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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1939.

LADY CUNLIFFE- OWEN SUED BY ARTIST:

SAID MICE MIGHT EAT PORTRAITS

ADY CUNLIFTE-OWEN, wife of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-

King's Bench Division recently for the balance of an alleged agreed fee.

She complained that portraits of her two step- daughters were painted on board left over from the roofing of a barn at her residence, Sunningdale Park, Berks, instead of on canvas.

The claimant, Mr. Leo Spirideon Delitz, of Greencroft Gar- dens, Hampstead, stated to be a well-known painter in Vienna, who was on a visit to England at the time of the Anschluss and had not returned since, sought to recover £212 10s.

Mr. C. R. Havers, K.C., for| FEARED MICe damage the plaintiff, said that according Lady Cunliffe-Owen was present to Mr. Delltz he was commis- sioned by Lady Cunliffe-Owen to paint the portraits at an agreed fee of 125 guineas for each and 250 was paid on account.

Lady Cunliffe-Owen's defence was that she commissioned Mr. Delitz to paint the portraits in all on canvas at a fee of £100 for ench, and an agreement to pay a further £60 it. after the portralts were painted, she considered them, exceptionally good.

almost every day while he was painting the first portrait, which was until May 2, when he started the inished on April 24, and it was not second, that she made any complaint

about the board.

She said that if the picture fell down it might get a hole in it. Mr. Delitz explained that a hole in board was more easily mended than a hola In canvas.

said When Lady Cunliffe-Owen that the mice might get at it and She complained that the portraits that it would not last, he said that

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Germán Propaganda Minister, right, is greeted in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, by Dr. Cincar-Markovic, Foreign Minister, during Dr. Goebbels' Near East diplomatio tour.

Million Engineers To

Get Higher Pay

ONE MILLION engineering workers-many of them engaged in armament~are to receive an increase of 25. a week in the national bonus.

This agreement on the unions' claims for higher pay was reached recently after a five-hour talk in London between the unions and the Engineering and Allied

were painted on board and there had he would repair any damage fice of Employers' National Federation.

been A suggestion that they were partly in oil and partly water. There was no foundation for the latter sug- gestion, which, he understood, was no loniter persisted in.

ALLEGATION UNFOUNDED

charge.

Eventually she said she would accept the pictures, but added, "I don't advise you to use it for other people. They would not like it be- is cheap." He replied that calise

Mr. Gilbert Pauli, R.C. (for Lady it was the best thing for large pic- Cunliffe-Owen): That allegation was lures, made because of certain opinions which we received, but we are satis- led that the portraits were in fact painted in oil.

Mr. Havers said it was also part of Lady Cunliffe-Owen's defence that she had the right to reject the par- traits and be repaid the £50. She now counterclaimed for that amount.

When Mr. Delitz- gave evidence Mr. Justice Singleton left his sent to inspect the first portrait, and asked, "Did Lady Cunliffe-Owen like it be fore you put the dog in or after?"

Mr. Delitz: The dog was sketched in.

"You are

not proud of the dog, are you?" asked the judge, amid laughter.

Mr. Delilz replied that he was not, #wooden." because the dog looked

Mr. Delitz admitted that Essex Board left over after the roofing of, the barn at Sunnbigdale Park was used for the portraits, and would say that Lady Cunliffe-Owen knew this lie added that Lady Cunliffe-Owen use to bring guests into the studio

at the time and raised no objection. to show what, nice pictures are be-

The plaintiff had been a paliter in | Vienna for 35 years, and a member ing painted."

of the Viennese Academy since 1912. His works were hung in numerous galleries in Vienna.

FAMOUS PATRONS

Mr.

Delltz

"NOT A REFUGEE" Further questioned, said that while he was painting the second portrait Lady Cunliffe-Owen Among distingulstred Austrians discussed with him the possibility of whom he had painted were Countess Inlee damaging the board. He as- Starlemberg

and Dr. Schuschnigg, sured her there were no mice in the and "everything was all the former Austrian Chancellor, house counsel continued. Mr. Delitz had a

right." picture exhibited in this year's Royal Academy in London. Alter Mr. Delltz

had prepared a

EMPIRE NEWS

MINESWEEPERS FOR WALVIS BAY

Cape Town.

A Joint statement read:

"In full settlement of the unions' applications it is mutually agreed to recommend the following for accept- ance by the respective constituent bodies:

"(1) That the national bonus be Increased by 2s, a week to all adult male workers, this increase to opply ns from the commencement of the pay period starting in the weeks beginning June B.

"(2) The wages of apprentices boys and youths, will fluctuate pro portionately

the necording to national agreement of December, 1937."

OTHER UNIONS TO ACT

It is understood that the increase

It was revealed in the House of Assembly that the Government in- tended to strengthen the defences of Walvis Bay, in South-West Africa, by allotting a number of trawlers for will apply equally to day and piece minesweeping and seaward defence. werkers, Simlar claims are likely on behalf of the Financial assistance would be given to be advanced

tation of rific associations.

to the South-West African Adminis-workers in other sections of the tration for the formalon of an active engineering industry. citizen force unit, and for the resusci-ment had asked for the restoration The unions affecied by the agree- It was recently announced that of the pre-June, 1931, conditions as Walvis Bay

would be made battle-affecting piecework, overtime, night MEN

shift with 9.2 guns.

conditions. The ship proof

Although shift situated in South-West Africa, Walvis A.E.U.

separately applied for Bay forms part of Cape Province, It substantial increase in wages and the was British before the war and can. Conson be fortifled, whereas the wages. UADg mandated territory can-

not,

INDIA

and

consolidation

a

war

inlo of bonus

The other unions applied for an in- crease in wages for time workers, an equivalent advance for those under the system of payment by results, restoration of the rates and con-

1031, o shorter working week, and a reduction of hours..

Mr. Paul: Did you ask Lady Cun- liffe-Owen to keep the portraits y you hoped to get your wife and sketch of each picture he was com- children over to this country from RURAL MEDICAL AID ditions which operated before June, missioned to paint them at o fee of Austria? −125 guineas-ench, Mr. Hayers said. At no ime was there a discussion about the material upon which he was to paint them.

Mr. Delitz: There-is-no-charity-in this case; I am not a refugec. I can go back to Austria at any moment.

The hearing was adjourned.

H. M. V. RECORDS.

C2704. Thousand & One Night. Waltz, (Strauss.)

.Soprano Milza Korjus. La Villanelle. (The Swallow.) C2802. Immortal Strauss. (Medley of Strauss Waltzes.)

Viennese Waltz Orchestra. C2002. Kings of the Waliz. (Medley of Strauss Waltzes.)

London Philharmonic Orchestra. C2000. Happy Vienna. (Waltz Medley.) ......Viennese Waltz Orchestra. DB3307. Emperor Waltz, (Strauss.) ...Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, DB3515-17. Haydn. Symphony No. 85. In G Major.

N.B.C. Symphony Orchestra. DB1761-50. Concerto In B Minor, Op. 01. (Elgar.)

Yehudi Menahla & The London Symphony Orchestra. DB9009-102. Mozart. Concerto In C Major. K407. :

Artur Schnabel & The London Symphony Orchestra, DB3302-64. Mozart. Concerto In G Major. K453,

Edwin Fischer & His Chamber Orchestra. DA1073-74. Mozart. Serenade In D Major. K230.

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Wellington.

The technical ability apparent in Fome of these pletures is disturbing. They are smooth, finished, decorative, At for the Royal Academy, and rather empty.

But Miss McCannell has passed} : through the Royal Academy sloge.

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ITALIAN INFLUENCE She has been influenced by Italian

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the Department is but they are experiments in the right success.

direction. She could easily be a The first service to be started was successful painter. Fortunately she that which connects Palmerston North has decided to try to be a good one. and the Wairarapa with Wellington,

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