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GAINSBOROUGH'S "FACES"

PAINTER WAS "SICK OF

PORTRAITS”

HIS INSPIRATION WAS LIVING LANDSCAPE

(By T. W. Earp)

All communications intended for Adolph Wonderszider crowded Although the Fuehrer is · 3) publication should be addressed to several good days work into one music fan, he does not himself the Editor, and be accompanied by day. Working in their rather play. His spare time as a youth the Writer's Name and Address small shop, then located at No. was devoted to painting. Bis (not necessarily for insertion, but 150. Waconta Street, St. Pant favourite medium was water- jas a guarantee of good faith.

Minn.. they started shoeing horses colour. Some of his water-colours last -four shoes for each animal-at were exhibited in Munich six o'clock in the.. morning and year.

(OME who have made their first A strain of natural ingenuity. ................ H.K.$36,00

Herr Hitler's favourite BOND- worked steadily all day and far ... H.K.$18.00

close acquaintance with the, ran in the family, for one of his 3. Months

·HK$ 9.99 into the night. Finishing at 11 poser is Wagner, whose political Postage Abroad Extra

p.m. they found they had shod a views are now being given an ad-full range of Gainsborough's art brothers. "Scheming Jack," devis- total of 127 Barses, which means ditions) National-Socialist colour at the comprehensive exhibition of ed a self-rocking cradle and a his work recently held at No. 45. mechanical singing cuckoo, and they prepared 50$ hoofs. fitted an at the Munich Opera.

Of the other Nazi leaders, Gen. Park-lane, London, have beer ask-long busied himself in fashioning Hong Kong, Monday, May 11, 1936. equal number of shoes, and drove

and clinched 4,064 nails.

Goering is by way of being anjing, doubtless, how it comes about a pair of wings. A second brother authority on art. Dr. Goebbels is that one who made his name injwas the more practical inventor "perfect Wagnerite," though portraiture should also achieve of a fire-proof hose and a tide- Men Teachers For Boys 24,855 Days In A Diary

not in quite the sense meant by such 'rare success as a landscape-mill Mr. Bernard Shaw. He is also a painter.

Gaing young Thomas H. TRIPP of Eugene. playwright. A play of his

It is an old question. The ansborough was that rare phenome-

jago

diversity of Gajnsborough's gifts, its talent. But a request for s The best performer among the but chiefly in the curious circums- holiday from school, forged in his sidential address at Sheffield, and every day since that time he more Important Nazis is Dr.tance that the painter preferred father's writing, disclosed unsus- and stoutly upheld the old view has made an entry, recording his Putai" Hanistaengl. Ee is a landscape. Sow he is proclaimed pected proficiency in draughts. that boys should be taught by activities, a total of 24.855 entries rst-class pianist and used rethe father of English landscape|manship. When it was found men teachers. Yet whether co-to February 4 this year. Mr-gularly a Nazi David painting.

that he had spent the day's liberty education is a good, bad or Tripp now past S6 years of age play to Saul in the shape of a

What was the secret of Thomas in sketching, and he produced the merely an indifferent thing for rode his bicycle every day until tired Herr Hitler.

Gainsborough's fame? Not only fruits of much secret artistry. the co-educated is still a moot he was $2, and can still go out

The soothing balm of Dr has it remained andimmed sincef parental anger changed to praise question. The success of cer- for a spin *1 it any time be Hanfstaengl's piano has, however, he painted the great and fashion-and encouragement.

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The President of the National Oregon, is a mas of exceed-produced in Berlin a year or twolwer is to be found in part in the hon. an infant prodigy that bides

Association of Schoolmasters came out very decidedly against ingly regular habits. He started co-education in his recent pre-ja daily diary on January 1, 1868,

THE ROLEX OYSTER STANDARD.

tain well-known co-educational chooses. schools is beyond denial. But that may be due largely to the exceptional character of their founders..

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Just as little did they favour that sort of thing. the mixed central school except

An American film star admits that she has a shocking memory. If she It is understood that the pur-followed him direct from Gains Giotto. It is said that at 10 years A clear lead was given by the ever had to appear in a witness-box chase by Lloyd's of the adjoining borough to Cezanne. He was the old he drew perfectly, and at 12 Hadow Committee on this sub-she would be hopelessly Hoored by Boval Mail House has been made first of the moderns, for while his was a formed painter; that the ject.

They considered it "im-simple questions such as "Where were with a view to the possible need fellows were still imitating the neighbours would stop to speak to portant that wherever possible you four husbands ago?"

to enlarge their own building. old masters of Italy, imbued with the offigy of a countryman paint- separate new post-primary

"Many men are not suited as fire- The growth of business schools should be provided for men," says a London fire chief

at doctrines of heroic form and idealled and cut out of a piece of board, Lloyd's is due to the many in-beauty. Gainsborough, independ-and that his sketch of a man gar- boys and girls respectively." course, you must have a dare for surance markets, in which its ent and relying on his own in- ing eagerly at some hanging

members now operate.

stinct, went directly to Nature Pears, whom he had noticed in a Motor and aviation Insurance Instead of a correctness dictated lane led to the detection of an in case of necessity, and they "We all like our joke," said a wire- held that wherever possible the less comedian last week. Of course, are two markets which have much by rules, he sought reality. He orchard-robber.

brought to his work anzwonted Gainsborough was essentially a post-primary school should be but we would like to hear their other increased.

fone now and again..

The committee will now have it freshness of vision, and made it painter by instinct and mainly so arranged that the boys

of his individual self-taught. The untutored draw- should be "supervised by al

in its power to increase the ac-the expression A doctor says the iron in fish is

ings of the rustics and the woods headmaster, and the girls by a good for us. We always wondered commodation in the big hall by spirit..

round Sudbury' contained more headmistress, "especially when what a man meant when he said the about half as much again.

Country Urchin

than a hint of the later portraitist the pupils are passing through iron was entering his sole.

Lloyd's has 1,600 members. By

He prepared the path for the and the wonderful portrayer of the early years of adolescence.”i

no means all of these normally!

technical daring of Constable and woodland magic. Keen on the job: The estate agent That is the old deep-rooted |

use the Room. This is habitual- educational tradition, and its who dreamed that the streets were

paved with "so!2.* emphatic endorsement by a Committee whose recommenda-

At 15 Gainsborough was sent to ly occupied by underwriters and Turner; he foreshadowed Impres- their agents, who may representionism. The sense of discovery London to study art, first. under that quickens his canvases still Gravelct, a noted engraver, and But Can They Count?: "Bees only any number of syndicates.

gives them their living signif-then under Hayman, of the St. tions in most other respects aresting three times," says a naturalist.n

Alan cance to us to-day.

Martin's Academy, a rigid uphold- ried on April 13 to Mr. approved by keen educational

To trace the origins of his ac-fer of the established canons of reformers is the best answer to

Brockwell Horton at St. Stephen's the charge that it is defensible

Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney,hievements in two spheres, one painting.

must look back to bis early boy- only by prejudice. not by argu-

At 17 he set up for himself in Lands- painting ment It accords, moreover,

One case each of enteric fever bood. He was born in Sudbury, Hatton-garden, with the almost universal con-

Mr. C. E. Wharton, president of (imported), diphtheria and cere in Suffolk, in 1727, the son of a capes from memory and portraits viction that boys of ten and the National Farma Council of the bro-spinal fever were reported to well-to-do clothier and a mother which he sold at from three to lover need a master.

United States and Vice-President the Health authorities during the who had some skill in fewer five guineas, besides modelling of the Modern Minute Men of 48 hours ended yesterday.

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tertained to luncheon yesterday byļ Chief Inspector W. E. Nolloth.

A servicemen's whist drive will

with bogus clubs made a satis be held in the West Lounge of the factory ending, to a confused

debate in the House of Com- European Y.M.C.A. to-night com- mons recently. The Bill that mencing at 9 p.m.

had been discussed would not.

jas he pointed out, put an end

to

There will be a dance at the

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the kind of club against Cheern Club to-day, opening at which public opinion has been 8.30 p.m. aroused, and therefore failed of its main purpose. Nor was it

There will be a whist drive andį

the R.E.W.O. and solely concerned with clubs: tombola at

to-day. begin- most of the speeches delivered S/N.C.O's Mess during the afternoon had more ning at 8.45.p.m.

to say about licensing hours in

various parts of the country.

The Kowloon Branch of the

The differences arise largely out Ministering League is holding aj of local opinion and local pre-whist and mahjongg drive at the

judice. Such an attempt as YLC.A to-day.

the Bill made to introduce uni-

formity in hours would end in

A whist drive and tombola will

creating a whole new series of be held at the Sergeants' Mess

anomalies.

Murray Barracks, to-night (Mon-

Nobody desires to retain the day).

kind of club to which the

A congregation of over 120 epithet "bogus" is ordinarily at- tached. As the Home Secretary people attended yesterday even-

service at ing's open-air

St. stated, such a club can be regis- tered by one man, can meet in Andrew's Church, Kowloon The a cellar. can be reconstituted Vicar conducted the service from after each prosecution, and, a platform and behind, in a seral- should the premises be disquali-circle, were the choir. Mr. Rupert fied by the Bench, can evade the Baldwin was at the piano assisted consequences by transferring it by Mr. L. E. Kirby (violin). The the lesson was read by Colonel C. self to another floor of Peak Hotel Depot. Tel. 29071 same building. That state of St. G. Kirke.

Tel. 68906 affairs brings the law into

mockery, and the public evil in- To-morrow is Ladies' Day at Club. The speaker volved has again and again the Rotary been exposed in the police-will be the President, Rotarian L and his subject. "A courts. There cannot be any Forster, real difficulty in distinguishing Glance between the real clubs and in-

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at Four Provinces of

GH.

TRIPP

EUGENE

Oregan HAS KEPT A DIARY

There will be a Dinner Dance to preserve and the kind of pro-i prietary club that is merely a to-morrow night in the Peninsula drinking shop evading the Hotel Roof Garden, and also next licensing laws. Magistrates have Friday and Saturday.

done their best by exemplary

fines and imprisonment to end Miss Moira Russell, formerly a the scandal, but there is a resident in Hong Kong, daughter clear case for strengthening the of Mr. William Russell, was mar- law.

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