THE SUN LIFE COMPANY
Encouraging Report Presented
a
"RAPHAEL"
An Interesting
Lecture
Father Ryan said:—”
__Rey-Fr__T-F-Ryan, S.J., MA; Editor of the "Rock" delivered a Mr. Arthur B. Wood, president lecture' yesterday evening at the and Managing Director of the Sun Jacobean Room of the Hong Kong Life Assurance Company of Hotel on "Raphael" (Rafaello), Canada, was” abie ̈
The talk which was given under to present. highly encouraging statement to the auspices of the Dante Algheri policyholders and shareholders at Association, Hong Kong was pre- the annual meeting of this great sided over by Signor A. Biancont Canadian Instituton, a statement who, in a few well-chosen words, no less gratifyigg to the general,
introduced the speaker... public than to those more directly concerned La the company's If one were to ask why Raphael operations, since there is evidence should be chosen as the subject of In it of the Industrial Improve a lecture in Hong Kong to-day, it ment, for which all have been, would seem sufficient to say that anxiously waiting.
this Dante Allgheri Association The Sun Life Company last year provides a meeting ground for all paid out $93,000,000 to policy who are interested in the glories of holders and of this great sum 85 Italian culture and that here sure. per cent. was in amounts of under ly he who is one of the greatest 0.85,000, with an average under, glories of Italian art may be well G$2,000: in other words, the remembered. But I have another benefits of this enormous outlay reason for directing your attention. were spread over a very large Deld to Raphael. It is because to some of comparatively poor people. cer.extent the name of Raphael needs tainly of people who could not be rehabilitation. It is not uncom- classed among the rich. The mon nowadays to find in the company itself has strengthened popular manuals that attempt to its position materially, taking runj der with the art of the ages in advantage of the betterment in the compass of a primer the name general conditions. The assets of of Raphael mentioned with some- thing like a sight, as if he were Company now stand at 8865,378,716.34,
nothing but a facile craftsman who an increase of $41,232,681.14. New paid-for busi- regarded technical competence
complete substitute for strength ness exceeding $236,000,000 repre sents an increase of approximate- and originality and took always the ly $20,000,000,
Cash in banks easy uninspired way.
the
amounts to another $20,000,000, while fourth among the outstand-
to
more..
Charm of Manner Nothing could be more mislead- ing features of this sixty-fourth ing. It is characteristic of inach annual report is an excess income of modern criticism that it consists over all disbursements of more of generalisations. It finds itself in than $43,000,000. With an in sympathy with michel angels for cresse of business in force the presumably “modern quality amounting
than of strength. Raphael was different $300,000,000 since 1929, and a to him, therefore be must be weak total now standing at $2,748,000.- and insipid, and so with a casual 000. the Bun Life more than reference to his technical ability maintains its position in the and to his charm of manner, he is front rank of the great insurance left, damned with faint praise,
the page of many a popular book Downward Trend Arrested Mr. Wood gives a very clear It was my original intention to idea of the general movement of consider Raphael's position in the business when he says that in, bistory of art in the light of this surances in "force were at their modern criticism and to estimate peak three years ago, that reduc, briefly the value of the criticism
institutions of the world.
on ari.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1935.
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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Note:-Figures in parentheses indicate number of letters in the words required.
Across
1-This raises tender emotions
(0),
6-A bit of a "bust-up" (6). 10-State income, which is just
what you have to do to the Commissioners thereof, (7). 11-Money thus is almost a char-
acteristic grap (6)", 12-Tray of a kind (0) 13-Commanded (7). 16-Pale as a bird (b). 17-Nothing in the drawing-room-
would turn it into a bar (5). 18and a number in deep sleep
show us the point (5).
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found in a musical composi- tion (8) 29-Playa But a small part in
spite of his name (5). 23-Not necessarily immediately. though this month certainly (7). 29-Writer (6), 30-Young bird (e).
31-"A smiler" (anagram) (77). 39 Facts cannot be this (8). 33-Tha feast of the padres (6).
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I-Father has turned into.
Turkish officer (3)
2-Clogs (3).
3--Constellation (3). 4-Over
this prophetin superintendent (4).. 5-A Take nothing else (4),
-Helt (4).
7-Paruses, as regards small
announcements (5),
B--Carp, maybe, hit no fish
(5)
B-Buzzer, maybe, but no insect
(B).
14-Waste matter (5);
15-Just the dance for a queer little sort of bachelor (5). 19-Meditated (5).
20- turn in this city of Italy
·(B).
91-Brief change to. sibetance
(B).
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nelled afterwards (5), 23-Edible throb (5). 24-Scolded or graded (8). 26-Part of a steel instrument,
you want (0),
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27-A money carrier to cultivate
(4). 28-Headland (4).
The following is the solution of yesterday's puzzle:-
Across-1, Sorta; 8, Expel; 9, Down, Stoic; 2, Railway- Teatray; 10, Olive; 11. Orris; 19, line 3, Steps; 4, Galas; 5, Array; P-(1)-easant; 14, Cowes; 15. Bpy; 6, Eyots; 7. Per-pet-rat-ed; 8, 16, Swede: 17, Buyer; 19, Rim; L-isle; 13. Spain; 17, Batch; 18. 21, Be-rum; 2, Eminent; 24, Reeds; 19, Rinse; 20, Medal; 21, T-(h)-rice: 25, (st)-Utter-(ing); 28, Study; 27. Moral. Dastard; 7, Heeds; 25. Y-ode-1.
tions of approximately 5 per cent. that would seek to depose him GERMAN EMIGRE|
occurred in each of the years 1932 from a throne of centuries. But and 1933 and that the downward on consideration I decided that trend was arrested last year when this would be an unprofitable task, the decline was under 1 per cent, and perhaps a needless one in a and he identifies as the most place where the vagaries of ultra
"KIDNAPPED"
f
Switzerland
(Special to the “Hong Kong Daily Presa" (Copyright.33
Berne, Mar. 37. Considerable stir has been caus- ed in political circles here by the press reports concerning the alleged kidnapping in Switzerland of the German" emigre, Berthold Jacob, who is asserted to have been lured to Basel and taken across the Ger- man trontier by a group of per- sons believed to have been Ger- man agents.
significant factor in the improved modern taste arouse little inter- Mysterious Affair In situation the marked decrease est, so I decided to confine my- which took place in lapses, and self to a simple effort to put be- surrenders of policies, these being fore you the person of this great -18 per cent, less than in 1933 and artist and let you see the claims the lowest since 1999, while that he has to fame, that is inde- reinstatements and revivals were pendent of age or fashion. the highest in the company's his
Origin Of Painting tory. There has been, concurrent- Let us consider first the state in ly, a further reduction in death, which painting was when Raphael claims, these being among the appeared Painting as we know it principal sources of profit earnings: is sometimes thought to have had by life companlea The third its beginning when Glotto as a important source is the excess of shepherd boy was given a brush interest realized on investments instead of the pointed stone, that over the rate required to main be used to scratch on rocks, but tain policy liabilities, and, as Mr. in reality we must go back to Wood points out, this factor is centuries long before that to find inevitably affected by changes in, its beginning. We have to go back general investment experience. to the Greek painters whose very With the passing of the abnor-names are now lost, but who Arst mal depressed conditions and the learned from coloured sculpture to general economic improvement the substitute pictures with light and companies are agali turning to shade and an attempt at visual long-term investments. Rates of fliusion for outlined drawings -or Interest, however, are at a low silhouettes: however decorative, level" and these conditions creats Architectural and sculptural in-
most exacting
fuences are visible in all the frag- problem with which the comments that remain, and soon the panies have to deal: Nevertheless, pictures began to be relieved by
The Swiss authorities meanwhile the experience of the Sun Life glimpses of landscapes, and so the have arrested the German journal- during the past year WL8
very foundation of classical painting ist Dr. Wesemann who was former. satisfactory, while new invest was laid. Its earliest great quali-ly a close friend of Jacob and who ments were limited to bonds and ties were a fine sense of proportion, is said to have had a hand in per- other high-grade securities. With appreciation of life-like fullness of suading the latter to return to a further Improvement in condi- form, learned from sculpture, and Germany.
the
Current
It is understood that the Swiss minister at Berlin called on the German foreign Office in order to draw the latter's attention to this affair, the Swiss minister being informed that Jacob was arrested on German territory and awaiting trial but that nothing is known in German official quarters as to the circumstances under which Jacob entered Germany.
tions the mortgage field may that other quality which distin-Transocean Kuo Min. again become available, the com- guished all Greek sculpture-con- pany, as Mr. Wood states, being summate skill in the treatment of desirous of extending and en: drapery, larging this valuable form of public service.
CRIES FOR HELP
Alleged To Have Been Ignored
GERMAN RAILWAYS
FEWER ROAD DEATHS
!!
Further Decrease Expected
London, March 27. The Transport Minister, Mr. Bore-Belisha, stated in Parliament that the number of persons killed and injured on the roads, which had shown a continuous decrease in recent weeks," was likely to show a further fall for the first week in which the speed-limilt of thirty miles an hour in built-up areas had been in operation.
Ox
There had been no increase in traffic, congestion reported in the London area or elsewhere. the contrary there was general agreement that trafic had pro- ceeded more smoothly. The in- crease in the number of vehicles on the roads, so far as he was aware, had continued una British Wireless..
· INCREASES REPORTED
In Shipping Trade
London, Mar. 27. Preliminary returns of the move- ment of shipping at United King-. dom ports during 1934 show that the total tonnage entered in for- [Special to the "Hồng Hồng Daily Feign trade was 10 per cent great- Preu (Copy)tIGHLY,T". er than in 1933 and that of clear-
ances 0.1 per cent. larger:
Classical Tradition This was the tradition that was handed down through ages when mosaic eclipsed painting, and the
Berlin, Mar. 27. The executive board of German. rigidity or form which morale Ranways met on Wednesday and treatment demands was found even for the fourth time in succession in the artists who preferred to be unanimously re-elected Dr. Born- painters rather than designers mueller general manager of the en- Yet Rome, bumbled and reduced system of German railways for A report has been made to the though it was by a series of dicas another period of three years. The Folice by the master of trading ters, never quite sorgot the classical, Junk No. 2850V to the effect that tradition, and its influence spread
élection was subsequently sanc hta vessel was blown from its moor- through Italy as soon as the Re
tioned by the Chancell inge on Lamma Island by a sudden | nalegance of art began. It in- Transocean, Kuá Min. squall on Sunday, and was carried fluenced Giotto, the founder of a out many miles to sea before it new classicism whose figures were and the capsized. Three of the crew, sculptural in quality and got their figur clinging to the sail were carried dignity from masiveness and ble. Fra into Chinesa waters, and their fate strength. The lesser men who fol is unknown.
lowed him were not able to learn The junkmaster, with another all that his exampl tang member of the crew clung to some it was not until Masaccio came spars and were later rescued by century later that a fresh
a junk from Aberdeen, and taken was made in what because
to Cheung Chau. 2-
relfance on what went
The Junkmaster alleged that be called the classica three other junks, which had pre- From this time for viously passed them, ignored their was rapid. stello the shouts for help.
and
Here
trade In 1934 showed an increase 01 5.9 per cent as compared with the previous years.** British Wireless
The movement in the coasting
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