1939-03-18 — Page 11

SATURDAY

"MARCH 18, 1939.

Girls and Boys' Corner

Dear Kiddies,

Many of you guessed the names of the cargoes correctly although some of you did not get the cargo of "sugar." After 'careful con- sideration, I have decided to award the prizes this week to:

Margot Ahwee (aged 11). Kowloon Dairy, Customs Pass.

C. Rozeskwy (aged 101⁄2), 31, Ashley Road, Top Floor. Gordon Kew (aged 7), 3, Dragon Terrace.

Coupons are being sent to Margot, C. Rozeskwy and Gordon which I want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" offices in Wynd- ham Street. The coupons| will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for good work are the follow- ing:

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Seniors: Nicholas Spoor, Paul Vessoona, Yeung Kit- wa, Laurence Becker, Owen Hong Sling, Eva Grady, Joan E. R. Gordon, Ng Wing-hang, Moorchand Heera, Oleg Julebin, Mary Grace Asche, Derek Stokoe, Ho Man-chan, Charles Ed- ward Clark, Marie Pomeroy, Miskin Samy, John James, K. Daniloff, Mo Chu-ting, Norman Hellevick, Eric Olsson, Yip Yan-cheung, V. Ildefonso, Mary An.

Intermediates: Chandru Heera, Margaret Hall, Rich- ard Woodier, Joan Agnes Daniel, Constantin Bonhoff,

This is all my own work

Address

Same

Age

Juniors: P. Wong, David Asche, Brian Tupper, Perry Shek, Gerald Weill, Anthony Cutcher.

This week, kiddies, we are having a design drawing competition. All that you have to do in this easy com- petition is to draw a geome trical design on a postcard.

that is, à design made up of circles, squares, straight lines or simple curves to form a regular pattern.

This must be drawn on a posteurd. Fill in the name, age and address coupon. Do not colour the design.

Eddie, c/o "Hongkong Tele-

Send your entry to Uncle. graph," Wyndham Street, before 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

Age will be taken into consideration when award- ing the three prizes-one for the best in each section.

Good luck, kiddies.

S. S. Bux, Shek Sui-mak, Uncle Eddie. Lela Corvissiano, Geoffrey

Kew.

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

PICTURES IN THE HOME

Attractive "home" pictures, such as this, are easy to take, either in the daytime or at night with photo bulbe.

PICTURES of the rooms of your but for your first picture you should home are easy to make, and add make several "test" shots, with 1- variety to the snapshot collection. creased exposure each time. Three They also have memory value, in the shots, ane with 10-second timing, one ovent furnishings are changed or the with 30 seconds, and one with about home is remodeled.

2 minutes, will do. Have a print made Any camera is suitable for theso from each negative, and you can get pictures, if it can be set for a time a good Iden of the timing that will exposure. The pictures can bo takon be best for other "Interior" pictures. Photo bulbe, when needed to ob either in the daytime, or at night,

Before taking a picture by day-tain an oven inlance of lighting inn light, have the room illuminated as room, can be used in bridge Jampa evenly as possible. Illumfuation may with shades tipped up and moved be balanced. In some casca, by ad-about to direct light wherever necen- Justing shaden of windows that will mary. Of course, much lights used for be out of range of the camera. Photo general illumination should not ho lights at the amateur "food" type placed where they will show in the Bro quite helpful in "evening up" the daytime pictures.

umination. Thero bulbs are also valuable for taking night pletures of Intertors.

If windows are included in the pic ture, try this: keep the shades down for seven-eighths of the exposure. Then close the camera shutter, belog careful not to move the camera; raise the shades, and open the cam

With the Illumination adjusted, pince the camera on a firm support, slutter net for "line." Point it to ward the part of the room to be ple era shutter for the remaining expo- tured, set the lens for a anall open-auro time, This trick keeps the win. ing such na 1.18, and make the ex-down from recording too brightly on

the Bim. posure.

In arranging a room for a picture, The exposure time varies with the brightness of the room. With a box it is wise to move any furniture that camera, or using kens opening 16 on is quite near the canters, leaving an camerna og marked, exposure can be "open" foreground. This makes the as short as 4 seconds on a bright, room seem more spacious. The ple sunny day when the room hinn white turo should show more foer than walls and more than one window.celling, to avold a top-heavy appear With dark wallo and only one winnnce. dow, exposure enn many day would be about 10 seconén. On a day of lazy to picture the rooms of your home. sun, leave the skuiler open twico as Take these pictures now, and you Jong, and un a very dufl day. ten will find added value in them in Tator times along.

These cures will serve no n guide, I

Features of the FRIGIDAIRE 1939

Cold Wall Models

The Now Quickube Tray will find favour with overyone. It increases the 'capacity of the freezer for froczing desserts, salads and ice cubes; also for storage of bulky frozen articles and highly perishable foods.

Three in one. All three functions of the Cold Control, the Automatic Reset Defroster and the Master Switch are now controllable from a single dial which is known as the Frigidairo Uni-Matic Control.

Hero's an added refinement that users will appreciate: a new Super Freezer Door which closes at a finger's touch, but, most important of all, it opons all the way and stays opon until you want it to close.

COLD CONTROL

› zabalekRATION EM

Winter months are a splendid time

yeurs.

John van Guilder

HEART'S WRONG

Lewiston, Mc. Though Betty Cowing's heart is on her right side (and thus, wrong). what really Interests her friends is the sensitivity of her skin to pressure, Messages written on her back are visible 20 minutes or more.

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THOUGHT

EOPLE who eat heartily

at a funeral ten connot be feeling any genuine grief..... Football crowds should never eat-they are much too excited to digest their food

If you come home tired and hungry you should rest for two hours before you eat anything...

These are just one or two of the things that a couple of American Professors, C. C. and §. M. Furnas, have to say in their brightly writ ten now book-Man, Bread and Destiny (Cassell, 10s. 8d.).

And in their wisdom these two pro- fessors toll us that modern man knows for teas about how to feed himself than his monkey ancestors,

Half the Englishunen over forty have false teeth. But among primitive men a decayed tooth was a rarity. It is all a matter of food,

Take a man from some present-day primitive tribe. He uses no toothbrush. He visits no dentist. But his teeth aro Ilke plano keys.

For a few weeks take him to stay at the Ritz Hotel, Let him have the pick of West End food.

And all the toothpaste and all the dentists in London would not keep hila teeth from decaying.

It's the sugar and lean muscle ment he'd be given to cal. Civilisation atıd bad teeth go hand in hand.

Indeed, civilisation's only real advance on the food front has been the introduction of humanity.

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Nowadays, at any rate, we hold up our handa in horror of the English- men who, even under Charles II, mado n habit of roasting and eating live Beese,

And we should not be much im- pressed by the excuse that "the geese are used to it."

The authors of this book do not think that the diet fnudists hald out much hope for civilisation.

Simplest rule for the housewife, they Gay, is:

First eat what you should, then eat what you want."

They give one other tip-"Save your Julecs. In the country," they "any, "people give the cooking water to the hogs.

The hoga prosper. the human -beings grow anemic.

"In towns they throw the cooking water down the drain--and not even the hogs are benefited."

Actually the average housewife is a good deal inore careful not to let any thing in the kitchen bo wasted than the authors of this book seem to think. Still, they are bright, cheery people. these two professors. And it in good to see them hit out at the theory that "the day will come when each person will carry for his nourishment hls ittle nitrogenous tablet."

Twelve ounces of butter alone are required by a human being each day. Try carrying that in your vest **T10 pocket." my the professors. sizzling steak and the juicy, old- fashioned apple pie will never be obsolete."

And that is something we can all be

W. S. thankful for.

Long Way Off

Up in the North, a long way of.

The donkey's got the whooping cough.

HIS happy masterpiece, dear readers, comprises the whole of item 215, printed on page 396 of The Oxford-Book of Light

the Oxford University Press (8s. 6d.).

There are three hundred and five poems in the book.

Number

215 is the shortest of them. The longest is the Millera's Tale from

Moviedom Gossip

Tono for Stago FRANCHOT TONE

is seriously considering giving up pictures to return to the New York stage when his M-G-M contruct expires this month.

The theatre has always been Fran- chot's first love.

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Colbert's Exotic Dancing

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COLBERT when making "Zaza bad to take a couple of days off to recover from the strain of eight hours of dancing the "can-can."

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Paramount Wanted Sully Rand, Amerle's number one fan duncer, to do the "cal-can" dancing in the film. but she refused on the grounds that the "can-can" is vulgar, whereas her fan dance-in which her costume is two faasis "art"!

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Spanky Still Loader

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TINE-YEAR-OLD Spanky Mace.

Farland, leader in the "Our Gong" comedy: series, was retired some time ago from the Gang be cause he was getting too old.

After his departure, M-G-M de- elded to continue making the little comedies, and launched a search for a boy to take Spanky's place. Win- ner of the search is none other than

Storage space for the extra ico cubos needed for parties is an added use for the Meat Tondor. It holds all the cubes that can be Spanky himself! The studio decited

It would be impossible to replace

frozen at one time, thus doubling the icon. cube capacity of the refrigerator.

Dodwell & Co., Ltd.

Aloxandra Building

Tapley's Contract Endod WITH "Booloo," the picture in which he got his first lending role, New Zealand actor Colin Tap- ley has ended his contract with Paramount.

Colin was brought to Hollywood about four years ago as New Zealand winner in a world-wide Search- For-Beauty contest.

He played bit parts until year ago, when he was sent to Malay (Continued on Column 0.)

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which occupies twenty-three pages. The book contains other such substan- tial pieces as Dryden's MacFleck- noc. Canto III of Pope's The Rape of the Lock and sixteen pages of bits out of Lord Byron's Don Juan. If you browse through the book be fore reading Mr. Auden's introduction -which he has not, unfortunately. written in light verse you don't easily understand the basis on which he hat made his anthology. I did this and grew annoyed. Then I noticed what Mr. Auden had to say and regained my normal sunny cemposure.

He anys there are three kinds of "light" poetry, and his book is an historical anthology of them. Ther

are:

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Poetry written.. to be apuken or an audience (e.g., folk songs, the

poems of Tum Moore.

121 Poetry Intended to be read, but having for ita subject-matter the everyday mocist life nfl period... [e... the poetas of Chescer, Pope, Byran).

has general appeal nursery rhymes, the perma of Edward Lebil.

(3) Buch nonsense poetry a

Now. when you come to think it over, Mr. Auden shows plenty of sense in classifying and defining Eight verse" like this. He happens to be n very considerable port himself, and poets are always sensible about the use of words. It is their trade.

Flowing from Mr. Auden's chalce comes any amount of fun, relish and beauty. I place fun arst, because 1: seems to me the principal quality of the book Mr. Auden has a nice aly taste in humour. I specially like the titles ha pata above some of the draggle poems, which he has rescued from the gutter and spruced up a bit.

In printing these he has been forced to bowdleriso quite liberally here and there. Purists will go jumping wild over this. But, really, it doemi't matter, and the book will bring a large circle their firat delighted contact with the racy folk verso of the last hundred years As General Booth used to ask, Why should the devil have all the good lunes?".

This book will do admirably to give You anyone senalble at Christmas. should also try to get someone to give you a copy for yourself,

Finally, Mr. Auden deserves all our gratitude for one thing. He has done without any of that charming stuff A. A. Milne writes. Isn't that toc scrumptious, chicks?

T. D.

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a Novel Thrills

O one called Nicolas Bedington has flown alone across the Atlantic. But, if you are prepared to be ' deafened by the drone of the engine and don't feel too dizzy as he roars through the snow-clouds at five thousand feet, you can fly it with him in his novel, Solo (Gollanez, -75. Od.).

"A crazy business. desperate ning. San Francisco to Paris and back non-stop. Carrying mails to France, circling over the city for an hour or two, refuelling in the air, gathering in the return malls. Then a race westwards before the dawn which must eventually catch him up over this windswept waste of water.

"On sighting land again, there would be another three thousand five hundred miles or so to zun, over a continent, until at last the hum of his engine could be allowed to drop into a stutter, a whirr, as he slid down towards the airfield and let the wheels touch the earth they had loft three days before.

"That was the idea: a quick return ticket to Paris.“

Like his pilot, Mr. Bodington goes nil cut, meing against time, pulling his story up in steep climbs when it slips into a pocket, sending out calls to you. whipping up your senantions until the Buccess or failure of that terrific adven- ture becomes as much a matter of life or death to you as it does to the lone flyer himself.

The first hundred pages of the book are breathlessly good. The rest of the tale, I thought, was anti-climax. But how could it be otherwise?

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ESTINY of an art dealer is to spread happiness thickly on the plain bread of man- kind! So says the indefatigable hero of Booth Tarkington's new story, Rumbin Galleries (Helne- Certainly, Mr. mann. 75. ed.). Rumbin himself had me laughing all the while I was watching him at work.

A "middle-aged, active, fat mun with a glowing eye," he is a richly comie character, panting incessantly after the Ideal Gilent for his masterpieces and struggling frantically to keep that Ideal Client out of the clutelies of similar dealers in similar masterpieces. His encyclopedie knowledge of art is the least of his assela. What rescues im from ruin again and again is his canny understanding of the mysterious and pathetic working of a rich man's mind.

And what a style the mon host ls conversation is a constant joy: his tele- grams are pure delight. It will amuse you to decode them, Trailing a pos sible masterpiece for a possible client, he sends his secretary u flood of tele- arams describing his difficulties in Then comes the secing the picture. final wire:

"One ginnce purely horrible disgust- ing Imitation eighteen seventy stop cousin hired lawyer libel suit what I called him stop looking for me now serve papers tralos absolute blackmail stop airplane arrive galleries four to morrow aflernoon stop hold him do -something-hold him."

But there's ao holdug Mr. Ribiti He is an irresistible force. A sprender of happiness over the world? I'll sny

be 18.

"Nanking-Shanghai

Railway

London.

The necessity for foreigners to obtain permits to travel on the Nan- king-Shanghai Railway was referred lo in an answer to a Parliamentary question recently as follows:

Major Procler asked the Prime Minister whether he has received any appeals from China for credit guarantees; whether sucht credits are connected with the League of Nations resolution in favour of the grant of all measures of possible assistance to China?

Mr. Butler: Certain proposals for guarantees In relation to exports to China are under consideration, and In this connection all the various elr cumstances governing the situation are naturally being exumined.

PUZZLE CORNER ANSWERS Cryptogram: To be successful in any line of endeavor, a man must dis eard animosity as a useless property.

A Charade: Pronoun, cement; pro- nouncement.

Letter Changing; Fowl, cowl, cool, cook, enck, duck, duck.

How Much?: 30 gallons.

Fun With Synonyms: Slappy-cheer- ful; convenient-handy: compart- kolld; rugged-rough; speedy-hasty: cloudy-minty; fearless-vallant; pon- derous--bulky: humble docile; sincere -candid.

with a movie company to make the Jungle Alm, "Bootoo," which is just rendy for release.

Returning to Paramount when the Alm was completed, he was asked to do an unimportant part, and, since he had just finished a leading role, Colin objected, and the contract was terminated. He will remain in Hollywood for a few months, but will probably try his luck at films or stage In Australla.

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Maquire in London MARY MAGUIRE will not be re- turning to Hollywood for several months. We ran into her father, the Jovial Mick Maguire, while farewell- ing friends on an outgoing Australian ship, and he seemed to think Mary and her mother would be remaining In England for at least another six months.

She went to,make one plature there, but her sludio has decided to keep her there for several more.

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Are You Sure?

ANSWERS

QUESTIONS ARE ON PAGE TWO

1. Kroll Opera House.

2. (a) Goering. (b) Pulmersion. (e) Nelson. (d) Gladstone. (0) Julius Caesar, (1) Frederick the

Great.

3. Missouri, Mississippi, Michigan. 4. (a) Numbers, Judges, Homans. (b) Chronicles, Corinthians. (c) Epistle General of St. John.

5. (a) Blacksmiths, architects. (b) Barristers, peers, doctors.

8. Potatoes,

7, August' gate.

B. (a) Cockroach, Cockchafer, (b) Cockatoo. (c) Cockatrice. (d) Cocky lecky.

B. (a) 14th. (b) 17th. (e) 13th- 14th. (d) 19th. (e) 17th-18th. (1) 18th.

10. Afrien; 4,652,000 square miles. 11. (a) Yes. (b) Yes. (e) Yes. 12. The sentence "Able was I ere I saw Elba." A palindrome the same from either end.

13, 1850.

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14. (a) Bartholomew Dluz. (b) Jacob le Mulre, (c) Junn del Cano,

15. Bulterilles und moths.

18. Homer.

17. (4) Enclosed spaces. (b) Open places. (c) England and Englishmen. (d) Water. (e) Foreigners.

15. () 4. (b) 3. (e) 8. (d) 1. (c) 2. (1) 2.

10. 1921.

20. (a) Manchester. (b) Glasgow.. (e) Birmingham. (d) Dublin, (e) London. (1) Liverpool

21. (a) President of Republican Spain. (b) Basque, President. (c) Chinian President (d) Prime Minis ter. (0) Foreign Minister.

22. Sampan.

23. No. They were, held in Lon- don in 1908.

24, K. O. Pepplati.

25. (a) linols. (b) New York (c) Mussachusetts. (d) California. (e) Pennsylvania. (1) Maryland.

26. (a) Yes. (b) No.

27. Nevlilu Chamberlain.

28. (a) Bulgaria. (b) Poland. (c) Norway. (d) Spain. (e) Russin. (1) Austria.

29. Summer houses.

30. (a) Yes (60), (b) No.

31. Cerberus,

32. Ichthyosaurus. Iguanodon. 33. "Siegfried." "Valkyrle," "Twl- light of the Gods."

34, Yes.

*35. I. Samuel,

36. Goderich, Perceval, Aberdeen, Henry Campbell-Bannerman,

37. Ko-Ko.

20. Its natural colour.- 39.) Gin and vermouth. (b) Whisky and vermouth.

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