THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18, 1958.
PEOPLE
in the news
Rita And The King
Rita Nasir, with Camille, youngest of five daughters.
The New Colonel
· "Poople" Special
Bruntingthorpe.
commanding
new
Toficer swept up to the United States Air Force hase here by staff car and announced: "I've never been
colonel before and
it."
I'm
He made stmp inspection of the kitchen und raced to the control tower to radio orders to a pilot about to land.
Then he moved oft swiftly to all out the base's fire brigade
for a full-cule exercise.
Then 31
of
Yemen
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
London.
A Weekly China Mail Feature
A New School Of Chinese Painting?
THERE is a husband
and wife team of Chinese artists in Lon- don whose bold and novel experiments with traditional Chinese brushwork
may mark the beginning of an Expressionist school in Chinese painting.
well
Crities have often deplored the lack of individuality and the tradition of copying old masters found in Chinese art but I came
from wway
the Kensington
charge would never be levelled
them.
THIS is the full story of Rita and the King of los of Mr and Mrs Fet Yemen-different in many respects from Cheng-wa convinced that the Anna and the King of Siam-for unlike school-ai teacher Anna, Rita was taken to the desert harem of King Ahmed H....and four months later she escaped to tell her story to the world.
what I
NOT MATURED
"What we are trying to do is
very experimental and the form
Today "People" publishes in about England and Tell Riu Nastr's account of what thought of the new hospital in at a particular happened in this palace where Telz.
has not yet matured," Mr Fei said. "We are trying to expresS the spirit of what the artist feels moment and so produce a more individual style that Chinese art. We feel with a more Individualistic style people can feel what you are trying to say and what you are Interpret better, Y trying to
n word to describe don't have our style. Maybe you can think
one."
the 8-year-old dig his two The king was
122 Jlways very wives und 200 concubines lived kind to me. He gave me lots of In Arabian Nights splendour, of frukt and money Ler uurd of African Klaves, and " was called to the king five her escape from the slik-drapet er six times. I was always Ju
In the
#tle-known frightened. But we only talked,
CLOTHES capital of Tuiz.
through the
haren.
fit, a Seola girl, and now 25. "saw him almost every day married her husband's Ahmed, a walking in Cardiff when she Moslem was 17. Now she continues:
"We lived happily in England Until I met the Crown Prince of Ul Islam Yernon, Prince Self Badr, at a reception in London,
A JOB
Perhaps Expressionism is not the other women roomed very their work but it is again in a exactly the word to describe of most happy. They suit their time stwing.
all way They had lots of clothes and use to change three o four times a day.
Apt. Expressionism Western art gives first place to the artist's emotional reactions to the world about him. It has 111 many different Is most common
But hey had hardly any occurred
except inquiring periods but it about the king's well-being from at times of social and spiritual
unrest.
conversation
"He offered my husband, who comes from the Yemen, a job in those who had
seen him most Talz as an instructor in electris recently, cal engineering. There would "Whenever I spoke with the be free housing and freeing I asked when I could go back to my husband. He kept Passages for all the family.
"We were flown to Taiz and putting me off. put in a palace guest house. "I got away from the palace
"We had been there two
at last when my three-year-old weeks when King Ahmed first daughter Hallma felt and had to saw me. We were at a sort of go to hospital. I was allowed to
stay with her.
military review,
I saw
The Communist revolution in China may be just the catalyst needed to produce smonk artists the likes of Chinese Munch, Rouault, Soutine and Kokoshka.
ATTENTION
Mr and Mrs Fei Cheng-wu and (above) two of their paintings.
and
become an
But young Fel was adamant.
bn over two continents. Both of them are natives of Klangsu Province, an anou sich in artistie associations.
HARD UP
They met in 1931 when both of them attended the National Central University et Nanking. When war came
they want to Chungking and worked together at the Ching Institute of Fino Art doing research on Chinese art,
When the war ended they were anxious to come to the West to learn nove techniques and assimilate new ideas in art. Eo In 1040 they both came to
· England and spent the next three years studying 02 the Slade School of Art.
In 1947, when they were both very hard up, they gave their Dist joint exhibition in London. It proved to be very successful and they were 50 encouraged that there remained. no further question ta their pursuing okredra In art. They were married in 1953;
But the Fela, co most creative artlets, found that whille they un live for art alone, they carnot ilve by urt alone. Though their exhibitions over the years either singly or jointly, have been most success- ful
and their paintings find ready markets st an average price of between 20 and 50% guineas cach, they have found Itecosary to augment their earnings by designing fabrics— some of which have been used by Dior designing movie costumes, illustrating books, mixi writing on art,
Mr Fol hus recently published
a book entitled "Brush" Drewing-
the Chinese Manner" and
in
both of them have been working on some of the costumes in the furthcoming film vansion "The Wind Cannot Read."
Mra Fel, who paints under brothers
of Chang cogineer. her malderi. name Chien-ying, is fond of strong. bold strokes with a paucity of strokes unfeminine. Mr Fél'e
are gentler and softer. At one time he was fond of detalled work, but his style is at present undergoing change.
details. Her style is decoplively In spite of parental prophecies 40 <f
NO REGRETS
of
Mr Fet hald an exhibition of or 50 of his paintings in ot the Leicester
have
forme the
con- artistic climate genial ord that there is a sufficient interest in Chinese art
cro. to sustain them.
In any case, Mr and Mrs Fei are a hoppy augury of things to come. Their pointings are a A retreat, he took charge of "Next day a shooting brake
ready attracting wide attention ESCAPE PLAN
starvation and worse, he watercolourg the ceremony of lowering the came to the guest house and
art circles and "There three soldiers ordered me 10 Ro
my husband among British
carolled for an art course at the Galleries in Marcir
University al- The Fels colours.
National Central night
for permanent collections.
London "Besides, my maths Nanking he said: with them to the King's palace, and we planned to escape. We many of them have been bought going to make the most of us, it's been a wonderful day. My ave little girls were allowed bribed a man with a covered
An examination of some of
was lousy," he explained. truck to drive Everything a boy could dream to go with me,
us across the their paintings, here reproduced, desert to Aden. It cost us £0 shows the exciting
casier time Mrs Fel had cfeel at a about!
A ROOM
u head.
with her artistic beginnings. As Miending of Western technique
"We are just poor artists, but David from Nine-your-old
a child she had been good with history of The artistic " wore a yashmak over my with Chinese vision "I was given a room in the
her parents and we have no regrets," Mrs Fel Long Lawford, near Rugby, be
was out in by the Fels
But not all the paintings done Fel is the history of so many calligraphy to
teacher alike encouraged her to said. "We are happy to be able came the base's acting unpaidarem. There were lots more face and we left. Taiz at mic-
are experimental, olher artists. When he
to carry on doing what we like Culone) for the day as first prize like it opening on to a ceniral day when nobody
WRX Binder, I
luxuriously the sun. Eight hours later we They also do landscapes mil young his father did not want follow an artistic pursuit,
The present husband and wife to do." into Aden.
the him to be an arlist and refused furnished with
flowers In
-David T, K, Wong silk drapings and deep cushions. The Yenen soldier on the fron-traditional styles, although even to allow him to attend art teaming is the culmination of a "I was very frightened, but er seemed blinded by the there a certain amount of in- school. His father wanted him romance which began 27 yours
(COPYRIGHT RESERVED) to follow the footsteps of his ago and which has been carried nothing happened for several bundle of notes put under his dividualism breaks through.
Then I was told to gel nose,
Hu
to his was tree
word. Colonel
the Davier
Beech, youngest commanding officer in The USAF, put this bomber base through is toughest insper- tion ever one day last week.
He pulled parachute ripeords to see what would happen and sat In The pilot's seat of transport plane.
12
In a safety first competition,
bose
A builder's son once crippled by pollo, David ran the with the authority E
order,
of a signed
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TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD,—A¢ram! 1 Caliph, 6 Scamp, 14 Ford, 10. Rhone, 18 Last, Latho), 11 Allbi, 12 Bentry, Alone, 19 Tar, 20 Fermit, 24 Draite, 25 Ether, 20 Real, 27 Lots, Plan, malted. Mates, 20 Tennis. Dow: Calm,
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days.
a thick carpet, crossed the border
ready to meet the king.
I sat "Since
then the British
on cushions near his throne and authorities have looked after us.
we sipped coffee and lake They pald our passage home."
and birds
They Were Coloured Blue MAN ON
HE OFFERED ONE PROBATION
•
EYES
OF HIS TO JAMES THURBER
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
London,
IVE years ago, James Thurber went blind. For a
ORDAINED
An Oxford undergraduate, Michael Frederick Charles Trot ter, 28, who is still on probation from a magistrates' court; was ordained as a deacon in upon Cathedral last week.
Fwriter, in fact for any artist the loss of visual senses When
is an incalculable hardship. It breaks some men and others it inspires with a streak of almost superhuman determination to translate darkness into light..
the Bishop of Ripon, asked if anyone objected to any of the deacons ardained, there ·was being silence in the assembly at over 1,000.
ENGINEER
Mr
wis
A $600 CABLE
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
TELEGRAMS at 2/6
Nice, (HK$2) a word-for obvious in important ways,
differ from letters
Brevity, for one... but when Texan oil heiress Elizabeth Chester in New York decided to end her 37-day marriage to French playboy Philip Schell the other day, she decided she couldn't say what she had to say in under 300 words -cost £87-10-0 or HK$600.
A POCKET RADIO FOR
A PRINCE
"Poopto" Special
to recriminations...We were the But money menns little to
London. Miss Chester and Mr Schell. victims of a binding, wonderful,
Just They had chartered King Saud's and romantic bewilderment that yacht Abdulloh and were to began on a golf course in Nassau PRINCE CHARLES Eas
require a new possession spend the summer honeymoon- and 28 days later led us to a which is the envy of all the boys ing. She decided she couldn't judge and then on board ship at Cheam School, In Berkshire. to Nice, to Monia Itt a miniature portable radio. tell her hiteshand her decision to Franer, over the phone't did not talk. Carlo, to everything a woman dreams of when she is escaping
The Queen brought it back to him, he gets too emotional”
To go on would with her when she came home hence the marathon cablo from reality. from, New York to Philip in be compounding the error and in from her state visit to Holland. the end would destroy both of It had been given to her as a the Riviera.
us....We were the victims of gitt for Prince Charles and ha
was delighted with it, Amongst other things she said: a nuclear tempo, an accelerated But what blind man would not He said: "I could have told
Troller, of Old Park House. Please stay in your world where pace in which come of us not have his right back.. if he him how it is only the corneas Park Street. Ripon, is to be a
It is particularly neat, as it you are worshipped....I do not and thinkt and plan as if there
has transistors iristead of valven. could.
of eyes which are transplanted.
curaje at Chapel Allerton, wish to hear a plending, nor do I is no tomorrow. But tomorrow
the alze Of I do not want a They are about When James Thurber arrived I could have told him that
wish any words that may lead has arrived, in London
thousand tomorrows of incom- matchsticks. The set is no big- last week he told the cornens of my eyes are the
patibility, of He pleaded guilty at Lowes
hypocrisy, reporters that an Engilsh village only sound things about them.
of ger than a camera. that last July to an offence involving
pretence--I do not want it for gardener had once offered to do
"Instead, I told him England needed both his eyes u boy,
myself nor do I want it for just that for him.
his did
wiłc and
you.... Before the ceremony the full Thurber goes on being blind, bishop said he was in
that knowledge of the facts and foll Thurber said it was his most seeing more clearly in touching experience since he strange way blind people do. Trotter would make a good Pushed A Pram lost his sight and "I tell you than the sighted.
BO
He offered Thurber one of ant his eyes, naively added: "My daughters...." eyes org blue".
about it only because we rend
so much in the newspapers |
about selfishness and cruelty,
"The gardener was 34 when
he offered the eye,
He spoke
of a wife and two daughters,
Leeds.
minialer.
A Magnificent Desk.....
A versatile
"I shall never forget my own Philip. Now he's daughter reading out his beauti- enthusiastle ful letter to me in hospital,
At 17, She
Quite Madly
"People" Special
Arran. a London Mrs Ellen Sillars,
nursemaid who pushed o prom
Prince Charles carries it about in his pocket.
What The Heck?
"PEOPLE" SPECIAL
Ottawa,
Harold Evans, the Prime Minister's
Press
M Secretary, has promised to send a main raked cand
500 miles from London to signed by Mr Harold Macmillan to the Press Club in Glasgow 80 years ago, has died Washington.
Deny
of
on this lonely island in
Firth of Clyde, aged 97.
fellow Princo The Prince has not contented
become an himself with untutored dab amateur painler bling; he had insisted on expert and "People's London cartes advice. This has been given "She paused near the end and pondent understands that he has freely by a close frietta of the
Family, Mr completed His most Royal sold the could not make out the recently last sentenco. She was over ambitious work-e study of the Dawnay, 30-year-old
who has QALOGIA roading papers at a Lady Show Stewart, come by it.
painted for pia ha years and Me Ollver Muar, fhe Deputy The perspective of the desk surveyor of thờ Queen' and the details of the back-
Pictures ground, it is end, would have done credit to a professional.
"Insisted on bearing It, The gardener had put a postscript, It was just four words: 'My eyes are blue. wept."
Thurber save more attention
Moat of Prinas Philly's paint. to the reply than ho did to much But it also said that the Ings Here butts-landéespre, but of his writing, In the end 15-métis hithadir was the only one her här branched out with ons
recognise tha seated or two poitratle, and mill-Ule was a very simple letter be sent able to to the Englishman in Essex, gure as being the Queen,
of bottile áng Fisigen, Dans."
the
C
He answered: "Heaven' knows,, The card is a souvenir of_last week's lunch by the Press Club but I have enjoyed it very The long walk, in which Mr for the Prime Minister, at which much."
Blllars pushed a pram loaded Mr Maemillon wrote out his
When it was realised that Mr high with household goods, own last question and answered Macmillan had written out the was the Idea of her Victorians. novelist employer, Mra Jeanlo
question himself the card was Adams Acton, who also made. The question was: What the rent to the rain-swept airport, the journey with her six heck are you doing here, anys for autographing us ho
leaving... children.
WAY!"