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BATTLE OF ROYAL ACADEMY.

NEW PRESIDENT ABOUT TO BE CHOSEN..

ONE WOMAN CANDIDATE.

LONDON, Nov 5th. An intense and intriguing election campaign is being fought in close secrecy behind the doors of studios and dining rooms in the art circles of London and wherever painters, sculptors, and architects work and

DIARY OF EVENTS.

Today, (December 12th) Fanling Hunt: Most Kennela 2.30 p.m.

Annual Exhibition Hong Kong Art Club, Pedder Building, 10.30 a.m. to 7 p.m...

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Cricket: Royal Engineers R.A.S.C. (F).

Football: Mid-week League: Police . Lam Long Wan. Chinese Athletic South China. Fra Chinese . Hung Kui School..

Queen's Theatre:" "The King at King's.""

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World Theatre: "The Road to Romance."

A Harley Street specialist, Dr. C. E. Iredell, was treating Mrs.live. Anna Eliza Poole, the wife of an The election is that of president East End carman, living in Mor of the Royal Academy, who shall ville Street, Bow, when short take the place of the late Sir Frank circuit caused the powerful light of Dicksee it, that influential and the diathermy lamp to fuse, and much-prized office-P.R.A. the chamber was suddenly flooded Nominations will be made and with acrid fumes and blue. Bames.

the votes cast some time during the The specialist and the nurse in present month. The election is vest- attendance thought of the patient ed in the Royal Academicians.m.; King Edward Hotel, 3pm Arat. They caught her. in their A.R.As have no part in the final arms, only partially clad es sho decision. was, and carried her, with the blackened wires of the lamp still clinging to her head and neck; to

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Dr. Iredell, once his patient was safe in the care of the sister aud a nurse, returned to the burning room, and threw buckets of sand and water on the flames.

Apparatus Destroyed.

All the apparatus in the room was destroyed. Three diathermy lamps, each worth about £70, were burned, and the patient's clothing was destroyed.

The alarm was raised, and the great are bell in the nurses' quar ter cianged. Many of the nurses were in the chapel a few yards Only the matron and two sisters left the chuper; the others remained on their knees in silent

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Patients on the verandahs cianed their heads over the iron railings watching the firemen passing in and out of the building. There was no panic, but every body in the great hospital heaved a sigh of relief when the word went round,

The fire out!!

Mrs. Poole described her experi- ence to n Daily Errea representa tive later in her home. She is a woman of forty-six.

I did not know what had bap "I smelt some pened," she said. thing burning, and then I heard Dr. Iredell say 50 the nurse:

Quirk, get her outside."

"They helped me out of the room. It gave me a great shock. but Dr. Iredell and the nurses were very kind to me."

FORGERY FOR THE BRITISH MUSEUM.

HARDY MS. "FAKE" AS A CURIOSITY,

A description of forgeries of the works of eminent authors" which was published in the Daily Express has had a surprising sequel. One

of

Among the distinguished artists and architects put forward for the presidency are

Sir Reginald Blomfield, R.Å. Sir William Orpen, R.A. Sir Edwin Lutyens, R.A. Sir William Llewellyn, R.A. Sir John Lavery, R. Mr. Richard Jack, R.A.

Mrs. Laura Knight, A.R.A. Each one of these candidates has a particular section of adherents.

Youth And Age. The Daily Express Art Critic, discussing the pros and cons of the election, writes as follows:-

The opposing forces are the ranks of youth against the ranks of age. There is a strong feeling in the Academy as a whole-including the academicians and the "associat in favour of a president who would br sympathetic to the twentieth cen- tury art of the younger generation to which Sir Frank Dicksee was openly and professedly opposed.

The older academicians, however, regard the post essentially as the reward of long service to the Royal Academy itself, and they will not consider any artist much under seventy.

When the fight began the favoured candidate of the older academicians was Sir Reginald Blomfield, the architect, designer of the Menin Gate, who is seventy-two and who would thus have not more than three years of office before reaching the retiring age. The younger men favoured Sir William Orpen, who ia filty, and in close touch with modern life in many forms.

In The Running.

Star Theatre: Rough Hause. Rosie."

Tea Dances: HK, Hotel, 4.30

Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel. is p..

Principal European Mail:-Out- ward: Europe vid Siberia (Philor- tetes), 2 p.m.

Thursday..... (December 13th.)

Concert: Helena May Institute :- Music of Childhood" arranged by Mrs. Davenport Browne.

Art Club, Pedder Building, 10.30 Annual Exhibition Hong Kong

a.m. to 7p.m, :

St. Peter's Y.M. Club, "Daner, Lane, Crawford's, 6 p.m. to mid night.

Hockey: Y.M.C.A. XI. ». Uni- versity and XI, King's Park, 5

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Queen's Theatre:Barbed Wire." World Theatre: "The Prince of Pilsen."

Star Theatre: "The Escape." Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel, p..

Principal European Mail:-Out- ward: Europe via Victoria, B.C. (Tyndareus), 10.30 a..

Friday,

(December 14th.) Christian Fellowship Meeting, Helena May Institute, 10.30 am.

Annual Dinner Dance: Automobile Association Peninsular Hotel, & p.m.

H.K.

H. K. Philharmonic Society "Tom" Jones," Theatre Royal, 3 p.m.

Queen's Theatre:"Barbed Wire:" World Theatre: "The Prince of Pilsen."

Star Theatre: The Escape." Tea Dancer: H.K. Hotel, 4.17 p.m.; King Edward Hotel, 5 p.m.

Dinner Dance: St. Francis Hotel.. 8 p.m...

Saturday. (December 18th.) ' Golf: Bogey Pool, Fanling. Fanling Hunt Meet, Sheung Shui, 2.30 p.m..

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Sir Reginald Blomfield and Sir William Orpen are still in the run- ning. but there are now two other favourites, Sir Edwin Lutyens. designer of the Cenotaph and of Government House, Imperial Delhi, and Sir William Llewellyn, painter of the Queen's favourite portrait. Sir Frank Dicksee who would have retired this month under the ave limit was a keen supporter of Sir William Llewellyn, and had Sit Frank ved many academicians would certainly have supported his

Cricket:-Division I.: Navy". nominee. It is more than probable

Kowloon (F), Craigengower of the spurious manuscripts- that they will do so still. forgery of an early work

Age in this conflict has an im Royal Artillery (F), Hong Kong Thomas Hardy has just been pre-manse ndvantage. The president is C.C. Under 30 Over 30 (F). sented to the British Museum as a elected in the R.As alone and most Division II: Indians v. R.AS.C choice example of the literary of the R.A.s are well past middle), Kowloon v. Recreio (L), Hong Craigengower nge. Seventeen of them are over Kong Electric The forgeries discovered includ-seventy, and only six are under

Football: Lai Wah Cup Final. ed cleverly-faked originals of sixty:

Second Division: Eastern Thackeray, Shelley. Dickens, With regard to the social duties Queen's, St. Joseph's v. Nazy, South Charles Lamb, and Robert Louis Stevenson. All are believed to be of the President, Sir John Lavery: China "B" v. University, K.O.S.B the work of one man-a sort of whose wife is so well known in R.A.F.. Chinese v. South China social circles, would be a popular "A", Small Units Kowloon, literary Jim-the-Penman.

The forged manuscripts were selection, and the breezy personality Recreio . Royal Artillery. bought in a London saleroom by of Mr. Richard Jack would" be Mr. Maurice Inman, an eminent another.

Finally suggestion calculated book dealer of New York. They were sold to M. Inman for a com- to shake Burlington House to its paratively low price. Instead of foundations-there is Mrs. Laura p.m. the literary genis which he thought Knight, who is not only not yet n he had secured, Mr. Inman has full academician, but is also a discovered that every manuscript woman! There is, however, a pre in the batch is a forgery. As soon cedent in the Academy's history, as he learned that they were faked, because. Mary Moser-who was,

faker's art.

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Society: Tom Jones, Theatre Royal, o Queen's Theatre: "Barbed Wire." World Theatre: "The Prince of Pilsen."

Star Theatre: The Escape." Principal European Mails:-In-

Mr. Inman made a literary boufire moreover, a foreign member-reward: London mid Negapatam, let- of the majority to prevent the ceived one vote for the presidency spurious documents from reaching in 1792, when Benjamin West was ward:

the hands of unsuspecting buyers elected.

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"It was the !! Hardy" manuscript

which led to the discovery of the

forgeries. It was shown to Mr.

Calkin, the King's bookbinder,

Mr. Taman brought the "Hardy"

of Heddon-street, Regentatreet, manuscript with him to Condon through whom it was shown to Mr. from New York a few weeks ago, T. J. Wise, who is probably the had has now presented it to the greatest living bibliographer: On British Museum.

his suggestion it was shown to Mr. The "Shelley" manuscripts EC- Bydney Cockerell, Hardy's executually emanated from Italy, and tor who condemned it as "an in the Hardy" facsimile was intro pudent forgery,'

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