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ART LOVERS
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Publisher Brought Books In
Reach Of Millions
London, May 8.
Art lovers the world over have lost a friend with the death, during March, of Dr Bela Horovitz, founder and owner of the firm which publishes the famous Phaidon Art books.
These books, in the past. thirty years or so.j have brought within the reach of millions of people the best works of the so-called old Masters and outstanding modern painters.
Thousands would have re- Phaidon press, his Inspiration mained indifferent to, and even; lives on. Under the direction of ignorant of these masterpieces his son-in-law, Mr H. I. Miller. of art but for the inspiration some twenty volumes, including and determination of a man who books on such widely differing succeeded in combining the subjects as Bernini and the Ecoürea, highest standard of production Japanese painter.
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China Mail Special.
1935
Torça fzures-profuced in Carrera marble by the Italian sculptor Tommasi are soon to be dispatched to Buenos Aires—for Inclusion" in a huge memorial being constructed in the Argentine capital in metoory of Mme Evs. Fron. The figures are entitled "The Rights of tha Workers"; "The Conductor" (Prezident Peron, seen here on the left) and "The Reason of My Life (Mme Perap seen here on the right).—Express Photo
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"I Canton.
have been wronged by the Police," he said, When he was remanded, the Samson-like man, with long. curly hair had to be dragged off the cells stil babbling to wildly.
Phone Breakdown A certain amount of in convenience Was caused this in the cross-harbour morning telephone service because of a fault in one of the main cables in Kowloon.
Deserted Village For Yugoslavia
UNDER TRIESTE DEAL
By John Earle
Д
Belgrade, May 8. Shuttered houses, unkept gardens, and general air of abandonment mark the strip of territory overlooking Trieste which Yugoslavia gained from Anglo-American rule under the Trieste Settlement of last October,
Most of the population has left for Italy. They left within four months," "although,, under the Settlement concluded. between Yugoslavia, Italy, the United States and Britain, any resident of the former Trieste Free Territory was allowed the year in which to make his decision..
the
This strip of territory in the "strip" and the border area cludes the rest of a 10-kilometre round this town, formerly in
af (just over 8 miles) long pro- the Yugoslav Zone montory, which from the mill- Trieste Free Territory. tary point of view daminates The Arst local government Trieste -34 mileg away-Its elections in the "strip" пете harbour and all refinery. I held at the end of February, used to have only about 4,000 nearly Ave months
after the inhabitants, and its villages are transfer of sovereignty. not to be found on most maps. Before the elections, the arta
STILL OCCUPIED
was ruled directly from sleepy Venetian style port, which first gained prominence as the. seat of the Yugoslav Military Government for the Yugoslav Zone.
A visit this winter showed that houses
still occupied were in the minority. Such signs of Western Hifa LE advertisements for portable natural gas and Coca-Cola had gone. The latter had riven, place to. Ljubljana beer.
to
Per
this
NOT CONCEALED
this
The foreigner, visiting this newly acquired territory. was struck not only by the exodus of much of the po- pulation but also by the fact
that the Yugoslav authori- fles made no attempt to conceal it.
A telephone company official October had made no differences said that the fault was being to his life. "But if they close the recently, passions attended to and regular traffic border
points crassir g should resume this afternoon.
have done in past years,
6. Time Signa? and Programme
I am a good Summary: 6.03. Children's Half Kour Tse Shun-hing. DPC. 1884 "It proves that presented by Sally Ann (Studio);
said that on April 17 last, he man." With 6.30, Interlude far Music.
He then asked the magistrate saw defendant walking along Cw Grant EBCTS): 0.43. Songs we Remember: 7.13, "Box 200 Bert Centre Street, near Des Voeux to give him a couple of hundred Gillett at the Organ (DB) 7 Road West, carrying a shirt. He dollars so that he could go back
presented
7.59, asked Ho where he had got it, to (Studio); Weather Report: 1. Time Signal and and defendant replied it had The detective The News (London Relay): 8.09, An been given him. Raphael, Leonardi da Vinci, Appeal on Behalf of the Council of then Invited him to go to the
Vas Social Service by Short Botticelli,
G. E. Maren Station for enquiries.. 8.15, (Studio);
Story. Gogh. Rembrandt, the French
First be Ho refused to go. Impressionists, Chinese Paint Durches" by Mrs Gore. Read by Rosemary Richards (Studio); 8.30, Japanese ing, the
on the bead, masters
Edmundo Ros and his Orchestra. A hit the constable
sald will be our death" he sal Piero
della colour print.
Programme
Amerten then when the detective tried to
Sam Chung, 16, unemployed,
In his opinion, fear of being Francesca, Holbein, Uccello. Fra Music (BBCTS): Tim Shandcuff him, he snatched the An Introduction to Elizabethan
Soldier Charged
was changed before T. Creedon cut off from their work was the Angelico,
Vart
Eyck, Paul Theatre (BBCTS): A Discussion be handcuffs and tore the chain.
William Finally H.S. Deighton. Tin-tween
after Cezanne Auguste Rodin
struggle, Gunner East, 20, of 15 Medium at Kowloon this morning with main reason why most people
watch had gone, apart from their 20 toretto, Tilian, Franz Hals, El Empson, Dr. Wilson Kright; 9.30,
prisented and with the help of another Regiment, RA, appeared before stealing a gold wrist "Off the Beaten Track"
feelings woman,litical Greco are only a few whese by Timothy Birch (Studio): 10, detective, he was arrested.
Mr T Creedon at Kowloon this with violence from a
Suet-ching, on Satur-munism. tifles International Cabaret presented by
When defendant was asked to morning charged with assaulting Tang
According to Italian statistics, Denise
10.30, Brabant (Stadio);
Temple Street, over 3,000 people have, since Core Into the parlours from cross-examine, he began to talk a woman, Cheng Yuk-lin, 26, day at the junction of Saigon
Ireland (BBCTS 10.59, incessantly. He showed the court of 38 Baker Street, second floor Street and
last October, gone to live in weather Report: 11. Tune Signal. 1 busterdy tattooed on his ann. on Saturday. Defendant pleaded Kowloom. Radio News Reel London Relay); "This was done during the rot guilty and
Accused was remanded
was remanded till Trieste and other parts of Italy 11.15. Goodnight Music: God Save
out of a population of 7,000 from Thursday for further hearing. the Queen: 11.30. Close Down, Japanese occupation," ke said, for one day.
have appeared as names of Phaidon Art books.
There have, too, been other works, some large, some small, which are invaluable additions to the library shelves of every works such as Berenson's "Italian Painters of the Renaissance," Burck-
Civilisation hardt's
of the Renaissance in Italy." Waetzoldt's and his Times," Woelf- "Duerer and Din's "Classic Art"
as well as Professor
art lover standard
a history of art by
EH. Gombrich published un the title The Story of Euch one is profusely illustrated with the same high quality re- productions, in black and white characterise the ur in colour, ás volumes, dedicated to the works of individual artists.
For those intransigeants whe see the history
painting almost
divided into
clear-cut,
self-contained, periods having
little relation
the one to the other there is an enlightening and original little
work which indeed, proves that there is, "nothing new under the sun." Under
title
Towards Modern Art or King Solomon's Picture
by
the
Bock," Dr Ludwig Goldscheider has published side side, in pairs, some hundred paintings, drawings and sculp-
from tures taken
the past- sometimes even Antiquityend the present. The
similarity every case is startling to anyone who has never thought of such things.
in
Dr Horovitz accomplished his work not without difficulties. He founded the Phaidon press in Vienna in 1923, but in 1938. inte when the Nazis marched Austria, he moved to England, Came the war and all the ob- stacles to publishing which that raised. But the work went on. during war years at Oxford and since the war in London.
IN PROGRESS
Dr Horovitz' outstanding talents as a publisher were recognised when he was en- trusted with the publication of the Catalogue of Draw- ings in
in the Collection of Her In the Majesty the Queen Royal LibraTÍ at. Windsor
Castle-3 work
still in progress.
which
Eg
•
Another work of. great
of field characters, scholarship in course of publica
voice, habits, slitzis,
tion is The Complete Draw-
etc. The illustrations, igs of Rembrandi"
except for three plates
of photographs, are all
by Cdr. A. M. Hughes,
ini six
volumes by Dr Otto Benesch.
While Dr Horowitz's death of necessity marks the end of 4
and include four attrac- Phase in the history of the
Live plates of the heads
of 42 species and many
hare
useful drawings in the text.
The writer of this review would “benefited · greatly from this book when station- ed in Hong Kong, some years ago. Even now, on referring to it, some 40. unfamiliar species on which notes were made, at the time have nimost all proved easily Identifiable. — D. W ̧ ̈ ̈S.
organ of the British Ornithologiata" Valon, British Museum).
5. C. M. POST:
KOWLOON
HONG KONGO
Norther
of
Latin
MANDRAKE THE
GIDDAP BOY!
NANCY
LOOK AT
SLUGGO SHOWING OFF
FOR THAT BLONDE VAMP
FERDINAND
⇓ "
MAGICIAN.
HE'S RIDING --A HORSE- FROM THE PAINTING-BUT
HE CAN'T-
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AIRPORT TOMORROW!
GOOD ENOUGH! WHERE DOI BUNK,
SHAPE
HE--HE IS! SHOOT HIM
ANYHOW
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis
--AND THEY SEEM TO LEAD INTO THE PAINTED LAKE!
LET'S HAVE A SWIM,BOY?
-EANIE
Lyme in
IN THE JEEF! IT'S NOT
I SEE WHAT
| YOU MEANU PALI
| SO BADAI IN FACT, ONCE
I GET THE FLAPS. DOWN, YOU MIGH EVEN ENJOY IT!
By Ernie Bushmiller
By Mik
3.10.
By Frank Robbins
One villager, who went work every day in the Trieste
EO oil refinery, said that cent of his locality had left
He Was
used to changes, having been born when was dil Austro-Hungary,
It might have been expected the transfer of sovereignty last that in this area, where, until and tempers heyran high the Yugoslay authori- as the tes
that
ties might try to prevent or at least discourage foreigners from
be. steing what could scarcely to Yugoslavia's advantage.
Instead, Government leaders,
the including
President of Croatia, Mr Vladimir Bakaric, freely discussed with me state of affairs on the frontier.
Along the frontier itself there was no sign of tension. Yugo- was weeks alay police said that all quiet and had been for and evinced no interest in the movement of obvious foreigner. the newly acquired
·TALK
ABOUT
MAGIC!
Have you seen
about
Com-
Admiral
AIR CONDITIONERS ..
AND REFRIGERATORS
*THE JAM THAT MADE TASMANIA FAMOUS”
DAIRY ROX
MILK CHOCOLATE
This situation
Can
Migue
the
ages, pro-Tito political slogans and signs, once very common in the frontier area, were scarcely to be seen.
. That does not mean that there is no friction. Dr Carlo Albertario, Italy's 33-year-old Consul at, Capodistria, has re
complained several times
to the Yugoslav authorities about difficulties which he alleged they were making in giving permits to local Italians to visit Italy.
He also maintained that some families, w
Italy,
to
wishing to move had not been allowed," as
guaranteed by the Trieste Settle ment to take with them may- able belongings and to sell im- mayable property.
But these complaints' were made at a diplomatic level and attention from the received
authorities. The at mosphere was not to be com pared with the tension of the past, aroused by political de- monstrations; the presence 里 troops along the border, Frontier Incidents and a propaganda war.
ONE RESULT
One result of the drain of Italian inhabitants of this which area, back to Italy, has been going on much longer than since last Octo ber, is to modify gradually ethnic, composition in
of Yugoslavia
S maintain that their
former zone at the Trieste Free Territory had a Slav
all along.
of
Italians claim that at the end
the
war the Yugoslav Zone
was populated by some 56,000 Italians and 14,000 Slavs, mak Ing 70,000 in all,
to the
Italians,
Now, according to
the drain of Italian Inhabitants. has resulted in the Slay popula tion remaining about the game and the Italian population being reduced to approximately 25,000. This Italians assert, still gives thema
majority over Slave China Mail Special
Overstayed Her Time
Falling to comply, with to.. conditions imposed by the In- migration. Office and
In her time in the Colony, Teng Hun, 45, a housewife of 10 York Hood, was fined: 533 by: Mr Hin-shing Load Central
was further onder ed by Mr La to leave the Colony by tomorrow. bfTeng arrived in the Color on "April ə from Mazlla and her stay here was limited to 15 days.
to call at the Imer
and