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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1988.

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T IS A THOUSAND PITIES that the time was not propitious for a public display of the truly amazing collection of Contemporary Chinese Art that Jack Chen has taken with him to Europe and the United States.

He sailed during the week immediately Ventilation and all-ntee! Integral Body following the sorrow-filled days of the fall of Canton and Hankow. He was only

and Chosals.

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ADELE DIXON with Chorus. Keeping a Full Press

SINCE THE OUTBREAK of hostilities between China and Japan there has been a ten- dency in Hongkong to interfere

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friends were invited, in the office of the China Information Bureau. The walls were covered with some fifty or sixty pictures; posters, water-colours, Chinese scrolls, woodcuts, line and brush work, drawings, and cartoons. On the tables were portfolios of drawings, folders of Chinese paintings, with rapid sketches made by Jack Chen at the war fronts.

AJEVER PROBABLY has Hongkong

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had the chance of seeing such a thrilling exhibition, which in normal times would certainly have created a small furore.

Throbbing with vitality, it pro- duced in the spectator a sensation of actual exhilaration, most welcome at such a moment of publie depres- sion. The lines came involutarily to one's mind from The Beggar's Opera: "It raises one's spirits and charms one's fears."

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Of

·by Irene M. A. Macfadyen

One corner of the office was Bled

by

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vast poster, painted with the sweat of agony, depleting

true in-

Jack Chen would take nothing that was not truly representative of some phose, of the growing point of Con- temporary Art in China nor would

he accept second best from the first, rate artists. He said he would be showing to most critical and inform- ed eyes in England, Paris, Moscow. and the United States, and although this particular exhibition is organis- ed chiefly to get funds for medlent war relief, he hopes to stimulate in- terest in the present vital movement in Art in Chine, whether classicni or Western style, and pave the way for other exllbitions in more settled times.

From falshed and known artists he would only accept a sample of their best work,

Incidentally, a visiting artist of great repute who had held a most successful exhibition recently, came to the Press Show and was to de-

lighted with it that he sent in two- little masterpieces in block and white to go with it. The work of amateurs and students was only accepted if it showed original talent than digested study, rather Imitation. Most types of the present blossoming work in China ore repre- - sented sparingly but vitally.

and

Several exhibits came from the pupils of Mr. Pau-su-Yao, and Mr. Chiu Shiu-hong, leading Hongkong Art teachers, Including European pupils who lind studied with the former and use a mixed style. There were several examples of the inte Mr. Hong Chen's exquisite work, so Parisian yet so Oriental.

Painters in Western style like Louis Clinn, self taught, and former students from the Ontario School of Art ke Mr. Lee Byng and Mr. Yee- Bon and other students from abroad were represented.

The peak work of

the young genius, himself a pupil of Mr. Ko Kim-fi, who died here early in the and drawings

year, a magnificent Tiger scroll, hung a master of

on one wall. Mr. Jack Chen is tak evocation with the humour which ing a selection of 18 of his pictures makes both bearable and real even in

in the

Jack Chen's own sketches show him

the acutest forms of the horrors of work expectation of making his known and obtaining good war. Every type of picture drivesa prices for his old mother, and the home a realisation of the determined hope that some may be preserved resistance of the people of China to for Hongkong. These are specially the hideous and unprovoked aggres insured by the Guild. sion of which they are the innocent victims.

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Miss Ann Hal, pupil of a famous Shanghai Artist, contributed one of

Ini her exquisite compositions

the

the the Rems

One

of

was several folders of

S REGARDS the second section Chinese traditional style. The collection fell into two parts, cident in Shanghai where, at a weil- P of the exhibition the Hongkong magnificent war drawings, or rather with the undeniable right of The first consisted of the work Jack known spot shown in the back- Working Artists' Gulld has cause for Chinese paintings: rapid, sparse and

Chen brought back from his tour ground, coolics were forced to build jubilation. It is astonishing

now tense, with characters, true call- newspapers to have access to

through Hankow, Sian, Yennan, and a bridge and when it was finished

graphy, and the foundation of Chi- certain information. We do not Canton districts; he had gathered were shot into the river. The fore- much bigh quality work was sent in.

Apart from some pictures entrust nese pictorial art, on the opposite Sound thence, within

battles, ground is filled with pitiful, flealing refer particularly to Govern-under fire, in the mysterious haunts turpses, bundles of rotting waste; a

ed to him for sale, Juck Chen ha page from one of the greatest of ment departments, although of those who are about to die, in the memorial indeed of fiendish cruelty. taken a comparatively small part of modern Chinese artists, Wong Sul The caption no doubt urged resis the great amount submilled. The Keung, now in Hongkong. At the cartoons, -posters, officialdom in certain quarters domed (From "These Foolish Things")....JACK HYLTON.

the difficulties and dangers of war ings from the pupils of the Belilios docs add enormously to the woodcuts, drawings, swift sketches, tance to the death to such inhuman reasons for this are entirely due to opposite end were interesting draw.

even official recruiting posters, all fees.

conditions.

School, who are being taught to ex- There were woodcuts

Ane executed at fever heat of cination.

technique, portraits of generale or Besides very fine artists and Art Press themselves in art by a French. He could make no collection of other leaders. Here a poignant Masters who live in Hongkong there Artist. normal work illustrating contempor- drawing shows line of toiling are visiting artists from all over ary Chinese Art. Accordingly he has figures, women or old men dragging China. Most of these were notur- left it to The Hongkong Working a huge stone roller, with others mak- ally reluctant to entrust their best. THE HONGKONG WORKING Artists' Guild to do this, and the ing vivid the everyday aspect of the work for a world tour at such a second part of his Exhibition consists cruel struggle.

BD5102-On the sentimental side-F.T. (V.R. by Al Dowlly),

My heart is taking lessons--FT. (V.R. by Al Bowlly)

(Both from Film "Doctor Rhythm") .....GERALDO, BD5103—I hadn't anyone till you-F.T. (V.R. by Eve Decke)

GERALDO. It'a d'lovely (From "The Fleet's lit up") BD3399-The Flat Foot Floogee-F.T.

Fent up in a pentliouse-F.T.

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BD5358–Musto Maestro,

A-fisket, a. Please-F.T. (From "These Foolish Things"}

(Both with V.R. and Piano by "Fats" Waller)

"FATS" WALLER'S CONTINENTAL RHYTHM.

BD5400-There's rain in my eyes-F.T. (V.R.)

When they played the polka--F.T. (V.R.) ......LEO REISMAN. BD5405—Harlem Holiday No. 1-Intro: Rockin' in Rhythm;

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fanatical desire to suppress in-. formation to which the public has every right to have access through its newspapers. The Grand Old Game

of what the Guild was able to as- semble from the members and visit- ing and refugee artists and others.

As regards the collection from up-

country. What he was able to show, Jack Chen told us, was only a frag- ment of what has actually been col- lected. A number of photographs, drawings, ele. have already gone for- ward to America, where the show is eagerly awaited,

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time.

WIVES SEE HUSBANDS

DROWN

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ARTISTS' GUILD having col- lected so much splendid material, is taking advantage of this and of the fact that there are several new mem- bera of the Guild mostly new comers to Hongkong, whose work should be known here. An Exhibition, par ticulars of which are appearing in the press, will be held to-day and to-morrow at the Cathedral Hall,

The secret of the small but sur- prisingly vital show which has gone to Europe, and of the fine work to be seen here, is that it is Art alive, moving, developing, spite of adverse circumstance.

Watching from the beach, two wives on a day excursion to Killiney Bay, County Dublin, saw their husbands drown when EACH POSTER tells it's story their boat overturned half a mile from the shore recently,

The dead are James Malone and Charles Phelan. Their companions, William Phelan, brother of Charles, and William slaught of devilish Force. Clarke, were rescued.

Many stem to cry aloud. They! are designed to speak to an illiterate) population,

Hundreds of bathers saw the men

NOT SINCE the Loch Ness organised in Shanghai in August thrown into the water and watched

Monster has there been anything quite so likely to upset the equanimity of a Scotsman

The whole art of Chinese cartoons was born of war conditions, a Car- toon Propagandist Corps being arst

Just year.

one man set out to swim to the shore. Many noted artists went to the He disappeared within 罰 few battlefields: carlier in the year afty moments, scrolls of wartime cartoons were sent to Moscow.

Drouth Pushes Up Arrowheads

Bismarck, N. D. When rescuers reached the boat as a recent assertion that golf

Harry Lynne, state land depart- At the School of Fine Arts in they found two men clinging to it.ment attorney, found a silver lining Was not originally a Scottish Wuchang near Hankow, a group of and had to rap the knuckles of one of in drouth. When drouth retarded on old locations of game. Yet this "discovery" cartoonists have been feverishly them with an oar to force him to re-grass growth

turning out plcterial appeals of oil)

prairie Indians, it speeded up his isn't so new after all. The 1930 kinds, so that the streets and rock lease his grip. While doctors were hobby of collecting arrowheads, and priest on the shore to-day he has more than 2,000

edition of an

Encyclopedia re- fers to golf as a game which although it "seems to have has originated in Holland.. become identified with Scotland, where it was introduced in the 15th century."

of the country are plastered with reviving them, a them.

led prayers.

Euch and every artist was devol- ing their entire skill and time and

specimens.

energy to the service of their war GRIN AND BEAR IT

torn country.

Their normal slylea underwent great changes, dropping mere sen- Limentality under the grim strees, and the most delicate sketch took on a strength and sincerity which speaks straight to the soul.

Sometime in August last, Jack Chen formed a branch of the Nation- al Federation of Chinese Artists In Canton during an Air Raid. Many of the exhibits took on the nature of almost sacred relics when one realised that in the fires which swept Canton a a great exhibition of similar woodcuts and drawings had perish. ed, and in all probability some of the cager young hands that had made them are still for ever in death,

The professors who, while conducting a research into in ternational law, uncovered an engraving of Huig van Groot showing the great Renaissance nuthority on jurisprudence as a youth holding a golf club, have perhaps corroborated what until now was only supposed to be the fact. How the game was brought to Scotland is still a subject for speculation, but the fact that it was introduced to THERE WERE VIGOROUS Gov- Scotland, where it has for at cruiting posters, in which no mean least five centuries been a well- skill shows banner-bearing soldiers, established sport, is beyond with military slogans, in vivid red and black. A series of touching question.

human scenes, made by husband and wife, both artists, show various pects of the struggle.

Scotland can lose little glory by this latest revelation, for its part in popularising the game cannot bo minimised. In the minds of most golfers the world over, the ancient game of hit and hike will still be closely na- sociated with Scotland, whose Royal and Ancient Golf Club of 'St. Andrews, founded in 1774, has long been recognised as an international shrine of golf. ·

ernment Propaganda and Rc-

Here a Red Cross nurse kneels on the ground to help a wounded or ex- hausted soldier. There a man con- fides his wife and children to the honour and compassion of his vil lage while he goes off to fight.

An effective blue and white poster shows a desperately wounded man lying on a bed, with a less seriously Injured man sitting on it, and char- acter caption to the effect that they were getting ready to return to the tray.

By Lichty

711-53:

“I suppose you'd rather I spent the money foolishly!"

It brings hope that this Art, this People must live and win out and cannot be crushed before the on-

MR. PUNCH (OF PARIS) CROSSES CHANNEL

Two French comedians who have entertained generations of boys and girls in Paris wil make their bow to London school children shortly.

M. Pajot Walton, who was made a Chevalier d'Honneur in May last for his services to French puppetry, and Mme. A. Guentieur, heads of the two

oldest ond most famous chlidren's theatres in France, will introduce them on Monday at the Puppet Exhibition, Victory House, Leicester Square.

The comedians are two treasured puppets.

150 YEARS OLD M. Walton's was made in 1790 by his grandfather while he was serving as granadler in Napoleon's army.

The second, a French Mr. Punch, made in 1818, is a lively, red-nosed personality in plum velvet, gilt gal- loon and fringe, and white cotton lace.

He has been manipulated by four generations of Mme. Quenteur's family, but has not been shown in public. since. 1012,

"We shall have a special section for Mr. Punch's French cousins, In- cluding Pulchinelle, Guignol, Gonfron and Lafleur," Mr. Seymour Marks,. secretary of the British Puppet and Model Theatre Guild, said.

ex-

SEARCH FOR "TOBY" "Our French visitors have pressed the hope that they may be able to see a real live Toby dog, but these are practically extinct, and we have been searching the country for

one."

Dozens of schools, from Eton to an approved L.C.C. school, are ex hibiting or giving plays, and the ex-.. hibition will last throughout next week.