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SATURDAY, JULY ́ ́ ́8, 1939.

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SUNSHINE INDOORS

Girls and Boys' Corner

Dear Kiddies,

Lots and lots of entries for the fruit guessing competi tion. Actually, there were slx hidden fruits and only a few of you found them. Soveral said that the word "grapo" was hid- don but this was incorrect.

The prize-winners this week

Dick Dedear (aged 13%), 4, B. Block, Ofleers Qris., Hong- kong Prison.

Mae Somerville, (aged 10%). 83, Jubilee Buildings, Shumshul- po.

David Nicoll. (aged 6). 27, Kimberley Road, Kowloon,

Coupons have been sent to Dick, Mac and David which 1 want them to bring to the "Hongkong Telegraph" ollees in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged for money prizes.

Specially commended for ex- cellent work are the following:

Seniors: J. Harry, Kostia Daniloff, Michael Ferrier, Edissel Fang, John Tsang, Norman

This is all my own work

Namo

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herg. Gloria Silva, Fred Lee, Sidney Hollands, P. Millett. Shona Melntyre, Constance Robertson.

Juniors: Muslim Yusuf, Nina Azevedo, M. Antonio, Billy Forster, Armando Larz, Kathleen David Asche, Kwan Chuen, Wong, Gerald Weill, P. Wong,

Denis Remedios, Doreen Hough- ton. Rupert Samy, R. Itemedios, Gerald Marshall.

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closed in a little space by itself?

This week, kiddies, carefully Helleviek, Patricia Dickson, Oleg study the seven butterflies flut- Julebin, V. Tavares, Geraldtering together. Can you draw Fielder, Theresa da Reza, Caro-three straight lines between lina Cruz, Lionel Houghton, them so that each Catherine ini, Benito de Sousa, Ghazi Khan, L. Becker, H. Zen,

Only three lines, which must. Paul Vessoona, B. Becker, Col leen Cheung, Tommy Rodrigues, he straight, are allowed, and Stephen Mose, Wilbur Marshall. when you have drawn them, Alice Lee, R. Remedios, William colour the butterflies prettily Mak. Sylvin Silva, Lee Koon-with your paints or crayons. lan.

Then fill in the name, nge and address coupon and send your Intermediates: Horacio Ozorio, entries to Uncle Eddie, e/o Chan Kan-wa, Ronald Wood, "Hongkong Telegraph", Wynd- S. S. Bux, Rui da Eunha,ham Street. The competition Michael Mabille, Donald Mar-closes at 2 pm, on Wednesday. shall, Wallace Knight, Chang

Lots of luck, kiddies. Wing-foo, Francis

Rozario,

Joseph Wong, Joseph Na. Violent Uncle Eddie

Kwok, Jonn Daniel. Vera Rumianzeff, S. Helson, Anne Cullimore, Shirley van Langen-

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Appealing "indoor sunlight" pictures can be made with the simpleat cameras. Photo lights may be used to brighten shadows.

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and slightly to ene alde of tho sub- jects. Therefore, the subjects aro Aurrounded by a bright edge light- ing, and Interesting shadows are thrown toward the camura.

When you make these backlighted pictures, It is wise to use photo gula to brighten the shadows (sea diagram). This not only products a better picturo effect, but shortens the exposure. With photo lights ar ranged as shown, a upshot can bo inken with a box camera loaded with liigh speed fm. Other cameras, 1/26 second ni f.ii,

Intereating althovetto pletures Indoor sunlight" snapshots are

eau be made, too, when the subject easy with box cameras and high

is placed in front of a sunny win. speed film. 88, subjects; ww.

dow. If n allhouette in desired, do not sunny windowa; C, camera; PP,

use the photo lights dr reflector to Hghts in reflectors Photo

any kind te luminate the shadow brighten shadows,

nide of the subject. With subject 1OST Bunshine plctures are made against a sunlighted window make outdoora, ut charming Auna annpshot with the second stop shiny pictures can be made just as opening on a box camera. enally indoors, wherever the rays of the sun stresin through a window.

Such indoor pictures are expe- cially attractive when the sunlight is used as "backlighting." The ple ture above is "backlighted" the #un comes from a window behind

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Looking Around

·BRITISH

SHIPPING

By It Thornton. #Cambridge Univ. Press, 7/8)

You cannot read this book without,

in the end, knowing more about British shipping that does the aver oge salior, which la saying a lot,

The problems of the shipowner, of the seaman, the stevedore, the ship- ping agent, the shipper-all are dealt with in language which the tyro can understand, and the position of the British Merchant Navy, faced with subsidised foreign Merchant Navies, yet gallantly holding its own by means of The worthiness of 11s Bramen and the. ingenuity of shipowners, is traced out for you with fascinating case.

As a man who has obviously spent years in a shipowner's office, it is re- freshing to note Mr. Thornton's alti- Lude to the workers of the sea and his appreciation of them. His tribute to the work of Havelock Wilson-D thoroughly hard-headed Tynesider, a man of no unions, handicapped by no concef and capable of flashes of pure common sense as brillant as were his Bashes of white hot anger "--is whole- hearted.

If the rest of the "English Institu tions" series, of which this is one, is as authoritative and interesting ns this. It wHI be your duty to yourself to read the whole scrica,

E. C.

Are You Sure?

QUESTIONS ON PAGE TWO

1. Red, Yellow, Indige.

2. Standard number of strokes for

1ho zuursv.

Make of porcelain.

Red, White and Blue,

n. London; b. Pixa; c. Ireland; d.

Athens; e. Bombay; f. Blugen (Ithine).

8. Sterne's "Sentimental Journey,

7. Monafer in Greek mythology.

U. 3040,

D. Sedgemoor,

10. Amazon.

11. Chaff.

12. Postage stamps. Steam engines.

Steel nibs.

13. Stajorca, Iviza, Grand Canary.

14. All graduates.

15. Barristers become King's Counsel.

16. Declaration of Inteuertice,

17. Rawing London

Motor

cycling. Howing Henley Regatte). Tenni (Wimbledon). Golf, 1totuo racing (Asco!).

10. 10 miles,

10. Herb,

20.) Central America; (b) Siberia;

(e) Hungery: (d) Spatn; (c) Boutli America; (1) New Zealant!.

21. () Strauss, [b] Bishop; (e) Foster, (d) Schubert, (e) Douglas (e) Arne.

27. Lampoon,

21. No., Only three of the tribes Benjamin Levi and Judah.

24. (a) York. (b)New York, (c) Syd- ney, (d) Istanbul, (e) Hayti, (1) Tax- manla.

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BOOK

REVIEWS

Peculiar Treasure

MR. EMMANUEL, by Leuls Golding

(Rich and Coloan, 78, Gd.).

A PECULIAR TREASURE: Edna Ferber's Auto- blography (Heinemann, 12s. Gd.).

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JEW and Jewess wrote these two excel- lent books.

"All my life I have been inordinately proud of being n Jew.... But I have fell that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged. Two thousand years of persecution have made the Jew quick to sympathy, quick-witted (he'd better be), tolerant, humanly understanding, The highest compií- ment we can pay a Christian is to say of him that he has a Jewish heart."

So Edna Ferber defines her racial faith and pride. Her words will serve, too, for Louis Golding. He, I know from his own mouth, thanks God he was born a Jew.. Both of them would still to-day exult in their Jewish identity were they German citizens,

Of course, you think of music Brat when you consider Jewish nriista-- because quite half the greatest excet- inni musicians are Jews. But Jewishı writers come close behind them in im- portance It is altogether right andh htting at this time to remember them. and to remember also the creative eminence of Jews as philosophers and acientkata.

Heine, Spinoza, Zola, Einstein--(hla is the callbre of Jewish names I recom- mend to your memory, which will live when all the Rothschilds are forgotten and their fortunes totally corrupted by moth and rust.

To-day it is so easy to forget the glories of Jewry, and to pity this strange propio ns just pogrom-fodder and no more, I do not think that at any time the Jews need pity. Like all folk, they sometimes need help.

This comes uppermost in my mind after reading these two books, Mind you. I do not suggest that the names Golding and Ferber should be ap "pended to the four I quoted earlier. I do auggest, however, that for insight, sympathy, imagination and a civilised sense of values these are the two most distinguished books I have read this

year.

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MR. EMMANUEL is the retired Bucretary of the Jewish Board of Guardians 11 Doomington. Ho appeared, ten or fifteen years younger. in Magnolia Street, Golding's best seller of the 20's.

Now he is old, stiff in the joints, a tottery, old widower will just a little money and not so many more years to live.

He goes to stay with Rose Cooper. the lovely Jewish Rose of Magnolia Street, who made the drama of that book by marrying John Cooper, a Christian Bailor.

Rose has some German refugee boya to stay at her New Forest home. Dno reminds Mr. Emmanuel of his own son, who was killed in the war, and this boy is consumed by grief because his mother, left in Germany, does not write any more.

So Mr. Emmanuel goes to Germany to find out about Bruno's mother. He muddies his innocent way into jall: He is accused of complicity in the Gustio!? murder. Ho is beaten up by, his keepers. He becomes an International

New Life

NEW volume of that unique publication, New Writing, comes from the Hogarth Press (68.). Its lively contribu Lora include Auden, Tom Wintring-

Harrisson, ham. Tom

Irtolt Brecht and many others.

Two pieces in this enterprising an- thology of new writers impressed mo particularly-a study of madness in "The Room." by Jean-Paul Sartre, and a horrible playlet, "The Informer," ty Bertolt Brecht, dealing with German parents under the Nazi regime who suspect that their schoolboy son may he apvine nwalt them.

"CAB, SIR!",

This is a picture of Herbert Hodge sitting at the wheel of his taxi. He has just written a new book, "Cab, Sir?" published by Michael Joseph (88. Gd.). Anybody wha ever uses a taxl ought to make it his duty to read if. Particularly the chapter on Tipa and Tippers.

Incident, because no is a British rul jeet, so al last Pharaoh lets him go.

Then he discovers that Bruso's mother, her Arst Jewish husband for galten, and her son as though he bac never been born, has married a local Nuzi boss in Hamburg. He comes back to England to tell the boy his mother bas died.

That is all. Not much of a plot, you night say. But Golding uses it as the vehicle for the most poignant and pathetic welting I have experienced by a living novelist.

Bometimes in in sentimental, Now and then he piles the agony too higli. But this book wrings yote an you rent I. Golding has created a great master- piece in true sentiment and feeling.

write of Generally when a mon what he most deeply and personalte [ccs, his emotion chokes his pen. 1fc grows inarticulate with grief and rage. His sincerity defeats its own object,

Golding wrote his book with manifest auffering. But he has to mastered and schooled his feelings that from his Jewish tears he has contrived a story which will touch the heart of all the world.

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THROUGH many years I have admited Edna Ferber's warn- hearted profusion of creation. She has written sprawling Juxurlance of America-of a dozen different sorts of Americas, all teeming with new s and burgeoning with fecund, noisy duces

You know her stuff on the stage and cinema-Show Boat and Dinner of

Eight. You know her novel- Cimarron, Come and Gel It; Co Bly.. and the rest.

Perhaps they are not the best literary sort of books But they are

IN BRIEF

Alen Must Act. Lewis Munford, American writer, searches round for a way in which the United States can halt Fascism without having to join hands with France and Britain whom (so long as they are lea by Dandler and Chamberlain) Antericana don't trust. He hits on "non-intercourse" -by which the United States would refuse to trade with Ger- manny, Italy or Japan and would withdraw all Americans from the Fascist countries and expel all Fascist subjects from America. (Secker and Warburg, 39, 60.) *~~ Consulting-Room-is-another-of- those books of reminiscence wr- ten by a doctor. Before Munthr. Cronin and the rest of them, no ane would have giressed there was such a wealth of terary latent tying wasted in the medical pro- fession. This book is by a Wonton's doctor. Frederic Loomis, tie is very frank Indeed. Dent, 81, 63

MARY PICKFORD

Mary Pickford, and her husband. Buddy Rogers, arrived at Southump- ton recently for a short holidny in England.

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She delighta me in this book. Sho shines with the inner integrity of one who has found the thing she can do. and who does it with all her might. A grand woman,

I will not tell you the story of her life. She does that in her book. There is no room here and no need. But I. will tell you why abe named her book as she did, because I like the Jewish pride of it,

She prints at its end these words from the Book of Exodus)

"Now, therefore, if ye tolik obey My voice indeed, and keep My cove nant, then ne shati be a peculiar treasure unto Me above all people: for all the earth is Mine; and va ahall be unto Me a kingdom of priests, met a holy nation."

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