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WOMANSENSE_
Chinese Art In London
LONDON.
By
Joan Erskine
E have lost our com- VY placency, and that in why we appreciate Chineso art today. The appeal lies in' its very simplicity" said James Laver. Keeper of
One artist I met there ex- Engraving and Painting at the Victoria and Albert Pressed the view that the very -traditions they upheld wero Museum, when he opened limiting, and that their work an exhibition of Chinese hud become far too stylised,
Another Appreciating Pho paintings by Ling Su-Hun icchnical artistry of the brush in the Adams Gallery. Lon- work, thought the paintings it
don.
Used
Paintings and Calligraphy at Sch
for textile design, would
mika
the quailty of
This Chinese writer and pain sharply ter, whose real name is Madame textiles. Chen Yuan, Was formerly Ying, Madame Chen's dough- Keeper of the Department of ter, is studying art at the Sinde at School, She explained to me the Chinese National Museum that the medium used was ink In Peking. She has been and Chinese paint, and pointed teacher of painting at Peking out that when painting in this
and University.
when the manner there wag no room famous Exhibition of Chinese for error. When using olls it
in Nanking is possible to paint over mis before it left for Burlington inkes, but not with the Chinese House in 1036, an exclusive method.
Ari was
shown
the
€1
exhibition of contemporary Ultimately, therefore, Chinese painting WBS shown Chinese artist develops a sure- Berm with it. Ling Su-Ilua ness and deftness, that can was the only woman artist re- Anish
draughtsman- as experi ship.
CAR or
bo merely presented.
When I
first entered
supreme sleight-of-hond. Enllery
I certainly appreciated
Soul Pictures the simplicity of this traditional
James Laver said Ling Su- Chinese work, a very disarming simplicity. But I found severni Hua's paintings are soul pie- people, not Chinese, who dis- tures, painted from the heart. Poetry painted on silk and rice- poem blends paper. Often the 60 perfectly with the picture, and the picture with the poem,
agreed with many of James
remarks.
Laver's rem
The Chinese have been paint- ing in exactly this manner for over three thousand years, that it is inscribed as part of was told. Does this mean they the painting. It might also be have achieved perfection, or said that many Western palt- does it mean they have reached ers put their souls on canvas, the limit of their powers? And but in that event, they seem to unconumonly Bordid who can tleelde whether art is pusSCZY
Coulsonid Laver. perfect?
Father Christmas Celebrates
"First Birthday"-
London Experta bert fl».
Paris Likes Exaggerations
Я
Father Christmas with birthday
In cake
national costume, Miss Sonia Abersold,
Apart from the controversy Western
over
Chinese and painting, visitors to the exhibi- tion were charmed by the licacy of the work, displayed. On closer examination some of the paintings, I noticed liny detalls that almost
eye.
n
Spring Suits
With Fresh
Details
DIAGONAL Jacket the
closings
on
and crimp plque. Inserts aro "A Chinesa Orle!" ung
among the fresh touches Uny
snail a twig had
spring suits. Shorter Jackets, it, "Morning combined sometimes with eight- towards on crawn flower.
piece had a
aly flared skirts and scaled down minute Indybird on a stem.otalls, are specially suited to Somehow these details seemed the poiite Agure. A New York to bring these dainty paintings spring collection ranges from tallored single and double down to earth, in a very human'
breasted suits. to dressy
Lypeg suitable for Easter Sunday.Į. Among these last are the dolman sleeve sults, one with shirring at the shoulder, another with bead undercollar.
way.
To retain her skill, Ling Su- Hua practisca brushwork every
A dressy look is also achieved by the diagonal closing sulls one carries the button line of the Jacket
stmight down the skirt, while another has.embroidered pocket cuffs that curve around
back.
Cape treatments
to the
provide another dressy iden. A chie checked sult has a waist length jacket which looks like a cape in back, but has sleeves in the front, while another model has a shoulder capelet that dips to form a triangle at back with the apex at the waist,
Adequate Exercise in Winter
A clear, fresh-looking complexion is Actress Lian Kirk's reward for getting adequate sleep and lots of exercise.
By HELEN FOLLETT
RE you an outdoor girl, or capillaries are like a series of capillaries ore you a cushion sitter? If elastie tubes. The you are fond of outdoor sports that give colour to the checks so tiny their walls are you will have wonderful advan- are teges as far as looks are con transparent, allowing only the cerned. If you can do nothing passage of a single corpuscle at:
a time. Unless ono is active, has else in the winter season you fresh air, these little workers can take a brisk walk every day are sluggish and the skin is pale. Some sort of exercise is neces- Boy Look
of Then one has to get busy with rary. Unless the
the circulation Boxy suits with small collars the blood streams is
The rouge compact. performing present the lite bay look for normally you will be linadi-
You can put colour in your spring, their slit pockets at the capped. Good circulation means
by doing deep. waist providing a novel note in bright eyes, rosy lights in the complexion
Stand in this gomine fashion.
cheeles, an upright figures, good breathing exercise.
front of an open window, chest' Plque perks up many a collar-|
musculature. less neckline or reldforces small The circulatory system in his
high, tummy flat, Ogure tall, collars.
marvellously organised business, hands on hips. Take a long deep. It also makes deinchable vests It suppiles food to every cell of breath, lifting the chest oven the abdominal on tailored
one-button suits, the boty: every thirty-recond higher, pulling giving fresh. interest to there
muscles up under your ribs. In- beat It beart classic perennials,
It carries wastes to the various hale through tho yostriis, exhale-
When through the lips. avenues of ethnimation.
Whilo gabardine la favoured in the gult collection, fabric lineup is rounded out by dotted,
Seen here fo Ling Sa-Dua striped and checked worsteds. the artist,
Novelty Collars
diny for some hours. She has Novelty collars, especially practised on newspapers--we those that are wide and notched, saw apple blossom on a page and the variety of belted trent- of the "Times" and narcissus
on the "Manchester Guardian."ents are news notes in the top- per group, Fabrics include suede, Most of her paintings, though, ecce and broadcloth. The low are on rare old papers of unstung beit on the topper with
material, usubi
of the side entrance pockels is newâ- 18th century Chlen-Lung period. worthy. Soft shoulder treat-
somo
ments, whether rounded or with
1
Typical Approach a dropped seam, are popular. Especially good is the 23-inch Typical of the Chinese ap-double-breasted Alyle with proach is "A Poet"-which de-flared cut. A boxy topper with ples a lake with a tiny boat In wnist pockets is n good com- the centre, and an even knaller panton to the boy suits with poet seated in the mansimilar defail. surrounded by all the poetry of nature.
breath would blow it away.
Household Hints
and sponge with clean water.
*
or
makes deliverles.
the circulation becomes duggish, when feet are cold and hand molat, circulation is working on half time.
You mustn't mind if tencher harps on health measures. The time, has long gone by, when The heart is a port of suction wemen believed that cosinettes pump; the arteries, veins and could work miracles.
Let's Eat
BY.
IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Christmas Dinner In Mexico
the same acr
Mexico there is really a be served, with Christmas season, for, rele- companiments. Spanish rice is brations begin on the sixteenth always provided as a vegetable, of December and continua sometimes as a separate course. through New Year's Day until 4. Dessert: Flan, which is a
a
coconut
serves
Ling' Su-Hua spent many weeks of patient research in the Peking Museum while she To remove perspiration odours January 6, or the feast of the firm baked custard containing
when the gifts are molasses or rum, and Was painting "Winter in the from clothes, sponge the spots
with caramel sauce. Small rich Mountain"-a scene of smooth with warm water to which you
The week before the six- cakes of all sizes and shapes. swirling brush-strokes that con- have added a few drops of vineteenth, the market-places are Cordials. Jellied candies, fruits from veyed feeling with no effort gar.
black colfoo Sprinkle with powdered filled with the many little and nuts; whatsoever. Ying's favourite pepsin (obtainable from drug-biblical figures used in setting Vera Cruz with brandy, painting there was "Orchid"-stores), let stand an hour
White and red wines are served used in every up the "creche",
After so tragile it looked as if a two, then brush off the powder home, and which depicts the throughout the meal.
cookies Nativity at Bethlehem.
dinner come During the interim between and champagne. She has been in this country
the sixteenth and Christmas, for..twa. years now, -as her. bus- A fresh, sweet-smelling. con-
Turkey or Chicken Molo "posadas" or outdoor proces- band is the Chinese represen-dition can be restored to your sions, led by children, are held
Mexican Stylo tative on UNESCO. Several refrigerator which has a musty
every locality. These com-
In the average household In Western scenes are incorporated smell with baking soda.
Wash in
memorate the journey of Mary Mexico, turkey and chicken are in the exhibition. My personal refrigerator walls and fittings and Joseph to Bethlehem. The not roasted. As this is a unique favourite was a long wall panel with a solution of one tablespoon
of
dish from
neighbouring The Anglo-Swiss Society were called "Early Spring in Regent's of sada to one quart of water. children carry litters made celebrating their first birth-Paris". It showed ducks in the Baking soda does the job be- pine twigs on which are figurin country, I am sure you will be
burro, with
interested in the
way it s water, splashing about merrily, cause it emulsifies the greasy of Mary riding a
Joseph and the angel following made. First the turkey is dis- but painted in traditional sim that clings to the walls and All carry lighted candles and jointed and slow-fried in cook- Chinese style.
sing lltantes. And they stop at ing
with oring oil highly favoured many homes, vainly asking for pepper, until well-browned all lodging, Finally by pre-arrange over. The pieces are then ment they stop at the closed placed in layers in a casserole.
and in
covered with boiling water, salt allowed to enter. added,
lid put on, and it is un- convinced of the importance of til almost tender, then served these travellers, the doors are in a rich sauce. Young turkey open wide and they are admitted or roasting chicken need about with great rejoicing. All kneel 14 hours cooking. Older birds before the manger to worship up to 11⁄2 hours. Meantime and sing.
prepare the sauce. Drain o over the Bauco paultry, pour Refreshments ore then served; and Anish cooking.
This sauce is traditional and sometimes social dancing follows. contains. Then comes the climax,
the It Кост breaking of the "pinats," This
Left: Miss Jean Me- day. 'Donald, 20, was at the party, camellias in her hair, Roman coins for a necklace.
HOME-MADE GIFT MADE GLAMOROUS
NEW YORK. NYBODY who Accuses
American
of housewives turning into shortcut cooks should take a look at holiday prepara- tions in the kitchens.
The frozen foods and ready mixes may save hours in meal preparing, but for many women there still no substitute for the fancy homemade Christmas rookies, dipped candies and rich fruit cakes and puddings.
And it's still hard to duplicate the personal gift of fruit cake What of the grande robe duor fancy bread or candy baked Опо and decorated at home. soir? Has Paris been able to suggestion for a homemade gift resist exaggerating recent even-is a new version of a fruit Ing styles? No, she has not bread. It's filled with fruits Plunging necklines arrived, and and nuts, with a combination now plunge still
further of rolled oats and brown sugar Jaques Fath, for one, has slashed to give an unusual texture and his nearly to the waist. Topless flavour.. dresses are now even more
decollete.
In evidence. are longer.
Matching stoles, still
Recipe
Short evening dresses have full-Ingredients: 4 cup fat; length busties Jaques Fath's cup irmly-packed brown sugar, '14 cup In swathed green egg, well beaten; original was
the de chopped Brazil nuts, pecans or velvet, tightly bustled; colleinge was ornamented with walnuts: cup cooked diced green and violet satin ribbons. prunes; cup cooked diced satin to decorate apricots; 1 tablespoon grated This use of velvet is frequent. One designer orange rind; 1 cup rolled oats; 2 tops a black velvet sheathe of a cups alfted all-purpose flour. 2 dress with a green satin bow. tenspa, baking powder; 4 teasp Another circles black velvet with soda; 11⁄2 teasps. salt; 1/4 cups red satin, lets the ends fall into buttermilk or sour milk. a train.
・
One of these loaves, wrapped In cellophane and fled with red And finally, Paris says "Fut a
ribbon with a sprig of greens cap French tucked in the bow, makes a very feather in
your pheasants and cockorels have attractive gift parcel. For some- bequeathed their plumes thing simpler in the way of a velvet clocher, velours berets, holiday treat, especially in a and close-fiting-bonnais, asym-family where the you of metrically haloed. The contrast expect handy between these plumes which pro cookies and candy to serve fect at angles or soar skywards, young visitors, there's a new and this season's "little" hat la recipe for crunchy pecan provocative, striking. Fine brown sugar and puffed rice or feathers make fine hats, i E-puffed wheat balls-
traps food odours.
This Carmen Sings In Eight Languages
EXPRESS
Girl with the red rose and the kiss-curl is Follsh-born, opera star Eugenia Zaroska, mezzo-soprano-ready to take the stage at Covent Garden as Carmen.Mme. Zareska sings In English, Follab, French, German, Italian, Mussian, Spanish, and Ukraininu. She will abortly return to the. Continent for a series of guest star performances as Carmen.
door
of a certain house, and.
song beg to of the house is almmered for slow-baked)
When the owner
Social Dancing
19 an earthenware container Emperor
tied
chocolate. Surprised? back to the days of the
Montezuma, who chocolate at court poppularised led to a rafter or branch of a tree, and contains candies, toys used.
to such an extent that. It was gifts. One of the
with much laughter
not only in a luxurious hoverage, but in: this unusual
and other sindfolded, given a sauce for poultry to be served:
children is stick, and
;
on special occasions. And those and many starts in the wrong royal cooks certainly dipped direction, finally manages to into all the spice jars in-the
break the pinata and the gifta
scalier on the flour. You can royal pantry! But if you like Imagine the gay
follow
that highly
spiced, exotic foods,
you'll like turkey, or
chicken
As there is no servant prob. mole. lem in Mexico, the Christmas Mole: You will need 3 kinds of Sauce for Turkey or Chicken dinner is very formal, and is
held in the late afternoon. The dry chilles, 30 chilles mulatos, table is decorated with sacred 20 chilles anchos, 10 chilles
them pier Basilla. Put Ogures made of clay or papier skillet; toast lightly over a low
in a mache and with coloured ker nels
heat; then remove but save the or cars of corn. The menu heeds. Put the chilies to soak in Is very elaborate. Properations
start days in advance. Before water to cover. Then measure
1 tbsp. of dimmer, tequila is passed
and
c. unblanched taken with calt and lemon, The almonds and toast until brown. guests are then seated and din Fry 1 tortilla crisp in oil (or
LISO
10 ner is served.
small salted crisys). Cut 2. crusty
Tolls:
and Christmas Dinner in Mexico try until brown, Combine with
the tortilla, the toasted
seeds 15. Hors d'Oeuvres Incuding and goalced chilies. Add 1 anchovies, shrimp crawfish, peeled onion, 1 peeled secilen oysters, fried makhed black garlic, 2 peppercorns, tsp. bana, · guacamolo (avocado anise seed, 1 tbsp, sesame seed, spread); enchiladas, and toasted tsp cumin seed, and 1 ounce tortillas, which pro the basis of (square) cut-up bitter chocolate. canapes...
Put through the fine knife, of Soup: Rich in chicken broth.
broth, 1 3. Main Dish: Carne Asada o tinned tomato, 1 tsp. (coast meat). Usually thin flat tsp. clove and .e. fatsext beef steaks served with green from frying the poultry, peppers fried in olive oil, and mor a few minutes........ And soit black beans decorated with to taste. Pour over the nearly
aickan bits of fried tortilla and topped cooked turkey or with grated cheese. Or turkey cover and simmer vory slowly mole (pronounced mowlay) may until tender
strong Mexican 'liquor which is to skills the chile seeds into
the turkey or chicken, Buga