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Acrobatic Action in British Empire Tennis-
A quick-on-the-trigger cameraman secured this unusual action photo of Fred J. Perry, British tennis star un he made a gallant attempt to return hot from a horizontal position during his game with Jack Craw ford, Australian now, in the series of international matches at Sydney, Crawford won two to ong.
YOU GOT TO LIVE
(Continued From Page 10).
"My Fritz in born in Maribor, while an a soldier," "Maribor.
Yes, yes, I know. It's Alen called Marburg, and it's now int design. Jugoslavia."
Mv, I
"Sure, that's right.
born
in Graz,"
Jt
A lovely old town. I know well And your wife?"
"My wife Mitel comes from peasant, Mr. Keppler. She is B wonderful Ane wo lunk."
She is born in Burgen "Ah, yes," said Mr. Keppler. He
3
"Wait
to proclaim your son a genius, but anyone who could remember such a commonplace visage as my own after Beeming it once in a crowd really de- serves the name."
pene. sketches of London street life. There was not one that failed to show
"When this was translated for Mrs. rayal and the greatest skill and he had a very nice, kind face, and that striking and accurate character port. Liebl she protested in German thatį
highest artistic insight were shown in there weren't too many such faces in the effectiveness of the grouping and the world, and after an exchange of compliments and some further con- There was in fact, nothing childish versation Mr. Keppler looked at hja. am about them except a certain naivete watch
and freshness of outlook displayed in "Now, my friends, I have a train to the choice of subjects. A youthful catch, but first I can, and will, take delight and zest seemed to lie behind you home.
Swann, will you painting of rough brown figures about a taxi?" And when it came
about grouped fascination felt by a boy in watching way to Pimlico, where they lived, he a street drill, the he bustled then all into it, and on the men working with a machine; surely, discussed with them plans for a cele- tou, it was a child's eye that had been bration that evening, and recommend- was thinking. "that wasn't at all i guess of mine this morning."
charmed by those bulky old women ed a restaurant where they could ret bit, Liebl," he said almost under wet umbrellas crowding about excellent goulash at a price that was genially, glancing at his watch. "It's a fruit stall in the rain; or by the not too extravagant. nearly lunch time. 171 look into the steps of an
of pushing bodies towards the surge
"It won't be as good mama makes," they're getting on, and then we'll go Garden gallery for A moment to see how
gures unload; or by the burly said Liebl, "but to-night it is a fest,į have a bite together at my club.
vegetables in Covent and she must do no work."
When they reached the shabby Whenever Liebl, drifting about the house with crumbling balconies and It was February when Liebl called on Mr. Keppler.
It was the
came face to face with. Swann Marseilles, Havre, London of June when
or good-bye with warm
and genuine ppened its doors for
Thorogood neither lost an opportunity watitude, and after watching him out view a private of yeurs-old boy painter. Fritz Liebl things were going.
When they reached the top, Liebl "They're Swann, who had thrown himself heart 6,000 20th May) Bombay, Marseilles, Havre, London and soul into the business, had told him crazy about them," Swaan dung open the door of the studio, and
wouldn't surprise me they all fled silently in.
He He tossed sold every one. that the right sort of publicity was made. we Hamburg, Rotterdam Antwerp &
The boy's aside his hat and threw himself down Hull.
nut lacking, and photographs of the
Reinacker's here he's the upon the rickety sofa so heavily that Bombay. Marseilles & London.
fod had appeared in the papers, show most important critic in London. He's creaked and awayed and threatened
Just been telling me that Fritz was to give under him. -DO
ing him in a youth white shirt, open the first child prodigy he didn't want hat in its proper place, and, going to
Fritz hung up Bombay, Marseiller, Havre, London. the neck, or'in Austrian pesusto spank and put to bed.
Hamburg. Rotterdam, Antwerp & wearing ah Eton
dress, or this was Swann's idea-
He says the window, stood watching the strut- suit: Hull.
a boy with #marvel."
tings of some pigeons on the ledge Rombay, Marseilles & London.
blunt features, an unusually full, wide
Once the personage of note touched below. Mrs. Light, with a swift look forehead, an expression of simple eb's arm and said: "You're the st father
and
Look candeur and intelligence, and THÍT
boy's father, I understand. Really, her own hat and put it carefully away hair worn German fashion,
The lad shown in congratulate you.
A box. She then put on a large won't be bad for him."
astonishing talent. I hope all this apron and began to tidy the room-
it was crammed with no easy task, Liebl shook his head.
painting
canvases, boxes, "My Frits won't get apollt. I tell rocking utensils, and the hundred and that every time he paint a picture it and aces him many times what Manet said, one things necessary for the fveding te like he throw himself into the water She and Liebl alept in a tiny alcove accommodation of three persons. to learn wira. The artist must opening of the studio, while Fritz be humb he must learn till he dies, slept in the studie itself, and it was and my
ditz true artist,"
there that they washed, cooked, work- aid the great man with a smile, and she bustled about the room the glanc- "I see is fortunate in his father," ed and ste. Every now, and then as Licht Lowe)
jed uneasily at her husband and at the: "Did you ever hear of a genius who When the crowd finally went at six, boy, and finally broke into specek, un- wasn't?" asked Mr. Keppler. "I never and the doors of the gallery were able I did."
to endure ta allence -losed to further visitors, Liebl wiped longer,
the Keppler Gallery and listening to serans of talk, neeling paint they bade Mt. Keppler 15,000 28th Apr. | Bombay, Rotterdam Antwerp & the work of the wonderful fifteen-1 drawing him aside to tell him how of sight began the ascent of the stairs
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Never, from the time Mr. Keppler and Mr. Thorogood Arst showed they were interested in him still the day of the private view, did the the amallest excitement or surprise boy betray He seemed to take the whole proceed ing for granted, and neither doubted nor questioned. Mr. Keppler and Swann discussed him a good deal, and Swann said he was the most complete-, ly egocentric being. he had ever com
KOTOES.
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he's
son,
any
the
But with his parents Fritz was a his hot face and went at last to join "So careless you both are,” she said. child, He adored them, and was un-the others He had kept away from "Nothing you pat away, ever. ashamedly demonstrative. The little them all day, as though he couldn't Johann, your new hat lying on the Look family interested Mr. Keppler very bear them to witness his agitation, and floor, in much. Mrs. Liebl was too busy and had even lunched alone, on a roll and knows better than that. You will not the dust. Fritz, at least, B.. Apcar Line steamers have excellent accommodation for woe Indispensible to posscas an
slice of sausage. 1st and 2nd class passengers.
buy a new hat every day, even thought emotional He of her own, being en- At the door of Mr. Koppler's pri- we have money now to spend. There tirely occupied with those of her hus-vill man he used to steady him- are other things to spend it on."
and son, whase willing sub-self, and when he opened it and went There was not a sound from EASTERN & AUSTRALIAN SAILINGS (South, And though the med blir he were spurious air of cali, other two. Fritz still stared
and Liebl He found them all thers Fritz and the window, and Liebl was motionless out of must have known that they were the his mother, Mr. Keppler, Mr. on the couch. Mrs. Liebl went on parents of an unusualty gifted boy. Thorogood, and Mr. Swann, the latter "I know how it will be
To-mor. to him as a prodigy or suggested that having opened a bottle of old sherry, row you will say, 'Now that Mitel bas they never for one moment deferred the invariable custom of the Keppler made everything neat I can no longer they looked for more from him than Gallery the end of a private view. find what I want," but I do not lis hard, work and good behaviour. Mr. Mrs. Lisbl had already been given a ten to that, for have heard it for Keppler himself could never guess glass, and Frits WILLE what the boy was thinking about and from the solicitous accepting one more than sixteen years now
of Mr. was a little intimidated by the my-Thorogood, whose fase wore what was her footsteps and her scolding and Bull, there was silence, except for sterious maturity and precocity that seldom seen upon it, a satisfied smile. the noise she made at her work. But he knew iny behind that boyish coun-
Liebl,"
1," Mr. Keppler said, wav-aho saw that Fritz had turned and Regular monthly sailings from Hong Kong to Shanghai and Japan ready acquainted himself with Fritz's you heard
tenance.
ing a bit of paper in welcoms, "I was was looking uncertainly at his father, A personage of note who had at Just coming to look for
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are reserved. The rest she drew a chair close to the light and
out. sat down member of the Academy before he or the drawings we've sold eight, at At last Fritz left the window and And he finished by say-ten pounds aplece. That's weren went with slow steps to the couch Ing that although he knew the word hundred and forty pounds, or about where his faher lay-o should be used with caution, he had no twenty-five thousand five hundred
he said, and waited. Mr. hesitation in expressing it opinion that they were
bl Austrian schillings, or, if you'd rather
"Papa," he said
and this presence of genius.
seved hundred.
again It's the best day's time Liebel made a little movement, The only member of the Liebl family work we've done since the Van Brock and a small unintelligible sound. It actually present when this speech was show,
was enough for Fritz, who ran forward made was the boy's father. His face "I must say, I never thought it and flung himself down by the engah, was flushed with excitement, and he would go so well. A great deal of his head on his father's arm. stood wiping his forehead nervously in it's due to you, Swann, and the ex-
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Fritz got up from his chair and said I was a genlus and would be fools any more, sea? Maybe we don't ing on his knees, listening attentive- Keppler or Mr. Thorogood brought in made a stiff litle bow. bright great painter I wanted to shout at have to some patron of importance and intro- blue eyes went from face to face, and them, with a jerk and pulled own tears: sway with his sleeve. His the wool in and out and missed hot
ly, one foot beating time. Mrs. Liebl, All Nos, all lies
Fritz laughed a little and wiped his hand thrust into sock, o duced them to the boy and his mother, then rested upon Mr. Keppler's... and Frits then stood up and replied.***I so
Liebi
Zdrow 'sát up x, so much thank you, ha
the boy into his arman, RA
father kissed and embraced him, and angle note. Not until the weaving, with engaging simplicity to
to the ques-and, please, if I have a mocens,
"Lies" he ested. "Lies? Well then pushed him awGA B tions put to him.
have to thank my pag
rhyme, measured music had lies
"Mital" he cried, my papa for that, and whose
where they? Mine yours Themegood
you! boy. Frite" No, don't re to Please, everyone very happy today. And who says my boy Jan't
I
so kind,
That..
w that a 'lief And Way #homes though a great guffocata school much. My papa teach me, Maybe allemand
uffer Didn't 1 Rembrandt aufort Weight had been lifted from her, but took up bli molk
hand, kiss And plenty of others; And haven't we it was not har habit to show her feels
got to eat? Isn't it better
Friis, "your, papa'ās tire-3 Fritz-
play. Also you have not practised for sizest, cam three whole days. Go
Like only to work all the time. Plosse 7| Keppler, good to be ashamid zim the right turn to scold the snow it is "your i and" the boy stood waitingprata K
When I first begin to work? When I Swann.
am
alx year old.
1.
I go to school again when 1: |Buroga, Ale mach London. I liked it, and sat down
streets and the people,
viation
than stary-
od
band
him M
now wo
mahe-sald. She boy to Munich, 7 Isn't that
She
́noddad, ans.f
ha gode
your a stre
Tired of you, come to me,Thala ́a spar 'Tessons AME KATE Detva boy want, at one Mall FOR
· And now I'just want to are "stupid,ithout monen 72it
·'stupid.. Ano patrons. Only Use
cupboard
"I'mee it, tha | 12"Pritz" aid Me: Keppler, witchaler & You'en got to, Live, eh Ekran PESHAond maybe like to hase you ingeniikkia kami ting many things that I like
or some greater length and expressed himself test your memory. Do you remam artist has a coss the public know and taking ont plin case, or form spoke to him in German he replied at firm offer.
little more freely, but he was at no bar sesing, me somewhere, before that to the money advanced" to them by Sure) plade My Kopplary time really communicativa, Thanks day you came here with your father? Mr.Keppler, all three, wide
dressed in new clothes and Sooked Us good "bourgeois-family (iny Sandby
comp
Kvery carefullyna) Ana Ja Uked which he raised to lat, chip.
ha stood thinking, that the bow at his sideligthen him
to play! the
bla elbows reste to
the public is stupid slow Rae and learzonly to be shocked or star, strument,
od, can we help that?" And so !
A Ni Barabando
Imajor. His
hia, hand in