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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1953.

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The woman in his life

THE

Mrs. Grahant Sutherland cleant her husband' brushes in the studio'at their hame in Kent,

HOUDINI

OF THE SEA

By J. W. Taylor

GISHERMEN - tending -weed.to

FISHERMEN mist

How much does a wife matter la the career of a celebrity?. A new sarlon sets out to gauge the woman's share in the success stories of notable men.

T

THE GRAHAM SUTHERLANDS

She tore up a letter

HEY might so easily have missed each other

Kathleen Barry, then 16, first talked of going to Camberwell for art lessons. Graham Sutherland, 18, was thinking of the Slade School. At the last minute both decided to go to Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, instead.

Kathleen got there first, With three other girls

she sat in a corner of the architecture room taking Jes- sons from an architecture professor in fashion, drawing.

The professor would put a shoe on the table say

"Draw that," and disappear.

One Friday afternoon « dignified white-haired parent was shown around. With him camo a blue-eyed, elegant youth, positively

by Francis Martin

tors' fancy. When at last they married he was earning a thou sand year.

And set

him

on

the way to fame

She has not drawn anything for years, immersed as she is. In being her husband's secretary, watchdog, and social alde.

They have an enchanting white clapboard house down à Kerish homlet with a silly, pretty name, Trottiscliffe.

Nowadays Kathleen is her own cook. Since the days of

Vision. "That," says Kathleen Sutherland, thinking back to 1921. "was my first sight of Graham, a new boy. I nearly fell off my, donkey, helplessly in love," (A Kathleen Sutherland was then donkey is a stool with neck much as she is now, a gay talker, the fifteen-shillings-a-week maid

Barrow winding Jane in at one erii, against which

she has discovered that cooking scintillant, with is Celtic

is hobby, art, adventure. "Try es. Most some of this prawny stuff," I “eyes,"

oboy and am bewitched by a something out of an Augustus melange of prawns and chopped "You

must remember," John drawing, wearing bright, melon, with cream, tomato big hats, skirts sauce and a hint. of tabasco, all puts in Sutherland apolo. Ught bodices, getically, "that

that swept the ground, flat shoes glacier cold. in 1921

with buckles. No jewellery, of there were few really young the

be betrayed by their elours to the cels and fish beds around the const imeller fish which took further

bell on their numbers.

of Britain are waging # ceaseless wir in keeping attackers, ut bay-the star fish for sea star) which they hate and which croaches on their precious stocks at a stently six inches a minute.

the student-props-his-darking arch

Small

drawing board).

of the time she looked like

course. Jewellery was smart,

The surviving few were next expozed to parasites, many of them to be destroyed by cold

men at Goldsmiths'. Most another way of saying squalid. en empts or gobbled by

sum as they sought refuge in were men back from shallow water And those that

A plugue of starfish ean in- Met connous damage to oyster beds. In 1918 they attackerl the East Coast shellish beds in such swarms that one trawi dredged up thirty-seven tons

reach maturity fight a ceaseless war for survival.

Contortionist

Clussed as on Greek

echinoderm-

for "prickle-skinned"

the

War, studying art on Army testifies very spectacular," four paste, becomes pigot. The

grants."

"Yes," says Kathleen, elderly gents of thirty."

Seven-year wait

CHE and the Vision walked

AL White House beef is cooked as often as not in wine. - Leg of lamb, garlicked and coated with "She was

Sutherland. "Do you ravioli are, home, made. remember how people stared and pilats, are poems. how embarrassed I was?" But Kathicen wanted people to stare.

She admits it frankly.

The etchings went on sell-

In the studio..

The

ing spirit. Tu come 1920, you eat at an ordinary sort of

and the Great Slump.

hus

dining table which Kathicon

made extraordinary by

Soles sputtered out overnight. "S-Angered Jacks," as fishermen the starish has an upper sur- and talked endlessly, showed Sutherland had to go teaching marbling and varnishing lis sur- contemptuously Leter 10 10, face covered with leathery skin each other their drawings, saw for a while after all; two reluc- but not until they hail vaten up in which are little prickio-bear-as plain as could be that they tant days a week at Chelsea. every oyster, cockle and mussel ing plates of carbonate of lime were meant for each other. in sight.

through which it breathes. Un-

up. It was Silent assiduity Both were hard derneath it has hundreds of tiny ¦ seven years before they could g Quite character is this

suckers which enable W to marry. One thing that held -hijucking starfish.

erawi over any surface.

lic can through 131-

squeeze himself

credibly narrow crevices wit

an ease which might have made

Sutherland back was worry KA

..

face, so that you seem to be eating off the inside cover of an carly-Victorian

classie Your feet are on rugs in mauve, black and mustard

by designed Sutherland and worked by Kathleen In, gros-point.

When the guests are gone

FORS

corkscrew up a

began drawing WATHLEEN

(she had done so about securlly. Was he genuinely

again

for

fashion she an artist? Was his talent just before marriage) The starlit uses its fingers an illusion? Would not be and story magazines. They H.aircase into the wide, white on the top floor of a studio with its vertical troughs even Hualni envious, and he to pare small pieces of food safer if he got himself an art-lived

It usually teaching job fcr bread-and- Queen Anne house at Ferning of strip-lighting where Suther can open an oysler win he to its mouth which

ground, butter's sake? No, said Kath- ham, Kent, with little studios keeps pressed to the For big morsels it convenient-leen, that would be the end.

"fingers" in

that slick way have uf-

oyster-bar attendants ways admired.

Plenty Of Time

side by side.

intensely thinking, out,

modifying and the immense tapestry ly turn itself Inside out and Actually a teaching offer came Hero they designed, drew, (30 feet high, biggest over at- painted In allent tempted) of Christ In Glory wraps its stomach round the his way from a school at Tun- etched and

Desiduity, while แ Afteen for Coventry's unconventional prey, digesting the lots before bridge Wells.

shillings-a-week maid cleaned. cathedral. resuming a normal appearance, Sutherland, unable to make clattered and cooked In the

up his mind, wrote two letters, hinterland.

She cleans his brushes (he has This marine tantortionist may one accepting the offer, the Having gripped the

direction two set off in any

with other declining it. 11 ave

Kathleen drove up with her 50 or more, perhaps 30 of them dirty at a time), knows what to on his every week equal case, oyster shells or Valves with its ally by sucking in seawater and he said.

moves by irpulic both to Kathiren, "You decide" husband

throw away and what to keep Teaching dasa in their round when she tidies up, helps him suckers the Starfsh

av forcing it along the finger which i

nosed Morris. While he taught

ou lour-handed Jobs, such as baclewarets (2nd pulls them is to move first. Thus stiffened It did not take her more than she ran around magazine offices. Axing canvas on stretchers, or apart. The oyster can resist n the finger reaches out. Ita suck minute. Graham, she teld portfolio under arm, turning squaring up" big canvases with

wasn't the teaching over last week's drawings. short, shop pull but not a long, ers take hold and water is with-herself,

chalked string, steady one, and the clarith has drawn and used to stiffen hind-type: he would fritter ay his

Since then Kathleen Suther- plenty of time. He keeps on

er parts. Thus the starfish seems own gifts and exhaust himself

When painting a portrait he land has

Graham watched able to get wherever it wants trying to unearth gifts (mostly become Bret en Eminent Vegue, seeks her opinion at all the vital pulling until the oyster tires

to and "see" its way about by non-ixistent) in others.

then, thanks to his craggy, un suges. It is sho and opens up to be devoured,

incans of extra-sensitive pig- "I saw ment spots at the tip of each ulcers and wrinkles,

future of,duodenul compromising Booverbrook and whether he has caught the like- with flu Somerset Maugham portraits, a nets or, I not, where he has

gone wrong. once a year. 1 tore up the Yea Fame. Jeller and posted the No letter,

Their silver wedding is near- an infinitesimal chance of sur- They have the last laugh in can still see the pillar-box Her clothes are sharply In- viving the hazards of maria one respeel on their implac- life. In the beginning it is one cable enemy the fisherman. Ife where I posted it as if it were dividual till, though a snade ing. an incongruous thought in the fallon keynotos: 8 sprightly a household. "We It was in a quiet nearer yesterday. of millions of free swimming oflea tries to destroy them by fttle street at Eltham, I have "Graham," she says, a very are still terribly in love," anga larvae released into the sea by tearing them apart, but

He gets Kathleen. It is being in love, I their mother, "nearly all to be Ineken pieces grow few limbs never been stiver in my life I was interested in clothes."

awfully cross if I don't spend suppose, that keeper them young. doing the right thing." nwallowed up by myriad and where before there Was

money on them. He's terribly

MONDAY: hungry Ashes. Then those only one c/sler thief, now there Soon after this Sutherland's concerned about the cut of a

The Maxwell Fyfos etchings caught the "colled=tress,"

Despite their overwhelming finger. numbers, the starfish really has

which codoped seitled on ned-are two.

.

the

who' anya

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