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R. A. F. NEEDS

1935.

THIS DISTORTION IN ART

By. PIERRE JEANNERAT

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES Compiled By Jullet Lowell

For months the Daily Mail has been campaigning for the ëxpan- alon of the Royal Air Force, not by any few squadrons of nero- planes, but by thousands. Just be- fore the last increase in the R.A.F.THE sensational exclusion of turo. They said that from a pic- Brook's Animal and Pet Store,

programme was announced the

IN THE DAILY MAIL

TH two of Mr. Stanley Spencer's torial point of view an apple is na

"What are the aims of the distort- A movement away from literal

ing modern artist ?"

grow.

A PRICELESS CAT

Gentlemen:

'smarter.

mouse hole and breathes into it.

Mice come up, rats or what have you swarm out attracted by tho odor of the cheese and Mary Ann does the rest.

R general in full-

I have a cat that is SOME cat.. Daily Mail produced an editorial pletures from the Academy and the interesting as

controversy to which it has given dress uniform. It did not matter You never did hear of a cat like which purported to show Britain's rise once again bring into promin-what-you represented, but how you this one. I know you could get a Ineffectuality when compared to ence the oft-repented question, represented it.

lot of money for hor for she is other European powers which were

smart and I have made her representation grew ond arming in the air with all speed. The paper has suggested again. ond The answers they themselves The effect of the spectacular dis People troubled with mice do not again, and has since been proved vouchsafe are usually couched in coveries of science was noticeable. know what to do. I taught Mary perfectly right, that The Britisha jargon no one fully understands, In the same way as a physicist Ann to like to eat cheese. She Gorerament was misled with res- least of all the speakers. Self- split up matter into atoms, tho then goca to the mouth of a likely appointed expounders of the mod-advanced artist analysed the ele pect to the armament situation in ernistic doctrine increase the obe-ments of pictorial appeal-pattern. Germany. The British Govern-curity of the jargon, and it resulta rhythm, and blends or contrasts of ment had believed that the R.A.F. in the average man shrugging his colour. was still much superior to the Ger-shoulders and passing on.

While the advanced artist pre- He discovered that the truly man Air Force, for instance, and it was not until Chancellor Hitler ad-tends to despise the shrug and the great masters of the past owed mitted that he had achieved parity

their greatness in the first instance to the interplay of patterns and in the air with Britain, ignoring

colours, and to nothing else. |the terms of the Versailles Treaty, that the Government admitted that it had been fooled. The Mail was right before; it may be right again. Apparently It has knowledge of the state of affairs in Europe which the HONGKONG HOTEL Government does not choose to ad- mit is truth, or else it is guessing Garage & Showroom

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average man believes that it affords sufficient judgment, both have an awkward feeling that they are in the wrong. The one would like to be understood, and the other would like to understand.

matters out.

A simplified description of the manner in which the modernistic tendencies developed should go. n long way towards straightening man first drew the image of a mam moth, and for centuries onwards the artist's object was to represent what he saw as literally as possible It was uphill going. No sooner one difculty overcome than Was another arose,

On the day a envo

There followed a wholesale prun-

ing and topping on the tree of art. Over-grown branches that aapped its strength were cut off. Ana- tomy, perspective, atmosphere fell ns dead wood, The sudden appre- clation of negro art (which had never known such subtleties) is therefore easily understood.

European 'art became extremely austere. It refused to pander to any taste that smacked of sentim ent. The climax was reached by the cubists, who sincerely sought to bring down aesthetic lawn to their simplest and purest forms.

some sort of touch with the repre- sentation of recognisable objects, but they have gone to extreme lengths of distortion.

Call up some of your best cus-

Mary Ann. tomers and make me an offer for

Respectfully yours,

Velma W

Mice come up, rats or what have you swarm out attracted by the odor of the cheese and Mary Ann does the rest.

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Waterbury, Connectient. Gentlemen:

The Egyptian could not figure all possible energy and expedition.out foreshortenings. He showed

Their monetary success led to the head of a man in profile as it

ridiculous extravagances which We have the material for the finest was easiest shown that way; then foolish snobs encouraged in order Air Force in the world. No coun- the shoulders full face for the same to figure na leaders of intellectual FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935.. try turns out bolder or more akil-remon, and finally lega and feet in taste and fashion. We saw bits of

ful pilots.". The paper goes on toprofile again,

string and stamps stuck on a plain say that the R.A.F. should be FEARS-AND HOPES.

Perspective took generations of ennvas entitled "Spring," or "Port- This sort of limited to two types of ships, the painters to solve. In time, the raft of a Sallor." Whatever else may be said fastest fighter in the world and the well-schooled painter was able to stuff is just absurdity and humbug about the present moment in largest and fastest bomber. Thus depict living beings, landscapes, best left alone.

would mass production be simpli-rest with a high degree of verisim-fought shy of the severities of atmospheric conditions, and the Most advanced artists have world history, it will be gener-fied by concentration on two models, ilitude. He was content with his cubism. They have maintained Ingersoll Watch Company, ally admitted that it is exciting. without the inborious offert entail-skill. He became mechanical. It is exciting because nobody' | ed by over-specialisation. knows what is going to happen

Lacking the incentive of next, but, whatever it is, it is ONE WEAKNESS

search, he no longer felt interested most likely to be something Having made these suggestions, in strictly artistic problems, but Just now at the Leicester Gal spectacular. Sinclair Lewis has the Mail goes on to say why. It con-wished to rival the story-teller. Heleries, London, there is on view a

Kave more thought to the subject large stone statue by Frank Dob recently brought this out admir-siders that Britain's Air Force is than to the means of telling it. son, a conscientious and very able ably, in the course of a timely adequate. "At the present moHe maintained that the painting of sculptor, one of the leaders of the article. In the uncertainty of ment the R.A.F. is particularlyn Greek hero badly done was "more advanced school in England. the present he sees youth pre-weak in heavy bombers, such as noble" than the painting of a gont sented with the greatest of all Continental air fleets are multiply-well rendered.

ing nuth by month. We believe, During the mid-Victorian era he challenges. When all of youth indeed, that only two such machines waxed ecstatic over the mystery of that has been born in 1885-1935 are as yet under construction here, the Mona Lisa, the meaning of her shall have had. its chance, this and with normal official procedure amile, but he said nothing about half century may perhaps be put it will be four or five years before the modelling of the features and down as the noblest in history," the pattern can be put inte produc- the subtlety of tones which make

the portrait a masterpiece. he remarks. "But to take that tion. Clearly there will have to be

TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT

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They declared, quite rightly, that the subject did not make the pic-

The statue, called "Pax," shows a reclining woman of ample and unlifelike proportions.

Mr. Dobson has sacrificed too much in his simplification and dis- tortion of forms. More obedience

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HEAVEN KNOWS

Yours respy,

Samuel Nicel. P.S. Many years ago I had à very religious young fellow work- ing under me. He wanted to buy an Ingersoll watch, but tole me he rather buy another make if he Frank Dobson told me: "After could get one as cheap because four years of constant thought, Mr. Ingersoll don't believe in God. told him the watchmaker steady endeavour, and hard work, I have come closer to what I set Ingersoll goes to church every out to do than ever before. Sunday and to Prayer Meeting He depicted a doctor anxiously wanted to enclose dynamic energy during the week, while the other S. MOUTRIE & CO., LTD. chance, youth must not be afraid great acceleration.... It is im

to show itself, not as perpetually possible to ascertain the strength looking at a sick child. or a mather inside, a static shape." Translated Ingersoil he had in

giving her child music lesson. into ordinary words, he tried to lawyer and has no connection with Chater Road... elevor- and shiny. and speeding, of the lending foreign air fleets, and what mattered to him was the instil vitality into a statue that the watch business, and he bought

but as filled with the awkward, but we must be prepared for all pathos of the scene, Or he rests where it is without a tendency

from ancient Greece and Rome. | faith-dipped simplicity which is eventualities. Germany, according painted pseudo-photographic scenes to fall over or fall apart.

to French experts, is believed to

But the camera had been invented Mr. Dobson has obtained the the quality of greatness. It

have at lonat 10,000 machines; and by then and with the help of two quality of rest. But a "man-in-the- must not be afraid of anything in France Commandant Langeronable actors or actresses any photo- Bireet, on seeing a photograph of for just ahead of us may lie the is calling for a minimum feet of grapher could duplicate the doctor "Pax," exclaimed, "Balloon tyres!" world's most vicious war, or the 10,000 aeroplanes. There is noth- and child picture to perfection, or The fact is that limbs and torso look benign curbing of cancer and ing extravagant in such totals to many others which enjoyed wide inflated, and although weighing several tons, the statue seems at tuberculosis; another Shake-those who remember that the Brit-popularity in the last century,

Men outside the academies broke the mercy of a puff of wind which

nway. speare, or another scourge of ish output for 1919 was organised Dillingers in low places and the scale of 10,000 machines, or away from the fetters holding them could blow

photographers. Kreugers in high; a flight to over 3.000 per month.... A back to the role of story-telling Greal Britain properly ormed Mars, or a descent into an ocean would be able to cut down her Con- of lava; à peaceful world nation,tinental commitments to a mini- or a world shattered into 10,000 mum." That is the Mail's argu- bandit tribes." And then he ment. adds this significant comment: "There are two equal sins for a thinker or a doer in this year of 1935: to despair of the noble future of mankind; and to be-

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A point that la frequently for- taken; if the prospect is frigh-gotten is that the test must be tening, it can also be encourag-carried out when the steering is the ing. Too much optimism at a centralised, because when

always moyes through a bigger too much pessimism. If we can angle than the other. temper optimism with a sane realisation of the difficulties this time may be known as the ahead and an iron domination prelude to the greatest era of to make things work out for the advancement in the history of benefit of mankind as a whole, the race.

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The following extracts are from the Hongkong Telegraph for the week ended June 12, 1914. 29,

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Lending Chinese merchants en tertained Dr. Kai Ho-kal at the City Hall and presented him with illuminated address in cognition of his public services.

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Dr. Jose Carlos Maís, the new Governor of Macao, arrived in Hongkong en route to take up hla

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Dublin University conferred tho LL. D. degree on H. E. Sir Henry May, Governor of Hongkong.