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TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1925.

JOHN SARGENT.

CAREER OF UNBROKEN SUCCESS.

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HIS FAMOUS PORTRAITS..

-It is doubtful if there ever was an artist whose career can offer is unbroken a record of brilliant success as J. S. Sargent's, whese death occurred in mail week.

Born in Florence in 1856, the son of Boston (US.A.) physician, he studied portrait printing in Paris under Carolus Duran, and practically jumped into fame, if not at his first public appearance at the Salon of 1879, with the ex. hiblilon of the daring portrait of "Mme. Gautreau" and the Spanish dance picture, "El Jales," at the

Salon of 1882.

In the same year Sargent sent some portraits to Burlington House His uncompromising honesty of presentment and the daring of his brushwork, which had more in

French Imeres common with slonism than with the generally accepted academic method; start led the critics as touch as the public, and gave rise to ferca con- iroversies, but left no manner of doubt than an artist of exceptional power had burst upon the town.

Forty-three years have gone by since this debut, and in the in

mense volume of work produced during this period there was never a sign of slackening energy, of compromising Battery, of waning power, of tiresome repetition

FRANK PICTURES. ・・ Sargent, many years ago, prac ilcally gave up portrait painting, because he chafed under the irksomeness of the fashionable portrait painter's routine, but somehow his pictures never gave the slightest indication of this dislike and seemed to be painted with a zest and keenness of

observation that missed neither individual characteristics, por racial traits, nor the stamp, left upon the shiter by social position. occupation, heredliy, and manner of Mie

Sargent's portraits form a valu. able chapter of social history. Occasionally they laid him open to the charge of cruelty. He was never cruel-he was only frank

and observant

The famous portrait of Asher Wertheimer, now in the National Gallery, may be quoted as an instance. It might suggest de- liberate malice if it were not known that the artist had a feeling of warm friendship for his sitter and his family.

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Sargent's popular fame as portrait painter must not be allow ed to obscure his great achievement

in other departments of art. An Indefatigable worker, he found his holiday retreation in painting landscapes, scenes of peasant life

extent based his own decorative style on that of the master of hið choice, burning

SOME FAMOUS SITTERS Apart from the Wertheimer' portraits, the National Gallery! own's Sargent's magnificent por trait of Lord Ribblendale, while at the Tate Gallery can be seen the group of three children in a

garden illuminated by Chinese lanteras," Carnation. Lily, Lily, Rose, and the full length Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth." For the Imperial War Museum he painted the memorable pathetic process sion of gassed soldiers returolog | from the trenches.

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Anxious pories were made by many people had parted with £2 51. to Mrd" Pollard for a hems Bim "" in a studio in High Holborn, F.Con His pro- mise that work vald be found for them in his priuctions if they were suitable,

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always a spirited writer and a Mr. Heory Arthur Jonen) ST lively controversialist. Id What is Capital?". (Nash, 22, 60.) be deals with one of the most vital questions of our times in so cleat and vigorous a fashion, that he May 22.—NT.K. Hoji Mart leaves no ground for the follies b Mr. Pollard, aer inserting an and fallacies of Marx. It is book Among the several hundreds of advertisement in London morn all should buy and study. sitters who passed through his in newspaper or an studio were many leaders of cast and product staff for a rate (be says) grides its political

entiro A large proportion of our electo political, social military and film, met more tan 150 people activities by the incessant repeti- intellectual life. They included: who answered the advertisement ton of this false antithesis between

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at the Savoy Hotel and arranged Capital and Labour. It is daily June - 10. for the test in gh Holborn, engraved in every column of avery * 12.-P. 20, Delta Here many of thempaid a fee of paper. The Socialist Party startly 8-P.&O. Binden. from it as the basis of their political Avg. 8.-P. & O... Bl»l'in » thought and action; thus the whole

PROM· MANILK. economic landscape becomes May £60.PR obscured to them; all the land-June 1-U.8.B.B. marks vanish and they wander in a mist of words.

Oo the day that M. Pollard had fixed for many of he people to visit the studio to se their faces on the screen, maly of them arrived, but Mr. Polard was not there.

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The people were indignant and several visited the police.

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There is no "fund" of cash. In the "pockets of the rich, waiting to be grabbed.

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Two girl friends who live at

Carnegie spoke to me with grim Earl's Court, S.W., Miss Diana E. amusement, of his great wealth: Tyndall and Miss Primrose Kent, "I've got nothing but a row of The Luxembourg Museum in Answered Mr. "Bud" Pollard's figures in a bank ledger," were Paris owns his superb "Carmen-advertisement. Miss Tyndal! is a the words in which he summed up FROM SYDNEY AND MELBOURNE commercial traveller and Missis possessions. What Carnegie Kent a ballroom dancer. They really possessed was the Power

| June 5,- 3 #A told a reporter that they gasped over his fellows that was repre July I-LA when told they would receive a sented by that row of figures. salary, if engaged, of at least 415 15 a week.

cita," a Spanish dancer, in a bright yellow skirt

A LONG NOSE Though resolutely avoiding publicity and lacking Whistler's love of controversy, Sargent had some of Whistler's dry wit and

more than a litle of his shrewd ness of judgment. Quite in the Whistler manner was his remark 10 a woman who complained he had made her nose too long.

"The portrait is finished," he

said

But, Mr. Sargent," she wailed, "you haven't altered my nose."

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Ob drawled Sargent, little thing like that you can alter yourself when you get the picture home."

At least two of Sargent's pic- tures really were altered by others In one

case Sargent heard criticism of a portrait e had done of a woman, and on going to the gallery found that though the bead hat been left alone, other parts of the picture had been repaired in water colours by some clumsy

amateur.

Another women, heeding a prudish relative's lament about the bareness of her shoulders, asked a girl friend who "painted a little" to add a little lace!

Sargent, a marvellous precisian in the technique of his art, was delightfully vague about even commonplace facts. Asked to dine on Christmas Day, he wrote

THE MAD WOMAN. Sargent's weird power of sum ming up the personality of a sitter is attested by the fate of an Ameri

can woman who, on account of nerve trouble, was advised by her puzzled physician to take a trip to Europe. She did so, and had her portrait painted by Sargent.

Arafora... Aki Maru

St. Albans Mishima Maru Aki

Tands" Tauro Mara Arafora

Aki Maru

St. Albane, Mishima Maru

Tauro Main Aki Maru.

Because of this deculiarity; be-P cause there is no gold "hoarded in Aug. 7-B; L_ They said they asked, "Why stockings or locked up in boxes,"

13.-N.TE simply

Sept. 11,—E & A offer 15 guineas to unknown and wealth

vanishes when untrained girls when there are so stolen:

16.Y.. Oct. 9-. many film people wanting work?"

Houses, land, shares, factories 14.-N.T.K. and Mr Pollard replied, "am. looking for types and perionali-be possessed or coveted. lose their

..all kinds of wealth that can Nov. 18.-Y.K.

Doo. 16.-N.Y.X lies," and said he thought they value and become worthless in the FROM BATTLE; VANQOUTER, STEL were just the types required. degree that the orderly, industrial May 16-N.K.K. Describing the test, Mis Tyndall and agricultural activities of the June B-4.0. said:

community are suspended, im- peded, or stopped.. who counsels the abolition of Capital. counsels the abolition of all the things in the world that can he used or enjoyed by any of its inhabitants.

A description of us, including the colour of our eyes, our weight, and attainments such as sports and riding, was taken.

Then came our turn. Mr. Pollard was a picture of patient kindness. Walk behind that screen," he said. When you get half way across the room you will see this note. You will read that your mother has just died. Register sudden and deep emotion, and fall back on the couch." He was pleased with, he first attempt. We'll shoot ignow," he said, and repeated the est.

When the tests" were over, a receipt for £28. was presented 10. Miss Kent. he said she had not the money th her, and Miss Tyndall was not asked for any money. "Pit when you call again," they ere told.

The police who are anxious to unable to find him.

MOTOR PARKS.

UNDER LONDON.

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Brain and not. Labour achieved the highest services to humanity-

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The antithesis to Capital is not Oct. Labour, but Poverty. The anti- thesis to Capitalist is not Worker, Dec. 17.-B. F. hut Pauper The alternative to a Capitalist system is not Socialism, May T... but National Bankruptcy

LOST IN WILDS.

LAST MESSAGE FROM EXPLORER.

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FROM SAN FRANCISCO. - *

Jane T.E.K.

10-DR.L 16T.K.K. 12-T.K.K.

July 14-TK.E 27-T.K.K.

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Korea Mara.

Siberia Maru

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FROM BAN FRANCISCO & LOS ANGELES.

| May 25, -17, A8, A, West Jester

FROM EUROPEAN PORTS

"When I leave Crocodile! Creek | Jane 6.-U.8,8,B West Prospect

part of my journey. There are Jons. L-J.C.J.L

| May 18.-B. L treacherous aborigines there, and it is a question of taking one's life in one's hands. I don't know whether there is any water,"

There words were used to a

in the Tyrol and in Italy and Spain an acceptance, but added, "You interview My, Pollard, are still I shall begin the most dangerous.. -impressions So vivid and do not mention the date, but as I spontaneous, so true in the sug-see that last year Christmas fell on gestion of real light and the 29th I suppose this year it will atmospheric conditions that they be on the 26th.". seem to be created by magic. rather than by human agency.

Frequently a few loose streaks of paint, formless and meaningless in themselves and set down with feverish haste, combine, when scen at the right distance, into a sugges tion of reality so vivid and com- plete as to be quite beyond the reach of more painstaking and

On her return she showed the picture to her doctor, who stood elaborate representation..

Keenly sensitive to every mood transfixed. The portrait was that of nature and humanity, he ex-of a mad woman. The artist had pressed in these pictures the chill seen the trouble by which the and terrible desolation of the doctor had been bathed.

Within a year she died a raving glacier region, the somnolence of midday heat in the south, the balminess of the spring day, the elegance and luxury of

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palace, the bantering joviality of the lavern, or the tragedy of suffering at the hospital.

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Jane gave notice: She was going to be married in a week's lime.

But it's so sudden !" wid her mistress. Of course, I'm pleased but I wish you could wait until I that you're going to settle down, am suited with another maid."*

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friend by Captain G. H. Wilkins, Jana 8-M. M. the explorer, of whom nothing has been heard since he sent a message Engineers of the Automobile from Crocodile Creek, in Arnhem Jay 7-M, M. Association have been discussing Land, early last November. He FROM LIVERPOOL. the possibility of making motor was collecting specimens in the May BB. I. car parks beneath some of the Northern Territory, Australia, for June 6.-8.7 3-B, P. principal aquares of Central Lon- the Natural History Branch of the don. The police, it is understood, British Museum

8.-E. I are in sympathy with the scheme. His last message was just before 11.-8.T.X.

20-B.. This bold suggestion for solving he set out on what he predicted what is rapidly becoming an before leaving would be the worst

21-B F thoroughly considered from all cars," he said before leaving, "so I alarming problem has

FROM LONDON. been part of his journey. "It will be

impossible, of course, to use the Way 13.-P. 40. June 11---P. & O. points, of view,

The A. A. are shall at out on foot with no op¬

12.-HA.L so firmly impressed with the else except one native guide."

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The north of Arnhem Land is 31., L are approaching local wild, undeveloped country, much authorities.

25.-P. 40. idea of their proposal their the fiercest blacks left in Australia.

To convey a clear of it unexplored, and peopled by July model to scale of Leicester-square, engineers have built a wonderful showing a motor park beneath it capable of accommodating 170 cars.

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The last years of his life were almost exclusively devoted to his ambitions designs for the decora

Jane fidgeted with her, apron. tion of the Boston Library and

"Well, mum,

she hesitated, other public buildings in the "I'm sure I'd be willing enough. This number, it is stated, could United States. Sargent idolised but I don't feel as 'ow I know im be stowed away urter the square ¡Tiepolo, the great Venetian well enough to ursk 'im to put it

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quares in the) Per A. O. Ls." Pres. Madison congested parts London could on May 25-Mrs H. Worthen, Mr

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H. C. Ty, Mr B. R. Serrano, Mr K., Taly 18.—E A. Joos 164 R ́A, As matters stand, garage Satoh, Mr A. L. Ras, Mr J. F. AUT. 10.-E accommodation certain parts of Owsley, Master V. McAdams, Mr Spet. 1-E, A the West End of London and the and Mrs C E. McAdams, Mr L. P. City is inadequate, and motorists Kent, Mrs E. Kallerman, Mr and who leave their cars unattended Mrs L. G. James, Mr H Iserson, are liable to prosecution for Mr G. Imai Lt E. O. Hopkins, Mr. obstruction.

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