WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1932.
GREAT EXHIBITION
OF REMBRANDT.
Shown In Amsterdam For A Month.
Rem-
As a most important Item in the series of celebrations of the third centenary of Amsterdam University, an exhibition of works by brandt was arranged at Amsterdam. The exhibition remained open until September 4, and afforded an excep- tional opportunity of studying the achlevement of Holland's greatest Artist.
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FANCY DRESS DANCE AT PENINSULA.
Prima Ballerina To Perform.
At the Fancy Dress Dinner Dance to, function at the Peninsula Hotel
Milan.
A SIDE-LIGHT ON HENRY JAMES,
Followed Style Set By Ibsen,
INTERESTING LETTERS."
Mountain Vision ART EXHIBITION
From mountain peaks the checker-
ed fields appear
As patches on a quilt of green
and gold,
How far
OPEN THURSDAY.
Japanese Masters To
Be Shown."
And fences are but stitches ast
to hold
Japan, the land of fairy tales, of Each patch. in place.
beautiful scenery, the dream of the away, how queer
world to have a glimpse at, la repre- The blue prints seem, the talk of sented in most artistic pictures at
titles clearl
Messrs. Komor & Komor's Autama Threads ravel, patches fade, and Exhibition, which opens on October
hearts grow oldt
27. Earth draws so near the sky, "I The elinking coins of streets drop
own," "I sold,"
From mountain peaks this matters,
worthless here,
this alone.
There is a variety of views, of
Terauch! Goto, Banzon, Kobayashi every part of Japan, by masters like
Japan. and all the best-known artists of
Among the larger pictures are Where aprings keep faith along Terauchi's "Bamboo" (No. 1), a
the valley's track
realistic, pleasing bamboo groves: New greenness lifts and beauty his No. 9, "Temple of Kyoto," would have done with fences, lest No. 30, "Kamakura," he shows his
finds her own.
ja marvellous, atmospheric effect.
I lack
abaervation of perspective. His
In
on the night of Saturday, November 12 next in aid of the New Terri- tories Medical Benevolent Society often seems to attract most thore The drama attracts us all; and Mrs. H. Mein; who has graciously who are furthest from it. consented to perform during the in his passion for Shakespeare's Keats, special entertainment following the poetry, would also have emulated dinner, has had the honour of being his career; and his temperament the Prima Ballerina at the Seals, was strong enough his lungs were not. A man must have fought the She has also had the honour of world before he can represent the "London, Sept. 20. Jever," Mr. Newton went on, "that Among this year's visitors to book-collecting has stopped in ring at Government. House fighting- London is Mr. A. Edward Newton, America. The smaller collector is and it is said of her that ahe ranks
Henry James, also, aspired to be! The exhibition was arranged In of Philadelphia, one of the best going right ahead-and when foremost amongst the best accom-
a dramatist, but in the style of a large top-lit court on the ground known bibliophiles and writes on people say there is no demand from plished classical dancers. An t-Ibsen rather than of Shakespeare. floor of the Rijksmuteum; it com-book-collecting in the world. As America, they only mean that there tractive photographic reproduction "His subject (he wrote of Ibsen's
most is less than there was. My friend, of the Artiste in a dancing pose ap-"Master Builder," in anticipation I prised not only paintings, but draw an author he is perhaps. ings and etchings as well-in fact, widely known by his "Amenities Gabriel Wella, for example, has pars in print to-day.
of its first English performance) Other excellent features are in-is always, like the subjects of all the two latter categories easily pre-of Book-Collecting"-of which just bought a Shakespeare' quarto; dominated numerically, and would, twenty-five thousand copies have and some of the more interesting cluded in the entertainment for this first-rate men, primarily an idea;
The proud awareness mountain Fujiyama views are also outstand- things in the recent Carlyle sale occasion and altogether there are but in this case the idea is as diff.
vision brings;. in themselves, have sufficed to secure been sold in America alone.
ing pieces of this exhibition. * for this exhibition
I would go down a keeper of the an outstanding Mr. Newton's infuence upon the were acquired for
our promises of a wonderfully enjoyable cult to catch as its presence is im-
From Goto, the master" of see importance.
springs. night which extends from 8.30 pa possible to overlook. The whole-Molly Anderson Haley, in "The natural and effective. rare book market has been very universitles."
scapes, No. 19, "Chiyoshi Sea," is His "Hara Few public collections can offer great. The modern fashion for "Have you been buying anything to 2.00 a.m. in the Rose Room and
Roof Garden..
Other Gardens" In Yokohama, shows that as complete and impressive & aurvey collecting the first editions of
Goto can also please when repro-. of Rembrandt's work as an etcher as novels in chiefly due to his writ-
ducing lovely flowers in most ex- the one there provided through the ings. These had the effect (for
cellent colours. liberality of a Dutch private collec- example) of set ung up the value 'tor settled in Switzerland, M. de of the first edition of "Cranford" Bruyn, whose amazingly successful|from, about £6 to £200—from which activities cover a period of not more peak it has, however, now relapsed than a decade. The standard of to about £30..
quality in the impressions shown For more than forty years Mr. was the very highest and not only Newton has been visiting London, the individual plates, but the succes-and I spent an hour in his flat, one sive "states" were admirably presented.
FAMILY'S RECORD ON THE STAGE,
Lupino Carries On Tradition.
re-day this week, in eliciting from)
him his views on how the slump. has affected the collecting of books in America as compared with Eng-
ind.
"In the first place," said Mr. Newton,."we Americans are a very extreme people-always either on the crest of a wave or in despair. Everything happens with us on aj gigantic scale--even in Nature. If we have a flood it drowns thou In appearing nightly in light sands. If we have a hurricane it comedy in a London theatre, Mr. devastates five States. Also our Stanley Lupino, the English actor, climate makes us nervous and ex- is carrying on a family tradition citable-as the British climate which has persisted for more than makes you placid. three centuries. Mr. Lupina, who The Rich Hardest Hit.
one
of
has recently finished a seven months' "Even in book-collecting this is run as chief player in the musical|roflected. There are far more very comedy, "Hold My Hand," at the rich collectors in America than in Galety Theatre, London, is a direct England, and it is just these who descendant of the man who is walk- have been hardest hit at present. ing the slack rope in William The rich book-collectors of Hogarth's famous picture, "South-America have always been in- wark Fair" This man, Violante limately connected with Wall by name, was an Italian who came Street-and now most of the to England In the eighteenth cen-premier stocks, in which they tury and married another rope gambled. have gone down 80 per dancer, Miss Luppino, Mr. Lupino, cent. in value. who is one of the most celebrated of "Books, however, remain. the British comedians, and almost as best investment. Let me give you well known in New York as he is an example. When I bought the! in London, states that his family Carysford copy of the first folio of has been connected with the stage Shakespeare I paid £12,000 for it. for 352 years, in the capacities of To do that I had to sell Canadian players, authors, producers, singers, Pacific stock. To-day those shares acrobats, or scene designers. His are comparatively speaking worth-yourself?"" I asked. brother, Mr. Harry Lupino, and his less. But a copy of the first folio. "I bought in London, not long ago, cousin, Mr. Lupino Lane, are also inferior to mine, has just been sold Boswell's very rare early pamphlet,
well-known comedians. Mr. Stan- for £3,000 more than I paid. ley Lupino, besides acting, writes The Smaller Collector, many of his pleces:
Mrs. H. Mein, an accomplished dancer, who will enter- tain at the Peninsula Hotel in aid of the New Territories Medical Benevolent Society, on Saturday, November 12,
"Well," answered. Mr. Newton,
Dorando"-end with that he pro- "You must not suppose, how-duced the book from a shelf and handed it to me.to look at. "But my most exciting purchase is Rey- {nolds's portrait of Boswell, which
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Variety Show On
London Stage. ·
Variety continues to make antic
will hang in my library opposite hay while the holiday sun shines. to a portrait of Johnson by Rey- This all-woman show was authentic nolds, which I also possess."
variety, vintage stuff Turn sud-
"And what is the next book you ceeded turn with speed and authort- are going to write?" I inquired, forty, as in the brave days of old; and now that Mr. Newton has retired the last thing one missed from it from netive business he never was man. There were comediennes, leaves too long 4 gap between serio, and low, step-dancers, tum-; writing one volume and another. blers, clowns, "Harum and Searum,
"I don't suppose," he replied, the Original Humpety-Bumpsty) "that I shall ever write another Girls," bumped, slapped, tripped and book about book-collecting. fell, while ejaculating that curlops have already said everything' 1 know about it twice! My last which is clown's language. Rale da
commentary, half-speech, half-song,} volume was a book of travels A Costa, the lightning pianist, flashed Tourist in Spite of Himself and from crazy rhythms to Hungarian I shall try the same vein again. Rhapsody with a mere shake of the You must know that I am a theere hair. "Babe Egan and her Holly tical horseman-I have a very fine wood Redheads, America's Greatest collection of sporting books. Girls' Band," took over, on the stage, was very anxious to see the Derby from the orchestral pittites, and and Ascot on this visit and I did there was a good burst of tireless see them. So I am going home how to write my next book, which stead, a coloured soprano from native chorus girls, Lucille Ben- will be called "Derby Day and America, sang and acted her exotic Other Pleasant Adventures!!
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vigour of long, line of d-nosed acestora, got every plug parking and all cylinders pulling on the joys When the New York dance field and woes of love, liquor, and low- becomes concerned with its own life, with a verve that made the very problems and adopts the attitude footlights flicker. This stimulating that nowhere else in the world are entertainment showed what life its difficulties" and its accomplish-there still is in the old Variety dog. ments duplicated, it would do well and that woman's emancipation is at to turn ita face westward and sur: last complete. vey other scones. It would find that c Chicago, for one, has a dance world and a dance problem so much like that of New York that the only ap- preciable diference is one of site. Barely is there, a Sunday duri the season when there is not at leas Ane Decita
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thing throbs and flushes with it. and yet smiles and mocka. at us through it as if in conscious super- subtlety."
Window Cleaner and Poems".
Everything that Henry James (Continued from previous columa}.| did has its intricacy and happy sur-
Bazon, also a great favourite in
prises, and his relation with Eliza-ed, would never have interfered Hong Kong, shows in No. 28, "Su- beth Robins in the hundred or with a lady's frocks. Miss Robins mida River," what observing power more letters she now prints, illus. was not only an actress and pro- he has. His "Nikko" is also a re- trates both with charm and fresh-ducer, she was also a translator of presentative plece of his "art. ness: but the importance of the plays; and here, too, she had his beautiful frames, are to be shown.
A few, well-selected prints, in volume is the revelation. It brings characteristic assistance:
He
of his interest in her as an actual would pace the little space be
The exhibition is open
for ten
producer of Ibsen's plays and L tween fire and bookcase, one act of days, from 9 am to 5 pm, possible producer of his own: the type-script in his hand, making hazard "or the Palpitations of an passes in the air, and with: 'No. AT THE AQUARIUM. improbable Playwright" as a sub-no, dear lady, sweep my sugges title for it.
ition out of the way and in
the Serene the silver fishes, glide, There is a wonderful letter
cleared space plant some on
Anal Stern-lipped, and pale, and wonder- the subject of Hilda Wangel's flower of grace or fitness."
eyed!
dress, which Miss Robins thought| The quotation shows with what As through the aged dreps of oddán, should express. Ibsen's intention: discernment Miss Robins now, play* They glide with wan and wavy mo- "BE right, "I beseech you; amend it, her part of historian and cicerone. tioni
•
| improve it, "reconstruct. it utterly Her 'connecting" narrative is ad: They have no pathway where they
while yet there is time. If every-mirable in its perspective, and, in
go, it thing else is right and your frock its quiet candour, is a model of They flow like water to and fro. is wrong, that wrongnesa may-taste. Wherever Henry James They watch with never winking will-determine the fate of the went, there went with him the
eyes,
play... Throw Tbsen's prescriptions senise that tremendous" issues were They watch with staring, cold sur- to the winds if practically they at stake; that was his greatnesst prise,
betray you." One does not see and he had a great following be. The level people in the air? how the "great idea" is to be ex-
cause we are all aware of issues, The people peering, peering there: pressed, if the symbols are to be but cannot grasp them. Perhaps Who wander also to and fro, treated so cavallerly.
Different Ideas.
we shall never again pursue them And know not why or where they along his ways; perhaps he will re- go,
But, of course, James's ideas main, one among so many solitary Yet have a wonder in their eyes, would never have been in the least martyrs, to remind us that they are Sometimes a pale, and cold surprise. like Ibsen's; and, whatever other always present, however inex ri-Max Eastman," in "Child of the sacrifice they might have demand- cably wrapped up.
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