THE CHINA MAIL,
WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1958.
Mid Week Selection
by Friell
MIKIOFF REJONS
GENERAL
BANISHMENT DECKER
"We should have integrated Malta with Britain long ago, Lennox, then it would only count as onother by-election defeat."
YUGOSLAV CONGRESS
"Sound the alarm if you sight a yacht colled
Shemara!
AGENDA:
"And in place of the Fraternal Delegates" Address we will drink a toast to absent friends.”
ROUND-UP
London Expiaga Barvice
RUSKIN
Art for the artizan's sake.
The
"I find those Russian Guns"
LONDON DRAMAS
RUSKIN wrote of WHISTLER: 'I never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pol of paint in the public's face.......”
AND SO BEGAN
libel
case that rocked the
art world
GEOFFREY THURSBY DOMINATING
I LOOKED through the four-foot telescope across the Red Sea. I could clearly see the sandbagged gun positions, glistening in the sun and cradled in iron-coloured hills which rose back from the coast.
It is the Yemeni coast and the gun positions are
Jungle Snake-Boy May Be Seen On TV Russian-built.
SINGAPORE
Airstrip
I was on neat, tidy, British- tuh a jelly to unicad the arms. TELEV
DELEVIEWENS in Britain will on ser an 18-year-old Malayan run Kumarau Island, which is was a jumble of dots ahead.
bug valled Syed Lirim throw back his matted shoulder-length less than live alles west of the Infe and tame a spitting koller-cobra with one took of his brilliant Yement coast, and I in the first Black Ges. No flute, no music, no waving of bands or chaoting | British reporter to have seen th of words Just one long, staring stare,
positions.
Nine years ago Syed's father, a medicine más, set out for Snake Mountain to orek "Genat una truth,” He took the boy with Jijas.
Syed Stayed in the jungle till his father's death two months oge when be returned to las uncle's hume in a village in Negri Sembilan Central Malaya,
Tefexion began to get compleated Shakey got into the hubit of following Syed as he brought home. the village cows after a day aggrazing.
Stronger still-the snakes were completely durile and sevened fo understand the strange staccatu hisses in which Syed uttered kie commands.
Syed was discovered" by a Malayan film compung on
fucation near his village,
an
He was bround down in Stugrmes and given the heading role
inlay Tarzan film.
Roaming Brith an American TV newsreel in25 heard of him and shut Sevnes of dust-gaked Syed Jaming an 18ft. robra. They asked Syed to take the' to Sinak Mountala. Syvd agreed, but how the plans have struck a man, British troops are sweeding
"The brea for Communist SOFTOÏÍRUS.
This week a Government spokesman said: "I am afraid they will have to wait."
We flew close to the Yemen court as we turned north over Bab Al Mandab (it means, the Gete of Tears) which is the entrance to the Red Sea.
Buildings
We turned away towards Karan Island directly uppo-
Red Sea
Geoffrey Thursby'
Pusztar
seen here
PADEX
WEST ADEN
· PROTECTORATE
Gull of Adea:
to was
Freighters
The
An islander told me: "When the Russians brought their bla just guns lust November they left them for * few days on
the art by coma C
world of 1867 was E strangè puritanical figure--- John Ruskin. In this year he was muude the first Slade Professor of Art at Oxford.
He was
hounted
QUENTIN CREWE
unistaction, Whistler
consumed with curious gulits. in art for ari's sake. Brought up by absurdly alrict paraits-ho had no toys as a. Ruskin
WHISTLER
Art for art's sake.
"The octurne in black
and
gold In મ night plece and represents the Areworks at Gremome."
"Not a view of Cremorne?" asked the Attorney-General.
"If it were called a view of Cremorne, it would certainly bring about nothing but dis- appointment on the part of the beholders. It } եր artistic errangement,"
Stiff price
It was priced at 200 gulneus. "A st:Msh price," the Attorney General remarked. "Can you tell me how long i look. to knock off the nocture?”
Whistler: "1 knocked it of possibly in a couple of days."
"I am Attorney Generol: afraid um lag a term that applies rather to my own work".
to
Whistler: "Oh, no, permit me, I am too greatly flattered belleved think that you apply to a work of mine ony term that you are In the habit of using about your Let us say, then, how
was a reformer, He own.
#t
boy but one box of simple belleved that the artist's role long did I take to-how Jong bricks, and the pictures in his Was to guide the artisan. He did take to knock of (1 think home were turned face to the believed ki vegetable dyes and that is it)do knock off that wall on Sundays he even felt homespun cloths. He encouraged Nocturne. As well as I remem his Interest in art was almost workmen to carve gargoyles of ber, about day. I may 'sinful ci account of its intensity, their own design on the Oxford have put a few more touches to
Museum.
It the next day If the painting After suffering from consump
were not dry. I had beller say. flon at Oxford, Ruskin travelled
Whistler despised the working then, that I was two days at round Europe and studied art.
work on it." Ron and would not evin let u By 1887 he Was the most painter inlx paints for his walls. respected authority in the coun- He mixed and let them put it
try.
}
en.
Such were the protagonists in a lawsult which was to grip the attention of late Victorian Lon
For the next 10 years of his professionship his reputation to Krew. But in 1877 he was commit adramalic error. of doners. judgment. From that time on his reputation would never be the sume aguin
of two days is that the for
Attorney-General: "The labour",
which you ask two hundred guiness"
Whistler: "No, I nàk it for the
knowledge of a lifetime,"
The Nocturne in Blue and One afternoon Ruskin strolled Silver
Wog then produced, Into the Grosvenor Gellery. It knocked about a bit as it was was a dow gallery, modern sad handed across
for the court Any evening in the seventies fashionable, which was holding Whistler to identify, it you had walked along the its first exhibition. river in Chelsea you might have come upon an extravagant little man peering about him eagerly.
Two opposites
"Is that your work, Mr been Whistler?" he was asked,
At first he may have pleased with what he saw. There
"Well it was, but if it goes on was The Days of Creation by his favourite Burne-Jones, The Bath much longer like that I don't by Alma Tadema, G. F. Watts think it will be." ivad sen! C230 of his gloomy You might have heard bin Allegorical paintings Love And white about this neeturné of
Baron Huddleston questioned chuttering to his companion, Death, and Milluis was repre- Battersea Bridge. teasing, joking and making sented by some portrails. (Those
last may have pleased less, for Huddleston: "What part of Millois had run off with Ruskin's the picture is Battersea Bridge? James McNeill Whistler was wife some 20
before). (Laughter.) Do you yours on artist, American by birth. But it
say that After training in Paris, he had academie and to our eyes today of the bridge?"
honest stult, this is a correct representation
15 the mulburities allow it, folevit worn will also see closeupes: They are part of a build-up Alle Salif. Behind the town I of Malaya's fabulous Snake Mountain-a jungle-ciud, peak In of planes, tanks, und guns lo could
see an airstrip in the Central Malaya whack, is the home of venomous hamadryada and the Red Sea kingdom of Yemen distance. There were planes on winr: Syed has spent half his life.
threatening Britain in Aden the ground, too far away ง and the Aden Protectorates. Identity
To see the gun positions and We landed
Kameran's 10 the Red Sea for a swim, newly built Russian jetty at sandy airstrip, where a sign on They wear white shorts." Safif, opposte Kamuran Island, a blackbourd sald, among other They didn't come the day 1 † Bow from Aden,
things: -
walehed. "Established 1882, Your qugaTo the right of the jetty tions answered. Land of two Russian lorries were parked by moons Kamar: mount Kamnran; the shore,
A lifting crane two moons.
"Standing on highest paint left of the lorries. A rand rant observe, moon proper rising from the jelly over the hills. enst and moon reflected I sen presumably 10 the alrfeld In west,
behind the town. Below, to the right white dots "Yes, it roing sometimes. high on
"Yes, plenty of u Bat-topped ridge
water, 200 dominated the entrance to the brackish wells, ited Se
"We drink distilled water and Through binoculars the prefer It. became
"Europeans? new buildings, one at
Normally them on a rocky point low down one, gulle normal; Lonely? No. and near jite shore in the shap: “COMITEE DUY NG MMS. THE SHOPE of a seven. Building experts "Treen? low many? Both
"Two hundred workmen push- know they are the type to house are flourishing, thank you." coustal gun.
The sign was put up on the
ed and heaved all day to get one A landing
ground had been orders of a former British Com- of the guns up the hill to the
the cleared away to the right where metapress
island sandbagged position to the left of the jetty. In some places the hills cume down to a toner Major David Thompson, who in that hill is almost straight up. FORMER Fasc'st
iired of isler, Edvige indy stretch before the shore. years Musulin'
come to London to paint, bo- I was told of the day a British Mussollul, wants Italian load authorities to investigate the looked as if the ground had answering visitors' questions.
leving that here wOR Irigate salled on a courtesy visit
a vast, disappearance in 1943 of her brother's wilt and political testamentbeen rolled in places.
rich, riddle
tu class anxious lo Kamaran while the Russian Edvinge's lawyer, Petro Pis,nti, a former Minister of Justier. We dow on towards Hodeida,
buy pictures and ready to pay rims were being unloaded, sary the document was undoubtedly in Mussolini's desk in his keephig close to the roust. The. I had come to ge to the Officers were
high prices for them. watching with Lendquarters at the Palazzo Venezia when the anti-Fascist 2lls, partly in shadow, rose back highest point of the island. not binoculars.
Ruskin, and Whistler. Bght heat haze from the to see the two moons, but to
But among These
them authorities arrested him in 1943.
were six Suddenly there was a wild two men could not look for Itussian guns pointing scramble from On August 31, 1943, Mussolini wrote to Edvige saying that in rust-coloured shore.
been Intruders, Six daubs of colour the Russian more directly opposed
that his desk "there is in my own hand a will dated May 1913; In it
were a dozen ishing out over the Red Sea,
one by
Impertinent fellow freighters. Tanks were I say I was bom a Culkolle arid intend to remalu one until my bouts with tall masts in Hodelda Cazelle scompered away in a dangling over the side and the lives,
left another in every aspect of their Whistler. death,"
harbour, und two small cloud of dust as we drove to Yement Itegular Army sent to
Ruskin rushed home and at-
Huddleston: "Is that a barge Mussolini, who was later shot by Comunuaist partisans alfreighters. The freighters flew the high point of the island stand by during the unloading But if was on the thing each tacked, Dongo on the shores of Lake Como, wkled: "I do not wish for no fings.
There were wild donkeys, tou.
in his magazine; Fots beneath?" made for the hills. In the centre of the town funeral honours of any type,"
held most important to him that Clavigers, the lulquities of the д With the telescope I found Crown Prince Badr, who was they were to battle so dramatic- Grosvenor Gallery.
Whistler: "Yes. I am very Pistati lays that had the document been found it would have white bullding stood out; the the Russlan-bullt wharf, then watching the unloading, began ally-art.
Sir Coutts almest crisly been plead in the State archives,
hotise of Yemeni Crown Pringe two sandbagged positions, one Jumping up and down in
Lindsay, the owner of the gal- much encouraged at your sering
thal. My whole scheme -“The mafter should be Investigated by the judicial authorities Al Lindr, who signed the arms to the left of the
Jery, was "ot present an amateur, jetty. the white robes and shouting at the For Whistler art was a thing both in art and shopkeeping caly to bring about a and criminal proceedings taken against any persons found to have dial with Hussla,
other to the right.
men stay where they were.
apart. The artist awed nothing He attacked removed and destroyed a document of the greatest importance," The port of Salt, north of An Islander sold: "The They outflanked him.
all the painters harmony of colour." to anyone, a place was says Piseni.
w save only his precious Burne- |Hodeida, where the Russians Ruslans sometimes come down They were travelling fast. cult.vate in kift for his own Jones, Bul he saved for
The verdict Whistler his worst abuse.
Mussolini's Sister Seeks His Will
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'Imposturo'
Whistler. "I did not tend it to be correct portrait of the bridge."
Huddleston: "Are those Ayures
on the top intended for people?" Whistler: "They are just what you like."
nocturne.
Was
certain
"For Mr Whistler's own sake," The Attorney-General then he wrote, "ho less than for the had another go at Whistler. protection of the purchaser, Sir about the Black and Gold Coutts Lindsay ought have admited works into the "Do you think that you could gallery in which the ill-educated make me sve beauty in that conceit of the artist so nearly plcture?"
not to
approached the aspect of wilful "No, it would be impossible to Imposture.
explain to you, I am afraid."
"I have seen and heard much him. The age was against him. The lawyers were agalust 6: Cockney, impudence before Even the judge war against him. now, but never expected to hear But
anyone could see a coxcomb usk 200 gulneas for Whistler had been libelled, finging a pot of paint in the public's face,"
Whistler sued.
Impressiona
of the
that
The jury retired for an hour. What their views were no one
cari know. During the trial one, of them had looked at a Titian
But
The pletures to which Ruskin he was handed and remarked: of Gibraltar, From Dead Man's objected so strongly were the "We have had enough of these Gulch, from Antarctica. from Nocturnes, 86 Whistler called Whistlors." Hawall. In the office is a trunk them, which represented the
But they had listened to the crammed full of "the more artist's two spoonfuls of sugar into wax goes on the air to well-cut
judge's aimming-up! meno intexsting storps."
Thames as he strolled along the it must have seemed to them a
They found for Whistler. from the can marked TEA, play for its own 21st birthday grammed shirts, are the up..
parly: More quick-quick than parent fruits of his empire,
There was the leaves his £1,000,000-a-slow-slow,
Melbourne river la the evenings. the royalties Bro He is a
storm in a teacup, record-brealter as golbird who asked for year strict-tempo empire to rolling in from all over well as record-maker.
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No "Prisoner of Love" for 1,000 con-
They awarded damages up before look after itself for a while, world-26,000 sales came in on band can get near Silvester's victs. There was the
Baron Huddleston and'o special only one farthing, Japan. And on record sales. His Television who wanted to hear "Six Feet Rusku, having succumbed to a Nigerian fury on November 25, 1870. one return from and prepares for the night's the sambas Silvester sent to Dancing Club has run for more of Earth"-"In memory of my brainstorm, could not attend. celebration.
than than 10 years--the longest- dear father who died 10 years
running TV progamme in the ago." + world.
It is 21 years since that famous signature tune, "Dancing
Brazil are selling better imported coal in Nowcastle.
CLUTTERED
which
thic
week
The
COSO
came
What Is Whistler was asked.
For Ruskin all art should be
Sunsot
of
knd
noelum?" Art for net's Bake WAL For all these years, while
'MELODY TELLS'
triumphant but Whistler fnon- On Mr Heart," ushered into
band-leaders have come and there is not broadcasting an endless flood of UTWARDLY,
cially broken. He was declared Kone and music hag
It was an arrangement of lino Silvester uncomplicated melody,
bankrupt and left England. leaped WEEK by much. sign of
form takes his script of world-
and supes through a dozen, crazes, this
colour. Whistler within a year.
With him he rounds as though it hid been prosperity in the Silvester cutit. burly
claimed, and they were in- took his derisory forthing which slow-slow-quick-quick- wide requests to the B.B.C. arcanged by one of the more Alongalde a window
full of slow
maestro with the frante, pronunciation experts. "How
tended to be looked at as such he wore on his watch chain for genteel dowager duchesses. somnolent, Maytale- groomed eugged face of a farmer has do you pronounce this place in
and not for any outside interest. the rest of his life. puppies, the stono staircase stood on the rostrum and pro- Red China?" "How do the Rus-.
art "Rich?" said Silvester. "Am leads to a cluttered office with duced the world's most distinc- sinne say this name?"
But the world of I. rich? Well,
work it none of the close-carpeted tive ballroom noise.
Perhaps the chairman true to nature. But for Whistler undergone a perceptible chanze. out for yourself. Forty thousand opulence
Ruskin's power was, shattered. · you got from the Some say the most monoton- Victor Silvester Entertain- nature "put him out," people have just bought usual Tin Pan Alley brigade.
He gave up his professorship · Slivester ous. Silvester sald: "I had to ments, Ltd., Victor 10in.
Hla
completely L.P.'s
premise stated, and retired almost" Thirty feet below the
Enterprizes, at 276: a time. And we'va
win- make my band sound different. Ballroom sold dow, dowdily fringed with
Ltd., Whistler set out to enjoy him to the peace of the Lake Dis- @ It has been imitated a lot, but Victor Silvester-Oscar Grasso self.
trict. - Theru bo could hovo 27,000,000 recads In our time. London-grimed curtain, is his nobody has quite hit it." Work it out, old boy."
Productions, Lid, hnd the right
natura puru. Each uluht until blue and while mews bo
Now 3,000 requeals como idea when he said: Matixly The Falling Rocket, one of his he dies, the buller come into That night at 10.40 the musle elegantly renovated, expensives every week to Baker Street for tells. People always come back Nocturnes, was brought in up the room and announced, "The. which has scratched, a fortune ly. modernloerh. There, so the beat as stendy as the Rock to melody.” .
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