1936-04-29 — Page 7

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29. 1936.

ROTARIANS HEAR WITTY TALK

comer and customer is only aping

HUNGARIAN HUMOURIST the aristocracy- just as they fol

AS SPEAKER

lowed the lead given by royalty in matters of Art. But-being businessman, he soon discovered. that this heipless creature, most of whose decorations consisted of patches on the honourable but

A BETTER TURNOVER REPORTED China Emporium's Bright Future

Relation Of Commercialism tragically worn out back view of DIVIDEND IN SIGHT

And Art

Members of the Rotary Club yesterday listened to an unusual tiffin address when the speaker was Mr. Laszlo Schwartz, Hungarian humorist and artist, now. on his fourth world tour.

Mr. Schwartz's address entitled "Two Happy Bed- fellows Commercialism and Art,” was Jimetuated with many witticisms yet had an underlying strata of serious. ness which appealed to members of the Rotary Club.

Guests at the tifin were Messrs.

The Chairman (Prof. E. Forster) announced to members that with Rotarians Key and Woo he had visited Canton for the celebration of the local Club's charter day They were hospitably received and brought back greetings.

of

LOSS OF LIBERTY LR. van Lennep of Batavia and Alas, this Idealistic .state K. G. Blair, J. R. Swales and A. W: ¦ affairs did not last long, for the Blackford of Hong Kong.

moment the, tribe grew large en- ough to have a chief, and his lord ship developed an insatiable ap- petite not only for the largest cave, but fer the best decorated cave, best carved skull crackers, etc.- this in addition to the greatest variety in food, drinks and wires, the cave man artist soon lost his liberty. No longer could he create only when he was inspired-cr whatever they called that intem-

Next week. sald the Chairman, members would hear a talk on the recerit Shanghai conference by the Hong Kong members who had at- tended. A film of the Conference

had been take and it was hoped to have it displayed if it arrived th time.

Prof. Forster announced that he had received inquiries regarding the employment of youths. As finding employment was one of the,, tasks of Rotary, he invited mem- bers to communicate with him if they knew of an opportunity for a youth of about 21.

ROTATING ROTARIAN Mr. Forster also announced that in the absence of the treasurer

(Mr. N. J. Perrin: the duties would¦ be carried out by Mr. Wheeler who had accordingly been elected a member of the Club.

In introducing the speaker the Chairman said that Mr. Schwartz was one of those people who travelled the world' and seemed to spend his time enjoying himself wherever he was. He was actually rotating, rotarian for he was a member und had addressed many meetings in various parts of the world.

In conversation with the speaker, said Mr. Forster, he, gathered that the emphasis of his talk would be on art for Mr. Schwartz was a carleaturist and a violinist.

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trousers, this Impractical "dreamer and creator could produce things that could be sold to better advantage. (to the businessman) than the artist would ever dispose of them. And so from now on we see the businessman taking ever kecner Interest in the artist. Re- sult: a greatly extended market for Art products and a demand of greater variety in subject matter to suit all tastes and purses,"

A FOOL BUT. NO IDIOT

The catechism of commerce differing considerably from the 10 Commandments in the creed of Fine Arts, it is but natural, that for a long long time, as a matter of fact for a very painfully long time to the artist) the major part his of the proats begotten from exploitation went to the business- man. All of which proves that the artist was a fool. But he was not an idiot. So he soon learnt to use

"In spite of the continued de- pressed condition of trade daring the year under review. and the lolent fluctuations in exchange, which rendered business transae- tlons most difficu't,

QUT total volume of business done during the year was in excess of that of the previous year both in quantity and value,” said the Hon. Sir Shouson Chow, KL. Chairman of the China Empor- fum, Ltd., when he, prasided at the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Company, which was held at the 4th floor of the Company's premises, No. 62A to 68, Queen's Road Central, yesterday after-

noon.

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BRITISH MOTOR

MANUFACTURER

Business Tour "Of 25,000 Miles

TO STUDY TRADE CONDITIONS

(By A Special Correspondent)

Mr. W. E. Rootes, the well- known British motor manufac- turer and Chairman of Rootes Securities Ltd., who with his brother. Mr. R. C. Rootes, con- trals no fewer than èighteen im- portant manufacturing and dis- tributing companies, deft London on Thursday, January 16, for a business tour of the world which is to take him six months ti complete and in the course of "which he will travel well over

25,000 miles,

Mr. Rootes arrived here on Saturday last and is at present staying at Repulse Bay Hotel, Supporting the Chairman were

The Rootes brothers are arm the Hon Mr. T. N. Chau. Messrs. balevers in the necessity for the Kan Tong Po. Li Tse Fong, Chu principal executives of British in Chi Nam. P. K. Kwok. Chau Man dustrial

obtaining organisations Chi, Chan Tse Ket and Fung Pins up-to-date. first-hand knowledge his pencil for other things than Fan (Directors), Mr. M. Chan Harr of the actual conditions governing drawing the lovely curves of his (General Manager), Mr. J. M.

the many different markets of the model's tantalising figure. Indeed, Wang (Manager) and Mr.

K. Tworld.

With this object always he began to cultivate more prosaic Chung (Assistant Manager).

mind, they have, both made num- figures, Among other things he made

Others present were the Hon, Dr.

overs:as erous · voyages one revolutionary discovery. viz: S. W. Tso. Li Tse Chol, Chan Hia

in past years but no previous trip has Ming. Chan Ki Shing. Wong To tious as the one Mr. W. E. Rootes Ming. Chow Kl Yuen, Chow Chin

is at present undertaking. Man. Gock Chan, Cheung Ying Chow, Wong Tse Chong, Kwok Yau Ting. Ko Kwai Fan, Chow Chiu Po, Ng Yuk Wing, Chan Fung Yip. Chan Fung Yu. Poon Ching Yec. and Chu Shuk Let

perate, reckless and pricking state; that by now the businessman nced- | Leung. Wong Mow Lum. Wong To been so comprehensive and ambl-

master.

That

WAS

the

ed him at least as badly as he leaned on the businessman. Be hold. There was not a trade not, a profession from butcher "baker to candle stick maker which in one form or another, is manufactur- iting. in packing. in display. In ad- vertising, did not employ the artist In an attempt to make the product į (Shareholders). more attractive.

or mind and blood that time. No from now on he worked for a

beginning o slavery for the artist and with the coming and going of Caesars, Ma- harajas. Kings., Kalsers etc... simply modulated from bad. to worse or reversed, but ever, more than less was the artist a slave to his master's bidding. The truth is, that it was in such manner that professionalism was formed in all the Arts and Crafts, for so far as Folkart is concerned this rule never held and does not hold good even to this day. When the ruters of the people created wristocracy, and they in turn aped the King's ways these artist.

too

This extension of the market benefited the artist for it brought

ANOTHER MARKET

THE MACHINE AGE

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PLACES VISITED.

Among the many places he has already visited since leaving Lon dan are Cairo. Jerusalem. Haifa. Baghdad. Abadan. Basra, Karachi. Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Bombay. Agra, Delhi. Ca curta, Madras, Co-, lombo, Penang, Batavia and Soera- baja.

Mr. W. E. Rootes, the well-known British motor manufacturer and Vice-President of the Society' of

of Great Britain, who is at present making a world business tour of six months duration in the course of which he will travel more than, 25,000 miles,

Considering the idealistic mis- slon of Art; crude and sacrilegious ak it may sound on first hearing. let us repeat that once again he was called upon to creat "a can- Addressing the meeting, the ducive and seducive atmosphere." Chairman said:-Gentlemen-The Whether or no this chapter in the Report of the Directors and the democratisation of Art is to be Statement of Accounts for the 2 minas Yuet Hol Year which commenced classed as a plus or phase in the evolution of Art and became of the

on the 4th February 1935 and end Commerce belongs to a differented on 23rd January 1938, having paragraph. The fact remains that been in your hands for some time. with enlarged patronage and pro- I will, with your permission take a greater measure of freedom fits the artist has regained a good-them as read through enlarged income. Buty part of his lost freedom.

It is gratifying, to your Directors still, how far oh how far he was

to be able to lay before you a from his goal which was absolute

statement of accounts which shows The coming of the machine age. liberty in the choice of his subject which has given

considerable improvement over that Art products matter and his never dying desire world markets. proves the final of the previous year. From the to tell the truth as he felt and as he stage in the democratisation of Printed Report you will notice that saw it in the life of humans about Arts and in the liberation of the the Directors.propose to vitilize him. Now, in most instances that artist. With the creation of the the net pront of $63,521.20 to write was out of the question. He was cinema, gramophone, taltics, tele-off Furniture and Fixtures by $25.- Mr. Schwartz admitted that he

3 wholesale creator of halos, vision, highly improved

687.49, Preliminary and Format. was a rotating Rotarian, as a mat-

visible and invisible. Els was the printing, reproduction of paintings, Expenses by $26,404.75 and Bad ter of fact he said he was a supper task to glorify whether it was the statues and the art of advertising and Doubtful Deats by $2,056.91 rotarian. (Laughter). His subject king in a superheroic pose, on of Commercialism and Art have be-leaving $9,372.05 to be carried for- was pregnant with possibilities, head horseback, the queen in a most come as inseparable as the Siamese ward to the credit of a said. A humourist was a man who generously beautified state, facial Twins. Like all bedfellows they count. We sincerely trust discovered the things that were ly and figuratively speaking, whe- still have their scraps, but each these proposed appropriations will Motor Manufacturers and Traders not funny to others but he asked ther it was recording the herole

has a clear conception of his own meet with your approval. the audience to forgive him if he deeds of the king's or aristocracy's power

A GOOD YEAR waxed serious, for a humourist had ancestors in stone, paint and so pleasures and profits accordingly. In spite of the continued de to be a philosopher to be a forth the result was identical-

And what now? What will be pressed condition of trade during humourist.

glorification. The artist liked this

the next chapter. One need waste the year under review and the Mr. Schwartz continued:-

state of affairs just about as much

Do time in haphazard guessings. violent fluctuations in exchange Considering. that my story be as the Jews of Germany like to Take a glimpse of the newborn which rendered business transac gins with the Cave man's first wish the Fuhrer a long and happy states Italy. Germany, and es- tions most difficult, our tota vo- artistic endeavours and ends in a lie on his all too numerous birth:pecially so Russia where

After a stay here of several days almost lume of business done during the will continue his journey by millenium to come, and all this to days.

every artist serves the Govern- year was in excess of that of the way of Shanghal, Pelping... Tien- be told within a half-an-hour, I

ment, and Behold him in his new previous year both in quantity and tain, will have to break speed records.

Kooe. Tokio, Yokohama, With the development of re-role creating propaganda in more value When it is realized that Honolulu, Los Angeles, Grand Can- Indeed. It will be all I can do to

or leas artistic forms. New poll- the ruling rate of exchange for ayon, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, refrain from waxing hysterical in-gions the artist found another stead of being plain common-his-market for his wares, but I regret tical creeds aim to displace old re-

to state that neither did this newligious creeds, What does it mean? higher than two shillings and that

Mr. Rootes, who is accompanied the fact, that the only time. Art clientele air much to restore his Is the artist being enslaved once

lost art-lberties, for here once again?

Has he completed the for Art's sake' Was a 100 p.c. again we find him producing only cycle in his pathetic quest for meaningful and foolproof creed of the artist was in the Cave dwellers the kind of art which helps to

Gentleman-my time is up. The a conducive and seducive perlod when he decorated his create

answers to these questions preg- home, weapons and utensils with atmosphere in the temples, chur-

chea, cathedrals, mosques ete, nant with so much that is truly no thought of fame and profit. Bimply because he was prompted When one stands spellbound before dramatic and tragle in our scheme by an inner urge to pay his tribute the monumental works of a Michel of civilization cannot be answered Angelo, of a Raphael etc., he may by me. Nor by you. Or by the to the wonders of nature and a

wisest of men in any land. The desire to record the history of his give little consideration to such race as best he knew how. Those matters as I expound here, but answer is hidden in the womb of we give even a passing time. May I suggest in closing, were the glorious and gory times when when it was not left to dyspeptic thought to what genius of their that for the time being let us leave critics to decide who is the best magnitude, of their grasp of life's it there resting in peace. In these carver of stone, loudest ballad fullest meaning could have given hectic hysterical times let us go us had they interpreted life in its at least that far in assuring for singer and most profane poet. It wasn't the longest crop of hair fullest scale of emotions and end- ourselves this elusive thing called— that gave an artist highest stand-less problems, paradoxical group-Peace. ing in his vocation,

the Ings, and screaming contrasts, then. but heaviest club and the strongest and only then do we fully realise arm bringing it into contact with what absolute freedom in matters the skull of his debating fellow of Art means to the artist, to his artiat. Argumente in matters of own age and to the generations Art didn't last as long as they do that follow in his wake,

Let no que surmise from this now-a-days. Neither did artists. As a result, those who had array of facts, that I am marshall- the thickest skulls and survived ing anti-royalist or anti-religious worked more than their ever forces. Not at all. This survey in wrangling brethren of to-day. And the relation of the artist and his of course with the frequent and patrons is merely concerned with final elimination of the arguing uncovering the possibilities, and members the problem of unhealthy mainly the impossibilities, which competition and overproduction he faced because freedom of ac was solved in a more prompt and tion was his only in a most miser- efficient manner than MacDonald, Fly measure Stalin, Roosevelt, Mussolini and Nothing proves this contention Herr Hitler could do it with all more conclusively and dramatically their bellowing loud speakers, can- than the appearence of the busin- kerous conferences and tottering ess man among the artist's pat treaties,

rons At first this potential new

torical. And so let us nail down

the

liberty?

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considerable period of 1935 Was Montreal and New York. consequently goods bought and by his eighteen-year-old son deof- sold were very much cheaper in frey, will bring his "grand tour" value, you w understand that to an end with a voyage home from the total volume of goods sold over New York on the Queen Mary, the counter had to be far greater which is scheduled to reach Sou- than that of 1934 before it

thampton on Monday, July 13th. possible to achieve the satisfactory

Mr. Rootes, whose commercial results now placed before you.

recent

Although we have not yet and Industrial concerns have made reached the stage when it would remarkable, progress in be the pleasant duty of your years. is a whole-hearted believer Directors to declare a dividend, in the future of British Industry. yet they sincerely believe that On this extensive trip It will be We are on the high road towards his endeavour to make as many as possible of those persona: con- that very desirable goal, Turning to the Balance Sheet, tacts which are so valuable in ex- you will notice that our overdraf: panding the nation's export trade. 1t Bankers is very much less than that of the previous year, and that our financial position is sounder in every respect. The value of our stocks, in hand is about the same I have the greatest admiratione that of last year being only for anybody who in these cloudy lower by about $40,000.00. I hope days can turn a smiling face to the you wil consider that this stock is world. He is more than an artist not in any way heavy.

(Continued on Page 11.) and more than a musician: he is a philosopher and a public benefac- tor. Anybody who can find some- thing to laugh at, and moreover

PUBLIC BENEFACTOR In proposing a vote of thanks Rotarian Champkin said

AS VICE-PRESIDENT

He makes his tour as Vice-Pre- sident of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the governing body of the British mo

Particularly useful tor industry. to the motor industry in Britain' wil be his reports on con ditions in the overseas markets, for in addition to being possessed- of a sound knowledge of interna- tional affairs he is a shrewd and reliable observer.

Great

Among the well-known motor

Sun-

to Mr. H. G. Wells. The most won- get others to laugh with him, inderful criticism I have heard of a place ilke this, under the pro- Wells is that he is a man who has tection of a managed currency, written far more history than he manufacturing companies controll- deserves the memory of his visit had read. (Laughter.) We are ed by the Rootes brothers are to be perpetuated by a statue of deeply grateful to Mr. Schwartz for Humber, Hillman, Talbot, solid brass. (Laughter.) I should his sparkling address and I am beam. Commer, Karrier and Bun- like to take him down to the Bank sure we all extend to him cordial beam Commercial Vehicles, the and address the exchange brokers. wishes for the success of the rest three last-named belog manufac

I was interested in his reference of his trip and our sincere thanks tures of commercial vehicles for

· (Ap- | the 'transport of goods and pas-; among other things to history and for addressing us to-day, hysteria and his passing reference plause.)

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