PICASSO MAKES PARIS PONDER
By
Sydney Smith
,Paria.
PABLO PICASSO, the
Communist hatcher of penes doves, reproved 'two months ago by the Party for a "bourgeois" portrait off Stalin, has done it - agin
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He has thrown the Paris art world into a furore of ecstasy and fury with a new-piece-of "sculpture" made of corrugated bronze, old, nails, iron bolts, and a pair of handle-burs from- u child's bicycle.
The whole piece of iron- mongery, assembled smear- ed roughly with black and white paint, is called "The Goat and the Bottle."
It was the senuntion of a private view at the Paris May Salon, which file the city's Museum of Modern Art with abstract works by international giants.
Picasso stole the show. He was there to do it in person...
The Master
THE diplomatic corps and
the elite of the foreign colony strolled around the 350 paintings and pieces of sculpture shown by the privileged few invited to exhibit. There was a "No smoking" sign-änd, no one smoked
Discreet. comments in half whispers conveyed polite, bailed, or non- committal appreciation.
Then a scruffy-looking crowd approached the great bronzed main doors. In the centre of It, hatless, hands in the pockets of paint- smeared grey slacks, a grey coffee- pullover over 11 coloured tieless shirt, 請 smouldering cigarette butt in his mouth, advanced the
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Catholic Church in or used for other pur- Czechoslovakia, provlag by their Mass at five. Breakfast is at Czechoslovakia has met poses. and
non-stop own words that their authority is 7.30, and from 8.15 to 10 the Party
One of the questions asked is: WINNER PALACE: Town's Finest Chinese Food with only limited success, a anti-religious campaign bogus
is reviewed. Thereafter "What do you think of the policy and usurped are, two press methods by which the Czecho there is manual work until 11.30, of the Roman Pope?" Anothor new technique is being tried abating sometimes in fury, slovak Communists have already lunch at 12, three hours of is: "Do you think that the Roman out the "concentration for reasons of political tried to subordinate the Church leisure, three hours of work or Catholic Church can co-operate monastery."
convenience waged through the art have falled
of leisure, Is of they
and gime? Some of them are simply 15 lights This, as its name implies, press, radio, schools and clearly reflected in the enormous
statements for which confirma- is a cross between a prison books.
number of concentration camps
Tals sounds harmless enough is sought, such as: "What is run specially for clergy and nups,
routine but
there .is purpose, your opinion of the treacherous priests or nuns. The latter camp and a community of
are over 50 in
Hardly worries. are, indoctrinated with
Conditions in those ones posts or mus;
the Inces If the questioner is saliated Communist ideas, so that
teries are by no means so severe, sont stream of anti-religious, with the answers, you may get on release they will, it is COMMUNISM is hostile to but the mental forment: should and over the radio-to which not to say you with the But it is better in mont concentrailon comps, propaganda. In the newspapers your release. hoped, use their authority religion, because the Com- not be underestimated Neither listening is often compulsory fretdom; "I am satisfied with the with the people in the in- munist State is a
Pope's leadership, or dictator- priests nor huu have any choice must be hard to bear.
"T don't in the matter, nor can they decide.
you
by terests of the regime.
Inside the which individual in
camp old army know what ship in
when they will leave. Since everybody knows conscience and any sense of they are subjected during their be sent and received, subject to or
And denims are, worn. Letters may treacherous' bishops. To whom what have they been and particularly the Roman morality higher than that stay to a barrage of propaganda censorship, and once a week treacherous, and by what law?" Catholics, who, invariably of the State have no place, which must be abhorrent, and each inmate
ts. Interrogated, threats to be often for several-hours 'at.a. have been persecuted But in a country like urged by velled Picasso had come from wherever Communism has Czechoslovakia, where Faith and their duty.
disloyal to their Church, their by a member. of the So
Police-an interview which must his retreat near Antibes to gained a foothold that Czechs and Slovaks arc
be especially repugnant to any maké hlu first public art Communism Is basically predominantly Roman
his own conscience. appearance in Paris for hostile to all religion, such Catholic, the problem of
If ho
by giving misleading answers, he may feel # scheme seems absurd, suppressing religion is a
disloyal to his Church; it hé He had come to watch but it must be remember- dificult one. For the S internment camps go, ac reveals his true thoughts he can them watching his handled that the Soviet satel- Church extends to every Acording to reports reaching the
expect to be a prisoner inde- barred gont
lite regimes are modelled, town and village, and the West, the accommodation is not Anitely, 11:lock him nearly 45 minutes in most respects, on people, know the men and too unsatisfactory. Each prisoner to french it. He was hugged, he was kissed; green and red-check Communism as practised in women who serve it, their has a bed and his own bed-linen, particularly shirts, rumpled corduroys, beards Russia, where a campaign records and their churae and there are seldom more than gressive
seven to a room. The fith and tuberculosis, the outlook is bleak and duffle
coats against religion has con- ters. Priests who have-com- mob. crammed close
of the sparkling,lution. to get o brown-eyed, 02-year-old, bald- headed little man, to wonder if
Master
years
the
EACH DAY
1. him while Retinued over-since the Revo- mended themselves by force. How
one guided combles by m
And if he happens to fall
with some pro- complainit, such 05
do not authorities with indeed; for the sociated
ilke transferring prisoners to campa are not
outside feature of the "concentration outsi hospitals. At one camp a of example are not easily Lenin 'said that "...every discredited.
Nor is there much priest, recommended for hospital monasteries." physical abuse at these places treatment, died because for four idea of God, even flirting Restrictions on the Church's (1 am not speaking of those who months the administration with-
its with the idea of God, is freedom to
for his permission own have incurred the displeasure of held unutterable vileness." Since affairs and the appointment of the Secret Polles, and are transfer.
to important terrogated elsewhere). then churches have been renegade priests
The day begins at six o'clock closed, priests imprisoned posts, such as Vicars-General or
Directors of Episcopal offices officially, but actually the and executed, funds con- strange priests who have de- prisoners, as they are in fact PICASSO and his court grinned fiscated, buildings destroyed nounced "Vatican agents" in though not in
he really was pulling the world's
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Said Nothing
and smoked their rough black tobacco cigarettes and по спо dared tell them not to. So everyone it up, and the Picasso Anally court and courtiers reached the Gost and Bottle in a haze of smoke and a hubbub. No one asked him to explain
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wan' the bottle-a sort of three-dimensional piece of old iron capped by what might have been a cork, bristling with. inch
halls
Beuld it grinned the goat's head, its bright handle-bar horns datbed willl* black and white
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REPORTER PLAYS HERO IN
A REAL-LIFE DRAMA
From DONALD LUDLOW
as
COURSES
THE usual reasons for Intern-
ment are tuck of enthusiasm for the regime; there may be no active offence, such as direct opposition, at all. Some priests have been arrested and Im- prisoned simply because they command the respect and affee- tion of the people,
The "crime" of one prisoner had dissuaded was that ho students from attending the Faculty
of Theology at a Communist-controlled university. Another, a Dean, lost his free
New York. perjury and his search for the of pedigree cals to Mrs Elsen-An
dom for discouraging. ·"sub- hower as "rodent insurance and LEAN, middle-aged truth began in earnest.
He tracked down missing to break the long-believed and ordinates from attending political reporter with cropped witnesses and persuaded them allly supergition that the Pastilles of the "patriotic priests" - spots,- Ha-hair-o-mass of nails,
who -priests
support the Communist its eyes wa roughly palated hair and heavy horn-rimmed to speak, then kapt on until a new dent dies if a cat enters the Soviet Inspired bolts
glasses is the hero of a real trial was granted reporter White House.
"peace movement." "Ravishing..
gushed some,
Robert Lothar Kendell, prest- and public opinion overcoming
Under the guise of paternal I see what he life story as dramatic
legal prejudices against it.
dent of the society, says he tried conct in for the "welfare” of the any Hollywood film...
In vain to persuado Mrs Frank-internod
"edurallon" priest, What is 12" murmered the
After seven years of
"ENERAL JAMES" VAN in D. Roosevell to accept a gift courses are run which are an moro.honest and less pollte. But
FLEET, former commander of cats and that "Mra Warren assault on personal and in-
in Harding and Mrs the Master grinned through his relentless probing, for the
Calvin Y
tellectual freedom, and "above all Riviera suntan "and posed with truth, he freed an innocent of the US. Eighth Army
Koren, and ferco critic since Coolidge threw the cats bodily on religion. Attendance at the his face beside me, you
beside the goat, but said man sentenced to life im- his retirement of the way the out of the White House,"
dolly press reviews, and at read- nothing
prisonment for murder. war has been fought, is going
ings from the Parly-controlled Matisse, his bitter rival, w23
Catholic News is compulsory, The reporter, Edward J. Into show business. not there to pose with his own
of the New York He has accepted a director RED LAMELIN and Clyde
The unhappy priests and nuns Hamblin prited tricks from
to alt through n pals of three-foot square panels Mowery,
World-Telegram and Sun, has ship offered by My Spyros of "Blue Nude Women," made out
boss of Twentieth the wall of their ground-door (ére forced
cell in Chittenden gool, Vermont, weekly lecture by a representa of bits of blue paper stuck on a hoen honoured with a Pulitzer Skouras,
of the Stato Omeo for Prize (worth: 1,000 dollars), one Century-Fox. backgrounda
crawled through, and celebrated live of their freedom by cracicing a safe Church Affairs on such subjects University.
"Imperialism" and cinema is also brought into play. Once again listcullis to music, and Lynn
attendance is compulsory, while Chadpick whose two large pieces ing Louis J. Hoffne walked out tired of being taken for under lis own nore, they crawled
bunch of bobbysoxers chasing back into the cell and replaced the nims shown; deplet Western
the bricks, of pill metal-like propellor of gach a free man,
life in its worst light and Com Hoffner was sentenced to life celebrilles." blads called "Radar,
were sensations.imprisonment in 1941 for 4 No one member is a ton. They might have got sway munist life, as a phrydse The With an The apoy wer
New
it, too, damitted. Sheriff camp supervisor follows The doubt that the murder and robbery I{ } New ager,
Perty, if they had not begun argument against the "decadence" Handpy has got Paris.
Combinat common is still Mowery doubted his guilt and DEMEMBER the mouse In thoseling "sort of alzange Then of the West:
A Gunding structions kept pondering Four years White House. The American the money was found in their The questions saked of pricsis and ning et regular intervali mea. later he turned up evidence of Faline Bociety is offering, a pair, bedding
white
WishBeuptors of the two donated by Columbia
But
arrived
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Society.
Armitage, But the reward Mowery, prizes To
Autographi Collectors in containing 400 dollars, creaftrofija bronzo` panel with it is the memory of a day changing its name to the Manu- Thop, deciding the law was
York bar.
Det
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