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SATURDAY,

AUGUST 12, 1939.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

WEEK-END SECTION

Girls' and Boys' Corner AMONG THE LATEST BOOKS CheSNAPSHOT GUILD

Name

Address

Tar Rolltes,

This is all my oum work

Age

Judging by the Jaage sanebes of entries received for last week's entouring com- petition. I think that this type of work is favoured by ul. After cafefta coul deration. I have decided to award Br grbe the words to:

Yeong KR-wa taged 14), 18. Tonhant Head, Hongkong.

ta Lay (aged 9), 1.L. No. 2378, Pak- fatum Hand, Hongkong.

Richard Stevenson (aged 5), 1, Armend Balldings, Kowloon,

„Coupons binve been sent to Yeung KR- wa, Rita and Richard which I want them to laring in the "Hongkong Telegraph" oltires in Wyndham Street. The coupons will then be exchanged far money prizes. Spetally commended for excellent work are the following:

Seniors. Mary Won Stephen Mose. Mansour All. Marie Lijr. Robert Leung, Henny Lee, Paul Vessoni, Claude Coora, Rain Cruz, Sheila Le Tissler, Joan Gor

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don, Mercia Navler, Marie Gunelia, Mary Intermediates: Pamela Millett, Cynthia Silver. Juda Chan, Lal Kai-shing." Hen Trice Ildefonso, Bonnie Ham, Laurence Ziegler, SS. Bux, Bhuna Melotyre, Bar- Mara Hanki. Tony Cole, Shelagh Cluse. Patricia Ummand, Tela Corvissiano, Joan Agnes Dantel, Julla Bonner. Pamela P Marcos Noronha, Constance Robertson,

Constantin lanhoff. Jean Hei.

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Juniors: Totale Garela, Raymond LL. P. Wong, Patricia Wand, Virgin Gon- rater. Sul-Jack Cheng Susu Wax,

Ching-ming, John Harrin Armando da Ta. John Woodward. Tony shail, David Asche. Neubronner. Frasik Daniel, Gerald Mar

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This werk, kludies, we are going have nother colouring competition. Get out your paints or crayons and colour the picture of the mermaid above.

Filt in the name, age and address cou pan and send your enteles to Uncle Eidle, c/o "Hongkong Telegraph." Wyneliai

Williams and Norgate, pe od.

Jau 100 st.

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theatrical enough She writes

Oriental Assembly, by T. Z. Lawrence. | they can at once be consulted ture. The beetle events of this book Melina Borke, by herself. Harrap. 10s ad. with the text of the "Soven Pil-all occurred between her thirteenth Early Stages by John Gielgud, Macmillars." To stuff a book with and twenty-Afth birthdays and if she Paris, by Henry Bidou, Jonathan Cape. cuttings isn't "done," I suppose, did not become an actress her life

WAS nowadays, but I am tempted with a pleasing sincerity and natural- LONDON. to rip these photographs out of ness. WITH "ORIENTAL ASSEM- "Oriental Assembly" and slip

Bly" we have the last of them between the appropriate Mr. John Glelgud's autobiography the writings of T. E. Lawrence. Į pages of "The Seven Pillars." continues the fashion which Mr. Noel The Inst, that is to say, until our

Coward began. But Mr. Gielgud is studied actor, he has the Intimidat- sons and daughters are allowed Reviewers and popular journal-Ing Terry tradition in his blood. The to read the unpublished "Mint."

ism are always hard put for adjec result is n studied and intensely self- (Nevertheless

Lives gil many

and comparisons, and T. E. con Lawrence was a godsend. "Another and because

conscious book. Because he is honest people of my acquaintance Reem Lavrenee" came in to refresh the

of his Integrity, this to have had a glimpse of it and inded ranks of another Homer, deed it is rare in books by actors to self-consciousness is no defect; in- there was, I believe, a sample of noticed is variant of this in a review another. "Eilat Wheeler Wilcox." 1

And the its style and matter in Mr. Da of Melina Horke's startling nutebio-

the writer dealing with himself and his development critically. He vid Garnett's edition of the graply" female Lawrence." Well,

goes into his successes and failures: the humiliation Letters). The present volume she was, and no doubt still is, a very "Charley's Aunt," the long period of of starting with is a miscellany containing an ar-

remarkable woman of action. She ticle on The Changing East, the ties in South Africa, where her

grew up in the cighties and in

his Jiving

appearance as the In the dreadful Arst act diary of Lawrence's journey on father was in the British consular

of Capel's "Insect Play," the night foot through northern Syria in

service, and all the rivals of the Noel Coward walked out because he

could 1911, which has already been diamond ramp and the

great land longer, his

stand for Gielgud's neting no grab of those decades published privately, and

struggles were well

to correct his the known

stiff-kneusd walk, Family Kruger.

and the snubbing suppressed first chapter of the thales, Reit, Tarmato and persun-

He got

from thai blastingly frank "Seven Pillars, which has the sive Dr. Jameson,

Baylis, when the old him he'd better go on playing mo- Now famous bitter, romantic

dern young sentences:

while he could,

men in the West End tol eternal. What stage gossip there beenuse youth was is, is little but good.

Yet when we achieved and the new world dawned, the old nien came out again and took our victory to re-nake in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could wing but had not learned to keep; and was pitiably weak against

age.

was

But her own

I

private adventures de eloped in her early teens, with

innocence of the commentie

a Girl these people to her. Her early story Guide--blurred, the importance of

very nearly incredible. The "strong" romanres and planeer ad- their own late victorian venture magazines pre outdone on ground- though, since romance is not usually romantic, they would never have printed Mrs, Hocke's story,

Recovering from the early tragedy this pathetic marriage and us if determined to try human courage to utmiest, she set off with her brother and baby on a wagon trek

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M. Henry Bidou's "Paris" has all historien guldes and evocations of the E. V. Lucas and Wayfarer kind thoroughly benten. Century by cen- tury, drawing on the frets and not the facile "glamour" of literature and anecdote, he builds up the changing Haussmom and post-Haussmann city city from the first camps to the we know. people were paid 300 years ago, why like to discover what Haussmann drove these huge boule-

We

But when

it We won charged against me that the the British petrol royalties in Meso-one selde to Bulawayo Inkvards through the city, who built potamia were become dubious

Over combined daily dealing with lions, and French

I'm Colonial policy snakes, sorpions, hunger and thirst, ruined in the Levant.

the ustini adventures of virtually vir- gin enuntry, with the uneasiness of

what, why, and for how much. I like this in the eighties touts con- know ducted you across the sun glare of the Place de la Concorde with a sunshade This Is

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Lawrence's story was the per-pitching camp in a region which feet honour theme for Conrad.rings and colonial war. At a later that I can see,

was on the brink of the Matabele | But the most interesting now stage, her life was in constant povil thing in this book are the 100 pages of photographs which Lawrence took during his war, and these have been carefully arranged and numbered so that

Strert. The competition closes al 2 p.m. on Wednesday.

Three prizes will again be awarded

une for the best tre each section. Aze will be tokea Inte consideration.

Best of luck, kiddles,

J'aria

is

a

or small fee and a tale of wor a packed book, and no period

neglected. It decade, has been perhaps the last in the white massacre, and as if she true; of course, that in every generu

tion the middle-aged return to find hachi't seen enough of the bloody and dirty side of empire building,

not what it was; but up to few years ago Paris had two predo- she later went with the British army as a Red Cross murec.

minant char

characters-the medieval and Mrs. Berke's

character

the nineteenth is the

Nineteenth- century. making of this book. it is a mis- century Paris is badly damaged. The leadingly simple.

rise, rulleless even

the splendour and the fail of character. Half of her is the per-

er-Montparnasse, for example, is (1 fect Girl Cuble of

theme which a of the period. The

foreigner, at least, would like to have seen more exten- other half is more interestingly com- plex. Dopped by a faithful lover sively treated. But perhaps thu who was always rescuing her from foreigners in Paris suffer from paro-

chialism. the jaws of something terrible, she refused to marry again. She actress In kinet of

celebrity of her nursing. sacrifice One thinks of her 44 5 pool, dynamic, restless, egotistic and af most childishly impulsive; in fact, as having all the characteristles which are thresome in the noisy, minor figures of her type, but which are rather Ane in major figures like her- self who get a stage worth their stu-

Uncle Eddie mind

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QUESTIONS ARE ON PAGE TWO

1. (a) Deal, (b) Hastings, (e); Lyme Regis, (d) Torbay, (c) Eris- ra, Hebrides, (1) Dover.

2. (a) Joshua, (b) Nebuchad- nezzar, (c) Cyrus the Great, (d) Balfour,

3. White..

4. Nazional Sozialist. Member of the Majority Party (Bolshev- ik). From the Fasces, rods and nxehead that were the symbol ulj Roman power.

5. (a) Cornelia, (b) Westmius- ter, (c) Sixteenth century witch in Yorkshire, (d) Oyster shell, (c)|| Town in Lanark, (7) Plant.

0. No, he wrote "The Impur- Lance of Being Earnest."

17.

(a) Congo, Niger, Orange. |River, (b) Zambesi, Limpopo, -(e)

Nile.

8. Emilie, Annette,

Marie, Cecilie.

Yvonne,

9. (a) Shanghai, (b) Calcutta, (c) Marseilles, (t) Plymouth, (e) Portsmouth, (f) Venice.

10. (a), (b) 6, (e) 5.

Arne,

11. (a) John Bull, (b) Dr. (c) Handel, (d) Mendels- sohn, (e) Chupin, () Brinley Richards.

12. (a) Royal Navy, (b) Mer- chant Marine, (c) Royal Naval Reserve.

Yey.

14. Poorly paid clergy.

15. Henry Duke.

10. St. Peter.

17. Swallows, martins, swifts.

18. Wordsworth. Wellington,

Talleyrandph of Ariminthes.

10.

20. Grotius.

21. Hythe.

22.

Thames

Severn, (b) (1) (Isis), (c) Tweed, (d) Severn, (e)

Thames, (f) Mississippi.

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Like

(b) "As You

| (d) "Mu.Zool

for Scandal,"

24. (n)

(e) "Gondoliers." (b) Lord, (c) Sir. 20. (a) Margaret Mitchell, (b) Hervey Allen, (c) Murgarel Ken- Feuchtwanger, nedy. (d) Lion (e) A. J. Cronin, (†) J. B. Priest-

ley

20. Poland, Czecho-Slovaki, Egypt, Greece.

27. Yes, (1 la a sort of cub- bage.)

20. (a) 100 Fahrenheit, Salls- bury

July 15, 1881; (b) 134′ FR-| hrenheit, Greenland Ranch, Call- fornia, July 10, 1913.

20. George Washington.

30. (a) Egyptians (b) Assyri. uns, (c) Tyrinns, (d) Norsemen; (e) Greeks, (1) Revolutionary

France.

V. S. Pritchett

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Portraits From a Chinese Scroll, by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis (Philadelphia: Winston.) Char- acter sketches portraying some typical Chinese men and women. The author lived in China for yeary and has written several books for chlidren con- cerning Chinese life. Her new book is for adults although she does her best work in the fu venile feld, Mrs. Lewis here writes with the sume under- standing of and sympathy for the Chinese which characterised her previous books.

Fancy This, by Jack Frost (Way- erly House), describes in draw- ings and text odd and interesting things about New England houses, churches and gardens,

First Puppetry, by David Fred- erick Millgan (Barnes). How to make, costume, and operate "glove" puppets and build a show; with 10 detailed sketches for puppet plays.

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BOUT this time of your many

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A no camera is about as cany to slow action or subjects such as operato as any other, once you aro babies or pots which may move sud- familiar with it. But there is a difer- denly and unexpectedly. ence in usefulness between the Auer; Soma camera sbuttars now have camera and the inexpensive model, built-in self-timer dovicon, which on- Under adverse conditions, especially able you to appear in pictures taken on dull days or with moving hubby yourself. Naturally, the self-timer Jects, the inexpensive camera is an advantage in a vacation or fam- Handicapped. It may fall to get they camera.

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(2) A service.

angle.

(3)

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(0) Minister, city, bud, citizen, flag, in that order.

(7)

(a), wolf; (b), raven; (c), asp; (d), Jackdaw; (e), ass; (f),] walrus..

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