THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1958,
CHANA London Strengthens Position Ancient Lake In Israel
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MUSICAL
London, Jan. 27.
London's position as the world's greatest
centre for fine art auc tions ie likely
ever
to
ас-
As Art Auction Centre
become stronger than was given for "A View of New In the old days, all the ob- single plece. No one can ex- York" by W. Burgio (£4,400). | jects in a big sale came from} plain why. It is apparently just in 1958,
This came from the Earl of one man. Now 15 or 20 owners) à cruze, like stamp collecting. cording to experts Haddington's collection and contribute to it. Prices have
Sut though theao paper. waterside | trebled and quadrupled since showed New York's here.
crowded with email houses and World War II, whether it is n weights are French, they seil churches, and the Hudson river question of porcelain or pewter, much botter in London than la full of ancient sailing ships.
Parin.
The combined turnover of the two largest rms of the ort dealers, Sotheby's and Christie's,
firearms or silver.
The wonderful and costly ob
the Russian sors, Jeweiler to
in no better in London than anywhere clao. When the King of the Hellenes recently sold 41 animals carved by Faberge in hardstone, he got £10,000 for: them.
The temporary depresion in 1 well over £5,000,000, and Americans send over mich
the London Stock Exchange re- people selling treasures of inter-treasUPER ng a set of paintings cuntly has had no effect. in the fects of verku of Carl Faberge. national importance are Anding by Rowlandson, the
10th cen- antique world, there are always that they get more money forury English artist, Beauvoje tape.
fnenions. At present, the des then In London than they stry or carvings from some part mend is for three French thing I would in New York or Poris. of Africa, more than a cen-
1811: century French furni- There are several reasons for tury America has been buying
ture, Impressionist paintings and this. London 14 mufficiently close up the Ane art of Europe.
glass paperweights, for the principal connoisseurs Though this process still and desters of Europe to reach on, there is also a strong move- here by air overnight_from]ment in the opposite dircello; as Paris. Brussels, Berne, Rome, the present owners of collections Berin Vienna, Austeritam and sell out. Stockholm..
Duty Free
100 years Anything over
free of customs feeters Britain
shaly. Pictures, books and manuscripts, corne in regardless of age. Here, there is no money obtained from auctioning works of art, In the United States, on the other hand, there is a ten per cent Federal Excine
We carry adequate stocks of Samplers witch as Folk "Muniz, lary, ClassicRL), Popular and iriano. We rehend to schools the Cambridge Anüiology
on
Rock
In the 17th and 18th centur- fes. English milords toured Italy, France and Gerniany nequiring pictures, inpestries. furniture and stiver for the adornment of their stately homes. They com-
Appreciated
The furniture has always been highly appreciated. As much as £6,500 was paid in London last year for a black lacquer commode. And for the best old Frenchs furniture, London seems
By SIDNEY TAYLOR
tmee
musters
tax on clocks and watches, gold,missioner furniture by the to have an advantage even over of Krone crown aretion of the pennine, silver, Jade and other greatest cabinet makers of their Paris, Pieces by the famous ut the Eglish Language
Some EuroTM history's "Le Mor D'Annur Mineral carvings.
auctioned in Paris (or Butler's They Way of Ri Flesh pean countries have even higher
| New York) are usually known CAI A
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hns
to the trade and have been Alexandra House, Telephones 50100,
to pay purchase tax. 23806
valued and sold perhaps two or
three times.
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Then, in the 19th and 20th centuries, the Americans, become ing rich, started buying all the best products of the culture of Europe, from jewellery books.
Showplaces
to rare
Refuses To Disappear
HULEH CLINGS TO THE MAP
By ARYE WALLENSTEIN
Hulata, Jan. 27. Lake Huleh stubbornly clings to the map of the Holy Land
Israel. This ancient lake, the smallest of the country's three inland seas, was to have disappeared in November after six years of canal digging and reclamation work intended to turn its bed and the surrounding marshes into rich farmland,
Two doep ernals have been and costs who live on the Hulch cut through the swamp and lake fish continued to float of the There is a ready market in areas to carry the water away receding shoreline. the United States for the heavy into the Jordan river. The out-
When forrential rains came and more omate silver of the fet, blocked for many thousands Victorian period (1837-1901). of years by giant basalt boulders,
in December, it was clear that and the like had been granted a re- older and better silver-Queen has
deepened been
bestan tu Anne and early Georgian, for widened, though, to allow work prieve. The water
119 with proceed instanco-tends to slay here, and to
floating rise again although not to
held former level. in spite of heavy sales here and dredgers, the water was there to the Amerleans, London captive by an
dam Engineers who went out 1 seemingly inex-reinforced by steel girders Investigate remains
haustible storehouse.
artificial
locked together right acTOSS outlet.
STAGE SET
the
set for the inke's
the
reasons
fo
for
Mount
Hermon
:
Jackals, hyenas and wild boar roamed, and where disease was rampint,
For centuries, it looked as though the malaria-Infested swamps were there to stay. But now, although the lake is there for a few more months, the marshes have gone. In their stead. large tracis of reclafined land have already been put to the past agricultural use in year or two.
Altogether, some 11,000 acres
the unexpected Ungering of the There Ja a food American
luke, returned with the report that sediment swept down from market at the moment for arms and armour, especially pistols,
snow-capped As much as £150 is being paid
has clogged the new channels. of marshland have been drain- about 3,500 for a pair of duelling pistols and
Alluvial soil was apparentlyd, out of which the shop price in New York is
tion stirred up by the opening of the ages are already under cultiva- and a further 1,000 acres the dam and the resulting gual Before the rains came. or three times no doubt two
DIO rendy for it. Over half of that. Before World War Ii, in stage was
water. The enlarged outlet has this acreage is today under fod- London, the same pistols would vanishing net.
been partially blocked again. der, malze and surghum, while not have raised more than about !
On the last day of October,
cropa are groundnuts, Here, at Hulata, fishermen other 210.
potatoes, the steel girders were extracted are again putting a new coat of cotton,
sugar beet, with powerful overhead paint on their skiffs, and con-rice and flower bulbs, machinery, manned by workers tinue to take advaninge of the swaying in the seroper of respite taken by their late and granc over perilous, rushing cast their nets in what remains waters.
of their fishing grounds. They
with return
catches record The pent-up water of the lake since the fish are now con- nowed fast into the Jordan. Sald the engineers in charge of centrated in the deep artificial the Hulch reclamation project: channels. "Within a matter of days, 3,000-acre, shallow lake will be
Krieghoff
Attelloneers' commissione fra London are low. They runge from ten to 15 per cent on lot
in London, some of the love- Best French furniture often ap- selling for more than £100. This
pears unexpectedly. Bought by works out at less than half the
Canadians are buying paint- English aristocrats during the commission charged in New
French Revolution, what ex-ings by Cornelius Krieghoff, the York and explains why some of
perts describe as a staggering only good a:tist present to depict the biggest sales in London during the 1957 senson were
amount" is known to be still the Canadian scene during the In the course collections froin America. Sothe
of a hundred hiding in English country houses, early days of last century.
of his paintings have with 3 turnover of years, the westward traffic
When it comes into a London Several ly's,
ron into countless nuction room, It takes
the been in the £1,00 clars and at £3,148,470, estimate that 25 per antiques cent of the things they sold last millions of dollars. But the men dealers by surprise and the bid-Sotheby's one reached £2,100.
who amosed wonderful collec-ding is extremely keen year came from abroad, twenty per ent of them from America.tons In the early 1900's are now
There 13 One of the biggest collections getting ole. Many of the greatest of autograph letters and historiconnoisseurs connoisseurs
nrt
£22,000
Lord Beaverbrook, the news-
no more."
Then
the
came the news that
the lake stubbornly refused to disappear. Although it bad shrunk in size, it was still there desplie all forcersts and plans.
TEMPORARY
DEVELOPMENT
M-
The nature of the rich, peat soll and climatic conditions in the Huleh Valley have couraged the Hulch Develop- ment Authority, concessionaire of the reclamation project, to latinich a series of experiments with now crops unknown other parts of Israel.
in
acre
The gushing now subsided great demand
But the reprieve is only tem- of the lake's water dropped,porary, for next spring the by everywhere for modern French Paper peer and a Canadian, is after a day or two, the level
machines
The Best attempts at rice were clogged channels will be clear- Krieghoff. Another has just agricultural cal documents, formed by the instinct or collectors by the sheer Impressionist paintings, Seurat's among those who have bought a
steading by to follow at a dis-ed and the obstruction removed growing have been promising, cottage been discovered in a
was successful with On Thus, to struggle for survival mint late Andre de Cappet, of New force of their wealth-have given Sickle Minn fetched
last year. The Weinberg colice- in Wales, where it had lain for tance, the receding waters. York is being gradually dis-their priceless treasures to
where tion from Amerien realised more nearly 30 years.
It shows the fringe of the inke, only pools has gained Like Hulch a few rather high yield of six to eight noon on Wednesdays. posed of by Sotheby's at a cries galleries and muscuns,
months to cap many thousands tons of mint per nere, iris and in London than it would have trapper's snow-covered cabin, to and eddies lingered.
gladioli bulbs yielded Somo of sales spread over three years. they will remain for all time.
of years of existence, For the SOUTH CHINA
80,000-120,000 bulbs per The ninth sale, still to be held. But others have died, and their done in New York according to which he is returning in a sleigh MORNING POST and the
One third they people in the trade,
in triumph after a visit to the is likely
Erand heirs, may not feel that to bring the
Intentid were profitably sold in Grologists say that this ta CHINA MAIL, 48 hours
want to keep the collections, of the collection went back
came into being more than Britain, Holland, Finland and before dalo of publication, total to about £250,000.
Fifty-rix lots of paintings, with their big showplaces and the United States, one third to earest big town.
The owner of this picture is a
200,000 years go during great the United States. Special
then the money which is required France, Germany and South
when volcanic Announcements | drawings and sculpture by
upheavals Africa, and the rest stayed int
Some years ago) Woman of 70. and Classified Advertise-Impressionists
to maintain them, und
Altogether, the current year's Post-Im-
sent lava cruptions
snaktog To the son
she was ready to sell it for ten
In the down of a famous col- London.
the Jordan Valley, crops the montas usual.
reclaimed lands pressionists, belonging to
earned already
ац Class paperweights-the best chillings, but no one would offer
49- late Wilhelm Weinberg, of New lector, a racehorse may
Since then, basalt rocks have bave
It is hoped York, brought £320,520. Twelve more than a Rubens. His dau- were made in France between more than five. Its present value
choked the flow of the Jordan, timeted £330,000. River Jakob hter may prefer mink to Ming. 1845 and 1880-re being sold is what anyone in the sale room
whose wators were paintings of the lofe
that the value of next year's Up to cares to offer, China Mal
will be double this Goldschmidt, of New
In the London sale rooms, for fantastic prices. York,
Looking down From has been paid for a Special,
the bottled up in the valley under crops realised £135,700, while works 1957 emphasised that as time £2,700
Bailey bridge across the Jordan the shadow of Mount Hermon. amount. The value of the crops by Mr Paul Berwald, of New passes the world's treasures are
river, one could see swarms of To the north of the lake itself, when York, changed hands at £ 17,190. becoming more and more dis-
black-winged water fowl circling marshes formed where water project is completed The highest price ever paid at persed.
overhead in apparent confusion. buffalo wallowed and papyrus pected an auction for a single print
Their habitat had changed, but thrived, where bulrushes, reeds £1,500,000. It was still there and kingfishers and high grass flourished, and Special.
NEW TERRITORIES
FANLING UN LONG &
SHEUNG SHUI DISTRICTS.
THE
mean
There are far more owners, and each one owns less.
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Anchorage, Jan. 27.
Alaska is to get its first nuclear power plant. It is to be built by the United States Army at Fort Greely, 60 miles south of Fairbanks, on the Alaska Highway, to solve the problem of supplying conventional power to a remble area.
Plans for its construction post at Fort Greely, and will ne have been nnounced by the modelled on the prototype plant al Fort It will already in operation Army authorities here. be used to generate both elec- Delvoir, Virginia. tricity and heat for the military
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ROXY & BROADWAY: "The Enemy Below." Robert Mitchum and Curt Jurgens in a World War II drama.
KING'S & PRINCESS:
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CONFUSION
Italian Feels His Sex Changing
CAN A WOMAN SERVE A MAN'S
PRISON TERM?
Milan, Jan. 27.
Can a woman serve a prison term inflicted
upon a man?
un-
Milan court judges and gaol, and sentenced to pay a fine of authorities may be called soon) 17,000,000 lire ($27,200). to salve that balling legal Corneti pleaded he was problem, involved in Italy's able to pay the heavy fine and Latest apparent case of Ex court authorities converted the change.
punishment iplo
a three-year prison term which he started Silvio Corneli, 24. the father serving early last year, police of n four-year-old daughter,said. anxiously waited in a closely guarded hospital room for tho Cornet soon reported to final verdict of doctors
OG
of a
whether
the
hist
panel gaul doctor and claimed
ho condition had worsened, Medical said Corneti claimed would undergo a surgical | Fources operation which would even-he "just could not bear" living tually turn him into a woman in the men's prison.
But since he was registered as u man, he could not be moved
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