has the making or marring of a picture. Countless films have been spoilt by Inattention to background.

A CINDERELLA STORY quickly than boys, because they

THE GIRL WHO BEAT NEW YORK.

[By W. F. Bullock,} New York is always named the elty of opportunity but it is loo often forgotten that this Eldonde on the mighty Hudson breaks as mány hearts as a Colorado mine will do.

The trip down to Java took about a week; nevertheless, the time to She graduated from her first job spent on board did not seem find it harder to sink temporary the office of an interior decorator companionship of the few passen- hang heavily, what with the genial in the social scale and cannot take and learnt so much about the busigeri, combined with the afable the indifferent lodgings that a manness that when her employer went Captain and his staff, who were will endure. One well versed in the to Europe on his annual visits he anxious to make our trip both enre of these young people has would leave her in charge. Then pleasant and enjoyable, host, advised immigrants to the "world's she tried to stand on her own feet congeniality was such a predomin an assured sum of five pounds aby means of a teashop. But that ant mood on board that in some week, unt at least the first stress Kave her only experience and no is over.

But in spite of these reported hardships the, lare romains. And no wonder.

richest clty" noi to come without

Anancial profit. She entered life again as an employee by working as travelling saleswoman for a firm that sold small gifts aultable for the person or as 'additions to house furniture. She moved in a world of knick-knacks that carried her from one side of America to the other,

Take, the story of Mary Ryan, a saleswoman with a palatial office on Two hundred thousand young Fifth Avenue, who, after only three people come into New York each years at her present business, has yeur seeking fame and fortune. turned over £200,000 worth of Two out of every sine are beaten

At last, three years age she tried in the first month and flee the dy It is a Cinderella story, too, for ber fortune again single-banded. that they have learned to hate. Miss Ryan went to work at the age The result was immediate success, Others fall into routine jobs and of eleven. She took a humblé job and now she controls her own sales-

trade.

become part of that great machine in a business and began work in men. She looks down on Fifth that keeps New York's business night classes to give her a know- Avenue, proudly conscious that she going, but they make no fortunes. Jedge of book-keeping and type is one of those who have made good

Girls give up the struggle more 'writing; /

in New York.

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Interior of Museum in Batavia.

as

respects we felt like being together in an excursion on a private yacht, We conversed jovially, exchanged views on various things, trivial and

found, and enjoyed music though we were at home. As à consequence, it seemed but a brief while before we reached Sumatra, where our comfortable liner was to and two hundred or more con- tracted labourers for the tin mine in Banka, an island off the coast of Sumatra. I watched with no in- considerable Interest the trans- ferring of these Chinese miners from the ship to a large barge, which took them nahore to the tin mine region.

I am told that there are about 20,000 Chinese in the tin mines of Banka. The Dutch aver that these workers in the tin mines ⚫re well

extra "," and "better" is only 'a "L," while instead of "than” you have "dan.". For the Germans, Dutch is easier still to master. was told of an old Austrian gentle- man who, arriving in Java for the first time, could follow without much effort the events of the day' from the Dutch newspapers. I rather envy the linguistic skill of the Dutch people. Many, 1 find, could read and speak English, and German. In the home of a Dutch friend, the administrator of a sugar mill somewhere outside of Soerabaya, I noticed that

BRITISH GIRLS CAN DANCE

By Princess Seraphine Astaflova,

(Principal of the Chelsea Academy of Russian Dancing, whose team of twelve British girla won the International Cup at the first Dancing Olympiad in Paris recently.) Where did this fallacy originato that British girls cannot d-nee? Obsessed with the idea that to be

diplomatic privileges accorded to a distinguished member of our party, namely, Sir Shouson Chow, we were exempt from paying the deposit of 100 Guilders, as required of all foreigners, and also from opening up our grand array of luggage. Not that we had need for fear; library was well stocked with a dancer one, must be a Russian, but that we would wish to be spar- Dutch, German, French and the British public ignore the won-

ed of endless trouble.

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derful talents of their own girl artista, They do not realize that two essentials, and two alone, go to the minking of a dancer-a well- proportioned body and correct training methods. Given theso, with a genuine love of the art, girls of every nationality, havo equal op- portunitjes of winning fame on the stage or dancing floor.

And what tremendous natural advantages British girls possess. Beautifully proportioned, they seem built to become a nation of dancers. "But, cronks the pessimist, "Bri tish girls have not the true artistic temperament."

How such remarks Infariale me. Sir Shouson Chow, Mr. Kwok Sin Law and his party át. Hotel For what is this "temperament" but

Der Indes, Batavia,

the instinct to express throughts, Ideas, émotions in movement? To English books. A Dutch professor argue that from childhood the Eng- drove from the quay to the Hotel on the Tilkembang to Java, told me

Afterwards, the party of us of Oriental languages, whom I met lish girl is trained to conceal and Dex Indes, which, with its beautiful that he learned English when he press her feelings, is beside the array of rooms, Bungalow-like style, was a mere boy In the grammar point. At the outset this inbred overlooking a garden with plenty school. He is to-day a man still reserve fetters the artist, but it of trees and flowers, struck us as under thirty and yet is a master of cannot stifle creative instinct. For rather picturesque and cosy. The several European languages, in in every one of us smoulders the Hotel is being extended, and upon addition to a knowledge of Ambic latent power of self-expression. completion, will no doubt be still and Javanese, more attractive to the tourists.

(To be continued)

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THIS RESTLESS AGE.

It is for the leacher, searching her pupils' inner consciousness, to coax the spark into a blaze.

Technical ability alone will never

During our first few days in Batavia, we were worried about the language complexity, as Malay and Dutch appear to be essential.

Is not the motion, rush, and raise a dancer above the level of an Some of us lost, no time to arm our restlessnCAR promoted by the efficient machine. True postry of selves with a handbook on Malay, motor bikes rushing through our movement combines perfect techni- Despite all our efforts in that streets and country lanes on Sun-que with sincere and sympathetic direction and notwithstanding our day enormously stimulating cur- interpretation of the human emo- ability to say after a brief while rent restlessness? That ilgo tions. "Pegi Lekos" (go fast), or "Terima effects

the whole question Kasi" (hank you) or "Bagooa"

And, here to my mind, les the of games; how far to иде (good), or "Ayer Panus" (hot

of the British dancer's secret and just

reasonable recren- water) and "Ayer lys," we could tion so as not to increase that sive technical study, the emotional

fallure. At the expense of Inten

not expect to be proficient within a few weeks even with a simple restlessness which is the bane of langange like Malay. The visit to our age, and to recover, somehow side of her training is too often the Dutch Indies, induced me to or other, a capacity for being still neglected, permitting her innate gain a nodding acquaintance with without being bored or idle. The reserve to interpose between the ar

tist and her chance of success, the Dutch language. My scanty Archbishop of York. knowledge of German stood me in

Another view of Batavia Museum. taken care of by the Government. good stend, and speaking from Each man receives $1 or more a experience, one of the finest Incen- day, with food and lodging found. tives to keep up an interest, in a Even amusements, such as the new language is to commit to cinema, are provided for them. memory some of the familiar pro Some of these inbourers could re-verbs, While avelling on a train turn to China at the end of three to Epat Java one day, I had an in- years with substantial savings, if toresting hour memorising such they did not fall into the habit of familiar proverbs in Dutch as: gambling,

"All beginselen zijn moefelijk" After the call at Banka, we (all beginnings are difficult), arrived quite curly the following "Beter cen vogel in de hand dan morning at Tandjong Priok, the tien in de lucht" (one bird in the landing place, some twenty hand is worth ten in the bush), minutes' drive from Batavia. "Oost west, thufs best" (east, west, Upon arrival, wa experienced no home is best). Some of the above inconvenience of any sort in the words are not so very strange to The hands of the immigration and cus- | English-speaking people. toms officials. Thanks to the Dutch for "all" spells with An

GLOVES

For Day or Evening Wear

Among the many things selected by our Buyer. Miss P, Webster. now on Home Leave, is a choice: collection of Gloves.-

Just to hand,

Lane, Crawford's LADIES

SALON.

MEZZANINE FLOOR.