1951-11-26 — Page 8

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The 1185

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16 am. Noon

1st Dec.

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Rails from Castodian Wharf

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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1951.

CHINA Humid Weather Is Racehorse

MAIL

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New

Harming National Gallery Pictures

London, Nov, 25.

A worried man walked round the National Gallery in London and prayed for a break in the contributing always wet complex depression" which has lain. off the Bri- tish Isles for the past week and brought the wet warm weather.

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From time to time he sighed and jotted in his notebook the details of yet another picture impair

12ed by the humid atmosphere.

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Stables Exorcised

London, Nov. 25. Because "sily happspitos Harry were troubling trainer Whiteman's racing slabics at

Lambourn, Berks, the ex-foot- baller vicar. 98-year-old Rev. Enest Rumens, repeated a ser vice in every room and every

borse-box.

Tea

afler the day's toured the stables in

vikar Simplic

and cassuck sprinkling, holy and making the sign of

water

the Cross, the stables lads were

saying:-

"It looks as if our troubles are over. Nothing has happen- ed since the vicar's visÍL"

For years there had

been mysterious footsteps, the click- ing of electric switchca and strange noises at night. Mr Whitman's scrrélatý, John Hoodless, reported, in his moon- Jit room, a man who vanished at a shoul.

For the mun, Mr N. C. H-140 in the gallery has been alr- ward, is "health Inspector" at conditioned, the gallery And his job is to Mr Howard has 50 pictures watch for deterioration in the awaiting treatment as soon as econdition of the

notionally they can be dealt with. owned works of art which are "I inspect the worst ones 50 valuable that no insurance every day," he said. company will insure them.

"In some cases 1 give first The recent bad

weather is aid with wax and tissue paper.

n feared to have caused consider That,

least, prevents the able damage to the pictures. So paint falling to the floor." far only one room out of the

PAINT BLISTERS In the "hospital," Mr. A. W. Lucas,

the house surgeon," as

himsex.t. uses calls amazing collection of equlp- ment. Å strand of human hair troubling the household. It stretched on ¿ metal frame was my duty as a priest to

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Damaged packages are to be left in the godowns for examination by Consigneer and the Company's Sur veyors, Messrs. Guddard & Douglas at 18 ani. on the 29th November, 1951

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Hongkong, 23rd November, 1951

MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN

PUT THAT BLASTED TRICKSTER BEHIND

BARS!

17th Dec.

25th Dec.

آدمی

an

was

Mr Rumers, who

full- back for Ashford, in the Kent League, in 1937, said: "I was sctisfied

that evil spirits were

Exorcise them.

tests humidity of the air. High one of the biggest humidity 15

"I used the traditional evernles Old Masters. It causts expansion of wood and of service for blessing

I took 45 minutes." blistering of paint.

Mr Lucas is a painter turned į

the and is one

of foremost experts in the world

restorer.

form house.

on this technical and delete NEW CULTURAL

work

at the

His prize *patient" moment is the famous Botticelli "Adoration of the Magi." Painted in tempera on wood, it is in a bad way. The paint is flaking and cracts disfigure the Dry rot has attacked picture,

the wood.

"Oflen,' Mr Lucas

ASSOCIATION

Karachi, Nov. 25. A Pakistan-Indonesia Cultural Association was founded here night for "promoting mutual and understanding, knowledge

between the two goodwill" said, countries.

decision to form the Association was

taken at a meeting of representatives of the Pakistani and Indonesian com- munities.

"these old painters used the The The tops of wine casks to paint on." The picture is worth at least

£ 150,000.

He estimates It will take him 18 months to restore the pic- ture.

Other pictures

"in hospital"

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Mr T. Khan, President of the Pakistani Constituent Assembly, conducted the meeting and was

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at the moment are the Holbein elected President of the Associa-

two Ambassadors," the Van tion. Dyck "Charles I." and the

Mr T. M. Maimeen Habsjah, Velazquez "Boar Hunt," badly Indonesian Charge d'Affaires in burned by

elected

Vice- previous restoring Karachi. work.

EASIER SAID COME ON, YOU, AND--AND PIPE DOWN--HUM! THAN DONE.

was

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London, Nov. 25, "Colonel Bogey," the time- honoured British Army march to which generations of troops: have devised salty words, was played In the magistrate's court here by a bassoon player.

The musician, Joe de Grodu, was giving evidence in a case in which Max Weltman, trum- peter in the Johannesburg City Orchestra, was suing the city Council for £21 for alleged Wrongful suspension with loss of

pay.

Mr Weltman had been sus- pended by the orchestra's dise ciplinary committee after play-

ing several bars of the march during a concert at Parktown Girls' High School.

The conductor, Mr Gideon Fagan, alleged that certain well- known, bars were "not decent". If played "In a certain Indecent words are associated with

those

bara, he said

especially in the Anhy

player

And the bassoon dered

the doubtful bargin, court by way of demonstration

Solicitors for both parties told the magistrate that the gills at the school did not blush, and showed ho special reaction when Mr Weltman played the phrase.

The

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