1939-02-25 — Page 31

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1939.

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Address

Neme

Dear Kiddies,

This is all my own work

I Was very disappointed to receive so few entries this week. really WIK nut The competition difficult. However, I suppose you were on holiday and could not find the time for working cut the puzzle.

The prize-winners this week are:-

Wilbur Marshall (aged 12), 4,

wood Road, Ground floor. Chandru Ileera (aged 10), 15. Queen's Road.

Anthony Cutelier (aged 731), 12. Tai Hang Road,'

Coupons have been sent to Wilbur, Chundru and Anthony which i want

to

Age

paints or crayons colour the above plcture as gnity as you can. Fill In the name, age and address coupons and send to Uncle Eddie, c/o "Hong- kong Telegraph," Wyndham Street, The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three prizes will again be given- one for the best entry in each sec- tion. Age and neatness of hand- writing will be taken into considera- tton.

Uncle Eddie

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

TABLE-TOP PICTURES

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION

Toy soldiers, some cotton batting-and you have war picture in winter. Making table-top pictures la easy, and fun.

IF YOU want to give your imagia

tion free rein on something just try taking table-top pictures during the evenings.

scene.

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Alone in a

Forbidden Land

Was

NYONE can travel round the world to-day. Indeed, it is arguable that to do so is safer than stopping at home.

But the Inte Gustav Krist was none of your safety-first guide-book globe. trotters. Ila

Д glutton for danger.

Alone Through the Forbidden Land (Faber and Faber, 125, Od) is a thril ting vividly observed record of this young Austrian's wanderings through the forbidden territories of Soviet Asta.

He had been there during the waE oa military service and so his returni was asking for trouble. In spite of forgest papers, he was recognised and arrested, but he cunningly managed to disprove his own identity.

The most exciting parts of this book, though, are not the account of the Author's occasional denth risking clashes with Soviet authority. but his descriptions of a straggling tract of the world in which old and new-- primitive, almost prehistorie life and Marxist politics-nicet and sniff each ather like susplelous animals.

On one page you read of the Soviet Polico speeding noiselessly on bell-lers across sandy wastea camels A moment Inter you are read- ing a description of the sacred lomb of Daniel (of the Lions' Den), which was shown to the author by a holy man outside Bamarkand.

and stage a war on the living-room Descr floor. A woolly white blanket, or cotton batting, provides snow for a winter scene. A sheet of black card- board is a fine background for 釀 night

A mirror, laid out flat, makes a sheet of ice. Drown sugar or salt can be used for {1 sandy

twigs bench. Tiny

bare suggest trees. Transparent wrapping mate- rial, properly crumpled, resembles stormy water. Place a ship model on a sheet of this-and you have a on storm at sea.

With a few simple materials that can be picked up around almost any you can create all sorts of house,

comic picture situations-In either or serious vein. Spread out a piece of plain, dark carpet, and you have

lawn. Put an attractive grassy doll house on it, add a few toy trees and a driveway made out of sand or suit-and

a handsome you have

Clearly, in "lable-tops" there are country estate. Slip a few wads of

marvellous chances for pletures. The crumpled paper under the carpet, smoothing: it down neatly-and you sky is the limit-and there's no end have hills and valleys. A toy auto-to the fun you can have. Try a few mobile on the drive, a few toy cows now, and you'll see.

horses scattered about-and you have a complete rural scene.

or horses

It's as simple as that.

For table-top pletures, any kind of camera can be used. If yours is a fixed-focus eamers, or one that fo- cuses only to five or six feet, slip a the lens- portrait affachment on this enables you

close to take

ups. The camera should be placed on a

Jena

closed m support, and the down to small opening. This makes both near

near and far objects sharper. Time exposures should be made, using either ordinary electric bulbs

preferably.

regular amateur photo bulbs,

Table-top pictures offer A wide

them to bring thelongkong Fly Sought In Vain sup

Telegraph" ufflees in

Wyndham

Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for trying hard are the following S. S..Bux. Gerald Marshall, Judy Price, Paul Vessoona, Donald Marshall, C. Jhamat, Wong Yung-tsing and Oleg Julebin.

This week, kiddies, we are having a colouring competition. With your

At Sea

London.

The almost unlimited resources of the Queen Mary, Britain's luxury liner, falled when a passenger asked for a fly. The insect was wanted by Mr. Grey Wornum of London as part of the diet for a frame of ants which she had purchased in New York.

or,

choice of subject matter. You con take a couple of model airplanes, threads, and bang them on durk pleture an aerial combat. Or, you

and can use toy soldiers

cannon.

G FRIGIDAIREE

MADE ONLY BY GENERAL MOTORE

John van Guilder

Buklara tho Iloly (Bovict ration nilata have renamed it Bukhara the Noble) was the peak of Krist's fantas tically picturesque pilgrimage, on which his companions were thirst, fever, tarantula spiders, scorpions and. for a while, the embarrassing gift of two Khirghiz wives.

But the most unexpected exhibit in

the ex-Amir's apartments was à com- plately furnished nineteenth-century railway compartment. Behind tho window was a tiny room in which his servants used to stand and wave sirips of coloured paper so that His Majesty might enjoy the complete illusion of a rallway journey!

This remarkable travel book in illus trated by more than a hundred magni- ficent photograplis.

Snub-Nosed

B.F.

Goldie's Debut

After the Giant Pandas came an- other rarity to the London Zoo re- cently-n gulden, anub-nosed key from Tibet and China. ̧

men-

-No animal of this specles has ever before been exhibited at uny zoo.

This curious creature, which has been aimed Goldle, has a anall pyramid-shaped nose which points upwards.

It is about nine inches high, 12 months old, and has russet-brown and grey fur.

Brought to London by Major Floyd Smith, who also introduced the five been Mra. Giant Pandas, It has Smith's pet.

Goldle was in Hongkong last year with the Pandas when they were kept at the Dog's Home in Kowloon,

Moviedom Gossip

Born By Candle Light In Black-Out Beth,

Blackpool.

A BABY boy was born by the light candles in a Blackpool of four maternity home recently during a black-out caused by the breaking of a 33,000-volt cable between Preston and Binckpool.

A quarter of a million people over in area of 250 square miles were plunged in darkness.

Film of "Queen Bess" DETTE DAVIS is to play Eliza- the Queen, with Errol Flynn as her impetuous and ambill- ou admirer, Essex, in an elaborate new period film.

This acid part is very much to the Davis liking.

for

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Academic Heroines WRITERS at the Sam Goldwyn studio are at work on a script "The First Co-Ed," a pleture which will teli of the trials and tri- bulations of the first women to enter American universities, which until 1840 were strictly masculine insiltu- tons. The story will be fiction, but based on facts related in the blo- the first The failure lasted 21⁄2 hours Ingraphies of several of

feminine university students. many districts.

As the cable snupped, there was an explosion in the Blackpool sub- station, which caught fire. Firemen had to walt until they were sure the current had been switched off from Preston before they could enter the building

There was chaos in Fleetwood har- bour, where all navigation lights were extinguished.

s

A woman was being operated on for

at Fleetwood Hospital two doctors finished the by the light of three small operation bulbs worked off a 12-volt battery. A nurse put in stitches by torchlight.

Other effects were:

All frams stopped; Thousands of candles sold in a few minutes;

A woman trapped for quarter of an hour in a store ft. The black-out baby was born to: Mrs. Lillan Henderson, of Belmont- avenue. Blackpool.

Loretta's Now Part

ORETTA YOUNG and Darryl Zonuck have had a stormy time getting together on renewal of con- tract, but they seem to have settled their differences at last. Announce- ment is made that Zanuck's glamour girl will co-star with Don Ameche in "The Life of Alexander Graham Bell." Loretta plays the part of the who aids and inspires the man who gave the world the tele- phone.

Woman

Veteran's Carcer

Mr. G. MacDonald, Preston deputy

19 LICE BRADY electrical engineer, sald that it may

Infuriated by t be days before the normal supply is

persistent rumours that she will restored.

retire permanently from the screen

because of ill-health. Alice was very last year, but she says doctors now pronounce her to be in perfect health.

Unless something quite unforeseen happens she has no intention of giv- ing up her career, and, in fact, has Just signed up to appear in "It's Spring Again" for Hal Roach.

Rudy's Ambitions RUDY VALLEE wants a job in the movies anything so long as it Isn't conducting BIL orchestra. In other words, he wants to be an actor and play a part, not Just get up and be himself, waying a baton before an orchestra.

NOVELS for your Library List

The Big Firms, by Arabel Wil- Rama-Ellia (Collins, 88, 6.). The tale of a huge chemical combino and living men and women, Red Planes Fly Fast, by Plotr Pavlenko (Routledge, 81. ed.). Russian frontier life in the Far East. With bombers over Tokyo.

Rumbin Galleries, by Booth Tarkington (Heinemani, 78. éd.). A record of this misadventures of A picture-dealer. Great fun.

Solo, by Nichoins Bodington (Gollancz. 75. ed.). Ilow it feels to fly alone from Ban Francisco to Paris and unek. Non-stop,

Pictures on the Pavement, by Ct. 8. Marlowe (Collins, 7s. 6d.j. The troubles and trials of a street artist. Murder in done, too.

The Other House, by Chris Masala (Secker and Warburg, 78. d.). In which a girl suspects her grandfather of crime. More than melodrama,

To Walk the Niglit, by Willlum Sloane (Arthur Barker. 78. GIL.). Who killed Professor LeNor- mand? Authentic thrilla.

Are You Sure?

(Questions on Page 2)

1 Dr. Aston

14 Knight errant

Armstrong

2 A hite bear- 15 Henry

hy comparing

3 Seven

4 Romary

Port

Capable of skilled artikle expresion

7 A Busin

Government

rdict

Writin or Wormwood

10 Peacock

11 Movie Studles 12 Magnesium 13 Matthew

18 An archtlescen

17 Short-lived

A prison wagon

10 Easy la

understand

20 A group of

Antonila

21 Marriageable

22 A sort of en-

#raving

23 Nymph

24 The Lord Great

Chamberlain

23 Favourite

PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS

Cryptoztam: It has been wald that if you wish n thing done well, don't do it yourself-unless you know how.

Word Squares:

GEMS

ERIN

MICA

SNAP

OPA

POSE

ASKS

LESS

Letter Chanting: ship, chip, thin, coin, corit. core, cope, hope. hapa. alpa,

What Was Percentage of Galo?: 20 per cent.

TC-

Fun With Synonyms: Annul-cancel; select-clipse; classity--arrawis; linquish-forswear; grasp-clutch; ad- Just-regulate: Impart-convey; tradict-deny; eriticize-censure; cross -Interrect,

Gary As Beau Geste

cost-

Potato as Ico-cream

an eccentric old lady who helps the IN "The Little Princess," Shirley young dancers over the rough spots Temple and twenty other tile at the beginning of their career. girls are supposed to have a great time in one scene gobbling ip mounds of ice-cream with cake.

Thel: apparent joy is

Geste" goes be- pure his new “Beau The Ice-creura is, in reality,

Paramount cameras lonkes, cold mashed potatoes. because rent any day now with Gary Cooper ice-cream would melt before the playing the role made so famous by scene could be photographed. Even Ronald Colman in the sitent Al the cake in unappetising, because the Kleig lights dry it up in a few mo- ments.

Welcome Back!

EDNA

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Budge in Demand. DONAL

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BUDGE'S decision furn professional will bring his tennls wizardry to the screen. When he compleles his first professional tour he will make a pieture. Three

MAY OLIVER, comedienne, who has been idle too long, has an important part in different studios are bidding for him. the next Rogers-Astaire film, "The He has not yet signed on Castles." She will play the part of line.

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NGINEERING.

NEWW

NG

ECONOMY ! NEW

SILEN PERATION!

Hong Kong Lawyer's reputation endangered

by NIGHT STARVATION/

TOMORROW THE CASE “

WILL BE HEARD IN COURT AND I CAN'T GET

THE FACTS RIGHT. I'M SO TIRED, MY BRAIN

WON'T WORK.

IN COURT

YOU ARE WASTING OUR TIME, MR. SIMPSON IT IS QUITE Davious YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED THE CASE.

(THINKS)

WHAT A HUMILIATION.

I MUST WIN NY

| REPUTATION BACK.I'IL

SEE A DOCTOR ABOUTS

MY HEALTH.

AT THE DOCTORS

I GET

PLENTY

OF SLEEP

DOCTOR

BUT NOT THE RIGHT KIND, MR. SIMPSON, YOUR TROUBLE 15 NIGHT STARVATION. THIS MEANS YOU ARE

NOT REPLACING USED-UP ENERGY DURING SLEEP, [ADVISE YOU TO TAKE HOALICKS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE RETIRING YOU WILL SOON REGAIN

YOUR VITALITY, "

THIS HORLICKS IS THE BEST DRINK IN THE WORLD FOR PUTTING YOUR VITALITY BACK! DID YOU USE THE MIXER?.

TWO MONTHS LATER

I NEVER THOUGHT

YOU'D WIN THAT CASE HOW DID YOU DO IT? YOUR NAME WILL BE IN ALL

THE PAPERS.

HORLICKS IS THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS!

If you wake tired, if you suffer TAKE HORLICKS

from 'nerves enervation and

that dreadful feeling of exhaustion GUARD AGAINST NIGHT STARVATION

YOU SLEEP SOUNDLY, WAKE REFRESHED AND HAVE EXTRA ENERGY ALL DAY

Horlicks is best made in the special Horlicks mix- er. Obtainable at all good stores-80.cts. large size and 40 cts. small size,