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JEAN KALSTON has sinart metallurgy, and Lempers her

" Chels She is workina

the art school forue

The Girls On Scaffolding Bring Sculpture

To Surrey

by VIVIEN BATCHELOR

ULPTURE students from the Kingston S. Sool of Art are ste coraling new public baik ings being built by Surrey County Council, as part of Their training.

Many of the students are residents in Sur- girls, and rey are coming familiar with the sight of girls in

har Flanks working with murs and chisels, perched en scafti ng high above the

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Surrey

But Although the Council does not pay students for work, many of them do carn fUT commissions from

other people.

1 measure: 6 ft. 6 in. b: money

It. nd stands 15 ft. above the ground. For eight weeks Jean worked on scaffolding chiselling design.

£11 FOR CARVING

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TREE students Jean Ral- uton, Tess Mansley, who is "Fortunately I did not 21 and lives at Epsom and John Robson, who is now dong his rrational feel giddy," she said.

service executed wood carving for Holy church In Raynes Park. It is a figure of Christ on the Cross 21 with Mary and John standing at

of Mary, Tess carved What of the foot, Jean carved the figure John, and John carved the ten-

Jean tempers her own tools at the forge at the art school, and has made special study of metallurgy Now she knows when the chisels and files are just right. She is only 5 ft. tall

Altogether 14 schools and and looks very feminine but colleges

Surrey

The wields a 4 lb. hammer as if it was a powder puff. scheduled

When the Surre County

to be decorated by students. from the arl 'school.

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Sculpture work on ene o

primary il new school at Ham-has alreud, hern completed by a girl.

an Brst 'evet to decorate bruslings with work done by vanced stulents there was a est from some members of the Horal Society of Brish Sculpters that they were doing

rofessional

tral Agure.

For their work Jean and John

£ each. and Tess £9. received

"got less because I was not

the there when

figures finally put up in the church," she said ruefully

were

Another student in her fourth

A student works on Agure: representing

a Surrey Store.

the harvest

1GT

Ruined! So He Had To

Write A Masterpiece

LOST ILLUSIONS. By Honore d: Balzac. John Lehmann. 25s.

695 pages.

BALZAC Wrote "Lost l'usions," one of the key novels

of his whole life-work, for the usual reason. Inspira- year who is working on a pai tion, descending like an eagle, compelled him to the toil?

Not at all. Balzac was in grave financial difficulties.

.ssignment 1 22-year-rid Phvili Simmons. She has long hoir plated behand her heat fond comes from Weybridge.

Flering from his flat at dead of night, he rented a room at "The Widow Durand." Here the She has a commission from a visor must say to the porter. large store in Kingston to model "The plums are ripe", reaching plaster figures of women depict the fout of the stairs, must re- ing harvest. The figures are of mark to Balzer's servant, “1 am head and shoulders and she is bringi

bringing lace from

rom Belgium: " other receiving £7 for each cast. She end, al the dour of the flat "Mmr words Bertrand is enjoying the best of ealth." Only cfter passing those texts was he admitted.

It is a relief of St George

sculptors out of and the Dragon carved In jobs. The students were to work Portland stone let into the bricks work f 21 outside wall. The relief was de signed and carved by

22- year old Jean Ralston, from Maicon, a fifth-year student.

Jean Ralston pu's the finishing touches to her portrayal

of St. George and the Dragon una toca! high schoul.

YOU SAW A BULLFIGHT AND THE BULL WHICH WAS COVERED WITH BLOOD LAY ON THE GROUND CHEWING OFF THE ARM OF A MAN WHO ALSO LAY ON

THE GROUND

WIN fearrel that UPL councils Carrey's example.

might follow hopes the store will use 12 casts. mus uler

Today she was busy working on two, printing the plaster to

resemble terra celta.

Eventually compromise was venched. It has now been de ce that every student

Out of the money she re- Q:V03 whu

for she has

£30 for completes a pece of workt

to pay about the making of the casta. while still the counid

o: art school shall. when they have have completed their training

and become fully qualified

be

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sculptors,

assured least one paid commission the council.

FINANCIAL HELP

EX

by

the council gets

CAREER ASSURED

LTHOUGH the school Zoes | net undertake to find jobs for pupils the principal, Mr R Brill, says once they have ent the diploma -usually after Ave years' study--he Iras never heard of a sculptor being out of work. IN this way

"What they earn, of course, tava pieces of work for the depends on them and the quality price of one. They defend this of their work, but there is a by saying the scheme will po- great demand for soulptors." he said. "It is surprising the num- pularise decoration of public

ber of women who make a pro- buildings. It also enables fession of sculpture and do well. students to have two pieces of Of 10 students in our advanced work on record at a very early sculpture section M present,

more than half are women." stage in their careers

A work similar to that done by Jean at Han school would cos: at least £175 to commis- sion.

Many of the students at the

Anan::al school are receiving assistance from the Surrey Elu- for sation

Fer's Committee.

live in 18 who students over

As if all this was act enou 'h.

was cal Balzac called up for service

Guard. Nationel

II: in the could easily have got out of this militia service; he preterre i heroic refusal and was sentear to eight days' imprisonment.

In prison

Nothing

could have

and

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e talent for writin Paris with and a uble-sounding surname to which he is not cutitled. kir he has brought vincial mistress, who promptly

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te brought to ruin. Worse » muskel! He, the s shouffer

I try to save himself, be ha great royalist, imprisoned by forged on a will the signature of King Louis Philippe, whom he his Dearest friend, a struggling regarded as a be

as a bourgeris usurper! inventor in the end he is saved police for weeks on end. Blephistophelier individual who Alter successfully evading the f from dewater by a mysterious:

was al lest caught and car.e

a Spanish priest and off in a green van to the gaol, his eyles wealth. Suid where be sat, with periect com- and posure correcting proofs,

Jaranga, Lucien, at the end safe from his creditors.

in the novel, is ready for a new He came out to find that one boci wth fortunÉ. this publishers a widow, wh ira re

ried again- During their training pupils obtained an are supplies with raw materials, instrutor Blu 1.

within 24 days do Usually they use Fortlan stone. which corts from 10s. to £2* which he had matt veted rat cuale foot. Flaster with which 50 francs line for every all the students are permanently delay.

per cwt. I will let her have them in subed, ens 16s. 84. They use the plaster for making 20 days' Bizar replied casts from clay models.

thoughtly.

A sculpture stulent stort bef making simple original morels

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a man whe

the t

He called for his villa; wat which followed hima uren ladang

His appetite

Ta vel inity of the Pantun of the good by the wickea, and the corrupton of 1 wed by themselves. displays the force of Balzac's Cand its travagance. It

1 his apoet te

ey and women. Serreely was the

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to lodging, put on the monk's badan. rube that was his working garb.

the county are £15 a year up in soft clay. Daly ister. when to and Including Intermediate the have become skillel, Standars and £20 over Inter- they grinate to raiselling from end mediate Standard.

original stone.

EVERY TIME THE BULL CHEWED OFF THE ARM IT GREW AGAIN, AND ALL THE TIMME THE MAN WINKED AT YOU ****

KNOWINGLY

-THIS DREAM MEANS: 'The interpretation may seem far-fetched and is certainly not easy to explain or understand. Both buil and ball fighter represent mascu- itae instincts: the bull symcollaes the aggres Kive denructive aspects the devours): the bull nghter symbolises the creative aspects of mas culinity the arm continues to re-grow).

You, as apeutator, sre not anxious: but in a spirit of inquiry are trying to weigh in the bai auce the destructive against the CTENSIVE aspects of masculine desire.

Evidently your conclusion is that the creative side is greater (the bull fighter cannot be con- quered: he winka knowingly at you and you are AOL unsympathetic: and that on the whole the Existence of man la justified.

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His servant til si candles 1 the silver candelabra and drew the curtains on the dawn. Coffee stood not far away made from a blend of three beans which Balzac collecte l from three different shops, involving half a mining concession. day's journey across Paris.

Another illusion laberious but essential part of his while the fun Jasted, mining Fer, with coffee, speculation was more thrilling

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too loudly and a Genoese, yhhi 2 han, snapped blind beitt

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