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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 23, 1952.
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SNAPSHOT ‘I threw George Moore ·
GUILD downstairs'
On Purchasing A Camera
ONE of the questions frequently
me "What camera
shall I buy?" And W. hard to answer. Hard to answer for the Lesion that the choice of a came a must depend on the use the buyer plans to to which
(said Miss Walker)
MODERN ENGLISH PAINTERS: Sickorf to Smith, by John Rothenstein, Eyra and Spottiswoode, 25x. 256 pages, 36 platos. NE
сап see how hard it is to write.
When was Augustus
10 about artists.
John bom? It has never been precisely re- corded."
ATHIL WALKER
Be brave.
EORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews the NEW BO
put that camera.
However, certain basic points
When, asked Rothen- should always be considered.
Dosteln, did he paint the Picture sizz, for example.
camera which yields portrait of one of his wish yout
contact print of album size or sons? Nellher John nor his wife, Dorella, Inew. da you want a miniature type:The child looked about from which enlægements are
six in the portrait. When was he born?
a
made? You'll find
from i
you've
choice of negative sizes ranging 5 14 inches up to 4 x
3 box
inches and even larger.
Second, do you wish
"His parents, so enger to help me, looked at each other with abysmal
artist.
away my palette and brushes." A few months later she died. Aged 90.
Orpon, a technically brilliant, went amuent portrait painter,
to depict the 1914-10 war. Hor- rified by what he saw and un- able to put down in paint the searing comment which this ex- perience seemed to demand, the fald. "The whole world's
and took refuge in a despertis
triviality.
S
He would talk of himself "Little Orps" or "Orpsie boy," talk in a rambling staccato,way and get down on all fours and bark. The last months of his We were spent In nursing would home from which ho occasionally Escape to paint.
To most artists there comes a'
10 moment of crisis:
Orpen, the
John, the moment, war; to diving at Tenby. he struck his head on a rock and emerged "genlus" (as legend goes); to Gwen John.
come on the day For M
her father said to her in Paris, "You look like a prostitute in that dress" (copied by the girl. with infinite care from a pic- ture
camera, simple in operation? A not remstance. They could burgh) looked like a bad ng
ACROSS
DOWN-
J Walls (0).
1 Kind of shovel (5).
4 Dovastates (5).
2 Blue (5).
3 Alarm (7).
do
4 Jacket (0)..
Do
5 Lazy (8).
Black suit (0),
7 Stubborn (8).
8 Deluge (5).
9 Powerful (0).
11 Bounty (7).
13 Worried (7).
15 Get the better of (6).
18 Fool (5).
-19 Enlisted (0),
20 Aromu (5).
21 Solllary (8).
10 Dire (8).
12 Naval - rank (7).
13 Lifts (0),
14 Closely cecupiod (8).
18 Drawing-room (5).
17 Rubleund (5).
17
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.--Across; I Epic, 4 Kampari, & Laud, 9 Allo, 19 Portent, 11 Secr, 12 Sole, 14 Enthuse, Cram, 10 Wager, 22 Meddles, 20 Veal, 27 Hide, 28 Saunter, 20 Nonk, 30 Sows, 31 Repents, 32 Endz. Down: 2 Pallo;, 3 Closes, 4 Rupce, 5 Adorna, 0 Pitch, 7 Rends, 12 Scum, 13 Lald, 15 Urge, 16 Earl, 18 Bchest, 20 Averse, 21 Earned, 23, Evade, 24 Dunce, 25 Sires.
-THIS DREAM MEANS:
Tho dream suggests somo feelings of guilt and in- adequacy in
relat women
to
Lo
211
marriage. The The bride
white: you Are covered with mud.
She is white
blame.
YOU WERE TO BE MARRIED AND YOUR BRIDE WAS DRESSED IN WHITE, BUT YOU APPEARED LIKE A TRAMP COVERED:
WITH MUD
solled and disreputable and guilt-ridden.
t
and
less you are
You attempt to wash your gulli away, but only make worse: fire, however, symbolises Bot only a punishing but also a cleansing agent.
arent,
VIGNETTES OF LIFE
(YOU KNOW. YOU..
NEVER HAD ANY
CARD
SENSE
JUST ASQ
BAD
AS
'DRIVIN' A CAR
AAD
CANDIDATE TOR ABOUT A WEEK OF VERY ROUGH GOING AT HOME - WITH ALTERNATE PERKOPS OF DEAD CILENCE AND GALES OF TALK.
CANDIDATE FOR A GOOD TAIL-TANNING, WHEN POP GETS. HOME.
*
CANDIDATE
FOR
IIDIGECTION
WILL BE ROHLE ABOUT SIX-THIRTY
WACK HE'LL FIED ORT THAT
IT'S TOO HOT
TO COOK A BIG MEAL.
and any number of peacocks.
Pryde drumatised his failure, as Orpen was emblitered by his success. Pryde (from Edin ter's idea remember years he kept on an easel"
Carefully
unfinished master to which he never put brush. Latterly, he sponged for drinks, painted only when there
explain
Artists rarely when, and can never
about why. They are vague who
their pictures: cyn- Owns είναι about prices. They vital letters and are apt to "All that matters are my ple- could
masters"----which, however,
scope
Say.
be said of Augustus
wish in your camera? scarcely Tuge me by my works,
John.
folding camera with its handy compactness? The reflex type, in which you see your pleture full
you take it?
Or size before do you wish a miniature camera,
camera? pres camera, o view
Third, and probably important, is how much
you
wish to take pictures you ude all sorts of weather con dillons, action pictures, or other "fast" iensch, shots which call for lentes admitting a great deal of light in a very biet time? This is of major importance since the speed of the lens and panying shutter the chief factor in determining how much the director of the Tale
lery an almost ministerial your camera costs,
serve is advisable. Somebody might ask a supplementary question.
s
accom-
Remeinber. 1oo, even the simplest box cancras turn out dendy snaps Indoors. at night, when couples with handy flash attachment. And any caniera becomes a colour camera when loaded with colour Bim. Only when slides are wanted for projec tien, do you need a specific type, and here a choice of miniature comeras in available.
-John van Guilder
WHILE YOUR BRIDE WAITED YOU WENT FOR A SHOWER - INSTEAD OF WATER, FLAMES POURED FROM THE SHOWER
not by my patter," sold kert, whose paller never ceased. Rothenstein captures 17 of thest elusive birds. icm his blo- aviary, writing on them
of varying graphical essays
́but all brief; cautious quality:
of binme or praise. In Gal-
+
TC-
The aviary contains one eagle (John), one wren (John's sister, Gwen), one took (Prydo)
⚫ January Fombrokeshire.
4. 1878, of Tenby
Perhaps you tend to over-idealise women, to place them on
a pedestal. If you don't dance, you might take it up: if you do,
you, might see more of women In their own homes: among thos who place them on no pedestal.
Candidates
'I COULDN'T GET TICKETS-NOR A RESERVATION SỢI THOUGHT WE COILD GO
E-FOR. A WALI, AID -T-TIEN SIT ON THE
P-P-PORCIE FOR A.....♥
CÁRDIDATE TOR A DOSE OF CHLOROFORM –
CANDIDATE FOR THE OLD HEAVE-10... AND A LONG LECTURE ON THE EVILS
OY "ECONOMY AND THE EASE WITH WHICH HE COULD HAVE LET HER KNOW BEFORE THIS.
AND WHAT'S MORE, YOU BIG, FAT CO- AND-SO, 12
CANDIDATE FOR A GOOD,. STIFF POKE IN THE SMELLER.
an
by Manet).
She replied, "I could never
anything from someone
was no olher way of getting oece of thinking so." To xCm.
the money.
10st
place the rejected
allowance, she posed as an artist's model, the famous and met Rodin, sculptor, who said, "an admire able body."
He said, "I have one foot in the grave and the other on a banana skia": spent the
With Rodin she formed a two years of his life in a ward
passionate friendship. for old men in St. Mary Ab-
He was 00; she
39. From botts Hospital (uckling "weet:
Rothenstein's reticent pages, and reading detective stories,
the most touching in the book, When he
died (1941) his the reader guesses at a life torn friends found that he was three by violence of the love which, years older than he had pre. It gave and demanded from men fended.
and women, at a deeply sub- Elral Walker, also born in missive, yet tyrannical
nature Edinburgh, as grent a success which bored as well as flatter, as Pryde was a fallure, confessed those to whom it clung a ed to Rothenstein she was 88 religious feeling which seems to, when she had led the publie to pass beyond healthy devotion. bolleve she was 82. She was,
In fact, 86.
She was engagingly absorbed
дл aunt
in admiration of her own work. Gwen John became a Romah When
died,
Catholic In
the the
1913, spent widower reproached her for last 25 years of her life living neglecting to send a letter of in a garage at Meudon outside condolence, She wrote, ગ am Peris,
The trees and shrubs were allowed to grow up and very sorry Aunt Maud did not
hide this shock, a horde of cats live to see my Resurrection, as she would have loved it so." were her constant companions..
In her youth she had
o brush
She was censoriously purita- with George Moore: "He was nical: disapproved or the thea in love with me; he tried to get tre and of lipstick,
into my bedroom and I threw self "God's little artist, hor- him down the stair."
"You have the affection of a porcupine," said Moore, conscious of its quills as it rubs against the leg of a child
un
The last words hcard from this
egotist were full of pathos: "A painter must be brave, must never hesitate. Timidity shows at once. I've always been
Her work paintings of nuns, girle, children, cats dwells in the shadow of her flamboyant younger brother Augustus. He. is its passionate if puzzied champion
Gwen John's secluded eccer- fric and self neglectful jre conclu- Rothenstein reached its inevitable formidabic need for the sea, she rushed 10
Bion
In 1939. Feeling a sudden...
Dieppe, collapsed and died in hospital. She had forgotten to take
had ake any, baggage with her remembered to provide for her...
"God's little artist,"
thinks Rothenstein, may prove to be a more considerable pointer than present fame suggests. She had patience as well as violence,
brave but now I have given
BU KEMP STARRETT
-^-1 DON'T-SÉE WHY WE
CAN'T HAVE A TV. SET..... EVERYBODY ELSE HAS ONE....WHY DO WE HAVE
TO GET ALONG WITH
THIS HORSE AND
BUGGY
ENTERTAINMENTS"
CANDIDATE FOR THE BOOBY-HATCH OR THE POKEY (FOR ASSAULT AND BATTERY) TRYING TO LISTEN TO AN INTERESTING POLITICAL DISCUSSION. COFR 19EL BY GENERAL FEATURES
IMWORLD SIGLOTS
CANDIDATE FOR A LONG STRETCH OF POOR HEALTHI .-
"AND DON'T
TORGET, THAT DOLLAR'S GOT TO LAST TIL NEXT WEEK?
CANDIDATE FOR A RETION. TO BACHELORHOOD.
cats.
DE
ADVENTURES IN TWO WORLDS. By A. j, Cronin. Golfance. 161. 288 pages. R CRONIN does more than write novels; he lives them. The Incidents (mainly medical) recounted in his auto- blography may be slices of life; they are certainly slices of ham. Each paragraph seems to end in a shout or a scream; each in- eldent in a moral.
Young doctor awful ex perience: "With a chudder, I became aware that I was lock- ed up with a homicidal lunatic If the place most dangerous, most dreaded in the whole asy- lum, a cœl so isolated, so insu« lated, etc., ole,"
Sull more awful expertence: "Here we were, in the middle of the Arabian Bea, 1,600 pas sengers aboard, no means what- ever of
of vaccinating them, and Emallpox....The most deadly contagion in the whole
dic tionary of disease.
nodules with the the
typical
Fash, cle
Doctor arriving in stricken home: "The boy has diphthe ria. There's only
There's only one thing to do. Operate....Beads of sweat broke out on my brow remembered, Buddenly, McEwen's total words: You will
as
never be a surgeon!"
Grisly-comle, eploude of sup. posed corpso; "I. Uffed the Old
woman'a eyelids. Pin-point puplis; I, took her wrist, held It. Then faint smile came to my face. From my bag. I took a vial of strong spirits of oms monia...."
From such emotional: heights the mind descends uneadily to Dr Cronin's merry adventures as a fashionable doctor in the West End, Inventing, en 'imagi- nary, but profitable disease for the benefit of rich Jady patients:
was,
I assure you, a great rogue at this period.” But there is surely a smillo.of self- forgivences on his tipas ho mys it,
براه
There is also Dr. Cronin and World War His "The mor toy struggle had begun.
and disasters came thick and fast upon us. Then came the bombings, the muGGA MURRÍTÉS, " eta. Phrases
BECs revealing the power of sympathetic Imaginator tion. Dr Cronin was reported us: leaving: Britain for the US on July 29, 1989) next
day.
mstward trip was rather arter In the mintal struggle: Septem- Je 1045..