1931-08-29 — Page 7

SATURDAY, ^AUGUST:29, 1931.

TRAGEDY OF A GENIUS.

Pictures Sold to Pay the Rates.

LOUIS WAIN.

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The

THE CHINA MAIL.

and he creates a pleture of great early days of the war, and sustain- VOLUNTEER CORPS.

beauty.

It is six years since Louis Wain went into a mental home, and in these brief years his name and fume are almost forgotten.

No one seems to remember him now, except a very few faithful friends, and his three devoted Mistere one a hopeless invalid who are struggling against odds, to

Every fortnight two of his sisters go to see their brother in the home, and every time the old artist scca them he asks about his house, and pleads with them not to let it go..

as

"We have had to sell some of keep his home intact. our pictures to pay the rates.

1. am outlook is almost hopeless. afraid that the old home that Louls loved so much will have to go-but he must not know."

THIS pathetic admission Was made to me by Miss Chire Wain, sister of one of the greatest living black-and-white artists-the genius who made the world laugh and cry with his immortal lightning Eketches of cats-who is how a hopeless patient in a London County Council mental home, writes a Daily Express special representative.

Louis one cry, whenever his sisters visit him, is: "Save the old home."

These women regard it sacred trust to keep Louis' ald home intact during his lifetime, although they know quite well that he will never live in it again."

He thinks he may even yet be able to come out At and well, but they know that he never will.

I spent an afternoon in Louis house in Brondesbury, and heard from one of his sisters, Miss Claire Wains clever artist herself-the tragic story of the famous artista's decline.

We sat in a room in which there were three hundred cats-bronze cats, eliver cats, china cute, wooden cats, eats of the past and ents of the future.

wad

ed concussion of the brain. This was the beginning of his misfor- tunes. Then he lost his savings in a company.

Misfortune followed misfortune with tragic swiftness. He always had his Annual to rely on to re- plenish his dwindling income, but the war stopped the paper supply, and Louis Wain's annual consed.

Finally his brain gave way, and for a whole week he never took off his clothes, fle spent the whole of this time writing-writing "rub- bish," as his water told me.

Then

Orders for the Coming SHADOWS BEFORE

Week.

LECTURE ON MONDAY.

Orders by Lieut-Colonel LG. Bird, D.S.O, O.B.E., commanding Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, are issued as under:-

PARADES.

Battery,

There will be a lecture by Cap

COMING EVENTS ANNOUNCED IN CHINA MAIL.

Theatre;

Entertainmenis.

To-day Kin g's "Tarnished Lady."

Today Queen's Theatre; "Way for a Sailor."

Today Central Theatre; "Free Love."

To-day Majestic Theatre;

Today Star Theatro: "Married In Hollywood."

he could be restrained no longer, tain S. E. G. Ponder, M.C., R.A. on and he had to go to a mental home. fonday at 5.30 p.m. at Headquar«The Dancers."

Mr. Ramsay MacDonald, before tera. he became Prime Minister, inter- exted himself in the unhappy plight of Louis Wain's three sisters. fund was raised, and out of this the sisters received a small monthly allowance.

Corps Signals. Mucketry practices will be fired at the Peak Range A

on Sunday. Firing will commence at 9:30 am.

riform is optional but equipment 13, must be worn. It is requested that The fund will be exhausted be- all members of the Corps Signals fore the end of the year. Louis will attend, as these practices are Wain's sisters do their own house- preliminary to classification. work and washing. All they want Parades for Signalling Instrac-

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Radio.

See to-day's programme..on page

Meetings." Auguet 31-Douglas Steamship Co., Ltd., F. & O. Bldg., 11 am.

August 31-Hong Kong Develop- ment Building and Savings Society,

is to keep the artist's home together tion will be held at Corps Head- City Hall, 2.30 p.m. during the remainder of his life.quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday

"How we are going to do this I and Friday. da, not know," said Miss Claire pathetically.

H.

SHARE MARKET.

Home Malls. To-day Inward from Europe

Siberia Karmala); Outward for Europe via (Glengarry and

Siberia (Benmohr) 8.30 p.m.

Parade at Corps Headquarters at via 5.30 p.m. on Thursday to proceed to Kennedy Road Range.

Armoured Car Company. Car Section. Parade at Head- quarters at 5.30 p.m. on Monday. Those detailed will proceed to Ken-;

edy Rond to fire Part I. M.G. Headquarters on Friday at 5.80 Instructors' Class.-Parade at

He has lost everything—the for- tune be made out of drawing cats,

Louis stood to make a new for the many friends he stood by and tune of futurist cats just before the helped in their hard-up days-war broke out, but the ship carry. everything but his priceless gift to ing his models to England for them sketch and paini.

to be put on the market,

(Continued from Page 2.) torpedoed by the Germans.

Miscellaneous.-Canton fees have! He loved cats, and his worship. buyers ni. $8 and sellers at $8.40. pers delighted to send

him cats Cements after touching $20.90 have paint-from all parts of the world."' саней off to $20.75 buyers ing pictures of ents, yes, pic- I was shown a cat which came und sellers at $21. Hong Kong p.m.

which

at- to Louis, from the tomb of Rameses Ropes are inquired for at $21.80. hia make tendants rour with merriment, and the Second, and another cat. which Dairy Farms remain at $82.75 buy-mufti, fall in at 5.30 p.m. sharp. |

Louis had longed for years, to cra possess, came from the interior of

Louis Wain's greatest solace in his asylum captivity is to draw. Even now, at seventy years

age, he is still

Tures

would still make his name famous, if he were a young and unknown artist.

seen

these

A New Talent.

Pruple who have asylum sketches, and knew his art when he was at the height of his fame and a quarter of a century

ge, say that his real genius is only

India.

8, and 15.

No. 1 Platoon is allotted

via Siberia (St. Albans), 3.30 p.m.

Monday-Outward for Europe

Sporta

See Sports Dlary on Page 4.

Land Sales. August 31-At P.W.D.' offices two lots of Crown land at Shamshuipo, 3 p.m.

Miscellaneous.

Cricket Club, 9.15 5.m.

To-day-Concert, Craigongower

Rehearsals, 5.30 p.m.

Monday Philarmonic Chorus

Kennedy Road Range on Tues- atitate, 11.80 a.m.

September 4-Reception for Miss the Marion Hewlett, Helena May In- days, September

Machine Gun Company, The Company will parade in Hong Kong Amusements have in close columns of Platoons for buyers at $26.50 for the Old shares and $23.50 for the "A" shares. Con-

training ES per Platoon Pro- The man who sent it to him spent structions have sellors at $13.50. game, on Tuesday, September 1, two years in his search for it.

Watsons have improved to $17.25 was only nineteen buyers, sellers asking 25 cents Louis Wain when he started drawing cats. His more. Lane Crawfords are quiet sisters gave him a black-and-white at $7.70 for Old shares.

1 and 8. kitten called Peter. Louis started Exchange-To-day's T.T. råte on

and will not fall in with to train the kitten, and soon he had London is-/11% and on Shanghai but will proceed to the Kennedy the Company on these dates now showing itself.

the animal so docile that, at his 79. Loubs, in his did age and mental command, the cat would pick up a

Forward Settlement Days.-Sep- Platoon who will submit atten- Road Range under O.C. No. 1 disorder, he revealed a talent for piece of newspaper, kneel down and tumber 28, October 27, and Novem-dance roll to the C.S.31. painting plctures of nature studies join its paws together,

as if in ber, 24, 1931. charming scenes which photo-prayer, and do a hundred other graphed their beauty on his brain little tricks. before it gave way under the stress Peter lived to the ripe old age of TRADE INQUIRIES. of misfortune after misfortune. eighteen, and when the cat died,'

These masterpieces are produced | Louis nearly broke his heart. The following, requests for con- out of the crudest materials-the Peter's grin and frown are im- nections, distributors, etc., in of Louis Hong Kong, have been received cheapest of paints, the commonest mortaised in thousands

from American firma. Further in- of drawing paper. He drawsen sketches.

One of the sisters picked up a formation concerning them may be paints on everything on which h can produce a picture. Sometimes dozen or so of her brother's asylum obtained at either the American it is on the lid of a cardboard box, picturēs, and sighed, “Roor Louis Consulate-General or the Ameri- sometimes it is a piece of ordinary only his talent left!"

can Trade Commissioner as indic- notepaper or the back of a handbill Louis fell off in omnibus in theated by the initials.

Requests have recently been re- ceived from American firms who wish to sell in this market as fol- lows:-

Vest cell deficient im calcium. The nucleus shrivelled up.

LIVING

CELLS

Build up

Sech through microscope,

Strong cell,

rich in al-

chum. Well- developed aucleus.

a strong Constitution

The strengthening influence of Kalzana, the Calcium food, on the entire system is due to the fact that Kalzana provides every cell of your body with the Calcium (lime) it needs to keep it strong and healthy.

By taking Kalzana you will conquer all these forms of weakness, which are due to lack of Calcium in the body, such as:

GENERAL DEBILITY

Kalmas strengthena the cells of nerves, bones and blood-it increases your power of resistance against illness and fevers and has a remarkable tonic effect on your health,

WEAK TEETH

Kalmana makes the feeth strong and hand and preachta decay. Remember that your teeth are almost entirely built up of Calcium and any deficiency of Caleiern in your body will bring about decay and weakness in your teeth

WOMEN'S DISEASES

By strengthening the binol, sod,, nerves. (Kaliana, regulares the functione peculiar to women: It relievers spen undue pairs, conquers irritability and soon beings you back to care-free health,

Kalzana

A.C.G.-A tanning, company in Chicago wishes to export high grade dressed lamb skins, with wool on for ladies and men's medium priced fur coats and for trimmings on coat.

Musketry, The Inter-section! will commence at the Peak Range on Sunday, September 6 at 9.30 am. Range Officer--Lieut. H. Owen- Hughes.".

E.

In-

A DAY WITH MASTER OF RUSSIA.

A Bolshevist at Home.

Revised Handicaps will be nounced at the Range on that day who has dined with Stalin or I have just lunched with a man and there will be the usual in rather who has seen Stalin dine dividual, Spoon Shoot Competition. in his own home, writes "Londoner"

Portuguese Company. All N.C.O.' will attend

in the Evening Standard. Which is N.C.O.'s examination at Headquar-, for access to Stalin's private apart- the not so commonplace as it sounds, ters on Friday.

The Officers commanding the

ments is a privilege to which few undermentioned Units will issue even of his colleagues can lay claim. their Orders separately, to their

Other Commissars have more cr commands:-

less human tastes. Krylenko, the Public Prosecutor, likes shooting not merely the victims of the Ogpu, but hares (there are no rabbits in Russia), and partridges, and other. harmless animals. Lunacharaky

bindinge. Rykoff likes the wine. finds pleasure in pictures and rare

when it is, red.

1-Corps Band. 2-Engineer Company. 3-Machine Gun Troop.

Amendment.

Corps Orders No. 35/31 para. 3 A.T.C.-A concern in Chicago pany should read "Machine Gun of August 21, "Machine Gun Com- making frozen orange juice wishes Troop." to get in touch with importers in the South China market.

Rifles and, Bayoneta,

Stalin loves power-not the ex- A.T.CA San Francisco firm yet returned their rifles and/or in thousands of volts per minute The undermentioned have not ternal trappings of power, but the real genuine article, which streams desires to make. connections for the sale of broken glass.

bayonets to Store for annual

4

A.T.CA Chicago firm is inter-inspection, in accordance with from the power station of his own

dictatorship. ested in making arrangements for Corps Orders No. 24/31 of June 5, the sale of steam valves and steam specialties.

A.T.C.-A New York firm wishes to sell chop sticks in this market. A.T.CA Chicago manufacturer

1931:-

Corps Signals-L/Cpl. A. Tar buck.

Machine Gun Troop. Tpr. G. P. Lammert and. Tpr, R. A. Fawcett. Publication of Orders.

Stalin's Radio Set.

He, lives in a three-roomed flat in a one-storeyed villa, which he shares with his second wife and

his two sone, on the river-side of the Kremlin. The younger son is

wishes to get in touch with disorders for every week will be only six years old.da

tributors of phonographa in the South China territory,

A.TC-A Chicago firm wishes to be placed in touch with local firms desiring to import. barrel shooka,

ex-

Other commodities which porters desire to sell to the market are as follows:

A.T.C-Kitchen Utensils, Marine Hardware, General Hardware, Lumber Raincoats, Pyjamas, Pumps, Washing Machines, Gen- eral Machinery.

The following agency connee tions are desired in Hong Kong:- A.C.G.-A paint and lead com pany of San Francisco, California. wishes an agency for white and red lead, paints, enamels, lacquera and varnishes, ***

submitted by O'S.C. Units to the Adjutant by noon on Wednesdays. This Order must be strictly ad- hered to.

Struck Off The Strength, " Having Completed 8 Years Ser- vice-No. 1288 Pte, Leo Yuk-him, Medical Section, as from 22.8.81 Permitted to Resign. No. 671 Spr. F. S. Nicholls, Engineer Com- pany, as from 28.8.81.

Leaving the Colony-No. 46 Pte A. Morley, Reserve Company, as from 1.9.81.

Other Reasons. No. 1488 Fte. C. C. Sousa, No. 11. Platoon, as from 21.8.81.

Strength.

The following have been taken on the Corps Strength

Tpr. D. F. C. Cleland, MG. Troop

Tpr. AE. Crowe, M.G. Troop. Pte.. L. W. Bush, No. 8 Platoon. (Sgd) W. H. G. GOATEE, Captais,

Adjutant HXVDC.

ACG-An electrical manufac turer in New York wishes to secure an agent for electric motors,

A.C.G-A glass and paint com pany of San Francface, California. wishes. a local representative for glass and paint of all kindskog tij

A.T.C-A Chicago manufacturer wishes to secure a distributor for of flavouring extracts deafres an batteries of all kinds. agent for South China.” “T

A.T.CA Connecticut organien

Aenaloigus A.T.C-An Indians.manufactur- tion handling rubber sponges de- er of road machinery wishes aires exclusive representation in agency connections in South China, Hong Kong,

A.T.CA Los Angeles exporter Agencies are desired in Hong

A feature of the living room is the array of telephones. Two are automatic and are reserved for the exclusive use of the inner circle of Bolsheviste..

There is a third instrument. It la not a radio set, but it is used for listening-in. It is Stalin's special receiver for overhearing the con- versations of his colleagues.

After Dinner,

from the restaurant of the Sovnar-

Stain's meals are brought fr kam. His dinner of the simplest, but it is served on Imperial plote. The wines are Caucasian and of poor quality.

When the meal, which is eaten in silence, is over, Stalin lights his pipe. His wife, Nadia Alelujeva, alts by his side.

The dictator puffs and thinke. The silence is profound. Tkm Asleep. Suddenly his reverie is disturbed by the ring of tho Nama Allelujeva picks up selver

Comrade Molotoff speaking, wish to talk to Stalin."

Nadia Alielujeva puta over the mouthn speaking, Hewish you the whispered

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