1936-12-10 — Page 19

Four Hongkong Artists

A PAINTER WHO

READS WHAT

! HE SEES

II: YEE BON & WONG SIU-LING

BY E. M. BARRETT

EE BON and Wong Siu-

YEE

a

ling do not present such

violent

contrast as

Luis Chan and Lee Byng, but the contrast is there. Yee Bon who held an ex- hibition, with Lee Byng, recently in Gloucester Build- ing. also received his training in the Ontario Col- lege of Art and at-a-very. early age found recognition in the form of scholarships, prizes and admittance to important exhibitions.

Wong Siu-ling, on the other hand, whose exhibition was held last week in the Hotel Cecil, is entirely self-taught.

Luis Chan stands isolated as much by his own will as by the force and virility, of his work. Lee Byng by the intellectual quality of his, Yeu Bon by his accomplishment, and Wong Siu- ling by a quality which he 'alone of the four appears to possess, that of appraising what he dors at its real value.

This was the real contrast between Mr. Wong Stu-ling's exhibition and those given by the other three young men, Mr. Wong hung his pletures so that the best were given prom- Inenee. the less successful in less

the

other favourable places. In exhibitions good elbowed bar, and, sometimes, because the good was less immediately compelling to the eye, was overshadowed by it.

Mr. Wong Siu-ling is, self-taught, but Whistler's comment made of another artist who made the same claim: "You and he has had a very bad muster" does not apply. While remains his Mr. Wong's "master" severest critic, he is sure to make steady progress.

There is another point of contrast between Yee Ron und Wong Slù- Jing which it is difficult to express in words.

Both are Chinese, both are working In the Western Style, Yeu Bon has had his training in a fumous art school

in Canada, Wong Siu-ling has studied from books and from the paintings of other people which he has been able to see here in Hongkong, in

and in

in China. Yee Bon for

still

Mhts #manlishment is

despite his student. Yee Bon, des

tally an art student,

is a

When

Told

The

THE HONGKONG

WONG SIU-LING

Was

Carson

To "Sack Admirals"

THE third and concluding volume; other brush

at Mr. Im Colvin's brilliant Life George and

of Lord Carson (Gellanez, 18s.), is the former's desire to change the an immensely valuable contribution, Chief of Naval War Staff: to the political history of the war period and succeeding years...

The most controversial chapters contain a striking reply to Mr. Lloyd George's accusation that the Ad- miralty. during Carson's term of offer as First Lord, was stubbornly obstructive. towards the convoy system.

"You will obey orders

like any

"You don't know what you are talking about," Sir John Jellicce re- toried. "I cannot be compelled to join the new Bourd if I think the conditions dangerous to the Service." The Prime Minister waived his

Hernand.

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1936.

SOLVING

THE "ROAR" IN 'PLANES

PROBLEM OF SPEED

RADIO BROADCAST

Children's Concert From The Studio

DANCE MUSIC

Radio Programme Broadcast by Z.B.W. on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kc's), 31.40 metres

(9.52 negacycles).

12.30 p.m. Grand Opera.

I p.m. Time and Weather, 1.03 p.m. Cinema Organ Solor by

WITH SILENCE The high speed 'aeroplane which is also silent, dream of countless inventors since the beginning of aviation, may never be realised. Re-sydney Gustard, cent investigations have shown that at the very high speeds likely to be attained by military aeroplanes during the next ten years,

1.20 p.m. Three Songs by Alfred. Pleaver (Tenor).

1.30 p.m. Reuter Press, Rugby

ments.

Press, Time, Weather and Announce- 1.40 p.m. Debroy Somers Band. 2 p.m. Vocal Gems.

2.15 p.n. Close Down,

5 p.m. A Relay of Dance Music

the problem of silencing from the Root-Garden of the liong- may be entirely changed.

kong Hotel.

p.m. From the Studio,

A Children's Concert. 6.30 p.m. Jazz Piano Medley by Vivian Ellis.

"Let me plny"-Selection; "Top Hat"-Selcetion.

6.45 p.m. A Light Concert. -Violin Solos-Chanson Arabe Deluge (Rimsky-Korsakov);

Le

"Aerodynainte roar" may dominate and, the sßencing of the engine exhaust may have little effect in diminishing the sound made by the machine when it is moving fast, The actiud shapes, such as those of the wings and the fuselage, will be the sources of sound, and the very fart-that they are deflecting the air (Saint-Saens)...Toscha Seldul; Songs in the performance of their functionsA song of thanksgiving (Allitsen), implies that silencing will be

im-

Sweet and low (Barnby).....

..Essie possible.

Ackland (Contraito); Songs-Sweetly Little is known as yet about the she sleeps, my Alice fuir (Foster). kind of raise made by the alr when Jennie with the light brown hair. it flows past an aerodynamic shape; (Foster) John McCormack, (Ten- but it has long been recognised that for): Cello Solo-Dimanche de Paques

In iner noise insur une of the eblef sources of the relatively low speed aeroplanes Marechal; Song--Edward of the past has been the airscrew.

If the blades are moving at high speed, no means, has yet been devised

Reductions for silencing them. noise have all been the outcome employing airscrews with a greate umber of blades, or of hurger dia- meter and runttig them at much

lower AIRSCREW NOISE

of

(Dupont).

Maurice (Corder Norman Allin (Bass). and Loewe).

7.15 p.m. "Cinderella," a Phan- tasy by Eric Coates, played by the Composer And Symphony Orchestra.

7.30 p.m. Closing Local Stock Quotations and Hongkong Exchange Market Report,

p.m. The Hall Billies. Rolling down the Hilly-Billy Trail; Little Mountain Cabin; Twilight ou the Trail.

Cab Calloway and

7.45 p.m. is Orchestra. Fax-Trots-Chinese Rhythm; Weak- ess; Are you in love with me again?: When you're sulling.

8 p.m. Time. Weather and An- nouncements."

pro-

The Handley Page four-engined ners used by Imperial Airways represented a large step in noise re- In these the airscrew noise duction. was tackled by using relatively slow and by putting running airscrews them all in a

a plane away from the between Mr. Lloyd|

enbing. -passenger Admiral Jellicoe over

Recently In Amerien an attempt has been made to prosture a silent

8.05 p.m. From the Studio. alrscrew by employing a slet along

A Chinese Concert. midshipman," said the Prime Minis- the leading edge; but scientists in

ના

1 pm. Close Down. are doubtful if any great -country-are.

silence will be 8.05-11 p.m. European fer ungrily.

improvement in secured by this means though it may gramme from Z.E.K. on a fre

quency of G10 kilocycles, Engine exhaust silencing can be| 8.05

p.m. Light Orchestral have other advantages. very effective now provided that suf-Music. ficiently heavy silenegrs are carried. "Indian Love Lyrics" (Woodforde In this it is a matter of balancing and Finden, arr. Mikulicz); “Monck- ton Melodies" (Stanford Robinson); Cason had a great and often deck the advantages of reduced pay (or

"When Day is Done! (De Sylva, arr. sive influence on events. He was bomb) load.

Katscher); "Manhattan Serenade" with other Conservative leaders are

(Alter); "Lane Wilson Melodick." guest at Wargrave Hall on August 1.

Cabinet Lord Lloyd, Coalition

US Attorney- 8.27

p.m. "Hiawatha"The 1914, when the then you encher,

come General. Mr. Colvin gives a vivid Death of Minnehaha (Coleridge- of the United down to urge Mr. Bonar Law's im- glimpse of Lord Kitchener, stalten Taylor). States' declaration of war on Ger- mediate return to London.

Standing nt 22 window of the many the Admiralty introduced con-¡

Mr. George Lloyd (ns he then was) tad news from France: had come to the conclusion that Bri- Cabinet room, he was voy from Gibraltar.

multering, tain did, not intend to stand by "Johnnie French is losing the war

Find Russia, and his fears every day.........." It is clear that as First Lord Car-

were increased by talks with his to "gamble with the friends at the French Embassy. With son refused

und that he trusted his number of other Conservatives, he Fleet," admirals, though urged by Mr. set on foot urgent mensures to bring Lloyd George on one occasion to the leaders of the party together

suck the lot.

the result being the historic letter from Bonar. Law and Lord Luns downe to Asquith, pledging the Con- servative Party's support.

Mr. Colvin quotes a statement by the United States Admiral Sims that until the entry of the United States into the war the British Navy was insufficiently equipped with des troyers to guard both the Fleet and merchant shipping.

Within a month

BRUSH WITH JELLICOE

birth and the centuries-of-tradition---The behind him, looks, as he paints, with Western eyes,

his own personality his racial instincts colour what he does and sees, but the basis of observation is Western rot

his

Chinese. Mr. Wong Slu-ling is ...teen in the Admiralty basement,

for

Chinese artist studying and practis ing the art of the West. I do not

aptitude know if he has any palating in the Chinese style, if he started from that and then turned to the Western manner, but it seems evident that the mind behind the eyes which observe form and colour and set them down In the Western style, is Chinese.

I

15, The Chinese expression believe, to read a picture, not to look confronted at it. Mr. Wong Siu-ling, with a landscuge or a harbour scene, is not, one feels, swept away on a tide of desire to express the impres- slon of the moment, but sets himself

where the Second. Division clerks

had their luncheon, and gathering

. EVE OF WAR MEETING

arresting and astonishing of all were

Į

France

EL

-KITCHENER RATTLED

In 1915 Carson entered the Asquith

"But, if French is doing badly. you should appoint another Com- mander-in-Chief," Carson insisted.

they expect too much

Kitchener-replleder

9 p.m. London--News and An-

nouncements.

9.20 p.m. Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody, No. 10, played by Ania Dorfmann (Pianoforte).

9.30 p.m. Waltzes by the Or. chestra Mascotte.

"I know, but I cannot think of Twinkling Lights (Carl Zeller, arr. -Hohne):-The-last-letter-(Riggov); of me, Amoretientanze (Gung'l, arr. Holine); Over the waves (Rosas, art, Hohne); Souvenir de Mona Lisa (Schebek).

9.45 p.m. A.Ballad Recital by Percy Heming (Baritone).

these fellows," he whispered to Carson one day at the Cabinet table. "I don't know Europe; I don't know

England; and I don't know the Bri- tish Army."

DAY BY DAY NEWS IN BRIEF

Hatfield Bells (Easthope Martin); Chorus, Gentlemen (Lohr); "Songs of the Fair" (Ensthope Martin), (a) Jock the Fiddler, (b) The Ballad- Monger, (c) Fairings. (d) Come to

10.p.m. London-Big Ben. Orquesta Tipica Francisco Canaro. A Garden of Illusion (Peloy, arr. Canaro); The Tango of the "Mula" (Pelay

Canaro); Amigaso Tango (J. de Dios Filiberto); Clave-

to Tango (Canoro),

10.30 p.m. Variety and-Dance

star Fox-Trot-A

Music.

Grr.

the

of

Carson slated later that the Prime Minister was so rude to Admiral Jellicoe that the First Sea Lörd came to me-several times-und pressed me to accept his resigna- tion."

Prime Minister, Indeed, "was accustomed to boast that he had his own sources of information from the discovered Admiralty, and it was that some of his secretaries were in THE FULFILMENT OF DUTY IS THE The forthcoming wedding is an-the Fair. the habit of going down to the cun- TRUE END OF LIFE AND THE TRUE WEL-nounced of Dr. Tang Yee-yuen, of 13 Spares Avenue, Kowloon, and Misy PARE.—Jouffroy.

Ruby Moy, residing at 152 Lalchikok For possession of a small quantity Bond, Shamshulpo. there for the delectation of their of heroin pills, Wong Yee, 31, uni- chief information, more surprising employed, was sentenced to one A man, Lau Sul-shum, of 378 than authoritative of what went on week's hard labour by Mr. K. Keen Lockhart Road, was the victim of a upstairs.

at the Central Magistracy this highway robbery yesterday. While Little wonder If with such en- morning,

walking in Mongkok near Portland

fell cut couragement tittle-tattle grew until

Street at 10 o'clock last night he en- the First Lord issued nn order that if officers were found to be gossiping Before Mr. K. Keen at the Central tered a lane, whereupon a man came Heaven; Vocal-(a) Underneath the out the affairs of the Admiralty he Magistracy, this morning, Lut Cheung, up from behind him and pushed him vid Pine Tree, (b) The trail of the would take a scrlous view of their 39. unemployed, was ordered to pay into an empty backyard, where, help-Lonesome Pine... The Rocky Moun conduel.

Instrumental-Many happy returns a fine of $3 or go to gaol for nine ed by another man, he stole a walch taineers; Fox-Trot-Did I remember; of the day... Eddie Peabody; Fox- days for possession of a quanlity of worth $10 and $6 in money. dutiable spirits. Chan Yucis, 30, who

Trot-Drummer

Town

Song Roes to When Carson had been relegated was charged with a like offence, falled | Admiting the theft of a bobbin,

heart and I. -My

Evie Hayes from the Admiralty and given a seat to appear before Mr. Keen and his valued at $1.50, from No. 12 Teung (Contralto); Vocal-I don't want to In the War Cabinet, there was on-ball of $10 was catreated.

Sau Lane, the property of Shiu Shing, make to "read" what he sees, to pick out

Instrumental Some history; from it its meaning, and in particu-

aged 30, shopmaster, Lin Fur, aged of these days, for its meaning to him, and to set

in Slow Woltz-At Eddle Peabo

close of A fine of $5, or seven days hard, unemployed, was bound over

of a long. the

Humorous Another bed- down that meaning as clearly and as

of $25 to be of good be long day; two big canvisser done in the Sickert labour, was Imposed on Wong Shumhaviour for one year, when he up-time story--Cindrella... Wish Wynne plainly as he can on paper or canvas. manner, one of which he called "The aged 33, street coolic, when he plead peared before Mr. J. A. Fraser at the (Comedienne); Vocal(a) Oh Susan- Here is a young man for whom one. Sew Amah" and the other Street ed guilty to a charge of possession of Central Magistracy, this morning.nah, (b) We'll rest at the end of the would have no fear if circumstances Scene", Painted with

M freedom of three bottles of Chinese wine,

Inspector Hourihan prosecuted.

trail....The Rocky Mountaineer; enabled him to go to Europe, or technique, yet with the utmost res which duty had not been paid,

Fox-Trol-A rendezvous with Canada, for a serious training Hetraint in colour and modelling, these Kennedy Town Praya near Sand might not progress very much fur-two pictures had they stood alone Street. Inspector Hourihan said the A 30-year-old unemployed man, dream; Guitar Solo Le Rigiment ther, but nothing could take from would have been sufficient to con- duty payable on the three bottles was Kwok Sik, was brought before Mr. X. him what he has already.

vince one of his genius, to make one 75 cents. The case was heard by Mr. Keen at the Central Magistracy this Mr. Yee Bon may be a genius or say; "It is Intolerable that a man who J. A. Fraser at the Central Magistracy morning on charges of (a) keeping his may be one of those gifts that can paint like that should be left in this morning.

an opium divan on the first

Drst floor of flare up and die down. He paints in

Hongkong

where he will, as things

No. 6 Queen Victoria Street and (b) variety of styles and the main im-ure at present, get so little chance or

possession of a quanlity of prepared Seen carrying six chickens in pression created by his recent exhibi- encouragement."

crate without inatting on the bot- opium. Defendant was sentenced to

SCOTTISHI COALFIELD ·BALLOT ; iton was one of bewilderment.

II Yee Bon goes on, if his put grows tom, to prevent their legs from being a fine of $100, or two months' hard There were two or three pictures, as one feels that it must if he is given caught between the boards, in labour, on the first count, and $50,

London, Dec. D. that have already been exhibited in the help and encouragement of which Snilsbury Road on Wednesday. Sui or one month, on the second, the

Voting is taking place throughout run consecutively. A Canada In the National Gallery there, he stands in need, these two pletures Pun-sang, 24, former, was arrested t

the Scottish coalfields to-day on a new three years agreement that were sunve, careful and admir-will be among those for which he and charged before Mr. Macfadyen widow, Wong Yet, 40, was ordered

based ably controlled in composition, colour will be remembered.

at the Kowloon Magistracy this mor- to pay a fine of $1,000 or serve six

months in guol for the possession of on the recent offer of employers. It and technique; hanging near one of Hongkong has something to be ning with causing the fowls unneces-

a quantity of raw opium.

is confidently expected that there them was an oleographie effort that proud of in having these, four young sory suffering. On $10 ball, he was

will be a majority in favour of ac- should never have seen the light of men, Luis Chan, Les Byng, Yce Bon fined $6. Det-Set. Hutchinson pro-

vas cepting the offer. New agreement There were dellente

Li Yuk-to, 22, inurried woman, was und and Wong Slu-ling as citizens. Any-secuted,

has been under discussion for some charming flower studies,

charged before Mr. Himsworth at the time, and the previous offers had and hold one of them may bring the Colony ull of them have

Kowloon Magistracy this morning He impulse beyond

Chun Fal-tung, aged 20, unem- desire to already

19 less. #plash and riot in colour. There of value, If the

carefully painted were sensitive and

inted been already born in the minds of the morning with the theft of a rattan Road, first floor, on

Art School which has Fraser at the Central Magistracy this from a fellow-tenant at 33 Po Kong December 6. portraits, nudes sentimental and group known as the Hongkong Work-basket, clothing, two pairs of car-valu

Det.-Sgt. MacPherson sald one ring, fourless, and nudes of a brutal ruth- ing Artists Guild, becomes a wana in pose and colour. There these four young men, who he rings, a wall clock and a quilt, the valued at $9, had been recovered, but were landscapes which ranged from some experience of teaching, will be woman, from No. 08 Stone Nuliah dant was bound over in the sum of

all property of Ko Mul, aged 18, single the other, worth $8, had not. Defen the oleographie through every style invaluable to it. Chinese themselves, Lune. Det-Sgt. Estall prosecuted and $10 for one year, and ordered to pay to a glittering cornfield topped with with an understanding of Chinese art said the total value of the articles $4 amends or undergo two weeks' a full sun, the whole worked in bold but practising successfully in the was $10. Sentence of three months Impresonment. In addition, the sum pointiliiste manner, and, between the Westem, style, they will be able to hard labour was imposed on defen- of $3.40 which had been found in hor two, strong and sensitive scenes of the teach the art of either country to dant, who had a previous conviction possession was handed over to the countryside of his native land. Most students from the others must feered this year.

complainant:

at

to

qui passe....Marlo Maccaferri; Vocal Kiss me good-night....Leslie Hut- chinson.

11 p.m. Cluse Down,

and hunting ones pointed with very odded ontributed much which is ployed, was charged before Mr. J. A. ‡ with stealing two gold Anger rings proved, unaṛceptable-British Wire.

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