1938-04-16 — Page 11

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1938

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

TRAIN YOUR EYES TO SEE

Rallroad yarda may be sooty and ugly but the photographer who traina hii eye and his pictorial venue can find beauty there-and in every other common thing.

How many of our Guild mom-to give his pluture depth and ho

bers, I wondor, go far afold searching for beauty, in the like Hest places, and do not find it, and cannot understand why?

It is an exporlanco most camera workers have. But, sooner or later, If they aro serious workers, they learn a haslo principle: that is, that beauty is not so much fa tho aubjects they find os in themselves and the way they look at things,

To put it another way: plctures do not exist in a scene but only in the trained oyo that can solect and single out that which is Interesting and good.

Few persons beginning to trap n camera would think of a railroad yard as a placo to and beauty, But one photographer has become world-famous for pictures made Just liaro.

oir

kos to work when there is mist or fog In the distanco no that far- away buildings or figures aro re- duced to soft, din outlines.

The objects this photographer works with are not appealing. They are dirty, pooty, ugly. But his plctares are beautiful becauBD ho has trained his oyen to noo, to select, to arrange, to recognizy mood and atmosphere-in brlet, by the use of his creativo Imagina- lon to extract beauty from ugli ACBR,

There is magic in photography ike this but it is magle open to all. It calls for na wizard's wand but only thought and feeling and, the application of your imagination to commonplace things. Kitchen pots and pans are not pretty but I havo Acen pictures of a group of them, Io work when the

is rhythmically arranged and lighted crlap, when lecomntive'n exhaust so their texture was emphasized, great that were beautiful. Old shoes are leam face upward in S white plume. This steam, contrast- not attractive but I have seen a pfe ing with the black of the engine, forms a focal point in ene of his pictures. Ho selects his viewpolni so that the rafin, curving away from the locomotive, are high- lighted In long, silvery white Uues; lines so arranged that they form bis pleturo's compositional frame work. Wherever possible, he in- cludes a framing of dark follage

turo of a pair wet and dripping be side an umbrella in all corner, so photographed that they con. tained all the essence of malay Autumn.

Fellow Guild member, beauty In Bot over the next hilltop, down tha neal rond-it la insido you. Hut you must train yourself to bring it out.

John van Gulider.

SOLUTIONS

NOW YOU KNOW

1-A matt planet. 2An unlucky accident. 9-Japan.

-Robert Louis Stevenson, 7-Sunimer, autumn, winter, spring. 6-A French statesman. 9.-Ona Jeeldmetre,

10.--Chinja, Leased to Great Britain. 11-Palindrome,

12-Live in a CAVO.

13-Living in a confined space,

14-A bread and lentil pottage. 10.--Anne Boleyn. 16-Stringed instrument. 17-Twangs tho

fingers.

16,-Nimbus

10.-Nourishing..

strings with lis

20.-Yes, Uned States of Mexico and

United States of Brazil.

21-A female entertainer.

22.-Popples.

23-Trent Bridge.

24.-100,

25.-XIX equals 19; take one away and

XX (20) remains.

SILENT WITNESS

Playfair suspected that the hands,| as put back on the table, had_been hurriedly "reconstructed. Seven Spades had apparently been played. together with the Queen of Hearts: | and since rach player still had n Spade in his hand. whoever had played the Queen of Hearis had revoked. Among experi Players could hardly happen that no con- spicuous a revoke, at the very bejjin- ning of a deal, would be allowed to pass unchallengest; therefore, Playfair. argued, the hands as exhibited were faked. This meant that the players | had something to hide.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

GRAMOPHONE

DECCA continue their conductor Bruno Walter, the

excellent work of result splendid.

TWO rare Mozart re- cordings are those

recording modern music. Thetr latest achievement is Wal- ton's Viola Concerto with the

conducting composer

the L.S.O. and Frederick Riddle of a minute quartette for flute and strings (a single ng soloist. This concerto, one of the outstanding examples record), delightfully turned of modern English music, Is

out by the Pasquler Trio and not difficult to listen to in the Rene le Roy, and the Adagio way that the more eccentric in C minor followed by a

It fugue. modern compositions are. has many pages of reflective music, exquisitely modulated and very caressing to the

ear.

Another unusual recording is the Columbia issue of Beethoven's sonata for horn and plano, performed by Yella Pessal (piano) and Gottfried von Freiberg, It is a strange work and curious-

BRESLAU University ly uneven.

gave Brahms an honorary doctorate, Brahms returned the compliment by writing a vivacious overture full of the tunes of students' the songs. It goes under [1]

name of the Academic Fes- tival Overture. It is festive, How little right enough. academic it is, in the accepted sense of that stultifying word, the new HM.V. record serves to show. The orchestru ie the Vienna Philharmonic, the

Further investigation proved 11 suspicions to be well-founded. Philpot turbed King's Evidence, and ultuante- ty Gallentane received eighteen months for manslaughter and Mac-: kenzie six months as accessory.

DIVERSIONS

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PARADE

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FINISA

Singing thie Change-Move the counters In the following order and you will have ROBEY currectly spell: BEYONYEBYEOREY.

One-Sine {"1"},

Problem Sec

Disgram

On the Level-The possible number of ways of reading LEVEL 1: 80.

Dividing the Square.-See Diagram ("C").

ADMIRERS of the Vienna Boys' Choir will find some pretty singing on the new Columbia waltz the "Tales from record,

There İs Vienna Woods." also a new Regal made by George Formby called “Like the Big Pols do," in which the latest pronouncement is

made on the vexed question of table manners. S. C.

A Lay Sermon

By HUGH REDWOOD

(ERE is a great promise, turn-assurance of fuller understanding His on an if thou wilt to

The all through hollness. I will give the places to sinner cleansed will learn God's walk": this is its essence, vastly

statutes and in his appointed place be allowed to administer His laws. comforting to those who doubt it God has a place or a work for That is coming to Sion and seeing

the Kingdom, them. But read the verse; brand plucked from the burning is told that, keeping God's charge, he will be permitted to judge His house, to keep His courts, and Places to walk, to walk "among ZECRANIAN ill, 7. these that stand

by."

What does it mean? Is the pro- ise to Joshua or to all; for now or hereafter? It is, I believe, an

And who ure "these that stand by Ask the writer of Psalm xcl., 11; ask the young man whose eves were

opened (2 Kings vi.. 17) turn to Hebrews xii. and read of the cloud of witnesses and the innumerable company ot angels. Of this much, at lenst, be sure: walking In God's appointed places, we shall not walk in ioneliness.

DOGBERRY AT PLAY

News From Cuckooland

By A Correspondent

CUCKOOLAND, in this year of grace, is undoubtedly on the erest of the wave: internally prosperious and externally feared and/or honoured by all the leading Powers.

Interviews which I have had recently with exponents of Cuckooland opinion completely confirmed this impression.

Mr. Neville Cuckoo, the Prime Minister, sald: "Cuckooland is terri- fyingly strong. Our sole objective is, of course, world peace. We believe wholeheartedly in the League of Nations and are doing all we can for it, short of allow it to function. In respect of foreign relations we have nothing to fear. We are cautiously pressing onwards in all directions."

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Sir John Cuckoo, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said: "The national revenue is buoyant. We should not know what to do with our surplus, were it not for the claims of national defence. We have the jolllest battle- ships. Rearmament, I should add, is solving the unemployment problem: we shall soon, all of us, be busy making shells. Our objective is world peace."

Lord Halicno, Foreign Secretary, said: "Everyone is making advances to us. We are terrifyingly strong. Our foreign policy is on the march. We shall soon, I hope, be allied with everyone against everyone else. If we make concessions it will not be from weakness, but in a spirit of pure bonhomté. Our objective is world peace."

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Mr. J. L. Cuckoo, publicist, said: "The mask is off; the die is cast. We stand at the porting of the ways. General Franco is a great gentle- man; I wish we had him in our Government."

The Bishop of Cuckoobury said: "We are making a stand against the forces of world anarchy. Rearma- ment Is # Christion duty. Our objective is world peace."

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gradely. Who cares about politics, T'coostomer's always anyway? right."

THE

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SELECTION WEEK

this

19 week boss-word

Test selection. Our

match selectors have been selected, and I won't say a word about them. I'd rather cat one of Mrs. Hamhandle's omelettes than criticise a cricketer.

But take a look around. Take Italy. There the selectora, presum ably. are Messrs. Mussolint and Ciano. Their job is to select the next batch of "volunteers" for evacuation into Spain.

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Take Hussia. Selectors: Mesars. Stalin and Stalin. Thele job is to select that "plot" of the next instal- ment of Moscow's non-stop thriller. My forecast is that Messrs. Stalin

turn out and Stalin will

to be and that the Trotsky in disguise ghop in Mexico is in fact a member of the British Secret Service.

(Which, Muriel, is the finest in the world.)

* Mr. George Bernard Cuckoo, wil

hearty Or take

Germany. Selectors: and heretic, said, with a chuckle: "They say we get the Messrs. Himmler and Goering. Their Government we deserve. I didn't task; to select the concentration know we

but deserved this

comp which Pastor Nicmoeller one learns a lot as one gets older." will enjoy his new-found liberty.

* Miss Gracie Cuckoo, national Idol, said: "Ba

oric,

What a busy happy

gum, lad, everything's world is!

place the

Unbelievers

*YOULL COME TO NO

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

GOOD END THE WAY YOURE SHOKING RUNNING AROUND, STAYING OUT TO ALL HOURS, SINGING SWEET ADELINE" AND ACTING THE GOAT ♥ GENERALLY'

By J. NORMAN LYND

"POOH! THAT'S A FINE

END

RAN INTO A DOOR! HUH? MOST LIKELY HIS WIFE TOOK A POKE AT HIM! - AND I WOULDN'T BLAME

HER!

*IF ID BEEN HIS

WIFE I'D HAVE. CLOSED BOTH OF THEM'

"RAN INTO

A DOOR!!!!

NORMAN LYND.

FRANKLY, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE WORLD'S COMING TO... THE SANTA CLAUS STORY IS LAUGHED AT AND IF YOU TELL .THE. YOUNG ONES ABOUT THE COW JUMPING OVER, THE MOON, THEY SHORT

AND THINK YOURE HALF-WITTED.

---AND WERE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE THAT THE DOG *UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING WE SAY... WE HAVE TO SPELL TE WORDS IF WE WANT TO

SPEAK PRIVATELY

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WHEN SOME ONE TELLS HOW HIS PARTY COULD BALANCE. THE BUDGET, REDUCE TAKES AND BUILD NEW ROADS BRIDGES AND SOOOLE THERE'S ALWAYS SOME UNBELIEVER, MAKING

UNCOUTH NOISES

IT'S HARD

TO BELIEVE THE DOCTOR. WHEN HE SAYS, "THERE ISHTA, THING WRONG WITH YOU. ESPECIALLY WHEN VOIR, SYMPTOMS

ARE YOUR, SOLE SUBJECT OF CONVERSATION