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FEBRUARY 25, 1935.::

BURIED TREASURES OF ART

By PIERRE JENNERAT

REAT Britain is a treasure- The allegory a faun in a charm-

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

By Juliet Lowell

than the contest of serried massca;

A Tall, Talo it is a private game, and many nervous players consider the pre- sence of

of a close spectator, bending house of known and unknown ing landscape-wus known to have Mr. Alex Hrdlican over the board and whistling art maater-pieces. Famous colles-been sent to England from Italy co Smithsonian Institute

inte in the last century. Since then Washington, D.C. suddenly through his teeth. Astions abound, and without a doubt all trace of it had been lost. Dr. equivalent to the loss of a pawn.

•

come

My friend says we from a monkey. He may but 1 don't think I do. I don't think its necessary for all of us to have come that way. Are there some folks what has tails? J.S.

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Very truly, Clarence B-

(signed)

On the other hand this privacy there are numerous gems from the Tancred Berenius noticed it in a stands in the way of the game hands of great painters and sculp-dark passage of a London house. making its full contribution to tors remaining unrecognised in It was sold at Botheby's for £1,800. business life. There is not as yet mansion and cottage.

A sketch in oil of two peasants very much money in chess, and the

You who read this may be the by Rubens, picked up for a few entest masters dio poor men unless they are good at something next person to bring back to a pounds in a West-country sale

November, else. But news now comes from neglected canvas or carving the fetched £1,622 at Christie's last

admiration it deserves. Russia which suggests that great The changes are on the way.

While the nation's celebrated Probably the most valuable paint-Sir:

I prepared me. for going Com- Russians are going in for museums are being enriched at ang whoso discovery in England munistic chess, at which parties of that must arouse the envy of was recently reported is a remark-take to sea, I should like to make ave hundred and more ait down to the outside world (it will suffice to able "Virgin and Child" by Durer, that voyage passing by ocean Bos the tables. More than six thou- instance

and one of the aupreme geniuses of the ton to Now York. recent purchases

of yours truly, Band people watched Flohr and loans at the National Gallery and German school. The painting, un Botwinnik, and, what is really, a the acquisition of the magnificent fortunately, has left theao shorce.

(Signed) R. T far-reaching innovation, special George Eumorfopoulos 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 the seasick. apectators could work out their pieces from what could be called over, felt convinced that he had be theories and explain what White or the country's "secret hoard" are fore him an unusually important Black ought really to have dono. steadily coming to light.

work of the German Renaissance The large crowds which flock to

period. Ho secured the panel with football or cricket matches enjoy At the news of such discoveries no undue difficulty. Prices HK$50 to $180.no comparable facilities for show-oven people indifferent to plastic

Onco 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 ravealed its full 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 bibll-body likes to eat and everybody and even at billard matches it is as valueless, or comparatively, cal scene painted on the back en wants to sleep. My plan is to not made easy for the modest suddenly becomes worth a chanced its interest. The painting make a Combination Kitchen table crowds to try out their arguments sum of money. We all love tea is now in the celebrated collection and a Folding Bed all in one. Then then and there. Perhaps the sure-hunting (It is one of human- nasiduous promoters of boxing con- kind's oldest patimes), and we are of Herr Thyssen, the German in- my wife won't ever have to leave 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 ceraing individual who makes n demonstration and settlement of lucky strike. rival criticisms. Recent inventions

Some people may wonder how jare all tending to make of chess a

the descent of art mob sport. Nothing stands in the Some of these discoveries give obscurity can be explained. The geme into way of gigantle boards or photo-rise to long and heated arguments.answer is that the eighteenth and graphlo 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 Mastera." while waiting for something to round the Castle Howard portrait The vast majority, of course, was of King Henry VIII. Is it a Hol- rubbish, but many a good thing happen.

bein or not? The question has not crept in with the bad, yet been bettled. AVOIDING BRUTALITY

This huge amassment meant ex- The habit of resigning saves the claimed gold turns out to be dress. or bankruptcies often lead to hasty Indeed, much that is at first pro-treme confusion. Sudden deaths game from any excessive note o But when a real masterpiece has diapersals. Once a link is broken brutality. It is true that chess is been found the finder deserves in the history of a work of art its

difficult game at which to lose

whatever substantial reward he ultimate fate is a matter of chance. The Empire owes much to gracefully and that people flush General Smuts, and his recent when they see the inextricable hole, very real senso add to the cultural clative 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 041 gations. His statement that who has been blindly trusting to The last twelve months have been accumulation of dust, so that even 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- inferiority complex has brought run of the cards and poor fortune remantle features attach to some

phrases of card-players about the touch only on paintings. Highly tually pass it by. the psychologists into the field

So far we have spoken only of

Wire The Invite and rovenge

night. of them.

recent inds In Great Britain. Rotary Club of New York with results important to the Their mlatakes are not due to bad

One abroad must be mentioned. study of the causes of

Waldorf-Astoria Hotel light or rain, but to their defective war. play, and kind onlookers find their Professor William Brown, the feelinga too much harrowed if they from a schoolroom at the Lincoln painting is derived from the Vene- My dear dll:

A large plekure was taken down Practically the whole of Western Now York City famous British psychologist, have to be in at the mate. But Art School. For forty years gen- tian School, which gave the pain- Rotary around New York and have Ofton attend meetings of with resignations, especially with orntions of schoolboys, had hurled ter's brush its freedom and releas- tells us that there are in man those very high class resignations bits of chalk at the inviting targeted colour from being a mere de no complaint about your food. unconscious forces in a state of which occur after the first two or its speelded appearance can well be pendant on drawing and compost-Suppose you give me a full free repression — self-assertion, ag- three moves, there is no such pain-imagined.. It proved to be a fine tion. And the Venetian

in Rotary? I am also Road.gression, etc.--which are hidden, ful spectacle; and in great numbers Venetian rendering of the Madonna started this revolution was writing to the Lions Club and

of good games there is no question in time of peace but which boil of anybody being mated, and

and Child with attendant saints. Giorgione. He died in 1610 at the Kiwanas. Who ever answers first It if One day an ex-Lord Mayor of age of thirty-two. no more likely to happen than a Liverpool, Alderman

J. Cross,

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MONDAY, FEB. 25, 1935,

MUST THERE BE WARS?

to-morrow

up unrestrained when war brenks out. What is needed, he says, is

a hunt meets. There must be this Weish hamlet. A anie was being

onlookers is fairly safe..

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My wife won't ever have to leave the kitchen.

I will accept.

Melodrama From Home "Women Polico.. Whistlers-

as a are carry

on parado?" "Boo "Open it at once!" "Boo hoo, boo hoo!” "OPEN ITI"

us to a runaway match!"

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

"Sergeant Lady Chaughaugh- ton!"

to relieve the repression, and ultimate note of irretrievable de-held. He bought for $10 two be and extraordinarily valuable. His His paintings are extremely rare direct these forces to higher feat to maintain the tense dignity grimed canvases, 14ft. by Sft., "Tempest," when lent to the Ex- social and cultural ends, banish-of a cheas match; but the ordinary which were subsequently identified hibition of Italian Art at Burling-shan! Sergeant Efle Didscombe, by experts as "Hay-makers" and ton House in 1930, was reputed, to one pace forward-marcht You ing fear from the earliest years SKSSSSSSESS of childhood, onward through

"Reapers," characteristic products have been valued at the fabulous were crooning in the rear rank!” of the brush of George Stubbs, the sum of £500,0001

"Well, really** ablest of all British sporting Dr. Wilde, of the Vienna #86685SSESSSSSSSSSSSS life. Then only can there be any NEED OF NEW MEN

"SERGEANT EFFIE DIDS- real hope of progressive dis- The Russians could not be ex-artists. The pictures had last been Museum, claims to have identified COMBE! What is that parcel you

of the heard of when exhibited in the a portrait in the museum armament. Mr. Gregory Bate-pected to like the names

Glorgione. son, however, who has spent the pawns are thoroughly bading successfully run to earth in and a microscope he deciphered an

pieces, and the powers and rank of Royal Academy in 1786.

Another notable missing paint- With the help of ultra-violet rays only refer to some years among primitive Marxism, or cau peoples in New Guinea, attaches where the queening of the pawns itallan master who was born in finitely states that the portrait was Gladys Upcher!"

periods and parts of the world 1984 was an carly allegorical com- ancient Inscription on the back of

position by Lorenzo Lotto, an the picture. The inscription de- "Ono moment. Commandant. no importance to these un-or dictatorship of the proletariat is

"Well, Lord Chaughaughton?" conscious forces. He finds pri- still only on the way. But chess 1480, died in 1556, and had his completed by Giorgione in 1506.

has survived much variation and auction apogee in 1927, when the The picture--a head of a young "Commandant, I implore you, mitive man essentially peaceful, renaming of pieces, and, although "Lucretia" of the Holford collection woman seen in profile against a do not punish this girlt. She is and asserts that we cannot it might not survive the introduc-realised 22,000 guincas at Christie's background of laurel branches-Is my little wife! That parcel is ascribe European warfare direct- tion of Commissars able to go at and was presented to the National certainly worthy of the Inspired our innocent child! Love, drove

Gallery.

[young Venetian. ly to man's innate aggressive from being taken, it can face any will on to any square and immune

|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 4 brand naw Ingenuity called not agree that the urges of Policeman v. Gangsters or Agri- aggression or submission are culture v. Industry, whose imagina- dormant or dominant in peace or what wooden countenances and tions are not stirred by the some- 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- pieces offer. It is not everybody who can obtain Chinese nien, and vided by the study of primitive only the reckless gambler plays a man-the authorítics are cited—natural game when the loss of the tends to prove that, when free smallest plece 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, men of character not and genial, but that, as Dr quickly turned on wooden lathes, Edwyn Bevan insists, man under nor metal triangular and cubistic conditions of civilisation is apt follows who create confusion to be overcome by conscious their own right, but such interest- fears which may suppress his weapons, but in one solid piece

ing men, complete with faces and

of innate tendencies. Dr. Brown stone, as have been found in the visualises n deeper senac of tombs of the Vikings in the North- ern Islands, mon 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 midst for that is not yet. Ha attaches to dispute the kingdom with importance to the education of Staunton and his men. the child in self-knowledge and

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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-submissions were being made impossible. But whilst these tiona. Moral disarmament must there was an international force be supported by paychological 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 ourly sympathy and international energy than ward. Our theorists: goodwillf::

Louise, bring down all those rugs and cushions. Here comes

¡a vacuum cleaner demonstrator,!!

"Coo, that's me all right,” "Sergeant Lady Chaughaughton" I cannot be insensible to the en treatles of your noble husband! But discipline must be preserved. You will retire to barracks under opon arrest. Parade, dia-miss! "Coal That's done it, girla!" (Band: "The British" Grena- diers."}

Matutinal

What fun it is to travel by

Tube! How I hate these women I'm

wedged between!

A horrid, amorphous, protean.

cube-

What fun it is to travel by

Tube!

"Why" (I vainly ask) "am. I

such a boob.

As to start for the office at

nine fifteen?".

What fun it is to travel by

Tubel

How I hate those women I'm

wedged between't

Lines

To Lady Hoard Over the Wizalnis. Surely the fairies. hung above

your cot!

Nay, aven She, whom every

elf avoide

Hecate came, and crowned your

happy tot With double charme,

triple adenoide.

and