1961-04-14 — Page 7

Cuy Sichel

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS PE

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direction,

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and

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You will find

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In the funnet while the white

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To remove he white rings in glass

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1961.

WOMANSENSE Behind the name of Cuy Sichel...

WELL-KNOWN young artist as vital as her paintings, is Miss Cuy Sichel, who is holding her second exhibition of oils and water- colours at the moment at the Hongkong Club.

I talked to Miss Sichel, or Cuy (pronounced Cooie) as she prefers to be called, amid the behind- before any the-scenes bustle that goes on exhibition.

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Among the rows of paintings leaning against the walls waiting to be hung, she told me that she hegan her artistic carcer at the Berlin Academy where she studied theatre design, line drawings and layout, after leaving school at the end of the jast war.

It was not until she went to America in 1052, to the school attached to the Cocoran Gallery in Washington That Cuy first started to get really interested in painting after winning top prize with the first picture shu had ever done in clls,

Influence

"then switched over to the

in

by Elizabeth Fox

Living in an oriental atmos-

Washington University," shphere-which she inver-for the said,

bast where they had more few years lins probably advanced studies

inßurneed Miss morien

Sichel's work and abstract painting, before mre than anything else and coming to Bengkong Ave years certainly there is much of the East and of the familiar Hong- agu

"Cumshaw#N.

CHILDREN'S CORNI

Simon And Pieman

Hanid, The Shadow, Settles Their Argument-

By MAX TRELL

in the pleture any more! the pie wagon is gone. fou!"

And

EDDY, the Stuffed Bear, came Teddy showed them the pie

bumbling excitedly over to the corner where Kharf and

wagon. It had tippet over. It was lying on Its side behind the

Hanid, the Shadow Children curtain at the back edge of the

with the Turned-About Names, were curled up.

They were just about to go to sleep. It was nearly ten o'clock in the night.

"Wake up!" putted Teldy. He was all out of breath. "Open your ears!"

Knarf and Hanid opened their eyes. They sat up. Hanid said:

bad

bookcase. Fortunately it fallen on a box of pencils.

Inside the wagon the ples were all scattered belter-skelter. But none of them had fallen oui, Meanwhile, the arguing con- tinued to grow louder.

Shouted at them

"There they are!" shouted "Your mean open your eyes, Teddy. "Hey, you fellows, stop don't you, dear

shouting! You're waking up "You really mean open your everybody in the house!" cara?" asked Knart.

Teddy shook his head.

"And so are you, you silly

EAS

"Open your cars!" Teddy told Knart and Hand.

This only made the Pieman more angry than ever.

!!

"If you can't pay for it," he shouted, "then why did you eat By this time Teddy had his fat Bear," said Hanid.

"Shi-h! You're shouting again!" breath back. He said he meant what he said because if Kaart themselves behind the bookcase shouted Teddy from the edge of and Honld opened their cars to find out what the argument the bookcase.

on behind the bookcase.

"Just listen," he said. Knart and Hanid didn't ex- actly open their ears. But they

did Usten.

Knart and Hanid squeezed

was all about.

himself behind

the

bookcase

much noise?"

"Don't make so

they would bear what was going Teddy tried hard to squeeze But the Pieman paid no at-

tention

to him. "I either want my pie back," after them. He couldn't en pe-

out of being too stuffed and he said, glaring at Knart and much too fat. He had to stand Hankl, whom he felt were the nl the edge of the bookense and friends of Simple Simon, "or 1 watch with one eye.

want a penny. That's what the Hoard two voices

The Pieman was shaking poor pie costa a penny." were two Simon. He had lifted him up What they heard voices. The two voices were by the legs and was shaking

loudly arguing,

"Give it back!" cried the first volce angrily,

The second voice didn't sound angry. But it kept saying over and over again!

"I can't. I can't, how can I

if I can't!"

sold

hins upside-down, like somebody shaking crumbs out of a table

cloth after dinner.

No penny Nobody thought that was ex- pensive for a pie-only nobody had a penny!

"L-leggol" begged Simon.

"There, you see" exclaimed "Give it back!" ordered the

the Pleman. "It's my

pie and Pieman,

Kmart and Hand made the it's my penny, and I get cheated angry Pieman let pour Simon out of bosh!"

Hankl

KV.

Anally settled "They came running out of that book,"

Teddy. He Alt right," said the Pieman, argument by suggesting an Idea pointed to a large bols lying and he at once let go of Simon's to the Pleman. open on the flour at the foot legs. Simon fell lu a heap on

of the bookcase. "One of them the floor.

was eating a pie as fast as he

could. The other one wa push-

ing a ple wagon. But he left.

the wagon

first one."

and ran

Wants his plo

Knart and Hanid helped him

after the

to get up.

"You need a helper on your ple wagon, don't you?" usked.

sho

"Well, I could use one, all

admitted the Pleman, "And you'd love to work for

"I want my ple back," said the Pleman, wouldn't you?" she

Simple Simon the Pleman. "He took it. He asked, turning to Simon.

"Why.

I think it's the Pleman arguing with

ogain, Hanld said after 11stra- didn't pay for it. I want it -ing to the voices for another back."

moment or two, "Yes! That's "I can't give it back," said who it is! They're always argu- Simon, ing."

Simon's willing

4

"I wouldn't mind," zald Simon. He scraped the ground "You have to give it back, with the toe of his choc, "I'd Simon," said Keart. "You can't like to very much," he added.

And so it was agreed that just take somebody's ple."

know," "I

Simon, Simon should work as the e- "But man's helper until he should the bookcase to have a look at 'n too late to give it back any earn his penny.

Mother Goose book

sand Knarf, who had run over to shinking his head sadly,

the book, reported back that it more, was the Mother Goose Buolt.

"Unless, at course," said the N'a gone." "Gone?"

Hanid. Pieman, "you keep on cating repeated

more plesti "Just

come over here and "What did you do with it?"

And they both walkest back look," he said. "It's open at the "ate it," said Simon. He

Ploman and added with a fait male. " to the Mother Goose Book, good; picture of the

friends. Simple Simon. But they aren't was delicious,"

A YOUNG ARTIST WITH A NEW IDEA

"The little world of Wong Chi Sun"

keng scenes and characters to breon in many of her paint- ir.gs.

top of the escalator in Central Building) and does the odd bit of landscape gardening in the New Territories, "rock gardens and that surt of thing."

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long

and

tire, this particular artist be-

looking smart Heves in having nice clothes, and with fashion as an integral part of her job, she makes the most of It.

Cuy herself is fine-boned and

Apart from sailing as an her hair In interest, Cuy

is very fond of lm, wearing blonde

ponytall music,

chamber preferring when I saw her. She works and plano music to any other. as an art director for a local "That sounds terribly dull and where her main serious really," she said, "but firm which is

"Although paint like to be gay you know." interest Bes. ing will always go hand in hand

From Miss Sichel's lively with my work and I shall never

palating, from her work give it up," she added.

her interests, and from herselfthe last thing I would call this talented young woman would be either serious or coll.

Cuy

has not limited her work to one rigid style but has a wide range varying from the very abstract to the

semi- Abstract and it is the pictures In the latter style that show with Insight and clarity and a real feeling for life and move- ment, many of the local Agures and scenes that those who live in the Colony know su well.

Crooked streets and houses, the tle faces and figures of children, street-stalls.

Tung Shan Terrace overlooking and junks crowd themselves into her pictures with Brzugte-1-ppy Valley and the harbour. "It's an unusual fiat to and in like companionship, in contrast

she told

me, "as Hongkong," with the more delicate Ines it is one huge room turned into of Japanese rural scenes-the

a studio-sitting room with prochict of two Sumners in

of light and mostly Jopan-and the heavier abstract plenty

covered with my paintings for paintings, mostly done in oils.

decoration."

boats

As well as varying her stylu,

She lives in a studio at in

Cuy also vorles her medium. Own dressmaker

working in both oils and water- --- colours and also with an in-

and Cuy

BEAUTY HINTS

dry.

If your hair is dull and try giving it an oil shampoo,

dividual technique of her own Here Cuy does all her paint-Stand a small bottle of olive oil involving the use of thin layers ing (in her very oldest clothes) in a basin of very hot water of rice paper overfald on the and likes to entertain her (the nil is more readily absorb- ed when warm) while you brush zurface of the composition. friends informally with just a which gives added depth and few people into have a good texture to the finished picture. mcal and a good bottle of

wine to go with it."

With real liking for cook-

"I was interested in collage,

as it is called, in Washington,'

your hair well and massage the scalp with your Angertips, Then part your hair and apply thei warm oil with swabs of cotton wool until the whole head has been treated. Massage thorough- your head in a towel which has allly for Ave minutes, then wrap

been wrong out in hot water. Keep the towel on for 15 minutes, renewing It when it cools. Finally shampoo

your hair in the usual way.

ake explained, "and learnt to ing, Cay does all her own and

loves to experiment with use it in oils. Later thought sorts of dishes, adapting recipes why not use the same effect, al- though a different method, in to her own Idens. water-colours which I always found slightly unsatisfying."

Colours

Wearing a crisp shirtwatsler dress in multi-coloured stripes, Cuy admitted that she used la design and make all her own clothes, but now designs them only and lets a local tailor Far from crafty" at

In bright colours making make them up, vivid splashes of orange and lackadaisical "arty tan, lemon and black, and palc clear blues and greens against the white-washed walls where they stood, Miss Sichel's paint~ ings reflected a lightness of touch that was very pleasing.

As well as her dally job and ber painting, Cuy designs furnishings, painta murals (one of which can be seen at the

HOW HARTNELL DREW THE ROYAL DRESS.

After using liquid foundation always blot dry with a tissue or soft towel, otherwise the pow-| der will clog and look patchy.

LADY

your

AQUARIUS

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LUCK

CHINA MAIL

horoscope

FRIDAY, APRIL 14

(January 21- VIRGO February 19): Make ure of your skill in improvising if resources are not ade- quate for your purpose.

on

PISCES (February 20-March 20): Don't pin your hopes prosperous relative helping you over a financial hurdle, but do your best to manago on your own.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): An absorbing outside acti- vity will make you forget your troubles, expecially your imaginary ones. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A younger person's whim many involve you in an add- ed Expense, which you would be well advised to uvvid,

GEMINI

(May 21-June 21): A reunion with war-time friends will confirm the strength of the bonds that originally united you.

CANCER (June 22-July 21); Try to make a needy friend accept your financial help, even if he protests that he can manage quite well with- out.

LEO

(July 22-August 21): Control your impulse to spend too much on a luxury which you know will not be of lasting benefit,

242- (August September 22): Don't be Impatient if your partner fails to grasp the implica- tions of a matter which is perfectly clear to you, but try to explain it as simply Aя you can.

LIBRA (September 23- October 22): You may be asked to supply a reference. hardly for a person you

Be careful before know. committing yourself.

SCORPIO (Dctober 23- November 21): An emer- gency may force you to take on a job quite outside your usual aphere, and you will be plensed at how well you will manage to do it.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Your In- difference to money may cause you unhappiness in later life. Appreciate the

ean pleasure it give r judiciously spent.

CAPRICORN (December 22- You will January 20); have a unique opportunity to return a service which u friend once did for you.

YOUR BIRTHDAY: If this in your birthday you aro facing a year of continued be progress, and should able to afford a better holl- day than aunt,

Rupert and the Paper-fall-26

Soon after the little clerk receives the paper the warehouse becomes a bustle of activity as he barks out kis orders quite forgetting the need for silence. Now that you're here you can help me get together the presents for all your pala, be maya. terching some low steps lor Rupert. "Two of these parcels are for

Robin Down, one lor Little Wink. ing, half a dozen for Pusayville and the rest are for Nutwood." "Just a mo!" calls + voice. "I've jun finished the pledge for Algy Pug." And in a tiny work- shop Rupert Gnde his friend the little engineer with his hammer ni in his hand. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

THE QUEEN'S NEW

FOR the

fow

past months, the fashion world has been fascin- ated by the change in the Queen. When she came to the throne, she was more noted for her tweeds than for her

trend - setting, more famous for her smiles than for her chic,

SLINKY LINE

JACOBY

on BRIDGE

SOUTH'S four spade, contract is no normal that practically any pair that held the North and South cards would arrive there automatically.

But, particularly since The fact that South has no play for the contract does not her recent Eastern tour,

mean that the bidding has been that reputation is a thing bad, but merely dut until scu of the past, The word can look at all 32 cards you "glamour" is being asso- can't be sure of what you want ciated with her clothes.

to bid.

West tus a normal opening Attending a dinner party re-lend of the king of hearts and

she

East will drop his lowest, the WLS wearing a cently

three hearts With four spot. slinky, nequined dress.

East does not want a heart con- tinuation. Now all West has to do to beat the hand ls to shift Eventually. to any other Guit. JB1 colleague My

definite and East will get the lead with the Butterfield upproving-Viows от

the Queen's new-found fashion- consciousacos,

Here I present Norman Harl- sell's own sketch of the dress, which he designed.

fashion

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She wrlies: hope that her new look has brought her such that she success na n worn

will finally throw away all the inhibitions that must have dog- ged her as Queen,

"Already she is a super-de- luxe nrbassadresa for Brilain. She could be the samo for fashion."

She certainly made an impact in America, where pictures were captioned: "That glamour girl is Her Majesty overnight Britain han a glamour girl Queen," and (I already pe disapproving frowns in Buckingham Palace); "Sho's a knockout, a wow, a doll who can generate walf whilallen."

-by Angela Muth.

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Is there anything South can da to cox a heart continua- Bon? Yes!

AKJOUE WK3; SASUR ME

South should play the eight What do you do?

of hearts from his hand. Now A-Bid four diamonds. Even West will wonder where the though you have already bla deuce is. He will know that strongly you may have just 180 Enuth ce Enti holds II, but be right cards for a alam and can" won't know which one. If East afford to invile it this way. After holds the deuco it will mean all, you have not taken thu hand that In asked for a hearL pari game.

continuation,

Went The chances are that

false-card and will suspect will shift, but it South meekly drops the device of hearts trích one West will have no trouble finding the right, play,

TODAY'A QUESTION Your partner continues with a bld of four hearts, What do you do now?

Answer TemOZTOM.

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