SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1939.
Girls and Boys' Corner
This is all my own work
Address
Name
Dear Kiddles,
1 WAS
Was
very disappolateri to receive so few entries this week. The competition
not really difficult. However, I suppose you were on holiday and could not find the time for working out the puzzle.
The prize-winners this week are:-- Wilbur Marshall (aged 12), 4, Hillwood Road, Ground floor.
Chandra Heera (aged 19). 45. Queen's Road,
Anthony Cutcher (aged 791), 12. Tai Hang Kond.
Coupons have been sent to Wilbur, Chandru and Anthony which 1 want them bring to Telostruph" offices
Agc
pants or crayons colour the above picture us gally as you can, FBI in the name, aige and address coupons kong Telegraph," Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 2 p.m. on Wednesday.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD
The SN
TABLE-TOP PICTURES
HONGKONG
war picture in winter.
Toy soldiers, some cotton batting-and you have
Making table-top pictures le easy, and fun,
IF YOU want to give your imagine tion free rein on something-just try taking table-top piclares during the evenings.
and stage war on the living-room floor. A woolly white blanket, or cotton batting, provides snow for a winter scene.
"A sheet of black card- With a few simple materials that board is a fine background for મ can be picked up around almost any night scene. A mirror, laid out flat, house, you can create all sorts of makes a sheet of lee. Brown sugar picture situations--in either comle or salt can be used for h sandy ar serious vein, Sprend out a plece beach. Tiny twigs suggest bare of plain, dark carpet, and yuli have
trees. Transparent Wrapping male- an attractive grassy lawn. Pul a rint, properly crumpled, resembles doll house on it, ndd a few lay frees storing water. Place a ship model and a driveway rade out of sand or on a sheet of this and you have a
handsome storm at sea. you have LL estate. Slip
wads
Tew
of
Clearly, in "table-tops" there are
ond send to Uncle Eddie, e/o "long W paper under
the carpet, marvellous chances for pletures, The
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smoothing it down neatly and you Three prizes will agán be given-have hills and valleys. A toy nuto- mobile on the drive, a few toy cows one for the best eufry in each sce-
or horses
ses scattered about-and you tion. Age and neatness of hand-
have a complete run
rural writing will be taken into considera- tion.
Uncle
Eddie
the tokong Fly Sought In Vain
Wyndham
Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.
At Sea
London.
Specially commended for trying
The atmost unlimited resources of bard are the following S. S. Bux, Gerald Marshall, Judy Price, Paul the Queen Mary, Britain's luxury Vessoon,
Gner, fafled when a passenger asked Donald Marshall, Jhamut, Wong Yung-tsing and Oleg for ly. The insect was wanted by Julebin.
Mrs. Grey Wornum of London 38 part of the diet for a frame of ants This week, kiddies, we are having | which she had purchased in New a colouring competition. With your | York.
NEW
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MADE ONLY BY GENERAL MOTORS
simple
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It's as For table-top pictures, any kind of camera can be used. If yours is a fixed-focus camera, or one that to- cuses only to five or six feet, slip a portrait attachment on the lens this enables you to take close ups. The camera should be placed on a Jens closed Arm support, and the flown to
small opening. This makes both near and far objects sharper. Time exposures should be made, using either ordinary electtle bulbs regular amateur preferably, photo bulbs.
Table-top pictures offer wide choice of subject matter. You can take a couple of model airplanes, hang them on dark threads, and picture on aerial combat. Or, you
and can use toy soldiers
cannon,
A
sity is the limit-and there's no end to the fun you can have. Try a few now, and you'll see.
John van Guilder
Born By Candle Light In Black-Out
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Blackpool. A BABY boy was born by the light
four
Blackpool candles in maternity home recently during a black-out caused by the breaking of a 33,000-volt cable between Preston and Blackpool,
A quarter at a million people over an uren of 250 square miles were plunged in darkness.
As the cable snapped, there was on in the Blackpool sub- explosion station, which cought fire. Firemen had to wait until they were sure the current had been switched off from Preston before they could enter the building
The fallure lusted 21 hours in many districts,"
There was chaos in Fleetwood har- bour, where all navigation lights were extinguished.
TELEGRAPH WEEK-END SECTION
Alone in a
Forbidden Land
NYONE can travel round { the ex-Amir's apartments was a com-
the world to-day. Indeed. Lit is arguable that to do so is safer than stopping at home.
But the late Gustav Krist was none o your safety-first guide-book globe. trottera. He
glutton Was
for danger.
Alone Through the Forbidden Land (Paber nad Faber, 12s. 6d.) is a thri- Hng vividly observed record of this young Austrian's wanderings througla the forbidden territories of Boviet Aala.
He had been there during the war an military service and so his return was asking for trouble. In spite of forged papers, he was recognised and arrested, but he cunningly managed to diaprove his own identity.
The most exciting parts of this book, though, are not the accounts of the Author's occnalogni death-risking clashes with Soviet authority. but la descriptions of a stroggling tract of the world in which old and new- primitive, almost prelistoric life ond Marxist polllics-niect and suift each other like simplelous animals
On one page you read of the Soviet Desert Police speeding noiselessly nero-s sandy wastes on bell-less camels A moment later you are read- ing a description of the sacred tomb of Daniel (of the Lions' Den), which was shown to the author by a holy man outside Samarkand,
Bukhara the Iloly (Bovlet ration- alists have renamed It Bukhara tho Noble) was the peak of Krist's fantas. tically picturesque pilgrimage, on which his companions were thirst. fever, tarantula apliers, scorpions and. for a while, the embarrassing gift of two Khirghiz wives.
But the most unexpected exhibit in
BE
pletely furnished nineteenth-century railway compartment. Behind the window was a tiny room in which his servanta used to stand and wave strips of coloured paper so that His Majesty might enjoy the complete liusion of a railway journey!
This remarkable travel book is Ilius- trated by more than a hundred magni- ficent photography,
8. F.
Snub-Nosed
Goldie's Debut
After the Giant Pandas came an- other rarity to the London Zoo re- cently a golden, snub-nosed key from Tibet and China.
mon-
No animal of this spretes has ever before been exhibited at any zoo.
This curious creature, which has been named Goldie, has a small pyramid-shoped 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 Glant Pandas, It has been Mra. Smith's pet.
Goldie was in Hongkong last year with the Pandar when they were kept at the Dog's Home in Kowloon.
Moviedom Gossip
Film of "Queen Boss" DETTE DAVIS Is to play Eliza-
beth, the
Errol Queen, with Flynn s her impetuous and ambiti ous admirer, Essex, in an elaborate new perled Alm.
This acid part is very much to the Davis liking.
for
❤.
because of ill-health. Alice was very ill last year, but she says doctors now pronounce her to be in perfect health.
Unless something quite unforeseen huppens she has no intention of giv- lug up her carcer, 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 ELIE orchestra. In
Academic Heroines
WRITERS at the Sam Goldwyn W
studio are at work in a script "The First Co-Ed," a picture which will tell of the trials and tri-isn't conducting bulations of the first women to enter American universities, which until 1840 were strictly masculine institu- tions. The story will be fletion, but based on facts related in the blo- several of the first graphies of feminine university students.
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Loretta's New Part A woman was being operated on ORETTA YOUNG and Darryl for appendicitis at Fleetwood Zanuck have had a slornly time Hospital and two doctors finished the getting together on renewal of con- operation by the light of three small tract, but they seem to have settled bulbs worked off a 12-volt battery. their differences at last. Announce- A nurse put in stitches by torchlight.ment is mude that Zanuck's glamour
Other effects were:
girl will co-star with Don Ameche In The Life of Alexander Graham Beil" Loretta plays the part of the
All trums stopped;
Thousands of candles sold in a few minutes;
A woman trapped for quarter of an hour in a store lift. The black-out baby was born to Mrs. Lillan Henderson, of Belmont- avenue. Blackpool.
Mr. G. MacDonald, Preston deputy electrical engineer, said that it may be days before the normal supply is restored.
woman
etter words. he wants to be an actor and play a park, not just get up and be himself, waving a baton before an orchestra.
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ממנו in
Potato as Ice-cream TN "The Little Princess," Shirley Temple and twenty other little girls are supposed to have a grent time
secne gobbling up mounds of ice-cream with cake.
Their apparent joy is pure his- trionics. The lee-cream is, in reality, cold mashed potatoes, because real ice-cream would melt before the scene could be photographed. Even the cake is unappetising, beenuse the Kleig lights dry it up in a few mo-
ments. who aids and inspires the man who gave the world the tele- phone.
Veteran's Career
Welcome Back!
DNA MAY OLIVER, elderly comedienne, who has been idle
NOVELS for your
Library List
The Big Firm, by Amabel Wil- lams-Ellis (Collins, 83, Gd.), The talo of a huge chemical combine
and lying men and women, Red Plates Fly East, by Plotr Pavlenko (Routledpe, 89. 64.). Russian frontier ilfe in the Far East. With bombers over Tokyo,
Tuashin Galleries, by Booth Tarkington (Heinemann, 72. 64.), A record of the misadventures of n picture-dealer, Great fun.
Bolo, by Nicholas Bodington (Gollancz, Ta. 6d.). How it feels to fly alone from San Francisco to Paris and back. Non-stop.
Pictures on the Pavenient, by . S. Marlowe (Collins, 7a. Ed.). The troubles and trials of a street artist. Murder la done, too.
The Other House, by Chris Masalo (Secker and Warburg, 73. 6d.). In which a girl suspecta her grandfather of crime. More than melodrama,
To Walk the Night, by Wilam Sloane (Arthur Barker, 78. Gd.j. Who Killed Professor LeNor mand? Authentie thrills.
Are You Sure?|
(Questinas on Page 2)
1 Dr. Aston
2 true wear.
Ing by compass
a Seven 4 Ronany 5 Port
4 Capable of
skilled artistic
expression
↑ A Russian
Government
iftet
8 Writing ary
Wormwood
to Pesenck
14 Movie studios 12 Magnaliana 13 Matthew
14 Kulght erran! is Henry
Armstrong
18 An archdeacon
17 Short-lived
10 A prison warten
10 Easy to
understand
20 A group of
Islands
31 Marringenblo 23 A Fort
Kraving
Nymph
CR-
24 The Lord Great
Chamberlain
25 Favourite
PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS.
Cryptogram: It has been said that if you wish a thing done well, don't do it yourself-unless you know haw.
Word squares:
GEMS
ERIN
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SNAP
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POSE ASKS
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Letter Changing: klip, chip, chin, corn. core, cape, hope, hops,
coln. hips,
What Was Percentage of lain?: 20 per cent
Fun With Synonyme Annul-cancel select-chouse; classify-arrange re- linquish-forswear: grasp clufeli; ad- just-regulate; Impart-convey: tradict-deny; criticize-censure; cross -Intersect.
con-
young dancers over the rough spots an eccentric old lady who helps the
at the beginning of their career.
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Gary As Boau Geste
THE new "Beau Geste" goes be-
Icre the Paramount BDY day now with Gary playing the role made so famous by Ronald Colman in the silent
cameras Cooper
Budge in Demand DONALD BUDGE'S decision to turn professional will bring his tennis wizardry to the screen. When he completes his first professional tour he will make a picture. Three
is infuriated by too long, has an important part in different studios are bidding for him, ALICE BRADY
persistent rumours that she will the next Rogers-Astaire Alm, "The Fle has not yet signed on dotted retire permanently from the screen Castles." She will play the part of ¡lne,
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 OBVIOUS YOU HAVEN'T PREPARED THE CASE.
(THINKS)
WHAT A HUMILIATION.
J MUST WIN NY REPUTATION BACK, I'LL SEE A DOCTOR ABOUT
►MY HEALTH.
AT THE DOCTORS
I GET
PLENTY
OF SLEEP
DOCTOR
BUT NOT THE RIGHT KIND. MAL. SIMPSON, YOUR TROUBLE | 15 NIGHT STARVATION. THIS MEANS YOU ARE
NOT REPLACING USED-U); ENERGY DURING SLEEP, ADVISE YOU TO TAKE HORLICKS EVERY NIGHT BEFORE RETIRING, YOU WILL SOON REGAIN YOUR, VITALITY,
THIS HORLICKS 15 THE BEST DRINK IN THE WORLD FOR PUTTING YOUR VITALITY BACKİ 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,
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