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BRITAIN'S AIR CHIEF AT HOME.
BENEFICIAL EFFECTS OF FLYING UPON ART..
SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH SIR SAMUEL AND LADY HOARE. ' WHAT PASSING THROUGH: A CLOUD FEELS LIKE.
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And when the eye of a connois. seur gets accustomed to so many beautiful objects of art in a pri- vate home which might almost be
London (U.P.).-Air Minister Sir."And what an extraordinary Turkish furniture in vast rooms, of which some of the floors are cover. Samael Hoare and Lady Maud feeling it is when you pass from a
that flying perfectly clear atmosphere into ed with Aubussons in a wonderful agreed "a glorious feeling. Their clouds. Nothing like it can be ex-state of preservation Laate is also similar in most artis perienced on land. At ärst you see tic matters. Only on the subject of something which looks like a sold music do their opinions differ more mass into which you are going to But you don't seem to crasb. or less radically.
hit it. You go right through This they were good enough to
though smoke explain to the United Press cor-it. Then it is as respondent who visited them at were driving past you." their Chelsea residence for the first dual interview which they have ever granted. The sight of a five- valve portable wireless set in one room caused the correspondent to ask his hosts if they liked music.
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much indeed, replied Lady Maud Hoare as Sir Samuel smiled affirmatively.
"Wagner!" WAJ the following: suggestion.
No," replied" Sir Samuel with determination and then he laughed heartily as Lady Maud Hoare, on the contrary, vaunted her favourite
composer.
I like Wagner's solidity," she said
"But I," interjected Sir Samuel, "think that he is not sincere." He. is artificial: I much prefer Mozart." Likes Jazz Rhythm. "What about Jazz" was the next question.
"Yes," replied the Secretary of State emphatically, "I do enjoy it occasionally. I like the rhythm."
Both Sir
museum, he begins to notice a set of solid silver plate which be longed to Sir Samuel's grandfather - Member of Parliament one hundred years ago. There are iso gorgeous curtains from Baghdad in the Minister's private study.
Pioneer Air Passenger, Lady Maud Hoare, besides being one of Britain's most distinguished
There is a piece of Dresden pot- hostesses, is a pioneer air passCD- ger.' During the past five years tory: mid to be the largest in the She has flown many thousands of world, is the ball. Two magnificent miles with the Secretary of State busts composed of seven different for Air and her observations during kinds of marble are placed at the the various flights upon which she top of the staircase. They repre accompanied her husband were in-seat characters of Arabian origin valuable to him. She was the first who seem to watch over the tren- woman to accomplish a fight from sures which surround them. Britain to India, during which Sir Samuel wrote his new famous book India, by Air," partly from the notes taken for him by Lady Maud
Hoare.
Asked whether thought avia tion would develop therently to become a sale and popular mode of transport, both nodded their assent and Sir Samuel explained.
"Travel by air has many advan- tages. There are no jolts on bad, roads. Pure Air enters your tags instead of petrar fumes or so vibrations are experienced then
Then there is an even greater contrast with all this ancient art. There is probably the most beauti. ful modern dining-room in England. It was designed by Sir Samuel him- self in co-operation with his nephew and his partner Mr. John Seely. The walls are painted an orange colour and the ceiling is entirely covered with silver-grey satin, lit by a circuit of concealed lights,
The carpet and curtains are garter blue. By day, the ceiling has the appearance of a misty sky. At night the lights give it the And Lady Maug Hoare agreed. travelling at high speeds Ad effect of a polished steel deme. Aviation, however, as the main ! Also, one can cover trementions, dir. The room is heated by electrical subject of conversation.
tances in a remarkably short time, apparatus which is entirely conceal a large mirror Samuel and Lady Maud Hoare wills & result of the tremendous deed from view by ingly described their "lechings" in velopment of meteorology, long dis- surrounded by frame of blue)
marble. the air.
"Flying" said the Secretary of tance fights to timed schedules are becoming easier to accomplish. State, develops man's inherent
Meteorology is also increasing the love for nature. It seems to me safety of flying to a very great that it is something which young painters should experience in their extent."
Both Sir Samuel and his wife are student days because it would give
so keen about flying that they them a different point of view in art. Indeed, the earth viewed from rarely travel any great distance by the air is far more beautiful in lard. This, they say, is not only because they consider it to be more some cases than when it is seen from land. The perspective is mar-pleasant but also because it saves vellous. Superb colour schemes are much time and besides: "There is visible with which the average ter-far more food. for the artistic eye." restrian is not familar. Hidden beauties are revealed which enchant
one."
Lady Maud Hoare described her impressions from an airplane:
MAN THROWN INTO FIRE. CINEMA MECHANIC KILLED BY FRENZIED CROWD. Messages from the village of Igolkino, in the Vladimir province, where 114 people were burned to death in a cinema fire, state that a crowd of peasants killed the president a local handicrafts- men's association by throwing him into the flames, believing him to
The hall, hardly able to hold be responsible for starting the fire. more than a hundred people, war packed to suffocation with about 250 people, many of them drunk and most of them smoking. The cinema apparatus was erected in There are valuable and multi the door way, blocking the only It was operated by an in- coloured rugs from Turkey, China exit.
drunken or one of the Rockies in America. and Persia, and superb pieces of experienced youth, while the music
All was provided by You will get the same ravishing Eastern embroidered silks. view of the scenery below as you these contract strangely with a very mechanic playing a harmonium. would if you saw it from an air-beautiful collection of oid masters, The mechanic, it is alleged, set the plane. Only it is still more beauti Claudes, Vernete, Poussins, ete, film alight with bis cigarette, and wild paaie ensued when the ful than if seen from the top of the which hang above perfect specia mountain..
mens of 19th century, French and audience saw the fames leap out.
Sir Samuel," she commenced, "is right. Flying," she added, "is a glorious feeling. If you want to gain an iden of how the earth looks from the air, olimb to the summit of some tall mountain like, 'for' instance, your Mount Washington,
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"Indeed, the Minister and Lady Mand Hoare are among England's keenest art collectors. Their home is full of odds and ends which both have picked up" in far- distant lands and many of which they brought to London thousands of miles by air.
Art Treasures.
Diary of Coming Events.
To-day.
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