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THE HONGKONG TE LEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 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 ali-steel Integral Body following the sorrow-filled days of the fall

and Charais,

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 work, scrolls, woodcuts, line and brush 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 Hongkung

had the chance of seeing such a thrilling exhibition, which in normal (imes would certainly have created

small furore,

-by- Irene M. A. Macfadyen

One corner of the office was Alled by a vast poster, painted with the

in-

Jack Chen would take nothing that was not truly representailva of some phase 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 organiz.... ed chiefly to get funds for medical 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 other exhibitions in more settled. times.

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

of

Incidentally, a visiting artist great repule who had held a most successful exhibition recently, came to the Press Show und was so de- lighted with it that he sent in two.

and little masterpieces in black white to go with it. The work of only amateurs and students was accepted if it showed original talent and digested study, rather than Irnitation. 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-Yoo, and Mr. Chilu Shtu-hong, leading Ifongkong Art lenchers, including European pupils who had studied with the former and use a mixed style. There were several examples of the late Mr. Hong Chen's exquisite work, so Parisian yet so Oriental,

Painters in Western style like Louis Chan, self taught, and former students from the Ontario School at Art like 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-f, who died here carly in the year, a magnificent Tiger scroll, hung on one wall. Mr. Jack Chen is talk-

his

Jack Chen's own drawings and sketches show him

of master

the

n

evocation with the humour which

ich ing a selection of 18 of his pictures makes both bearable and real even in the exce

ven in the expectation of making acutest forms of the horrors of work known and obtaining good war. Every type of pleture drives home a realisation of the determined prices for his old mother, and the resistance of the people of China to hope that some may be preserved 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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call

Throbbing with vitality, it pro- duced in the spectator a sensation of actual exhilaration, most welcome ADELE DIXON with Chorus. Keeping a Full Press

at such a moment of public depres-

Misa Ann Hai, pupil of a famous SINCE THE OUTBREAK of sion. The lines came involutarily to one's mind from The Beggar's Opera:

Shanghat Arlisi, contributed, one of

in hostilities between Chinat raises one's spirits and charms

her exquisile compositions the One of and Japan there has been a ten- one's fear."

several folders of sident in Shanghai where a well- AS REGARDS the second section Chinese traditional style.

tems was The collection fell into two parts. eldent in Shanghal where, as well. At the exhibition the Hongkong inagnificent war drawings, or rather dency in Hongkong to interfere

in the back Working Artists' Guild hus cause for The first consisted of the work Jack known spot shown

were forced to build jubilation. Il

Chinese paintings; rapid, sparse and with the undeniable right of

is astonishing how WHI Chen brought back from his tour ground, ccolles

it was

truc finished "into newspapers to have access

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

and the foundation of Chi- much high quality work was sent in tense, with characters, the

fore- river. The

graphy, Canton districts; he had gathered were shot

Apart from some pictures entrust- nese pictorial art, on the opposite certain information. We do not

thence, within

of battles, ground is filled with pitiful, floating

the Sound

greatest of refer particularly to Govern-

under are, in the mysterious haunts corpses, bundles of rotting waste; a ed to him for sale, Jack Chen has page from one of

artists, Wong Sul the memorial indeed of fiendish cruelty. taken a comparatively small part of modern Chinese ment departments, although of those who are about to die, in the The caption no doubt urged resin- the great amount submitted. The Keung, now in Hongkong. At the

doomed elties-posters, cartoons, officialdom in certain quarters woodents, drawings, swift sketches, tance to the death to such inhuman reasons for this are entirely due to opposite end were interesting draw- the difficulties and dangers of war Ings from the pupils of the Belillos does add enormously to the even afficial recruiting posters, all foes.

School, who are being taught to ex- of fine conditions, were There In executed at fever heat of emotion. difficulties by newspapers

technique, portraits of generals or Besides very line artists and Art Press themselves in art by a French He could make no collection of other leaders.

poignant Masters who live in Hongkong there Artist. this Colony, but have in mind

artists from all aver normal work illustrating contempor- drawing shows a line of toiling are visiting the three Services.

ary Chinese Art. Accordingly he has figures, women ar old men dragging China. Most of these were natur-

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(Both from Film "Doctor Rhythm")....GERALDO. BD5403—I hadn't anyone til you-F.T. (V.R. by Eve Becke)

It's d'lovely (From "The Fleet's it up"} BD5300 The Flat Foot Floorce-F.T.

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GERALDO.

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"FATS" WALLER'S CONTINENTAL RHYTHM. BD3400 Thero's rain in my eyes-F.T. (V.R.)

When they played the polka-F.T. (V.R.) ......LEO REISMAN. BD5409-Harlem Holiday No. 1-Intro: Rockin' In Rhythm;

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this. and the ing vivid the everyday aspect of the work for a world tour at such a

gent restriction is, we quite well understand, necessary on many occasions, especially in time of emergency. Our cx- perience, however, is that the "hush-hush" policy which has been increasingly adopted in Hongkong in recent months ex- ceeds those qualifications and

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fanatical desire to suppress in-

second part of his Exhibition consists cruel struggle, of what the Guild was able to us- 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, etc. have already gone for- ward to America, where the show Is eagerly awaited,

time,

WIVES SEE HUSBANDS

DROWN

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

Many seem to cry aloud. They are designed to speak to an illiteratel population,

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

In Shanghai in August last year.

organised

WORKING ARTISTS' GUILD having gol- lected so much splendid material, is taking 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 vital 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 adverse circumstance.

of

It brings hope that this Art, this

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

The dead are James Malone and Charles Phelan. Their People must live and win out and companions, William Phelan, brother of Charles, and Clarke, were rescued.

Hundreds of bathers saw the men thrown into the water and watched one man set out to swim to the shore. Many noted artists went

to the He disappeared within { few battlefields: carlier in the year fifty moments. scrolls of wartime cartoons were sent

to Moscow.

Drouth Pushes Up

MR. PUNCH Arrowheads (OF PARIS)

Bismarck, N. D.

Harry Lynne, state and depart- CROSSES

has every right to have access through its newspapers. The Grand Old Game NOT SINCE the Loch Ness Monster has there been anything quite so likely to upset the equanimity of a Scotsman

When rescuers reuched the boot as a recent assertion that golf

At the School of Fine

silver lining Arts in they found two men clinging to 11, ment attorney, found not originally a Scottish

Wuchung near Hankow, a group of and land to rap the knuckles of one off in drouth. When drouth retarded Yet

have this "discovery" cartoonists

been

feverishly them with an car to force him to re-grass growth on old locations of prairie Indians, it speeded up his isn't so new after all. The 1935 turning out pletorial appeals of all lease his grip. While doctors were hobby of collecting arrowheads, and

kinds, so that the streets and rocks reviving them, a priest on the shore to-day he edition of an Encyclopedia re of the country are plastered with

specimens. fers to golf as a game which them.

Each and every artist was devot- although it "seems to have

ing their entire skill and time and . has originated in Holland.

energy to the service of their war become identifled with Scotland, torn country. where it was introduced in the 15th century."

Was

game.

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

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The professors who, while conducting a research into in-

Sometime in August Just, Juck ternational Inw, uncovered an

Chen formed a branch of the Nation- engraving of Huig van Grootal Federation of Chinese Artists in during an Air Raid. Many Canton showing the great Renaissance

of the exhibits took on the nature when one authority on jurisprudence as a of almost sacred relics

realised that in the fires which swept youth holding a golf club, have

Canton a great exhibition of similar perhaps corroborated what until woodcuts and drawings had perish- now was only supposed to be ed, and in all probability some of the cager young hands that had made the fact. How the game was them are still for ever in death. brought to Scotland. is still a subject for speculation, but the fact that it was introduced to THERE WERE VIGOROUS Gov- ernment Propaganda and Re- Scotland, where it has for at

cruiting posters, in which no mean: least five centuries been a well-

skill shows banner-bearing soldiers, with military slogans, In vivid red established aport, is beyond

touching black. and

A series of question.

human scenes, made by husband and Scotland can lose little glory wife, both artists, show various as~

pects of the struggle. by this latest revelation, for its

Here a Red Cross nurse kneels on part in popularising the game the ground to help a wounded or ex- cannot be minimised. In the hausted soldier, Thore a man con- minds of most golfers the worldades his wife and children to the over, the ancient game of hit honour and compassion of his-vil-

lage while he goes off to fight. and hike will still be closely as-

poster An effective blue and white sociated with Scotland, whose shows a desperately wounded man Royal and Ancient Golf Club of lying on a bed, with a less seriously St. Andrews, founded in 1774, Injured man sitting on it, and char setor caption to the effect that they has long been recognised as an

were getting ready to return to the International shrine of golf.

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has

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than 2,000

icd prayers,

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CHANNEL

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

M. Pajot Walton, who was made a Chevaller d'Honneur in May Inst for his services to French puppetry, and Mme. A. Guentleur, heads of the two oldest and most famous children's theatres

in France, will introduce them on Monday, at the Puppet Exhibition, Victory House, Leicester Square.

The comedians are two treasures puppets.

150 YEARS OLD

M. Walton's was made in 1700 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 Jace..

He has been manipulated by four generations of Mme. Quentieur's famly, but has not been shown im public since 1812.

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

SEARCH FOR "TOBY"

"Our French vialtors have pressed the hope that they may be able to see a real live Toby dog, but...... these are practically extinct, and 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.