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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935.
THREE HUNDRED YEARS
OF JOURNALISM
From James I. To 1935
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(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Sept. 16
Delegates from all parts of the country to the annual conference of the Institute of Journalists in London last week enjoyed the op- portunity to inspect a panorama of the evolution of the English news paper from its beginnings more than three hundred years ago to the present day..
the
OBITUARY
Notable Scottish Artist
(Special Air Ma· Service)
London. Sept. 10.
We regret to announce the death Mr. Archibald
of
KAY
HSA R.S.W.. which occurred yesterday at 18 Kensington Gate. Glasgow. Mr. Kay, who formerly resided at 14 Woodlands Terrace. has been in indifferent health for some time.
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sides poured from the London presses, was represented by numer - ous examples of the type illustrated in the accompanying reproductions. "A Perfect Relation or Summarle" is a particularly stylish specimen of front-page lay-out, and "Faithful Scout" is singled out for a graphic account of the "great
Mr. Kay was born in Glasgow and bludy engagement" between the English and Dutch fleets of 1880. His father, from whom he inherited his artistic gifts. The material for the exhibition. staged in the Hall of the Institute Dungeness in November, 1857.
"From these beginnings the came o: farmer stock from Sb- of Journalists. Tudor-street, E.C.,
pageant of the Press was shown in ster, in the parish of Halkirk in On completing his came from the newspaper collec-evalution through the journalistio Calthness. tion in the library of the Press eccentricities of the Restoration education he entered on a buni- Club, and by special desire of the
and Revolution to the advent of Institute the display was open, not the tri-weekly morning paper at only to the conference delegates the close of the seventeenth cen- but to all members of the journalis-tury and of the daily at the open- tie profession and to others in- ing of Anne's reign, when literature became a student of Glasgow School of Art under Robert Greenless, Then followed a 'fur- the ther period of study in
Paris, where
he Studio Jullen, had as masters Boulanger and Lefebvre.
terested...
allied Itselt with Journalism in the brillant Steele-and Addison, group of essay sheets, and Defoe's "Robin- son Crusoe" was running as a serial through the columns of the "Daily Post."
ness career and spent some years in the grain trade. Having early shown
incination towards art, he abandoned commerce and
ил
EARLY FEAR IN GLASGOW
Mr.
On returned to Glasgow Kay undertook the teaching of drawing in certain of the schools controlled by the Scottish Bourd of Glasgow, work which he con- tinued with much acceptance for
In the forefront of this fascinat- ing record of three centuries/ot English Journalism stood a page from William Caxton's press at Westminster dated 1480 £19 an example of the earliest printing in The second half of the eighteenth England. An interval or a century century was the period when the and a quarter led up to a copy of
newspaper reached maturity and "Mercurius Gallobelgicus," dated here were shown amidst their con- 1600, a six-monthly compilation of temporaries the first issue of the European news done in Latin at
"Morning Post" (the only copy Frankfurt and" containing the re- known) dated November 2, 1779; port of a speech delivered in ParThe Times in its first year llament by James I. denouncing the (1785), under its original title. "The
At the same time he 18 years. atrocity of the Guy Fawkes Plat Daily Universal Register "; and The
devoted himself to landscape This forerunner of newspapers. | Observer, the oldest existing of the
painting. Early attracted by the with letters from Continental cor- Sunday papers of to-day.
Highland scenery, respondents and the Dutch and
Journalism in its more modern grandeur of
adopted & Mr. Kay
directly German corantos-the earliest phases was represented by the first
naturallat style and his work form of news-sheets-provided the issues of many of the morning from year to
year was mark- material from which the pioneers evening, and Sunday papers of
ed by 線 steady
in growth of English Journalism compiled the Victorian and Edwardian times,
fullness or tone "and breadth of first newspapers in this country. and a large section of the exhibi-handling. He resided for a num- Their origin dates from May. 1622, tion was devoted to a display of the
ber of years at Callander and and in the exhibition was shown a oldest provincial, Scottish, and Irish painted many landscapes or the Anely preserved specimen of a year newspapers, which emphasised the picturesque scenery of the Pass later The Continuation of our interesting fact that while. Journal-
o! Leny. At the same time e Weekely Newes"--with its decora- Ism in London had a long start kept in touch with art movements tive headplece, table of contents, compared with the country towns.
in this country and on the Con- and entertaining account of recent many of the old towns and cities tinent and frequently travelled happenings in the Thirty Years' are still producing with unbroken in France. Belguim. Denmark.
'records of longevity Journals that and Italy. have Hourishtd since long before the birth of the oldest existing London newspapers."
War.
The Journalism of the Civil War and Commonwealth period, when, news pamphlets on the opposing
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SIR WALTER'S THRIUMPH IMPORTANT CONTRACT
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London, Sept. 10
Sir Walter Citrine came through the debate on his knighthood at the Trades Union Congress with great иdroitnes
He did no attempt to give any
personal explanation of why he ac cepted his honour. He contented himself with pointing out that the movement had never put any ban on the acceptance of honours by its followers.
The result was that what might have been an uncomfortable quarter of an hour we turned into an easy triumph.
Has the debate descended to per- sonalities Sir Walter would have He had had an effective answer.
He exhibited regularly in the exhibitions of the Royal Academy, the Royal Scottish Acadmy, the Royal Glasgow Institute, and in Munich, Paris, Venice. New Zealand, and at the inter- national exhibitions of St. Louis, in the United States. At one of (Special Air Mail Service)
the Venice exhibitions landscapes London, Sept. 10. by Mr. Kay were puchased Shareholders of the British the King of Italy and the Italian Lion Film Corporation are in- Government, formed that their company hus secured an important contract as a result of which it is to acquire
Before
PICTURES IN PUBLIC: GALLERIES
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distribution rights for the pro ductions of the Republic Picture
Pictures by Mr. Kay are Corporation of America.
'cluded in & good many public this can be supplemented, how-
this
and galleries in
country ever, a capital reorganisation has
abroad. In 1909 G'asgow Cor- to be effected and it is proposed
poration acquired a characteris- to increase the authorised capita
tic landscape from his brush. from £210,000 to £750,000, divid-
"The Rhymer's Glen" a view on ed int> 1,250.000 Ti per cent, par-
the burn which flows down â ticipating preference shares ut 10s. each and 2,500,000
side of Ben Led into Doch Lub- ordinary
nalg. Another Highland lands- charges of la, each,
cape by Mr. Kay, "Storm in the Holders of the existing preferr- Pass of Leny," was purchased in ed ordinary shares of 12s. 6d.
1919 by the Corporation of Liver- each are offered "five new pre- pool for the Walker Art Gallery ference sbares for every four pre-River in Winter Sunshine" is
held while the-de- ferred now
the Smith Institute, Stirling, and ferred shareholders are asked to in 1939 a large picture of Furnace convert at the rate of one new Quarry, Loch Fyne, was acquired 34. He had arranged this trip for preference share for every thirty by the trustees of the Caird Be- this time last year and postponed | deferred shares of· 4d." each
a list of the trade unionists who have accepted similar honours,
The knights alone run to over a seart.
RUSSIA. AFTER 10 YEARS Having successfully cleared his honours hurdle, Sir Walter will Mil for Leningrad on September
now
it because of his mission to held. In addition, there are p- America
Hos on new ordinary shares at
par.
He will be away about six week. and will be accompanied by Larty
TWO NEW DIRECTORS Citrine. His visit is a private one,
Subject to the reorganisation but he will see something of Russia's industrial centres and being carried into effect, trade union movement.
Film and General Trust. Limited,
the
He will find many changes since will arrange the subscription his last visit in 1925. Tomsky and at par of £125,000 8 per cent, the other Russian trade union, convertible debenture stock and leaders of that time are now an
500,000 new ordinary shares of ployed in minor jobs and re, 1s, each, fresh finance being ne- doubtless, reflecting on the im
under the term of the permanenos of greatness.
MR. RICKETT ARRIVES IN ENGLAND
(Special Air Mau Servion
London, Sept. 16. Mr. F. W Rickett, the English fancier who obtained. theo concesalon in Abyssinis, landed at
Croydon Aerodrome last night after flying from Rotterdam.
Mr. Rickett declared that he would stick to the concession ock stock and barrel."
Asked if he were going to offer tary other American or Bri tish Interests, he replied
No.
The concession is mine entirely. I am not influenced by politics at all, but naturally the present at uation will give me cause for great consideration. I hope the con- cession will be developed almost at once.
quest and presented to Greenock
for the Watt Institute collection.
Academic honour were bestowed he on Mr. Kay in 1916, when was elected an Assciate of the Royal Scottish Academy, and he was raised to full membership in 1930. He was a member of the Royal Glasgow. Institute of the Fine Arts, and served for a term on the council of the Institute. He was for many years a pro-
of the Royal minent member Scottish Society of Painters in Water Colours, and was a regular exhibitor at the society's annual exhibitions in Glasgow and Edin- burgh. He was also a member
cessary. contract.
the Two Important figures in fields of films and finance, Mr. N. L. Nathanson and Mr. Andrew P. Holt, are to become directors Mr. Nathanson and Mr. Hot have and past president of the Glas- already assisted the company Bow Art Club. In 1933 his ser- through
its negotiations, both vices to the club were recognised complementary d'nner, with Mr. 8. W. Smith, the present otherwise, and financially and
when he was the guest of bon- managing director, will subscribe our... for the new debentures. In Iv ture these directors will ho'd not less than one-third of the ordin- ary capital.
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IN THE SCOTTISH" TRADITION.
In painting Mr. Kay continued Scottish the best traditions of art. He had little sympathy with "All the arrangements for the some of the more modern move concession were made before the ments, and he never, concealed dispute between Italy and Abys-his dislike of Post-Impressionism of the later deve- sinia started, and it does not and certaini
lopments in painting which have affect my plans in the slightest."
Mr. Ricketts said he was shortly come from France. He was..
B great admirer u going to America. His trip would nowever, be "parily business and partly Turnier, Constable, MT ggart, and pleasure."
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