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The

HERE, THERE

and

EVERYWHERE

Rodeo Rubbish

Tex Austin is trying to lassoo the Mother of Parliaments.

Not because it matters to anyone much-except those financially in- terested--whether there is a rodeo this year or not. But because it may further expose those fuddled humanitarians who think it kind- er to eat a cow than chase it round jn ring.

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1934 ROYAL ACADEMY EXHILARATING

FAVOURABLE COMPARISON WITH OTHER YEARS

HIGH LEVEL OF WORKMANSHIP

(By the Rt. Hon. Mr. Winston Churchill.)

London, fine and searching draughtsman+

is probable that no modern ship; though even here some parts manual of polite conversation of the face look as if they had been has ventured to omit from its list studied under a stronger magnify- Austin made out a good case for the rodeo; almost as good as the beginners the question whether or be true, as a distinguished critic of topics recommended to social ing-glass than the rest. But if it case for hunting and steeplechasing, not the Academy is better this hus hinted, that fifty years hence which has been patiently

year than last; and the subject is these paintings will be recognised wearily explained for some time

undoubtedly one of legitimate pub-as the heralds of a new dawn, we past to the League for the Prolic interest. The Royal Academy is may surely congratulate ourselves hibition of Cruel Sports.

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Half-A-Million Frenchmen

and

first and foremost a national in jou our present twilight. stitution, like the Poet Laureate) Just as we shall never know LE ship or the Derby. It is the means the one improper joke in Liddell Union of the extra-parliament-which our country has chosen to and Scott's Greek Lexicon was in- Jary Right-Wing forces in France acknowledge the existence and the tentional

or inadvertent we may has long been sought by some of importance of the graphic arts; continue to speculate

whether or their leaders,

and the ordinary man of good will not the Hanging Committee saw pays his annual visit to its exhibi. the humour of two of their colloca It seems now to be on the way.

tion in the spirit in which he gocations. The visitor who learns from M. Coty, scent merchant, former-to the Boat Race, or has a bet on his catalogue that No. 76 is "Comb- ly proprietor of the "Figaro," and the favourite at Epsom.

ing Her Hair" will be irresistibly leader of the French Solidarity. Compared with the Academy, the tempted to rechristen its neighbour and M. Taittinger. Deputy and minor societies and one-rian-shows No. 73 "Combing Her Hare"; and leader of the Patriotic Youth, have are holes and corners-deep holes, is it by accident that we find Mr. joined forces in a National Front, perhaps, leading down into the Monnington's "Lord Jellicoe," avert- jopen to all national associations. heart of things, or sunny and ing a furtive gaze from the flashing

The National Front (if the mem-sequestered corners where the und contumelious eye which ber's of French Solidarity and fruits of art may ripen. They are Cowan Dobson's "Lord Beatty" is Patriotic Youth agree to follow the nurseries of experiment and directing upon him from the op

а self-

iman.

country,

He was

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the

Mr.

Mr. Mornington's other portrait,

at

their leaders) will have a member- transition; and in an ideal world posite wall? (and consume the product.

ship of nearly half a million. They the Academy would watch the persecution of the kulaks by the are well organised and are strong-growth of each new tendency and. "Mr. Baldwin," has great dignity,

extreme hotheads among ly suspected of being armed.

if it made good, adopt it at the and is an excellent likeness, except fitting moment Into her family. that the head Bong Kong. Tuesday, June 12, 1934. the local officials merely discour

seems a little too aged everyone from trying to The Dandy That Was

In an ideal world, moreover, the small. The gold embroideries on make farming a success; and!

advancing artists would lend them-the gown are painted with The secretary of the League selves to the Bolshevism Revised.

the big communal farms were against Imperialium, whose sup- fully accept the judiciously belated Gunn has

process, and grace.mediaval precision. Mr. James unpopular and badly managed, poaed Communist tendencies were overtures of the great mother when masterly

not yet cellpsed the Proverbially bad as Hong Kong ing out of repair very quickly. House of Commons, recently is Mr. resources

the machines in particular get-the subject of discussion in the these came. Thus

presentment of three which Memory may be, it is not likely But above all the experiment of Reginald Francis

enormous writers

made a sensation and prestige of the two years ago. His "Lord Lee of to forget the name of M. Borodin.

running Russia

Orlando Bridge-Academy would not be wasted on Fareliam" is overwhelmed in the It is quite natural that we

the extremes of either tradition-eye-piercing splendour of his lord- should follow the career of so ac modern conditions no

contained unit proved that under Fifteen years ago "Reggie"ulism or novelty hunting: the ugly ship's robes, but his "James Pryde, tive a man, and still more that however large, can do without Bridgeman was the chief ornament ducklings would in due season take Esq.." is an imposing work with a we should wonder why we hear some imports and some exports of the British Embassy in Faris. their place as swans; and the nearer approach to pleasing colour so little of his propagandist acti-

to pay for them.

Byronic Agure whose general public taste would broaden than he usually compasses. vities. M. Borodin himself slip- The third phase was Stalin's melancholy

The white slowly up from President to Pres!-veteran Sir John Lavery is to be ped over to the States when the Revised Economic elimate of China became unsigned to deal with these difficul- at receptions.

Policy, de-shirts always attracted attention dent.

warmly congratulated on the inex- healthy for himself and his dis- ties. Kulaks were tolerated. if

Patchy Selection

haustible vigour of his contribu- A year or two later he read the But the world is well known not

tions, His "Prime Minister ciples, and eventually drifted

not encouraged. Private trading lessons in the Embassy Chapel into be ideal, and the benign process Lossiemouth" into journalism in New York.

is a charming con- was not happy there, and amount of property and

was allowed, and a He

limited the Metternichgasse, in Vienna, which I have tried to imagine is inversation-plece, and "Miss Diana opened up

even negotiations with capital in the form of balances in to excite envy and admiration. It year the Academy will make a grab

The crease of his trousers used practice patchy and jerky. One Dickinson" is full of grace and life, Mr. Sickert's "Sir James Dunn" Moscow which led to his being the Savings Banks was authoris- was said that when be put them on at eccentricity, and the next recoil could only be the work of a master. appointed to the staff of the ed. Most of the imported ex- he stood on a chair to avoid any into overorthodoxy. On the other

Misa Cathleen Government organ, Pravda, to perts left when they began to re-bending of the knee.

"Prince edit the English version of news ceive their pay in Russian money

side those of the progressive artists George" is distinguished among and reports. never get in

There is a quaint instead

Later he went to Teheran, de-who decept adoption seem to lose royal portraits by its combination of gold dollars. irony of fate, considering all that

The veloped

strong Socialist ten-interest and cease to play up; while of character with sensitive hand- we suffered at his hands, that it was retrenched; and the Foreign and resigned.

expensive foreign propaganda dencies, lost his taste in clothes, others, whose absence is deplorabio Jing. Mr. Gerald Kellant is his knowledge of our language Trade Department became punc

and even comic, are still, whether ing a delightfully intimate style of and his supposed knowledge of tilious in paying debts. It was

by their own default or the portraiture in which the sitter is way of looking at things. recently stated

Academy's, outside the fold.

shown among the properties of his that have provided him with a about eighty

officially that million pounds means of livelihood. But the worth of trade insured by the A travelling circus had arrived question remains why it is that if British Government had not in-at a small village, and the vicar Smith, and Mr. Arthur Nash should and bottles he is now writing in English what volved a single bad debt. Piece-paid a visit to the encampment to is intended to inform us and in-work has been introduced into see if he could be of service. He country puts foremost year by year. so many little drawers in his shop. be among those exhibitors their Pumblechook must be from having fluence us on Russian affairs, we the factories.

came across three circus hands But "these thoughts full do not see his name more often

counsel Mr. Meredith Frampton's wise and in the news. The answer is that been made by other statesmen.

Whatever failures may have sitting silent and very dejected. must mature."

stately "Bishop of Exeter's he has passed under the control M Litvinov has during the last "The elephant's dead," volunteer-how this exhibition compares with

To go back to my initial question, true pillar of the Church, and Mr. of a much bigger man, whose twelve months been consistently led one of the men.

(Continued on Page 11). policy requires publicity that is successful. He has won recogni- "Dear, dear," said the parson, " almost the opposite of the type tion by France, Great Britain, the jam sorry. But at the same time The general level of

must on the whole be favourable. MORE FORGED BANK that we connect with the name of United States, and within the am glad to think that you three workmanship is probably higher Borodin.

M. Litvinov is a realist states-a State which was

last few days by Czecho-Slovakia, men cared so much for a dumb than ever. Secondly, there are man first, and an economist only mity only a few weeks ago.

vowing en-animal."

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"What's wrong?" asked the vicar.

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Surely it is more than time-to business; his "Sir Almroth Mr. Duncan Grant, Mr. Matthew happy among his rows of test-tubes take a few names at random-that Wright," in particular, looks as

as Pip thought Mr.

its predecessors, I think the answer

competent

to his official chief and the Mos-been signed with all the neigh-l'as got to dig the 'ole to bury'imtraptions by which a certain type

entente Candid:

Re-

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of would-be artist demonstrates the fallacy about genius and taking puins.

NOTES.

Myrtle Fruit Store Victimised.

CABIN BOY GAOLED

ig a

Chu Tak-leung, a cabin boy

cow Bureaucracy. He represents bouring States; and now, great- the third phase of Soviet evolu-fest triumph of all, an tion; so rapidly do we move with France arranged, nowadays. The first phase was entry into the League by Ger Jane: "That boy I was dancing} Coming to particulara, there is Communism in Russia, with the Government, will Lenin's attempt to establish pure many, and entry by the Soviet with told me I looked a perfect one case which must at once be employed on a President liner.

squarely faced. I am told ambition to spread it thence over member States begin to feel

make non-picture," "

on all who was charged before Mr.. the rest of the world. This did rather out in the cold.

Jeanne: "Did he, dear? He pro-hands that Mr. Stanley Spencer is Q. A. A. MacFadych at the Cen bably meant you were well paint an artist of the highest endowment tral Police Court this morning, not survive even to the end of Lenin's own life, for his New fallen the task of showing how

And to poor M. Borodin has ed.

and of the most indubitabile ain-for being in possession of threa cerity, and that in portraiture, in forged Chartered Bank notes Economic Policy restored pri- beneficient have been all these

landscape, and in religious painting last Saturday. vate property to the peasants recent

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Couldn't Beat That

who comprise four-fifths of the purity of the Marxian Word!

departures from the An American was being shown ho has given proof of his quality. On Saturday morning, accus-

Jabout the Australian bush when a

But I am not to be intimidated ed went into the Myrtle Fruit population, and gave concessions

herd of bullocks made its appear"the fear of offending against for the best apples in the shop. leven by what Anatole France calla Store, Peking Road, and asked

even to the small retail traders.

As he himself confessed, what PEEPS INTO AMAH'S jremained was not Communism

but State Capitalism.

WARDROBE.

Inquisitive Chinese Charged.

iance.

"What are those?" he asked,

answer. "In

ed,

sentation

Beauty unknown" into praising, or He obtained his apples and was: "Bullocks, of course," was the acquiescing in, the present repre- given his change for his $10 note.. The second stage was the

of his talents. Milton's The bill was handed to Mr. A. E. famous five-year Plan aiming at

Sin is at any rate provided with an Solomon, proprietor of the store, America they are three making the state-controlled "In-

times as big," the visitor remark-explanation why "with fear and who sent it with a boy to, a dustries a success. Great pro-

grief Distorted all my neither parts money changer. The boy later A flock of sheep passed, and misshapen figures "abortive, mon- saying that it was forged. Mr. thus grow Transformed; but these returned with the banknote, gress was made with big fac- tories built on American models; A formal romand of 48 hours again there was inquiry as to what and organised by imported tech-was granted by Mt. E. W. Hamil-¡they wore,

strous or unkindly mixed" more Solomon then called up the nicians, partly German, as he ton at the Central Magistracy this "Sheep, of course," the Auptra- countryside, are given nothing to phone call that accused slipped for Limbo than for the English Police, and it was during the tele fore the war, but principally morning, in the case of Fungian replied. American; and it was these en-Cheung, unemployed, who

"Thought

The predica-away. they were rabbits, for themselves. vineers and advisers and finan- charged with loitering with intent said the American.

ments in which they are exhibited ciers who saved Russia from to commit a felony at No. 22 John- By this time the, Australian had

unaccountable as their slicer starvation, and got the ston Road, which is occupied by learned something, and when three cumbrous machine going under Mr. Souza..

kangaroos hopped along and the many difficulties. Where a fac- Detective-Sergeant Fitches stat-American inquired what they were tory had begun to produce there ed that accused was arrested while he replied, "Grasshoppers, was frequently no public to take pooping into the amah's wardrobe. [course.”

Was

of

дре 料理 atructure.

Descriptions of the man were circulated, and the accused was arrested after 8 o'clock in the evening in Connaught Road Cen Hidden Humour

tral by a Chinese detective. The work in which it is oasiest When he was searched the threa to recognise Mr. Spencer's gift is notes were found, the, "Portrait". which gives us a Sentence of six months' hard rugged and powerful design, and labour was imposed.