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ART EXHIBITIONS?
By CHARLES FABEN KELLEY.
An Interesting incident was re-, trus work of art. If we can find to seek relief in some form out-cently brought to my attention of this out for ourselves, and dis side the Scheme." As one newB- a professor in a great university entangle it from its surroundings, paper assorts, "there is no 43.
and occasional unemployment, and is a quite inappropriate me thod of dealing with chronic and continuous unemployment.
Laughter With Banners
ful of the future.
that
many
of art have been
¿
BRINGING UP GOLDFISH.
By Edward (Walton) Kelly, "ICHTHYOPHTHIRIUS"
said
he, languidly brushing the curls back from his forehead.
-
It's a discaso. It affects gold- fish.
Don't ask us how they manage to at a discase like that into tho ordinary alze goldfish. It would bo far too technical and vocabu- larious for you, and you wouldn't ' enderstand,
For instance, do you know that infusorian parasite! constantly a Icthyopopherolous thing is an
|
Ah, what soul-bursting ignor, anco. What noisome depths of Ilterncy. What ...... but let It pass
Let us tell you that anything we don't know about goldfløb, the goldfish don't know about it either.
claimed
through birth, nursed it through
Wo saw
sential difference in merit and who resigned his membership in we can never complain again of
museum association be the monotony of appearances. need between the unemployed an art man or woman within Insurance cause he did not like an exhibition and his or her fellow-worker who which he had attended, there. This la, however, only one is outside. The distinction made We may assume that the pro-napect. What contributes most to between them by the Majority fessor represents a class rather confusion is that our definitions Broadly, above. the average in intelligence broadening and we can no longer is purely artificial." the position taken up by the Min- and education. Doubtless he felt apply to a picture the measuring | ority members of the Commis strongly on the subject, and it is rod of actuality of appearance. We sion represents the general viewa of the Labour Movement, but it equally probable that his educa- now know that it may look just will be upon the Majority Report tlon, extensive as it was, had had ke nature and not be art-al- though it does not necessarily that Government action will be nothing to do with art in any of follow that the further away from based. Already, there has been its aspects. He must have gone nature, the nearer art. That is a considerable criticism of the pro- to the exhibition with the rather pitfall into which many, particu- posals. The Majority Report is definite idea of seeing something larly the untrained and the im
Peto and us once sat up ali described in one quarter as a quite unlike what he actually did mature, easily fall
night with 4 alck goldfish. futile attempt to postpone the see, and was consequently dis- Nature is merely the artist's raw | Whooping cough was the trouble Inevitable. In effect it admits appointed. The exhibition was of material. What he does with it, We did everything in our that the principle of insurance is the "modern" type, which means and how he does it, is all there is power, but the Grim Reaper our little Jim, and ho only applicable to intermittent that there was a great variety of to art. There should be no mis-
take as to what the artist's inten- passed over the Great Divido technical experiments, and not tions are---he should speak clearly with one faint, final whoop. much of what we are used to call--but that does not indicate that Pete, with the desperato in- ing "realism." What is the public his meaning can be immediately solence borne of grief, turned to to do?
grasped by anyone who dashes us and said, “I told you that rum part his pleture. If careful and you gave him wouldn't do him In the first place, only a small thoughtful and even leisurely con-, any good.” - proportion of the public attends templation does not reveal tho
We just glanced at Pete and art exhibitions. Exhibitions would artist's idea, there are only two!
possible conclusions-either you loft the room. We have never be better if more people went to and he are so dissimilar in your spoken to him since. Now that à chair of laughter' them. It is no secret to museum, tastes and experiences that you do
We now pursue our studies has been established by the officials
first-class not speak the same language or alone. We have watched the fish Mark Twain Association, a ques- artists will not send their work to else that there was no idea. Un- through its life span. Cradled it tion may well be put as to how exhibitions unless it is especially fortunately, the latter is often mirth-making may be extended invited, and not everyone can be true.
the anxious stages of adolescenco across the wide stretches of a. Invited every year. We jump to
when its character was heing farmed, watched it grow bigger inches.world found sometimes to be conclusions; we say immediately,
It is well to remember that some until it got curvature of the none too sunny, none too hope-
one to hom- upon walking into a gallery, that painters of biblic are more spine swimming around the bowl.
|terested subject matter per se, |
It develop the home four is the solvent that lubricates the works we see are good or bad some in colour, soma in form; others. Instinct as it reached its 'teena. the grinding gears of social life, (another way of expressing our in the way the thing is designed; One female goldfiah we had, climb
and these interesta prejudice one ed out of the water to polish the then it is worth trying in, likes or dislike). the home. For instance, every
for or against a work of art, quite outside of the bowl. unconsciously. Probably some- family circle might have a chair
Before we quarreled with Pate, of laughter in the library or at
I wonder if the public realizes thing can be found worthy of one's we epent many an interesting hour the dinner table; such a chair that those who are working pro-liking in many pictures of which together, teaching the little chap- might even be upholstered in fessionally and constantly in art much is not understood. Very few pies to swim. We would stand on
artists can be totally wrong any cheerful plush and installed in feel that an exhibition is distinct-more than those who view their one side of the bowl, making paddi
ing motions with, our hands and the car. The honoured occupy worth while if one out of ten pictures can be totally right. ant, without portfolio and salary, of the works exhibited seems
to Even though a picture may not one foot, and Pete would stand on "Come on, bubsic....... .Bubrio- would be expected to look on the them to be of fine. quality? And tell a story, or deal with forms the other side encouraging the fish
with which we are familiar, it wubric, come to dad-da.”“ bright side of events, to venture even they have their doubts, their
may contain harmonies of colour at times a keen observation or differences of opinion and their and rythms of form which are dis weren't no hot on the American two designed to prick the grey prejudices. They cannot be sure inctly pleasureable. What the bubble of gloom; to represent with enthusiasm the cause of a that they are always right, and public resents, and rightly, in lib- cheerful to-morrow. Even wise. this is one of the reasons why artles taken with familiar forms cracking would not be barred visit to an art exhibition may be or purposes which they do not un-
SYMPHONIE CHINOISE. if it carry no barb of scorn or an exciting experience. It is an of design which actually introduco
Rudolph Friml, the celebrated Dorathy, dearly beloved wife of cynicism-but the chief business exercise in discrimination, an edu-iscordant elements instead musical composer, is in the Colony
and destroy, of the chair of laughter, acting cation of one's faculties, perhaps new harmonies,
seeking atmosphere for a Chinese through its chairman, should be a voyage of discovery.
rather than create, unities.
symphonic suito. to discover and display the
Artists are capable of respond- bright fragments in every situn."
in- "Ah, my de-ear Ed-ouard Kel- It la zo fine city, zis Hong- reasingly intelligent and exacting | ee. a gay pattern of optimiser so, of art in past ages have ceased to public; and, on the other hand, kong of yours. Be-eautiful!" that a multitude of folk may en-exist, art is not regarded as 80 most of us are capable of enjoying said the Celebrated Composer. gago forthwith in the manufac-'much an economic necessity as it far greater variety of art than ture of smiles, snickers, grins once war, and is therefore con-we permit ourselves and guffaws-advance battalions sidered nonessential and even We should visit more exhibitions, in the victorious army of good, frivolous. But leaving this out of good or bad, and try to form our own personal opinions about them, consideration, there is one reason else we shall, miss an interesting why all people should go to ex- and important part of life. hibitions, whether or not they like the pictures: It will put their surroundings into focus as nothing else can, and they will look out upon nature with clearer eyes. No matter how dull the day or how drab the surroundings, there is
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Hongkong Telegraph. tion, and to assemble them into of the reasons for the productioning to the demands of an
MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1932.
FUTURE OF THE
"DOLE"
cheer,
Nothing in the News
crawl,
but
They learnt in no time. They
you #hould have seen them on the breast stroke.
So there you are.
#
"We will write zo Chinese suite. to look at. Oo! Lai La! · It shall have Zo--
what you call it?-atmosphere of zo place
CHARLES FABENS KELLEY,
A THOUGHT FOR TO-DAY
THE TRUE UNIVERSITY OF OUR
Much interest has been arous- ed at Home by the report of the Dismay is writ upon the wrink- Commission on Unemployment led brow of the editorial writer. Insurance, the majority mem- Avidly he scans the pages of the bers of which base their chief newspapers, searching for A recommendation on their view newa item which may furnish in- that "the present position is spiration for the yet unborn always something to be seen from DAYS IS A COLLECTION OF BOOKS.— such as to neccssitate, not a fur- editorial. The clock on the wall which a real artist can evolve a Carlylo. ther patching up of the system, ticks remorselessly on, remind- but a revision of the principles ing him cach second that time, on which it is founded." They tide and the 'deadline' wait for propose a dual system of Ingur no man. Nothing in the news! ance and Relief. The insurance He recalls a short story in Edna system is to be retained and Ferber, narrating a taxi driver's amended in order to make it day. Just an ordinary day, "solvent" and "self-supporting" nothing to it—packed with more by limiting the payment of bene- thrills than a volume of Feni- fils which are to be reduced to more Cooper. Helping two out- 16s. for men and to 13s. for wo- of-town maiden Indies to find a men-to insured workers who nephew'who lived, they thought, have paid a prescribed number somewhere on West 181st of contributions. All unemploy- Street; persuading a headstrong ed workers outside this scheme youth and a rather weepy girl -workers who have exhausted not to clope, but to go back to their insurance benefit right and school and write home about it; workers in uninsured trades ending with the ingenious cap- are to obtain relief according to ture at 2 a.m. of a bootlegger need under a scheme to be ad- who was planning to add homi- ministered by Local Authorities. cide to his crime. As the taxi- This work is to be taken over man sleepily prepares for bed he from the existing Public Assist proposes to his wife taking the ance Committees by new Com- day off on the morrow. "Let's mittees to be called "Unemploy go and see one of them western ment Assistance Committees." A cowboy pictures; that's where a modified Means Test is to con- fellow has some excitement all tinue, the hope being that its ad- right" Nothing in the news! ministration by the new Com- Let's see. Japan announces a mittees will make it less objec- disarmament plan at Geneva tionable and deprive it of the which really means disarma- Poor Law tuint that is associat- ment, although, they want Bri- ed with the present administra- tain and America to disgorge tion. This differentiation be four battleships while they tween the unemployed insured scrap only one. Poor hard-done- workers and the unemployed by Darlington beats Crewe in a workers who will be outside the Cuptle. Hitler finds some of Insurance scheme is strongly op his lieutenanta have minds of posed by the Minority Report of their own. The Daily Mail re- Councillor Asbury and Mrs. fers to Sir John Simon's counsel Rackham. They declare that as wise and moderate! The the conception of the Majority editorial writer stops; his allot- Report is one of "an Insuranco ted space is filled.
"Andrew, what's this I hear about you making faces
behind my back for the last 30 years?"
We hurriedly passed the Central Market, and walked down to wards Pedder Street.
"Zere shall be ze syncopation. Oui, zo melody and ze rapid movement from zo bar to bar."
"Is that
whant syncopation' menna?" we asked.
"Oui, it is so," replied the Celebrated Composer.
"Oke. Let's syncopato," we
gald.
We walked inside.
·
The Celebrated Composer alp per thoughtfully.
"Our", he said "zo zuite, cet shall commence with zo five shoms in B major."
"Yeah", We sald morosely, "our's is D. flat.
·
•
A Chinese coolie, standing be- neath a "Refrain from Saltting" notice, made auggestive noises with his throat.
The Celebrated Composer stood still. His face grew donthly pale. "Mong Jew"." (meaning "Well, what do you think of that" ho cried: "I has been forestalled. Someone elsc, 'a 'as composed my Chinese symphony.
•
OUR NOTE TO PERSIA. "It will be appreciated, we think. that the Implications of a proposition are not necessarily congruous howover much, prima facio tho construction of ita terms may appear to involve ex- plicit discrepancico."
"The fact that an argument ap- pears to be debatable is not, of itself. irrefragable proof of its debatability; and hence the as Bortion of a conditional negative has only a provisional and limit- ed relevance.
"To state what the object or pim of a stinulation in fa a vory different thing from making the successful fulfilment of that phiret the condition of the stipu- lation,"
Those aró extracts from our now Memorandum to Porala. Sir John turned green with onvy when their wording was brought to his notico.