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NOTES OF THE DAY

R. A, F. NEEDS

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JUNE 7, .1935.

THIS DISTORTION

IN ART

BY PIERRE JEANNERAT

IN THE DAILY MAIL

The Very Idea!

DUMB-BELLES LETTRES

Compiled By Juliet Lowell

A PRICELESS CAT Brook's Animal and Pet Store,

Gentlemen:

I have a cat that is SOME ent.

thin one. I know you could get a lot of money for hor for she is

smart and I have made her

martor.

For months the Daily Mall has been campaigning for the expan- slon of the Royal Air Force, not by any few squadrons of nero, planes, but by thousands. Just be-

THE fore the last increase in the R.A.F. sensational exclusion of ture. They said that from a pic- two of Mr. Stanley Spencer'a torial point of view an apple is na programme was announced the

a general in full- which purported to show Britain's controversy to which it has given dress uniform. It did not matter You never did hear of a cat like Daily Mail produced an editorial pictures from the Academy and the interesting as

rise once again bring into promin- what you represented, but how you Ineffectuality when compared to ence the oft-repented question, represented it. other European powers which were "What are the aims of the distort-

A movement away from literal arming in the air with all speed, ing modern artist?"

representation grow and grew. The paper hus suggested again and The answers they themselves The effect of the spectacular dis

People troubled, with nice 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 a physicist Aan to like to eat cheese. She perfectly right, that the Britisha jargon no one fully understands, In the same way ns Government was misled with res-least of all the speakers. Self- aplit up matter into atoms, the then goes to the mouth of a likely appointed expounders of the mod advanced artist analysed the cle- mouse hole and breathes into. It. pect to the armament altuation in ernistic doctrine increase the obs-ments of pictorial appeal-pattern; Mice come up, rats or what have Germany, The British Govern-curity of the jargon, and it results rhythm, and blends or contrasts of you swarm out attracted by the ment had belleved that the R.A.F. in the average man shrugging his colour.

odur of the cheese and Mary Ann doca the rest. 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

mittel that he had achieved parity In the air with Britalu, ignoring the terma of the Versailles Treaty, that the Government admitted that

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.

No sooner

their greatness in the first instance to the interplay of patterns. and colours, and to nothing else.

There followed a wholesale prun- ing and lopping on the tree of art. Over-grown branches that supped Ann- its strength were cut off. tomy, perspective, atmosphere fell as dend wood. The sudden appre- ciation of negro art (which had never known such subtleties) is therefore easily understood.

ent.

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

it had been fooled. The Mail was right before; it may be right again.

A simplifled description of the Apparently it has knowledge of the

manner in which the modernistic state of affairs in Europe which the tendencies developed should go Government does not choose to ad-long way towards straightening

matters out. On the day a cave mit is truth, or else it is guessing man first drew the image of a mam with fair accuracy, more accurate-meth, and for centuries onwards 'Phone 27778/9ly than the Government itself. the artist's object was to represent when it says: "We need 10,000 what he saw as literally as possible. aeroplanes, and there is every rea- It was uphill going.

was one difficulty overcome than son why the Government should

another arose. take the powers necessary for the construction of such a fleet with The Egyptian could not figure all possible energy and expedition. aut foreshortenings. He showed

Their monetary success led to the head of a man is profile as It We have the material for the finest was easiest shown that way: then foolish snoba escouraged in order ridiculons extravagances which Air Force in the world. No coun- the shoulders full face for the same to figure as leaders of intellectual try turns out bolder or more skil-renson, and finally legs and feet in taste and fashion. We saw bits of ful pilots." The paper goes on to profile again.

string and stamps stuck on a plain say that the I.A.F. should be

Perspective took generations of canvas entitled "Spring," or "Port- -FEARS-AND-HOPES

limited to two types of ships, the printers to solve. In time, the rait of a Sailor. This sort of 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.

atmospheric conditions, and the would mass production be simpli- rest with a high degree of verisin fought shy of the severities of Advanced artists have world history, it will be generfied by concentration on two models, ilitudo. He was content with his cubism. They have maintained ally admitted that it is exciting.without the laborious effort entail-skill. He became mechanical.

some sort of touch with the repre- It is exciting because, nobody | ed by over-specialisation,

sentation of recognisable objects, knows what is going to happen

but they have gone to extreme lengths of distortion.

Hongkong Telegraph.

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1935.

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next, but, whatever it is, it is ONE WEAKNESS most likely to be something Having made these suggestions, spectacular. Sinclair Lewis has the Mail goes on to say why it con- recently brought this out admir-siders that Britain's Air Force is ably, in the course of a timely inadequate. "At the present mo- article. In the uncertainty of ment the R.A.F. is particularly the present he sees youth pre-weak in heavy bombers, such as sented with the greatest of all Continental air fleets are multiply ing month by month. We believe, challenges. "When all of youth indeed, that only two such machines that has been born in 1885-1935 are as yet under construction here, shall have had its chance, this and with normal official procedure half century may perhaps be put it will be four or five years before down as the noblest in history," the pattern can be put into produc- he remarks. "But to take that tion. Clearly there will have to he It is in- chance, youth must not be afraid great acceleration.

Most

"ז

Call up some of your best cus- tomers and make me an offer for Mary Ann.

Respectfully yours,

Volma W

Mice come up, rats or what have you swarm out attracted by the odor of the cheese and Mary Muu"docs"the" rest,

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WATCH MR. INGERSOLL. Ingersoll Watch Company, Waterbury, Connecticut. Gentlemen:

Am mailing you to day for Ingersoll repair and return an

Please let me know cost

Lacking the incentive of search, he no longer felt interested in strictly artistic problems, but Just now at the Leicester Gals Yankec. wished to rival the story-teller. Heleries, London, there is on view and I will remit, gave more thought to the subject large stone statue by Frank Dob than to the means of telling I. son, a conscientious and very able He maintained that the painting of sculptor, one of the leaders of the

Greek hero badly done was "more advanced school in England. noble" than the painting of a goat well rendered.

During the mid-Victorian era be waxed centatie over the mystery of the Mona Lisa, the meaning of her smile, but he said nothing about the modelling of the features and the subtlety of tones which make

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

Yours respy,

Samuel Nicol.

P.S.Many years ago I had a 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 could get one na cheap because Mr. Ingersof) don't bellive in God.

Frank Dobson told me: "After four years of constant thought,

.told him the watchmaker steady endeavour, and hard work, the portrait a masterpiecę.

I have come closer to what I set Ingersoll goes to church every out to do thas ever

before. Sunday and to Prayer Meeting He depicted a doctor anxiously wanted to enclose dynamic energy during the week, while the other looking at a sick child, or à mother inside a static shape." Translated Ingersoll he had in mind is a Ito show itself, not as perpetually possible to ascertain the strength giving her child a music lesson. into ordinary words, he tried to lawyer und has no connection with

clever and shiny and speeding, or the leading foreign air fleets, and what mattered to him was the instil vitality into a status that the watch business, and he bought-

Or be rests where it is without a tendency Ingersoll watch. I am not but as filled with the awkward, but we must be prepared for all pathos of the scene...

eventualities. Germany, according painted pseudo-photographic scenes to fall over or fall apart.

from ancient Greece and Rome,

claiming any commission on this faith-dipped simplicity which is

But the camera had been invented Mr. Dobson has obtained the sale, just write this to fill in somic the quality of greatness. Itt French experts, is believed to

have at least 10,000 machines; and by then and with the help of two quality of rest. But a "man-in-the-spare time. must not be afraid of anything-in France Commandant Langeron able actors or actresses any photo street," on seeing a photograph of for just ahead of us may lie the is calling for a minimum fleet of grapher could duplicate the doctor "Pax," exclaimed, "Balloon tyres !"

THAT'S ONE ON THE 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

LAWYER benign curbing of cancer and ing extravagant in such totals to many others which enjoyed wide inflated, and although weighing tuberculosis;

several tons, the statue seems at Judge Ben Lindsey, 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 whichs | Denver, Colo. ofish output for 1919 was organised speare, or another scourge

Dear Judge Lindsey: Dillingers in low places and on the scale of 10,000 machines, or away from the fetters holding them could blow it away.

back to the role of story-telling | Mr. Dobson has sacrificed too' In answer over 3,000 per month.

to your kind photographers, Kreugers in high; a flight to

Britain

much in his simplification and dis- asking if we have a lawyer, we Great

properly armed Mars, or a descent into an ocean would be able to cut down her Con-

tortion of forms. More obedience don't want one, we've decided to

(Continued on Page 5.) tell the truth. [of lava; a peaceful world nution,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.

TO-DAY'S MOTORING HINT

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-

FRONT WHEEL ALIGNMENT lieve that this savage race, man-

It is quite suflicient to put the kind-so much more savage than two front wheels out of alignment the tigers, because we kill not if one of them is subjected to a just for meat, but for our high-sudden blew. est ideals-can be made all Isweet and holy just by a few fine phrases." An analysis like this is worth re-reading and thinking about.

For while nearly all of

Mounting the kerb al too high n speed, for example, is a common cause, or even touching the kerb at an angle when about to bring

It is always advis the car to rest. able to test the alignment of these wheels if anything untoward has happened.

All The test is a simple one. that is necessary is to measure the distance between the rims of the

us are painfully aware of the disastrous, things that may hap- pen to the world during the next generation, we often forget that wheels at the back and again at it is equally possible for truly the front. The adjustment should magnificent things to happen.be such that the fronts are about an eighth of an inch nearer to- The world may go up as well as ether, this amount of "toe-in" be- down. It has cut its mooringsing desirable to ensure perfect and la off on one of the most alignment when the car is running

at normal speed, momentous trips it has ever

A point that is 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 centralised, because when Llic

ing. Too much optimism at a wheels are deflected one of them

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD. time like this is silly and so is always moves through a bigger

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realisation of the difficulties this time may be known as the ahead and an iron determination 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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They declared, quite rightly, that the subject did not make the ple-

"Now, I don't expect you to teach her to danes like Pavlowa In the first fow lessons."

nate

Yours truly.

Hubert C.

HEAVEN KNOWS

United States National Museum, Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,

Please answer by return male, where is the Garden of Eden.

Paul T-

21 YEARS AGO

Extracts From the "Telegraph" Files

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

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The rate of dollar on demand was Is. 11d.

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Lending Chineso "merchants en-. tertained Dr. Kal Ho-kai at the City Hall and presented him with illuminated address in re- cognition of his public services.

Dr. Jose Carlos "Main, the new Governor of Macao, arrived in Hongkong en route to take up his post.

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