WOMAN
TO
WOMAN
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1961.
WOMANSENSE
Barbara
Hepworth
TO THE limelight seekers and the limelight haters alike, Express giri Sally Vincent brings an insight and understanding which finds the real • person behind the public face. Today ahe talks with Barbara Hepworth,
one of Britain's top sculptors, winner of International priz, holder of the C.B.E. Barbara H. worth, twice married, mother of triplets and of a son killed in the R.A.F., is 58, and here talks Woman to Woman,
'In a man's world
it is not
for women just to submit...
THE sun, where it escaped from swaying, charcoal clouds, made inter- mittent gobbets of light across the room to where the Unknown Po- of wood litical Prisoner stooped on its shelf. Other haunting figures
sunlight around their and stone stood, leaned, and lay in the twitchy creator, as though in patient servitude.
Two shining black cals, one with a bell and without lurked shyly in the dimmest corner.
for the
The extraordinary Barbara Hepworth leaned over u ten tray and apologised dark glasses which seemed 10 obscure all of her small face but a kindly, sulting mouth and a towering forehead.
THE
Affront
THE reason for them,
plained,
she ex-
by SALLY VINCENT
She took up a piece of paper and rad from the bold, black letters she had made.
"I
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a pacifist and ardent supporter of the United Nations. And of nuclear dis- armament,
gainst capital punish- ment and I support the Treason Trial Fund of South Africa."
The dark glasses turned twinklingly in my direction. thought we might as well that straight at the start,"
WES an Injured "But they are a terrible uffrout," she admitted. "It is, 1 concluded.
eye.
know, most
disconcerting ta
talk to someone when you can't
see their eyes."
Materials
't
ect
kh
With her cups ní tes and der soft, neat, precise
the IT voice,
IT would, of course, have been
for Impossible of t
Barbary reminded me, stupidly, particularly authoritative vicar's Hepworth not to have been all wife.
"We'll have such n nice chat," she said, cosily. "I was a bit afraid of it at Best, po what I've done," she went on, her volce gothering persuasion, "I've mode a list of my con victions to help you."
of these things,
She is a carver: she works for longer hours each day than a labourer: her tools are chisels and gouges and mallets.
Gentle
TT is not surprising, perhaps, she has found the world as recalcitrant as the materials she works with. And it makes her militancy a genile and wanderful thing when she is prepared to hack at the wrong she sees In the world with as much faith and optim- ism as she feels when she takes
A huge block a chisel to Granite.
that as a woman
In this bitter age, who believes
of
person he or she can actually do something to save the world is regarded as a crank a or a figure of fun.
most thought the world could
be saved.
"When I was a child, half a
century ugo," she said, "I was
fled with the joy of life.
Oddly reminiscent of a vicar's wife, the sculptor extraordinary lists her convictions in bold black lotters. "We must protest,” she says
toned on solid link, not a
cracked one."
LADY LUCK
YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31
AQUARIUS (January 21- February 19): Keep your sense of humour in an en- barrassing situation, and It · will pass off without any- ene taking much notice.
PISCES (Fobruary 20-March 20) Have the courage, fu turn down a friend's sug gestion, if it involves ILA expenditure beyond your
mcana.
ARIES (March 21-April 19); Try to ignore an insulting remark clearly designed to make you lose your tem- per. TAURUS (April 20-May 20); Make another attempt to hurry along # person whose dilatory идуа are holding up your plans.
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and punishment that is going on CANCER (Jane 22-July 21);
around us. Another one of Barbara Hep- "Write to politicians, ring up to Mr worth's key phrases is "we must the B.B.C.write
by Kennedy If you like. But Just protest," followed closely sort of women-can-save-the- keep on and on saying, "We will not have it, we will not have world idea.
my it."
"I could wako up in the morning and know how good it was to live. But I also knew that when I died it was not the und of life itself. The world would go without me.
But for the Arst time in life these sentiments, voiced by were not irritating. a woman, Instead, I found them strangely on being wonderful moving.
"We havo got to relearn op- "This balance belween life time," she said. "If we, as is now lost. The women, behave in an affirmative death and
implement this world is threatened and human way, we beings have security any optimism. more.
no
"We must restore the balance and give people back. their security. Otherwise wo will disintegrate." Barbara
Hepworth that
con Integrate people through culture. And US shc believes it sincerely she has her reason to work.
can
Intention
"But women,” I suggested, Hare not fike that. They submit."
"We've got to get over that," she replied. "Women must learn that to express their them feelings does suffragettes.
not make
"They must realise that they can no longer keep quiet and submit in order to keep the peace in a man's world.
pro-
An older person's longed visit will not upset your household as much as you feared.
LEO (Jaly 22-August 21): If you don't want to waste too much time arriving at a business agreement, you
may have to concede point or two. VIRGO (August 22-
September 22): If the task you have set yourself is to be completed this week, you should
under get it Way tomorrow at the latest, LTBRA (September 28. October 22); Go into a now venture with both open, and thus avoid un- pleasant surprises.
eyea
SCORPIO (October 23.
November 211: Your very ambitious plans will rë, ceive a boost from the in- terest they arouse in a per- son of importance. SAGITTARIUS (Noveinber 22-December 21): If you find that you wore blaming someone unjustly, bo generous enough to admit you were wrong, CAPRICORN (December .22- January 20): Make sure of the rollability of your source of Information be fore using it as a basla for your work,
YOUR LUCKY COLOUR: If this is your birthday, look out for CORAL. It ought to bring you luck.
JACOBY on BRIDGE
DON'T know exactly what South had in mind when he rebid two diamonds, but the "They must understand that | Anal contract of four spades they are there to complement was reasonable.
When it came to the actual men, not to compete with them.
play. the diamond bid really "We don't want a matriarchy.
proved effective. To start with, God forbid, just a balance. And
it kept West from opening that women are bur only hope now-
sult and if he had opened it. the only people who can help
South would almost surely have na, because they are intrinsically
gone down two tricks. opposed to destroying life,"
must seek something believes WE
definite to do. There has got to be a mass intentions to preserve life, and it is up to women to act in a concerted way, because it is their job, their nature, to preserve life.
"I work to affirm." she says, To do something positive, to underline what is affirmative.
Vital
WANT to emphasise, in the "I
all the de- affirmative, ments of human beings which are vital and able to give praise for life.
What she does and what she is, she explained early on, were inseparable. And she is woman who works in hard materials. As a seujptor she Barbara Hepworth is such
"In my activity of trying marble, bites into stone,
and person, but stening to her the hardest of woods, and loves ideas i
could And nothing work I attempt to eliminate all that is pessimistic, and to com- in fact, the life she ands in them.
funny or cranky:
municate to others the optimism I feel inside myself.
CHILDREN'S CORNER
Teddy Steps On Map
-And Disappears In The Atlantic Ocean-
By MAX TRELL
YNARF, The
Merlin instead of a map, then grunted
pulled his head and
! was just going to sic the Atlantic Occan, explained to Mr Merlin.
Shadow Boy back again. with the Turned About Name, had opened the blg Geo- graphy Book on the floor and across was looking at the map. Sitting Teddy on the floor beside him, were Knarf'a two best friends, Teddy, the Stuffed Bear, and Hiawatha, the Small-Sized Wooden In dian.
Teddy was silting with his fat legs stretched out.
Hiawatha grunts
As for Hiawatha, he was alt-
Came in time
"I know," said Mr Merlin. "And it's a good thing I came along and stopped you from doing such a foolish thing."
"It's a map," said Teddy. "Anybody can walk mapi"
across a
Teddy lat out a yell and disappeared in tin Ocean.
1
fully. "You can't say I didn't "Look here, my Boy," said warn him." ting with a blanket over his Mr Merlin, as Teddy started "Help! Help" conte Teddy's head. Every now and then he once inore to walk across the voles. stuck his head out to take a Atlantic Ocean, "Lofore you do Knarf could see a tiny, furry
to
"There is now," she went on, "the possibility of a total world, brought together by the unlver- sal language of art."
This kind of remark, made by someone who has spent her life within the secrets of the most abstract of all abstract art, s wont to rerelve a somewhat
"I is time," she went "that we all stopped behaving like hypnotised hers.
COR-
"Our minds have been 'affect- ed by this terrible brain-washing we've been getting, and we must protest against It; we must not
to be allow ourselves taminated by destructiveness,"
I asked. simply, how women In a practient could protest. way.
Barbara Hepworth
was
the abstract feel that, for her, momentarily lost. I began protest was enough.
Protest
Brave
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Ls she delivered in her
reasoned, vicar's wife tones, now made a losing play. And afterwards, like a middle-led a third trump. When both the same suit, one aged Englishwoman showing her sides play rose garden, she led me to the must be wrong. South was play- ballroom she uses as a studio,ing trumps. It was up to West
to lead something else, to where about 40 of her sculptures
Once this third trump (all three ord four times her own size) rose from the par-led South had smooth galling.
He led a club toward his queen. quet.
IF enough people fell enough protest in their hearts this would be enough for the masa intention that was needed. But Barbara Hepworth struggled.
"Oh," she said, "just protest. cynical respons But Barbara Protest against the fear, enmity, Hepworth was plausible.
"Because of
the danger we all face," she explained, "there of is a heightened awareness things that matter. or poetry, art and inusic.
"These are the things which
Barbara Hepworth politely did not belleve me but I do not think I appreciate sculpture, I like the graceful shapes of
carved wood and stone. I even get quite excited about texture. B 1 see no message.
But that ballroom, with all those strange, looming, ther lovable shapes, was like a new world. A very brave new world.
-London Express Servicej.
Now the measured
AN
the N aerosol is
easiest way to time-
will be instrumental in saving saving beauty-but I
us.
When the last war broke
out I was surprised by the way have my grouses.
these things suddenly mattered
so much more to people.
this
You can't SEE how much is
In the bottle. You can't PROVE no one has been sampling be-
"That ts why. et threatening me, it is so vital fore you. You can't TELL how
to continue this kind of work.
Beauty
"You have got to believe in the extraordinary beauty cause that is what will make
much you splurge with a squirt,
Coly's answer to them all is a new packaging for their tollet water.
It comes in a pretty bottle for your dressing table, and is sold
quick glance at the map in the what you're about to do, let me figure splashing around In the which is outside yourself, be- sealed across the lid.
lantic Ocean."
Geography Book and to alter ask you one question. Can you big blue space marked "The At you fight to preserve it. small grunts.
swim?" "Why are all those maps of different colours?" Teddy naked Knart.
"That's
explained.
Book!"
to
The measuring device incor- porated into the aerosol releases "This is the time to change only a measured amount rach Teddy laughed,
Hiawatha stuck his head out our way of thinking, which has time. "Sure, Mr Merlin, I can swim from under his blanket and lot become somewhat obsolete 17t
Eight hundred squirts are All right. But I'm not going to out the loudest grunt that any-the past few years..
guarantee. Five perfumes Atlantic Ocean. 80 0 to tell one fall into the
"I," she said, "am only choose from, price 21s.
--(London Express Service), Country from another country, It's only a inap in a Geography one had ever heard him make,
Two things happened. Knart link in a chain, but at least jumped head-Arst into the Geo- Rraphy Book. Hinwatha jumped painted blue," sald Teddy,
feel-Brst into the Geography That's not a country," sakd
Knnef started to say, "Teddy, Book, taking his blanket with Knari. "That's the Allaatle be earcful and Hiawatha him. Mr. Merlin sat down on the stuck his head out from under edge of Florida with his feat on Hiawatha stuck his head out the blanket and Eave what the edge of South America and
look at the Atlantic Ocean, sounded like a warning grunt. whistled a tune to himself. then he grunted and pulled his But it was too late, Teddy had
"Look at the big country
Ocean?"
10
head back again.
Small world
The world's not very big." suid Teddy. "Just look!" I can slep right across the whole At- lantic Ocean."
Teddy was just about stand up and walk across the Atlantio Ocean when comedy Bait!
Juif one moment! Hello, Kidsin Na
Warned him
already stuck out one of his
Dripping wat
-
fat lega across the big, bloo Atlantic
two About Ocean. Teddy's other
minutes later, leg was In
the United States Knarf and Hiawatha came ouf between Virginia and North of. the Geography, Book carry- The Carolina,
ing Teddy between them. three friends were dripping wol.
"Better not; try that again!"
I looked as if with one step Teddy WON going to be in France, across the whole wide sald Me Merlin as he got up
Ocean. I looked 45 easy. stepping across a puddle of we terl
The next second there was a Iouid splashi
It was, Me Merlin, the Mar Teddy lat out a yell and dis
and walked away.
Knorr shut the. Geography Book, Ilawatha got back under his. blanitet. Toddy just lood and scratched his head...
It was only a map of the volour and Mogalnicent Magi- appeared right in the middle of Atlantic Ocean,” he kept any clan. Keart and Toddy returned 'the Grenn.
Ping to himan!f low could I "Thore, I knew that was go- got so wet??
Mr Martin's, greeting.
Hiowa-
A
the tuck his head out, fooked, ing to' läppen,” said Mr Mer- And from far off camío the a little surprised at noeing Me In, shaking his head sorrow sound of Mr Merlin's laughter. I
Rupert and the Secret Path-~54
Next morning Rupert hears voices and runs to join his Daddy, Sacs has.es Constable Growler hurrying to Rupeet's cottage and hee' followed inquisitively. "Well, little beat, we've got that spy 17 ays the officer ""1 "eglied, mp the Nutcheater' police and. thaiska to your secret'path, we sur sounded the place and caught him
red-handed 1. You did us a mal good tum.** Oo, topping!" "Come on, SK cries Rupert.
We into and tell Bingo- at once. It was hla voces: pazli, 301 miow, that really sistied the whole affair 1
THE END
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West won with the king and led a diamond, but by this time the boot had solled. South went up with dummy's ace, played ace and another club and eventually discarded his jack of hearts and third diamond on the long clubs,
West should have led a dia- mond when he got in with the king of spades. South had bid diamonds, but West had noth- Ing to lose by playing the sult since if South had a real dia- mond suit It would all be good anyway.
With
the diamond shift at have that point South would had no way to make the land. He could go after the clubs but he would not get the suit set up in time for the diamond discard.