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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

"WINDOW" PICTURES

The "window" effect was obtained, very almply, by having the children peer through the French door into the darkened dining room. Such stunts olve you noval plctures.

ODD suapshota around the homo dopend partly on your subjects and partly on how you present thein. Often, a clever or, unusual presentati makes an excellent pleture ( of the most familiar subject-m *T

Take a look around the house, and noto the spots or locations that will maka good "aettings" for pic tures. The fireplace, the stairway landing. the stairway corner. The big rany chale by the hookul-iven-- all these aro good "pleturn spots." Windows and French doors are nacful, too. In the daytime, a bright window can be used as a back. Kround for silhouette shots-with shaden drawn on the other win- down. Or, you can bring up your photo lights, to huminate the #indow nido af o aubject, and

thus get height, cheerful "high key" effect,

At night, interesting plclnres an be made by having your subjects at an uncurtained window, with the photo gate at one side,ars then shodfor the picture "from outsider looking t.**

The picture above shows the ef feet. However, a French dour was use this case the children were simply peering Into the dark diving-room. But the framo makes a very satisfactory window effert. E' JuRt 1 th subjects were peeping out on a pitch-dark winter aight.

Try some of these effects. They'ro ensy. with any camera-using high sperd Alm and photo bulbs for the with shots. And they add novelty to your collection of komo pictures,

John van Guilder

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A Red Spy's Career

Believe It or Not

'ness.

March 1941.

BOOKS

WHAT GERMANY FORGOT. By James T. Shotwell. Mac- millan Company. 68.

In San Quentin." Really now, how OUT OF THE NIGHT, by Jan commendable! My Impression was Valtin. Alliance Book Car that he just mured the whole busi

It is the opinion of psycholo- poration, $3.50,

The Reichstag fre trini-in which gists that people forget what Georgi Dimitrov, now the Comint- Sensational revelations which, tern's chief, conducted his own de- they do not want to remember. selective memory may if true, shed new light on inter- fence and defied his Nazl accusers in Such a national power polities are mere open court-wns, necording to Mr operate in the collective as well Valtin, a "carefully and cunningly as the individual mind; and per- common-places in "Out of the organised play." Dimitrov, he says, haps also in the collective mind Night." This 841-page record of knew all along that he was safe the driving beneath the surface the life of Jan Valtin Is "Muntha before the trial began, secret America's Book of the Month Regotiations were under way between of unpalatable truths may cause to exchange unsuspected reactions in the Moscow and Berlin Club's Intest choice, and it reads Dimitrov and his two Bulgarian aldes form of strange psychic aberra What Germany has for- like a script for Boris Karloff. for three German officers who had

been caught by the GPU as spies on tions. Mr Valtin avers he was on the Soviet soll. Dimitrov had to be golten, what Germans wanted to. payroll of the GPU (Soviet saved from being broken down by forget, is the fact that their Gestapo torture, not for his own post-war difficulties were the re- Secret Police), graduated from snice, but for the sake of the Soviet salt far more of their own war the Comintern School of Re- Secret Police and the Comintern,

whose inside workings he knew too economics than of the financial volution in

burdens thrust upon them by Moscow and sent well."

their conquerors. trotting all over, the world on. villainous missions.

he

of

This is the thests of Dr Shotwell's It most illuminating study, which exam- That's a wonderful story and After years of revolutionary

may be true. But if Dimitrov was ines the way in which the Germans work along the Hamburg water- to be freeil, why did Marshal Goer- organised the economics for their war front, he landed in San Francisco ing take the stand and let himself effort in 1814-18, the character of the Pence Versailles and the econoinic in 1926 (with positively no be insulted and called a liar in repercussions of the war in the post-

nearly detonated

rage? Why war world. with bomba in his pockets) and con- dis the Nazis let the trial continue,

The victorious Powers blamed their making themselves the tacted a Machiavellian Russian thereby

financial Troubles on the war itself; And who told him-melodramatical world's laughing stock?

the the Gerenons alone were able to make Dimitrov "knew

well" too ly, of course that a small case

machinations of the USSI, why didn't the peace their scapegoat, and in this of bloody murder was required the Nazla sacrifice the three German they were assisted by much liberal

of the other

parts

world. of him. Apparently horror- spies in Russla?

The result in Germany was a failure rulaous and Is stricken at the thought of travel-

I am not challenging Mr Valtin's to see that milkarism ling all the way from Shanghai sources, but questions like these pop a belief that only defeat makes war Dr Shotwell examines for that, Mr Valtin recoiled and up in an aknast wholly undocument urgufitable. Dr impertinently asked why. But ed book. Moreover, the author, as the famous Hindenburg Programme be recovered from his monentary his story shows was an unscrupulous in order to show that it was, despile crook and liar for the sake of inter- German illusions, fraught with dis- sentimentality and bopped some- cesis he served. At what point did he aster; the illusions were never shot-. body frightfully important on become in honest man? And who tered, for reparations were held the head in broad daylight with rm 1 to say he did? a revolver butt.

"My astonished quarry roared for help," he relates, and I ran like a man in a trance, vaguely aware that I had not even made the least pre- paration for a successful getaway."

Rather than have blood guilt on its conscience, says the Book of the Month Club News, he chose "a term

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