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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

FUN WITH LIGHTING

High speed film-candies not too far from the subject-lena set at 1/5,3 and a one-half second time exposure got this perfectly. Be sure to uso

a firm camera support far "Elmo" shots.

WE HAVE had a lot of fun at our fashioned design, that we found in house recently, taking plctures the attic. With that one, wo gat with unusual types of light and good results at the same exposures ighting. It all began with our re-used for candlelight. The other alde shots using flood bulba Iamp had a chhuney and base, liko tucked back in the freplace to almu- into Arolight.

the all types, but was wired for an otectrio bull. When Ann hold the lamp, nhe shitolded the bulb with her hand-and we concanted the

From those replace shots-tlicy wore good ones, too-we proceeded to candlelight and lamplight. For electric cord, too-5o the Tegulls

were quite realialle.

Exposures were shorter for our electric lamp-but the time will pl. ways dopond on the wattage of tho bull, and its distance from the sub-

tho ahots by candiolight, wo used real candios. Some were in branched candelabra-which oro very altrac tive in plotures--and for one series, wo arranged a birthday party with a cake and email caulies. It wasn't Jeat. That's the point' to knop in anybody's birthday, really-but mind when you try these special cako had just been bakod for Sun-shota. The nearer the subject, tho day, and we managed to borrow it. stronger the light. It works the Of courao, candlelight in rather tanto way when you use photo weak-so we unad high spoed nim bulba, Candies one foot from a sub- and time expolures. By having soy-Ject are four times as efficient as eral candles, and placing the nuhthey would be when two feet from Jecis quito near them (but not too the subject.

closo far safety) we were able to: I'm sure you'll want to try some mako exposuren of one-half to one of these shots. Tha nice point about Bacond at f/6.3. That would ho two them is that you can have the lamp to four spconds with a box camera or candles right in the picture. -and, don't forgot, high speed fm. Sontetimes, possibly, you might Daytime film is much slowor by the get a reflection pat or "Baro spot" yellow candlelight.

on the film-but wo didn't. And We used two lampa In our lamp-nnyway, the shots are so interesting light pictures. One was nkorn they're well worth that sight risk.

Jolm van Guilder seno lamp, with an interesting nid-|

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

February 1, 1941,

Some English Dictators

Dictators in England! We know own day, Shaw-seeing the past as some of the foreign varieties who an arena in, which ideas are tested would like to betheir trouble Is In a human crucible. and our gain-that they can't get Iri Me- Waldman's brilliant and there. But once they used to be in- penetrating story drumn la inherent digenous to us. In fact, as Milton not melodrama, but intellectual Waldman in "SOME ENGLISH DIO- drama of the highest order. He TATORS" (Blacklo 12s. 6d.), points Vill's and Elizabeth's firm hands, shows us the dictatorship in Henry

out-and no one else, so for.na I am witli an adolescent modern England, aware, has ever drawn attention to sill in the throes of rebirth and the fact we once had a continuous rapid growth, not ungratefully ac- run of them for over a hundred cepting it.

and fitly years. From the accession. Would, he asks, Cromwell have of Henry VII, certainly the acces- even evolved into a Dictator. had he slon of Henry VIII, until the Res- lived under Elizabeth? And he de- toration, England was governed by cides; I think rightly, that it was most improbable. Dietators rise to All vacuits, and neither Elizabeth nor her father created vacuums.

a succession of Dictators,

Some of them, like Edward VI, and Richard Cromwell, were not cut

But the Stuarts who came after out for the. Job, Others, like Henry VIII, Elizabeth, and Oliver, most them did. And England by then was decidedly were. They ruled Eng- rowing weary of despotism. Her strength renewed, ber innate senso land. And after a time England of liberty was reasserting itself. Yet kicked

This is the story of that prolonged dictatorship and of England's kick- Ing. With the exception of the opening sketch of John-of Magna

BOOKS

Carta, the Jewels in the Wash, and before she could

little Arthur's eyes tome la A balance a terrible and titanic strug- section of English history that opens gle

In 1600 and closes in 1000.

or

find her ancient

lay before her, and one Inst magnificent, noble despotism-that of brave Oliver.

I have only one eritlelim to, make:

The paradox inherent in that the title does not do justice to the situation Mr Waldman sees as no book. It belongs to the same yawn- other historian has, I think, yet

"Some seen. provoking category American Elevators"

"Some African Equntora. It is the kind of obvious and platitudinous title which 'causes the vital reader in shun it. and this is a very great plty. For this is not a book to shun at all. It is a book for everyone interested in the country's history, and in the world events through which we are now passing, to read very carefully. I am not certain that, apart from its title, it is not a great book. It is certainly a germinating one.

ft

For it is a history of ideas told in chronicle. Like those through

For six years the King, embodi- ment of absolutism, struggled to restore his away by the promise of the most irreconcilable and im- possible berties to all and sun- For six years the Parliament, dry. avowed championships of liberty, strove to prevent him by the most odious and licentious devices of tyranny. "Both by taking up arms dnored themselves to. Bounder in contradictions as miserably as they doomed England to wallow in blood. For that reason neither could win. Neither did.

For what he did he needed no other authority than the divine will, nor would any other have

satisfied him-exactly like Charles whom he was destroying, excent that to the one it manifested itself by direct revelation, to the other through the sacrament of his or dination. The exception contained vital difference between their the

OLIVO Puriton and Catholic but the resemblance be- tween them was, or presently up-

peared, equally important and

profound. There were no two

men

in England more tranquil about the rights and wrongs of tho matter on that ley afternoon of 20th January when the senterice was carried out.

To open these pages at a time like this is to renew the spirit with deep draughts-drawn from an nge-no leas tortured than ourgoi enduring greatness. These sketches of largo

souls in conflict human

serve the papose of lighting with their flashes our own cloudy and obscured hori- zon. And out of their

conflict is resolved the English ideal for which we are fighting, and shall presently re-establish in the world-the rule of ascontained law and justice, not for Englishmen alone as then but for all mankind—Arthur Bryant.

The Technique Of Monarchy

in

Keith V, Gordon. (Lane. 78. 6d. net.) The King in Peace and War." By

Mr Cordon's

well-judged piece of book-making, and his work is sure to find readers. It sets out to exhibit "the

mechanica of the monarchy"the apparatus through which the functions of a a consiitu- tional sovereign are discharged, the procedure that is involved,, and the officials by whose oversight business and ceremony are regulated,

We have descriptions of the con- tact between the King and his Minis- ters, the finances of the Royal House- hold, the ritual of court levees, and His Majesty's relations with the fighting forces. The public and social duties that devolve upon the Queen and the other members of the Royal Family are also fully deilue- ated.

The story recalls the nobility of It which we are now passing il grips as well as the pathos. Like Marvell, and it thrills. Here are certain Mr Waldman sees the best of both men' and women-great men his protagonists: the exquisite senal-

And the author imparts a raciness and women--here is the battlefield bilty of the blindfolded Charles, the of transient life on which they rugged strength of Cromwell, and to all this Bolid Information by a and the events to which they give the splendid sincerity of both. Of continuous flow of ingenious anec- rise. This is history written as Cromwell's cutting off of the King's dote, gossip, speculation, Shakespeare wrote it-or, in our head he writes:-

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