1947-12-13 — Page 9

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

LET THERE Be Light

Flash shots such as this ara onny to take, bring round-the-clock enjoy ment from your camera.

TIME

was when

newspapera

today. For what

or

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 13, 1947.

A German Bride

In Britain. After One Year

By SIDNEY RODIN

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HE sound of a German town stared, and reserved judg

Kong, tenderly Aung, When the bridegroom's father comes from the living went for a drink, the company in room of a small council house. the bar asked: "Why didn't your in Clifton-road, just another son marry on English girl?"

Old street in Bilston, Black Coun-

Cox retorted: mon

"That's his affair. And the subject was try town of Staffordshire.

rurely broached again. A young girl is singing as she

There were many letters, but makes baby clothes at an old sew only one distressed

"Lotti." The ing machine

in the quiet of the kinilly ones she sent to her mother. afternoon.

Three months lat

later Lotti took a Perhaps she is thinking of

her factory job. Bliston mentally mark- home in the Ruhr, where her ed one up in her favour, and the mother and father still live, where other girl workers found they liked her brother came homo from the the bride from the Ruhr. German Army.

Lotti plucked up courage to go But there is much to do. Her shopping on her own. The shop- husband, who has been on night keepers liked her broad, open face. shift as a metal worker, will soon Some of those warm Bilston hearts

be stirring and wanting a ment. melted, for Kenneth's mother said: His two brothers, also on night "One shop gold her a spring chicken work, will be down, too. lier for 25. d., but for the same sort mother-in-law

comes in cheerfully of fowl they charged me Do. Gd." Twenty-one-year-old Liselotti Emma Biermann, of Wanne Eickel. has been Mrs Kenneth Cox, a Drl- tish housewife, for nine months.

Sometimes

she feels she is now part of the Black Country, living its hard-working life, talking Eng-

on echo of its 1ish with

overcrowded houstny

Rather primitive, methods such to help prepare the table. picture taking

with when compared was largely a daytime affair. It an these, you sat for a portrait, you really use we know sat-long enough for the Atudio with fast Alm and either fash photographer to make a time ex- Blood lamps, it's an easy to take good posure. Later.

begun pictures Indoors as out now, using flash powder-filling a long metal tray with

Many new cameras are equipped powder which, when touched off, made a blinding with shutters which provide auto-sharing its

matic flush synchronisation-insur- Anre and reat wveryone dumbing to the windows to clear the room smoke.

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conditions.

See

Guardsman Cax

SHE'S LONELY THE German girl is lonely for a land, she aches to see her parenta glimpse of her beloved Father-

gain her father is a miner oral 139 silicosis--but life ia gentle enough in Bilston now.

It

absorbed

hun not she han been accent entirely, she is not oling. who

The Rev. J. C. married her, remarked:

"Lott is

Mr Cox

Are You Sure?

Answers on Page 10

1. Which London theatre, as a relic of a quarrel Le- tween a prince and his father. has doors marked-

King's Side, Prince's Side?

2. In how many names of English countles does the sur- fix sex, meaning Saxon.

AD-

pear-

2, 3, 5, 77

3.

The greatest man to be born in Leicester was

Dr Samuel Johnson, Fatty Arbuckle, Daniel Lambert, G. K. Chesterton, Teddy Brown?

called but the above

It bestan on January 11 this year, of in that the shutter is wide open al when more than a thousand people taken at her face value as an in- the moment when the light is at its crammed St Leonard's, the parish dividual. That is how they assess peak. Even SUMC box-type church of Bilston, agape. with you the Binck Country."

to have Rash attach-curiosity Now cameras

A woman shopkeeper said: "Lottl ex-Coldstream And, working with ash,rst German girl of Hitter vintage fy husband, who was in the Navy, but that does 5 nice

4. There is a bird creature. ments.

wed the town's is n

not

the secretary, want to be her friend. mean I w la possible to snap baby's bath, Or The wedding won

Is not the winged typewriter. at 11 am.-- little Fraulein Biermann hind insisted

toid

Ici what Germans did to

it belongs to the flying on the hour, the Gernan

hour helpless

remember for weddings. She found herself their rec

record as a

as a nation." clinging to German things.

Stalwart Kenneth Cox said sim- ply:

"Lotti was a schoolgirl when Hitler declared war, How can she) be blamed? No one blames her in my hearing."

Best Hollywood Voices

mother in the kitchen, with effort at all,

Generally speaking, flash bulbs are of two types--tlin tidgets Tel:

larger varieties. For

most Dr. Simon Mitchneck, president amateur work! the midgets are the of the Hollywood Speech Culture est bel. Their flash is so

short Institute, has listed his choice of the that it is fine for action nie brst voices on the screen in within six to ten fest. English diction. He arranges them in this way:

and

cosmopolitan range

Joan Cray intelligibility:

photos

tura

STILL FRIGHTENED FTER years of Ruhr bombing, years of hate-teaching, she was still frightened of English people as she stood at the altar,

The vlear sensed the tense atmosphere. "One wrong

word, he later admitted, and there might bave been a demonstration. I did not warn the police. I always feel I can

can control a congregation in

In my own church."

So he said to the fair-haired girl, for all to hear: "You will find It dißleult for a stranger in a strange Innd, but I am sure you will find Bilston people Bre very WBTM-

very hearted and understanding."

BIC

seamen,

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And in her dimeult, that English Latti herself said: "I have

not done anything to anybody. Why should they do anything to me? 1 cannot help what they say behind

ny back."

A BABY COMING CHE was forced to work for Hitler in Poland, then on the rallway and on farms, without pay. She will tell you she is ashamed of what the Nazis did, but you feel she is proud of her country.

However, there's a simple rule for Anding correct exposure with flash. Jean Pierre Aumont (French), Manufacturers of flashlamps for classic and romantic Interest; out a guidebook which lists a guide "Charles Boyer (French), for moving number for the bulb when

used and musical sincerity

shutter vibrancy; with a

a given Alm,

speed, Louis Calhern (American), for and lamp combination. By dividing complete this guide number by the distance awford from the lamp to your subject, you (American) for the enunclution and obtain the proper / number. vividness; Greer Garson (Northern

of sound Suppose, for example, you Ireland) for iotal mastery of sound | scale and distinction: Herbert Mar-sing a single SM lamp. Verichrome

for

Films, and want to use (English),

a shutter masculine shall

Maria Montez (Dominican speed of 1/50. Your subject is 10

and FX- feet from your lamp. Your guide

Bliston. Ex-

shows you that the Power book

guide pleasant number is 00, and dividing this by

10 Loretta

you get 1/8 as the proper uper- Shake ture. It's as easy as that. Associated

daniel for Blexibility

Tyrone (American), for line and and

pressiveness;

American quality,

Young

spearian

Press.

(American),

fermininity.

tur

John van Guilder

are

She talks of the big house her mother once kept, and of the lovely countryside almost at her doorstep so different from blackened

The bride cried silently. A Ger- man prisoner stepped forward to whisper to her. An English-woman touched her and gave her a pair of There is a baby coming.

"If it is a boy I shall call him silk stockings as the pressing throng outside made way for the

and couple Wilhelm,

my husband can call him

William. to leave.

a girl she will be Marthe to me, Martha to

Round Cillion-road, the frank minded, rough people of this fron my husband."

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

world.

5. Which American States are popularly known a

Empire State, Cotton State. Panhandle State, Wonder State?

One of these footballers was transferred for the highest fee ever paid for a player-

Tom Lawton, William Steel, Bryn Jones, Stanley Matthews, Albert Stubbins?

7. With which writers do you associate these placesme

Haworth Moor, Egdon Heath, Abbotsford, Kirriemuir?

8.

ret

From the cacao tree we

Cocaine, cocoa, calleo,

cochineal, ipecacuanhu?

9. Which would you rather have-

A half-dozen dozen half- crowns or six dozen dozca- stxpences?

10. Does a hedonist-

Kidnap babies, Ipncre marriage, revile religion, live for pleasure?

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