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"The function of art” wrote Tolstoi "is to elevate;" and even that saying can only be Hong Kong, Thursday, June 20, 1925 accepted with a great deal of reservation. If he had said The function of art is partly
Here There and
Everywhere.
POLITICAL WISE-CRACKLER””
Mr. Douglas Jerrold, whose new! book. “England," appeared recently, is a master of the political "wise crack" His earlier works, parti- cularly gavel "Storm
which
"CLIVE OF INDIA"
PROJECTED OPERATIONS
AT TRICHONOPOLY
SERVICE UNDER MAJOR LAWRENCE
(By Rafael Sabatini),
called his other Tank of maverale creat tinues to hold the anione con many political speakers and morally even greater The one occasion when Lawrence, out have worked to their advantage. actual booty was again consider- of his full appreciation of Clive's In the last six months no able; but what mattered more was)valour and ability. selected him fewer than three of his epigrams that 600 Sepoys trained by the for the difficult task of intercept- have been quoted as being the French came over with their armsing supplies from Pondicherry-to- original pronouncements of one to the British, and several local the French-detachment protests chiefs submitted without a blow were raised by some officers wher particular MP.
Mr. Jerrold's history has some to the champion of Mahomed Ali claimed on the ground of seniority,
Such a change had the young the right to be preferred. captain wrought in the situation!
Their Leader
THE spoils of Clive's victory at†Clive now loyally served he coffe
good things in it. Typical is this aphorism:
The failure of Mr. Lloyd George to that it was now possible to con-- These protests were answered lead the liberal party was due to the sider conveying succour to Tri- by the refusal of the „icked native fact that he had no roots in English chonopoly. Rezza Sahib, how-troops detailed for the service to middle-class life. He was always. sailing too near the clouds in his ever, interrupted his plans. With proceed upon it pader any other perorations, and too near the wind reassembled. forces, he swept in-than this leader, who by now had to the East India Company's ter-earned among them the name of ritory, burning, looting and de- Sabat. Jung (The Daring in War), jstroying, and thus providing Clive and whose invincibility had be
The campaign dragged
ir his mancetrtres.
+
FOXFORD UNION RECORD
100
Mr. Jerrold's epigrams have a with a more immediate task. He come a superstition: somewhat Oxford Union flavour made ready swiftly, and by the
end of February, with 330 Brit-through à succession of minor about them. Ferhaps this is due ish, 1,300 Sepoys, and 12 field actions, from March until June, to the fact that he was secretary pieces he was on the heels of when at last the siege of Trichon-
of that society for longer than Rezza Sahib, who, with a force of poly was raised, and the turbul anybody else in its history.
1400 French. 2,000 Sepoys, 2500 ext career of the defeated Chunda He was secretary when the war native cavalry, and a large train of Sahib closed in his murder. broke out, and returned after the artillery, was once more advanc war to take the chair when the ing upon Arcot
Union was reconstituted.
This was at a debate subsequent]
to which Mr. Hore Belisha became president
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Percival: "That was the unkindest cut of all, as the poet says". Penelope: "What was?" Percivali "I showed her one of my
Propaganda And Art to elevate he would have been boyhood pictures with my father hold-
no concern
jer Art
nearer the mark Thoughing me on his knee, and she said, "Me,
music and
who is the ventriloquist ?" "
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It is a failing in politicians masterpieces of that they will attempt to in-painting have sometimes been.
A gardening expert has written a trude their beastly politics into the highest inspiration to men, book on cabbages. Surely paper matters with which they have to ignore the fundamental func-would have been cheaper.
One of these is artition of some forms of art to. whether you call it art. "art" interest. delight and amuse-
Teacher: "Willie, give the definition To talk, as Dr. Goeb-without any question of "eleva-
of bome." nels is reported to have done tion" is to ignore by far the
Willie: "Home is where part of the recently at Hamburg in an larger mass of artistic output family waits until the others laddress to the Reich Chamber through the ages When pri- through with the car." of Dramatic Art, of every artistmordial man first grasped his having the duty to serve the stick of woad or whatever it people and to make his art an was and drew pictures of a integral part of the life and pleiosaurus on a cave in Brit- work of the nation, is to talk tany, he had no thoughts of utter nonsense, completely re-elevating his fellows. He did it moved from every conception of primarily for his own amuse-schooner Taiei Maru moored off art from the times of Neander-ment saying, no doubt, "what! Wanchai, this morning, but the thai man. That art may incl-ja good boy am I as he survey-damage is reported to have been! dentally reflect the manners and ed the results of his handiwork only minor. inspirations of its times is per--and secondly," to give the
LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES
Fire broke out on board tha
missible: but whenever an other members of his tribe The charity concert given by lattempt has been made fo fetter something to interest and the "Nor-stops" of HMS Suffolk the legitimate concepts of artsmuse them for a moment. To on June I realised a total of to make them conform to any come to more modern times. $445.13 which has been forward-f particular social or political there is nothing which elevates led to the committee of the Minis viewpoint, the result has been in such a magnificent conception)tering Children's Leagte stagnation, deadness. inverta-jas.
Glyn Philpot's "The braeity (if there is such. al"Chimera" or Rodin's
The following unclaimed tele word), and the complete nega-Thinker." The only elevation grams are lying at the Eastern tion of everything that is con-which can be read into the Extension Telegraph Co.'s office: veved by the phrase "A sense immortal first four notes of the Napier, Marble Hall Observa- of humour.** There is no Fifth is the purely arbitrary tory Rd. Kowloon, from Auck
Gomes,
say,
spiration behind propaganda reading of professorial diagno-land Sydney Makolm
art
at
Dupleix was faced with the ruin of all those hopes towardą“
Ronald Colman and Loretta Toung pictured in a scenic "Clive" of India," which will be shown at the King's Theatre on Saturday.
Clive came up with the enemy the fulfilment of which the coun- Caveripak and fought a battle try for which he laboured had by moonlight, in which his genius very indifferently supported him again proving superior to the But his stout spirit would not yet odds, he victoriously cleared the own defeat, although in intrigues,
for a political cause but third-sers, that they represent the SA Hankow Rd. Kowloon, from rate stuff that any fourth-formjawful knockings of fate an Singapore; and Sydney Gomes Esq- schoolboy would turn out if analysis which Beethoven him-6A. Hankow Rd, Kowloon; from given a free hand; it is all dill, self deprecated And there are Singapore routine stuff, utterly lacking in literally thousands of other any aesthetic appeal, completely examples.
Suen Sni, unemployed was this divorced from all conceptions of The whole conception of the morning sentenced to two months! freshness and spontaneity, and hyperbolic "modernism" which hard labour and placed under nowhere are these negative is so evident in present-day art police supervision for two years by qualities showed up better than is based on exactly that frus-Mr. Q. A A. Macfadyen at the in propaganda masquerading as rating influence which propa- Central Police Court for the theft!
ganda, when applied to art, in-of three rolls of cloth, valued at "There have been instances dicates We recently published $15, from No. 42 Queen's Road jenough in civilised times to an article by Eric Coates, the Central yesterday..
drive home with a mallet the well-known light, composer,- in truth of this assertion On which he said that present-day | Leo Krichinsky, a 23-year-old way for his projected operations in colossal bribes, and in the levy- every single occasion in history music was too highbrow. He Russian, was this morning fined at Trichonopoly. on which political concepts have was right. As soon as art $10 by Mr. Q. A. A. Macfadyen at been forced upon the free crea becomes highbrow it loses itse. Central Police Court, for en- tion of art the result has been sense of humour-which is the tering the Colony without a valid lamentable, the most recent and same as saying that it loses its passport on June 18. notable occasion being Boisbe sense of proportion. It begins vist Russia. It was not solto take its .... extravagances
The RMS. Empress of Russia many years ago that the Great seriously; a depth of fundamen is due bere from Manila at 9 at Bobunks there decreed that tal purpose which is not there Wednesday: she will sail for writers, musicians, artists and is read into it, in short, it be Vancouver, via Shanghai and Japanuildings and the column that Within a couple of years Dapliex-
proclaimed smintors must idealise the Pro-comes atrophied, colourless ports, at noon next Friday,
the greatness of was to be superseded, recalled, Dupleix, an act the symbolism treated as a malefactor by the letariat and all its works and from too much colour, and not
Woot! Jost Government of a nation to wh
Broken Spell
ing of new forces he had exhaust- ed the great personal fortune- which he had amassed. David to take command of the Arcot had resulted in driving
On his way back to Fort St
Clive's superb achievement at army assembled for that purpose, British roots, firmly into the soil he paused at the growing, stately of India There those roots were city of Dupleix-Futtchabad, and henceforth to spread and secure a the ground both the hold of ever increasing strength.
razed to
a horde of youngsters hymned a little ridiculous. The world can exhibition which was dis-of which was the praises of the Glorious of art critics has not yet re-covered to have been hung up-upon the Indians. The spell he had sought to give an emp Revolution, the Machine Age, covered from the hoax which a side down! Incidents such as which that moment had cast His claim for reimburs etc, etc, in a series of the most lady recently played on them, these would not be possible in "pon them was now as completely the private fortune which be had depressing paeans masquerad when she painted a picture of a healthy word of art fanned broken as was the army which spent in his country's ser in as art that the world has two recumbent figures on a by the cool breeze of sanity as Duplex had created and the to be rejected, and he was ever seen Turgid and mono-fried fish stall having had against hyperbole Art, when power which he had so laborious left to die in want tonous attempts at "modern absolutely no art training what it is allied to highbrowism, can on ism were reflected in the soever, and by putting a Spanish offer things like thi and Can As it fell out, Clive was not de- music, painting and writing of Bounding name in the bottom do exactly the same Russia, and not a line or a note right-hand corner, drew forth allied to political
her
for a daub of it will live except most extravagant enlogies of Both are entirely alien
as a memento of the col Italy of attempting to
the creative aspects of art bolster ny a political concept
ork of art from all the original concept of
critics There was is: individuality of the recent case of the prize tered by no prine
ating in an Ameri-erextive instinct of
Fierce Strain stined to lead the expedition to The climate of India Trichonopoly At the last moment suited Clive's healt
the Major Lawrence arrived frum ships endured at Arcot, the
England and took over the com of the subsequent operations mand which belonged to him by ducted by a man whose the right of seniority. But even of strength had been sapt
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