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TEN PER CENT. OF ART.

The Academy, Said Sir Francis Newbolt in a talk on July 2, in all its fifteen galleries; cannot show to the public more than about 1,609 works of art, not much more than 10 per cent..of the number sent in with such trambling hopes and fears. Su there are perhaps nine or ten thou the outstanding feuds between Pales-

sand people to-day who have, they tine, Sinai, and Trans-Jordan tribes,

Waltersay, a grouch. Not a pleasant thing The Court was presided over by the

Huston In "Gentlemen of the to have, or to listen to. Emir Shaker, cousin of King Feisal Press," The story deals with a Do not over go to the Acaderny, |

to hold a big Arab meeting to set-

Jarvis Bey, Governor of Sinai, and Palestine by Colonel Mavrogordato, of the Palestine Pollee, and Major Campbell, District Commissioner for Southern Palestine.

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of Iraq, a must able and respected veteran newspaperman who has even in fancy, on sending-in day member of that brilliant Arab given up everything in life for his that dreadful day in March when family that has supplied three kings business. When his daughter was the sturdy and civil staff, like a Red since the war. With him was Lew born, he was covering a prize- Cross squadron, tenderly receive tho Peake Pasha, commander of the fight; when his wife died, he was various parcels and loads on which Trans-Jordan Arab Legion, whilst Sinai was

represented by Miralai assignment covering Mexican so much loving skill and care have

uprising:

his daughter been bestowed; canvas by the acre graduated from high school be and bronze by the ton. Then about was writing about indbergi eleven thousand have to be inspected This only thing he has not given and decided upon by ten members of up is his fatal susceptibility for the Academy. Hercules at is best a pretty wontan. A talkie film, would have quailed at the task. It takes a week, to sift out the bad ones-I mean the less acceptable- MAJESTIC presenta Esther and those marked safe or 'doubtfu Ralston and Lane Chandler in are joined by the members own "Love and Learn.' The picture works, of which about 250 are hung does not have a single drag-twelve to fourteen hundred being

sup by outsiders. moment, and Miss Ralaton

Selection is difficult and oneraus. ported by an excellent cast. Lang Chandler, the handsoine young but arrangement by the Hanging leading man Paramount has de Committee calls for infinite patience veloped, especially standa out sin þand skill, Not one in a thousand of this production. The picture was the "throng of visitors gives a directed by Frank Tuttle, who has thought to these things. The Coun- won a renowned reputation for eil inspect and pass everything, mak- 'suggestion for directing productions of the lighting necessary comedy type. A silent film,

changes, which the army of skilled workmen carry out..

The Arab "Fantasia," which was held in the afternoon, of the 20th.. consisted of pony and camel racés, at the conclusion of which the Emir Shaker presented the prizes, and in the eveninng there was a fire-work display lasting an hour, folowed by cinema.

The film selected, which had a cowboy setting-howing cow boys riding as only film cowboys can ride and cattle stampeding-raised general enthusiasm among the Arabs, many of whom were seeing a cinema for the first time. They also loudly expressed their satisfac- tion at the end when the inevitable "close up" showed the cowboy hera pressing a kiss on the lips of the rancher's daughter.

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The anguish of artists whose work STAR presents Bebe Daniels and has been accepted but, owing to Chester Conklin in "A Kiss in a want of space, not hung, is ten times Taxi." The picture is a snappy worse than the gnashing of teeth

The following morning the sheikhs, followed

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composed of theikhs from Law. Bebe has the role of a young fap-dashed from their lips. rence's famous fighting tribes the per who falls into one love affair these, then, who decide our fate for Howietat, Beni Sakr, Ben! Attiya, after another, with highly amyg- the year? They are the chosen suc etc.heard a long succession of ing results. She is a bewitching cessors of Sir Johsua Reynolds and waitress in a Montmartre cafe the other thirty painters, sculptors, cases chiefly connected with raida and counter raide between Arabs All the patrons seek to kiss her. and architects who were chosen by from the King until he has deposit runs riot, this display of modern of the countries concerned-cases but she answers each advance with the King, His Majesty George IIIed there a specimen of his art, call production at Burlington House has.. A collection of a welcome authority, and does do ITN

TN Accordance with Ordinance that could not possibly have been fresh shower of glassware. founder, first patron, protector and ed Diploma Work.

No. 7 of 1930, the EXCHANGE settled except at a general court at Chester Conklin, as treasurer of supporter of the Royal Academy of these, re-hung in a beautifully re-something to disprove the contention the Artists' Society, has one of Arts. To-day all the business is decorated Gallery, gives a bird's-eye of the pessimists that British art BANKS will be CLOSED for the which those countries were properly the best opportunities of his live-still perfodically laid before the view of the capacity of the Govern has reached a condition of decadence transaction of PUBLIC BUSINESS represented. Many of the raids

1ly career. A silent film on MONDAY, 1st of September | dated back twenty years or more,

King, who is the head of the Institu- ing body through the year.

from which it cannot hope to re- The galleries and achcols and cover. (the First Monday in September). but the Arab, though rarely able to

Keeper's house cost £180,000. The Exhibitors are charged nothing This National Hong Kong, 27th August, 1930.read or write, has a most retentive

Academy and WORLD presents "The Chang College of Art was founded

Keeper, a painter Academician, acts either for the exhibition or for the memory, and the exact details of

ia losses sustained were given without ing Age,"

a Chinese drama. 1788, before we had lost our Ameris head master of the schools for a sale of their works. This year's hesitation such as "sixteen camels silent film.

can Colonies, t put an end to the term of years, and actually teaches Exhibition is specially marked by Other the wide range of motives and styles of five years, three men killed, one

rivalry of previous private bodies, in the painting school. man wounded with the loss of an arm, twenty camels of three years, thirty-two she camels, and one hun- dred and fifty head of sheep." Hav Ing heard the evidence of both sides the Emir, after asking a few portin-

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ent questions, gave his judgment in quiet but emphatic voice, and the next case was called. Over two hun dred outstanding cases were settled during the four days following the feast. The Observer.

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LESSON SERMON.

FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST,

A

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and for the training and advance schools have masters; and all the to be observed in every section, and ment of artists and the exhibition members of the Academy gave help also by the excellent positions given in turn, getting the subjects, criti- to a number of paintings by quite of their work. Besides Reynolds,

cising and instructing. The pupils youthful artists, some of whom are you will remember the names of

pay nothing. Mere entrance is like still in their 'teens. A glance of the West, Gainsborough, Bertolozz), Richard Wilson, Angelica Kauffman winning a scholarship elsewhere for index also will show that a large and Zoffany, and you will also refour and five years; and much bet number of the exhibitora belong to member that before this time all the ter, because after education, the parts of the country that lie far, first great English painters were clever beginner can win prizes and outside the London district. "Christ Jesus" was the subject foreigners--Holbein of Augsburg, Perhaps the great prize, a travelling Academy In fact, is honestly and

scholarship. How these bright steadily doing its job. of the Leason-Sermon in all Van Dyck of Antwerp, Lely of West Churches of Christ, Scientist, Sunday, August 31.

SCIENTIST, HONG KONG,

visitors can walk at low water.

the Holy Ghost and with power: This is the seventh fall of cliff who went about doing good, and on the North Norfolk coast in three healing all that were oppressed years. The cliff now resembles of the devil; for God was with half of a figure eight.

| bím" (Acts 10: 94-38). -

The Leason Sermon also includ-

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BLUE AND THE BLUÉS.

To the Editor, Morning Post.) Dear Sir, I have just completed And the less fortunate, what of a six years labour, a "History of

on phalia (whose name was not Lely), young people must bless the amea

of their benefactors-Turner, Land and Kneller of Lubeck (whose name The Golden Text was: CLIFF FALL..

"We was not Kneller) were all so-called seer, Stott and others, too numer

ous to remember-besides have seen and do testify that the English painters. Since the birth Father sent the Son to be the of Richard Wilson, however, we have Academy itself.. Little Beach Left for Saviour of the World." (I. John been growing our own stock. Turn-

4: 14). Visitors to Walk On.

er was born near the Civil Service them? Artists in real distress, and Fire and Flame" and am naturally the widows and orphans, invalid and much innterested in "At Random's" Among the citations which com- Stores-which is English enough! prised the Lesson-Sermon was the

poor dependants of artists, who have query about the significance of blue. Sixty thousand tons of cliff at following from the Bible: "Then ers introduced as full members, known and unknown-they are not blue was regarded as a cold colour Alterations have been made, etch-fallen by the way as so many do. Until about two hundred years ago, Videatrend, near Cromer, on the Peter opened his mouth, and numbers increased, and many other forgotten, and unpretentious char especially associated with the colder - Norfolk coast, fell last month.

said.

The word which God improvements made with the gracity The spot known as the Garden gant unto the children of Israel, che ascent of the Sovereign. Nothing Academy dally.

makes hundreds bless the of the four elements. The primum of Sleep has disappeared, with the preaching peace by Jesus Christ: In art can stand still,

frigidum, as military ditties alone exception of one corner. A stretch (he is Lord of all:) That word members are elected by the oldtion you are helping in the good arily it was "dull, heavy and slow,

As you pay to enter the Exhib would teach us, was Earth. Prim- of more than 250 feet in length I say, ye know, which was pub why not? Would you have a Rework, as well as enjoying yourself, as Armado said of lead, and then, by waa effected.

The beach below lished throughout Judaea, and be that very it left upon which

paper proprietors? There are forty half the works, you should give older the habreedingly has been blocked to such an extent gan from Galilee... How God ferendum, or consult the chief news. And when, weary with gazing on inference cold. The inhabitants, of

Academicians and thirty

thought to those who saw 11,000, cold and sluggish; the plague virgin soclates. The latter have the same and chose and arranged so very vari travelled in a blue flame or mist, privileges as the former, except that ous and characteristic an exhibition, visitant spirits of the dead made the they do not serve The industry of all is as great as say, but you know what you like the Earth (sulphur) buried with a on the Council. You know nothing about art, you candle burn blue, the very fire of

that of a beehive....

Your grandfather said the same. blue flame, which was thought to To prevent the waste of money ed the following passages from The Academy has not always paid There is much that you will like, give little heat, and this was asso given in "Deles" to the unemploy the Christian Science text-book,

The entrance money for but in the great kaleidoscope of art clated with the Prince of Darkness, ed, the Czechoslovakian Welfare "Science and Health with Key to the exhibitions was not at arst suf- there are many facets and the Aca whose embraces, as attested by all Comprising:..

Ministry has partially substituted the Scriptures," by Mary Baker ficient. This was not because a very demy encourages all sound lanova the best witches, were of a penetrat China, British Colonies and en-a aystem of food tickets which is Eddy: "Our Master fully and vulgar person known as Peter Pin-tion and true artistic effort. A good ing cold. This theory held together very well, and was not regarded as pecially Hong Kong Jabilee issue being tested in Prague. These finally demonstrated divine Science dar wrote scurrilous odes attacking critic wrote recently:-

The Academy has wisely set it hostile to the contemporary theory in Singles, Pairs, Strips and entitle the holder to flour, bread, in his victory over death and the Gainsborough, West and others for Blocks, mint and used varieties fat, potatoes, and augur, each ticket grave. Jesus deed was for the not copying nature, and for other self to prove that the normal prin that the Earth was microcosm, hav with Six different errors includ-representing a value of ninepence.enlightenment of men and for the faults, but because the initial exciples of art are capable of very ing a central fire: | Ing tall. "K"

salvation of the whole from sin penses were so heavy. His Majesty varied application and allow ample Man's body was one of the micro- the King paid the losses for a dozen scope for Individuality of outlook cosms; his spirits were generated as On View from Tuesday, Septem-

sickness and death". (p. 45),"

years, but since then all bus gone and expression, and it has provided to an alembic (another microcosm) ber 2; 1980.

well and the ordinary turnstile re- for the people who prefer, the nor from the central fire, or prytansum, Tarma:-Cash on Dalivary

venue has been amply sufficient to mal to art, plenty of opportunities of the liver, and health and heat pay for the free:: School and the for studying it in moat of its phases were associated with the ruddincas Dy player Library, "the heavy expanses of the Its policy has always been to put for- of- his blood." Disease and illness * Exhibitions, the Benevolent Fund ward what the majority of our art arose from a defect in this natural „„In``` the ~ Supreme Court be- and all the fanumerable demands of ista are producing and what the ma- beat, their effect upon the spirits fore Mr. Justice Stevens, K. R. M. so large a business. Its hospitality jority of the public prefer, and to being to prevent their "mounting.” Sithambaram - Pillay (represent Is princely, collagenum | recognise new departures from pre- whence they became fat, sluggish, *N. A. ~. Mallal), The First Exhibition, cedent only when they have had congealed, etc. Mounting spirite sued the eral Lighterage Com | The first Exhibitions were at time to justify themselves and to connoted happiness; ocstasy, raised a pany of Winchester House, Slaga Somerset House; they then moved to prove that they ars something more man above the earth, lightness being:- pore, for $2,642,44 for money ide, the National Gallery, and in 1867 ob- than merely ephemeral experiments, associated with heat just as weight tained their present site. Next time This Exhibition implies that the with cold, low spirits were cold and and you go there, be sure to see the D-Academy, as an educational Institu melancholy they were blue,

ploma Gallery which is built over Old tion, des still regard itself an res-I must not trace here the influence to the defendante Burlington House as the main gal comible for the maintenance of n of the earliest thinkers, who would March 1927 to ferlen are built over- the garden decent professional standard in the have been astonished. Indeed to see You will then realise how the succes work to which it gives house room. the strange composite of alchemical ating the sore of Sir Joshua Reynolds have. If it be compared with the many pre- doctrine to which they innocently.

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