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NEW TECHNIQUE IN GLASS

Age-Old Medium Brought Up

To Modern Use

Mr. Maurice Heaton possesses the rare distinction of having led an old technique into new fields of expression His medium is glass, material which since 4000 B. C., and perhaps earlier, has most often achieved its ultimate art forms by being blown inside of a

maid,

The Romans, however, learned to east or roll glass slaba between Cylinders or on stone, and this method is used today for certain types of work, with, of course, modern substitutions and Amend ments,

Class is also pressed inside of a mold by a piston; or drawn in the form of a continuous sheet from the crucible itself.

A follower fór a certain distance along the path of these Roman and post-Roman techniques, Mr. Heaton" has been able to develop a more advanced process of bending glass, nodeling certain shapes which hitherto have not been formed in this manner. He buys his glass in large rectangular sheets, cuts them to suit his "particular use,

Heaten to reproduce in modern glass the quality of translucence which twelfth century glass has acquired by expaure to the ete ments, is this welding of glazes into the glass.

The son began to see how benuti. fully this idea could be applied to architectural ornament for the mo- dern ensemble. The concept of a novel technique which would main- tain the structural function of the material

As it and yet express, were, the new thought about life, took possession of his imagination

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1934.

ST. PAUL'S---NEW

WARNING

Immediate Steps Necessary

London, Dec, 24.

St. Paul's Cathedral is in the gravest danger from the effects of subsidence.

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A new warming is given in a report, ismzed by two eminent engineers, Bir Alexander Gibb and Mr. Ralph Freeman, after their investigations lasting two "and-a half years

"The margin of" safety,” they boldly declare is so small as to compel the most rigorous attention to any circumstance that could be & possible cause of reducing it still further."

It is urged that immediate steps should be taken to prevent further subsidence, to avoid traffic, vibra-

He had discovered that what made, tions and to control building, and work interesting to him was cro-similar operations in the suggested tive endeavour, for which machines "sacred area" around the Cathed- and tools are only the implements ral. of expression.

MAMMOTH OCEAN

FLIGHTS

An Act of Parliament is suggest- ed to give the Cathedral authorities the necessary powers for control, over the sacred area'

LOADS.EXCESSIVĖ

In the course of the inquiry the engineers excavated 3 test pîte and examined records of 189 borings.

The results may be summarised

and softens them in huge overs. International Plan To thus

Then, with a new skill, he shapes them according to his needs-event wte hollow wäre.

"Instead of etching, engraving or cutting his glass or developing a decoration in mosaic, he ises sprays of vitreous glazes, applying them with an air brush. The réal achievement I'can claim," he wait to the writer, is the use of vitreous decoration on flat gliss, fired and bent-dr shaped-all in the same operation.”

The glaze may be white or tinted; Jaid n in an even tone or grad uated and it varies in hue accord- ing to its thickness. After it is dry, Mr. Heaton employs an art. ist's bristle brush to remove por- tions of it, thus drawing a pattern in reserve by exposing the basic lass. When black is used it is painted on in swift straight lines or in rushing spirals and circles. Afterward. by rotating the object maturi-table, Mr. Heaton sweeps into the surface with his brush the incised pattern.

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Conquer Seas

As soon as the Imperial Airways Service to Australia is put into operation early next year the work of organising the experimental transatlantic line is to begin

Two Inter-Governmental con- ferences are ikely to be held during

1934-for Route One between Britain, Ireland, Iceland, Canada, and Newfoundland. America, and for Route TWO between Britain, France, Portugal. Canada and America..

Detailed surveys over what is regarded as the most difficult air route in the world have convinced al experts different lines will have to be all-the-year- organised for

that

two entirely

ELIL round Atlantic service,

The shorter Arctic airway will only

during be available

the summer months.

During the winter ments will be made to reach America and Canada via the Southern Atlantic.

arrange-

The Conference, will organise a

The pie is then subjected to the kiln and in that high temperature the glaze itself becomes glass, so that the material and the decora-service via Lisbon and the Azores tive overlay, are homogeneous-- glass fused into glass. This is accomplished with one fring.

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and Bermuda.

well-known air authority teld the Press that the organisa tion

would have vast that it would be impossible to .to be BO

provide

а

the

service across without international

Atlantic co-operation.

"For the Arctic route," he said a large number of weather station will have to be erected and designs for special high-speed mail planes made for the difficult and exacting conditions of flying in those desolate regions..

"For the

Although the technique is new it has a genealogy. Mr. Clement Heaton, father of Maurice, is a distinguished designer of stained glass After the son had gone to Stevens Institute with the purpose of becuming an engineer, he found that his father-in order to carry through some projects for his great windows-was putting up a furn ace on their place in West Nyack, N. Y.,

reestablishing the water power operated by an old mill. The knowledge of an engineer was valuable in this connection and the young student took charge of the enterprise. It was a logical sequel to these efforts that he should want them in relation to the to test purpose.for which they were initia- ted. Therefore, son worked with decide the various portions of the father on the execution and pain!- routes to be flown by each ing of the windows. Now, the country For the northern airway method employed by Mr. Clement Great Britain may undertake to

route, via the Azores, machines Southern Atlantic capable of flying

more than 2,000 miles non-stop will be necessary. Buch long ranges will not be required for the Northern route," he said.

The

international conferences

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The foundations of the Cathedral are built on a stratum of potter's elay which occupies its site. This clay resting as it does op an underlying bed of gravel and sand, would not be considered in modern practice an altogether satisfactory foundation for the structure, and there is no doubt that the loads are greater than would now be entertained, There are evidences of extensive settlements during construction and some movement subsequently, confirming the view that, the foundation pressures are high and the margin of safety so sinall na to compel the most rigorous at tention to any circumstance that could be a possible cause of re- ducing it still further. "There is little doubt that inter- ference with the subsoil or the subsoil water might easily upset the equilibrium, that is now exis- fing and cause further settlement of the building.".

OVERBURDENED PIERS

The piers below the dome are an

doubtedly more heavily loaded than any other part of the sup parting structure, and it is above them that there is evidence of the greatest degree of settlement. Pressure below these, piera is cal- culated at approximately live tons per square foot, which is larger thno- accepted practice of modern times would entertain as safe in *janikar camikitiems,”

of opinion that no attempt should The investigators state "we are be-made to consolidate or replace the sand and gravel below the present foundations unless and until a continuation of the measurements years indicates a significant degree taken from time to time in recent of subsidence."

THE "SACRED AREA"

The suggestion of a "sacred aren!: lung ago as 1913, and the engineers was made by Canou Alexander as

ia their report put forward the view that in an area bounded by New- gate-street, the G.P.O. (Central Telegraph Office), Cheapside, Fri- day-street, Queen Victoria-street,

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1-2.15 p.m.-European programme. 1. p.m.--Local Time and Weather

Report.

vice from St. Paul's Church. 12.15-2.30 pm-European recorded

programme.

1 p.m.-Local time and weather re-

port.

2.30 p.m.-Close down. Planoforte Recital from the Studio.. 1.3 pm-Recorded music.

4.30-7 p.m.-Chinese programme. 1.15 pm--A relay of the Hong! 7-10 p.m.-European programme.

Kong Hotel Orchestra from 7-7.45 pm-Orchestral. the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room.

2.13 pan-Close Down.

Dance music from the Hong Kong Hotel to-night. Running commentary on the boxing from the Lee Theatre.

4-7.30 p.m.--Chinese programme. 7.30-11.45 p.m.-(approx:)—-Euro- pean programme. 730-2 pm-A programme of Re-

corded Music..... Orchestral Faust Selection. (Gounod, 'art. Weber)-Marek Weber and His Orchestra. Planoforte Solo-Ballade

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Mignon-Overture (Thomas)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Prelude in C Sharp Minor

(Rachmaninoff).

Prelude in G Minor (Rachmani- noff)-Victor Concert Orches-

tra.

Ballet Egyptian Suite (Luigini)

--Concert Orchestra. Schubert's Love Songs-Medley: (Schubert-Berta)-Marek We- ber and His Orchestra. The

Sleeping Beauty-Waltz (Tschaikowsky)--Royal Opera

Qruhestra.

Minor (Chopin, Op. 23)-Alfred | gp.m.-Local time and weather Cortot.

Band La Traviata Drinking

Bong and (Verdi).

Gypsy Chorus

report.

From the Studio.

Band-La Traviata Prelúde-; 7;45-815 nm-a Pianoforte Recital

Act 111 (Verdi)-Creatore's

Band Bong-He Heard the Great Sea

Calling (Andrews)

Song-Devon. O Devon (Stan- ford)-Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone)...

by Mrs. Nura Kanis.

8.15-8.40 p.m.-"Casse Noisette **

Suite (Tschaikowsky) - The. B.B.0, Wireless Symphony Or chestra conducted by Percy Pitt

Octet Memories of Tschaikow 810-10 p.m.-

› sky). (arr. Sear)-J. H. Squire

Celeste Octet. Instrumental-Valze Triste (81-

belius).

Instrumental-A Keltic Lament (Foulds) -Victor Olof Sextet. Song-Drake Goes West (Band-

erson)

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Bong-Yeomen of England (Ger- man)--Peter Dawson (Base- Baritone) Violin Solo Gypsy Caprice

(Kreisler).

Violin Solo-Shepherd's Madrigal

(Kretsler)-Fritz Kreisler. Song-Glory of the Sea (Sander- *son).

Song The Border Ballad (Co- wen)-Peter Dawson (Bass- Baritone)

Planoforte Solo-Caprice (Chuck-

Saint-Saens)

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Operatic.

Band - The Meistersingers- Selection (Wagner)-Reg Band of HM. Grenadier Guards. Vocal Gems-Mignon (Thamak), Vocal Gems-Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach)-Grand Opera Co. Planoforte Bolo Rigoletto-

Paraphrase de Concert (Verdi- ListAlfred Cortot. Bong-Le Prophete-Ah, My Son!

(Meyerbeer).

Song-Orfeo ed Euridice-I Have

Lost By Eurydice: (Gluck)-- Sigrid Onegin (Contralto). Orchestral-Gotterdammerung-

Bong of the Rhine Daughters (Wagner)-Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Ball Orchestra. Orchestral--The Valkyries The Ride of the Valkyries (Wegner) Sir Henry J. Wood conducting the New Queen's Hall Orches- tra...

Vocal Gema Cavalleria Rusti- cana (Mascagni)-Grand Opera Co.

Planoforte Bolo-Fantaisie-Im- promptu (Chopin, Op. 68)- Barold Bauer. Orchestral Polonaise No. 2

(Liszt, arr. Huller-Berghaus)— 9-10.45 p.m.-A relay of the Hong Berlin State Opera Orchestra.

Kong Hotel Dance Orchestra

Violin from the Hong Kong Hotel Grill Room. 10.45-11.45 p. (approx:) - A Running Commentary on the Semi-Finals and Finals of the China Fleet Open Team Box- ing Championships from the Lee Theatre by courtesy of the Promoters.

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11.45 pm-(approx)-Close Down. Should reception prove satisfac- and 6 p.m. will be replaced by a tory, the programme between 5

relay from Daventry.

Solo Thais-Meditation (Massenet). Violin Solo Le Coq D'ar-Hymni to the Sun (Rimsky-Korsakow). Mischa Elman. Song-Meistersinger-Prize Bong

(Wagner).

Bong-Lohengrin Lohengrin's Narative in Distant Lands : (Wagner) Richard Crooks

(Tenor).

10 p.m.-Close down.

Should reception prove satisfac-

All relays from the Hong Kong tory, the programme between 5 Hotel are by courtesy of the and 5 p.m. will be replaced by a Management and during the in-relay from Daventry, tervals recorded music will, be broadcast from the "Studio.

SUNDAY.

the lower and of St. Andrew's-hill, 10-11 am-A relay of the Service through to Old Bailey "some con- trol is essential, up to the point of probibition in an extreme case, on both the design and method of cou struction of all underground works.

supply machines to fly to St. Johns (Newfoundland), via Ireland and Iceland.

Britain's Part

-Canada, through Canadian National Airways, may take on the St. Johns--Montreal section "and"--and American company, probably Pan-American Airways, the section from · 61 · Johna to, New York,

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