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THE GREAT POET OF MODERN INDIA.

AN APPRECIATION OF DR. TAGORE.

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EXPLORER-ARTIST IN CENTRAL ASIA.

CHINESE DESTROY 200 PICTURES.

"Roland Strasser, whose name will. surely occupy a niche in the bis- tory of the world's art, bas returni

There must be many besides the present writer who were privileged to meet Dr. Tagore on his recent visit to Singapore," writes Mr. R. Jed to his home in Vienna for a cost H. Sidney in the Straits Times The fact of hearing him speak must have made thousands realise why the great Indian poet's reputation is world-wide. To me, the scene in the Victoria Theatre on the after. | noon of Dr. Tagore's first public lecture, will always be memorable. The Theatre was more crowded than I have ever seen it (in fact one really wondered whether the dress circle might not give way under the strain!), hundreds were content patiently to stand throughout the entire proceedings, and for some ten minutes Dr. Tagore's voice was calmly battling against the surging sound waves vibrating from the thronged auditorium.

after another 30,000-miles journey up and down Central Asia, which he began in the autumn of 1924. Of the 260 paintings and drawings with which he arrived at Peking in January this year, mostly made in the wilds of Mongolia, the bulk. wore wantonly destroyed by Chinese soldiers, and he brought only 16 to Europe. There were taken to London for exhibition in Fairs. Herr Strasser has a compelling personality, and since the two ex- hibitions of earlier paintings in London in 1924, first for a week at the Austrian Legation and then at the Paterson Gallery in Bond- street, his genius has been acknow- ledged. When you talk to Herr Strasser with his rugged features, earnest humour, and steady eyes- is a pioneer in pictorial art, with a you are not surprid to find that he style exclusively his own. He literally lays on his colours with his palette knife to get effects he desires..

..

Escape From Bed Prison..

His London exhibition in 1924 comprised drawings and paintings from New Guinea, Bali, Siam, North China, and Ceylon, as well as Tilet and Mongolie. He be came known in London, immediate-

Gradually, however, a calm ensued, and the poet's voice could be heard clear and bell like. His voice had a wonderful quality of sweetness. It was persuasive and poetical and the images he constantly evoked showed at once, the quality of his mind. I should like to have read a varbatim report of the lecture. As the võice rose and fell-not mono-

very tonously but

sweetly-one began to understand that here was not only's poet but a musician as well, and a stranger-even though he knew much of Dr. Tagore's re- putation could. not fail to marvely after the war, when he sold n at his mastery of the English tongue. Ope went away feeling that one must know more about such a man; that one must find out for what he stood in lite and in the world, and here is Professor Thomp son's (the author is Lecturer in Bengali at Oxford) book which will tell as as much as we wish to know and probably send ns to Tagore's work for more.

Tagore's Life And Works. What will amaze us at first is that Dr. Tagore-in spite of a very active life in education and other phases of human activity has con trived to write an much poetry and music. Milton's English verse," says Professor Thompson,

number of still earlier pictures, mostly made in the Sudan, for £4,000, and he spent the money or the tour that ended in 1924. His route to Urga, the capital of Mongolis, on this last journey was Bombay Calcutta Darjeeling-Tibet.

In Urgn, which he describes as entirely under Russian Bolshevist influence, he remained for more than a year, then fled hurriedly on horseback, with two coolies bringing his precious work and other belongings, including a tent, on a truck to Kalgan, across the vaxt desert to Gobi. He had been imprisoned for five-days-st÷Urga simply because someone denounced and obtain-

is leased no food

kim s natpuff quantity.

than 18,000 lines: Rabindranath of dirty Fite, siting in a filthy Tagore's pablished verse

and cellar with 30 other suspects or con- dramas, the subject of the pre-victs. He was released through the sent study, amount to 100,000 or efforts. of Russian interpreter their equivalent. His non-dramatic who spoke some English and whom prose, in the collected edition of he was able to pay for his' services. his works now in process, will be

in the proportion, to his verse and

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dramas, of seven erormaus volumes. Herr Royand Strasser was born THE CITY OF SYMPHONY.

in 1889, though in spite of the hardships he has suffered he does

not look his age. His father, the "A REMARKABLE GERMAN · Austrian sculptor, Arthur Strasser,

to three. This statement makes us realise something of Dr." Tagore's cnormous output, and, as we read this book, we learn that he has never allowed himself to rest suf- is Spaniard from the Basque ficiently between his creativo ac- tivities, and that in consequence there is much stuff that is not worthy to stand beside his best.

Tagore was born on the 6th of May, 1861, in Calcutta. “He was born into that great rambling man- sion at Jorasanko, in the heart of Calcutta' teeming life.

No

home could be better suited for the opening mind of a poet, if he must be born in a city and away from the spaces and forests."

His School Days.

It was, on his return that he put into effect his magnificent powers of passive resistance, and won the first of his many victories. He was sent to the Bengal Academy, and then to St. Xavier's, but his resolute refusal to be educated stood proof against authority and blandishment and he was allowed to study at home.

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ULOSING QUOTATIONS.

ia Mongolia, though he wore the tentous seriousness with which the coarse native clothing "because it cinema is regarded in Germany. is more comfortable"

It is entitled Berlin, the City Sym- He searches always for types," induces them to sit for him, and phany. It is no honest attempt to makes portraits that setin to think present the life and rhythm of a and breathe. Libined first for capital city during 24 hours, honest i

be year by his father, as a sculptor, Dr. Tagore told us when he was went to the academy at Munich' for because the producer of this film lecturing in Singapore that he had three years and became a painter. has not tried to give unity and refused to go to school. We now His work in, therefore, curiously populat appeal" to a series of get confirmation of this picture here. stereoscopic

disconnected scenes by stringing His first experiences of school Jail.

them together on the thread of a distressed him. Again: .

the edu Rabindranath declined to be

personal story. There is no plot rated

And then he vet

A train aff on bis travels with his father or manufactured; printing, in the ordinary sense.

publishing, type-founding, book rushes over the open country and and saw more of India than many

.binding:

reaches the city terminus. There books, manuscripts, boys compass in a life time.

follow scenes of the street, empty libraries: pictures, statues, ix-

riptions and object of artistic in the light of early morning ex and intiquarian interest; musical cept for a piece of paper blowing instruments and accessories; texto and fro, or water runding in A cat creeps out. tile machinery and products, the gutter. bricks, tiles, pattery and china- Shutters begin to go up. Work ware; mills, foundries and work. men go into the factories, Wo ses. shops, for werking in gatal, wood, the crowds on the underground or other materials; co-operative railway, children going to school, of people, stores, dairies and creameries; all sorts and conditions banks and all forms of association leaving their homes, offices begin ning work, the traffic and a hun- dealing in credit.

dred incidents in the street, the Incheon interval, people bathing, I have left little space to dent rowing and riding in the after- to found his own school when he with the many phases of the poet's Coon. Finally the sky signs blaze, should be able to, to raise life and work which Professor people go to hear Beethoven, or see funds for its further work is the Thompson brings before us so clear revue, or drink beer in bars, or main reason for his present tour, ly. But it is remarkable that Dr. sell matches in the gutter. and explains why we were privileg Tagore told me very much that is The producer has not lost sight ed to see him in our taldst so re-reported in this book when I was of the fact that the subject of the cently. But, as Thompson remarks, privileged to meet him at the bus- film is the city itself, as an indivi- O the poet planned much more than galow in Siglap where he was stay-dual organismi, so that inanimate a school. He sought a home for the ing. The great Indian was tired, things and animals are treated noti spirit of India, distracted and torn tired; one could feel it. They merely as a background to human in the conflicting storms of-the age. give me no rest, you know," he beings but on equal terms The The unity of India has been a dream said. In Chicago there was a result is extraordinarily impres present with some of her greater certain Mrs and the pro- sive. Machines, houses, articles in sons. Here he felt it might begin tected me; but in other places I shop windows, partly because of to be realised with a completeness am at the mercy of friends, ON BRANORAL hitherto unattained. At San- without meaning to they persecute graphed and partly by being per tiniketan all creeds and religious me." Asked by Professor Thomp- fectly fitted to their context; ac- will be studied, all literatures, and son how long he expected to live-quire vitality and significance. the modern scientific achievements Dr. Tagore replied: "I shall die The other factor in achieving the of East and West" alike. The Uni- at 68. And this apparently is remarcable unity of this film is the versity will

what is written in his horoscope. music, written by Edmund Meisel, purchase or sell, construct, main- Personally, I must hope with sofich is very successfully syn tain, found, initiate, organise or many others, that Dr. Tagore will chronized with the film by means assist and generally deal in or allow himself a little rest and that of an instrument called the music. with the following: Buildings and the world will have the chance of chronometer, invented after years building materials; food-stuffs enjoying his presence for many of experiment by Herr Cart Robert (Continued on next Column) reare more. He is nearly 68 now! Blum.

Santiniketan.

The remembrance of his own early life determined Dr. Tagore

A Personal Impressien.

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