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THE ACADEMY'S SHARP
BREAK WITH TRADITION
This year's Royal Academy, more by making no attempt to [of vitality, in the present show the 178th, overflows into the dictate to them, and it is to be by sending the full quota of courtyard of Burlington House. regrotted that Dame Laura canvases permitted entry with- There the huge model of Knight, in "Nuremberg"-the out challenge. This too often Maurice Lambert'a equestrian picture' shs, visited the trial to crowds out the chances of now statue of King George V. ob-raint has not used something talent with weaker and weaker scures from the entering visitor of the same economy of senti-repetitions of what is virtual. Drury's slighter but moro vivid ment. It is a remarkable pic-ly the same picture.. effigy
Reynolds. Sir ture, sure to halt all visitors, The tried public favourites Joshua's cellpae is symbolic of and, the purely graphic ability either provide variety or ap-
that sharply exhibition
proach with unexhausted fresh- marks the break with much an-
By T. W. EARP
mesa the subjects in which they clent custom.
Daily Telegraph Art Critic specialise. Thus the President, The picture of topical in-
Sir Alfred J. Munnings, pours terest has almost disappeared. in the portrayal of the two rows
vigour into his characteristic The Academician is no longer of war criminals in the dock "Going to the Start" and "After a pictorial annalist, and there
the Race.." In "The Old Sand cannot be denied. Their men- is little that reflects the emer-tality is conveyed with a ruth-the practises a vibrant sun- gence from world-war. The less force that yet escapes cari-lit impressionism, and catches ceremonial portrait is a rarity cature. But the self-sufficing the spirit of the season in "Win- and the problem picture is ex- tinet. But most to be noted is the absence of # dominant academic style. The hanging committee has been forced to win its effects from discord,
card
or-
realism suddenly switches to lurid allegory in a background of war atrocities, and the work
crumbles away, both as com- human sympathy in "Among
position and statement.
Like these "Pictures
of the
Her
water-coloura. "In
Spen-
nol.
strikingly interested in statistic products of a less spacious age and spirited pastel of Prince masters of a single subject, or
of relative calonfic values. He is it echoes with
resounding
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fact that he is to get less rice, and undoubtedly he will feel it as a heavy sacrifice. The situation
no
tradition.
blanks
emotions
samenesa
A tour de force as a drawing, inevalism, and it gives a bird's-eye view of the stiffer rendering of Mr. Chur-adopt one is not the best way
City
of London. chill's presence at "A Sheriff's of becoming.
distinct and in- war-scarred
dividual. buildings and Lunch.
Gerald Showing only
Augustus John and
At the old Academies, within of desolation, it Is eloquent by the very fact of its Brockhurst, two sure magnets their various sections from the an im- objective accuracy and minute of attraction, do not show this Sublime downwards,
of detall- chart of year. On the other hand, there posed
of handling neas
are Academicians who contri-ended In monotony. Now there tragedy and fortitude.
the bute to the disappointing lach is the risk of that result from It moves the
over-cultivation of independ- ence, from the lack of common Arst principles, it is alluring in the present show to seek the items that manage to be ori ginal without being strained. A. Daintrey's "Surrey," R. Guth- rie's "The Old Lady," H. M. Carr's "Mrs. Tom Davies" and A J. R. Spear's "Riverside! might be submitted as examples.-
The Golden Mean
What Will You Do With Your Gratuity?
ter on Exmoor."
Dame Laura Knight displays n happiness of colour and of The population of Hong Kong
the Hop Vines" and "The Sick is being called upon once again to
Gipay,"
extraordinary accept with a good grace a fur- In this respect a Chantrey Year," some portraiture stands technical prowess la asserted in ther cut in the official ration of Bequest purchase has enabled out owing to an interest more the intricacy of the two large
general than that of painting Factory: Steel It is, of course, expecting it to achieved a dramatic stroke to much to assume that they will by placing in the coveted cognione. As a painting, the por- Visual Inspection."
a Bearing and Oil" and
do so.
The cut now to be en- of vantage in the large Third trait of the Queen, by James
Gallery a superb Millais, of the Gunn, does not
George Belcher, refusing to forced brings the daily quota later vintage With
count among he pigeon-holed na a painter Hearts
hia succeERVE." It makes—IT down to a quarter of a catty, are Trumps" the great Victor-
roverts to of Cockhey types,, be praiseworthy attempt to just sufficient perhaps for one ian P.R.A, painted the "Picture natural, but so much attention licately wrought still-lifes and "straight" portraits and de- moderate meal, and no glossing of the Year" for 1946.
has been given to the mere im- will alter the fact that this is a The three young crinolined
Charles flower-pieces. and the itation of the dress magnificently life-
one would celayli, whom serious deprivation. In the realm beauties,
jewels that actual portraiture have change, shows two of his are seated at of vitamins and calories, the de-sized,
and expression hardly tell at
typical old men in musty in- cision to increase simultaneously against a background of Chi- all.
nese screen and itoral profu- the flour ration means that from ion. In its magisterial
The smiling bronze head by teriors, and a marvellous array of curios in "Grandfather's and the viewpoint of nutrition, adeganisation the work is ene et Sir W. Reid Dick has much morn
Grandmother's Treasures." quate compensation is provided, the inst examples of the acade-life. The other Royal portrait
Yet, although there are paint- is A. K. Lawrence's charming: but the Chinese resident is nothic grand manner; amid the
ers who can become auccessful
Michael of Kent..
stick to a restricted method of Men And Occasions
treatment, it is. a pity that Mr. Attlee, looking up from several of the recently elected The War-Scarred City
his writing table, is painted by progressive Associates are al- G.. Harcourt; and Field-ready starting to limit their A complete contrast in appeal,
Lo Bas would be better appreciated, if and one of the few exhibits of Marshal Viscount Montgomery range. Does not E,
tire Cecil and one of his canaries, by J. himself
of restaurant significance, historical more gladly accepted, if it Brown's A Tribute to London" Worsley. Two public occasions scenes, well though he paints
commemorated in were possible to show that the unexpectedly brings poignant are
Rthem, S. Spurrier of comic Vic- further slashing of Hong Kong's interest into the year's archi-Eurich's "Royal Visit to Eton."torians and J. Fitton of the with an agreeable tinge of med-colour red? A mannerism fa not allocation had become imperative tectural section.
F. W.. Elwell's the same as n style, and to in order that available surpluses elsewhere might be used for the rescue of starving people. The public must, by now, have suf- ficiently comprehended the gen- eral gravity of the cereal short- age throughout the world to have knuckled down, grumbling per- haps, but still resigned, in the knowledge that the cut was un-: avoidable. The Government's] statement, of course, reveals that NOTICE IS
from the standpoint of the Hong'
dinary General GIVEN that the Twelfth Or Kong Administration there was Meeting or and is absolutely no chvice. If Shareholders will be held at the the Combined Food Board has Registered Office of the Com adopted a policy which cuts half pany, King's Theatre Building, the Colony's real-requirements by 6th floor, on WEDNESDAY, a further forty per cent, only one the 29TH DAY OF MAY, 1946, course is open, to eke out the de at 12 o'clock to
Thousands of men and women their gratuity they have had receive the Directors' Report and Accounts
pleted allocation as fairly as posare coming out of the Forces time to get to know some of
The quest for the academic as at 31st December, 1941 and sible. It is, however, to be hoped every month, and 57 days after the problems of spending money 31st December, 1945 to elect that no effort will be spared to their "demob" they receive their in Britain, and also some of golden mean is not so easy. In What the restrictions which prevent portraiture its graph could lis Directors and Auditors and to secure modification of what is in gratuity and final pay.
"Lawence transact such other business us fact a raw deal. An approach is happening to that money them spending money, except in between H. Lamb's
Haward, Esq.," with its 601181- THE PRAYA, WEST POINT, may be properly transacted at has already been made to the when it is received? Before given: cir
One thing is certainly true: tive reading of character, and an Ordinary General Meeting Colonial Office, both from Hong going more fully into that
of thousands
the more detached precision of of the Company.
H. Knight's "T. Kingdom, Kong, and Singapore, which is question let me say that I could hundreds AND NOTICE IS FURTHER similarly hard hit, to press home see no reason at first why the pounds of gratuity money is go
ex-Serviceman or woman shoulding into the homes of returned Esq.": aud in landscape,
A friend in tween the quiet naturalism of that the the plain facts.
have to wait that eight weeks men and women.
B. Priestman's "The Watering Register and Transfer Books of possibility that the British Gov- for the money; those of you the trade told me that dockets Place" and the tender impres- the Company will be closed ernment's efforts to increase the who still have to come out may for furiture, bedding, curtains, sionism of Sir W. H. Russell's from the 23rd to the 29th day amount of rice, available from probably feel the same.
etc., which are available for The Boat Yard: Refitting." of May 1940 both days Bangkok will succeed to the ex- But now I think differently those wanting to set up home
There is plenty of latitudo inclusive.
between these tentatively sug tent that, before the three-monthis' and I even wonder if the are being used very freely.
Those who have Ideas of set-gested boundaries. Perhaps, on period is up, we may be in a posi-period of waiting is not too
The man or woman ting up in business on their own the whole, it could be said that tion to cock a snoot at the Com- shart. bined Food Board's decree that coming out of the Forces re-when they come out have pro- the weight of authority in the we cannot go outside South-East ceives pay for a certain period. bably had warnings about the Academy rests today whore tho Asia's sources of supply to meet and I have found that most of pitfalls to be encountered, about New English Art Club rested
are ready to before the them, where they have the the people who
post-impressionist out of their Hong Kong's essential needs. chance, are getting back to take the money
xhibition exploded in 1910. Unsatisfactory 13 things are, their old jobs before that, so hands and leave them with m
Yet, as happens each spring 22nd May, 1910, between
therefore, it might be wrong their income is not affected. thing tangible. It may be you
at Burlington House, oddities 10.00 3.31. and Noon, and between 2.00 pm, and 4.00 p.m. AND LAND INVESTMENT swing too heavily to extremes of But the chief reason for sup will laugh at the idea, but Scot get past the hanging committee. Yard has nevertheless They may be indicated in ques- pessimism. As long as there is porting the delay in paying out land assurance that Government is not the gratuities is that a man or thought fit to set up a branch tion form-Which exhibit re- a Picasso? Which Is I taking lying down the Combined woman must have time to get to look after the Serviceman's sembles
nearest to surrealism? Which Food Board's apparently light back into the routine of civilian interests.
Not every business is suitable contains a blue ghost? hearted disposal of the problem, life. NOTICE IS HEREBY
Мел and women who have for the returned man or woman, for thore are many that are, of the country GIVEN that an Extraordinary the public will survey its deplet
been out A. E. B. de SOUSA,
General Auctioneer.
Meeting of China ed rice-bowl in somewhat better some years know little about and there are various organisa- Entertainment and Land In-heart.
the conditions of trade, or of tions connected with these trades Hong Kong, 21st May, 1946.
vestment Company, Limited will
the values of post-war articles, willing and ready to give the be held at the registered office HALF A MILLION
or of the shopping restrictions returned man advice and help. of the Company, King's Theatre
with which the civilri has had discussed the matter with MEN'S SECOND-HAND Building, 6th Floor, Victoria
in contend throughout the war. an cfticlat of the British Legion in the Colony of Hong Kong, on
t has been my good fortune to fand he told me that dozens of U.S. troops to Palestine to pro- JACKETS and TROUSERS
passed through his suitable for. Hongkong trado Wednesday the Twelfth day of
at FOUR SHILLINGS each.
Thousands shipped to Middle East.
The Undersigned has received instructions from the Custodian of Property to sell by Public
Auction
on THURSDAY, the 23rd May, 1946, commencing at 10.30 am..
at the premises of
GODOWNS 39/10,
CHINA PROVIDENT
31 LOTS OF MISCELLANEOUS GOODS,
comprising:-
Mineral Ore,
Lead Scrap,
Cassin,
Lead Powder,
Hessian Cloth,
Wooden Teapoys,
Match Labels, Fibre Boards, Rattan Ware, Etc., Etc., Etc.
The above Premises will be open to inspection on 21st and
The Auction is subject to the conditions of Sale published in the 9th March, 1946, issue of the Gazette,
HEREBY
GIVEN
George Y, K. Sun,
Secretary. Hong Kong, 18th May, 1946.
CHINA ENTERTAINMENT
COMPANY LIMITED.
June 1946 at 12 o'clock `noon when the subjoined resolution will." be proposed as a special resolution.
There is, too, a
DOMINIONS CONFERENCE
(By B. C. Dunthorne) ́ ́
of
POOR OLD ALBION
Washington. May 21. Rejection of any effort to sand.
returned men and women who hands all anxious to start in aident Truman Monday by the. London, May 20.
Political Action Committee. TheUnder Secretary far have spent some years oversous, business on their own.
Referring apparently_ta Bixi India, Mr. Arthur Henderson, Bome of them in areas where With the help of txado for- attended today's resumed con- they have had to put their ganisations and the resources of Attlee's statement that Britain Quick shipment of prossed That Articlo 71 of the ference of British and Domin-money to one side because there the Legion as many as possible wanted United States assistance
Association be on Prime Ministers.
was nothing on which to spond have been given a start, and so in carrying out the Anglo-Ameri- recommenJa- bales of opo thousand assorted Articles of garments.
altored by substituting the It was the first meeting at it, and others from areas where far there has not been a single can commission's
8. power was put into sound steady we are you to roject: this Establish confirmed credits Agures "$1,200.00 to $2,400.00 tonded by the Canadian Prime their purchasing power was fallure. The men have been tions, the Political Action Cam
mitten wrote to the president: in payment of any quantity on for the figures $500.00 to Minister, Mr. Mackenzie King very high.
destardly and callous, russ-of $1,200.00,
The British Foreign Secret All have come home with the businesses. an. Enllah Bank.
ary Mr Ernest Bevin, report: Iden of dolus something to There is not a great deal of British foreign polley, ed fully on the recent foreign erase the memory, as far as is proft in them at the moment ministers conference in Faris possible, of those "wasted Chiefly it is hard work, and a cognition by
it is now expected that the yeara by elther having a Uving, but they are getting the forces in Palestine and then swish r Dominions Conference will endigious binge or putting grounding for the better times Brigade full detained outside the on Thursday. Instead of Friday, their money to some useful pur- that everyone hopes will be country they helped to
Associated Prom! Beuter.
Jeremiasi pose. By the time they receive coming before long,
M. Newman, (Contractors)
Hoap Street Manchester 7. Cable Address: Harbinger
Dated the 18th day of May
1946. DU
George Y K Sun,
Secretary.
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