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WAR ALARMS,
It is a symptom of the disqulot felt all.tlig world over that national parliaments are voting Increasing
BRITISH
ART
By JAMES GREIG
The Very Idea!
GIRLS, ACQUIRE “IT””)
...By Eddio Kelly, A La Mode.
TTENTION, girls!
The British art exhibition, re-painted tho wonder of Alpine. sums of money for national defence presentative of a thousand years heights? Hogarth, the Londoner. A budgets. Three of Germany's of British Art, opened at Burling was certainly inspired by the do- meighboura, Holland, Belgium and ton House on Saturday, the King used moraus and manners of his
Just a few words on how Switzerland, for instance, accord being among the most important native city.
to use your lipstick and face ing to a paragraph of the League of | cúntributors. In the following Nations Union Journal, Headway, article Mr. James Greig tells the
Proximity to the Netherlands and powder. These thing a are voting no less a sum than £16," | story of the decline of art in Engi
the magration. of its people to
$500 300,000 for frontier. defence, and land after the reign ofcoast Angau made that region an should be used artistically
admirable nursery for the arts from and correctly.
First of all, it is necessary
Inspection and trial invited WHIPPET TOURER
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extra millions take no account of | Elizabeth and of its renaissance inueniotial times. But the arts |
the armed forces of Poland, France, the eighteenth century. Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, most, if not all of which, are certainly not decreasing.
MALIGN PROPAGANDA
have flourished also in districts, far;
any
the finger. Claude If his Lordship wishes This will result in a whito
rouge on
chalk line across the face, which will give the position for tho the lips. The rouge may be applied with a small mop or trowel, caro being taken to scoop any surplus out of the cars.
It will be well-known to not separated from the Continent for to have a face, with a mouth. lovers that Queen Elizabeth fore-example, in Winchester, York and in it."
St. Albana, Gainsborough was bade artists to paint historical born in an East Anglian village set
The face should be wash- pictures or imaginary scones representing the "passion of the amid charming scenery, and later ed and, if there is a cloth saints and martyrs. Before this he lived in Bath, with its unduinting handy, dried.
landscape; Yet he wrote to the ban, Henry VIIL. had brought And yet there is certainly no Holbein to England; and from Lari of Hardwicke: "With regard A piece of well-chalked string xrent risk of war in the immediate that time to the advent of Hogarth, to real views from Nature in this is then tied to one car, stretched across the face to the other ear. future, Europe is too exhausted. Reynolds and Gainsborough, Bri. Country, he has never seen and there are too many people who tish art was dominated mainly by Place that affords a subject equal to and then given a slight flip, with Excellent running order $500 are inarticulate but will certainly foreigners, who, with the excep- the poorest imitations of Gaspar or never again enter willingly into tion of the German, Rubone, and to have anything tolerable of the armed conflict with another nation. | Vandyck, wore of second-rate Im- name of G., the Subject altogether, To them no national interest is ¡portance. The best of them wis sufficiently "vital" to make them gir Peter Lely, whose influence as well as figures, &c., must be of want to adopt such a course. The and that of Kneller wore para- his own Brain."
The anme personal quickening hasį only explanation of this war-talk mount and apparent even in
been expressed in simpler fashion is to be found in what Lord Ren-Hogarth's early work.
by Crome. On his deathbed the old nell in a letter to the Times calla But native artista did not at
man said to his son: "Paint, but "propaganda of apprehension". once lose all authority. Hilliard paint for fame, and if your subject He thinks that it would be quite and Samuel Cooper, the miniatur-be a pigsty, dignity it." In this reasonable to attribute the malignists, John Bettes, William Dobson, statement lies the "Je ne sais quoi" propaganda everywhere to the con and Walker, in lessor degree. which distinguishes genius from the face and neck. trol over publicity and political in-maintained the high standard mediocrity.
Some of us cream the face after fluence exercized by those vast in-of English art. In the early The Renaissance, begun after powdering. This gives a nice terests which are engaged in the Eighteenth Century, however, art long years of sterility, was con-fatucco effect, manufacture and furnishing of in England had reached its lowest tinued by Romney, Hopper, Law- Now take the left hand and
condition. Mechanical formulae rence and Raeburn, the Scotsman at slide it down the face until you' reduced it to a state of slavery, his best coming nearest to the
come to an aperture.. This is the Thomas Hudson and his “factory" pedestal on which Hogarth, Hey-
month. raigned in dreary supremacy. | nolds and Gainsborough atand. Of The best artists were no longer Raeburn's majestic portrait of "The able to paint a hand, a coat, a mucnab, Lawrence said that it was background," says a scribe in 1750. the finest representation of a human Consequently, Costume painters being he had ever seen. were in demand.
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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934,
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The face la now taken across the dressing room and pushed into the powder. With the face buried, blow vigorously, thus dis tributing the powder all ove
Work the p-stick into what- aver shape the mouth is to be, and press it on while still plastic. When pencilling the eyebrows always use an indelible pencil:
Nothing is more untidy than a girl who, while pushing her hair back, has wiped one of her eye- brows off.
Those lucky girls who can yown naturally should odd the teeniest weeniest touch of rouge to the tonsils. That will be ali for the present
Remember Art, and plenty
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A primitive lady named Evo, Was caia for old Adam
griove.
When asked where she'd gone She replied, with a yawn. "I've just been Abadut Without
Leaf."
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FAMOUS LAST WORD.—The
The political situation, in fact, is playing into the hands of those whom warfare and preparations for warfare are a source of profit,
Then came the mystic Blake, the meteoric personality · of Turner, Nations have been roused pitch of uneasiness in which it is
To the celebrated Vanhaken followed by the steadier light of Impossible for the General Stoffs came from the remotest towns in John Constable, whose "Hay Wain" to play upon governmental fears the provinces canvases of all helped to
revolutionise French At a time when we hear so alded and abetted by the press sizes, on which one or more heads painting after 1824. And through-
so that increased service votes are were painted, and under these the out much of industrial depression
wrung out of unwilling parlia-painters who forwarded them had Eighteenth Century the great Eng- and social discontent, it is re-menta; or, what is worse, so that a Irzen careful to add, absurdly lish art of water-colour painting freshing to turn to the conclu- dictator can rive the word and the enough, the description of the flourished in the hands of
girls. taxpayer has to pay willy nilly! ngures, stout or slim, small orborough, the Sandbys, the Cozeng sions reached by a British M.P. The danger of to-day is that of great, which were to be appended father and son-Girtin, Cotman, who has gone to the trouble of world opinion meekly acquiescing to them." So great was the call Cox and De Wint, and reached full it. summarizing material and stain a return to the methods of the on the Dutchman, that two fruition in the magical drawings by tistics contained in Blue Books early years of the century when painters to oust their incompetent Turner, which, it may be said, the arms race which was a direct fellows secured his "exclusive and brought the Renaissance to a noble and there found ample evidence cause of the Great War was in full estimable" services at a salary of end.
Lesser lights certainly glimmered of steady progress in the Old blast.
£800 a year. All those effigies were Country. The facts and figures
alike. They had the same. brick- entertainingly; those held, for in- like flesh, the same neck,, the same stance, by Wilkie and his school and which he has unearthed justify
arma, the same inanimate attitude, by, the more or less brilliant band the claim that "so far from the
In short, as Constable said, art of of draughtsmen of the half of the Nineteenth Century, which included material conditions of our people In the search for the best method that period was degraded.
was un. Yot before 1750 Hogarth had Charles Keene-who having steadily worsened, they of assuring peace in Europe, It is have actually undergone a con-natural that the idea of a definite painted "a Harlot's Progress," "The doubtedly the greatest of the lot. Franco-British alliance should be Rake's Progress," the amazing The Pre-Raphael Brotherhood were tinuous and an accelerated im-discussed. It is the theme of arti-series of "Marriage a la Mode," and ambitious, but they looked back- Editor of the Edinburgh Review provement." In no department cles in the French newspapers, and his splendid golf Portrait with the ward for inspiration, and in apite to George Bernard Shaw: "A is this better illustrated than in it has been openly advocated in palette and "Line of beauty and of Ruskin's enthusiatic support and penny for your thoughts."!.
certain sections of the Home press, grace" in a corner. The brilliant their own beautiful work, the im- public health. The death-rate Yet there is a general instinctive promise of Sir Joshua Reynolds had pulse was ultimately lost in the in Great Britain which stood at feeling which condemns special al- become apparent and Gainsborough welter of commercial interests.
When Captain Foster, in re- 21.4 per thousand of the popula-liances as retrograde as well as had painted the "Great Commard
In writing of the International viewing one of last week's races Impossible. A secret understand- Wood," which represents the early tion in 1871, had steadily ing is out of the question.. A pub-stage of his art at The National Art Exhibition at Rome In 1911, at Fanling, described it -as-* dropped to 12 per 1,000 by 1932. llc Franco-Britishi trenty, however Gallery, and he had spent four yours spoke of the spirit of unrest, of an race without incident," you can There has also been a vast im-defensive in character, would be of his boyhood in London, where uncertain power moving in Euro- bet your sweet life' ho
vague striving to backed the winner. interpreted as an attempt to isolate he married the naturel daughter of pean art; a
express vague idc38. As represent- provement in infant mortality and oppress Germany. Besides, Henry, Duke of Beaufort.
The Influence of environment oned at Rome it was like a turbulent and in the lengthening of the there is some sentiment in Great average span of life, while even Britain in favour of the denuncia- artistic temperament may at this sea that in the near future might tion even of existing obligations on point be dealt with briefly. Con- give birth to a new and glorious
8 pm-Worm arrives home compared with twenty years ago the Continent. It is affirmed that stable said: "I associate my caroless type of Venus. But ns yet there is
to children enjoy immeasurably England should in no circumstances boyhood with all that lies on the no formal sign of a transformed with handkerchief pressed
banks of the Stour. These scenes goddess of beauty. Our younger flaming nose. Tella wife he has. Does not think he will better educational opportunities. take sides in future hostilities.
made me a painter." But a man of men. look to France for this vision. influenza. Turning to industrial life, it is
his pronounced personality would But they waste precious time in live till morning.
8.1 pm.-Wife not taken in by have become an artist in whatso- vain. French investiveness impels revealed that, after making due LOCARNO
Tells worm ho ever surroundings ho might have French art to perpetual change. In over statement.
art has only caught common. cold, allowance for the increased cost
been placed when young. Genius is France there is always an defiant of control, regardless of time nouveau; she is as fickle in art as which is entirely his own fault. or place. The greatest heights in politics. If the shger British If worm Turner saw in his youth were those artists show little enterprise, #time Instead of staying out, lalo
of living, earnings are 15 per Yet the Locarno accords exist. cent. above the level of 1914, and responsible statesmen deckare while the average working week having figned there engagements.
has been decreased by six and a England must fulfil them at no half hours. Workers now oper- matter what cost. It would be ate also under far more favour-perfidious to have negotiated the accords at a crucial moment of his- able conditions than they did tory, and so to have determined twenty years ago, and are more both French and German policy, liberally protected and more ade.and then to evade the responsibili ties which were voluntarily under- quately compensated in case of taken. Emphattenlly is the inten accident. The relationship be-tion of Great Britain to stand by Locarnb accords asserted.. tween employers and employees the
is also far better than in pre. Yet it claims the right to be the war daya, a fact which is ap-judge of the merits and it is quite parent in the reduction in strikes conceivable that there would be a
differenos of opinion. and lock-outs. It is also shown
that whereas the advances made"
by building societies for house ALLIANCES A FAILURE purchase only totalled nine mil ilons sterling in 1918, by 1981
The new cry for a definite alllance this sum had been multiplied to take the place of the Locarno tehfold. In short, all the statis-pact arises from this uncertainty. tics go to show that the majority France would know where it stood. of the people enjoy improved and It would be able to rely upon improving material conditions. British assistance. In foreseeable They are better off than their eventualities. It would feel secure and be able to go somewhat farther parents and infinitely better off in the direction of disarmament. than thoir. grandparents. And On the other hand, Germany would the process still continues. The know what to expect and its niti moral is clear-wisely and slow; tude might be greatly. Influenced. they stumble that run fast" Is Many people accept this view: as good advice for democrats as The chances of Inducing Great Britain to go further than for lovers. There may be-in- it already has gone arc, how- deed, there is room for much over remote. The sentiment more progress. The goal has against alliances which would still to be reached. But it is automatically set two nations well that occasionally we should against a third has strengthened. stop and cast our oyes back, com- It is realised that such alliances paring the present with the past. have failed in the past because they Invariably provoko counter- In doing so, wa-shall find ample alliances. With all its flaws, the avidence of a steady trend in the Locarno pact is likely to remain as lupward direction.
the charter of western Europe,
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"You see, my father was a railway man."
EVIDENCE
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DIARY OF A WORM
nevor
came home at propor
wasting money with witty worm friends he would be healthier worm Probably worm catching cold la part of plot to get rid of wife so that murderous, sex-mad worm can marry. shameless blando. Pro- bably this is cunning worm's idea of perfect crime.
B.2 p.m.-Worm sneezes violent- ly, and wife staggers back as if worm were leper.
8.3 p.m. If germ-laden worm thinks wife is going to stay in same room while disgusting worm spreads infection he is mistakon." Either worm goes to bed in sparo room at once or wife leaves house to freeze to death in cutter. Pro- bably worm would like wife, to do that, though it would not be there clover murder, as would be scandal in neighbour- hood
and
awkward questions asked at inquest
very
8.4 p.m.Shivering worm croopa up to cold spare bedroom feel- Ineke reincarnation of Cæsar Borgia.
they introduce no new doctrine, thoy at least maintain a standard of excellence that makes the latest movements from France vapid and Insincero alike in conception and expression.
The cosmopolitans of the Ecolo de Paris encer at beauty, the nobility of life, and natural phenomens, and it is to be hoped that the exhibition of British art at Burlington House will woan their followers in this country from their senseless alleg!- anco, and create a general, revival, of interest in. the arts and crafts of England,