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Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

TABLE-TOP TALK

Two 60-watt lamps and a timo exposure of 1 minute were used to make this "table-top" shot on the "Ivories.”

a

SEVERAL years ago a large work out well as rocky ground.

picture magazine used

With all such shots, work close up. collection of dolls to illustrate won't move.

An for lighting-well, your subject All you need is or- basic football formations. The dinary 80-walt lamps, used singly dolls, clothed in miniature foot or in a combination, and a Iena ball uniforma, were lined up on aperture of approximately 1/16 for a simulated field and positioned good range of sharpness.

Then try severni exposures rang- to show the difference between Ing from, say, 1 minute to 3 minutes; the single and double wing-back one should be just right. and the T formations. Then they

were photographed.

To be sure,

the same pictorial

John van Guilder

THE HONGKONG-TELEGIATH,

STAFKIL TU

GEORGE MALCOLM THOMSON, Tolograph Book Reviewer, examines a groat novel-Francois Mauriac's Thorose

The portrait of a woman

In the first novel of this group PEOPLE who take up the

group of Francois Mauriac's Therese has attempted to polson her storics now issued under the husband; she has been acquitted. She must now meet the man. she has title Therese (Eyre and Spottis tried to kill. Throughout the train woode, 108. Gd.) should not do journey Thereas roviews her life, her so lightly, Thoy aro about to motives, prepares the explanation make the acquaintanco of # woman who will soon be more real to them than most of the flesh and blood people they

know.

which she will make to her husband, and which she never utters.

The second novel takes pince 15 years later. Therese, separated from husband and child, is joined by her More real, and more terrible by, a daughter, Marlo, who has died from great deal.

home to seek her lover. In a flash Therezo la charming: Intelligent. Therese-prematurely old though she She is not cruel; aho is capable of in: Mauriae is unsparing in descrip- love-nobody more so! She suffers. tion of her physical decay--has But the possessed, by devils. enchanted her daughter's lover; has This phrase, which explains made him hers; and then almost con nothing, in the only one that will temptuously has tossed him back to adequately describe the mixture of Marle. bewilderment and fascination which Therese inspires.

She torments and, bailes even M. Mauriac, who created her. Con- stantly he gives the impression of gazing at Therese in amazement and horror-why does she act like that? -

It is a study, endowed with am- mense power, of a human being's capacity to destroy the life and hap pinesh around her.

The moralist has used the scalpel of the psychologist; the result is an intense and weighty experience for those who, for a time. Ilve in the pages of Therese.

Was there a living model for Therese? I do not know. But when Maurine, in his forewood, addressen her "I remember as a young man

VERYBODY knows the type of seeing you in a stuffy court-room- person who, in fear of missing ho gives the impression of speaking the train, arrives at the station an to someone who lives outside the hour too early. Mr Louis Zora' is world of print.

a novelist like that.

story might have been told with FROM HERE AND THERE:

more work.

shots of real players, But this would have meant Working with dolls on a table the photographer could position

"men

top 22

and know they would not And the dolls were every bit

move. as effective as real players would have been for his

purpose. Such a pletare treatment

OLD VIC SELLS OUT

Adelaide,-People started queue her to Sydney soon to consult elder

ODD LEGS hours ly Mr John Braund, whose methods Ing in mid-March nearly 24 serves

New York. This sprlog they are have going before the opening of the box-office for the treatment of cancer

to try to make American for the Old Vic Company's season aroused wide interest and

contro- women,;

wearing who are alrendy which began in Adelaide on

throughout April verny

Australia

and blue and red nylons, wear different

America

to emphasise some of the possibilities

which "table-toppery" offers. photography of this type

tlonowa teddy bear

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providen

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while a cigar

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not be made on a table top. falls under such a heading.

hending "lable-toppery" is

ILLICIT LAR

of

TC-

an indoor diversion which requires first performance before an

3. The Old Vic company gave their overseas. The millionaire has offer- coloured stackings on each leg.- ittle special equipment. And

ed Braund £10,000 to go to Aus-

STAMP POLITICS number of possible subjects is

tralian audience at Perth in "The to treat his wife. Braund refused. be- malilcas us

#5 School For Scandal," by

Lahore. The Sheridan, cause there were too many patients

King's head hns your own Imagina Special toy soldiers tramping acrosstrol the first

police

needed to con- here, including a woman who had been dropped from the new Pakistan werd

recently night

arrived

air by

from coins and postage stamps. It is re- clutch- stomach

Conada.

of placed by the star and crescent les smoking in un ash tray-two model who are running consignments

Ollawa. - Vegetable smugglers

BRITISH GAINS

Islam. Most of the lettering is in nirplanes, suspended by thread,

Alexandria. The revolt in Yemen, Persian script, but the value is also stanting together in tandem.

fresh lettuce and celery into Canada southern 'Arnbin,

enriched inscribed in English. This does not has Sinics have

ind este any intention to leave the from the United shot, or

would

re Britain by £200,000 in gold of course,

and placed rum

British Commonwealth. runners at the top

Present of silver which was taken by British But it the Royal Canadian Mounted For the target list. Since the

Police

here favours Pakistan during

*** feeling planca

the revolutionary maining ns a Dominion. Government's period Intend-dollar conservation programine

handed and

Aden's ed to include all auch mintature been in force, it has been illegal

has Gaveruor for safe keeping. The scenes-scontes in which

to treasure came miniature import fresh

from the murdered Wellington--A special commeme- props are used to tell a story of some the snuggling is done by lorry and estimated at

vegetables. Most of Imam Yehia's fabulous treasure, rative set of four postage stamps £40,000,000. The re- will be issued next year to mark the automobile on That's fundamental, the

little used reads port says: "Planes travelled business arross the border, with the produce between Aden and Sanaa, coming be the first

daily royal visit to New Zealand. It will

visit by a of telling a story. The trick is to ending as under-the-counter mer back with gold and

of 20. silver. alart with an idea, select your props,chandise in Canada. Some lettuce is Abdalla Elwazir tried to get out of 3d., 5d., and Bd have been adopted

Imam

and denominations of sovereign, carefully making sure that all are in belleved to have entered the coun- Yemen sums to make him

to proportion, and set up your pleture. try by acroplane.

secure give the greatest world cover by air Salt or baking soda makes

against a rainy day, but since his and surface roules. Stamps will be CANCER CURE? "snow," & Carpel can be used for

arrest in Sanan, Britain confiscated on sale for three months, replacing "gruss," and sand or

Sydney.An American millionaire the precious metal and cent it pebbles will whose wife has cancer is bringing London.

to equivalent denominations of current

stamps.

kind,

Food

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

THE ALLRE EXISTENCE OF SOME

FOLKS IS A TAX ON OÜR.

SELF CONTROL.

ROYAL STAMPS

In order to be sure of meeting the heroine of his novel, Iuth Middle- ton (W. H, Allen, 10s. ad.), at a umleiently early and impressionable age, he begins the story nine months ahead of her birth.

The position of the heavenly bodies on that occasion is noted. "The Great Nebula" (like some other

DAD and FLOUNDER

LAVISS RAKORKS

far

things I could mention), "was n❘ AROUND THE WORLD churabig whirlpool of dust and gan," The state of the weather is not over- looked. Me Zara has an unerring eye for insignißcant detail.

Seven pages follow before the. world catches its first glimpse of Ruth. In the interval, it is finally settled.that she la not going to be a fish, bird, call or sloth. The child hardly deserves her good fortune, As Mr Zara points out, rather severely, up to that moment Ruth hnd not done one thing for herself,

One page more nud Ruth is barn, Blb. 2oz. In weight and an American clilzen by nationality. But the un-: Grateful child does not like birth very much. The author puts it more precisely: "She missed the laving of the amolotle fuld.

Life my a perasito had been simpler."

To those who are seized with an Irresistible impulse to read more about Ruth I would address onc word of warning. Ruth Is "the universal girl," and here is "a story in which thousands will recapture the dreams and heartbreaks of their own youth."

It only remains to say that Mr Zara writes steadily about Ruth until he reaches page 300. By that time she has had measles, has gone to school and has had her first fove letter. She is fourteen years of age and has learned how babies come,

She has also learned to talk to herself in a way that bodes no good for the girl's future. "Life." Ruth is Hable to say, "s the favourite tunc of the Great Musician."

The publishers seem to have been infected by Ruth's literary style. For in their blurb they remark: "No man can read this story without a sense of revelation; no woman with- out wonder that a man could have written it.”

I would agree with half of that assertion.

A NOVEL to be recommended for Its truth. simplicity and human Dreiser's The Bulwark (Constable 12s. Od.).

It is the story of Solun Barnes, a New England Quaker, whose misfor tune it is to live in an era when social change is undermining the dis- cipline of his faith. Quiet, but gripping.

-by Wolin

Chile: A Land of Surprises

By TEMPLE MANNING' CHILE is one country that

does offer plenty of sur- prises, especially to the traveller who has a sort of fixed idea that South America is the land of tropical jungle.

The Lake Region of Chile that

Temuco stretches begins at

south some 200 miles to merge into rugged that continue on to archipelagos barren Antarctic regions. Temuco, Inland from the Pacific, some 300 foel above sea level, set in a wealth of agricultural and forest resources, is a most fascinating town.

Around it is land long inhabited by sturdy Araucanians, the only people on the American continent whom the Spanish conquistador never was ablo to subject to Span- Ish rule. Indeed it

was not until

around 1880 that independent Chile finally established peace with this proud and vigorous people. So here one finds Indigenous peoples main taining many of their ancient rlies

and customs.

Indian Goods

The snow-capped cont of Moun Osorno, Chile.

Orson, a city founded in the six- teenth century,, Is, in the heart of this lake region. Near it is Lako Puyenue, and a spa of the same name, some 900 feet above sea level, overlooking the lake. Then there is deep Lake Rupanco, surrounded by virgin forests of cypress and pino a massive rugged

peak, El Puntiaguod,

Temuco is famous for foscinating mirroring markets rich in Indian goods-pot- teries, silverware of great beauty, soft, long-napped, pure wool rugs of glorious design and colouring, loomed of course, by hand,

Around Temuco Arc delightful places, the whole region dominated by Villarica Volcano, 18,000 feet

high, and eternally snow-capped.

Further south is the attractive river port of Valdivin, a thriving indus- trial town but in a gorgeous setting Due south lies a veritable fairy- land, a region of pure magic even for the tourist who has been study- ing the guide books. For words can't describe the beauty of the lakes forests that stretch from central Lake Ranco, 150 square miles in area, Chile towards Argentine territory. dotted by numerous istands inhabited by Araucanians, is a bit of paradise

set on earth.

Lake Linnquihue is the largest of the southern lakes, some 300 square miles in area, and with depths of over a thousand feet. It marks, the southernmost boundary of Child's lako district. At Puerto Varas, by the lake is a simply splendid resort

hotel, a real luxury headquarters.

On the north side of Llanquihue, rises Mount Osorno, that perfect, mow-capped cone, 0,200 feet high, and more beautiful than the much- advertised Fuliyama of Japan, East of

Todos los nue is Lake Santos

a lake with a charm ns heavenly as its name.

It curves through

hilly banks

thick luxuriant foliage, bright with scar- with let blossoms, and in its placid waters is mirrored Mount Osorno. A launch trip over this lake is a travel delight that one remembers gratefully for

-ever.

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