RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume C, Issue 29516, 18 May 1961, Page 22

RANDOM REMINDER

THE MAGIC EYE

Commercial photographers who go out to meet the public achieve a remarkably high standard of accuracy, in t' eir book-work as well as in their portraits, which usually offer conclusive and depressing evidence that the camera does not lie. But, occasionally, errors are made. There was the dreadful case of the Christchurch businessman who went out, resplendent in evening dress, to a function organised by his firm. Next day he told his wife that his photograph had been taken by a commercial firm which was in attendance, and that he would arrange

for the picture to bo posted to his home address. The picture duly arrived, and there was certainly in it a man in evening dress, but his back was to the camera; the eye went instinctively to the swirling skirts and dazzling smile of the glamordus young woman with whdm the man was dancing. The scene was clearly one of a cabaret in one of its more abandoned moments.

The man was able to make satisfactory explanations and. in fact, to produce, ultimately, the proper picture. But, how about the dancing couple? Did they get a

study of a middle-aged businessman wearing an expression of determined respect while being addressed by his chairman of directors?

Such errors open up diverting prospects. The young man away from home could order for his parents a picture taken with his fiance, and have sent, by mistake, a photograph of a pair of new twins; or the young woman, sending a picture of herself to her loved one, might have sent in error a striking portrait of Aunt Agatha, looking her most imperious on what was. clearly, one of her oif days.