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My aim

to got somewhere near this strength and grace, when I paint bamboo.

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 24, 1957,!-m

I Hold The Brush

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by Estelle Hillaly

The fecturer in this particular claas was a somewhat

This

fessor Obata was an artist, and his proficiency was coupled with a commonsense view on 'how much stress a student should place on art.

interest in oriental painting was born some few painting was the scope for years ago at the University of California, when I intyginalion. - considered my- developed a fascination for Japanese painting and of art, however, gives one

Felt fairly imaginative. fascination which led me to enrol ́in ( class studying chance to balle 1 one's the subject.

imagination in a way which, although A blt restricted, is alert little professor by the name of Chiuru Obata, Proevertheless satisfying.

My Arst efforts to pain; a bamboo inust have appeared lo my tulor to plumb the depths I hopelessnews but, by practice and encouragement, I eventually managed to produce something which boro

remarkable surilarity to a bamboo stalk,

Unfortunately, the way of the world seems to dictate that on individual should receive no

Tis bellef was that an arilat should not confine himself to the pursuit of his ari to the exclusion of everyday realities reward for satisfying himself. I well remember the great such as living. One must cat The combination of Professor feeling of achievement. I to live and generally speaking Ohat's creative imagination experienced when I frst placed such eating is largely dependent and plyalent skill was some brush to paper and with a few on un ability to perform some thing capable of spuriing ony, deft strokes, created bamboo.

to the duty

satisfaction of student of his art to greater A bamboo, which I considered others in order that one might endeavour int the hope of would place me well on the receive reward.

eventually being able to match way to proficiency and success The chances of any student his wonderful technique,

in Chinese painting. In the professor's class reaching

It most certainty inspired me! Finndard where

With ite or

a few sweeps of his she would produce

brush, the professor which works

would would satisfy others to the produce a scene of great benviș.

would vary extent that they might wish to His subjecta

in possess them, was" fo

far off extreme from "San Francisco lu that the professor's words the Rain" to "New York by

appeared

cslobilsh superfluous, Moonlight",

purely American extreme:

The day eventually arrived when

has to leave my

almost

CYRIL STAPLETON COLUMN

Just back

from

America

"VE just spent 14 crazy days in America, covering

and recording studios.

radio stations,

I spent five nights in aeroplanes and snatched. The odd 40 winks in taxicabs and monstrous motor-cars.

to

Twit

exteination

of

10 thin

I sense his watchful eye and guiding hand — but plod along regardless.

disappointment still fresh from My early effort; were chal my aside in the light of this sudden originat nsterpiece." I stood ditcovery. I was sallanes that back and scrutinised it carefully. I was on the right road. Having My feeling of fallure faded a reached this stage, I have alfile, na 1 compared the two arrived at the présent ́ard and

efort myself striving even more paintings, my original and

completed master the Intricacies of the recently work.

delightful but endless struggle, picked up spirite

My

In progress My

Chinese imaniedlately. They were not of painting has been very slow. identical quality, in fact the hut the enthusiasti exhibited difference W23 so big that it over my efforts by Mr Po has was stunning.

done much to turn

lowness In the comparison, 'THLY eye into 2 détermination →→ 4 remained more and more upot determination funnily enough to the receni painting. Little progress. Mr Lau Ta Po is a more than glance at my perfect example of a happy

was being. He is not happy "masterpiece" i continued my study of this original

Over forcinaling art and

Bamboo strong.

| Japanese professor behind and concepirate on previoudy mealloned "everyday realities."

in

a enough to show how bad it was. material wealth. He is satisfied

the

In short, I had to start work,

fu

A few months ago I returned period of a few weeks produced A wonderful feeling of pleasure that he has mastered, in

the part of the world

In quite a number of paintings. I rose up in me as 1 realised that course of 30 years, an art which Is both beautiful and worth} which I had spen; most of my

did not feel I was progressing my recent work was good. fe, and was largely due to to y great extent, but was had improved. I had progressed. while. this orientul background, that, quietly proud of my efforts. shortly after my reum, I was Carried away by an urge to interested in meeting n well- produce more and more-paint- known bamboo artist, Air Lau ings, I never once compared my Ta Po. The meeting revived ark of the moment with that my interest, and 1 joined Mr original "masterpiece."

Po's class..

However, after a few more weeks had riopard, I had before me a painting I had just com- was proudly

and

masterpiece".

knew 10 be ***

Having touched on every- [thing but my subject, "Why !

1cek up

pleted Chinese palating". I shall try to outline why I was admiring Alongside lay a At the attracted to it. I have always Pile of previous works.

pile, purely by felt a 'rong creative urge, but top of the Past possessing & natural skill in chance, lay a palling which 1. any particular sphere, I had to

original choose something which I co71~ sidered witaln iny Scope Chinese painting is creative and "Soft Lights and Sweet Music," looked cosy. is oste, and Erle Siday. who I felt sure I would enjoy pro- used to be the jazz violinist inducing beautiful pattern on Jack Payne's old B.B.C. band, paper, even felt I Wos is the other.

capable of learning how to do Between then they have set them up a business which has taken enthusiasm kept me going after

Thi up less roum, are unbreak- most of the plum work" from

scrutinised it more closely. I discovered 1 had made វា able, and have a better the Americans,

Could it be? Yes it could, in inistake in supposing Chinese fact, it was poor, playing surface.

painting "easy" Another thing which attracted me in Chinese attempt to boost my spirits,

I was disheartened and in an

I had tea with Rosemary Clooney atlier English- styled house, by her American-styled swimming pool (fenced in to keep her children out).

I had

supper with Mamie

Van Doren and bandleader Ray

Anthony, erd breakfest with buys the 45's. They take

Tommy Sands.

I whirled rom Jo Stafford's contemporary ranch house, with

its clover-leafed swimming pool,

to a Billy May recording sessio

Capitol Tower.

at

I did 70 broadeesis and live television shows, and at the end of the Brst 48 hours. I was so weary became the first man to sleep through the fest half of

My Fair Lady."

LONG STINTS

UT of 1 1 1 learned --- very important thing, Radio entertalsment as we know

is all washed up. Gone are the

COMING UP

IN the

Capitol studios set-eld, named Sue Raney.

Hollywood. 1 met an 18-

Pretty, charming and talented, I predict that she is on the the-hold of international fame es the girl singer of the year.

She told me that she started singing almost before she codd talk, and that she was running

THE TOP MAN

HE most

Tra played record in British orchestru jezder Rou Goodwin playing Is own compostion, "Swinging Sweet- hearts." Issued here on Parto- phone under it's original title of Skiing Strings." 1 was altered or the States because no one diere knows that skiffle

5.

at the moment?

her own radio show st the QUICK CHANGE TV show at 15,

big shows--The wise-cracking truder age of 14, and her own

comedians writers.

Gone

and their script

the cre

large lush orchestras with their choirs and solo singers.

Their places have been taken by the now czars of the enter tolament business, the dise Jockeys

With no equipment other than a microphone, a pile of discs,

and a glib tongue, liese D-J's as they are popularly

On both she played the piano, wrote the seripts and composed some of the songs she sang as well.

When I rsked her what her compositions were like, she preraptly sat down, and played iwn which could easily inish at the top of some not-iou-distant

it Parade.

Her #rst record is to be issued here on the Capitol label this known, werk. It's called "The Careless. sk at their destes for as long as Years." five hours at a stretch, moulding

the tastes of the nations.

From over 3,000 radio stations

for 24 hours a day, they pour I WENT into a wholesale forth a stream of never-ending record shop in Chicago and Music-Mugle-Musle,

TOMMY SANDS,

who looks

as though he is rapidly be- coming more popular than Elvis Presley, told me that on his way down to New York to do his first ever TV appearance he stopped off at Detroit to sign autographs at a record shop.

To his uiter chagrin, no one turned up, in splie of the fact dealer hed that the record advertised the date all over the

town.

Three days later, after the famous show when he took Presley's place

TV, he stopped off at the same town on als return journey.

UB

This time the police had to be called. to hold back the saw an enormous pile of crowds. "I was never so scared in my life," he said, "I thought

They are courted · by music boxes taking up practically they were going to tear me to pluggers-record men-and song half the store. On asking pieces." wrliers,

In spite of that happening, what they were, I was told: "Oh, they're the new Manto. now every time he sticks

out Bose

in public he vani.orders just going out." munagce to stay a very likable

level-headed lad.

BIG MONEY

EVEN the stars

themselves

Almost beg those mon to STEVE'S BREAK interview them, Intimidate

them, or even Insult them. The

only fee they ask is. "Picase

play my latest record."

Their earnings are

AWRENCE WELK

orchestra leader who

the

quite the most popular show on tele

remarkable. The top men pick vision in America, told me that up as much as a quarter of a he is expecting big things from

Steve Martin, the British singer million dollars a year.

They are the star makers of who is being flown over today.

appear in his show.

I found them full of praise for our British Instrumental records and extremely generous in the amount of air time they give to

119,

In fact some of them

Steve will do three

to

appear-

☆ TOUR IS OFF

well.

Bamboo

slim.

basic

Even before studying it my nd slipped back to the day It was painted, I felt pleasurably ostalgic, I examined the early work, with a creative eye but lowly, and with regrels, could nct help coming to the con- clusion that it was not very good. Nostalgia disappeared as

I'

turned quickly to the painting I had just completed. I poured over, it slowly with a feeling of

tho

Chrysanthemums in Spring, and chicks, oblivious.

Frail orchids serene, on a strong rock base.

Three months that

shook

LONELY COMMAND: THE EPIC STORY OF THE EMDEN. By A. A. Hoch

Cassell, ling.

151. 191

pages.

JUST before noon,

the

"Lutine" bell was rung

and an announcement wor

Lloyd's

by George Malcolm Thomson

EVENING STANDARD BOOK CRITIC

the

Australian

made in Lloyd's. Under-1914. The Emden had been writers, brokers and clerks Funk by burst into excited cheers on cruiser Sydney. that November morning

A British Crossword Puzzle

15

7

his

still

10

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BILLY MAY told me that he

was very disappointed that plans have fallen through for him to do a tour of Brite this year, but he still hoped to pay us a social visit this autumn.

ances on the Welk show, and I'M CHEERED will also record for the Coral ketel while in Hollywood,

This is a big break for Mar- give in, who has only previously

THE only broadcast 1 did

America where. I saw

in

live

musicians working was on the

in

over whole programmes to play been known through singing ing recordings of British with Lou Preager's, band lierc in London. He has just gigned a

Skitch Henderson show in New orchestras.

York. When I even heard one disc jockey contract to record Tor

I said that Philips Britain 00 per cent of our radio music is live, The Henderson band stood up and cherred,

in New York play my recording here, and will make his Arst

of "Forgotten Dreams'

times in 15 minutes,

threo titles when he returns to Eng-

Ibnd.

one JINGLE KINGS

They all seemed to be con- vinced that rock 'n' roll is

and thing of the past,

station in Hollywood has even gone so far as în van all r. 'n' r. records from the air.

I

IT'S a wonderful country

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18 Weird (5)..

14 Old And withered (4).

17 Deeds in the Bible (4).

1 Introduction (5),

za Women's delight (7). 21-Ha's stupid (4).

for the record stars, but I'm WAS qurprised lo And that the two "Jingle Kings" of glad to be back to a place 35 charged 10 much (51. Amerlen (the men who write where music, on radio is 21 Go and mendi (6). most of the successful advertis» played by men who live, not my Lay out a good 10-inch gramophone ing songs) are both Englishmen. by little revolving discs

"Gloger" Croom Johnson, record does not exist any who was famous here before the spinning round and round nt more over there, Everyone war for his radio programme the will of one man,

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The Kaiser's aider had cast Lloyd's £4,150.000 (23 ships and cargous lost). Its career in the Indian Ocean had been stirring, it sometimes irritating, tacldent in the war. Now it had been brought to a satisfactory end.

Warm welcome

But everybody agreed that, it the Emden's Captain Karl Muller were to present himself

von

without taking oné elvilian life. The Emden's had been п cut-and- cunning, resourceful. run fe for walch the adjective "eple" is, perhaps, not well chosen. When the skipper of u British dreighter esked one of the Emden's cmcers what they would do if they met a British warship, he replied, "We shci! run like the devil. We are not bullt for Aghting."

There aves no chance to run her. from the Sydney. Caught. curuer, the Emden did all that four-inch guns can do against slx-inch. Von Muller was allow- ed to keep his sword.

Hochling's - Aarrative is a heavy-handed. affair, rich in false heroics

and second-hand "vividness": "With a dooms- day shattering crash, a rush of heat, a gust of wind, the Emden's Arst salvo thundered across the intervening space of calm Indian Ocean,"

Hochling has not found the right touch for his record of a gay

at Lloyd's, he would have been debonair captain greeted with the applause. re- adventure, served for gentlemanly oppo-. nents, especially if they have. been beaten..

This German naval officer was

a dafing fellow, a sportsman;

best of all, a humorist.)

Had he not sent a radio mess- age to the Indian Government; "Shall be glad to carry mails

you

and a

Backward glance

SURGEON'S JOURNEY. By Johnston Abraham. Heinemann, 25€. +441

pugos,

of

s own "James

under between Calculla and Rangoon?" QURGEON

"Have

German name, writer cruiser in Bay of Bengal?" ke Harpole, Abraham here looks radioed to a prospective victim, back, casually and anecdotally, "You over half a century of work and who answered: ""No." will," von Muller promised, and people-in war and peace. In due course kept hi word theatres, clubs, hospitals, with a well-aimed torpedo, recails Allenby horrifying some While refuelling his bunkers Sikhs by shaking hands with an oft a cural island he was asked untouchable, H. G. Wells (pur- by a British plantation manager auing women); Kipling, "not o (who had no idea that war had brilliant talker"

(fleeing from broken out) what he was doing, home to the refuge of his club). "Oh, Just carrying

Abraham has lived through a manoeuvres with the British professional revolution. When Navy," sald von Muller airily, he began to practise, removals The Emden's war was short of the appendix were just com→ and gay. It began in Taingiau, ing in; the duodenal ulcer was the German port on the China only beginning to be recognised, It ended three months Surgery was ferging ahead; later at Cocos Islands, In the medicina seemed interval, the ship had sunk a future. Russian cruiser and a French Still to come were hormones destroyer, had shelled Madras (1002), the sulpha drugs, pent- and spread alarm across

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