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James It was
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Men, women, and children had all been his victims, few of whom had bean ruffed, and those few had always been indivi duals whose figures came out a little The famous caricaturist, Sir Leslie stouter than they were in real life. His art had taken him Ward (Spy"), was entertained at din (Hear, hoar.) ner at the Savoy Hotel, recently, by his to the House of Commons, and he bad told how the caricature of the Lord admirers, who included many
Chancellor came into being. He happen The Lord Chancellor presided and, ined to be in the lobby when suddenly a proposing the toast of the guest of the evening, said they were met to do hon- very brisk young man with a top hat Sir Leslie said, at a very rapid paca our to a man whose whole career had woll on the back of his head walked past been given, to art. As many of them here. Boman who is going to make I don't know who he is, but I know, Sir Leslie's father was a most disgood.
am going to caricature him (laughter) tinguished Academician, and his grand- father ор his mother's side,
thereby showing that he was not only Waugh, was still remembered.
an artist, but a prophet. (Hear, hoar.) aid of their guest that when lour years Sir Leslia was rather absent-minded. On at of age he was observed in Paris carica
one occasion be wished to be present turing, and at the age of 18 there was
the funeral service of a to be that in SHANGHAI
He was told there hanging in on bonoured place in the ex-
way to hibition of the Royal Academy an ela
time, and accordingly made his
Fields at eleven o'clock. St. Martin-in-the-Fie borate oil painting from his brush
When be arrived he found the church was
*** | MANILA practically full, and he was put into a back seat. Two or three minutes after he sat down they played "God Save the HAIPHONG King" He turned to his neighbour asked, "Is not this So-and-So's funeral? and he was
This is Empire Day."
Tho and laughter.) Hear, heart church, he should have gone to was St. Margaret's. (Laughter.) Sir Leslie frested that his old editor, Mr. T. Gib
The Lord Chancellor described the art of Bir Leslie Ward as that of humorous
I portraiture rather than caricature.) was in the year before he (the Lord Chancellor) was born that their guest be came a contributor to Vanity Fair. Dur- ing the last 50 years there was hardly a man of eminence whose sequaintance. their gubat bad not made, and there were few whose friendship he had not retain
F
ed actor.
and
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and they all regretted that the mother of their guest, although at the great age of 80 was still vigorous enough to have a picture in the Royal Academy, was not with them. (Cheers.)
Sir Leslie Ward: I thank you from
(Renewed the bottom of my heart. cheers.).
best to understand them.
Whenever
But let him
be just At any rate they served a He was given to Patriotic purpose understand that in the midst of the Great War, suitably applied, they made warships invisible(laughter) and it only he could find out the exact augle and fashion at which the same result could be obtained in connection with these pictures he would become one of their moet ardens admirers (Laughter.) He only once in his life sat for a portrait. Unfortunately ho selected for that pur pose a deserving artist who was also a sitting
they discussed the women's prob- Buffragette. To relieve the tedium of the lem, which was in a somewhat militant form at that time. The result was that
which work of art
appeared to be the the artist presented with great skil, embodiment of all that is unwelcome in ms (Laughter.) His friends, men and women, said it was a speaking like been gradually transferred that Tate Gallery of every wall-conducted house the spare bed-room. (Loud laughter.)
stance I was talking the other proceeded his lordship, to an artist who is far less exposed to the provoca tive atmosphere of his profession than our guest, because he is not consciously a caricaturist. (Laughter.) He told me that the profession which he filled, that portrait-painter, was the most Ho said, nerva-racking in the world.
Sir Chartres Biton, proposing the "You may talk of the anxieties of politi cians, of the exaggerated apprehensions of statesmen, and the troubles that biztoast of Art and Literature," said the nature of his occupation preoccupied him rather with craft than art (laughter)- the path of the lawyer, and the occa sional crisis which lies is the path of the and be could not say personally that he surgeon, but none of these is comparable had ever drawn anything more artistic to the dificulties which by day and by than an indictment. (Henewed. Inngh- night lie in the path of the portrait- tor.) He confessed that some of the painter."
(Laughter.) I said, "What modern directions of art were a little exactly are they, because up to the re bit puzzling to a Victorian. sent I have not completely appreciated he road in the newspapers something them!" He replied. "There is no one about synthetic form and pure colour he in the world who wishes to be painted always entered the gallery with trepida.. exactly as he is (Laughter.) It was tiou. He saw there what appeared to once said, "There is no secret so inti him to be coloured illustrations of the mate as that which exists between a horse and his rider," but my informant seond book of Eurlid, and he did his told me that that erred on the side of exaggeration, because he mid that as be tween a portrait-painter and bis sub- jocs the secrets were at once more in timate and less communicable. (Loud Laughter.) Every man, he told me, wish- ed to be painted as he thought he would one day be at his best, and every woman wished to be painted as she was persuad ed when at her best she once did look. (Laughter.) In the circumstances I can understand the very considerable diffi culty lay in the path even of the "faith- ful portrait-painter, and yet be told me that all his life he made enemies (Laughter.) If those are the difficulties which
in the
of one whose task path is no
not to bring out qualities perhaps least favourable of those which am latent in a personality, how much greater are those which for fifty years have fair in the path of our guest! I have always taken the view that an artist is one thingness-(renowed laughter) but it had and a paychologist another. I know of no reason for assuming that a good artist will necessarily be a good psycholo gist, no more than I have any reason
Mr. Justice Darling, acknowledging, for supposing that a good washerwoman will probably be a good confectioner, said if he had the tact of the Lord Chan- cellor he should, sitting next. Lord Pura- and the trouble in life is that many men who are quite reasonably good artists, say that.of prose he never read any. thing but The Daily Telegraph(cheers) are quite reasonably bad psychologists.and that when he desired to amuse or (Laughter.) Therefore when a subject is instruct himself with poetry he turned exposed to a competent artist who is a
solely and exclusively to the works of bal psychologist it is almost as trying an Byron. (Laughter.) With regard to ordes! as to be submitted to a competent art, when he looked at the modern prac- artist who is a good paychologist. (Laughter.) For these reason I confess tice, be often thought that this might be Sir that if I were to be painted, even with harmony, but it was not understood. It
discord, and nothing else. such poor raw material as I offer- Chartres Biron had alluded to the (laughter)-I would rather the artist rt Cubists, but he could not see why he stop- produced me by that which he actually
ped there What about the Futurists, sees than by that which a psychologically the Luminists? Why should we not have inferior artist thinks he sees when he the Hexagonists or the Fourth Dimen
sionists i looks at my poor exterior, (Laughter.)
(Laughter.) With regard to The business of our guest for fifty caricaturs, his experience of Sir Leslie years has been not to see that which is Ward was that he had not been long a most "communicable in those who appear member of the House of Commons when before him, but that which presents some someone told him that there was a por trait of him in the tea room. He looketi superficial resemblance to the truth and Devertheless relater to some slighe apn it, and he felt perfectly certain that pearance of absurdity. I am able in my he had never seen Sir Leslie Ward or that own person to supply an illustration of Sir Leslie Ward had seen bim. Laugh- the extreme akill and yet the artistic ter:)
the
function of his brush, because "some fifteen years ago he conveyed to canvas my poor features, and when I took the
of the greatest spectacle glasses is importance," writes Dr. C. Hartridge, Ophthalmic Surgeon and P.R.D.S., Lecturer on Ophthalmic Surgery to the Westminster Hospital, they must be accurately centred in frames, that are
picture home to my wife-s discriminat THE METHOD OF MOUNTING ing judur(laughter) she merely ob- served. That is very like you, but I 14th Jan, at 11am
never realised till this moment how pro 8th Feb,
foundly dissipated your face is." (Loud laughter.) That is why I am led to say Singapore, Penang, to you that the truest art in the field which our guest has most distinctly made his own lies in the direction of the most absolute paradox (Cheers and laugh ber.) In the spirit of a distinguished light, strong and fit well, otherwise the artist Sir Leslie Ward has wielded a
good effect of the most carefully chosen correction may be entirely frustrated by a faulty position of the glasses, or even a fresh source of eye-strain may be intro- duced The Hongkong Optical Co., successors to Clark & Co., Refracting and Manufacturing Opticians, located in 53, Queen's Road Central, have the equip ment and instrument to adjust your
(602 spectacle to a nicety.Ave.
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skilful brush, inspired by the fearless traditions of art as he understands them and as his forebears have understood them; and it is no small tribute to man who has exercised an artistic gift so great in the direction in which excessive ridienle or depreciation is so easy to Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday man of his gifts that so many have as
Bembled
to pay tribute not only big technique but to broad human nature, the genuine kiad liess, and the profound insight which have never failed his brush. (Cheers) I asking you to drink to the bealth of our distinguished guest I recommend him bo you as a characteristic Engishman, as a distinguished artist, and a man with out a spark of ill-nature in the whole of his character. (Loud cheers.)
The toast was pledged with enthusi and the Lord Chancellor, amid renewed abeers, handed to Sir Lelis Ward a silver sigar-box on behalf of the proprietors of Mayfair, as a souvenir, of the occasion.
Bir Leilie Ward, who was deeply affected by the reception which he re
sentente explaining that under medical orders he was preveted from making a speech.
Bir Barry Britain (who spoke as the request of Sir Leslie Ward) said that for fifty years Terlie Ward had been stalk- try. ("Hear, bear," and laughter)
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