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Four Hongkong Artists

THEY CATCH THE BEAUTY OF OUR COLONY

1: Luis Chan and Lee Byng By E. M. BARRETT

DURING the last three

nonths an opportunity has been given to the Hong- kong public to see the work of several young Chinese artists who are working here in Hongkong.

But for the encouragement and the Working help given by Artists Guild it is possible that none of these exhibitions would have been held, and it is certain also that the genuine and

very

inly interest taken by 11E, the Governar has helped enormansiy in making them a suceres,

Several one-man shows have been held, and though the attendance has not been very large at any of them, those who

visit them Wenn aston.beads the quantity and charm of the exhibits, and those with the visitors who had any

latm

ter be

themselves artists were, 1 humbled to bunk that they hand been such excellent work unaware that was being done here in Hongkong and sut more that av at just 1 the exhibitors are entirely self taught and three of them withart the mean: which would enable them

Blye anything beyond their spare time to their art.

And yet one wonders. It Labe Chan for instance Bad been able ta give all his time to painting woote he have done so well?

There is errtains fierceness 1141 defiance in bin work which lends a Alumot

everything that te

fie

prodira. He

Here is a man who well

paint, whatever the conditions of he life. Whatever hardship it my entall he will find the time and the money to put paint on canvas, paints like a knight going late battle. He does not, one feels, love punting, but rejolers its It.

You would not say of 1uts Chan that he pured over his canvas tele lover but that he used his brush mr bis palette knife like ʼn empire me a broad sword; cut, thrust and slash, carving out the beauty and colour that he will. despite all odds, cut for himself from life.

11

good fairy

Alled Luis Chan's pockets so that he could go to Europe

study,

what Impossible

might

to

He

would happen? to say. nebieve greatness or in disc

discovering that thinking he had nearly reached the mountain top he was in reality st climbing the lower sleges.

into despair and go po might fall

But 1 believe that be Because I believe good, bec

further.

Jurin would make

י

that every canvas he paints is battlefeld, Disillusionment regard-

ing his own genius would, if i

be just one more of the forces which he has been ighting all his life in the service of his art.

not hardship that,

It

one is an admirer of his art, one must fear for Luts Chan but lou much

praise which may wea

ken

the terceness of his attack. Nearly everything that he does is vivid and arresting. Much of it poor, some of it, astonishingly good. ile draws with vigour and assurance, colours boldly and attacks any sub- jeet which interests himi without consideration of its technical dif-

Dculties.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

LUIS CHAN

JAPANESE GIRLS FOTE

AGAINST LOVE!

Tokyo, Nov. 24.

A stout and gentle man of modest income is the heart's desire of the composite Japanese bride, as judged from the responses to a questionnaire here. And she is willing to live with her hus- band's parents, bear him three children and be content with three movies a month.

Schools at which Japanese girls are fought how to deport Usemselves a Wives, The instructia goes Into such thing as housekeeping, evok- krat, sewing and The intimate matters of personal relationship.

DIVIDED ON INFIDELITY

The answers to the questionnaire revealed the girls at "brkles' i school" here were equally divided on the question of what to do if the

asspelate with 44

husband continued to other women offer marriage.

Most of the girts would try to reform him, but if that failed, half of them

hus- would toirente the Ind's infidelities while the other half would leave him.

A large njority of the Kirla wanded their marriages arranged! through re-betweens and dil

not care to be woord. A minority voted for love matches.

- PREFER CITY LIFE

A majority preferred stout mon, men Who Mized sports, men on de- finite salaries, a home with the bus- band's parents, life in the city instend of the country. A few spoke up fori virile men, or men who liked music)

REFUSED TO

RUN ARMS, LOST JOBS

01482471

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1986.

EARTH'S CRUST IS COOLING

FROM THE inside oUT SCIENTIST EXPLAINS

RADIO BROADCAST

Violoncello Recital - By Susan Jones

A VOCAL RECITAL

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z. B. W. on a wavelength of 363 metres (845 ke.s.). 31.48 metres (9.52 incitacycles),

Washington, Dec. 1. The earth's crust actually may have started cooling from the inside out instead of from the

4-7 p.m. Chinese Programme, 7 p.m. • Hawallan Melodies, surface inward, according to a.

Mauna

Loa.....Kanu and Lula; theory explained by Dr. L. H.Summon Love Song....Andy Jona Adams, physical chemist of the and is Islanders: Lel Cardenio geophysical laboratory of the Bund; On the Dreamy Moana Shore; Song of the Islands.. Royal Hawalian Carnegie Institution,

Tropical Hulos....South Sea Is- landers.

This theory upsets the popularly held belief that the earth was once a molten bull, that it gradually cooled from the outside downward and that millions of Iyears in the future it will be "cold."

Dr.

7.20_p.m. Three Songs by the loswell Sisters.

Why don't you practice what you preacht; I met my Waterloo, Lullaby of Broadway.

7.35 55 p.m.

In a talk on "the, earth's Interior: 7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock its nature and composition," Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Adair's indicated that originally the Market Report. earth was a well mixed molten moss.

Alfredo Campoll and Gradually, he explained, the iron | His Concert Orchestra. began to fall away from the alligate Wedding Dance Waltz (Lincke): layer which then began to crystallize | Magyar Melodies (Vilnios, orr. at the bottom.

TICTCY): "Cara """"MIA" (Sieffer an Frisker); Okl Bohemian Town (Marsden and Kennedy): Your heart called. mlne (Edgar-Lewinnik- Hayon); Vienna in Springtime (Leon- Dominic Pplosi); Obslination (Fon- Istenailles, Arr. Crook): Tungo Habanera (Pnynu, arr, Hartley),

If this conclusion is true, then the earth was solid some hundreds of miles below the surface long before It was crystallizer at the top.

"One of the most cogent reasons for believing that the earth erystalline is that in no other way can we cardly account for the fact that the crust differs so markedly from the Inferice," Dr. Adems report. ed.

"Granting that the earth was once molten and well-stirred. ་་ 10- parently must admit that the separa- tion into zones on so large Argile took place either by the falling of a travy insoluble Hould to the bottom (thus producing the iron core) or by the reshlum of a process of crystalli zation, this resilian becoming the crust."

8 p.m. Time Weather and An- pouncements,

8,03 p.m. From the Studio. A Recital by Albert A. Barton (Buri- tone) and Violet McGowan (So- prano).

Soprano Solos--"The Mindo"... Yum Yum (Gilbert and Sullivan); "Patlener"-Patience (Galbert and Sullivan): Baritone Solos She is far team the land (Frank Lambert); Fairings (Easthope Martin);; Soprano Solos-An Eriskay Love Lill (Ken- CPUser); Silent Noon (Vaughan 2,000 MILLION YEARS

Rise up and reach the Dr. Adams estinaled that the stars (Erie Costes); Baritone Solos-- Initial solidiftention took place some Itoses of Picardy Haydn Wood); 2,000,000,000 years orto, His pre-Somewhere a voice is calling (Arthur cation, was based on the finding of ininerals which had progressed i least 1,500,000,000 yenes along the shift schedule from ratum to lead. The chemist said that the tempera-

ངནན་*་ found below 200 miles from the earth's surface probably were nearly those found there originally. He believes that "the reater part of the earth is now as na it was when solidification frst took place."

at the theatre, or for government oficiais.

the Forty per cent, specified a mini-ori

income of 100 yen (530) month for their husband, 46 per cent. said they could get along on $, and 20 per cent. sakti that less than $21 was sufficient.

THRIFTY TREND APPARENT

would save more Sixty per cent. Un $15 a month, 30 per cent, would ve between St and $15, and 10 per much as

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At the centre of the earth is the core. The scientist concluded that it had a diameter somewhat more than half that of the earth, consisted of a very heavy substance, probably metallic iron or nickel iron and was plastic rather than rigid.

Because it is non-magnetic, this molten metal has no appreciable in- fiuence on the earth's magnetism,

Dr. Adams explained.

Seventy

asked to per cent. taken to mavies, plays or concerts at least three times a month, and 30 ner cent, wanted to go four times

The centre of the core bas 1 or more.

pressure of more than 17,090,000 Fifty per cent. of the girls said pounds to the square inch, the che- they wanted three children, 24 per mist estimated. While the tempera- cent said they would like to have ture estimates show some differences Tour, 20 per cent, said five, and 5, of opinion, Dr. Adams said that

• per cent, wanted six.

many scientists placed the tempera One girl said she would like to ture of the earth's core as high as have 13 children-United Press.

5,000 degrees,

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

BE BUT SELF-POSSESSED)—THAT 19 THE ONLY ART OF LIFE.--Gaetke.

The wedding took place at the Re gistry this morning of Mr. Soo Chong- yaw, Manager of the Kwong Cheong Liu Kwai, aged 50, - widow, was Wah, general exporters, and Miss Red $5, ur seven days' imprison- Chiu Yuk-tong. Mr. T., S. Whyte, ment, for the possession of 99 ̊catties] Smith, Registry of Marriuges, of tree wood at Hill Rand, when shej-oftelated and the witnesses were, appeared before Mr. J. A. Fraser at Messrs. Chiu Tsun-k), and Chiu the Central Magistracy this morning. Yung-sing.

Chau Wah, 45, earth-carrying A misunderstanding between bro- coolie, charged with another not in thers led to Chung Yan-chi, clerk, of A "Luis Chun" purchased now,

custody, with armed robbery of Mr. the Standard Oil Company, sum- may possibly be

Investment

and Mrs. Pencock at Ngan Shlu Wan, moning his brother Chung Pul, odd that will bring in a good return,

--SEAMEN'S CHARGE again appeared before the magistrate Job coolie, for the theft of a bicycle it will certainly be a, plcture which you will turn

British seamen are being disat Kowloon this morning and was at Laichikok. was stated that au- other clerk saw the defendant riding acain

missed from British ships for "gon remanded in custody.

off and pursued him. The complain And in contrast there was an ex-refusing to work in vessels An 80-year-old widow, Chan Sze, ant agreed that he had often lent the hibition of water colours by Mr. Lee carrying arms from foreign led to appear before Mr. K. Keen bicycle to his brother and the magis-

al the Centrul· Magistracy ports to Spain, according to

this trate dismissed defendant with an evidence collated by the National begged in Queen's Road Central yes without permission.

morning on a charge of having admonition not to borrow in future

BYDE

There is strength and vitality too In Mr. Lee Byng's work, but it is expressed in a very different way,

Each brush stroke has been inode with deliberation and restraint. Mr. Lee Byng suggests what Mr. Lils Chan proclaims, and because there is at stroke which has not been con-

possession a

fod and which fails 10 express seamen who were landed at South ordered to pay fine of $5 or go to guolocation of a revolver and four

There

not a sidered,

he had in his mind, his sugges what he tion corries weight.

I once heard Homeone s): I don't like sick, I, it makes me feel mean Kipling OF Macaulay of course, they are dif- ferent."

RPO people who might make the same distinction be tween the work of Luis Chan and Lee ByBE,

but there are few, believe, who could fall to be moved by the charm of the latter's delicate water colours, the pictures of spars and salls appearing out of the mist, of clouds heavy with rain, aid of pale. sunshine altering down upon the water.

The

Tate). 8.33

11-1

Two Strauss Waltzes, Doctrinen; When the lemons bloon ....Jobann Strauss and Symphony Orchestra.

8,45 p.m. From the Studio. A Violoncello Recital by Sussitt Jones, A.R.C.M.

De Hunghie Mei} Contredans-Old Dutch Folk Tunes and Dances (arr. Julius Touken}: Andaluza..... (Granadus); Requicbros....(Gasper Cassado).

ก

p.m. London News and An- nouticementa.

9.20 p.m. Variety Items. Vocal-Sing Gipsy Sing.... Arona Winn; Saxophone Solo-Schon Ros- marin..Marcel Mule; Accordeon Solo-Czardas... Gigetto Caston- celli; Vocal-A Broken Rosary..... James Melton (Tenor): Instrumental -Wedding Chimes....The Brothers Bertini: Vocal-When did you leave heaven?....Francis Langford: In- strumental-Lo Java da Rataku.. Prot: Gleappe Gargano (Mando- line).

9.45-10 p.m.

From the Studio.

A Pianoforte Recital by Lilian Quinn.

Funtaste

Impromptu (Chopin) Vale (Mischa Levitzki, Juhn“ (Na thaniel

Delt); The

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11 p.m. Close Down.

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Transmission 1

(G.R.B., G.A.0.3

4pm. Ben. Oxford r, Cambridge. 4.20 p.m. Chamber Music, 4.55 p.m. Imperial Affair" 3.10 p.m. Empire Magazine, No, 17, 3.40 p.m. The News and Announcementa.

Greenwich Time Signal at 4.45 pan, Transmission 2

G.S.F., 6.8.0, 0.9.11.)

7 p.m. Die Bex. Queni Maclean, at

the Organ of the Trocaders Cinema, Elephant and Castle. London.

1.13 p.m. Imperial Affairs

7.30 p.m. Serge Krish and his Orchesten. 1.14 p.m. 'Straight Crooks."

8.40 p.m. Henry Hall's Music-Makers, DD.m. The News and Announcements. Greenwich Time Signal at 9.15 p.m. 9.10 p.m. Songs and Daleel Berlen

the West.

Transmission 3 (C.S.D., G.B.F.. G.S.H.)

10 p.m. Ist

Welak

Iten. Th II.B.C. Orchestra. 11 pm. *Thy Policeman'a Lat." 11.15 p.m. “A Thieves" Kitchen," 11.3 p. Oxford v. Cambridge, 12.15 m. Old-Fashioned Daneza, 12.30. The News and Annebnçementa. tireenwick_Time Signal at 12.45 h.. 12.50 .m. Old-fashioned Dancer (cont'd).

Union of Seanien,

terday. Her bail of $4.30 Was Mr. W. R. Spence, general secre- estreated. tary of the union,

An application was made before inace startling

Mr. J. A. Fraser

the Central revelations from evidence in his For having in his

Magistracy this morning by Deter possession,

・・ quantity of dutiable tabucco, Lantive-Sergeant C. Downin for the He quoted the allegations of 25 Chot-sang. 27, unemployed, was

of ammunition. Sergeant Shleiths few days ago, having been for ten days by Mr. K. Keen at the Dowman kald

Dr. Sung, that serit back from Danzig. They had Central Magistracy this morning. residing at No. 2 Wing Tak Steel, gone there in a ship carrying a gen- Another man. Kwan Lee, was ren- Happy Valley, reported to the police

al

cargo.

tenced to a fine of $15, or one month's last Sunday that he had found the After unloading they were orde. ed Hard labour, for a similar offence. revolver and ammunition among a to load a cargo of munitions for

box of toys belonging to his children. Spain.

He could not account for it being Appearing on remand before Mr. Without Inquiring whether

the K Keen at the Central Magistracy there, and did not claim it. arms were for the Government or this morning, Cheung Kwai, 10, un-application was the reliels, the crew decided not to employed, was

granted. sentenced to four work

hard months They were immediately "paldsmatched a

labour for having A 18-year-old painter, Li Chi, was handbag from a

Chinese brought before Mr. J. A. Fruser at off" and riven their fares home. svoman in Connaught Road Central the Central Magistracy this morning, Officers and engineers decided to near Ramsey remain with the ship, and it is Defendant was remanded for 24 hours footpath at Wong Nei Chung Road Street on Monday. charged with damaging the public stated that a forelan crew

N. Moran was yesterday to see if he was it for yesterday. Det.-Sgt. H. signed on.

Birching Would the purclinse of one of Lee

He is not,

uld he saw defendunt digging up Union officials have collected, a

the footpath with a trowel, and then Byng's waler colours be an invest- mass of other evidence, und Mr. ment? I do not know, but I am sure Spence hopes to have his case ready dings are announced: Lieut. Raxuild with him. Defendant said he wanted T.T.

The following forthcoming wed-throw the sand into a bucket he had that unless you are one of the people this week-end, when it will be hand-Harrison Senior Clark, H.M.S. Med-wall. He was remanded for 24 hours TT. Shanghut whom poetry makes feel sick at to led to an M... who will raise the way, and Miss Peggy Isobel Murrow, in police custody. Mr. T. Bolt, of T.T. Singapore

the sand to mend a brick in a stone Demand have one hanging on your wall will The Government will

matter in the House. be a lasting and increasing pleasure whether British seamen should be Dr. Cissy Wong, of St. Jude's Farm, of 7 Humphreys Buildings; Dr. Yeung These two young artists, the one

besked Tanw-che, of Tsan Yuk Hospital, and the Public Works Department, was T.T. Japan ardent, defiant

in Court. present penalised because, in a foreign port: Hammer Hill, Ngau Chi Wan, Kew- and

taught, they remained loyal to declaredoon.

TT. U.S.A. making experiments medium: the other thoughtful and-

every British polley and refused to handle

Sentence

ence of six weeks' hard labour T.T. Manila restrained, painting his seascujies

arms for either side. In Spain.

Batavia was imposed on Kwong Wing, aged T.T. and his flower studies with delicate

Yu Kam, 22-year-old unemploy-30, unemployed, when he appeared TT. Bangkok

Sakra and loving care, und having

ed, who was charged with assaulting before Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Central T.T. foundation a training at the Ontario

ure deserving of help and encourage Ng Lap, aged 30, a watchman, with a Magistracy this morning, charged TT.

TT. Germany

Frson College of Art where he made

ment, and both, in return, are giving: small knife at the Toi Hing Wharf, with the theft of three Iron boiler In their paintings something small success, have both

which we should be grateful; pictures to be pf good behaviour for six qurilan said the complainant, Fung

for was bound, over in the sum of $25 doors from No. 111 Belcher Street, T.T.

TT. Switzerland of them

second floor, Inepector M their feet set on the road to success.

H.TT. Australia which are not only pleasing in them menths when he appeared on he Cens Chi-lap, siudent, was taking Which will get there first or which: selves but which, because they are before Mr. J. A. Fraser at the Cen-

T.T. Lisbon will go the furthest It is impossible painted here in Hongkong, can teach tral Magistracy this r

Horing to say.

morning. .De. prospective tenant to see the flat, 4 m/s. L/C: London us to see beauty in very many places fendant was alleged to have struck which was vacant, and saw the door 4 m/s. D/P, do Both of them are working in the where, perhaps, we had never looked the watchman when ordered to move open. Defendant was found in the 4/. /C. U.S.A. "time that they can spare from the to find it.

daily task of earning a living, bọth

away from the wharf. The wound house, and had the three fron doors | 4 m/s, France: was not serious.

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