ART AND DRAMA
CROMWELL PORTRAIT DISCOVERED
Sile Find And Claim Made By Artist
SOLD AS AUCTION JUNK
Most people are familiar with the head-and-shoulders portrait of
Ilver Cromwell, und remember it; from history text-books of school- boys. The original painting, which is quite small, is to be found in the hall of Sidney Sussex College, Cam- bridge, where Cromwell went as un undergraduate,
Now another painting, claimed to be that of the Protector, is on view at the Norris Library and Museum at St. Ives, Huntington.
Mr. Charles Whymper, the artist of Houghton, near Huntingdon, at- tended a sale a few months ago at the George Hotel, Huntington, The, auction was just about to be con-1 cluded when an assistant produced) two rather old pictures. They had been discovered in an attic. Think- ing that they were only junk, they had not been included in the catalogue.
Bought For A Song
It is one of these that is claimed} to be a portrait of Cromwell.. Mr. Whymper had it knocked down to him for a very small amount. Thinking there might be more in the painting than met the oye, literally and otherwise, he took it to a famous restorer in London who has done work for the British Muscum. At first the restorer con- Bidered his task a hopeless However, the original canvas was re-lined and the holes were painted in making what must be admitted
one.
an astounding piece of restoration, Now to the actual points reveal- ed. The portrait is a head-and-! shoulders study in armour-in this respect similar to the one already referred to in the hall of Sidney Sussex College.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934
Making one of his rare public appearances since he stepped out of office of President of the United States, Herbert Hoover Is pictured reviewing a parade during a patriotic demonstration at San Jose, California.
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NOVELISTS' PLAYS
REASON
OF FREQUENT FAILURE
MOST DIFFICULT FORM OF
LITERARY EXPRESSION
(By Sydney W. Carroll)
MIDLAND ART TREASURES
Vast Exhibition In Birmingham
GEMS OF THE PRIVATE COLLECTOR
Sir Michael Sadler has opened,
at the City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, a vast art exhibi- tion intended to demonstrate the great wealth and diversity of art works in public and private collec tions in the Midlands,
..
The organiser, Mr. S. G. Kainos Smith, director of the gallery, has spread his net widely. The result of his long-continued effort to persunde generous owners to let the peoplo of Birmingham realise the immense wealth of the art collections in their vicinity is an exhibition of great richless and variety.
To pass through the rooms, de- yoted to the exhibition in the Bir mingham Gallery is to pass from age to age and from one culture after another...
The wonderful full-length of }"David Garrick," by Gainsborough, from Stratford-on-Avon,' bangs near Dobson's "Colonel John Rus- seli" (Earl Spencer collection). Mignard's "Henrietta. Daughter) of Charles 1.," Arthur Devis's love- ly "Lady in a Blue Dress" (Capt. J. R. H. Harley collection), and Reynolds's superb "John Charles, Viscount Althorp."
There are separate collections of early illuminated manuscripto, jof woodwork, and of Old; English metal work, including such things as Lord Hatherton's famous silver- gilt chalice and paten, made in the early sixteenth century.
"Towards the end of his life Con-,special intention: It is the play- MARCHING ORDERS
rad developed a strong desire to wright's part to provide the skeleton Doubts Expresséd
write a successful play." So says or framework upon which the flesh Some people
have expressed Mr. Richard Corle. Of how many land blood element in the dramatic doubts as to its being a portrait of other novelists could the same thing combination provides its own cover- Cromwell because the face is clean not be said?
ings.
.
A
Overdue Theatrical "Incident".
ADVICE SHOUTED TO LONDON ACTORS
London.
shaven, no thin moustache being) But no novelist who has as yet not. Why have so few of the novels by shown. But neither is there one tried to prove his value as a play-Dickens and Thackeray registered in Laly's palating, which is gen.wright should start to do so with the big successes in the theatre? erally considered the finest "Crom-same attitude of mind as evidently play based on a novel munt be made well." Another strong point of animated Conrad when he first es-to fit the stage not only in a general
An overdue theatrichinel- similarity in the two paintings" 18 Bayed the stage. He saw in writing sense but in dimensional one, and that a wart is delicately outlined in plays, it is said, a.way of making the canvases of these great writers dent" happened last month when the author of “Young England," identically the same spot on the much-needed money. He wished to are so vast. forehead,
prove his theory that there was no Managers and agents are apt to now at the Victoria Falace, mar He think that the name of a successful ched two members of the audience But the other especial art in playwriting. So far, so good.
out. points discovered at present are thought any novelist could write novelist is of itself aufficient to en-
This melodrama has been thriv proving somewhat of a problem. successful plays if he only applied faure a public. This is a fallacy. If The initials of the artist have been himself to the job. He held that all the play is not there all the names ing for some weeks on those who revealed on the canvas, and a coat-the talk about the subtle technique in fame's calendar on both sides of come to scoff and remain to scoff. It was written and acted in dead the footlights will not save us from; of-arms on the "stretcher" at the of playwriting was just nonsense.
disaster. In fact, they may aggra-paganda for the Boy Scout spirit. seriousness as a species of pro- Conrad's Mistake Lack of the picture. Neither has
He was wrong. yet been identified, though prob
Playwriting levate the calamity.
It was then "discovered" by ably photograph may, help in de- not only an extremely worrying and
The chief difficulty the novelist kind of thing that Sunday Play uncertain way of making money,
Lord Berners as being just the| ciphering these. identified with any portrait pain-literary expression. The dramatist characterisation. It is comparative-laborate archness for years, ・・・ The artist's Initials cannot be put the most difficult of all forms of dramatist finds is in establishing Societies have been giving with
A Hard Task
to be successful must know and mustly easy to define a personage in des--
Mr. Whymper, it seems, has con-practise the arts of suppression and cription. To make the same person now like a club, to which the
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crest.
Equity Insists On "Closed Shop".
MANAGERS' TERMS REJECTED
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THE EDWARDIANS LIKED HIM
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a society madcap doomed to pre- mature death, gave a performance that won the highest praise,
no use in English heraldry. Crom-his characters in novel form may/machinery. A playwright has to rely humorous, Actually, except for well, apparently, used no family come easily to his pen. He will find upon the gestures or facial play of the intellectuals, the fun palls
playwriting worthy of the name a the actors and upon an avoidance of after une act, and the audience First Night Enthusiasm vastly different affair. It calla for the underline for which the novel only makes one good joke. a compression, & concentration of a does not make much call. hundred times more force than that
There are always exceptions. Buting, he asks for "Her Grace the When one character is telephon- the novelist who wishes to become a Duchess-und-turns away to talk ACTORS' RIGHT TO necessary in a novel dealing with the
Abrilliant-Arst-night-audience successful man of the theatre must to a friend, leaving the receiver attended the premiere here of a STRIKE
The novelist can do as he pleases learn to forget his original technique on the table. Further dialogue is new play, "Dark Victory," in which with his characters. He can make and start afresh. If he does not he drowned nightly by a chorus of Tallulah Bankhead, in the role of them appear in whatever form it pleases him to create them. He Icommands them to behave just as The wishes them to. He provides of the most improbable happenings, lengthy and convincing explanations
can underline the psychological British Equity, the actors' trade significance of trifies and can carry union, has reiterated its adherence off by literary ebullience prepos- to the "closed shop" principle, and terous situations. has decided to negotiate, with in- The dramatist, on the other hand, dividual theatre managers on the is always in the hands of his actors,
The late Mr. Charles Conder, an subject.
his producer, his manager, or all of exhibition of whose works is now
The last resting-place of Delius, ***This decision of the Council of them put together. He must not on view at the Beaux Arts Gallery, the great modern composer, who Equity was approved by a large create too vividly, but allow for was greatly admired by the Eddied in France last June, waS The operation successfully com- moeting of members following the alterations, adaptations, expansions wardians. His delicately painted chosen last month by his widow. pleted, she falls in love with a doc- refusal of the Society of West and contractions rendered necessary silk fans fetched £50 apiece.
It is a spot in the heart of ty- tor only to discover she has only End Theatre Managers to incor-by the physical media through which He is often claimed as an Aus Įpically English countryside, porate the "closed shop" principle he has on the stage to work.
where, in accordance with his Inst
six months to Desperate she
yard of the fourteenth-century living abandons them to marry wishes, "the winds are warm and returns to her wild companions, the sun is friendly in the grave but after three months of riotous
parish church of Limpsfeld, Sur her doctor, who in the meantime ¡rey.
has retired to the peace of his na- Mme. Dellus, the widow of the tive Vermont mountains. blind and paralysed genius, had already decided on the church- The last scene shows her brave- "It Happened to Adam," the yard, and drove from London to ly speeding her husband on an farce produced at the Duke of choose the exact spot.
in, the proposed contract governing He must learn in the theatre born in London, but emigrated to tralian artist. Actually he was conditions of employment, which is brevity that in a novel would be join an uncle in New South Wales ander discussion.
fatal. He must allow the imagina-as a boy. Suggestions made in some quat- tion to have wider scope. He must ters that the actors intended to en- learn never to say the same thing force their point by strike action twice. His people must not repeat were emphatically denied by Mr. themselves or the situation except, Godfrey Tearle, the chairman. as in "Ten Minute Albi," with
"I understand that in one West-
been put to the members of the
end theatre a questionnaire has engineering a strike."
FARCE'S SHORT RUN
Widow Chooses A Surrey Grave
The play, mounted by Robert Jones, opens in the consulting rooms of a famous surgeon. Judith Traherne -Miss Bankhead jhard-drinking heiress, is told she has a brain tumour requiring an immediate operation.
emergency sick call, deliberately
The right to strike, continued York's Theatre last month. was "It is just the spot that he ask concealing the fact that her own company, asking what their attitude Mr. Tearle, was a weapon that withdrawn after three performan-ed for," she said, "I shall bring death is merely a matter of a few would be if a strike were called," must not be given up, but he pray-cos. Arrangements
are
said Mr. Tearle. "Let me say ed that they might never have to made to produce it at that there has been no intention of use it.
theatre
being him over from hla temporary grave hours. Miss Bankhead told another at Grez-sur-Loing next spring- nie that she hoped to brin the
the season that he loved so much play to London.
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