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NOTES OF THE DAY

WAR ALARMS

sums of money for national defence

BRITISH ART

By JAMES GREIG

The British art exhibition, re-painted the wonder of Alpino

The Very Idea!

GIRLS, ACQUIRE "IT")

By Eddie Kelly, A La Mode

presentative of a thousand years heights? Hogarth, the Londoner, ATTENTION, girlṣ! Germany's of British Art, opened at Burling was certainly inspired by the do

ton House on Saturday, the King based morais and manners of his being among the most important nutive city. contributora. In the following article Mr. James Groid tells the story of the decline of art in Eng land after the reign of Queen Elizabeth and of its renaissance in the eighteenth century.

It is a symptom of the disquiet felt all the world over that national parliaments are voting Increasing

of budgets. Throo neighbours, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, for instance, accord- Ing to a paragraph of the League of Nations Union Journal, Headway, are voting no less a sum than £15 $500 300,000 for frontier defence and better arms and equipment! These |extra milliona tuke no account of the armed forces of Poland, France, Austria and Czecho-Slovakia, most, if not all of which, are certainly not decreasing.

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Just a few words on how -to use your lipstick and face the immigration of its people to should be used artistically Proximity to the Netherlands and powder. These things East Anglia made that region an admirablo nursery for the arts from and correctly.

mingitorial times. But the arts First of all, it is necessary have lourished also in districts for

separated from the Continent for to have a face, with a mouth - lovers that Queen Elizabeth fore-example, in Winchester, York and in it.

St. Albans Gainsborough was

The face should be wagh- to paint historical born in an East Anglian village acted and, if there is a cloth

in

bado artists pictures or Imaginary scones amid charming scenery, and later representing the "passion of the he lived in Bath, with its undulating handy, dried. saints and martyrs." Before. this landscape. Yet he wrote to the Thoroughly overhauled

A piece of well-chalked string ban, Henry VIII. had brought Earl of Hardwicke With regard to then tied to one car, stretchet and repainted

And yet there is, certainly no Holbein to England, and from to. real views from Nature in this

across the face to the other car, great risk of war in the immediate that time to the advent of Hogarth, Country, he has never seen any STUDEBAKER TOURER

future. Europe is too exhausted, Reynolds and Galnaborough, Bri- Place that affords a subject equal to and then given a slight flip with and there are too many people who tish art was dominated mainly by the poorest imitations of Gaspar or the finger. Excellent running order $500 are inarticulate but will certainly foreigners, who, with the excep Claude... If his Lordship wishes | This will result in

n white Dever again enter willingly into tion of the German, Rubens, and to have anything tolerable of the chalk line across the face, which armed conflict with another nation Vandyck, were of second-rate im name of G., the Subject altogether, will give the position for the To thom no national interest le portance. The best of them was as well as figures, &c., must be of rouge on the lips. The rouge may be applied with a small mop Buciently "vital" to make them Sir Poler Lely, whose influence his own Brain." want to adopt auch a course.. The and that of Knoller were para-

The same personal quickening has or trowel, care being taken to only explanation of this war-talk mount and apparent ever been expressed in almpler fashion scoop any surplus out of the cars. is to be found in what Lord Ren-Hogarth's early work.

by Creme. On his deathbed the old The face is now taken across nell in a letter to the Times calls But native artists did not at man said to his sort: "Paint, but the dressing room and puaked "propaganda of apprehension" once lose..all authority. Hilliard paint for fame, and if your subject into the powder. With the face He thinks that it would be quite and Samuel Cooper, the miniatur be a pigsty, dignity it." In this buried, blow vigorously, thus dis

powder all ov reasonable, to attribute the malign lats, John Bettes, William Dobson, statement lies the "Je ne sais quoi" tributing the propaganda everywhere to the con- and Walker, in lesser degree, which distinguishes genius from the face and neck. trol over publicity and political in-maintained the high standard mediocrity.

Some of us cream the face after

3 The Renaissance, begun after powdering. This gives nice fluence exercised by those vast in-of English art. In the early terests which are engaged in the Eighteenth Century, however, art long years of sterility, was con- stucco effect. manufacture and furnishing of in England had renhed its lowest tinued by Romney, Hoppner, Law armaments1

condition. Mechanical formulae rence and Raeburn, the Scotsman at reduced it to a state of slavery, his best coming nearest to the Thomas Hudson and his "factory" pedestal on which Hogarth, Rey reigned In dreary supremacy. nolds and Gainsborough stand. Of The best artists were no longer Raeburn's majestic portrait of "The able to paint a hand, a cont, a Macnab," Lawrence said that it was background," says a scribe in 1750. the finest representation of a human Consequently, Costume painters being he had ever seen. were in demand.

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MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1934.

THE PRESENT AND THE PAST

The political situation, in fact, is playing into the hands of those to whom warfare and preparations for warfare are a source of profit. to a Nations have been roused pitch of uneasiness in which it. Is

To

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the

of the

Now take the left hand and slide it down the face until you come to an aperture.. This is the month.

Work the lip-stick into what- ever shape the mouth is to bc, and press it on while still plastic.

brows off.

Whon pencilling the eyehrowя always use an indelible pencil.

Nothing is more untidy than a girl who, while pushing her hair back, has wiped one of her eye- Those lucky girls who can yawn naturally should add the teen!cat weeniest touch rouge to the tonsils. That will be all for the present Remember-Art, and plenty

A.W.L.

A primitive lady named Eve,

Was cause for old Adams

grieve.

of

When asked where she'd gone She replied, with a yawn » - "I've just been Absent. Without

Leaf."

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Then came the mystic Blake, the meteoric personality of Turner, the celebrated Vanhaken followed by the steadier light of Impossible for the General Staffs came from the remotest towns in John Constable, whose "Hay Wain" revolutionise French to play upon governmental fears the provinces canvases "of all helped to At a time when we hear so aided and abetted by the press sizes, on which one or more heads painting after 1824. And through-

second half so that increased service votes aro

were painted, and under these the out much of industrial depression wrung out of unwilling parlla-painters who forwarded them had Eighteenth Century the great Eng- and social discontent, it ir re-ments; or, what is worse, so that bren

careful to add, absurdly lish art of water-colour painting freshing to turn to the conclu- dictator can give the word and the enough, the description of the flourished in the hands of Gains.

or alim, small or borough, the Sandbys, the Cozens-girls. taxpayer has to pay willy nilly! figures, stout sions reached by a British M.P. The danger of to-day is, that of great, which were to be appended father and son-Girtin, Cotman, who has gone to the trouble of world opinion meekly acquiescing to them." So great was the call Cox and De Wint, and reached full it.

two fruition in the magical drawings by the Dutchman, that summarizing material and stain a return to the methods of the on tistics contained in Blue. Books early years of the century when painters to oust their incompetent Turner, which, it may be said, the arms race which was a direct follows secured his "exclusive and brought the Renaissance to a noble and there found ample evidence cause of the Great War was in full estimable" services at a salary of end.

Lenser lights certainly glimmered £500 a year. All those effigies were of steady progress in the Old blast..

alike. They had the same brick-entertainingly; those held, for in- Country. The facts and figures

like flesh, the same neck, the same stance, by Wilkie and his school and which he has unearthed justify | FRANCE AND BRITAIN

arms, the same inanimate attitude. by the more or less brilliant band the claim that "so far from the

In short, na Constable said, art of of draughtsmen of the half of the Nineteenth Century, which included Keene-who was un- material conditions of our people In the search for the beat method that period was degraded.

Yet before 1750 Hogarth had Charles having steadily worsened, they of assuring pence in Europe, it is

natural that the Ides of a definite painted "a Harlot's Progrcas," "The doubtedly the greatest of the lot. have actually undergone a con- Franco-British alllance should be Rake's Progress," the amazing The Pre-Raphael Brotherhood were tinuous and an accelerated im-discussed. It is the theme of arti-series of "Marriage a In Mode," and ambitious, but they looked back provement." In no department cles in the French newspapers, and his splendid self Portrait with the ward for Inspiration, and in spite of beauty and of Ruskin's enthusiatic support and Is this better illustrated than in it has been openly advocated in palette and “Line

certain sections of the Home press. grace" in a corner. The brilliant, their own beautiful work, the im in Great Britain which stood at feeling which condemns special al- become apparent and Gainsborough welter of commercial interests. 21.4 per thousand of the popula-lances as retrogrado-as well as had painted the "Great Cornard

Impossible. A secret understand Wood," which represents the early-In writing of the International tion in 1871, had steadily ing is out of the question. A pub-stage of his art at The National Art Exhibition at Rome in 1911, dropped to 12 per 1,000 by 1932. lic France-British treaty, however Gallery, and he had spent four years spoke of the spirit of unreet, of an vague striving to There has also been a vast im-defensive in character, would be of his boyhood in London, where uncertain power moving in Euro- express vague ideas. As represent- provement in infant mortality Interpreted as an attempt to isolate he married the natural daughter of peat art; n

and oppress Germany. Besides, Henry, Duke of Beaufort. and in the lengthening of the there is some sentiment in Great The Influence of environment on cd at Rome it was like a turbulent average span of life, while oven Britain in favour of the denuncia-artistic temperament may at this sen that in the near future might

8 p.m.-Worm arrives home tion even of existing obligations on point be dealt with briefly. Con- give birth to a new and glorious compared with twenty years ago the Continent. It is affirmed that stable said: "I associate my careless type of Venus. But as yet there Ts

Our younger daming nose. Tells wife he has children enjoy immeasurably England should in no circumstances boyhood with all that lies on the no formal sign of a transformed with handkerchief pressed

banks of the Stour. Those scenes goddess of beauty. better educational opportunities. take sides in future hostilities.

made me a painter." But a man of men look to France for this vision. Influenza. Does not think he will hia pronounced personality would But they waste precious time in live till morning.

8.1 p.m.-Wife not taken in by Turning to industrial life, it is

have become an artist in whatso vain. French investiveness impels

In over statement. Tells warm he revealed that, after making due LOCARNO

ever surroundings he might have French art to perpetual change. allowance for the increased cost

been placed when young. Genius la Franco there is always an Yet the Locarno accords exist,defiant of control, regardless of time nouveau; she is as fickle in art. ns which is entirely his own fault.

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of living, earnings are 15 per cent, above the level of 1914, and responsible statesmen declare while the average working week. Having signed these engagements,

them at no has been decreased by six and a England must full half hours. Workers now oper-matter what cost. It would be ate also under far more favour-perfidious to have negotiated the accords at a crucial moment of his- able conditions than they did tory, and so to have determined twenty years ago, and are more both French and German policy, liberally protected and more ade- and then to evade the responsibill- tles which were voluntarily under- quately compensated in case of taken. Emphatically is the inton- accident. The relationship be- tion of Great Britain to stand by Locarno accords asserted. tween employers and employees the

is also far better than in pre- Yet it claims the right to be the war days, a fact which is ap-judge of the merits and it is quite parent in the reduction in strikes conceivable that there would be a

difference of opinion. and lock-outs. It is also shown

that whereas the advances made

by building societies for house ALLIANCES A FAILURE purchase only totalled nine mil- lions sterling in 1913, by 1931

The new cry for a defluito alliance this sum had been multiplied to take the place of the Locarno tenfold. In short, all the statis-pact arises from this uncertainty. tics go to show that the majority France would know where it stood. of the people enjoy improved and It would be able to rely upon improving material conditions. British assistance in foreseeable eventualities. It would feel securo They are better off than their and be able to go somewhat farther parents and infinitely better off in the direction of disarmament. than their grandparents. And On the other hand, Germany would the process still continues. The know what to expect and its atti moral is clear-wisely and slow; tude might be greatly influenced. they stumble that run fast" is Many people accopt this view. The chances of inducing Great as good advice for democrats as

to

than Britain

go further

how- gono, aro, for lovers. There may be-in-

Tho remote.

sentiment deed, there is room for much already has

Gyer

would more progress. The goal has

against alliances which

BOL two nations still to be reached. But it is automatically well that occasionally, we should against a third has strengthened. stop and cast our eyes back, com. It is realized that such alllances the past because paring the present with the past, have failed in

they invariably provoke counter- In doing so, we shall find ample alliances. With all its flaws, the ovidence of a steady trend in the Locarno pact is likely to remain as [upward-direction.

the charter of western Europe.

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the

FAMOUS LAST WORD.-The

to George Bernard Shaw: "A Editor of the Edinburgh Review penny for your thoughts."

EVIDENCE

When Captain Foster, in ro- viewing, ono of last week's races at Fanling, described it as "race without incident," you can

backed the winner. bet your sweet life he

E

DIARY OF A WORM

never

to

art has only caught common cold,

or place. The greatest heights in politics. If the sager British Turner saw in his youth were these artists show little enterprise, if

of London; yet who like him has (Continued on Next Columns.)

"You.ice, my father was a railway man."

home at proper

came

wasting money with witty worm friends he would be healthier worm. Probably worm catching cold is part of plot to get rid of wife so that murderous, sex-mad worm can marry shamelcos blonde. Pro- bably this is cunning worm's Iden of perfect crime.

If worm time instead of staying out late

8.2 p.m.-Worm sncezen vlolont ly, and wife staggers back as if worm were leper.

8.3 p.m.- germ-laden worm thinks wife is going to stay in same room while disgusting worm spreads infection he is mistaken. Either worm goes to bed in spare room at once or wife leaves house to freeze to death in "utter. Pro- bably worm would like wife to do that, though it would not be very clover murder, as there would be scandal in neighbour- hood and nwkward questions arked at inquest - ...................

8.4 pm Shivering worm creeps bedroom feel- up to cold spare Ine like reincarnation of Cæsar Borgia.

they introduce no new doctrine, they at least maintain a standard of excellence that makes the latest movements from France vipld and Insincere alike in conception and expression.

The cosmopolitans of the Ecole do Paris ancor at beauty, the nobility of life, and natural phenomena, and It is to be hoped that the exhibition of British art at Burlington House will wean their followers in this country from their sensolcas allogl ance, and create a genem revival of interest in the arts and crafts of

England.

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