M
real
PARIS NEWSLETTER
THE EXPERT DEFLATOR
R
Douglas
of experts
EL
Paris. Cooper, a wealthy "absentee landlord" (Australian
estate), njoy a popularity among Paris art dealers and the directors of various galleries equivalent to that of a crock detective among crooks.
Cooper, a chubby man with a liking for good food and wine, is an international figure ng a
erluc, and his catalogue of the Courtauld Collection In regarded n one of the finest pleces of scholarship of the century.
Ita
Uncompromisingly criticul his appraisals of paintings, ha laste is austere. Ho dislikes lyrical and romantle paintern- which explains the absence of Malisse from his collection. He looks with contempt
which has the commercialisation made ble business out of modern art. He says:
"Modern art is expert now booming industry, with
demand outstripping supply.
is 0710 "f
the
Cooper greatest living authorities on twentieth century art, and therefore an deflator of inflated reputa- tions and prices. A 44 year-old bachelor, Cooper lives in a lovely house near
-by-
Sam White
DOUGLAS COOPER paintings worth £350,000
Avignon, in which he houses an art collection valued at
on
"The modern dealer is a big businessman who knows little of painting but who knows how to pile up a fortune from commis- sions of 40, 50 and 00 percent on ridiculously inflated prices.
CRITICS HELP
CUIT:-
"tie in helped by n brother- hood of back-scratchers
of Critics and poped
Rallery liretor who discover genius once a week.
"All this is fast changing the economie status of painters in France. A painter who tour years ng waing in modest tircumstances In now likely to be a fairly rich man. He may even be able to talk learnedly of stock exchange fluctuations. A a reward for all this he in ex-
10 produce poctou
on conveyor belt system.
*
"I have known dealers dell- berately encourage painters to extravagance with advances of money so that they аге com- mitted to a bigger output.”
CHECKMATE
THE French Governunent ask- THE
ed Marshal Juln (recently dismissed for insubordination) tuke over the seemingly
In hopeless command
Indo-
It was a prelly comedy,
Roughly the situation was that the Government asked Juin to
this
he post hoping acept would refuse and Juin refused hoping he would be pressed to
more than £350,000. 11 China. consists largely of Pirasses, Legers and Braques, and is pr. bably the best and most systematic collection of those painters works be- necept. tween 1910 and 1930.
Cooper started e Herling when
he inherited a fortune at the age
of 21. Many of
that he bought for
20 times their
The paintings
a few hum-
dred pounds then are now worth
an
ROYAL TARGET
le sufirical
weekly. Canard Enchaine, submits the
rigioal prier. following recruiting poster for
He bought bla present house the consideration of the Minis-
an 18th century chalenu with fer of War:
Italinnale
front-tu
when it was almost a rule.
1551
Underneath
slogan "Join
the Parasol Regiment" 14 £ It 1s now
comfortable picture A
of Emperor Bao Dai scholar's home where paintings under a parasol enjoying the can be fully enjoyed.
Riviera sunshine.
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CREEDS
and
CUSTOMS
by
V. R. BURKHARDT
ILLUSTRATED BY THE AUTHOR
HONGKONG
IDEAL GIFT
FOR FRIENDS ABROAD
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 1954.
SO THIS IS
Cummings
"Yes, I suppose I ought to he packing my bags-if I had anything to pack...."
Every nation
has
its
own
London Express Service
LOBOV, WHICH IS RUSSIAN FOR.
LOVE!
RENE MacCOLL
back in Moscow, unpacks the notebooks of his fourney through the heart of Soviet Russia and begins a new series to let you share his experiences in a strange and colourful land... UZBEKISTAN,
What a song
(and dance) there was...
O
can
what
arc
the
He
NE of the things that she is sad because her lover that sticks in my has gone on a long journey and memory is the song she is always lonely and is with-
out a boy friend." and dance show at
"Well, and Tashkent. (You
Red audience saying?" I asked. where that old Oriental city hesitated, and then replied: "In Hes in the little map below.) view of the plight of
sister, certain Let's go back, in mind, teresting suggestions are being through that evening, and made."
Women see if you find it as amusing for the
wore Uzbek drc37 dances, but as I did.
evening dress for
comrade
singing in. The
Uzbek
dresses
had lovely colours emer-
The place is jammed, mostly men wearing om. broidered skull-caps (from the buck the auditorium looks Bike
old 1 animated tapestry).
The
gigantic
in
nudience uproarious mood and is apt
to
interrupt the perfor- mance with wolf calls. shouted comments, and ribaid laughter.
This is especially the Case whenever the women singers are giving tongue, and once, in the middle of adoleful lullaby, when there was an unu.ually vigorous outburst, I asked the guide to translate the exchanges.
He had a word with a help- ful Uzbek sitting next to us, and then said: "Just ro. She ta singing
distinct preferences for
ald
aid and rich Carmine
nnet
the
Hold but girls WCTO in- clined to be port- ly, and I don't go for that kind of dancing.
You know, the sort where they make gestures of the hand, move the head from side to side while keeping shoulders
the
ririd or start whirling
the
in-
But no comedy was intended--- it was all very intense.
The show was M.C.'d by a Blatuesque woman in u white satin dress who had a better figure than the rest and 蔬 majestic and domiriating per. ronality.
When the noise and inter- ruptions threatened to get out of hand she would sweep on the stage and quell the rowdies with look.
There were also male dancers, one of whom were blue plus- fours and did the shimmy.
The songs were about evenly divided botween politics and Love-and when you
come to think of it, those are two of the principal headaches which boset us poor mortals.
That canal
SAMPLE song titles as render.
ed by the helpful Uzbok:- "The little cotton picker who there her glorious prize." visited the Kremlin, and gained
"I love you but because of the am unable to follow you as fast notable weakness in my legs I as i could wish."
"The epic building of the Western great Turkmenian Canal."
- NOSCOW
URKIT
TASHKENT
ALMA?
MacCOLL'S Journey, Arrow points in Tashkent, down near Afghan's border
"You are like best fruit, but no fruit is as juicy and tender as you also I would die for you." farms of Uzbekistan."
"Long live the great collective
round with long platalis flying out from their heads.
The band was a four-piece job on the stage. It consisted of one-string nudle, a xylophone of sorts, a reed instrument like an aboe with bad news, and a drum, oh adored one, but there are,
"I wish urgently to meet you, And blow me down if
the alas, other appointments." music they produced wasn't
"Why do I feel sick? dead ringer of the kind
Why that also am I continually fainting? almost drove me mod when It must be because I am loving
holidays. Today our correspondents describe some of them played over the loudspeaker on you.
HOW THEY SPEND
H
THEIR
HOLIDAYS
London. busloads of children going throughout the OLIDAYS in Britain off to country camps. They are tending to get usually stay
till at camp longer, and more and early September, or as long more workers are now con- as their farmilles can keep tinuing to draw their pay them there. while they are away instead of having it stopped while they are not working.
Rather surprisingly, in- quiries show that Britons tend to be stay at homes, although the "rush to the sen" is supposed to be n
for the
It's fine holiday kids, not to mention their parents-John Sampson.
DEAD MONTH
year
the train from Tiflis, of key off beat, and--as far as MacCoil is concerned--off limits.
The drum looked like a big Brie cheese and the drummer kept tossing it up and down and playing It with his fingers, including the Ongers of the hand holding its rim.
That music
That lyric
NE number when translated was almost word for word: I can't give you anything but love, baby."
There was so much unrequit- cd love mentioned that It is a marvel the Uzbek race has sur- vived, And it is the
oddest experience to sit through one of dirges the end
WHEN these four really got in these wailing Oriental
the groove, and the women and then discover at were whirling round in their that it has been all about the ankle-length pantaloons and construction of a great new singing shrilly in Uzbek (which paper factory or a welcome to sounds like Danny Kaye with a
the latest five-year plan. head cold) and their gold teeth gliating in the footlights. T tound myself wondering what
foreigners" thanks to the formidable protection of the Red Army!
Western Austria, during the bats fluttering over our is far too ex-heads in the velvety night made
of it all.
The Western evening dresses were
the season,
a
big mistake. Uzbek
That greeting PLEASANT episode: An Uzbek wearing a white silk jacket,
and on being told he asiced
on "rich which nobody works.
These free days vary ac- cording to the part of Ger- many one happens to be in. In the Catholic south and in Bavaria the Saints days pensive for the "natives".
tached himself to us. a white cap, and a big grin at- play a big part. So in the West and South of Germany tween the obvious attrac in a Robert Taylorish way, but Many Austrians, torn be men are often very handsome
When it was time to part ho the gulde who I was, does the carnival period tions of a summer holiday the women-by our standards my hand in both of his and spid grasped from November to February, and ekling, take their holi-are not. during which
with evident feeling something employers days in two doses. Ten days And when they trotted on the which turned out to be: have to exercise all their at a cheap Italian resort on stage wearing red or blue plush "Please give to the people of Paris. powers of persuasion to get the Adriatic, perhaps, and tous which sted where they Britain a message of warmest British tradition. In fact, PEOPLE in France usually their employees to turn up another short spell at an grotesque that you half expected Uzbekistan."
touched, the effect WAS DO brotherly friendship from nearly half
get three weeks' holiday, on time during the orgy of out-of-the-way skiing centre the Crazy Gong to come chasing Britain's of holiday-makers spend the if they're in subordinate drinking and eating which inter on around Christmas-out of the wings on their trial. time at home, and only jobs, and at least a month carnival time means. time.---Ritchie McEwen, about a quarter go to the when they are seniors. The seaside.
great time is August. Whole men take the day off on May All over Germany the Only about five in every send all their staff off; the hour drinking bout which is close down and 27 for the traditional 24- hundred go abroad. France industrial pulse of the coun- in effect an all-day
factories
stag-
MASS MOVE
Rome.
is the favourite choice try hardly beata, Big cities party pub crawl, in which TALIANS, for some un-
Ian Macleod.
HOLIDAYS
Are empty,
known reason, shops shut,
love to queues appear outside the ported from pub to pub in at the same time each year. the participants are trans- take their holidays en masse rare bakers and so forth
a cart. By the end of the that have stayed behind.
In August they go off in day the only member of the their millions to the seaside During August it is often party still able to walk is or the mountains. a long job to find a doctor, the horse.-Antony Terry. dentist or chemist working in Paris. The "dendest
ON THE CHEAP
Vienna..
Businesses,
are
|
I have pleasure in carrying
out the commission herewith:
MR DUCKETT'S INVITATION
By LES ARMOUR
London. the jurisdiction of the Taka UST around the cornor Mayor of London. JUST
dumbling territor maid servant in the
from the
must bo rather ko
Luckless
do.
roadsweepers or of newspaper vans who peptic ulcers might
But they will get nowhere.
LONGER AND LONGER
Now York. are getting longer every
year in America, so that one won-
Trains, coaches, roads, hotels, restaurants, board presses, the rattling tele- hunting elephants in Piccadilly ders if Americans are not
ing houses, cafes
types, and the jangling Circus. coming to the philosophy of day of the year is August
telephones of jammed.
London's The pedestrian mind of today 15 which is a public holi- Thoreau, who thought that a
newspertand the trustee will no doubt suggest that the man should earn his living day in the midst of the holl- AUSTRIANS usually get a
Prices Boar,
you get no of Mr Isade Duckett's take account of the Holborn of Verms ought to be broadened to two months in the year and day season.
two or four weeks' service.
Charity for Maid "Bérvants" the moment. spend the rest of it doing Most people make for the holiday every year, and in
sat down last week for their what he pleased.
sea coast, but there is also a addition - Austria being
shops, cine annual, deliberation firm French tradition that a predominantly Catholic mas all shut their doors at
Every June since 120) Two and three week holi- you must spend some part country-there are nine re- the same time to free their theguardians
OLME days are still common. But of
your holiday with ligious feast days celebrated employees for a mass holl-Duckett's bounts have Tanny firms, under the pres- cousins, aunts or other rela- as.official holidays, as well day, which becomes a per-gathered in St Andrew's ware of trade unions, are tives, probably deep in the as Labour Day on May 1,
spiring free-for-all. Cities Street to fulfil their mission Isaac Duckett's bounty is allowing their employees a country. Besides this, re-
become ghost towns as among the needy maid or happy link with a past in which month off in the summer. ligious, patriotic and other
Austrians have little resorts become cities.
vants of the Borough of Holborn was one of those rare This is often stretched to fete days give French people holidays, for the average would feel cheated if he had
money to spare for their But the average Italian Holborn..
places where work, rest, and fun could five weeks when employees about another fortnight's wage in this country is less to take a holiday in July or stone courthouse on these June
be crammed into a have worked on national holiday in the course of the than £5 a week.
What role on these Junghe pesterb
passerby, can look at the holidays, which far year. Stephen Couller.
ars
September-In comfort!" mornings must forever remain a solemn notice on the wall of the more numerous than those
But millions
discret, secret. Yet one sus bombed St Andrew's Church of poor Nevertheless, large num- Italians can never afford a thin time of it.
pects that the trustees had a
applications from Inviting PUB CRAWLS · bers contrive to go abroad holiday. The Communists
needy
Maid Se
Servants Who have You seldom
been with see whole
each year, usually to the gain strength by offering
a single Master or families going off to the
Berlin. cheapest resorts in neigh cut-price vacations In Red The Borough of Holborn
Milatreed for at least dive TERIN ls and can conjure up mountains or the seaside as HARDWORKING Germans bouring Italy. Yugoslavia hostels for party members. Buildings
visions of nowadaya a jungle of tall the prim old girl who once you do elsewhere, Mom and are not so hardworking and Germany.
roaring news brought Dr. Jahnson, his frothing Italians enjoy more holi Pop may go away together, when it comes to holidays. Those who stay at home days during the year than a Van she hustling office mug from the pub around tho
persons in thạy "lower" Income
in Britain.
•
but Junior is likely to get a Everyone reckons to get patronise the Russian Zone, many other countries Thereikers, relloyed only by a few corner thing
Fremment blocks, "of detona reassuring about, tho
A
I thought that instructions left 834 ary, not yests, sgo Áre still carried out
Job for the aummer and Sis away from it all for at least where hotel rates vary is never monthithout on the fly off to Europe. 13.000 fortnight, every year and from cheap to very cheap couple of holiday in from brackets
When school breaks up at In addition there are host Here, they have no fear of work for a religious festival; allowed to dispenser charity in solemnly, and completely with the end of June, one sees of high, days and holidays "competition" from the John Wred
that part of it which overlaps nobody to question them...
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