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Lord Apsley, who was recently Igiven a "lift" to India by Captain Crawford Greene, Australia-bound by air, is both pilot and pioneer.

In February, 1925, he travelled Jon the Orama to Australia as Mr. Bott, which was the name of his orderly during the war. His ob- ject was to test the pros and cons': of emigration as an "assisted set- tler" at first hand.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933.

MODERNS WHO ARE ALL ALIKE

IN CLOTHES AND HOUSES, FACE AND VOICE

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THEY MUST CONFORM TO STANDARD

(By Osbert Sitwell.)

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There is much to be said about, street, what a craning is there of

if little on behalf of, uniformity. uniform necks, what a rolling of

Many years before the war came And in their voices. Up till the this tendency had begun to mani-lend of the eighteenth century every

Lady Apsley met him in Austra. It seems almost possible to observe Pekingese eyes, what shrill and yap

levelling process of

upping volleys of standardised lia, where they lived on the Mar- the

down at work, laughter, what cries of "Do look!" garet River Settlement, West Aus-and levelling tralia, for eight months. They dis-20 marked is it, all over Europe, and "How 'extr'ord'n'ry!"

Perhaps the Alike are they, even in their gig- tributed their effects among their Asia, and America.

in the meaningless emigrant friends before they left, dusky jungles of Central Africa are gling, even

phrases they employ. and Lord Apsley refunded his pás-alone immune. sage money to the Government.

An Aerial Adventure. Lord Apsley was one of the first fest itself, especially in the matter class talked with its own voice. The MP's to fly. His enthusiasm has of clothes. From the year 1900 on-very country aquires, who-despite of them. eived a light which he made ward peasants ware every day dis- Macaulay-ware, many

their characteristic cos-men of culture and learning, were ram Prague to Paris in the early carding twenties.

tumes for the featureless clothing of not ashamed to speak the dialect of be native place. This can He and a friend set out as pas-the cities; every class, too, had be-their sengers in a Czechoslovakian ma-gun to dress alike, and with Queen seen, even, in the Idiom of their

ever the widow's | letters. Jchine. Over the middle of the Victoria's death

Fashionable Quacking Tone thick, unbroken mass of pinewoods cap had been wafted into oblivion. that constitutes the Thuringian There were few distinguishing

Thus London, during the "season" Forest he engine fell out of the emblems left. And when the war resounded with pleasing rustic burrs materialised these, too, died; be- and broad "a's," which imparted to airplane.

The pilot turned round an said, cause, final triumph of democracy, it every assembly a delightful variety. of explanation, "La ma- revealed, at last and forever, how But alaa! to-day there are only two, (all men were equal and alike, serving or at most three, voices to be heard; Fortunately they were high up, one sole purpose-that of cannon-the modern equivalent of cockney, and the departure of the engine fødder.

"refained and coulchawed," and now had lightened the machine, they Faces Smooth And Smug launched across Innocent ether into went into a long ghde and landed And for this the bank clerk and countless indistinguishable homes At in the first field beyond the forest. farm labourer were as good na a po- ("This is London speaking.

Michaelangelo, Lord Apsley's companion. who tential

Napoleon naine-faive there will be a talk on had been rather thoughtful during Bornaparte, or Dante: except that waine by the President of the Total acknowledged by Shakespeare's the glide, turned to him and said: the taller men, the braver men, the Ebstainers' Essociation.") and the contemporaries, and these were "I can't remember whether I left clever men. were killed first. fashionable, quacking tone and both painted after his death. At my pyjamar under the pillow in the And, since the war, it seems as clipped words of the bars, theatres. that time painting and sculpture hotel at Prague."

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Shakespeare Portraits.

in London were chiefly left to foreigners, and more especially

to the Dutch, among whom was |Gerard Johnson (or Jansen. to

by way chine est coaRCE.”

Your Daily Smile

though nature, adaptable as ever, and few remaining drawing-rooms. had learnt her jesson from Mr. That is all. Never an accent or Ford of Dagenham and Detroit, and an intonation that is unexpected and was only anxious to produce crea-itself.

CA- Their voices are indicative of pacity, mental as much as physical. their general appearance.

give him his Dutch name). This All Throwing Stones at Each Other.tures of uniform stature and man's chief occupation was the

Europe in the pelting-pot. making of tombstones. He had

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There is, even, more resemblance

First of all, let us consider the look at the young men of to-day you standardisation of faces. There will see that, though graded accord- Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 25, 1933. a Stratford connection. for he it

was a time, not so long ago, when ing to their wealth, they all look the was who in 1614. made the A Berlin couple have thirty-one every individual boasted un indivi-same, while the girls resemble one tombstone of John Combe, Shake children. A motor salesman

adust face; but noty, for the most another still more. Further, this Possibly John- Olympia dreamt that they all came part, each set, each profession, each last resemblance is intentional, ald- speare's friend. son had met Shakespeare; in any and asked to see his firm's seven class, present a face in common.ed by rouge, false eye-lashes, and a

it is not unreasonable to horse-power family model.

And what faces they are, smooth, hundred other artifices. A portrait of William Shake case.

to have been suppose that Dr. Hall, the lat-

smug, and unimaginative; inoffen- speare, believed

to be noticed than formerly between painted by Cornelius Jansen, basler's son-in-law, would send for Taking It Literally,

Isive, to a offensive degree, him on Shakespeare's death to It

A man of seventy-eight was fin-¡ No longer do we meet, even in the sexes, so that a year or two ago come to light in Queensland. is the property of the executore discuss the question of a tombed for hitting a dog with two public life. with the break of a Wel-a certain "Colonel" was able auccess- the start of the late Dirs. stone, and, most likely, to take bricks. Another case of once bil-lington, the rugged, rocky face of a fully to give the impression, to all

Sir Cloudesley Shovel, or the agres-concerned, that she was man Harriet Barlow, of Toowoomba, plaster cast of the head for the tea, twice shy.

sive, inquiring noses of the Pitts, husband. and has recently been on view at purpose of making a bust. There

doubt that the Stratford Two Kinds.

elder and younger, which survived Poets Resemble Plumbers the Mitchell Library. It is done is no

"Some girls don't allow men to to a later date, and in a more trans- un copper, and is neither signed bust was made from such a

Every class, as has been said, and mask. The modelling, however, flirt with them, but call a police-cendental form, in Lady Hester every profession affect an identical nor dated. This "Barlow:**

Others allow men to flirt Stanhope. trait, as it is called, is said to leaves much to be desired. the man."

No, now we are given costume. "Good" clothes no longer being faulty--a with them and then call a judge instead the features, primly indec-consist in those that are a little have been in the possession of eyes especially

por-

successive bequests it became

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Peep into the Future,

Both A. D. 19-

And

sive, of a Sir John Simon, or the different from other people's; but, blunted physiognomy of a Mr. Bald-rather, those that are most like. For jwin.

a woman to be in the mode it in ne- cessary for her to be indietiguish- Sir Daward Mosley, it is true, has able from her neighbour.

J

Alike Even In Giggling remaining members of the League of Nations start fighting,

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Anthony Nicholas, of Hyde Hall, fault, of course, inseparable from and jury.

death-mask. In the Martin Ingatestone, Essex, in 1678; by Droeshout engraving, which the property of the late Mrs Heminge and Condell used on the Barlow. In 1843 an expert who title-page of the Folio edition of examined it on behalf of the Earl Shakespeare's works. it would of Derby attributed it to Jansen. appears that the poet is repre- These, in brief, are, the facts re-sented in a theatrical character lating to the portrait, which ap- probably, it is thought, as Old to be a genuine likeness Knowell in Ben Jonson's "Every of the immortal English poet Man in His Humour." It is a and dramatist. There is much curious and not very pleasing strike at the cause of the trouble," should any injudicious survivor, ploughboy, darting in one his mator- that is mystifying about the picture, but-Johnson himself de-read But she'd probably hit with a real face, pass down the Shakespeare portraits, but what scribed it as a splendid likenessback.

O, could he but have drawn his wit) we call the "standard" pictures A well in brass as he hath hit of this great man, whose whole fils face, the Print would then surpast life is wrapped in mystery, have All that was ever writ in braust" a certain resemblance one to the The portrait may have resem- other, whilst differing curiously bled the poet, but it is lacking in

a face; one that is recognisable and). Further down the scale of work. offers a chance to a caricaturist; every difference has been crased in but for the rest, the captains and the outward aspect of the workers

and after his labour is finished the

Know Mine Would.

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Weighing only three pounds,

in some respects. In all of them artistic finish. We come now to device in which electricity gen- there are the same high, bald, the two oil paintings which are erates steam has been invented for and noble forehead; the same considered to be the most au- removing paper from walls. large, wide-open eyes and high-thentic likenesses-the Chandos

arched eyebrows; the same curve and the portrait painted by · "Théresare: 30' government operat- of mouth; the uncommon distance Cornelius Jansen. The Chandoned wireless telegraph stations In between the nose and lip. This painting was originally the pro- the larger cities of China in addi- distance between lip and nose isperty of Joseph Taylor, an actor tion to several at: lens important most pronounced in the Stratford who played Hamlet in 1596, and points. bust, measuring an inch and, alis believed to have been done by quarter; and there is a story his brother, John Taylor, or by

Inserted into a loaf of bread, a that on one occasion Sir Walter Richard Burbags. Its history new tubular implement removes Scott, who had the same pecu has been carefully traced to the the entire crust in a single opera- liarity, contended that the upper time when it came into the tion, leaving the remainder ready, lip was exaggerated, whereupon possession of the Marquis of for slicing.

a companion reminded him of his Carnarvon. Inter Duke of Chan-

own, and when measured. It was dos, from whom it takes its

found to be a quarter of an inch name. It was presented to the thoughtful expression, with longer still, This feature seems National Portrait Gallery in 1856, tinge of melancholy, and ap to be slightly more emphasised The face has a Jewish cast, Unt proaches our conception of Shake in the Barlow portrait than in like this portrait, the painting by speare more nearly than any either, the Droeshout or the Cornelius Jansen was unknown other portraff. It is painted on Chandos portrait, approaching until the latter end of the eight wood, which was the artist's more closely to the bust which teenth century, though it bears usus? custom; and thore la a was made from the death-mask the date "1610 Act. 40." Jansen, copy of it, done on canvas, at But the moustache and the hair who up to the time of Van Dyck, Wortlitz, Germany, which may on the lower lip are unlike those of was the most famous portrait Have been painted by Cornelius the bust, whilst strikingly resem-painter in London-among others Jansen, the son, who was also an bling the Droeshout engraving, he painted Milton in 1618 as artist, or possibly by nome, later In the Chandos portrait Shake-boy ten years of age--dled in Engllak, painter. It is to bo speare in "shown, with a "nomé, Amsterdam in 1665. From its hoped wint stubbly beard. There is likeness to the Droeshout print, will however, a striking similarity In It is thought he may hava paint, authenti the shape of the collar In the ed the Shakespeare portrait from supposed dansen in the Barlow and Chandos portrait, this engraving as well as from family, 1 for the subject: Of the many reputed portraits his own personal recollections of aroused kran terest that will only two are known to have been the poet The face so fun, a aprend far beyond Australia,

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