1939-06-10 — Page 11

SATURDAY, JUNE 10,

Girls' and Boys' Corner

Name

Address..

Dear Kiddles,

This is all my own work

Quite large number of entries again this week, kiddies. Some of you crossed the lines i which was incorrect.

Agc

Korner, Tang Ylag-kuen, C. Robert- son.

maze,

After careful consideration, I have decided to award the prizes this

week to:

Alice Lee (aged 12), 48, Elgin Sirent.

Juniors: Alfred Wong, B. Phillips, Korner, Ricardo Silva, David Asche, Aw Sian, Stella Leong, Gerald Marshall. Kitty Thornton, Frank Daniel, P. Wong, J. Khan, Tony Neubronner,

Lols Schwendener: As you are 15 years of age you are now too old to enter for these competitions.

This week, kiddles, you have to Morrl-nd the names of six shell and other Ash seen around the sea-shore. Each section of the "shell" shown here contains one name in puzzle form-to discover the names take the first letter only of each little picture.

Tsang Koor-yung, (aged '9). 132, Tung Chol Street, 2nd floor.

John Swaine (aged 7). 11, son Gap Road, ground noor.

Coupons have been sent to Alics Koon-yung and John which I want them to bring to Re "Hongkong Wyndham Telegraph" offices in Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

for gox Specially

commended work are the following:

Malt. Seniors: William

Kostia Daniloft, Rosaline Yung, W. Ribeiro, G. Gipperich, V. Ildefonso, S. Madsen,

Belty

R. Rocha, Ghazi Khan, G. Julebin G. Gopa, Carlos Guterres.

1. F. Osmund, David Odell, G. S. Coom, George

WORK Vesou

Paul Hassan, George Guest, Joan Gordon.

Intermediates: Doreen Houghton, S.S. Bux, Joan Daniel, Mary Bran- son, F. de Luz. Elleen Peters, G. Kundan, Francis Rozorin, Lore

When you have spelt out the names write them in a neat numbered list. Fill in the name, nute and address coupon and send to Uncle Eddie, e/o "Hongkong Telegraph," Wyndham Street. The competition closes at 2 pm, on Wednesday.

Prizes will be given in order of merit for entries which are correct and, in my opinion, the best written.

Lots of luck, kiddies.

Uncle Eddia

1939.

The SN

SNAPSHOT GUILD

SOFTER SHADOWS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

Baby'a blanket on the lawn is a fine reflector, Note the soft, pleasing light effect it produces here. Use such a reflector when you can, expaolally when taking informal portraits.

Two comparo a picture of a snow on the inwn la an excellent reflector, aceup with almost any eammor which softens shadows in the child's picture, we obsarro a marked dlf-face and clothing.

Joft, transparent shadows are ference in the shadows, In the sum mer plcturn, shadows tend to be generally desirable in as informal olrang and black. In the winter ple portrait, especially two want a ture, shadows possess beautiful truthful likeness of our subject. clearness and transparency, and the Open shade-ns on the shady aide of effect tends to be quite pleasing.

a house-otten provides a suitable lighting. The subject in open shado le laminated by light roflucted from the sky, Instead of rect sunlight,

about twlco normal. A very short "timo" or "bull" exposure may be ПECCAsary with a box camera or in- expensivo folding camera.

The reason for this difference in that snow on the ground in a fine reflector, which casts light into all nhadow areas, and brightens them. Naturally, slaco this light is weaker, In summier, green grass does notjexposuro should bo Increased to have this samo reflecting power, and therefore, ahndows are darker.

Howover, even in summer wo can brighten the shadows of a subject it wo une pome sort of improvised re flector. A bank or newspaper held in a person's lap will often serve as Auch a refector, belping illuminate the face and soften shndows there, If a subject is placed near a wall of

Form the habit of observing abad. ows when you take a picture. Be on Kurd against broad hat brims that shade features too much, and be ware of lighting that be too harsh or "contrasty" for good effect. Usually

a white house, and stands so that then aluplo reflecting dovico will solve wall reflecta light to the ahndow side such problems, and help you get a of his face, a more pleasing pleture botter picture. may be obtained. The baby's blanket

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What D'You Know Answers

1, Turn them into pigs. 2, Simplify mutters, 3. King Henry IV. 4, Culinary ability. 5, 1855.

6. Trees which shed their leaves in autumn. 7, George VI

God King of by the Grace of

Detender of the il Britain, Faith, Emperor of India. 8, The name is taken from Bertha von Krupp. 9, Defence of the Realm Act. 10, 1832, 11, Mohair.

12. Belisha. 13, K. O. Pepplatt. 14, Billy Cotton. 15, The king of hearts. 16. "Time files?" "How "eau one? They pass at such-ir- regular intervals." 17. A Dutch consting vessel. 18, Buy.

19. About to sail.

20. Refurn home.

21. Make your volée appear to come from someone else.

22. What! Do you think I shave you for nothing and give

drink?" you a

23. After Mrs. Camp in Dickens's "Martin Chuzzlewit,

24. High Wycombe, Banbury, Leamington Spa, Warwick, Bir- mingham, West Bromwich,

25. Cannon captured at Sebas- topol,

26. Given to using long words, 27. Rope-walker.

28. A Mohammedan,

29. "Marching thru Georgio,"

"John Brown's Body."

30. Evens.

31. Hughes, 1878.

32. Two.

33. George Edward Alexander Edmund.

34. Dr. Arne.

Puzzlo Corner Answers Cryptogram: Denmark,, Ger- many, England, Sumatra, Hun- gary, Ecuador, Rumania, Bel- glum, Ireland, Uruguay, Austria, Algeria.

"B" Sure You're Right: Hub- bub,

nearby, ribbon, public, obluse, banish.

Letter Juggling: Tears, rates, stars, larcs, aster.

How Many Daya7: 70 days. Fun With Antonyms: Ex- perienced-unversed; subordin-

detrimental--bene-

ficial; peaceful-restless; Inexact Judicious-unwise; -accurate; active-indolent; beral-strlet: final initial; monotonous varied,

STUDENT ODDLY __“PLASTERED”.

BUTTE, Mont. One student at the Montana

School

of Mines who got "plastered" will not be punished by the college au thorities. He is Bob Blewell who, during a laboratory class

in eeromics volunteered to have a musk minde of his face. All went well until the mask hardened and every effort to remove it fulled. Doctors Anally

plaster.

Alexandra Building succeeded in dissolving the hardened

WEEK-END SECTION

BOOK REVIEWS:

Hitler kissed her hand

MIY YEARS IN GERMANY, by Martha Dodd (Gollancz, 105, Gd.).

M

ARTHA DODD might have made this into a momentous book. As it is, she has produced a greatly absorbing and authentic book.

It kept me up until three o'clock in the morning, because I wanted to read it all in a plece..

Mr. Dodd's little girl certainly went to Berlin "right on the in- side" with a diplomatic passport, which described her as “...& daughter of Willam E. Dodd, Am- bassador Extraordinary and Plent potentiary of the United States of America to Germany"

She came full of desire to accept Nazi Germany with gusto at its own valuation. Not long after her arrival she chummed up with Putzi Hanfstaengl. then a setting star, 3115 influential with but still Fuehrer,

Miss Dodd tells us how Putzl de- clared: Hitler needs a woman.

JUDAS

By Eric Linklater (Jonathan Cape, Es.) Reviewed by George Vloer

E question has always been, "What would Christ have said about Judas?' Lluktaler does not sel out to answer it, but in its narrative novel form he makes an attempt at understanding. Dressing the bare bones of the Testa ment story, bis narrative is almost wholly fanciful. But it is none the less convincing for that.

Judas he sees as a sensitive son of

His lis a wealthyLiberal" family. Like of poverly, pain and discomfort is that of a man of culture to whom such things are unnecessary evils.

And seeing a bold vision of a world of beauty he follows the Nazurene.

His faith founders in the last daya in Jerusalem, when he sees the motley gathering of the "common people" who are supporting Jesus,, "the poor man's friend

He belleves that the outcome of this uprising will be civil war against the Roman power.

It is in drawing a realistic political background to these events that Mr Linklater makes his story live.

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How much like that of Judas is the plight of many intellectual middle- Class converts to Socialism to-day!

And how real are the invective apat- tered discussions of some of the rank -and-fio.followers of the gospell

In Jerusalem, in this story, agents of the Sanhedrim spread the story that Christ was in Roman pay. In the rlots that preceded the eruiclixion the soldiers partisanly bludgeon those who do not cry for the release of Barabbas. It is the incident at Bethany when Mary of Magdala pours ointment on the feet of Christ that Linklater makes the turning point of the treachery of Judas

"Things have been too much for him says Jus. "He doesn't know what he is doing."

And after the betrayal, when Judas, recovering from the self-delusion that it is he who has saved the people from the misery of civil war, takes his own life, it is Mary who sees that the act is redemption.

He is divided against himself and because of that he is unpredictable," says his mother of Judas.

On that basis Eric Linklater has built up this thought-provoking excur alon into the realm of understanding.

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MARTHA DODD

"can convey character and atmosphere like one o'clock,"

Hitler should have an American woman-a lovely woman could chonge the whole destiny of aro the Martha, you Europe. woman!"

And so Putzl arranged that Martha inet Adolf. It was a flop. She could not then talk much German Hitler's fc just American was even worse. kissed her hand. murmured a few politenesses over it, then kissed it again, before starting to talk musle with Jun Kiepuru.

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them to Godesburg, to the Dreesen Hotel (where have we heard "thoso dream, before? In two names perlinps?)

Tiere they told her how Hiler, had walked to and fro, to and fro, "struggling towards decision" for hours while the orchicatra played Wagner and the Nazi hymns. Then suddenly he had made up his mind.

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plane was ordered at Bonn, Fuehrer and suite stamped off to initi- nto the purge in which a thousand were murdered, in which General von Stecher and his wife were shot in the back as they walked among the roses. in their garden.

From Germany, Nora, Wain goes on Czecho to Austria and what was Sho Slovakin.

records naturally. Martha Personally, I am sorry.

shrewdly, literally what struck her. Her mind has greater wisdom, mara, would have dane Hitler good. You can-

humanity and humour than Martha not kid Martha as, apparently, his

Dodd. She does not write so well. close circle manages to kid Hitler.

But her honk will tell you more, After this

Inilure introductory

She does not care much about herself Mis Martha started finding things out for

at what happened to Norn. herself. She had been a ladylike sort

nearly Martha thinks of Dodd Chicago Journalist

the of

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all the time. Tribune back home.

So, naturally, she drifted into the circle of Americon

British and Journalists in Berlin. With then to guide her she quickly discovered the crucity, the savage oppression-the whole apparatus of torture and dirt which festers behind the Nazi façade. She describes with brisk vigour what Kho saw and how she came by the view. She used to dream of herself as a "grand esprit" and Illerary portent when she was very young. This book shows grounds for the delusion. can convey character and atmosphere like one o'clock.

She

Her story of the days immediately after the Roehm purge trembles will excitement.

You can see the dark reflections of livid faces in the spattered drops of blood. You can feel the screaming tension in the thundery air. The whole evil amell of murder recks out of lacr pages.

Perhaps because she watched so much wickedness in high places, Martha strikes me as unbalanced now about Germany, and the people she met there. All her portraits seem slight caricaturca. Goering is too gross and dangerous; Goebbels too devilish- elever. Too many eyes are "ley, merel less." They all loom up much bigger than lifesize.

-Now I don't know the Nazi basara. She does But she also describes a number of Journalists whom I do know and whom my friends know. They agree that the high lights and dark shadows on her portraits of these men ore crudely exaggerated

Therefore I feel that she writes in a 'nightmare. Politically, too, she rants too much, rather like a good Com munist newspaper echoing an agreed party line.

That one can discount rather easily. But I don't like her inability to describe a man without getting excited. Few women can. But Martha Dodd hates them or likes them at once-and When she was very very obviously.

young, the remarks, "I had been mar- ried for a short period unhappily." I feel that marriage lurks about the back of her mind very considerable.

East to West

REACHING FOR THE STARS, by Nora Wain (Cressct Press, Ba. Gd.). AFTER Martha Dodd: Reaching for the Stars, reads very quiet and mild. History does not march across the pages in top- boots. Folk do not call Hitler

Adolf" across the tea-table. Yet, strangely enough, the Roehm purge makes the central interest in this very different book.

Nora Waln came from China to

husband.

Ha Germany with her wanted to study music. She meant to finish her book on the Great Wall. Their first day in the Retch brought

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Best Seller

ALL THIS AND HEAVEN TOO. by Rachel Field (Collins, 89, ed.). HEY all said to me, "You must rend All Tals and Heaven Too. It reminds one of the great Vic- torian novels," For weeks I had been reading the same things, only more so, in the American maga- zines which are ferried.acros for our delight.

Well. You know what happens your. self when they carry on this way. decided I would not read Rachel Field's book, I told myself that I didn't like American story books, anyhow

No matter. I read it. My advice This is not do the sAMIC, Is to a great plece of literature, but it in absolutely first-class story telling, a book with everything. In fact, it very nearly lives up to its name,

Rachel Field begins with the true story of her great-aunt, Henrietto Deluzy-Desportes, governess to the chil dren of the Duchess de Choiseul- Pmsiin in the Parls of Louis-Philippe.

In August, 1847, the Duchess was murdered very bloodly, Governess Henricite gets arrested for compileity. After, much tribulation she establishes ber innocence and her virtue-for they insisted it was a crime of passion and she was the Duke's lover.

Then she went to America; married most happily, and was mixed up wita all sorts of exciting and picturesquo happenings such as the laying of the first Atlantic cable.

A great aunt like this, of course, is all pure gold to a great niece like Rachel Field. But how well she has exploited her private Klondyke. She writes with much patient necurauin Uon of atmosphere and detall. She is richly pictorial. She does not hint or nudge. She paints carefully, com petently, and with certain effect.

A most skilful craftsman, who has worked hard for this success. Rachel Field in the sort of writer I like to lock д

She has sold 250,000 copies of this book in America. It will go like wild- Are here. How nice to see virtue and ability rewarded in this more than ample way.

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HAVE you noticed that all of these stimulating, excellent books are written by women?

Very few really great books have been written by women. More books which are first rate, however, aro written by women than men, nowa- days. Bo, too, are the majority of the

worst books,

And, if a book cannot be good, I enjoy a certain rich badness. ·

T.D.

THRILLERS

DELTON Cobb comes out top of detective story list with a beautiful specimen of the slow- motion double-cross.

Inspector Burmatin's Bualest Day (Longmans, 'Ta. Gd.) presents a wife obscased by mostly imaginary · nil- ments, her bored husband in process of being attracted by her sister, her mother-in-law, deeply concerned to prevent the husband from going astray, and her father-in-law, a man of exact and scientifle mind who dis likes both the younger women almost equally.

Both those women aro, dosed with. arsonic.

Dest of-the-rest-are-John-Rhode'a. Death Pays A Dividend (Collins 78. Dd.), which sets Dr. Priestley in-. vestigating in the abadier corners of the City: Antbony Berkeley's Death In the Mouse (Hodder and Blaughton,

and

Ta. d.), in which right honourable

dio gentlemen

successively mysteriously on the Government Front Beach; and Mabel Heeley's The Listening Elonso, (Collins, a od), lively and in places horrible yarıı,

P.E, H

HERE'S FUN

UN and games behind the scenes of big business adver- tising are--tho-material of Plas Noel Godber Long, Barrlege, by 78. 04.).

Miss Darelegs is the nickname of an unwually intelligent gui secretary who never wears stockings at the office ADght a going on between two „rival advertising agencies secure tho contract for publicaing & now kind of bath soap. Miss Barelegs in the Fact elan whose schemes secure victory for the agency which deserves to win.