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NOTES OF THE DAY

COMMUNITY CHESS

BURIED TREASURES

OF ART

By PIERRE JENNERAT

REAT Britain is a treasure-

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Jullet Lowell

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Chess has always been rather the pastime of kings in their closets than the contest of Berried masses;

"A Tall Tale it faa private game, and many

The allegorya faun in a chatm- nervous players consider the pro-

G

ing landscape--was known to have Mr, Alex Hrdlican sance of a close spectator, bending house of known and unter been sent to England from Italy evo Smithsonian Institute over the board

whistling art master-pieces. Famous collec- late in the last century. Since then Washington, D.O. suddenly through his tooth, 4. tloné abound, and, without a doubt all trace of it had been lost. Dr. My friend says we come quivalent 'to the loss of a pawn there are numerous gems from the Tancred, Boronlua noticed it in a from a monkey. He may but I On the other hand this privacy stands in the way of the game hands of great painters and sculp dark passage of a London house. don't think I do. I don't think its making its full contribution to tors remaining unrecognfeed In It was sold at Sotheby's for £1,800, necessary for all of us to have como that way. Are there some folks business life. There is not as yet mansion and cottago.

A sketch in oil of two pensants what has talla? J.B. very much money in chess, and the

You who read this may bo the by Rubéns, picked up for a few greatest masters die poor men

Travel Is So Educating unless they are good at something next pernon to bring back to a pounds in a West-country aale, else. But news now comes from neglected canvas or carving the fetched £1,522 at Christie's last

November,

Banger & Aroostook Railroad Bangor, Maine Itussin which suggests that great admiration it deserves.

Probably the most valuable paint Stra changes are on the way."The While the nation's celebrated

I prepared mo for going Russians are going in for Com-museums are being enriched at a ing. whose discovery in Englund munistic chess, at which parties of rate that must arouse the envy of was recently reported is a remark-take to sen, I should like to make five hundred and more sit down to the outside world (It will suffice to ablo "Virgin and Child" by Durer, that voyage passing by occan Bos- the tables. More than six thou-Instance

and one of the supreme geniuses of the ton to New York, recent purchases sand people watched Flohr and loans at the National Gallery and German school. The painting, un-

of yours truly, Botwinaik, and, what is really a the acquisition of the magnificent fortunately, has left these shores.

(Signed) R, T—--- P. 8. Please tell if we have also far-reaching innovation, special George Eumorfepoules collection it was catalogued at the sale as tables were provided at which the of Oriental art for £100,000), Italian.. An astute dealer, how spectators could work out their pieces from what could be called ever, felt convinced that he had be- theories and explain what White or the country's "secret hoard are fore him an unusually important work of the German Renaissance Black ought really to have done. steadily coming to light.

period. He secured the panel with The large crowds which flock to football or cricket matches enjoy

At the news of such discoveries no undue difficulty. Prices HK$50 to $180.no comparable facilities for show even people indifferent to plastic

Once rid of dirt and old varnish, I have a patent that will ing their neighbours what is wrong and pictorial problems are thrilled the picture revealed its fail mas make $10,000,000 for you. Every- with the play they are witnessing. An object that had been regarded tery of design and colour. A bibli- body likes to eat and everybody And even at billard matches it is as valueless, or comparatively 80, cal aceno painted on the back en wants to sleep. My plan is to not made easy for the modest suddenly becomes worth a large

hanced its interest. The painting make a Combination Kitchen table crowds to try out their argumenta sum of money. We all love trea is now in the celebrated collection and a Folding Bed all in ono, then and there..

Perhaps the sure-hunting (it is one of human of Herr Thyssen, the German in-my wife won't ever have to leave asaidavus promoters of boxing con- kind's oldest pastimes), and we are tests will note this improvement and all prepared to applaud the dis-dustrial magnate, and is known as the kitchen.

"The Thyssen-Madonna." provide gloves and rings for the cerning individual who makes a demonstration and settlement of lucky strike. rival criticisms. Recent inventions are all tending to make of chess a mob sport. Nothing stands in the Some of these discoveries give obscurity can be explained. The way of gigantic boards or photo-rise to long and heated arguments.answer is that the eighteenth and graphic screens, so that people can The year 1933 was marked by a nineteenth centuries saw a whole- walk about or take refreshments major controversy which raged sale importation of "Old Masters.” while waiting for something to round the Castle Howard portrait The vast majority, of course, was happen.

of King Henry VIII. Is it a Hol-rubblah, but many a good thing bein or not? The question has not crept in with the bad, [yat, been settled.

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Some people, may wonder how the descent of art gems into

treme confusion. Sudden deaths This huge amassment meant ex-

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Indeed, much that is at first pro The habit of resigning saves the game from any excessive note of claimed gold turns out to be dross. brutality. It fa true that chess is But when a real masterpiece has dispersais. Once a link is broken a difficult game at which to lose whatever substantial reward he ultimate fate is a matter of chance. been found the finder deserves in the history of a work of art, its to gracefully and that people flush .Jolly Coburn's Orchestra. General Smuts, and his recent when they see the inextricable hole very real sense add to the cultural cistive of beauty, may never give with vexation and mortification receives, for he or she does in a succession of owners, unappre- famous address adds to our obli-into which they have landed a king wealth of the whole world, it a glance. Neglect brings au gations. His statement that who has been blindly trusting to The last twelve months have been accumulation of dust, so that even

My wife won't ever have to Germany is suffering from an them. They cannot use the salving rich in reports of art finds. I shall the man of knowledge may even-

leave the kitchen. phrases of

card-players about the touch only on paintings. Highly tually pass it by. inferiority complex has brought run of the cards and poor fortune romantle features attach to some the psychologists into the field and

So far we have spoken only of

Wire The Invita night of them.

recent finds in Great Britain. Rotary Club of New York with results important to the Their mistakes are not due to bad

One abroad must be mentioned. Waldorf-Astoria Hotel aludy of the causes of war. light or rain, but to their defective

play. and kind onlookers and their A large picture was taken down Practically the whole of Western New York City Professor William Brown, the

feelings

too much harrowed if they from a schoolroom at the Lincoln painting is derived from the Vene- My dear all: famous British psychologist, have to be in at the mate. But Art School. For forty years gentian School, which gave the pain-Rotary around New York and have tells us that there are in man those very high class resignations bits of chalk at the inviting target. ed colour from being a mere de-

with resignations, especially with erations of schoolboys had hurled ter's brush its freedom and releas unconscious forces in a state of which occur after the first two or Its speckled appearance can well be pendant on drawing and composi- repression—acli-assertion, ag- three moves, there is no such pain-imagined. It proved to be a fine tion. And the Venetian who gression, etc. which are hidden ful spectacle; and in great numbers Venetian rendering of the Madonna started" this revolution

of good games there is no question and Child with attendant saints. Giorgione. He died in 1610 at the in time of peace but which boil of anybody being mated, and it is One day an ex-Lord Mayor of age of thirty-two,

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Commandant

"Boo hoo, boo hoo!" world 1934 was an early allogorical com-jancient inscription on the back of "OPEN IT!"

Italian master who was born infinitely states that the portrait was Gladys Upcher!" position by Lorenzo Lotte, an the picture. The inscription de-

"One moment 1480, died in 1656, and had his completed by Giorgione in 1600.

"Well, Lord Chaughaughton?” auction apoges in 1927, when the The picture head of a young "Commandant, I Implore you, "Lucretin of the Holford collection woman seen in profile against a do not punish this girl! She is realised 22,000 guineas at Christie's background of laurel branches-is my little wife! That parcel is and was presented to the National certainly worthy of the Inspired our innocent child! Love drove

Gallery.

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us to a runaway match!"

("Coo, Charley, you don't half look eilly, kneeling to her like that. there, and me with Tinker in my arms, too! Well, really!")

"Sergeant Lady Chaughaugh- ton!!!

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up unrestrained when war breaks What is needed, he says, ia to relieve the repression, and ultimate note of irretrievable de-held. He bought for £10 two be and extraordinarily valuable. His direct these forces to higher feat to maintain the tense dignity grimed canvasca, 44ft by-3ft., Tempest, when lent-to-the-Ex-Women-Police Whistlers social and cultural ends, banish- of a chess match; but the ordinary which were subsequently identified hibition of Italian Art at Burlingsbun! Sergeant Effle Didscombe,

onlookers is fairly safe. ling. fear from the earliest years

by experts as "Hey-makers" and ton House in 1930, was reputed to one pace forward-march! You "Reapers," SEEEEEEEEEEESESSEEEES of childhood onward through

characteristic products have been valued at the fabulous were crooning in the roar rank!” of the brush of George Stubbs, the feum of £500,000!

"Well, really- NEED OF NEW MEN

ablest SEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS773 life. Then only can there be any

of all British sporting Dr. Wilde, of the Vienna "SERGEANT EFFIE DIDS.. real hope of progressive dis- The Russians could not be ex-artists. The pictures hind last been Museum, claims to have identified COMEE! What is that parcel you

of the heard of when exhibited in the a portrait In the museum as a are carrying on parade?” armament. Mr. Gregory Bate pected to like the names

Glorglone. pieces, and the powers and rank of Royal Academy in 1785.

"Boo hoo!" Another notable missing paint- With the help of ultra-violet rays son, however, who has spent the pawns are thoroughly bad

"Open it at oncel" only refer to ing successfully run to earth in and a microscope he deciphered an years among primitive Marzian, or can peoples in New Guinea, attaches periods and parts of the

where the queening of the pawns no importance to these unor dictatorship of the proletarint is conscious forces. Ho finds pri- still only on the way. But chess lins survived much variation and mitive man essentially peaceful, renaming of pieces, and, although and asserts that we cannot it might not survive the introduc ascribe European warfare direct- tion of Commissars able to go at will on to any square and immune ly to man's innate aggressive- from being taken, it can face any ness; man is born with the very nominal changes. There are many minimum of inherited patterns people who would derive great of behaviour. Mr. Bateson does enjoyment from it if it appeared as a brand new Ingenuity calicd not agree that the urges of Policemen v. Gangsters or Agri- aggression or submission are tions are not stirred by the some culture v. Industry, whose imagina. dormant or dominant in peace or what wooden countenances and war. Sir Grafton Elliot-Smith, plain, too common, names of Black in agreement with Mr. Bateson, and White which is all that to-day's concludes that the evidence pro-who can obtain Chinese men, and

pieces

offer. It is not everybody vided by the study of primitive only the reckless gambler plays n man—the authorities are cited natural game when the loss of the tends to prove that, when free smallest piece means the disappear

ance from his side of a whole nest from the influence of civilisation, of carved ivory balls. More chess- man is by nature non-aggressive men of the middle classes

wanted, and genial, but that, as Dr.

of character not Edwyn Bevan insists, man under quickly turned on wooden lathes, nor metal triangular and cubistic conditions of civilisation is apt follows, who create confusion in to be overcome by conscious their own right, but auch interest- fears which may suppress his weapons, but in one solid piece of ing men, complete with faces and

Innate tendencies. Dr. Brown stone, as have been found in the visualises a deeper sense of tombs of the Vikings in the North- ern Islands, nien who might be neighbourly sympathy, and even encouraged to wake from their long a super-state, though the time sleep and appear again in our midat

diapute for that is not yet. He attaches to

the kingdom with Importance to the education of Staunton and his men." the child in self-knowledge and self-control. and in sympathy have been producing proofs that with the needs and interests of an international police force is other people and of other na impossible. But whilst these submissions were being made tions. Moral disarmament must there was an international force he supported by psychological actually in existence in the Saar, disarmament.. Human nature, not for aggression, but as an free from outside influences, is agent of the League of Nations then not warlike but peaceful. In the development of neighbour- There are other outlets for our ly sympathy and international energy than war. Our theorists' goodwill.

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