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Celebrations

16 1935

Here There and

Everywhere

SELF-PORTRAITS

BRITAIN'S ROYAL

GUEST

WARRIOR SON OF KING.

IBN SAUD

Few artists can resist REPUTATION AS BRAVE

temptation to paint themselves. A hundred European portraits stretching over the last 50 years, fand wholly unlike any portraits in the Academy, ware on exhibi-

tion recently at the Leicester

Galleries. Nearly 20 of them were self-portraits.12

AND FIGHTER

MAN

(By Captain H. C. Armstrong)

London of the Inner Desert, born in ther THE visit of the Crown Prince great palace at kiad. Except of Saudi Arabin, was excep for one visit to Cairo several There was one of Sir William, Rothenstein as a boy in knicker- tional and is not likely to be re- years ago, he has never been out. bockers in the nineties. There peated. Ning Ton Sand is both of Arabía, and he comes to Bag- were self-portraits of Mr. Stanley an absolute and a personal ruler. land direct from Risd, the capi- Spencer Renoir, Marie Lamercia, All things in his kingdom are tal of Arabia.

The city lies in the very heart Chirico, Derain with his family, under his hand.

Once I begged him to visit Eng-of that vast country. It is hide and Gauguin in bronze relief.

There were two of Cezanne and land himself: "I cannot be said, den and protected behind great N

two of van Gogh.

PICASSO AS HARLEQUIN :

All his life the Fair has lived.

*I must always be here to rule." deserts and is inhabited by the His heir, too, must be ready by Wahabis, the fiercest and the his side to take over the reins of most fanatical of the sects - of government at any minute. No Islam, who hate all foreigners and all foreign ways Risad is a Picasso painted himself dress-deputy can act for him

To-day all Arabia is at peace. forbidden city, to which only a ed as a harlequin, seated at the Lapin Agile in Paris, with its pro- The tribes are quiet A travel-few. European travellers have prietor, Pere Fred, and a lady ler, provided he has the King's penetrated.

The Emir's Life friend..

protection, may journey in safety Fred acquired the picture after from the Red Sea to the Persian it was painted in 1908. In 1907 Gulf and away north to the Sy-amongst the Wahabis. Like them A merchant with he lives very frugally, neither it was sold for a few hundred an Desert

By 1905 its value bad gold in his pouch and desirable drinking stimulants nor smoking risen prodigiously. Now it is the goods on his camels may halt un tobacco. He is strictly religious, property of Monsieur de Mare, armed and yet safe beside the praying five times in each 24

hours at the appointed times. manager of the Swedish Ballet: most desolate road.

Keeping the Fast of Ramazan, His principal dancer Boertia,

Royal Claimants appeared in the exhibition, paint-- A mighty man, ruthless ret for one month each year he led by Carl Hoefer

just, dominating the whole land. neither eats nor drinks from the Ibn Sand holds down a fierce and hour when the stars begin to

francs.

item spotted by Punch

* Schstitate

untamed people by the prestige pale in the light of the false

The China Fail cracy, and most often used for Your Daily Smile!

and personality of a great fight-dawn until the evening call to ja temporary discipline of way- ward sons and daughters who

"Our great-grandparents and beer. But the day, the very min-prayer. He performs the Pil- cherished amorous and particu- amazed to see a car start simply by ute, the news goes out that King grimage to Mecca, and gives li Hong Kong. Tuesday, July 16, 1935 larly matrimonial plans that pressing a button"

we read. So Ibn Saud is no more, Arabia will berally to the poor.

Like his father, who is a giant, were unwelcome to the head of would lots of motorists.

flare up in revolt the family. Some mysterious

Half a dozen members of the he towers a foot over other Tiny Tots Reiterate Good Wishes inmates there were, like the

A telegram sent to Their Hefer Boyal family will try for the Arabs, and yet he is slim and "Man in the Iron Mask, who tes read: "1500 children of the loyal throne Both the King and his lithe, powerfully built, with long There are, of course, endless are explained as scions of great town of Kamisford respectfully re- father have married many wives expressive hands, and in his The Arah robes he walks with a ma- varieties of celebrations, from families who set up claims that peat the good wishes they expressed and begotten many children the annual dinners of cricket ignored the bar sinister which you on the occasion of your Sad has at least 25 sons alive jestic carriage and the poise" of riage, and again wish you continned' and football clubs, to national the heralds would have allotted health and happiness"Local news and a great host of brothers, and one who is used to being obeyed He is shrewd, knows his own fetes and religious ceremonies; to them in a grant of arms.

cousins. and we all feel that life would

The Battle of the Boyne is in

Arabia is a harsh land with mind and judges quickly. Often. *

is unreasonably generous, be the poorer if we merely different class altogether: it

little soil and less water, so that he "There's no bread in the housë, sir. worked and ate and slept day is one of those commemorated

every yard must be enltivated with a gesture that catches the remembrance. to day without connecting our-days the

of Whist shall I do?" selves up with

like-minded which is in itself a political pro-make some toast!"

"Oh, don't bother about that. Just with the sweat of the brow, and imagination of those "round him. then it produces little. For the but usually his generosity has people and the big events of the gramme and a defiance to those

Arabs raiding is life, their one behind it a reasoned calculation. He is an athlete, delighting in past that made our social and who advocate a different pro-

spur to enezzy". political life what they are to gramme. The Fifth of Novem "Why do you always answer me by

It is in their nature and it shooting, hawking and horses. us. Is the custom of commemo-ber makes both an analogy and aslong another question ?**

fsets their blood afre like fever Every week he rides out of Rind “Do I?” rating dates and seasons good a contrast. Begun in a spirit

the secret massing of men and with a cavalcade of 50 or 60 sta]- or bad?

of animosity and intolerance, it

animals, a night march under the lions, and in the open plains It might appear at a first has almost lost its specific con-

open sky and the rolling move takes part in mimic battles with glance that the line to be drawn nection with the old strife of

ment of the camels, a creeping charges and spear-throwing and These physical aftri- depends on whether the thing Catholic and Protestant.

between sand dunes, an

eager, Jousting Serve, concentrated watching, butes are of primary importance to be celebrated is a miting or Fakes is not a figure that Four cases of typhoid fever} a dividing memory, but human appeals to the imagination were reported in the Colony dur- and then shouts, hoarse cries, the to the ruler of a primitive things are not so easily classi-Only here and there does one ing the 24 hours ended Sunday. galloping of horses, firing, clouds people. fied by a straight line. The meet an old-fashioned person

of dust, some loot, a man or two members of a Cricket Club at who condemns the fireworks 25 A dinner dance will be held talled and a few injured their annual meeting are no an insult, and even as a spec at the Repulse Bay Hotel to doubt full of a feeling of good tacle they are not as popular amorrow. The last bus will leave fellowship not disconnected once they were

Repulse Bay at 1 sim.

Guy

Impossible

LOCAL NEWS BREVITIES

Leeping Order

Tried In Battle

Already he has a reputation as a brave man and a fighter - Her

The King has for many years has taken part in a dozen Akirm. forbidden all raiding. He has shes and small wars and helped with victories over rival clubs: The Battle of the Boyne was supp hat it is their own prowess that fought in a quarrel which was The EMS. Empress of Russia wished to construct an organised to put down two rebellions, they think of, without troubling as it were, mother's milk to leaves Vancouver on the 27th in-State, and in this raids have no as the King's son carefully kept to vaunt their humiliation of President de Valera, and he is stant and is due at Hong Kong on place. He enforces his orders out of danger, but in hand-to- the rivals, who are quite prob- still engaged in the same fight. Angast 14. She will leave Hong remorselessly. Once a clan of hand fighting with the enemy. ably their very good friends He appears recently to have Keng for Manila the following

the Murra tribe, disobeyed. At When he was only a lad of 19 once Ton Sand swooped down on his father went to war with the A political party on the other enquired whether the English afternoon.

them, wiped them out, and left Shammar tribes, allies of the

[Turkt. The Emir rode in hand exists to subdue some Government would have any other political party and cannot objection to his declaring Ire-

The body of Mak Hon-kuen, the 25 a warning that all could see a triumph without inflicting de land to be a republic; and if so, 17-ext-old student who was black smear of bodies and brok-xud of a detachment of horse- feat upon the rivals; a com- what steps they would take to owned whilst swimming off en tents under the open sky memoration is an incitement to enforce their own view? Inchikok on Sunday afternoon, It is Ibn Sand's personality edly in the melee of small fights,

The gemality, or whether a formal rebellion as recovered by the Police which keeps law and order. The leading and urging on his Fotherwise of the company would be met with force or nyt yesterday and was taken to the fummute he is gone, with a whoo? Find using his sword Instily.

action for further other words, he wanted to

know

London

Since then he has been repeat="

of joy the tribes will go raiding he made long marches again as they did in the old day the deserts under the In Arabia there is no machin heat of the summer's

and no civil lives and

Teft

Hong

Gis dne

Song on

of

future struggle

public mortuary. assembled will depend very It seems rather odd that it re much on the question whether mained to Mr. J. E. Thomas to controversy is deep, and or enquire whether he had sought merely involves a choice the views of the milions of Leith, me to attain general pros-Irishmen working in Great tperity.

Britain, and whether, if they The aking of the Bastille, became aliens and were treated which was only honoured by as such lee would find work for day. Hestivit by our French co-them at home? It is certainly residents on Saturday, is one of a question that needs to be the unexceptionable occasions answered, for in these days was this which can leave no sting be when unemployment is still then default hind, for whatever differences biggest drawback to prosperity, bour, by muy run with whatever heat in there cannot be a doubt that the Central the veins of French electors, it exclusion of all aliens would be sion of is quite certain that there is

ost popular measure

party that would restore

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tried but unwanted citize

those forbidding

event could have that would

symbol of Hiberty

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ment could un

memployed, fined $1, unting hard la held at

found

only a raider's rations dried camel's milk and dful of daten, - and 30 power of end vill accept no which the Ara

when Judging

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