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This entry is all my own work,

Dear Kiddies.

and week's painting competition was most pupster and the entries were really very good. In fact, it look FIT alten in ms to decide upon the win sing entries. However, after careful con sideration. I have steelded to award the prizes this week to:-

Mary Grace Aschie (need 121. Stephen's College,

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Jean Hunter (aged 81, 11. Leighton 113, Judy Price (aged 6), Cathay Hotel, 10, 1 King's Road.

Coupons are being sent to Mary, Jean and Jury which want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" ulie 11 Wyndham Street The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

I want to specialty coinment the follow- Ing for good entries:-

Sentors: Viten Wal-chee, Young Ki- wo. Ho Man-ehan, Olga Tam, Paul Ves. ons, Manuel Sarrazola, Percy Gardier. Jeannelis Moorcroft. Charles F. Clark, Mary A. Laurence Itecker, Oles Julebin.

Intermediates: Iterile

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Asche, Constantin Bomboff, Alan Whelp. ton, Rita Gardner, Teresa Sourn, Ann Hanler, Perry Shck, S. 9. Bux, Lo Put- yi, Mervin Tong. Eddie Chan, Wilma Way, Eulalia Xavier.

Juniors: Nena Ozorto, P. Wong, Gaffor

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This week, kiddies, we are having a elreless crossword puzzle. The below are clues, but the actual words to be Bifed in.

Ink or penell may be used. "Thr bef way is to put in the long words frai! the other words will then At in more easily.

Having led all the spaces, complete the coupon, then cut out the panel. Send to Uncle Eddie, c/o Hengkung Tele- straph", Wynubain Street, before 2pm. on Wednesday. All boys and girls net over 15 years of age may send in, and full allowance will be made for age.

Lately, I have noticed that quite a few kiddies are being helped in the compotl Hans by thetr parents or older brothers

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WEEK-END SECTION

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ACTION SNAPS -

What action! Must have taken a fast shutter to stop It! Well, no-don't tell anybody, but It was snapped at 1/25 second, approximately box-camera shutter speed. The athlete simply held still for a moment.

RETTY

the weather will Any athlete, proud of his musclos

Pushchools will and inform should be glad to "bold

start on their athletic programme, mall boys will be knocking bat- tered footballs around on vaeant But and your youngster, very likely, will be among them.

it a moment for you. And email boys on neighborhood baseball 'dia. monds cheer when they see a cam. era coming. They'll hold any pose you want them to.

These amateur athletics are ex cellent material for your camera, The low viewpoint is best for ac whether it is n hox camera attch notion pictures, with the camera tilied most of us have, or ung of the new slightly upward no that the sky high-speed miniatures.

forms the pleture background,

Of course, with a box camera, you cannot always expect to"stop" rapid nction. That in the field of the cam eras with highspeed lenses and shutters, But there's no reason why you can't pleturn netion poses →→→ some of them so realistic that peoplo who see them would vow the ple tures were high-speed "stop-action" Anna.

sisters, Plent not do this. Apart from being unfair, I du not see What satisfaction can be obtained by allowing others to complete your puzzles.

Every good wish, kiddies.

Uncle

Eddie

Try it, with a young plicher "winálng up" or at the end of to delivery. He can hold his position and expression long enough for you to snap the plcture-and the effect Is one of genuine rapid action.

"Action" snaps of this sort not only turn out to be good pictures, but also provide plenty of tue. Try some, and see how easily the cam era (and your friends) can be fooled.

John a Guilder

SATURDAY, JANUARỲ 21, 1939.

This Novel Has

Almost Everything

F ARNOLD BENNETT were alive to-day he would have read, with mixed feelings of delight and envy, The Big Firm, by Amabel Williams-Eilis. Collins, 8s. 6d,

He would have delighted in the strength of the story, in the power of the author to make the world about her at once familiar and exciting. So exciting that I grudged the time I had to spend on meals while was reading this long tale. The test of a good novelist, if ever there was oncl

And he would certainly have been envious. For he had an almost idols- trous passion for vant concerns: the larger the wheels the more he liked to see them RO round. And Mr. Williams-Ellis has chosen the biggest organisation she or anyone else could find in the maze of modern industry- huge chemical combine which śke enlls Consolidated Belent Products (hereinafter referred to as C.B.P.),

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But, since she hasn't any of Ben- nett's schoolboyish gusto for detail, she leaves the Big Firm in the back- ground, content to show us its anar- chile power over men and women- directors and their wives, researchi workers and their lovers, laboratory assistants and commissionaires,

She can even be pleasantly ironical about the Wonders of Helence. And 1' high Ume that somebody was!

"They'll be able," sald Bernard, "to puip up wood or corncobs or seaweed and things and then put it into vats to brew like beer. And when it comes out they'll be able to roll it into secta and arrange that a sort of paint proieS on it... purple bloom on a grape. you know, narvellous coloum

"Or put in a different bug. brew 1 another way in another vat and it'l rise-like a loaf of bread, you know- and turn into a lovely soft chair. Then they'll soon be able to put another part of yeast into a haystack and puff up and turn bollow and you'll have a house.

"Or you'll be able to turn it into soap or lumps of sugar or motor spirit or atur for making cinema films or rubber or leather ink really anything else you happen to want.'

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Amabel Williams-Ellis is a daughter of the late St. Loc Strachey and sister of John Strachey. Lytton Strachey cousin. was her

She is married to Clough Williams- Ellis, the architect.

Umo presents modern Europe's history through a woman's eyes,

While carrying on as a wife and mother, she has seen most of the major events of post-war years, and her wiity and brilliant description of them ndda something all have thissed so far.

W. M. T.

German and Czech, A Threat to European Peace, by 8..Grant Duft (The New Fabian Research Bureau, 1.J.

If

Spain, you should read this excel- lent pamphlet. It will tell you all about the 3,250,000 Oerman minarity in Czechoslovakin, how they got there, what their griov- ancea are and whether they profer Hitler or Benes,

It will also tell you why the capture of Czechoslovakin is conceived by the Nazla na a crucial next step in the con. quest of Europe and why. Czechoslo- vakin regards her treaty with Russin as an essential guarantee of lier safety. The author, as Hugh Dalton says in his preface, lastind exceptional op portunities for intelligent observation In Prague" and "has made good use of them.'

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Thrillers

can't,

D. J.

unfortunately, make a detective story about the very best kind of murder -the one that was never found sut because it was just accident or natural death,

However, Josephine Beil gets pretty near to it in Fall Over Clift (Long- mans, 7a. 04.). Bho puts her Dr. Wintringham on a trail of death by diabetes, runaway pony nud drowning that only brennte suspect because the murderer Talher overdid it,

I recommend this book. the rest;

Here are

Octagon House, by Phebe Atwood Taylor (Collins, 78. ed.). Asey Mayo Cape Codding again with-a And of ambergris and an unlikely post office na the cause of all the trouble.

Death at the Bank, by Ball Francis (Constable, 78. Gd.). Wicked manager horribly bashed. Everybody rejoicing and suspect.

The Moon Saw Murder, by Onl Oliver (Geoffrey Bles, 1. id... Acquitted murderess ("she curled up know

why

Jiken annko and hissed") done to the next

death na she planned to sell her fo storm centre after story.

F. E. H.

want to you Czechoslovakia WILS European

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THRILLER

ARANCIS BEEDING is nothing If not ingenious. In his latest thriller, The Black Arrows (Hodder and Stoughton, 7s. Od.), un Italian dictator, whose Identity Is cunningly disguised under the name of Cafarelli, actually calls upon the British Intelligence Ser- vice to help him stamp out & secret organisation whose alm is to force him into a war with England.

le cannot trust his own police, for the Black Arrows, as John Cowper this Intelligence Service formula is HX14X) discovers to his cost, has a agents everywhere. Ak the advertise- ment says, even his best friends won't tell him.

Fortunately. Cowper, is a strong swimmer, for the mysterious canala of" Venice, where most of his adventures occur, gure largely in the book, which, like all Beedings, piles adven- ture on adventure to the very inst page.

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Puzzle Corner Answers Cryptogram

An oyster met an oyster,

And they were oysters two; Two oysters met two oysters, And they were oysters, too. Four oysters met a pint of milk, And they were oyster stew. Use 'Em Again: Apprehensive, Independent, propitiation.

Letter Juggling: Conservation, conversation.

Find the Number:

120.

Fun With Synonyms: Slope- incline; jewel-gem; gesture-mo-i tion; gift-present; mare-trap; friend-comrade; sod-turf; search -scrutiny; Jester-joker; liquid- futa.

INSPECTOR PLAYFAIR

SOLUTION

Jeff Gadsdoll had stupidly left) his own fingerprints on the rub-j ber gloves worn by Alleleula.

THIEVES PICK

CIGARETTES

CLEVELAND, O.

And, when someone tells Bernard that very few people know how soap or sugar or things" are made in the or dinary way, he replies, with dignity, * Neither do I. I haven't the slightest Idea even how gin is made... But that shan't stop me from taking an intelligent Interest in the wonders of selence!

Not content with mocking, the Higher Modern Mysteries, this novelist will show you. by the way and among many other matter, the fatulty of London receptions, the boredom of the " wealthy, the adaptability of politicians, the idealism of youth, the helpless ob stinacy of the old, the alertness of children, the Anding of love and the loss of it.

And. If you want to know how the Welsh mountains look on a wintry afternoon or what it feels like to be trying to hold up a cargo of munitions for rebel Spain, Mrs. Williams-Ellla wil tell you that also.

The Big Firm, you see, has almost everything.

R. P.

Three Away

Burgos Justice, by Antonio Ruiz Vilaplana (Constable, 75. 6d.). Señor Ruiz worked at Burgos

under the Franco regime as a Commissioner of Justice until he could bear it no longer. There was no justice only death for those who believed in right and freedom,

Bodies found here, bodies found there, and any attempt to carry out the normal routine, identifications and inquiries instantly squashed. A terrible indictment, sincere and convincing. Journalist's Wife, by Lillian Mowrer

(Heinemann, 128, đā.j.

Here is a book not only about a famous journalist, but obviously by n should be famous journalist,

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Actor-Husband

by actress-wife

HIEN an actress-wile writes about her ector-husband. one expects some touches of blography's worst ingredients- coplous circumstance and Imita- tion detachment especially. In Charles Laughton and I, by Elsa Lanchester (Faber and Faber, 85. 04.) we get nothing of the kind. Written with a larky candour and utterly unaffected clarity, the book conveys n convincing picture of a grand pair of human beings, fall of le zest of life, which they take ns seriously in play as in work.

Haters of humbug and limelight.

Moviedom Gossip

these two strong personalities love the theptre and in studio no more than their Surrey hut. where they estes minne ants, chop logs and lize with flow and booka round them. Their married exlatence is the dovetailing of two careers-the Clapham dancing- teacher and the lad from Scarborough who threw over hotel work for the stage.

It seems to work ideally,

Laughton won school prize of Shakespeare and thought: "One day I shall be a great actor and this will be. come the much-iliumbed copy of Charles Latigiton," Mrs Laughton comments: "He has lost the book and Ias discovered he is no good in Blinke- speare."

Inner stories of their stage and im roles abound but the best yarns are about others-for example, Norma Shearer, whose appetite in colossal, but who turns cartwheels after meals!

Practical jokes in the theatre aro commoner than most people think. Miss Lanchester, acting at the Old Vie,

Livesey had inade this Impossible by putting two 2016, weights in it. Next night Ursuin Jeans sawed Livesey's walking-stick nearly half, so that B snapped in the middle of a scene.

Goble as Ballet Master had to pick up a big black bag. Roger

the "Idiot's Delight" set, Norma Shearer is a sensa- tion in her platinum blonde wig and black tights, while Clark Bir Gerald du Maurier was an in- Gable is amusing everyone with

veterate Joker. As the butler in "The his dance routines. He plays a

Admirable Grichton" he brought in a felter, stuck to the tray and immov- professional dancer in the pic-aute and arranged for slow drips of ture, and has to take dancing during a tong secne.

water to fall on a bald actor's head,.

F. L. M. lessons.

Carole Lombard is teasing him about it, and sent him a pair of ballet slippers and a ballet skirt.

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For Mrs. Mowrer, telling the story of Ameche's Double her twenty years of pacing along at

the heels of Edgar Mowrer, at the same

Dark-Eyed Drivers

Are Best

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DLUE eyes are the red fight D when it

comes to driving, Dark eyes are safer.

If Jan't anything to do with back- sent driving or vamping policemen.

Experts have decided that men and women with dark eyes are bat ter car drivers than those with light coloured eyes.

DON

AMECHE'S

brother

Jimmy, who is so like Don in voice and appearance he might be taken for his twin, will make his movie debut with his brother in "Three Musketeers."

The studio needed someone who could logically masquerade for Don in his role as D'Artag- nan, and Jimmy, who has had acting experience in dramas, was the natural cholec.

Personal Appearance

FREDDIE

nadio

BARTHOLOMEW

spent a week in New York for personal appearances. When he arrived, 500 women rushed up to the train to meet him. There's a reason for it. Listen to Drs. 11. R. De Silva and Philip He made the trip to New Robinson, of Harvard University, York with his Aunt Cissy (Miss who have carried out 1,200 tests on Myllicent Bartholomew) and his the sensitivity of the eyes.

"Light eyes are the least senal- tutor, an Englishman by the tive in tow illuminations, so that name of John Cooper. drivers with light blue,

Krey or

green eyes should be careful when consisted of coming on to the Freddic's act in New York

driving at night.

Blackguard to forget

ACK MYTTON was a black- guard. He was born in 1700, the heir to a respectable and wealthy Shropshire squire, who died when his boy was not quite

two.

During a long minorlly, carefully husbanded by his mother. Jack Mytton's wenith grew finely. The Napoleonic wars suited landlords, you know, if they nearly starved their tenants.

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In its issue of April 2, 1834, "The Times" recorded a verdict of natural death brought in at the inquest on Jack Mytton, who had died of drink in the King's Bench Prison.

He had menntime been expelled from two schools, left Cambridge before he was sent down, treated his wife and children with great cruelty, gambled and drunk his way through a magnif- cent estato.

He was cruel to animals, evit tem- pored to hila servants, horrible in his cupa, vainglorious out of them

To-day, maybe, paychological, treat- ment might liave made a man of him. is own ago could do nothing with

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Ho in beat forgotten. It is a pity that I have kind to review two lives of him in a very few years, or that Edith Btwell bothered to waste her. Ironie fun on him in her English Eccentrics. The new life of him is called Madanp's Progress. It is written quite nicely by Richard Darwall (Dent, 188)

"In the daytime, too, cara is neces- stage while Judy Garland ap sary for people possessing light eyes peared on the screen, and they Thieves took all brands of for sun-glare makes them fear talked to each other. Then when he and Judy did a scene ban Olmsted Falls drug store. They Best efficiency is shown by black Freddie suddenly disappeared, from their latest picture, "Lie-

only to reappear, on the screen, I ten, Darling.".

cigarettes except one from a subur- | efficient,

ncorned a 12-cent brand.

and brown eyes."