CAN DEPRESSION BE DISPELLED IN HONG
KONG BY ART?
A Suggested Art Festival
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Of The Far East
"I have too fine a regard for the meaning and value of words to use the adjective 'greatest' without giving thought to other op- portunities that may also be classified as "great," said Mr. Laszlo Schwarts in his address to the Hong Kong University Arts Association yesterday evening, on the feasibility of holding an Annual Fine Art Festival of the Far East in Hong Kong.
The University Union Assembly' Hali was Alled to capacity with Members and friends including Mr. T. A. Martin, President.
The Speaker was, Introduced by the Chairman, Mr. Cheng Yum Yue, and after a few humorous remarks, Mr. Schwartz outlined his plah.. He said:
This outline of mine will not only prove profitable to the creater and vendors of the "Outline" but to everyone of you sitting here and to Hong Kong in general. Please do not feel justified on hearing this bold statement in asking me for an advance on your share of the profits: Such advance royalty privileges are only within the orbit and financial spheres of eternally money-muddled artists, but not. bankers, brokers, accountants, &c.
What I have in mind is an
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For the eye, for the ear, for the mind, for the soul it would be a treat of hitherto unheard of dimen- sions, and significance.
Every country that would exhibit and send its best performers here would prepare for months, and the law of elimination would be applied mercilessly in each land in their endeavour to search, for the best talent. If these contests are con- ducted properly-and it will be the Advertising manager's role in Hong Kong to see to it that they are- then these contests will produce all the funds needed for the sending of the art representatives of each land to the festival. Needless to say, commercial art interests would not partake in this financial ald on the part of their respective governments, for they will be amply reimbursed by the gain in new
"P.S." that would make
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Should there be the tiniest dan- ger of a clogging of their menta! the advertising forces of the Hong machinery it will be the duty of
Kong Organizing Committee
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, MAY 8. 1936.
CHARLIE
CHAPLIN
RETURNS
Will Remain Here Until Saturday
After nearly two months in the East Indies and Indo-China, Mr. Charles Chaplin. world-famed im star. returned to Hong Kong yes- terday from Haiphong by steamer Canton.
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Mr. Chapin was accompanied by Miss Paulette Goddard. leading lady in his falest al "Modern Times," and Mrs. Goddard.
The party plans to stay in Hong Kong until Saturday, when it will leave for Japan. on the Kashima Maru
After a month there. Mr. Chaplin will return to the United States on the President Coolidge.
ed but nothing definite has been A visit to Canton is contemplat- decided
his tour he began the writing of a Mr. Chaplin stated that during scenario for Miss Goddard
SCHOOL CONCERT
By The Quarry Bay Pupils
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Many parents gathered for the annual spring festival by puplis of the Quarry Bay school yester- day in the school grounds. Origin- ally the function was arranged for May 1 but was postponed on ac- count of the inclement weather.
Among those present were Mr. G. R, Sayer, Director of Education. and Mrs. Sayer, Miss M. Cooper School), Mesdames K. E. Greig, A. (Headmistres of Kowloon Junior
R. H. Phillip, F. J. de Rome, C. C. Stark, W. G. Clark (Headmistress of the Peak School), the Rev. 818- ter Beatrice and Sister Gina, of the French Convent.
The success of the festival was largely due to the teaching and coaching of the pupils by Miss Q. M. Cotton, Headmistress, and her staff.
The festival opened with a dance, "Three Meet," by Class 7, 8 and 9, followed by the entrance of little Pauline Ewing as the May Queen. "Now is the Month if Maying" was sung by the whole school and Classes 7 and 8 rendered "A Fairy
of Mozart, of the Music Festival Song" arranged by John Vine.
Bayreuth dedicated tu the genius of Wagner, to the lacey Vaped Music. Fest.ves in Buda- pest that have made that city- which was hopelessly off the tour- 1st track in the past-one of the most popular tourist haunts In
Europe.
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Followed a "Golliwog Dance" by Claas 9: a poem "Boy Hylas" by Class 8 (lead by Frank Langley, Peter Kimm and Michael Proulx); the old English dance "Greenslee- ves" by Class 7 and a song "Oh, Soldier, Soldier. Won't you Marry Me?" by Class 10.
EUROPE IS
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RULED BY FEAR
France And Germany Must Pool
THE STRENGTHENING OF COLLECTIVE SECURITY.
(BY H.P.S. MATTHEWS) As one looks back upon the events which have followed upon Hitler's re-occupation of the Rhineland one "realises, more clearly perhaps than
ever be fore, how the whole conduct of
the affairs of Europe is ruled by fear, and how that fear leads men to act in a way which seems to us wholly unreasonable and incredibly short-sighted.
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It is so abundantly clear every thinking man that a frank serdement of the differences be- tween France and Germany is essentia Europe is. ever to achieve tranquillity. The ordinary men and women on both sides of nothing less than to be compelled the Franco-German frontler desire
once again to fly at the throats or people they have never seen in pursuit of a quarrel that they do rot understand.
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and
WILI.
Pupils of Classes 7 and 8 gave
DESTRUCTION KNOWN another splendid performance by Frenchmen have seen what it is playing "Oriental March" and to have a foreign army on their "Blue" Danube."
Bol and to see their lawns The Three Little Pigs and the villages destroyed and the fields Big, Bad Wolf, made popular re-laid waste. cently by Walt Disney's Stily Byr-perienced for more than a decade
Germans have ex phony, appeared in an entertal. the elects of a disastrous ing song, "Three Little Pigs," per- They have seen bringing in its formed by Class 9.
train the breakdown of their A poem. "Pied Piper was play-economic system and the destruc- ed by Kenneth Stone, Lionel tion of their savings. They have owed by Class 3 giving a dance Strange. Classes 7, B. 9 and 10. fol- seen unemployment mounting to a
co casal figure. and the Band presenting "Sing a
It has become abundantly pain to them that no Song of Sixpence," "Oranges and
war, not even a victorious Lemons," "Cradle Song" (Schu-
pne. bert), "Andante" (Beethoven) and
can bring anything but, disaster. Yet to-day we are being assured Pop Goes the Weasel"
that will only be a matter of a few years before Europe is in- volved once more in this senseless carnage. Why?
The latter half of the programi- me consisted of four songs" "Elün Fairies," "Three Dragons" (by "The Sweet Rosy Morning" (by the Classes 7, 8 and 9. "Pippa's Bong,"
whole school), and
a Maypole Dance by Class 7.
NO FATALITY REPORTED
IN LAST WEEK'S TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
ginning of March.
We saw the reason at the be- When Cer- many re-occupied the Rhineland France demanded sancitons-garc- tions which were, if necessary, to go to the length of actually mili- tary intervention Why? Not be cause France wanted -a war with Germany, but because the French General Staff feared that, if action were delayed longer, Germany might be strong enough to defeat- France.
FEAR LIES AT THE BOTTOM Fear lies at the bottom of the whole crisis which is afficting
Annual Fine Art Festival of the markets and new business contacts. stances where work
I could quote many other Far East to be held in Hong Kong TOURIST POSSIBILITIES
and talent, every year, including leap years.
combined with advertising genius. So as to dispel the last vapours of would but intensity art and com- able results in profits. There
Does this mean that this festival have produced the most remark- doubt lest some of you think that mercial this is the result of a pipe dream
relations between the the miserable beach of Waikiki or a neglect, to tame my whisky
lands of the Far East? Not at all. that has been made world-amous with suficient soda, may I add that
That is but a minor part of the by its Hula Hula dance and a bl ..the seeds of this idea have been in mind you, ladies and gentlemen.
gains to be accounted for. And of tropical moonlight thrown in. the process of bursting forth in my
What is all this compared Ly mind for quite some time and itt. But I have something just as
that in itself is not to be sniffed what you could offer in an Art took this visit to Hong Kong to important in view when I called and excursions to historical part Festival to be held in Hong Kong bring it to a full flowering. You your attention to the tourist pos- of this fascinating land? Nature may justly ask; "And why punish sibilities of such an us with it?" My answer was ready Festival of the Far East.
Annual Art "and the "Doler of Talents" even before you could possibly have
bren most generous made the query. Because. ladies would go forth to every
The identical invitations
to the East that and get you have not even an Arl and gentlemen. this is not only a
land in Schoul. This festival plan would matter of Hong Kong's concern, but Festival would also be sent forth Arta with as definite an almas
the Far East to participate in this give the and a School of Fin one of international significance.tr every land in the West with a any such institution has ever beep You see, all my life I have been advocating the building of bridges
the Art blessed with. It would become the -"Bridges of Culture" between the lands sit up and take notice and be co-ordinated towards making and Commercial Interests of those pivot of the activities that would East and the West. I reel confident do some very interesting that, bad I devoted the same calculating. I can assure you that round success.
blts of the Annual Art Festiva; an amount of time and energy, cn- thusiasm, gab and grit acting as
this search for new markets, This exchange of art, values an agent for radios, iceless icetic things
for new business contacts, for exo- well as art products between. the boxes, motor cars, or masquito and put ic of the West the men scale would be
to introduce to the East and the West on such a huge mother-in-law exterminators." could have made a good deal of terests have not grown any dull- an well as the West. To-day the In charge of commercial art in- creating new markets for the East money out of it. But then, it is not every fish that can thrive in
Artist from the East is still very salt water.
rare in the West and one may say the same for the Western artist in and gentlemen, that once wide- the East. I can assure you, ladies
awake impresaries of the West able possibilities in every branch these Festivals they could engage including the Island Kowloon and fear, breeding an unreasoning ans- call their attention to the remark would realize that by attending
In the Colony of Hong Kong. Europe to-dayan pnreasoning of the fine arts and commercial musical, Alm, dramatic, etc. talent arts that are begging for fuller, with a good prospect of making week ending at 8 am. on Satur- tions between nations. There is no
the New Territories. during development in the Far East.
the picton, "poisoning the whole rela Let me cite but one of the hun- profitable one, the time would soon 45 trame accidents as the result tions.
the trip a pleasant as well as 2day, May 2, there were altogether certainty in international rela- taken but half of the trouble on dreds of instances. Had England arrive when you will not have to of which 18 persons were injured. waste much energy in coaxing them ducts that Lancashire did to ad- behalf of its art and cultural pro-
The whole root of Europe's trou- to Hong Kong.
Of the 45 accidents, 17 were ble is psychological If there were pedestrians who were either walk- any sort of, confidence in Europe INFLUENCE OF WESTERN ART. ing er running across the road and we could get agreement on many developed a new market. in the assure you that she could have Those of us who have studied éle rider was injured when he ran solved to-day. That lack of con- were struck by vehicles. One bicy- of the matters which cannot be the influence of Western art over into a tree. Two passengers were fidence is wildest imagination. I happen to fully aware of the possibilities as Far East that outstretches your the shaping of Art in the East are injured; one while alighting from "security" to the feeling that one due to a lack of speak with considerable authority well as the impossibilities that face
a moving motor bus and the other cannot be sure of prevalling if one on this one particular subject, for the leaders of art who have this rider was injured as the result of
from a moving tramçar. A bicycle is attacked by one's neighbour. Why in Hong Kong? Because have been for many a year with confident that this can
Lamin constant contact. and gigantic problem at heart. I am a collision with another vehicle.
No amount of armaments, can from every angle, geographical, the educational and art forces of sclved in an efficient and profitable collisions between vehicles: 18 were in one country breed increases in publicity possibility, world sym-the entire Far East. Let us give manner if the artist and the com- collisions
give a nation that feeling of con- only be Of the 45 accidents, 17 were idence, for increasing armaments pathy, elements of exoticism, artis thought at the same time to the mercial interests join hands. This pedestrians; and 12 accidents were tle background, &c., this city proves beneficial and mutually reciproca plan would make that not only due to other causes.
between vehicles and the armaments of the others. an ideal spot for the venture. In India one would have a hard time have established between the East
tive cultural ties that this would possible but imperative.
We can win security and adence by one method only, the organizing such an undertaking and the West. Ties that would tival would bring in added volume patrons of art. Not to speak of the security by showing our readiness because of its unwieldy size; and
Pray visualize what such a res
strengthening of collective security. We сап the, scores of dividing lines that for more sympathy, for a deeper terest as the hotels, dealers of art papers would derive from the to end the Abyssinian War. The
strengthen better understanding, and profits to such business in- amount of added revenue thone to take drastic measures in order collective would handicap the organizers. Japan at the present moment does that could be had by the East as pantes, transport, land
and wider realization of the good works, printers, steamship c017- not enjoy the sympathy of the well as the West from the streng- crafts, etc., in Hong Kong. But it commercial interests interested in which would be the result of dras- money. spent by steamship com increases in general confidence entire world. To make this Festival thening of such ties. Oh how would not only mean added earth- the making of this undertaking a tie action ending the Abyssinian values, rantes, tourist bureaux, and other and reliance upon the League a success that is an indespensable many more musical Instruments ly blessings to Hong Kong, but to success. asset. China would be too much how much more printed music.
much, ob so much more that I which a sane solution of our mani- every land that partakes in making Ladies and Gentlemen-there would produce an atmosphero in War, would be tremendous. It
countries that have come to realize could bring before you of genuine fold problems would at length be interest to Hong Kong, and to all possible. that good art can be made to pay,
And yet, ethereal as "Bridges of Culture" may seem to you at first hearing. I will now proceed to prove to you that there is as, much, nay infinitely more money to be made out of them than sharp-witted and still sharper pencil-wielding contractors make out of building roads and river-spanning bridges.
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This Annual Fine Arts Festival of the Far East is rooted in Econo mics, and while, as I've said, it is of international significance, vrtise its cotton products. I can glorious bit of work might be sponsored by such a beautiful spot as Hong Kong. In the final analysis it will bring the greatest returns to the entire Far East.
FROM EVERY ANGLE
make
for
in the state of flux, Siam is not how many more books on art, how this festival the kind of success it .in such a favourable geographical position, and I can only think of
many more up-to-date printing so legitimately deserves. the Dutch East Indies as a possible printing, etc., could have been sold or the publicity Hong Kong will presses for the production of art
As to the amount and the quality the East-if-yes, if the artist gain from it, it would require an and the business man of the West expert in the field to form a fair
competitor for the honours and
profits to be attained from the fullment of this plan.
What would this Annual Fine Art Festival of the Far East consist of? It would be the most complete and
Con
and not merely to function as a that of the whole world Genera hand in hand to attain such a and the East could have worked conception of its magnitude. How civilizing force. But my time is tions will sing the praises of your ever, may I'get you thinking about up. I leave with you food for deed, one that will do more for glorious end."
just one phase of it, and a most thought. Buffelent food to last better understanding, more for I lay before you a plan in its important one at that, namely, a you weeks and months. All. I beg kindliness and for peace in the most astounding representation of embryonic state, but just as cer- the Fine Arts from every land that tain that I am neither a Mussoress story bringing such news to of you is not to stop at merely East and in the West than all your make up the Far East. Every one un nor a Hitler, I feel confident any paper in the world, whether giving this plan your best thoughts, diplomats could produce in genera- of these Countries Governments that if the beat brains of Hong tion, would be most welcome. This the dream come true. Some day Art is anti-hatred: Art is the finest daily, weekly, trade or art publica Give it life force. Help to make tions to come: Artis: anti-war. would be asked to co-operate in King will give this matter their venture, like all legitimate azt ven-some men and women in the walks cementing force that will oblite- the making of this Festival, such best thoughts and best efforts, a huge and hitherto unheard of out of this plan will evolve atures would receive a tremendous of life where you now do your rate many of the absolutely un event that the Music, and other Art heading to all concerned to the amount of free publicity. Not only best to make life more user will necessary and so many of the ar- Festivals would pale alongside of East as well as to the West. At. Every land in the Far East A FASCINATING LAND,
because it would prove sensational accomplish this. The opportunity tificial barriers between the people and unprecedented news, but be is presented to you to-day: wet of the East, and those of the West. cause its commercial aspects and not too many to-morrows slip past, Bere la work for men and women performers and creative artists as Behold the worldwide success possibilities are so ideally interna for history waits for no man. In-people who believe in the wonder- well as the works of their best of the Oberammergau. Passion tional intheir, sepe, that every making this dream come trayon Tul destiny of Man." artists, ancient and modern, to be Play Festival, the Balzburg Mus-editor would be glad to serve its will be writing history not only in Don't miss your glorious oppor represented.
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