ART TREASURES
An archaeologist
in Hongkong
By DAVID LAN
NY museum in Hongkong?"
"A A tourist art connoisseur from Hollywood
.asked his first question the moment he stepped off
the plane from Manila,
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world's most mysterious region found from time to time through where' lost civilisations were excavation.
Adventure
Mr Earl, Standahl, field archaeologist and art coiletler, was surprised at the replies all around-han bon full of atventare shaking of the hand and a flat "no."
That lule ***","* it Air Elis treasures,
The fleld archaeologist's work and
mystory.
In between pulls of his cigar, dating back Mr Stendahl told of the hazards,
Stendahl's opinian, had smugly 3,500 years, are archaeological "On occasions I got shot at, in- *
of a
the
from 27112/6-27132037- finds shaken
pre-historic trigued, and threatened with tombs, burials, graves and ruins murder." dollar windfall with which
of Mexico, muscum would have easily en- in the deep jungles
"The way I oblained the riched the coffers of Hongkong Peru, Feundor, Honduras, Costa treasures, I could have written
Rica, Puntana ole... each year!
dozens of books on them," he claimed.
und be-
Mr Stendah), nocampanied by his wife, was on a world survey tour with a view to exhibiting his Pre-Columbian Art treasures 1 various Pacific countries.
Silver haired speleled, “ ટીમ owner of Stendah Art Gallery and an art school in Hollywood was the first to introduce the Pre-Columbian Art of Central and South America to U.S. some 30 years ago.
The cultural groups embrace Archite, Olmet, Maya, Teotl- huacan, Toltec, Chichimes, Aztec, Zupolee, Mixtee, Husle, Totonou, Tarasca, Inca ind 50 forth...
72-year-old They shared the common
characteristics of great creative
and variety ness, individuality
other yet unequalled by any pre-historic art in the world.
Central America. Mr Stendh];} said, has remained so far the
Hls Pre-Columbian Arl ob- cis have been on exhibition in 45 museums throughout Europe und America.
Hk houses in Hollywood, Borne 20,000 objets containing d'art through half a century of collecting, have been a favourlic haunt of business tycoons and movie, stars.
They included such names as Nelson Hockefeller, Frank Lloyd
1,200-year-old Jaguar Metate made from one piece of volcanic stone
A found in Veragssos District, Panama. It measures 331⁄2 inches long,
12 inches high and 171⁄2 inches wide.
A 1,500-year-old of a house
around a truncated pyramid. Some 50 figurines scattered about include several musicians, and acrobats. The small barrel-like object in the foreground is a drum. Made in clay, the whole, measures 18 inches in smallest diameter and 13 inches high. It was unearthed in Nayarit, the
It comes under Tarascan culture, state on the west, coast of Mexico.
Wright Kirk Douglas, ChuTies Laughton, Vincent Price, John Huston, Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Maria Schell and a host of others.
Part of Mr Stendahl's collec- tion formed the nucleus of the newly established Museum of Primitive Art in New York.
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The Pre-Columbia art jeels are mostly statuettes, or naments, vases, wns, ceremonial sacraments, Agurines, musical instruments, and other things in jade. gold, stone, alabaster, bronze, silver, shell, wood, clay, urystal, amethyst, Leather and obsidian (volcanic glbas).
There are also story-telling tapestries, painted papyrus, and grouped housings.
Investment
Like "An exhibition comes to you only once long time,
visit
muscum which would have
ourned through admis- slons, and sales of catalogues, re- plicas, photos, postcards and brochures for the exhibits.
Mr Blendabl who was in Ausi tralia recently gold, "In Mel- bourne they are spending $10,- 000.000 Da the construction of a
They know what means to their city."
jor the "It's a prido
com- A museli
he went on "And many mimity,"
this "In the long run,
will pay off infinitely In a Mr Stendahi said more times than commercial think of the múny Chinese re- with much regret. "For want producis mado at the same cost sidents hero who could display of a museum, Hongkong people for a muscum will be an in- their priceless curloe in a pro- per place in this worthy city of and its tourists miss the chance visible export!"
He deplored the multi-mil- yours!" of sharing this pleasure."
A page and he remarked in "The capital once laid out for on-dollar loss Hongkong suf-
thing such cultural
Just because a casual way, "I can't help ad- fered annually
thousands of miring your complacency in the museum will become Д
hundreds manent investment," he pointed tourists with ready spending face of fame and fortune well
money did not have a chance to within a stretch of your arm,"
but.
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But Mr Lewis's plot is only an
BARBARY COAST. By forgive him his literary
Michael Lowis. Weiden- bad manners. feld and Nicofson, 18s.
In the first 50 pages he about 80 unexplained MR MICHAEL LEWIS sings
characters at us without giving excuse, is a most exasperat us time to get our breath back ing young writer. He is over any one of them. so clever, so intelligent THE FAMILY
And for a well sa bad manners,
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ALEXANDER THE GOD. By Maurice Druon. Hart-Davis.
21s.
ALEXANDER THE GREAT was an extraordin- ary, a fabulous phenomenon. He was the son small state The company was in a dicey of Philip, the King of Macedon, a
boen an excuse for beating state. Eric had evidently the pants off the churtered as neither a leader nor an admin in the North of Greece. This Philip was him- countants' world that flourishes strator,
self an exceptional man, a great soldier who raised his little kingdom from comparative unimportance to dominance over all the city-states of Greece.
But his son was far to exceed his feats..
The framework of his story is which is evoked with a real feel. a family struggle for control of ing for its atmosphere and its a business in the Industrial history, North-West on the edge of
Wales. The present owners of ALL ACTION Westport Textiles have squeezed.
out two young cousins by sharp FINAL APPROACH. By practice, and one of them, Eddie, is fighting back by building up o
THE ENGLISH CHANNEL, rival arm, by J. A. Williamson
never
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with such brazen vulgarity in The cause of the accident was They are all sons and mothers, this industrial sum, Much of still shrouded in mystery. There and so on the contempor- daughters and fathers, Arst his walling is witty, a little is had clearly been some honky
uncies, second cheap, all shows unbounding panky over it, und the findings ary spot that it is hard to cousing and
of the Court of Inquiry might cousing and aunts, and we reet cleverness. and stagger to and fro, winded even detect a grain or two damago the company hadly if
He led out his tiny army of By shear mill-power he forced by a positive tidal wave of rela- of
novelist's they couldn't first uncover the that essential
ples over seemingly events that led up to it them- Macedonians and, with them at his tions who can't mean anything quality, compassion, but for the
of river, selves. It is a neck and neck his back, conquered almost the impassible barriers to us yet. This is bad craftsman- moment it is bestowed not on
place, race.
whole of the then known world mountain, desert, Uhrough Tur- the people but on the
Had Eric made a series of la Afteen years of the most key and Egyet, Syria and Persia Or had the astonishing compaigns in human up to the foot of the Himalayas misjudgements? maintenance staff been grossly history,
and down into Northern India. negligent? Had the faulty part The story of this remarkable They longed to go home, but through In the elevator mechanism never young man's almost incredible ne dragged them on
Bad they been replaced?
achievement is here chronicled wonders Eric had certainly not been by M. Druon in a narrative dreamed of, through completely it to by at the time, which brings the past vividly fore
they Christopher Hodder-Wil. The court ferreted that out. But nirve,
Rave thought to survive, llama. Hoddor and they didn't got on to the really
deepailing as they went tho Important thing that the faulty His conquests
treasure-houses of the Orient, Stoughton. 158.
Bulina themselves between He has organized the mass desporale forced marchos, with THIS is an action novel pacing it from a grounded
pure and simple, and And while the court is still of material into a coherent women and loot, until at last, clear worn out with the effort, the arguing, this grounded aircraft whole, which gives a A ROSE BY ANY OTHER tack of the provincial expense an interesting and excit with the faulty part is brought impression of the vast even of conqueror was himself conquered Alixandor's conquests and at by come, then unknowns disenan of thirty-threọc, and time brings us into at, the ago the saine Carson. women fight with claws as sharp ing one. For a full ap back into service.
close contact with tho man the whole masiva structure of Methuen. 168. Moro chapters the men and the struggle is preciation an interest. in ROUSING
..this bimself.
empire crumbled end from the highly unlikely, but exacerbated by family fouds and the technicalities of fly-
Th produces # thrilling axtremely funny autoblography racial feelings, for the most
dissolved. of the world's most feckless accessful of the Munich genera ing is desirable, though sequence, when the mechanism No wonder that in his day y
tion Jan Jewess, Rachel, who
snape in midiair, Somehow or they half bolloved the prodi It is an opic story of magnifi
dunt leolossus; M Druon ➡ DEAD MEN DON'T SKI, br was the mistress (unink this is not necessary.
other pilot and collot have to gibus 'young, man to be a Clod! Paitiola Moyes (Collins, 12v, right) of Eddie's father. There was something niready bring, the damaged ship down in ille courage, strength and one fexcellently translated by Mr Humphrey Jare) succoccia. Ins 64.). Murder at an albergo -In Eddie's brother, Dennis, is very wrong with Balla Alrines, bt, anergundy danding,durance seemed superhuman giving a real feeling of what the Dolomites reached only by another koy shareholder; and, a small charter, company, when The icdentis graphically He led his victorious ski-lift. Cast mainly English. A being a highbrow, novelist in John Enerson in America heard described and makes a routing from the very trott; he was at must have been like to partici- fresh und pleasant book, apart London, he is only too willing to test his brother Eric, the chair climax,to a good stealghtforward warehimoit the foremost In Pate in it. T
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RICHARD LISTER from the title.
come back and swipe the Phill- man and chief pilot had boen yarı.
killed in an aveklent.
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(Colin EXPENSES 238.). A history of the English shore from its formation to But it is a family rather than This today, Well written, soundly a commercial struggle, planned.
plot la used for a devastating ut- account jungle in which the
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