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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1957.

A successful mid-Victorian artist could get 3000 pulmans for a picture –

How some are worth little more than the value of their frames-

HOPE TAKES

A PLUNGE...

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I www in Room Number 1e old man had been sitting in the same chair for more than an hour. "Oh, graci-

he sighed, "It is closing time again and was so happy."

He was Mr Edward Vaughan A tea-broker long retired, who lives at Hendon. "Look how beautiful it is," he said,

1 looked at the picture that had entranced Me Vaughan for * look. It was painting

which everyone who has spent a night in a boarding house knows well, for it is favourite with landladles as well as Mr Vaughan Hope, by George Frederick

Watts.

Once it sold for 1500 quincas

1942 it fetched 99 gaineas

faces obscurity

said Mr

in

now it

prices now, were

and father the y Vaughan astronomical prices

would offer pounds." "Whistler said no gentleman

"But 1042 I think it only feleted 10 guineta," I said.

The fact is that artistle) appreciation had te to do with . It was merely that the times avere propitious,

The Industrial revolution had the middle classes. did not speak again but stood They had bullt large houses looking once more at Hope and with huge blank wall spaces. were both and together and They had to them, went our ways.

Mr Vaughan rose, shook bls head with a pained frown, Wenriched

For It is sad

story-the story of the Victorian painters who, in their day, were highly revered, but

whose works are the value of their frames, now so for le more than

Mort-

over it was the fashion to have

your portrait painted. People of consequence, with little to do, went to sit to artis in the woy the average man goes to have its hair cut.

The pointers did not object, "You argue," Millats once sald, "that if I paint for the passing Their incomes were vast Su John Millais once suld that be on some conturles hence will fashion of the day my repult- made abou: £35,000 a year and not be what my powers would added that "It would have been secure for me If I uld more am- over £40,000 if I had not had bllous work, I don't agree, A an extra fortnight's shooting painter must work for the taste prices of 300 and

ummon for Millais pictures fetched ten times

"For many years it has been the picture I love best," said Mr Vaughan, "I saw it rst as o boy and now I often come a Scolland." In the last ten years of his own day." sit for a while, looking at it, and

it makes me feel that life stil holds much for me."

NEWLY HUNG

Room Number 18 at the Tate is newly hung. it is devoted to two artists, both born in 1817- Watts and Alfred Stevens,

which once

the pinout,

less are

A sucre.sful artist in the mid- Victoran och could ask and Ret anything from 1,200 to 3,000

incas or more for a pluture,

In th 1800's Hobnan Huat

resolved 5,500 gulness for The Earlier in the afternoon. I had. Finding of Christ In the Tempie. gone round this room with `n young painter, Mr Lucien Freud. He was a very diferent companion from Mr Vaughan.

"Look at this ghastly, picture," Freud said, as we stood before Hope, "Bad painting, bod eons- pasillon, altogether horrible. Some of the Victorians

eould paint well, but as soon as they vonhred into allegory it was

LESS THAN £100

Dedication to Bacchus was sold Sir Laurence Alma Tadema's for 8,000 guineas in the 1870's, but in the 1930's it went for Less than £100,

PAYING THE PRICE

Now Millais and his contem- puraties are paying the price.

But what of the future? Win the Victorians rise again? It takes, I believe, about two hundred years for artists to find their true level.

The Impressionists have reached a penk, Within a few years their valué with fell. What will take their place? It might be the Victorians,

if they do it will be a years ago. They will rise only very different story from RO by merit.

There will be much editing and many favourites of the Victoriatis will fall still

Just after Sir Edward Burne- further.

disastrous, Yet, at the time Jones der in 1898 the sale of

"36, 23, 34. We've switched from engine spotting since wo read the Wolfenden Committeo's report on vico."

ROBERT Pitman's BOOK PAGE

His wife's face-but

now it belonged to Lanother woman

HITE-FACED with dismay, the young American stood gaping at the woman inside the psychiatrist's room. The woman was sitting in the chair where he had left his wife an hour before. She was wearing his wife's neat, staid

they fetched enormous prices." the work in his studio realised tea-broker, still lives. Watts's clothes. She had his wife's face-the same hair; the same

£230,000 In 1053 bis St George

I mentioned this gently to Mr was sold for £95. Vaughan as we rat on for a few minutes, while the nitendant mapped off the lights in the gallery.

"Wasn't Hope once sold for £1,50071 asked.

How did it come about that in England artists, who are scored fodny, lived like princes, white In France the impres- sionists, whose paintings Touch

While Mr Vaughan, the old Hope will be admired. But when he is gone she will be soon forgotten.

QUENTIN CREWE

London Express Service

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Two American psychiatrists present the most fantastic of all casebooks In the history of split personalities

having a rough time. There's no doubt about that. What she puls up with from that sorry Ralph White--and all her moon 1g over the little brat... The psychiatrist He asked:-

amazed.

"Who's she?”

"Why, Eve. White of course, and Hervey Cleckloy-in your long-suffering, saintly little THE THREE FACES OF patient," EVE (Secker and Warburg, 188).

HER PROBLEM

This moving story from real life begins with a girl und in headache.

"But aren't you Eve White?" The woman in the consulting room grinned: "I'm Eve Black.”

Then Ralph tried to woo her backs, But the woman he wooed was Eve Black. In a mischievous mood the vivacious Eve Black spent a weekend with him. And when Eve White realised what had happened she immédiately Eccided on a divorce. Her reuson? She was disgusted at Ralph's unfaithfulness with Eve Black:

How could this human chaos be halted? Desperately the psychiatrists searched The memories of Eve White for an event which had split her mind.

Finally, one autumn day, Eve White was at her parents' house Eve Black was Mire White's playing ball with her little maiden nanie.

daughter ("Are you my Mummy, So here, in one body, were or one of the other onts?" the two quite different wemen, Eve child would asic pathetically). White had worn a steady, wor- Then the personally of Jane ried-frown-Eve-Black-con- look over control, Jane ran stently smiled and laughed. after the ball which had rolled into a closed-in space below the But the difference went house.

One day in 1951 young Mry Eve White, of Augusto, Georgia, paid n visit to a deeper. Eve Black knew all psychiatrist. She complained about Eve White. She could Suddenly the damp, earthy of sudden blackouts, of enter her thoughts. But-Eve smell of the semi-cellar nued blinding pains in the head. White knew nothing about Eve her *mindIlke remembered

Black. Shyly she said that sho was a devout Baptist. Ralph, her husband, was a Roman Catholic. They often quar: relled over the education of their small daughter,

inusic.

Jang fold

GAY DRESSES But as she was talking in his

• How three women shared ano face...

Above: the shy wife. Left:

the spend-Christ dirk Below the serene third woman.

ISOTOPES SAVE

YEARS OF TESTS-

20ft. of tyre wear is measured

THE use of radio-active-isotopes from Harwell and other,

dustrial firms years of research and thousands of pounds.

Scientists can now mea-

the psychiatrist,

room she stiffened. Her eyes

In terro: she cried: sure How did Eve Black behave glazed.

the wear on a tyre Dido overcomes much of the when she took over? She "Mother! Don't make me after it has travelled 20ft. problem of isotopes losing their bought gay dresses. She went Don't....I can't do it." From

Previously, a the test bed..

clubs. But when

It seemed a simple case. dancing at her favourite night the pretty mouth there followed by incorporating isotopes in radio-activity before reaching The expert gave advice. too much gin she was careful to

she drank whining, animal scream which the trend.

drove the psychiatrist from tyre had to travel about Eve's headaches grew less let innocent, teetotal Eve White the room to beck a colleague's 6,000 miles before the wear have devised is the testing Until suddenly the pay. take over in time to feel the help. When they returned they could be measured. chiatrist got a distraught bangover.

phone call from Eve's hus- This, then, was the life of the band. The normally thrifty two Eves in 1951. Eve had put him into debt

call

found a completely new woman, The real Evo White.

next visit Eve White (the psychiatrists's consulting-room struggles, her mother had Ufted off the ring is measured by

AT A DANCE

The amount of metal worn

basting the lubricating oil for radio-activity.

ARTIE

£300,000 saved

Results obtained by tho

DRUN

BRTUN

GOLD

years are estimated; to have

45

Another use which scientists

of underground pipes for leaks. She told them how, as a The wear on piston rings Previously, yards of road have child, she had been playing can be tested, by making bad to be dug up to trace them. under that house when her the piston Then, from out of nowhere, parents called her up to change active.

ring radio- by buying dozens of gay, came the third woman,

her dress for her grandmother's expensive dresses. At her.

told them And she During one

at the funeral

how, despite her screams and surname,

for the sake of Eve While was talking medical ethics,

about her to touch the face of the is a her

childhood. Suddenly the corpao as it lay in the callin, paeudonym) tried to ex. fell asleep. When the

awoka plain.

she was Eve White no Jonger Nor was the Eve Black. She 19 WAS In the consulting room she After hesitation this new woman a new person allogether. frowned. The frown became a dazod stare. She shuddered, in Eve White's body decided And now the memory had that her name was June. returned the other personalities Then, all at once, a pair of

Jane was a surprise. At first Intido hor had yardshon for motor industry in four sparkling blue eyes

an Lott bakind was opened the had homomory at all, barely good. wide. The patient crossed her any vocabulary. But soon she attractive, Intelligent legs with a coquettish swirl of revealed herself

an who seemed like Jane with saved 60 years' research and skirt,

amazingly wise and Intelligent perhaps a touch of the old Eve more than £300,000,

White added. Cutely she said: "H, there. What of Ralph White?

And Eve Black? She had

potent potopes have Doo!"

home the strain grew worse. At Ilved in vals.

At gone. But perhaps she had not become. avablo là Indusky For the heated and hospitals since the open- The effect was uncanny,

Inst, fearing he might take their Eve' is now living happily, ing of Dido the experi- daughter nway, Evo Walle hopufully, with a new husband, mental reactor at Harwell, Out of Eves mouth the cute drelded to leave him, though voice continued:

He someone whom, friky which the Queen inspected last "She's been without an actual divorce. Eve Black once met at a dance. WECK.

woman.

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woman

Mone

'He doesn's bury' boniami,

he burian gold! ******