C.V.R. Thompson Mrs Mopp
dances
NEW YORK,
TUS Navy' base in THE brasshats at the Providence, Rhode Island, thought up an added attrac tion for this year's staff ball-a contest to choose "the Queen of the Station.”
Expecting one of the secret- ories to be picked, the Comman- Smith, dant, Coptain Donald promised to escort her in the Grand March which opens the Ball.
But when the votes came In the brosshats were appalled that the station had voted for the 43-year-old Mrx charwoman,
and
Eva Clauson. Their reason-sho listens to all the troubles
miles at all the jokes.
Captain Smith said the contest had become a force. Mrs Clauson said she would not go to the ball. And there were 800 ticket cancellations.
Finally, the committee per- uded Mrs Clauson to change ter hind. They brought her a new outfit, sent her to a beauty parlour, and drove her to the
' limousine. inil in
"Hurrah for our Queen Eva," yelled the ratings. Captain Smith led the Grand March, but his escort was his wife.
THE
THE USE of "obey" In marri- age ceremonies is "an anti- quated as hoop skirts," zald a Chicago. divorce judge, Julius Miner. To mün seeking divorce becaure his wife would not obey him Judge Miner said: "The modern view in that marri age is a fifty-fifty proposition."
39
Sald the plaintiff "Marriage
a business, and how can a buniness have two henda?
The judge's view prevailed.
IT WAS estimated in
one
Wash-
Ingion that there are about million "gubversives,”--- Washington's word for Com- munists or fellow-travellers, in America-or one out 150 people.
NPLATION
INPL
of every
NOTE Colora-
do passed a new law den ing larocny us theft of anything worth $30 (C12 10s.). Former rate. £5.
THE TOURIST
season 10
Europe has officially begun. Off has soiled the Queen Eliza- beth with a full load of 2,199 passengers.
Arthur Star passengers:TM" J. Bank-silent; Producer Alfred Hitchcock-"I'm going to make a British bleture for vest clrcu- lation in America in contrast which with most British films, play in art theatres," Mrs Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Tob- con "I want to get some muter- fat for a novel about Labour England."
·65_men—--. couldn't choose a necktie
decisions
the
the
THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY MAY 11., 1949.
"1 supposo it's in kooping with bureaucratic minds that they can't think of anything more romantic
than a gasworks to nationaliso on May Day."
London Express, darviós
Bond-st. Boy' startles the Royal Academy
M à a rings says 'Jus í juggling'
By
JOHN PREBBLE
YOUNG man paints
who
in parallelo- grams, pyramids and purples looks like being the sensation of this year's Royal Academy.
I use the word guardedly, for I dink it will be due less to John Minton's artistic ability than to the fact that work of his starling nature rarely gets in- side the walls of Burlington House,
It would be normal enough in a Bond-street gallery. Its pre- sence, prominently displayed in the Academy, marks n vielory, worse,, to the for beller or younger A.R.As who have been quietly agitauing for representa. tion of what Minton calls "thie Bond-street Boys,"
If the reception Minton is get- ting at this year's Academy In- furiates Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring president 'of the Academy, he can, to a degree. blame himself.
For this clismplon of the old," old school looked at Minton's canvas and decided abruptly that It was "just juggling about, copy- ing others. It wouldn't even make a good poster."
Unabashed at this onslaught
his wicked sling.
THE HARBOUR. by John Minion,
THE BOY' WHO DID IT
John Minton,
·Copyright reserved for the owner by the Royal Academy illustrated.
"All initiative is being killed,” says Munnings sadly, "all artists are becoming urbanised."
con-
Munnings, who has six vases hanging, does something-to break down this urbanisation. Or course, his subjects are horses. But "Early Morning New- market" is worth seeing for the action it has suddenly frozen.
Munnings painted it on a wardrobe door. He rose early every morning to be on the Heath before breakfast, to sketch the swearing boys bring.
In the horsts.
in began
hung last
---
it in
In 1947, and he
was still working on it while it last week. When it mellows will
its
morning. touch of sun
give it a
What
a warm beauty were la by A. B. Thomson, Goya. There lo John Revel's puzzling "Cain and Abel," more rustle than biblical,
"Morey is there?.
and which will no doubt find its way into the Interior decorators
from Goliath. David picked up Then there is Mr A.J. Ryan by way of cheap prints.
whose two paintings hang next to Minton's. He too, will corne "Sir Alfred may know a lot in for some Interesting specula- about horses," Minton told me, in "but the last thing he
pictures. His anything about
knows
Story piece
A
The man who thought Hongkong apathetic views China through our Island peephole
The country the tourist can no longer
This story! cuts into tho continuity of the sorios by the Man with Round tha World Ai”
seen
BY BERNARD WICKSTEED
1
to bring you his 'sucond dispatch from Hongkong. It is being publishod on the ́sanio, idays in di London,
reti
tact, sold the sage, that the HINA is not much of a It couldn't have been better Chinese Communists have not pince for the tourist on the stage. The walls were been slow to exploit. Some
covered with silk dragons, and Western doctora, belleve just now. There are the sage himself way droksed, has definite psychologicn! too many people shooting just it ought to have been, in properties. nt each other. All that an allk' gown
and round black
If you are a boy, your mother flying traveller can do is to hat. He had a stravilne beard will give you earrings to wear,
and Chinese moustache so like making you girl-like. have a glimpse of it through some little peephole, such as Hongkong.
This
a piece of stage properly that
wanted to pull it to see if it said the rage without a smile,, is because it Is n' 'well-known fact was stuck on with gum. But In Chin that devils prefer baby ho was
Kenuino all Fight,
And boys to girls (more boya ute horn but more die in babyhood, therefore the devils must like them better),
is we drank green tea at a Even then, it is a disap- low lacquered tublo he talked polated and distorted view that about birth, marriage and the visitor gels-a glorified death in Chinn for from the dockland Chinatown. What I ports and the firing line. wanted to sco were mandririns, In China, you are a day old Dagodar and willow pattern the day you're bom. and if the age of four or five, and your gardens, not shops full of im ported cigarette lighters or chop suey joints that differed only in degree from those you And In Soho.
I was complaining about this to someone who has lived here long Ume-Old China
for a Hand is the technical, term- and he said he would take me to see a wise old Chinese who
would tell me something about the country the tourist can no longer see.
that happens to be the last day of the old you're two the
y car, following morning.
There Is a reason for every thing in China, however silly it sounds," said the sage. "When everyone's birthday falls New Year's Day, you do not forget your wife's present"
GINGER RUB
on
And so, thanks to onions. earrings and ginger, you reach parents look at you out of the corner of the eye and mutter, "It is high time that boy got betrothed. Renson-for-this- of getting the most sullable haste; they want to make sure girl before she is sunpped' up.
So they call in marriage broker. His stock in irado is a list of possible brides. It is most important that the giri is born in the right year. Chineze WHEN you're three days old, years have animals' names. Last W they rub your tummy with year was the year of the Rat: green ginger to keep the devils this is the year of the Ox. Now, out (ginger hos astringen! I would never do 'for an Ox- Finding his place was rather qualities that are useful to year girl to marry a Rat-man, like one of those films where both mother and child at time You can see that for yourself. life. the head of the opium smug of birth.) Next they rub on you She'd lead him an awful gling gang is a wealthy Chinese mw onion to make you intel- But the other way round is all merchant living in splendour ligent. This is an elaborate right, because then, the animal behind a facade of squalor, pun, as "onion" and the word of the man's year dominates First we went through the shop "clever" sound the same in and keeps the wife in her place. and tapped on a door at the Chinese. far end. In the films. it would have been'
a dingy curio shop, full of Ming vases and price less jatie, but in this case it happened to be stocked entire ly with American shirts
bawing scrvant showed
The first party is when you'rs
Eventually the right girl is
a month old. This is a practient chosen, and you are betrothed. move, as infant mortality is And in due course, when you've high, and they like to know frown up a bit more, the wed-
live before you'll
ding day is fixed. spendlog Hundreds money on a party.
BRIDAL TEARS us attend, and the party last for
through door after door, and in hours as each guest takes turn-
AN her last night at home, the tach room we went through in holding you. They eat eggs ride is supposed to go to the furnishings became more painted red, and put gift money- and more luxuricus, until we in red envelopes for your nurse.er room. reached the room of rooms. Red is a sign of joy in China-a heart out.
The
DREAM LICE
of NANCY PRICE
***་
HAVE dreams a meaning ? Are they sometimes sent to warn the dreamer 7 NANCY PRICE, distingulabed actress, has kept a morning-after diary of her dream experiences-some terrifying in themselves and
Like THE CHASM. ....... terrible in thele sequels.
♫LOWERS—yes, there are often flowers in my dreams. I am at Kinver Edge.. that portion of beautiful country in Staffordshire now acquired by the National Trust. Vivien Leigh in, by 11. G
Dugdale.
and cry her little This is reasonable,
n she is going into a strange house, to a husband. she may never have seen, and a family. of in-laws who are entitled to treat her like a servant.
Her parents must provide everything for the couple's use clothes. furnishings, crockery, averything. The whole lot is paraded through the streets in a procession-overy, cup, every saucer. счету littla garment displayed. So you can imagine what the other girls say 'it Dad hasn't done her proud, ses
It is all
question of economies.. The bride's father will have one Jess mouth to feed; the bridegroom's father will have one more So. It's only fair.
י,
Wedding Invitations are ac
companied by sweets wrapped towels. The guest keeps the-towel, cats half of the sweets. and returns the resting
In my childhood, people-dwelt there in the old Rock, Mr Churchill connot hope his Houses people who would be regarded with amazement China is that you must cond Painting will carry him to the in our so-called enlightened days.
statesmanship eminence which has, but his six small landscapes,
Companiona unknown were there with me, we were seeking all but one
painted some 20 a camping site. It seemed several people camped here. A site years ago, are glimpses of the was chosen; I can see it now, surrounded by a windswept thom country-side, or Tuviera const- hedge, a stony place that had been an old British, encampment. line, that appear to us all now and then.
*
A useful thing, to know in
gift food parcels in such a form that half is returnable. This is a practical method_yof making everyone happy. You a friend send two dried fish to He returns one, Bo. you both have a present. If the shop- keeper is kind he gives you your money back on the spare then be used fish, and it can
Domicono cise ..., as, a
the "Velly good iden," mid sage....
I stood high, and we could see for miles over wood and again by
meadowland and in the distance the so-called Black Country present. of the Midlands.
IXTY-FIVE men who during the war made lightning
THERE is Robin Darwin's "Et escaping from
In Arcadia Ego," a story-pieca For his first painting which at our grandfathers would like: quickly, to work off an emotion They were obviously painted enemy spent two hours trying to decide on a tle-and falled. opinions on contemporary paint- first looks like the Rock of Ages barmaid polishes the counter be us much as to execute an in-
behind pink taps and bottles of spiration.de It was at the annual general are as aggressively impudent being cleft, turns out lo
and silly as his own painting 1 large skate on the hook
vermouth meeting. In London of
and Apart from Mr Minton mediocre,"
Yet there is something arrest- RAF. Escaping Society, all of
His other, far more effective, is ing in her tightly stretched hair, body at this year's Academy to way for a small cart to come with our things."
Signor Annigoni, there is no-
"You see," said one of my companions, "we must find some whose 650 members cscoped
Cubist influence of a ray hanging on t chals the black ribbon at her throat,
WHAT A PARTY! after being shot down in West-
There you have Mr Ryan.
worry you unduly. and the cold, half-amused smile: ern Europe.
And you are inclined to
walked inter-OW for the wedding party" MINTON is hoping that his
And, seeking for that way, we walked and But turn now to a painting of forbearance which can some- agree with Sir Alfred Munnings minnbly. Suddenly I saw thousands of wild cyclamen, every itself and boy, what" a unwieldy canvas, the which is worth the rest of the times make all barmaids look as unt it is "mediocre," be Inform-colour. I called my companions. "Don't tell anybody," I said, largest in the exhibition, will 1,379 exhibits.
party! It goes on for 'three This is not only enigmatic as Mona Lisa,
ed that he adds: "You cannot ex- or they will soon all be uprooted. What s-ind! How beautiful There is also Winston Chur- my opinion. It is thought of "Perhaps," he says, "a restau- highly by Mr Minton and Sir chill, hon. R. A., exhibiting this ect more than two or three they are."
geniuses in a century," . 0% himself and not rant will buy it for a mural," Alfred Munnings, which shows year
pseudonym.
-(London Express Service). They wanted a tie emblema- His price is £250 or near offer. how effective it must be.
"The most wonderful thing fle of their adventures and
It is called "The Harbour" painted in years comradeship, and the drawinga
TELLE E
not be returned.
," according of 13 samples of neckwear and was finished in 1047 from to Sir Alfred, is a self-portrait
on the wall to choose sketches made in Corsica. It has by an.
samt perspective, a heavy and Florencallan, P. Annigoni, of
trom
A committee has now been appointed to make
decision.
I
time
Good brushwork
bo admitting since RAF. es- enpers from all theatres of war may now join the society.
who is he? Ho ̈f. I shall remember for a long
6th
WHAT THE BUTLER SAW. 1949 VERSION
days.
There is a reason for this tou
But even as I spoke I found I was on the edge of a precipice and prevented in some way from turning back. Yet I knew the place well as wide and open.
THE precipice overlooked a deep chasm. All round' was a vast panorama of, country-beautiful and golden in the sunlight and this I saw through a transparent sen; glistening with every colour of the rainbow. An amazing sight,
It gives the bride a chance to get to know her new family and friends. ·
The host has an understudy to drink for him Etiquette mays hh must drain his glass with' overy guest but also keep sober. As there are often hundreds of guests this is imposible, so he employs an understudy who need not, keep, sober.
Velly "...employ dlunkard for my parties," said the sage.
good
sometimes oppresive treatment It is not a large canvas, and under acknowledge Cubist In- you will have to look for i in Buence. This influente gives it Gallery Nine. But here is a' por- ... Nearly every, man present a startling immobility, trait that makes all the others, of DESPITE the opulence of the sion" juke box was quite the
has an amazing story to tell-
Minton has thɩred pictures in aldermnets, professors, princesses,
pln tables clicking, highlight of the show, but the But a sickening fear took hold of me; I could not bear to like their chairman, for exam the Academy. The other two are and actresses, look insipid and and flashing gaudy patterns to caterers peeped with zest al look down. The huge branch of a tree hung over the precipice, plo, Alr Vice-Marshal Sir Basil smaller canvases pairitedin. Charactorless.
Indicate the transient success or whatever it was that the bullor Embry, C.-In-C. · Fighter Com-Mevagissey. They have cubist It has the Hno and strength failure of the hopeful operator, saw. They were the
tempting me to date to lle blong it and look over the abyss. mand, who killed three Ger- cobble-stones, in white
Part of the fun at any good and of a Holbein. To paint like that the ingenious robot.cinema and with the same sheepish grins I tried to force my eyes from the vista beneath and from many, rode in a German gen-mauve, a herringbone sea and Mr Aunigon! must know his the craziest of dodgem" cars, on their tacos as will their fu- the temptation of the branch. Then I realised "that' one of my wedding is teasing the bride. aral's car and walked 700 miles flat, lemon-green ERY in must know himself.
medium and, what is more ho they have nothing on the newest ture patrons. The verdict of companions as my mother, that she had gono forward and Reason:: she looks her bost to Spala after being shot down ⠀ In an Academy »Which,,
exploits of that clusive but re- Loth will be just the same. was now on the branch which stretched so perilously over the when blushing.gma over Dunkirk in ̈)
edge.
The actual ceremony consists sourceful butler, who sees s Munnings words, is as mediocre 1040
much of life in, the raw, for the ail streamlined and resplendent- The newest "dodgem", cars,
mostly of bowing before pictures But they did not speak of as usual," Minton's paintings
I saw her face turned to me, and I felt that she realised and names of acestors on ther sustained the war at the meeting. They have the same effect as a ham-
wheedling of coins is upholstered, were sumpled her danger, and was imploring me to help, to go to her Yol wall-Grandad. Great-Grandad, argued about the tie, and about mer-blow after a passionless † HAVE never heard of him, but cut of the curious..
with youthful abandon; flashist-I dared not. My feet Leemed riveted to the ground. the 100 new members they may kiss
Still in, three parts, the 1019, than-ever · pin-iables, magnifi-
I forced my eyes away from that awful abyss which, for Uncle Tom Cob Li, and all, that backward glance he version of "What the Buller cently lighted up with varying all its spectacle of loveliness, held nothing for me but fear. And so," said the wise, man, at the Royal College in South has caught in clean, controlled saw is innocuously, saucy and fortunes; juke boxes hiccoughed Back and back I forced my thoughts, turning my eyes away pouring us another cup of te
streamlined and so. Ingeniously the latest surrealist || musical |
"you live velly happy till you go Kensington, earning his living brushwork. [by teaching and illustration. On the way you can see an- geared" to the climax or to marcollè devised to?" got the
to the next world and become Helves in a white house other portrait which is hardly oblige the viewer to see all Rebop addicts "on the kick" behind a yellow door in Maids more than an impression, TC three parts before high hopes model dolls danced inside glass
W-YAM FACE an ancestor yourselfy
Your relatives then Vale. Ho is
WORK, yet un I saw the abyss which would not leave me, your clothes and bedding, #458 amiable, enthusiastic, and when has no tiresome execution, and deshed.
ALOE AIRTEL games; and there was the gut informed of the interest, his you get the impression that per-
amusement arcade toring array of cheap glassware, I tried to force myself into complete consciousness because I world, but really to destroy the paintings were causing Imnie haps Miss Leigh was in a hurry "kings" their hands full of crockery, hardware and other felt that half of myself was still somewhere cleo, w
Baba germusa They A. lot roll refres diately proposed to attend the to go off and net somewhere, pennies provided by a benefi- gilded pieces to tickle the sport An overwhelming sense of sleep, a sleep that held menace, crackers everywhere.
Bounda privale view in a false beard.
I could not resist it.. and "sank silly, but firecrackers, 'nju inade But Mr. Dugdale, thank hea cont management", and, stalked ing fancy of the fun fair funiv possessed my whole being, "He is not nearly as unlioppy vens, has painted with his eye by an alert mechanic, tried Business was brisk, and there again into sloep.
of sulphur, and-sulphury is a us he looks in the painting by his on his subject and hot his corán, these latest novelties and their was a very strong demand," for I could not have slept long but I woke wholly this time disinfectants tres surgalt a was ongoing-friend Robert Buhler, which mission. Thore sita Miss Lelah tuck at the recent Amusement all the machines by, showmen to a hubbub of voices and shouting in the street below my flat,As the sage from Hongkong: the for us all to see, fresh, fragile, Traders, Exhibition In London who, in the last few years, have SOMEONE HAD FALLEN FROM A TOP, STOREY, WINDOW bowed us out, I felt I had really to Aus-Mevagissey Canvas
and charming in lime-yellow
had hours in the hart votoni Theiz verdict was: "Good show"?; found it increasingly dimoult to TO DEATH. 27 weken magpacity band zogatá tralia. British Government to make a paint these purple passages he Academy.ds, the wee machines are for export only becoming obsolete compared subconscious mind becane Tinked with mine and, mingiing, with muropearl Hotel virgin
replies: 'One might as well ask placid, comfortable, affair, repett They grant of £230 to a Frecebe no why it frown. You search tive and Resulous Muhair and latened to the robot cinema andards and are anxious to or government which the convelous mind exercipesz.(Ava 2012 dog placut Sava. Thačkikos
watched, enthralled, with the presente American my own mamtales, became a sort of whole without that order the cinema, lights up and chan
widow now m distress,
for colours until you fad one terse verdict: of medinero.il at sixpence for three-minute and new, attractipp, geoperezeki aku #MAJÚ BY A DES Stay, tha
(London, Bervice), wibank, Justifiedijiri wift we ask then, vähe M MANDARE THEY sonable th
They also applauded the work done
in helping Frenchmen and Frenchwomen who alded
their
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shock-haired, Dugdale's: "Vivien Leigh."*" [ond expectations - pro finally cases 'Surrounding, competition grasped, the sides of my bed, and tumed the light full, on, nominally for uno Naximu
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London