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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 1951.

MR LEWIS HAS BEEN

MAKING ENEMIES

pages. DERCY

by

George

TARR. By Wyndham Lewis. by a Turk. He returned to calculated to awaken, startle, Malcolm. Thomson

Methuen. 98. 6d. 352 London, an arrogant young man affright, but hardly, to enlighten,

in an outsize sombrero and Before its echoes had died against him (1099). When the Quartier Latin clothes made for away, the Great War had car Left became warlike Lewis was WYNDHAM him by a horrified Brook Street ried its founder off to other against Awar "to moke the PLEWIS is a painter and tailor

of high explosive. Re- He has been a

turning in a writer

no peaceable mood, world safe for Communism."" he launched a magazine called Simultaneously, then, he was painter and a writer in Lon-

The Enemy. When

Aimold boycotted by

Intelligentsia *and had hla don and Paris for 40 years. The hero of "Tarr," a novel Bennett protceled against the He has also been a fire-eater dealing with English and Ger- title, he retorted. "If you find portrait of T.. S. Elict rejected

by the

the Royal Academy," a distasteful to

to you, be

double triumph. for 40 years. His hobby man, expatriates and their love a person

affairs in Paris, can be looked rude to him. Do not refer to singular has been the collection of on ng partly a self-portralt of him as my friend 50-and-so Auguslus · John, resigned from

- H

enemies. Now his novel this period." "Tarethe Inst explosion of the 1914 words issued. If it is no longer dynamite, it is still dynu- mic.

First sign

He was over

П

sect of the

years later, in 1949, n

his second portrait of T.8. Eliot, Warrior of the studios, Painting

closer to see his silter. Now he be found that he had to move faces total blindness.

Taking his own advice, Lewis the Academy. Lewis comment- attacked Bloomsbury,

deft cd: "The Royal Academy have "....dark skin and a steady,

nesthetes of the

lost their only artist." greenery unamicble expresaton: re-

Ten idea of the shallow fallery periods of the 'negro; deep misfortune befell this old cleon-shaven with a square Jaw and straight thick freedom the mouth. His hands were square What we want is a tyranny of the idolatry of the little man: and usually hot

"He impressed the stranger as the best Intellects." "Indiscri- aminate education is dangerous having inherited himself

Look

at the upper classes." week, and as being in a great

He wrot enough.

too much and did press of business to

The public not paint details and resources

stared at his pictures (you can stare at one in the Tate now), wele puzzled by his violent, chaotic novels and were scared by his opinions.

that there was

fur concern.""

grasp the of the

It is disaster which he accepts with some humour ("I would rolve a great many problems it were born English painters blind") and no self-pity:

"Pushed into cn unlighted room, the door banged and bolt- ed for ever, I shall then have to light a lomp of aggressive volt age in my mind to keep at bay the night.”

something odd ubout Lewis (born 07 years ago in Maine) accurred when a school mate at Rugby found him painting the head of a large dog and aut in horror.

You

Back in London, Lewis made artist!" His house-master took futurist fumiture Ιωτ the appropriate action: Lewis was Omega Workshop: chairs that packed off to the Slade School, stuck to the seats

of pur- candlesticks Inspiring chasers' trousers, where he caught an glimpse of the huge good car that once picked up could not be rings of Augustus John, at the, put down again owing to the dawn of his career as artist uneconomie 50 of futurist

From his obstreperous youth John did and patriarch.

Blue. some-

he has retained the courage It was not enough to quench thing more inspiring; he bought

He declared that he preferred which at one of Lewis's first pictures. hin creative ardour, which, In

Fuselsm to Communism, had a been mistaken for panache, He Followed Parts, where Lewis 1014. Jasued in the Camous, studied philosophy under Berg- enoms, pink-paper heavy pat on the back. for Mussolini, still has his dictaphone. But, oné book in favour of alas you cannot, paint by magazine wrote yon, and

Munich, where he hype, high explosive

(1931) and another dictaphone. studied painting in a sludio run Blast.

manifesto Hitler A futurist

CAVE YOU EVER DREAMED THAT.

YOU WERE RIDING ON THE

COAL ON A LOCOMOTIVE WHICH WAS RUNNING ON THE MAIN ROAD INSTEAD OF RAILS

THIS

DREAM

Je was thought to be brutal, to be partial to despots, to lack warmth of feeling for the poor and lowly,'

Che SNAPSHOT GUILD

A striking scenic view such as this would make a fine enlarge. ment for an album page,

the time might have H piling up on

THEN A POLICEMAN ORDERED YOU OFF THE COAL AND YOU WERE IN THE CORRIDOR OF A TRAIN WITH THE DOOR SWINGING, BUT YOU COULD NOT REACH TO SHUT IT

MEANS: yourself in a bigger way.

own steam along now paths: in short, to be

Trains run on rails and in dreams are often symbolic of an ordered routine way of living. In this dream, you are running "off the rails" away from the boaton path; you are riding under your own steam on a transport weapon of graat power.

It would seem that you've been wanting to throw your weight about; you've been frotting and champing under restraint; wanting to express your own personality, to go under your

VIGNETTES OF LIFE

TO OPEN THIS WINDOW YOU HAVE,

TO HOLD IT SORT OF SIDE-

WAYS AND THEN

GIVE IT A

GOOD VANK

AND PUT

THE STICK

UNDER IT!

:

However the policeman (standing for law and order and society) warną you off. You faci frustrated ; and, insocure and this fooling is further confirmed by your inability to close the swinging door and to ease your nerves.

It looks as if there is a littla friction between your personality and the demands of sticiaty; between self and socloty; and you are naturally not getting the best of it. Your next priority... job is to reduce that friction.

How To Brushoff A Guest

TOUGHT TO TELL YOU ABOUT OUR CLOCKS.. THIS ONE SAYS IT'S TEN TO FOUR BUT ITS REALLY EIGHT

MINUTES AFTER THREE..THE ONE

IN YOUR RODA, IF YOU WAIT TO GET UP AT EIGHT SET THE ALARM FOR TEN AFTER SIX...

ETC.

ones

KEEP UP YOUR PHOTO ALBUM

TAVE those snapshots been striking

for enlarging. you lately? Nothing gives. album pages. Now is an excellent time of more punch than the change your to sort out all those prints of pace provided by a few good of the past few months and gel enlargements, them into your albums.

Incidentally, there is a new

trend in album keeping. Camera fans are getting away from the bulky catch-all type of album in favour of the smaller com- pact types for specific picture subjects. These subjects can be vacation trips, the children, Achool days, family bobbles, ole. Doing it this way permis

Then, when the prints an

are ready, care- enlargements fully mount them, on the pages And here is of your album. where your ingenuity can como into full play." Use as mitch variety in your layout as you can. Try to make each page o little bit different, just in the

way you place the pictures an euch sheet. By so doing you

each album to be more of 1 can produce an bum that story-telling

record of the

really is a delight to see, famly actives.

Morever, there are special. The first thing to do, then, types of albums now available, with that stack of prints is to

such as those with transparent organise it into album subjects. Then comes the editing of the sleeves into which the pictures are inserted. And one of the plotures. For this step, lay them out on a table where you most striking of all albums is the de type composed of enlargements can view them. side by

by side, mounted back to back and and pick out those that best bound together with spiral or tell the story. You syll find plastic binding. This often can many duplications, and there

will be prints that are of poor be done with the best family poor pictures gathered over a period should that

be quality

of years, or with the "bes eliminated. I really lan't we shots from a vacation trip.

mount every picture thet you take. The album will look better if you are a 11e dis- criminating in your selection.

But no matter what kind, of an album you select, organke your pictures somehow. Re- One you have selected the member, good pictures deservo prints that will go into the to be seen. book, spread them cut again and pick out some of the most

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́"OIT ALMOST FORGOT..

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·IF IT DOESHT

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*THE HOT WATER

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AND YOU HAVE TO KOLD

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TINGAMAJIG UP

SO THE VATER.

VON'T RUN OUT. YOU'LL GET

USED TO IT!

“COPR, 1951 HY GENERAL FEATURES

COL, TM.WORLD RIGHTS RESERVED.

* JOAN TOLD ME

TO REMIND YOU, IF

YOU ISE THE SHOVER. BE CAREFUL OF THE HOT WATER FAICET.. (SOMETIMES IT

COMES OFF... DON'T WANT YOU TO GET SCALDED?

YOU HAVE TO TIP THIS

DRAWER DOWN LIKE. THIS TO CLOSE

... BUT TO OPEN

IT YOU HAVE "TO" SHAKE IT SIDEWAYS” Á TEW TULES!

"WIIÈS) YOU WANT TO CLOSE THIS DOOR

ABE SURE TO PULL UP

ON THE KROB LIKE: THIS OR IT'LL PLY: OPEN LÁGAINARA..

- BUT TO OPEN AT YOU

∙PILEH DOWN ON THE "

KHOB AND THEN

GNE (T A GOOD

· IT'S A WIRE .......

CHES APOLOGIZING, TOR LEAVING SO SUDDENLY...? SAYS SHE. JIST

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