AMES AGATE wrote just
before his death:
***I 1LIT immensely disturbed by the falling off of artistic talent in these Com- munistic days. Painting has become nonsense. There is not Д modern novelist to touch Wella or Bennett. All our com- Dosera rolled together do not begin to make an Elgar. The
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST 30, 1947.
Paul Holt
-has recently boon full of penicillin
Today he celebrates his convalesconce by rosuming his famous fea-
tura.
Thinking
Aloud
arts under Socialism? They Good art IS
don't exist and exlat."
nover Can
Now James could have relax- ed. There was no need to look under the bed for shop stewards hafore he went to sleep each night. His conclusions fre right, but his reason is horribly
wrong.
-
revolutionary
to keep away the flies that gathered
Two
be-
nt the soren about their eyea, chlidren played, ball together sides a heap of waxy corpses plied Gft. high in the shade under the trees.
There were travellers there em- barked on the long, long journey between the cookhouse and their hut. Perhaps a hundred yards they travelled in two hours, stopping to rest awhile and to nurse their cool- ing soup.
A clever young schoolmaster call- ed Rex Warner, who is trying to write today, opens his novel The Aerodrome" with his young bero lying in a field biting mud. Mr There was a man 'who slipped Warner wishes to express bis hero's secretive through the crowds. Čup- frustration and helplessness against ped in his hands a little fish he had as Dickens did. the forces ranged against him-just caught in the pool as the triumph
a two-day strutagem. In the air there was a whining
screaming und a the and
baying Feeble blows wandered wide and
gaunt men cried as they fought for a potato,
All good artists have been Socialists, though their ners have varied from the blind, young fury of a Shelley to the knickerbockered coolness of St
His method is so absurdly violent Pancras, Counellor Bernard and violently absurd because Shaw. They have been age forces him to it. When hot
arc sound, cold cruifty Socialists because
common- their genius
When drove them always to
attacks, how to be heard?
is taken for granted, how to the Accepted Thing, the Settled innurn?
Through this degradation of man Order or Greed in Repose.
Never has mann known more, en- there wandered a girl. She wore (Shakespeare, I uimit, was Joyed a grealer sophistication than a grey suit, block-heeled blus-shoes, kid sometimes inclined to let down today; never have the moral rules, silk string gloves and a blue
the kind ideals, the wisdom or shoulder bag. She walked slowly feudal landlordship
available through the confusion of liberation, rather philosophers been made lightly, but that was probably before in such abundance to
the her hair brushed and burnished in because he depended upon the common man.
the-pole light. She had a look of caprice of moneyed patrons,
faint distaste on her face and her which you so much armire).
Truth is the arts have sunk low not because of politics, but because the world reon't sland still. It whirls too fast for the artist to enteb a sight of it.
The noises are too loud, the colours too violent, the mooring confused and the beauty tortur. ed, impaled and expiring.
And never has the common man been mong Indifferent to cruelty, careless of injustice and casual about death. Man is weary of his con selence and prefers to look the other way.
And what is a writer to do about that?
Author's choice
born
yes were quite mad.
when he suspects a new horror may Should a writer write about that be upon us before the Press has time to turn?
He would be better employed describing the buttoning of a bishop's
Kaltirs.
DAB... AND FLOUNDER
by Walter
Women's clothes change from year to
year
and men's too,
only more
slowly. Here is the story of trousers
BUT WHY
TROUSERS?
TAVE you ever noticed the genius children have for asking fundamental quea lions that would never ***ITE" to a grown-up?
The other day my small son asked me how people heard about trousers. ⚫
first
But
Well. how did they? I heard about them through my father, and I expect you did, too, way back in prehistoric times somebody must have found out.
himself. about trousers all by Or herself.
I haven't been able to dis- cover who this
but was, during a conscientious search of London's libraries I did come across a book called "The of Clothes" in Psychology which Professor Flugel develops the theory that the invention of trousers saves food.
ZOLA once got angry and atub Comle writing has always signal- about a Jew who, it led the fulness of an age's art. There seemed, was being scapegoated to is a warmth about it, like the He says clothes can be divid- save the reputation of the military ripeness of peach on a wall.
ed into three main types-pri- caste of France. What writer today
Cirvantes laughed about the gal-mitive, tropical and Arctic-and would forge his talent firm in
lantry of knights, and Jane Austen they have evolved in that or-
cause of are lost man!
the
Then and now ONCE Dickens made his young
hero hold up his howl for I went to Belsen. The rubbish smiled at the gusto of heroes. In der. another flll of gruel and the Ores and the saffron dust dragged our times. W. W: Jacobs and P. G. world of renders was shocked the air with the smell of death, Old Wodehouse have both found a ripe-
eas for us to enjoy. for a lifetime,
What ripeness now, sir?
SIDE GLANCES
men lay dribbling in the shadows,
their citally hands waving slowly
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Iines of thought about trousers. The professor I mentioned takes up a whole page of his book comparing the life history of a pair of trousers with that of person.
First of all he takes the new-born pair of trousers and says it has an heredity, for it has been influenced by all the other trousers that went before it.
During Its lifetime it is affected by external events which may change its character completely. If It lives healthy, normal 1 and is not overworked, It will reach a ripe and elegant old age, just like a human being.
But if allowed, to get into bad habits such as too much sitting down,
youthful pair of trousers may de- velop permanent defects which will materially shorten its life.
Finally, when it dies which is seldom in bed-our pair of trousers
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
First of all people wore pri- such as breeches and tights, will have influenced to some extent mitive clothes, necklaces, began to be worn in Britain the lives of all future trousers. I! girdles, fig. leaves and so on. about 150 years ago, though be- it has been a good pair tailors will Then they began hanging things. fore that they'd been worn by If it has been bad there will be a copy it and perpetuate its merits. Where Wodehouse laughed at the on the girdle until they became the Medes und Persians and by tendency to save future generations
loosefitting skirts.
The clothes 'of European women to this day, he says, be long mainly to this class, which he calls tropical.
of
chuckle
of the elder sons country houses, shall we at bureaucrats?
Not funny
THEY have no monted grunges, but Nissen huts Instead. They do not lose family heirlooms, but schedules, forms and rubber stamps. They are not funny, nor will they be until they have been our maË- ters a good deal longer.
Muste the same. The other night I heard Mr Lennox Berkeley talk ing about his symphony, which they wire just then to play on the air, He said that he had no thought in his head of colours or shapes or scenes he wished to convey. Nor was his music in any way political. It was just musical.
the
For warmth
1
AS people moved from hot
climates to
Irishmen.
The first Englishmen to put on trousers were soldiers, sai- lors and small boys. Then the Duke of Wellington bought a pair, went to his club in them, and was turned out for being Improperly dressed..
from Its faults.
In the future
NCE you start thinking about
trousers like this there's no end to the fun. You can liken some of the monstrosities of the past to dinosaurs, and note how they be- conditions, came extinct because of changing
The dandies like Beau Brum- places like mell and Co. really made trou- Northern Europe they found sers popular-in-Civvy Street. Or you can speculate on the future they could keep warmer by. They wore them very tight; so development of trousers, for his-
tight, sometimes, they couldn't oerlod sit down.
making clothes that fitted the harly, such as trousers. sleeves and hats (as opposed to head- dresses).
wear,
7
It's quite possible to exist in cold countries without trousers or other Arctic
The South America, go about with people of Tierra del Fuego, in
nothing on but loose robes of
and it is even he skin,
colder there than it was in Britain last
What the orchestra then played was most notable for me for effort shown by the composer to give the impression of a man with his hend under the pillow to shut out the noises of the street while hummed a tune.
There is the crux of it. Today's winter. artist has to choose between copying the past and essaying a
But carrying on like that most unnatural. Most choose the wastes a lot of energy, and latter. After all, I suppose they energy comes from food.
eason, a man only lives once and the Tierra del Fuegans
thus:
violence
tory goes to show that after a long of stagnation with little change, garments are liable to sud- den spells of wild experiment.
Maybe we shall all be
with permanent creases.
wearing
Which just goes to show how history repeats itself, because it was exactly the same with nylon trousers soon, fully fashioned the trousers they gave me when
came out of the Air Force. those that the dandies, wore Unlike my demob. trousers, buttoned up at the sides. The buttons were hidden by stripes, and these still survive on some uniforms and on evening dress, though the buttons they once
America
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concealed are no longer there. Grand Mufti
If
It's much the same with turn- wore ups. Men turned up the bottoms
style. But only for
the
it would be a shame if when I was trousers they wouldn't have to of their trouser legs to keep them out all done the critics wrote his obituary eat so much to keep up the heat of the lush, and it became
Shaik W. Abdurrahman Lutz -who used to be plain William informal осса Yesterday
bodies. there died the best of their
Eskimos sions. In morning or evening dress Lutz when he taught Sunday Elgar or Wells-or Sickert of our are aware of this. They live you didn't walk through the slush. school as a young man in time.
in very cold countries and, as so the bottoms didn't need turning the Berkeley But don't blame Socialism. The they never know where the "P
Congregational only crime it has committed is to rinch power. Good art of all kinds next meal is coming from, be formal, and so they're the same said he has become Grand Uniform trousers are supposed to Church in Oakland, California- revolutionary and its current they keep their trousers on day no
turn-ups-though practitioners simply fldget at their and night-men, women and knows I walked through enough States.
goodness Mufti of the western United present respectability.
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The young ex-marine said he adopted the Moslem faith In 1942 in Saudi Arabia, where he was employ-, ed an all company
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Why are they called trousers on. I became interested in the and not something else?
faith when I saw the compassion, the
ity of the true Moslem."
Now how does it come about that men wear trousers and women don't-or didn't until recently? It's just as cold for both of them. The professor. has
an answer for that one,
The Oxford Dictionary allows good deal of latitude in this mat- He says leg wear of the ter. It says they can also be called, many in Saudi Arabh, Shelk Lulz trouser type was introduced to or at least spelled, trossers, traw-said,
ald "I became
better acquainted Western civilisation by the zers, trowsers or trouzers.
with the Arabs than most of the northern tribes who broke up where the word came from.
There
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One the way they would share that time the well-dressed man means a particular kind of breaches often wont about, in a short the Irish used to wear, and the other skirt and bare knees: Those is the French word trousse, which turban as he sat cross-legged on ar The Sheik paused, adjusted his bundia. new garments that covered the means a
ottoman In the spar'ment he shares the French them with his 'mother. whole leg scomed more practi- selves don't call their
enough
and naid he had 'cal and caught on.
trousers been named Grand Mutt--the first bundles. They say pantalon, and In But with women it was dif- that raises a curious point, you'd in the western States by the Mos-
lem community. ferent. They wore long robes think a garment so widely worn in
There are about 1,500 of the faith- down to their feet and so they was more or less the same in most Sacramento, he related.
Europe would have a name that
ful, most of them living in or near didn't feel the same urge as men languages.
Oddly
Ho
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to change their entire style of But trousers seem to have
prays five times daily, he said. no "bringing into netion every muscle introduced by Stewart Manshermon. dressing.
common root. In German they're in the body-it's the minimum daily They carried on with robes called hosen, in Dutch brock in exercise needed by any man.".
Italian and dresses in different forms Norwegian bukser, and in
He hopped oft the ottoman, de- Poler call them for 1,400 years, and if it hadn't the Portuguese bragas, and
spodnie, moris rated the movements-raising been for Marlene Dietrich and Welsh for some Calile reason
this arms, then kneeling and bowing
of toward Mecca, Mrs Amelin Bloomer they ther
have named them Shelk Lutz said: "Sure, I go to Hodrau monur, ta might have boon doing it still.
...shows
and drink milk shakes.
own
Trousons propor, as opposed that they should be taxed at 3d. anlcohol
In 1000 there was a Buggestion Nothing wrong with that." Bu' no
to earlier typos of log wear leg
Prezs
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