1939-03-18 — Page 2

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 18, 1939.

PHOTOGRAPHY'S OWN OLD -MASTERS ARE VICTORIAN

HEAD clamps, leg vices, birdies-in-the-box and

other studio contraptions do not tell the whole story of Bachelor, Aged

early photography.

Recently to celebrate the 100th anniversary of

Michael Faraday's announcement of Fox Talbot's inven- tion of Photography, a show opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum which proves Victorians to be the Old Masters of photography.

91, To Marry

NINETY-ONE-YEAR-OLD.

MIL.

Melvile Gray, a bachelor, of Bower- swell, Perth, Scotland, met Miss Ada Katherine Jullus White in New Zea land 40 years ago and recently it was announced that they are to be

"The work of these early photographers has never been sur-married, passed, even by the most famous moderns," the official responsible for the show said.

He considers Mrs, Julia Margaret Cameron, friend of Tenny- son and Browning, one of the greatest of photographers,

U.S. Prize Makes

G.B.S. Angry

George Bernard Shaw aaya he is "infuriated" with Hollywood, whose Academy of Motion-Picture Arts and Selences has given him its annual award for "Pygmalion," the year's best-written screen play.

"Proud of it? Of course I'm not," sald Mr. Shaw.

When over 50 she was given a camera, became fascinated, and used

it until her death ten years later.

She invented the "nur" which makes photographs look like paint- Inga. A dozen of her portratis are shown, any one of which would win a prize today.

The 80's had their Candid Camera man, Pall Murtin, who went about with a "hand camera" taking people unawares-lovers on beaches, chill- dren in the alums, crowds,

BALACLAVA PICTURE More than 190 old calotypes, collo- dions, daguerreotypes, paper nega- tives, plates and a few family albums

"It's nu incult, that's what it is, "The actors and actresses deserve the award, not me. So do Mr. Gabriel Pascal, the producer, and Mr. Laurence Irving, who designed the are on view.

scenes.

JUST HEARING OF HIM

Among the rarest pietures are war

from scenes

the Crimen, Indian "What on earth is the use of talk-Mutiny and Paris Commune ruins in ing to me about a play that has been 1871. The earliest of these were taken: & success for the last 20 years? by Roger Fenton, father of Press Among them is the suppose Hollywood have heard of photography.

of Balaclava, strewn with me for the first time. They think Valley I'm a young man of 24."

cannon shot, just after the bodies of the illustrious 600 were taken away.

In the cop P. Lipscomb, Cecil

of an album taken by copy of

Palace

the in 1054

Hollywood has also given separate awards to W.

The wedding was arranged when they met again in London-recently.

Miss Julius, who is now living at Oare, near Marlborough, Wiltshire, tza daugher of the late Dr. Churchill Julius,former Archbishop and Primate of New Zealand, and a aister of Sir George Julius, the scientist.

BEGAN AS LAWYER

Mr. Gray said "I have known Miss Jullus for a great many years.

"We shall be married very soon in n little old-world country church in the South-West of England,

"This serves both our destres for the quietest of weddings,

"Afterwards we will return to Bowerswell to spend, I hope, many years in the house where I was born," Miss Jullus has not yet seen Bower- well, a fine old mansion.

Trained as a lawyer. Mr. Gray left Perth before he was 20 to seek adventure abroad.

He became a sheep farmer in New Zealand and prospered.

Ho in a brother-in-law of the late

arc wellore

Sir John Millais, the painter.

Ils chief interests work-and carrillons.

0000001

Speaking to a crowd of followers, during a recent demon- iration in Damascus, is Dr. Abdel-Raliman Chabander, leader of the Opposition Party, known as one of the extremists among Arab lenders.. He is against continued French domination of Syria, provided in 1920 by the Allied Powers, and against parti- tion of Palestine,

Broke His Leg Transport Facilities Between

Lewis und Inn Dalrymple, who col- Renion of the Royal Family at So Broke Romance

laborated in the im. But Mr. Shaw would not hear of this.

"They had nothing whatever to do with it," he said. "All the good parts of the film-I mean the script-were written by me and nobody else.

Mr. Dalrymple sald: "Mr. Show is right when he says I had nothing to do with the writing of Pygmalion." The credit of the Bim goes to him, All we screen writers did was to blend Mr. She's words into sereen Our work was purely techini-

form.

SHORT MEMORY

Mr. Cecil Lewist "Mr. Shaw's memory is a little short on one point. It was I who suggested to him that Eliza Doolittle should appear at the ambassador's reception.

the play the winning of the bet that Eliza could be passed off asi n duchess in six months is not staged. I asked Show to write the script for

this extra scene, and he did."

It calculated that the gross re- turns from the showing of "Pyg- mallon" will be about £350,000.

In reckoning the cost of this film, between £60,000 and £70,000, at- lowance has to be made for the fact that Mr. Shaw went into the enter prise in a percentage basis, which means that the author's feea come out of the profits and are not part of the first expenditure.

Buckingham

Queen is shown with the top of her WHEN Thomas Ashcroft, 22-year- poke bonnet barely reaching her hus-old electricul engineer, of Upper Yew band's shoulder.

Tree-road, Ormskirk, was crippled in

a road smash he was in love.

There was a collision between his

up.

China And Burma

London.

SEVERAL questions were asked in the House of Com- mens recently with regard to the transport facilities between China and Burma. The actual text of the ques- tions is as follows:-

TOM THUMB, TOO Celebities range from Tom Thumb, motor-cycle and n ear driven by Blondin, and the King of the Hotten-John Cecil Kitchin, of Lathom-road, Southport. Ashcroft was in hospital fols to the ex-Kuiser in his pram.

A Musmua official, who has spent for Ave months, was discharged with years studying "history-photography," his leg in an iron splint.

Because he "thought it was not

Mr. Robert Gibson asked the der consideration for the Inaugura- discovery said: "Fox Talbot's amazed people that they refused to fair on the girl" to ask her to marry a

Mr. Gibson: In view of the occupa- belleve their eyes. Many declared man with a broken leg he gave her Under-Secretary of State for Burmation of services.

what are the transport facilities be that photographs were a trick by He would not be able to daneetween Burma and China; and whe-tion of the island of Hainan by not the right painters,"

with her or play tennis. He told her ther steps are being taken to improve Japan recently, does

tion of these communications be- Calotype, called also talbotype, that he did not want to be a tie on the present means of communication hon. Gentleman agree that the ques-

and to open up new ones? employed sensitised paper exposed her.

The Under-Secretary of State for tween Burma and China has given

0 position Recently Ashcroft was awarded

DI superlative when wei Collodion, î

chemleal coating for £2,000 damages at Liverpool Assizes Burma (Licut-Colonel Muirhead): 1 India

and have photographic Mms and for against Kitchli, who admitted labl-would refer the hon. Member to the strategic importance and potential

reply given to the hon. and gallant commercial importance; lity. Daguerreotype, early type of photo-jury: "Because this young man volun-

wounds

But Mr. Justice Stable told the Member for the Isle of Wight (Cap- the Government any plans in view tain P. Macdonald) on 6th February with regard to improving these com- graph invented by Daguerre,

for Information in regard to the munications?

Lieut.-Colonel Muirhead: In view Frenchman, produced on silver tarily gave up a girl after the acci- Burmu sector of the new highway

of the of the very wide nature of the hon. plate or copper plate covered with dent, it does not entitle him to ask

from Lashio, the tenninus sliver.

damages on that account. It Burma railway, to Kunming. There and learned Gentleman's question, on the does not sound es if it was a very is also a connection, a portion of perhaps he would put it passionate match."

which for the present is only practic-Paper. Miss Bette Davis for her work Inf Ashcroft said: "At the time I did able in dry weather, between Bhamo Sir Stanley. Reed: Has my hon. and "Jezebel," and Mr. Spencer Tracy, not know what the condition of my and this road, and, in addition, there gallant Friend any information that for his performance in "Boys Town," leg was going to be," and afterwards is the traditional caravan route be-the prospect of further Chinese have been given the Academy awards; he said.

tween Eliamo and Tengyuch. Re-penetration of Burma along these for the best performance by an "She is courting somebody else now ciprocal arrangements have recently ronds is causing serious apprelien- actress and an actor respectively. -I don't blame her."

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PARLOPHONE. RECORDS.

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