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WHISKY THAT GOES MR.
OVER ATLANTIC.
Young People Prefer
Beer.
"WE WOULD NOT STOP IT."
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Many things about whisky
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H.M. NAVAL DEPOT,
February, 1931.
KOWLOON,
BERNARD SHAW
ON ART.
Warning to Portrait Painters.
BENEATH SURFACE.
THE CHRISTIAN PROTEST.
Police Throw Out Communists.
or
8,000 IN BERLIN HALL.
Mr. Bernard Shaw, who was in-
Berlin, Nov. 16. about the people who drink, most troduced as "Brother Shaw" by the The German Union for the De- of it, and about the "suspicious" Chairman, Miss May Morris, gave fence of Western Civilisation held Atlantic-were a long and very interesting address its first public meeting to-day at told to the Licensing Commission to his fellow-members of the Art the Sportpalast to protest against | by Sir Alexander Walker of the Workers' Guild.
the persecution of religion in the famous whisky firm,
He began by saying that he was Soviet Union. Some seven Young people do not drink at a loss to know what to say, for eight thousand must have been whisky, he said. They prefer beer. it was usual in the hall in Queen's-gathered in the great hall to hear The drinking of spirits, more es square for the members to give representatives of the Lutheran pecially of Scotch whisky, was al-practical examples of their craft. and Catholic churches, and of the most entirely confined to the His art was drama, and he could Jewish community, as well as middle-aged and the aged,
not act a play before them. He Bishop Seraphim, of Kharkov, In. But he made one exception to his thought, however, that it waaa terviewed by a representative of Forms of Tender and any neces-generalisation about young people good thing for artists to get to-the Morning Post on July 14, and sary information may be obtained the type you meet in the West gether occasionally and talk about Sir William Horwood, formerly The artist was Commissioner of the Metropolitan on application to the Victualling of England which I might call the their experiences. Store Omcer, H.M. Naval Depot, jeunesse doree, who drink cock-not an ordinary respectable person. Police Force. Kowloon.
tails."
for he did not perform good honest Bishop Seraphim's account of Bottles of whisky, port, and work. He was under the influence his own experience in the Soviet cinret were placed before the mem of an artistic urge, and was driven Union as recently as the spring bers of the Commission, over which to do things that his parents con-of 1930, was the climax of the Lord Amulree presided for the first eldered reprehensible. The things meeting, and also occasioned the time since his appointment as Air he did were usually not profitable; climax of Communist interruption. Minister.
in fact they often led to starvation. Bishop Seraphim described, as an But the members drank water This urge put the artist outside the eye-witness, the expulsion of aged when they wanted a drink. The ordinary morality, for to respond priests from
their parsonages, spirits and the wine were taken to it meant that he had to guide his barefooted and forced at the there by Sir Alexander Walker to own destiny.
point of the revolver, to leave illustrate some of his remarks. "What is it urging you to do?" their parishes. He told, from per- If the total imports of wine, and Mr. Shaw neked, Sometimes the sonal experience, of the mockery British wines for 1928-29 were anawer was quite clear. More with which Soviet officials receiv analysed according to alcoholic con- often it seemed that the artist wased complaints of breaches of the tent, said Sir Alexander, and duty in the position of providing some- Communist constitution itself by paid per degree of alcohol, the duty thing that nobody wants. Really the godless in their action against per degree averaged 2.24 on wine the artist was the person who anti-the church. against 8.74. per degree on Scotch cipated a demand. He actually
Interruptions. whisky or other British spirits. created a demand. In the utilitarian Tales of exile, kidnapping, and An Extraordinary Anomaly. sense he was not meeting a need, shooting were greeted with bravos "This extraordinary anomaly," he for you did not hear of a person by a group of Communists in the said, "whereby foreign and Bri- having an urge to create saucepans. gallery, who interrupted all the tish wines are specially favoured by The artist was eatlafying a desire speeches at intervals with cries of a preference in daty per degree of in his own nature and getting a"Down with the Church." After alcohol, has always puzzled the unique and peculiar satisfaction in Bishop Seraphim had finished they Scotch whisky trade. We con doing so.
He was also satisfying à made so much noise that the meet- understand a preference in favour desire in other people, for, Mr.ing could only go on when they Shaw sald, he was certain that had been thrown out by the police. everything that was produced was While this was happening there wanted by somebody.
was for a moment a hand-to-hand fight with one of the Communists in a lower gallery who did not wish to leave the hall.
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The Business of Art. er a preference of 300 per cent., (in The business of art was not to the duty) is past all understanding. I create beauty: that was a ludicrous
Sir Alexander was asked by the idea. He thought Tolstoy's sug- Sir William Horwood, speaking Rev. Henry Carter (a member of gestion that anything by which an in English, emphasised the essen- the Commission) whether he had artist conveys an emotion to antial identity of the Third Inter- any increase of export to foreign other person is a work of art was national with the Bolshevist Gov- countries,
the best definition. It would not ernment, and proceeded, to trace Sir Alexander: There has been do to limit art to the satisfaction of in outline the story of Bolshevist a large increase to Canada and the desire for beauty, for people intervention in England. During countries adjacent to the United could not stand beauty. Really the 1924 election the Communist States, of course, (Laughter.) picture or a sculpture or any other Pacty had an income from Eng. He explained that that spirit work of art created interest in the lish sources of £900 only and was was obtained from the distillers, real thing. William Morris used receiving a subsidy of £16,000 a They did not know that it to say that if you put a single pic-year from Moscow. At the time was going to the United States, ture in a, shop window everybody of the General Strike this subaidy because, it passed through so many would stop and look at it Al-was increased to nearly a million hands, but they had a strong though he had the babit of Imagin-} pounds.. suspicion where It did going that the world was full of Wil-; (Laughter).
Ham Morrises, there was a lot of
Mr. Carter: Would you, as dis-truth in his remark. People like tillers, if you could, stop the export imitations. 44I am very fond of of spirits to the United States? Frith's 'Derby Day, for I can re- Bir Alexander (emphatically): member when people looked like Certainly not.
SLIGHT SETBACK..
PRINCESS BEATRICE IN GRAVE CONDITION.
Rugby, Yesterday.
that picture," Mr. Shaw said. "The Venus de Milo is much more re- markable than a real woman with a wrap round her body, because there is something of the artist in the sculpture."
The bit of himself that an artist put into his work was a terrible
A bulletin issued yesterday even- thing. Rembrandt was a great ing stated that the condition of painter, but "I am glad that he Princess Beatrice was not so satis-never painted my portrait, for all Rembrandt's men are drunk I factory, owing to a slight rise of temperature, associated with ex-warn all portrait painters present acerbation of her bronchitis.
to-night-don't drink" Although this slight setback was followed by a somewhat disturbed
Life "Upside Down." Mr. Shaw went on to point out
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functions of art was as an educative bandits at Jehal number 20,000,
the Princess's condition this morn-
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Rugby, Yesterday. Visitors to the British Indus-
pressionable age young people could ter.
beat find out from pictures, music,
BRIGHTER SYSTEM OF EDUCATION.
and drama what life was like. "TALKIE” IN SCHOOL They could get from art a satisfac- tion of desire, and he said that hel had always found that that argu- ment meant something to muni- eipal bodies when the erection of a picture gallery was being con- sidered..
"Art has to supply 20
MARY
Rugby, Yesterday. The first planned attempt to determine the value of talking pictures as part of a British na-
MILLIONS LOST IN RUBBER VENTURE.
New York, Yesterday,
It is reported from Para that there are indications that Mr. Henry Ford is abandoning his rub. ber growing experiment, after „In- vesting several millions of dollars in plantations In the Tapajon River region of Brazil. -
The employees have been reduc-
tries Fair are to-day offored addi-things," Mr. Shaw said. "It is tional system, began to-day in 15 ed from 8,000 to 200. Some of the very complicated business, for peo- schools under the Middlesextaff mon have resigned and
tional passport facilities.
Free visan to foreign buyers ple look to it for morn enlighten-
others are being transferred to will be made available for threement, and
therefore the respon-education authorities.
Special Instructional films are Australia. months, and will cover a returnsibility of the artist is a great one.
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people walking up and down the sound films will occupy in the edu- cession, streat, and I must find out where cational field, and the value of this state grant--Reuter's American they are going and discover the new method of imparting know- Service. Invisible drams beneath the sur edge as compared with broadcast-
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It is no use talking of holding and silent films already in use. MINISTERS RESIGN.
British Wireless Service.
Ing the mirror up to Nature; that
Is no good. The dramatist must
present life more intelligently than that he must pake his characters
BERIBERI DISEASE.
think of something that has not AUSTRIAN SCIENTIST TO VISIT
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Vienna, Yesterday,
[OBJECTION TO RETURN OF MR. THEODORE.
Canberra, Yesterday. Mr. Sculin has accepted the re- ignations from the Cabinet of Messrs. Fonton and Lyons, who' 01. Mr. opposed the return Theodore.
been thought of before. You are used to seeing people the right way up. I must occasionally turn them upside down to see if some- thing can be learned from them in Professor Wenckebach has ac that position:""
cepted the Netherland, Govern mont's invitation to study beriber! Mr. Forde has been appointed
SEVERE WEATHER IN NORTH OF ENGLAND.
Rugby, Yesterday. Severe anowstorms in Scotland and the north of England during the week-end caused traffic inter- ference,
The heaviest snow for many years foll around Keswick, in the Lake District. Severe gales were experienced round the consts.- British Wireless Service.
CANTON. FLIGHT.
MR. BROPHY TO LEAVE IN A FEW DAYS.
Foochow, Yesterday. Temporary repairs have enabled" Mr. Brophy to fly back to Foo- chow. He took off at one o'clock to-day and expects to leave for Canton in three days' time--Reu-
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WAGE RATES.
COURT TO RECONSIDER ITS DECISION.
Canberra, Yesterday..
You see," said Colingsby,then the Dutch East Indies, and is Minister of Customs, Mr. Green The Cabinet has decided to ask ship was eered this way Miss shortly to leave for Ehtavia, for sca Postmaster General, and Mr. the Arbitration Court to reconsider Redington and I were standing on six months visit-Reuter. deck when we struck the iceber didn't know her very well, but when the boat struck she was throwo
iolently into my arms,”
"Very exciting as remarked Poliagely, "but how did that gave the shipt
Daly as Minister of Defence. Its decision to reduce the baste These appointmența are regarded wage rates by ten per cont, as an- They were a rough lot, and then alyebut to the Labourite left nounced on January 22, Keuter. minister failed to make much im wing, why expected, one of their pression upon them.
leaders to be appointed to the Cabinet-Router.
Broke
You should love your enemies be remarked to a notorious, charac-
Can't came the prompt reply: *I shot the last one this morning.
- "I wonder why he's a bachelor?" Oh, he didn't have a car han he was youngs
The Vicar At the end of the service tonight the choir will sing a special anthem composed by the organist, after which the church, will be closed for a month for neces hary repáli