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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1933.

Art and Drama

CAESAR'S

BREASTPLATE

OF PEARLS

THE CHINA MAIL.

AN ART BATTLE ADVICE TO STAGE OLD MASTER

Romantic Versus

Modernist.

Excavations On Temple A "battle

Of Venus.

BUILT IN 48 B. C.

two

Cincinnati, Ohio.

of the century"!

between

Cincinnati artists was a "draw." The only "knock-i out" was the young woman who posed.

It was a battle of modernist Rome.

versus romanticist. The "roman-: Excavations have begun on the icist" took one corner. The de-i temple of Venus Genitrix, one of voice of the "moderns" took the the most splendid shrines in

the other,

tle of Tharsakis, in which he was victorious.

ASPIRANTS

Demoniac Urge Blinds Young People

THE BEST AVENUE

(By Sydney W. Carroll.)

FOUND

'Madonna And Child” By Mantegna.“

DISCOVERY IN LONDON

There has just been discovered in London a remarkable “Madonna' and Child,” by one of the greatest and rarest of Italian old masters, Andrea Mantegna.

The discovery of this picture, which the artist bas left unfinich- ed, is significant for three reasons. because of its

I There is internal evidence that

it was painted about 1475.

Second, because it shows that!

accom-

The idea of the Cincinnati Art? Rome of the Caesura, which now Club in staging the "bout" at a lles buried under earth and rubble ball was to amusc the guests. Choosing a career is always a tal and physical exertions it makes First, of course, along the newly-opened Imperial Both artista painted from

one difficult matter.

'Such a choice for, the glorious sound of public Way,

model. He who took the specta calls for more than the usual applause, the approbation of criti- quite exceptional intrinsic beauty The temple was built between 48tors' fancy was to be deemed the amount of decision. The chooser cal minds-these are irresistible at as a work of art and because it fills

winner, and his cause the most! and 46 B. C. by Julius Caesar and righteous.

is usually handicapped by lack of tractions to the young and hopeful. a gap in the all too-broken record knowledge, absence of experience, It takes years to disillusion UB dedicated to Venus from whom he But when the pictures were

of the master's progress. short of reliable and trust-worthy | about them. claimed to be descended. It is be finished even the beauteous model!

advisers, To decide an ordinary The Árst recommendation lleved to have been built as the re- herself failed to decide which was trivial point is hard enough. How would make to the stage aspirant sult of a vow taken before the hat-better-Reuter.

much more formidable is it to come is to go in for a proper course of to a conclusion upon the problem theatrical training. This may be elephant crowned with flowers and of one's whole future--the life in done under a system of individual Mantegna at that time was retread- The temple, which was sump-surrounded by other elephants front of us?

tuition from some responsible actor ing the footsteps of Donatello, as tuously decorated with gold and carrying flaming torches.

The pros and cons, the argu- or actress capable of imparting the is clearly proved by the marble, was in the Corinthian After his death, a. model of the

ments for and against, whisk style. It

contained several im-temple was made in gol! and exhither and thither into whirlpools the many established and success-lo rellef in terra-cotta in the Me- us necessary knowledge, or at one of panying reproduction of a Donatel portant statues.

kibited at the funeral.

and quicksands of doubt and in-ful schools of acting. One of these was the famouri After the Afth century all trace'

sincerity, till we settle the question If an opening is sought through tropolitan Museum, New York. statue of Venus by the Greek sculp-of the temple was lest till the 16th at last by settling nothing, leaving the channels of a theatrical agency There is no record of another tor Archesilaus, on which was a century, when traces were found

Fate to unravel our destinies and it will be necessary to have some breastplate of penris decorated during the building of a house forde with us what she will. Heaven form of introduction or some Cage in which an early Italian with pearls which Caesar brought a cardinal. No attempt has been

painter of anything like Mantegna's commendation other than a mera) help us. from Britain.

made to excavate it, however, till

But when young people become desire for stage work, but there stature can be shown to have There was also a statue of Cleo-now.

seized with the desire to go on the are a number of good agencies, the sought and found inspiration so patra, whom Caesar had summonedi Simultaneously with the excava

a sculptor. Manteg to Rome and confirmed as Queen of tions of the temple, work is being Egypt, and a bronze statute of pressed forward on the Forum of

great artist but also a great stud- Caesar himself on horseback. It is Caesar, in the middle of which the

pabilities or the successful realisa- I must express the opinion that ent of art, so great and so sincere recorded that the horse was taken temple stood.

tion of their highest ambitions. The the very best avenue of entry to that plagiarism is here altogether from a statue of Alexander the The whole work is part of Mus- Great by the Greek sculptor solini's scheme to make the Im-urge that compels them theatre the theatrical profession is through out of the question.

wards seems demoniac.

Skilful Restoration. The stage is personal influence. Lysippus, but that Caesar had the perial Way, running as it does

The interest they take in the sub-like almost every other business- Third, because the bringing to the hoofs altered no as to resemble those tween the heart of Rome in

jeet of the stage and everything it depends for its recruite chiefly light of this picture is a notable in- of his own horse.

Piazza Venezia where his office The consecration of the temple stands and the Colosseum, along connected with it becomes intense upon the personal recommendation stance of the value of scholarly was marked by gladiatorini shows side the remains of the Roman and to the point of passion. They are of people who are already engag- and skilful restoration, which ex- cludes all mere experimenting with and other celebrations and a great other Forums, the most remarkable the principal supports of the local ed in it.

theatre. They develop desires so Therefore the most important old picture surfaces. triumphal banquet. After the ban- thoroughfare in the

keen that they can only be assuag- thing for the beginner is to be The newly discovered Mantegna quet Caesar returned home on an Reuter.

ed by the joining of a theatrical come personally and favourably ac-was quite unrecognisable school, an amateur dramatic socie-quainted with some influential ae-work by the master, because the ty, or by the taking of elocution tor or actress, or, better still, a original brushwork had been over- lessons from a private teacher. And producer. The last named la us-painted by some unknown though ually more instrumental in engag-admittedly clever artist. To the It never troubles them that they ing a company than anyone else in superficial eye it had its altrac- may have no appearance to speak the theatre.

tions, but offered nothing to com- of. That they may suffer from

pare with the final result. serious physical disabilities. That they may be unable to speak pro-, perly, walk decently, or memorise! correctly half-a-dozen lines. They mast go on the stage, and that is! all there is to it.

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Contents of German Castle To Be Sold.

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Valuable art treasures are to be elusive, most heart-breaking of all auctioned at the sale of the con- the artistic professions. Even tents of Castle Grueneburg, the when you have succeeded at it, it is rothschilds' family seat at Frank- full of disappointments. Triumphs furt, on March 6,

made, the real ones, seldom They included the portrait of an amount to more than three or four english prince by Lawrence, in a lifetime. The rest of the time famous double portrait by Romney has to be spent in "resting," that and pictures by Reynolds Goya and gentle auphemism for "out of work"

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