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AHONGKONG TELEGRAPH
March 29, 1941.
Che SNAPSHOT GUILD The
MAKING PICTURES BETTER
Enlarging help any pleture-es- pecially it you find the real picture first Above, the font enlarge ment. At right, the part of the used. The origlan that was
original has about 500 per cent. too much bulking-and the figure is "lost."
a bit uf
IT'S wonderful what
trimming will do for the aver -age picture--and it's especially
worthwhile if you're planning t have an enlargement made.
Too
For example, here's a landscape shot that looks just neko. much blank sky-no clouds that dny. So, we try covering up part of the sky, and mank out u lete- phone pole at the left that doesn't "belong. It now becomes a very pleasant scene-worth at least a 6 x
enlargement. As a guide for ch inrging, we mark the print, and then trim away the parts we don't want.
Then here's a shot of Jack climb- ing into his canne. Good action- but the camera was too far away, and tilted a bit to one sick. So we mark off just the part we want a middle section that takes in tnly about half of the original pleture. This imuning idea works for everybody's pictures-yours as well as ours. Pick the part you wanl
throw away the rest-and you have a better, more interesting plc- ture. A good system la lo cut out two L-shaped pieces of cardboard, turn them end to end, and use them an avable "inask", over the print. By adjusting the card- the can really and bonris, you "heart" of the picture.
Then, having found the rent pie tures, you can proceed to make enlargements, or have them mude than bringing out the detall and quality that comes with large size. And, chances are, you'll find you're a better picture-laker than you thought
Jolm van Guilder
Russian Genius
"Sorge Diaghilov." By Serge gical narrative with emotional tion. He also gives a slightly Lifar. (Putnam. 21s. not.)
confession.
disproportionate emphasis to the part played by young Benes a Much has already been writ. Grouped about the great man quarter of a century ago. But ton, and even more said, about is that variously talented, high his technique of incorporating "Diaghilev, his life, his work, ly temperamental, discrepantly his legend." This remarkable loyal retinue of musicians, pain- long extracts from Benes' own book summarises the life and tora, and dancers who contri- memoirs, and from other sources work, and gives additional buted to the renown of the Rus- relative to the whole political 1914, excellently colour to the legend.. It is in sian Ballet. It is an exotic re- span from
two parts: a copiously docu- cord that ranges from the
mented biography of Diaghilev sublime to the macabro: the last justifies itself. It does add to Bnd an autoblography of chapter, in particular, has the the sense of continuity, and does Lifar, a leading dancer in the force of a fantasy by Poe. Its illustrato Dr Benes' amazing Russian Ballet. Familiar ground emotional extravagance fascin- knowledge of details and his well-known gift of marshalling is re-surveyed, on which Intimates and appals,
Dr Benes his quite often` accur- ately foreseen the march of events, beemuse his mind is, first and last,
ate aldelights are thrown. The All Lifar's aesthetic and per- them with a view to suggesting figure of Dinghiley that emerges Honal estimates may or may not probabilities in the humdrum po- has the bull and the driving be endorsed by posterity; but his litical scene, force that, after valiant 'service book is an astonishing tribute to to the aesthetic renaissance, re- Diaghilev that liberates his own created and universalised the insistent ego and passion for the Russian Ballot.
arts and a valuable contribution to the history of the Russian matter-of-fact. He has no illusions. is not misled by imaginative emotion, Ballet.
and goes straight to conclusions from premises; and he yet retalna a cer- tain grim optimism. He is the per- feel inodel of the typleul Czech com- bination of slogging thoroughness with gentle diffidence and dry re-
serve.
BOOKS
When history, documents, and aesthetic theory have been dis- posed of, Lifar rises, so to speak, from recitative to aria, and his style becomes at once grandilo- quent and romantic. He feels, thinks, recollects, and writes of
"Benes: The Man and tho his career as a dancer and his association with Diaghilev with Statesman." By Edward B. Hitch-
Almost insensibly the author veers (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. away from the political to the per- the passionate egotism that cock. lifted him from anonymity in 6d. net.)
sonal field of Interest. In this field
the corps de ballet to spotlit The author wisely prefaces his he is good. He contrives to present stardom. He analyses his own biography with the caveat that living picture of the man Benes artistic fevers and professional is concern is with "the essen- such crises with the absorption of n
as those who know him re-
blo- (important this, in a specialist, and recounts them tinl personal facts" rather than cognise to be the truth, and nothing than the truth. We arc with the immodesty of an artist, with "a political or scientific more
study." The truth is that the #raphy) book is much more valuable for given the full facts, in rather greater and less critical Incasure than Is The story of his exacting, its personal than for its political necessary, of Benes' origins and early emotional collaboration with matter.
life. This part of the book la dull, Dinghilev reads at times like the
because it releases a spate of indis- The current background from criminate fact. Indeed the book us reflections of one of Jupiter's
less docile satellites on whom cover to cover is necessarily po- whole would be much improved if It Terpsichore has cast a subsidiary litical. The author gives one had been written at half the length. spell. That story begins with the impression that he has not
*
contrast between
Lilar's arrival in Paris from only delved deeply but has tum- But those later pages which deal Kiev, a raw but gifted and am- bled into the book everything he with Denes in his prime are quite bitious recruit for the Russian could discover. He missed cer- first-class. The Ballet. It closes with a shud- tain important things, such as a Eduard Benes and Jan Masaryk, and dering description of Dinghilev's famous Benes memorandum of the effectiveness of their combination in action, is effectively and even last days and death in Venico. 1919 which might have yielded charmingly done. There are charit The interim heightens chronolo- some interesting political reflec- ing touches also about Mrs Benes.
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BY KEMP STARRETT
'DID I EVER TELL YOU THAT ONE ABOUT THE
YOUNG MAN
FROM
ETC!
YES,A WUNDRED TIMES AND IT'S TERRIBLE IF
YOU TELL IT
AGAIN I'LL.....
EK.
IT WE ONLY WOULD. THINK OF ALL
THE HALF-HEARTED OR FAKE LAUGHS WE'D KEEP OFF OUR CONSCIENCES.
THE GENT WHO OWNS THE SWIMMING POOL AND NEVER LET'S
YOU FORGET THAT HE CAN RULE YOU OUT WHEN-
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WE'VE HAD A TRIGUTFUL
TIME. THE SUPPER WAS ATROCIOUS
AND I'M GLAD YOU'LL
NEVER INVITE,
US AGAIN/
AND MUCH AS YOU MIGHT BE TEMPTED, AT TIMES LIKE THIS...YOU PROBABLY, NEVER WILL TELL EK THE TRUTH.
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TINKE
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I DON'T SUPPOSE IT [WOULD HURT TO HAVE THAT HAD OF YOURS LIFTED...IF THEY
LIFTED IT FAR
ENOUGH
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IF YOU DO OBEY THIS IMPULSE WAT UNTIL YOU'RE FED UP WITH YOUR JOB.... OR ARE YOU?
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WHEN YOU WANT TO
USE THE PARTY-LINE AND SOME HALF-WIT
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IT MUST BE A MAGNIFICENT TEMPTATION.....WHEN THE CUSTOMER GOES TO SLEEP
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