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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938.

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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-steel Integral Body following the sorrow-filled days of the fall

and Chair(2.

of Canton and Hankow. He was only

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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.

NEVER PROBABLY has Hongkong 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 public depres- slon. The lines came involutarily to one's mind from The Beggar's Opera:

It raises one's spirits and charms one's (tars."

under

sound of

by Irene M. A. Macfadyen

Jack Chen would take nothing that... waaɛnoj truly representative of some

HP et tan growing point of Con- Temporary Art2lb Chins nor would

He accept recond best from the first- rato arists. ile said he would be showing to most critical and inform“. ed cyca in England, Paris, Moscow. and the United States, and although this particulhe exhibition is organis ed chiefly to get funds for war relief, he hopes to stimulate In- terest in the present vital movement In Art in China, whether, classical or Western style, and pave, the way for ollier exhĺbillons in more settled limes.

medical

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

Incidentally, a visiting artist of great repute who had held a mort successful exhibition recently, come to the Press; Show and was so de- lighted with it that ho sent in two Httle masterpieces in black and white to go with it. The wo

work of and students was only amateurs accepted if it showed original talent

and digested study, rather than Imitation. Most types of the present blossoming work in China are repre- sented sparingly but vitally.

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

Painters In Western style lika Louis Chan, seif taught, and former students from the Ontario School of Art like Mr. Lee Byng and Mr. Yeo 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 Jack Chen's own drawings and year, & magnificent Tiger scroll, hung sketches show him

war.

master

of

evocation with the humour which one wall. Mr. Jack Chen is talk- ing a selection of 18 of his pictures makes both bearable and real even in the expectation of making his the acutest forms of the horrors of work known and obtaining good Every type of picture drives prices for his old mother, and the homo 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 Gulla. sion of which they are the innocent victims..

Miss Ann Hsl, pupil of a famous Shanghai Artist, contributed one of by a vast poster, painted with the Ona corner of the office was filled

her exquisite compositions in the Chinese traditonal · style. One of sweat of agony, depicting a true in-

AS REGARDS the second section the gems was. several folders of The collection fell into two parts. cident in Shanghai where, at a well- A of the exhibition the Hongkong magnificent war drawings, or rather

back Working Artists' Guild has cause for chin

Chinese paintings; The first consisted of the work Jack known spot shown in the

rapid, sparse and Chen brought back from his tour ground, coolics were forced to build Jubilation. It is astonishing how

with characters, true call- through Hankow, Sian, Yennan, and a bridge and when it was Anished much high quality work was sent in grophy, and the foundation of Chi-

ered were shot into the i river. The fore- Canton districts; he had gathered

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

battles, ground is filled with pitiful, floating under fire, in the mysterious haunts corpses, bundles of rotting waste; a cd to him for sale, Jack Chen has page from one of the greatest of of those who are about to die, in the memorial indeed of flendish cruelty. taken a comparatively small part of modern Chinese artists, Wong Su cities posters, ' cartoons. The caption no doubt urged resis the great amount submitted. The Koung, now in Hongkong. At the reasons for this are entirely due to opposite end were interesting draw- doomed

the dimculties and dangers of war Ings from the pupils of the Bellos woodcuts, drawings, swift sketches, tance to the death to such inhuman even official recruiting posters, all foes.

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

fine conditions. of executed at fever heat of emotion.

technique, portraits of generals or Besides very fine artists and Art Press themselves in art by a French He could make ng collection of other lenders. Here a poignant Masters who live in Hongkong there ull over normal work illustrating contempor- drawing shows a line of toiling are visiting artists from ary Chinese Art. Accordingly he has @gures, women or old men dragging China. Most of these were natur- left it to The Hongkong Working a huge stone roller, with others make-ally reluctant to entrust their best the ing vivid the everyday aspect of the work for a world four at such a Artists Guild to do this, and

time. second part of his Exhibition consists cruel struggie. of what the Guild, was able to as- semble from the members and visit- ing and refugee artists and others.

ADELE DIXON with Chorus. Keeping a Free Press

SINCE THE OUTBREAK

hostilities between China and Japan there has been a ten- dency in Hongkong to interfere with the undeniable right of newspapers to have access to certain information. We do not refer particularly to Govern ment departments, although officialdom in certain quarters does add enormously to the difficulties encountered by news- papers in this Colony, but have in mind the three Services.

Honest, temperate and intelli- gent restriction is, we quite Well understand, necessary many occasions, especially in

Our time of emergency. perience, however, is that the "hush-hush" policy which has been increasingly adopted in Hongkong in recent months ex- ceeds those qualifications and indicates, at times, an almost's fanatical desire to suppress in- formation to which the public has every right to have access through its newspapers. The Grand Old Game

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(Both with V.R. and Plano by "Fats" Walter)

FATS" WALLER'S CONTINENTAL RHYTHM. BD3398 Music Macsire, please-F.T. (From "These Foolish Things")

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BD5100 There's rain in my cyca--F.T. (V.R.)

When they played the polka-F.T. (V.R.)......LEO REISMAN. BD5400-Harlem Holiday No. I-Intro: Rockin' in Rhythm;

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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- tected. A number of photographs, drawings, etc. have already gone for- ward to Amerien, where the show

eagerly awaited.

수

ACH FOSTER tells it's story Many seem to cry aloud. They are designed to speak to an illiterate population.

WIVES SEE HUSBANDS

DROWN

Watching from the beach, two wives on a day excursion to Killiney Bay, County Dublin, saw their husbands drown when their boat overturned half a mile from the shore recently.

The dead are James Malone and Charles Phelan, Their companiona, William Phelan, brother of Charles, and William Clarke, were rescued.

The whole art of Chinese cartoons was born of war conditions, a Car- toon Propagandist Corps being first Hundreds of bathers saw the men NOT SINCE the Loch Ness organised in Shanghal In August thrown into the water and watched

Monster has there been last year.

one man set out to swim to the shore. Many noted artists went to the He

within disappeared

tew anything quite so likely to upset

battlefields: carller in the year fifty moments, the equanimity of a Scotsman scrolls of wartime cartoons were sent as a recent assertion that golf to Moscow.

not originally a Scottish game. Yet this "discovery". isn't so new after all. The 1986 edition of an Encyclopedia re- fers to golf as a game which to have although it "scems originated in Holland... has become identified with Scotland,

where it was introduced in the 15th century.” -

The professors who, while conducting a research into in ternational law, uncovered an engraving of Huig van Groot showing the great Renaissance authority 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

Drouth Pushes Up

Artist.

UHE HONGKONG WORKING ARTISTS' GUILD having col- leeled so much splendid material, is telding advantage of this and of the fact that there are several new mem- bers 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 vitėl show which has gone to Europe, and of the fine work to be seen here, is that it is Art alive, moving, developing, in spite of adversa circumstance.

It brings hope, that this: Art, this People must live and win out and

cannot be crushed before the on- slaught of devilish Force.

MR. PUNCH

Arrowheads (OF PARIS)

Bismarck, N. D. When rescuers reached the boat

Harry Lynne, state land depart- At the School of Fine

Arts in they found two men clinging to Iment attorney. found a silver lining Wuchang near Hankow, a group of and had to rap the knuckles of one of in drouth. When drouth retarded cortoonists have been feverishly them with an oar to force him to re-grass growth on old locations of turning out pictorial appeals of all

prairie Indians, it speeded up his kinds, so that the streets and rockelease his grip. While doctors were hobby of collecting arrowheads, and of the country are plastered with reviving them, a priest on the shore to-day ho has more than 2,000) them.

lcd prayers.

specimens.

Each and every artist was devot- ing their entire skill and time and energy to the service of their war GRIN AND BEAR IT torn country.

Their normal styles underwent great changes, dropping mere sen- timentality under the grim stress, and the most delicate, "sketch took on a strength and sincerity which speaks straight to the soul,

last, Jack Sometime in August Chen formed a branch of the Nation at Federation of Chinese Artists In Canton during an Air Raid. Many of the exhibits took on the nature

ost sacred of almost

when one relics

which swept realized that in the Contcuts and drawings. had perish- a great exhibition of similar ed, and in all probability some of the eager young hands that had made them are still for ever in death.

fact that it was introduced to THERE WERE VIGOROUS GO Scotland, where it has for at ernment Propaganda and Re least five centuries been a well-cruiting posters, in which no mean skill shows banner-bearing soldiers, established sport, is beyond with military slogans, in vivid red and black. A series of touching human scenes, made by husband and 30147.ation.

wife, both artists, show various nam pects of the struggle.

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E kneels on Here a Red Cross nurEO the ground to help a wounded or ex- haunted soldier. There 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 chat- acter caption to the effect that ther were getting ready to return to the

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CROSSES CHANNEL

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

and

M. Pajot Walton, who was made a Chevalier d'Honneur in May inst for his

services to

to French puppetry, and Mme. A. Guentleur, heads of the two oldest

taost famous children'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 1700 by his grandfather while he was serving a granodier in Napoleon's army.

The second; a French Mr. Punch, made in 1818, is a lively, red-nosed personality in phum velvet," gilt gal- Joon and fringe, and white cotton Jace.

He has been manipulated by four generations of Mme. Guentlaur's family, but has not been shown in public since 1913.

"We shall have a special section for Mr. Punch's French cousina, in- cluding Puleliinelle, Guignol, Grafron and Lefteur," Mr. Seymour Marks, secretary of the Britlih Puppet and Model Theatre Guild, sak.

SEARCH FOR "TOBY" "Our French viktors have ex- 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."

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