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EFFORTS TO HELP PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS,

woll appearances being aptly dea- cribed as resembling the leave- taking of a distinguished general saying good-bye to his army. Leo- pold Stokowski, the celebrated con- ductor of the Philadelphia Orches- tra, is paid £12,000 a year, on a tenure of five years; but for this sum he is required to give 90-con- certa, so that Toscanini's fee is considerably higher. By the way, Stokowski, who has brought the best to bring the young artist and Philadelphia Orchestra to the posi-the potential buyer together by tion of one of the finest in America

-A LENDING SCHEME.

Sir Joseph Duveen has done his

From the rich stores of the Print Room in the British Museum, Mr. Laurence Binyon has made a selec- tion of 150 or so examples to Illustrate the history of painting in by his insight and magnetism, has Arranging exhibitions of work all recently suffered seriously from over the country and by going the strain due to overwork, and has farther afield, In Paris, and They are now exhibited in the been obliged to relinquish hia baton Brussels. Much good has been large King Edward VII. gallery, for a 12-months' rest. Mention of

La Scala, where Toscanini reigns done in that way, and not least, by where, incidentally, the WOB- supreme, recalls that a recent an- stimulating others to provide an derful Chinese Twelfth Cen-nouncement was made that Sig- outlet for national work. tury

"Three

Bodhisattvas" norina Toti dal Monte is to be one of the leading sopranos in the Tresco become in mail week

activities of that famous opera a national possession-the splen-house this season. did gift of Mrs. George Eumor- fopoulus, from whom it was on loan for some months.

Of the classic masterpieces of Indian painting the present collec tion represents a few in coples

in

made for the British Museum by Mr. Mukul Dey. One is the fresco the Cave-Temples of Ajanta, "The glorified Buddha revisiting his wife and child," the main figure being wonderfully expressive; and there Bre two sections of the frescoes at Bagh of magnificent plastic quality.

The whole series of the latter frescoes is being reproduced In colours in a volume on the Bagh Caves, which the Indian Society hope to issue in a few weeks. The letterpress is by Sir John Marshall, Director of Archeology in India.

16th Century Schools.

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From this early Buddhist art, which became extinct in India about the Eighth Century, one passes in the present exhibition to the Sixteenth Century, and an art of the small picture or drawing with

distinct development throughout two hundred years i thereafter.

That development is, briefly, towards a truly Indian character through the merging of Mogul art, with its Persian tradition and fashion of Courts, with an art of more native Inspiration, such as

that practised in the Rajput

Schools.

WHAT HAPPENS TO OLD

FILMS.

The mournful soliloquy of Hamlet, who delivered his soul in the now oft repeated phrase "imperial Cæsar, dead and turn- ed to clay, should stop a hole to keep the wind away," might well be employed, though in a more entertaining way, to the celluloid remains of our film stars.

At the moment an experiment is being carried out which was initiated by Mr. John Maynard Keynes, the Cambridge economist, with three others, Mr. Samuel Courtauld, Mr. L. H.'Myers, and Mr. F. Hindley Smith; in an at- tempt to give the young sculptor and painter some sort of stability.] This attempt is embodied in the London Artists' Association, a body at present consisting of thirteen artists. The four patrons guar- jäntee to each artist a certain salary per annum, which is calculated on

In

bureau in Bond

A visit to Hyams & Daw, his average annual sales. If the manufacturers of cellulose pro-artist falls or his sales decline ducts, in a remote corner of Lon- he is paid by the Association. don, led to the discovery of the return the artist sends all his works

Street. fate of old Universal films. The to the central condemned films are unwound into a big bath, where cold water containing a chemical gives a preliminary softening to the emulsion on the celluloid. Then much the same way as a literary with a crinkling noise the whole agent acts for an author with the is placed into a bath of boiling essential addition of a guaranteed water, containing another chemi-anlary.

Distributing Agency. The Association acts as a dis- tributing agency. In short, the Association acts for the artist in

pro.

al, and then stirred with move- The group can be expanded in- ments reminiscent of a housewife definitely; any member can

The pose new members whose claims preparing an Irish stew. water becomes discoloured, and are considered by a full meeting of Twelve months have when the mass of film is again the group. lifted and placed in a dry bath, elapsed since this scheme was the bottom of the boiling bath has started and, thanks to the four pa- become a tomb for all that repre-trons and the energies of the artists,

it has been a success. sented palpitating life and adven-

Now a movement has been in- ture on the screen.

angurated in Liverpool to establish Everything has disappeared a sort of lending library of works from the print except the clean of art by Merseyside artists, with and clear surface, which in turn the idea of finding a market for supplies by-products of utility, local artists. Each subscriber is Meanwhile the sticky mass of entitled to the loan of a work of draining, is art each month, and will have the emulsion, after treated with other chemicals and option of purchasing any of the becomes polish for boots, motor works circulated. cars, and even varnishes. A very

£5 58. Subscription.

The whole collection is one of extraordinary beauty, and the de- light it can give thereby is en- hanced by some understanding of its historical evolution, which may be followed in the informing Guide Mr. Binyon has prepared for the exhibition.

small percentage of silver is also An additional benefit arising out Some points in that are illus-derived from the dissolved emul- of the scheme will be the produc- Irated in individual drawings sion. The film, clear of all photo- tion, four times a year, of a folio which give one special pleasure; graphic impressions, is then of photographic of eclected work for example, the primitive Indian treated with a mixture of acetate by painters, sculptors of architects, tradition in the expressive "An and acetone and dissolved to a and metal craftsmen, to be sent Offering to the Lingam" (No. 11), mass. Almost everything can be tion

to each subscriber. The subscrip of the Rajasthani School; the

scheme will not mature unless the £6 58. per annum, The European influence in Mogul nieces, explicit in adaptations from

committee are assured of at least Western prints as in No. 26, and

fifty subscribers. more subtly in drawings like "Two Travellers calling at a farm for refreshment" (24); the splendid weight and presence in Mogul por- traiture, like "The Physician of the Emperor Jahagir" (87); "Islam Khan Vizier to Shah Jahan" (49); and the gaiety of "Lovers on a Terrace in the Rainy Season" (84), and other examples of the later Indian Kangra School. But the individual numbers one would like to remark on run to scores,

made from this mass of gelatine, which later on, going through various processes, becomes combs, tyres, and even mudguards.

KIEPURA IN LONDON.

If one has any misgiving in re- gard to these well-meant efforts it is due to the feeling, that one does not want to have art by locality or Jan Kiepura, the new Polish have any jealousy fostered between ances have aroused so much lauda that Sir Joseph Duvcen is but the tenor, whose Continental appear one part of the country and an- ther. In fact, one can but hope tory comment-some writers even committing themselves to the abfore-runner of a great national surdity of describing him as "the scheme by means of which the bud- second Caruso"-seng in London ding art of the country can be en- recently, at a British Broadcasting couraged on the broadest possible Company's concert at the Albert basis, so that the young artist who Hall The critic of the "Musical has done a good work, or believes Times," a journal the reliability of he has done so, may be able to get

It at once to the market, HIGH FEES FOR CONDUCTORS. whose reviews is recognised, agrees that Kiepura's voice is of very fine quality, but adde: "One felt that he was really not ripe for public appearance.' He is advised in this notice to cultivate steadiness of

BRITISH FILM COMBINE.

New York has for a long time been seeking to engage Arturo Tos- canini, the famous Italian conduc-

The Gaumont British Picture tor, for one of its great orchestras; tone and some sort of rhythmical Corporation Ltd. completed the but he has been too firmly establish sense. "But," continues the purchase of the Marble Arch ed at La Scala, Milan, to accept writer, "it was an occasion when Pavilion, the Shepherd's-bush these flattering offers. Now, how much allowance was fairly made. Pavilion, the Lavender-hill Pavilion, ever, he has accepted a contract to The sheer beauty of many of his and the Shaftesbury-avenue Pavi lead the New York Philharmonie notes, and also his attractively lion, and also the whole of the issued Orchestra for the second half of natural, unconventional_platform share capital of W. and F. Film the coming season-1! engage manner, evoked extraordinary ap- Service Ltd. and Ideal Films Ltd. ment which, it is reported, will plause." His music on this occa- The Gaumont British Corporation bring him a fee of £12,000 for 40 sion included arias from "Rigolet has a capital of £2,500,000, and a concerts. This is said to be the to," "Tosca," and "La Boheme," to public issue of 1,000,000 Cumula- highest pay received by any con- orchestral accompaniments con-tive Preference shares of £1 each ductor anywhere, and its amplitude ducted by Sir Landon Ronald. and 100,000 Ordinary shares of 10s. indicates how ready the Americans Klepura is only 24, so that he has each was made on April 11. are to pay money when they want plenty of time to develop his style; In addition to the Lequisition of the best man. For Toscanini is in- and in any case, there is much the Gaumont Ideal Films, and W. disputably ** great conductor. force in the concluding observation and F. Film Service companies, the When he visited the United States, of the critic that "some of us can- Gaumont British Picture Corpora- not long ago, and conducted a series not resist the appeal of a free and tion was formed to acquire twenty of orchestral concerts, he aroused splendid voice, no matter how un-picture houses in London and the tremendous enthusiasm, his fare- musical the owner."

provinces.

BRINGING UP FATHERS.

WELL, IF THIS ISN'T LUCK! THERE HE IS RIGHT FENINCED ME! -

FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1927.

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(The solution of the above cross-cord puzzle will 'appear in to-morrow's issuc along with a new cross-word. puzzle.)

Mr. J. B. Leigh, a Brisbane business man, two years ago bought at an auction of an in- testate person's effects at Sydney a collection of paintings costing £4. He has since discovered that, included among them was an almost priceless picture by Giotto, the thirteenth-century Florentine painter.

Mr. Leigh believes that it is worth £70,000, and says that he has refused £30,000 and will not take less than £50,000.

The picture has been sent to America, where it will be offered for sale. It has been insured for £20,000 during transit.

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