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LADY CUNLIFFE-OWEN SUED BY ARTIST:

SAID MICE MIGHT EAT PORTRAITS

LADY CUNLIFFE-OWEN, wife of Sir Hugo Cunliffe-

Owen, contested a claim brought by an artist in the 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 barni at her residence, Sunningdale Park, Berks, instead of on canvas.

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

Mr. C. R. Havers, K.C., for! FEARED MICE DAMAGE the plaintiff, said that according Lady Cunliffe-Owen to Mr. Delitz he was commis-alinost every aioned by Lady Cunliffe-Owen to paint the portraits at an agreed fee of 125 guineas for each and £50 was paid on account.

Lady Cunliffe-Owen's defence was that she commissioned Mr. Delitz to paint the portraits in oil on canvas nt a fee of £100 for each, and an agreement to pay a further £50 it, after the portraits were painted, she considered them exceptionally good.

was present 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 nbout 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 hole in canvas.

When Lady Cunliffe-Owen satel that the mice

She complained that the portraits that it would not last, be and that light get at it and

were painted on board and there had been a suggestion that they were partly oil and partly water. There, was no foundation for the latter sug- gestion, which, he understood, was no longer persisted in.

ALLEGATION UNFOUNDED

Mr. Gilbert Paul, K.C. (for Lady Cunliffe-Owen): That allegation was matie because of certain opinions which we received, but we are satis fed that the portraits were in fact painted in all.

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

Mr. Delitz admitted that Essex Board left over after the roofing of) the barn at Sunningdale Park was

he would repair any damage free of 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- enuse It is cheap." He replied that it was the best thing for large plc- tures.

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

Mr. Deliiz: The dog was sketched "You are not proud of the dog. are you?" asked the judge, amid laughter.

Wednesday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 14, 1939.

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

Million Engineers To Get Higher Pay

ONE MILLION engineering workers-many of them engaged in armament-are to receive an increase of 2s. 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

Employers' National Federation. between the unions and the Engineering and Allied

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 apply ps from the commencement of the pay period starting in the weeks beginning June 5.

"(2) The wages of apprentices, boys and youths, will fluctuate pro- portionately according 10 the national agreement of December, 1937."

OTHER UNIONS TO ACT

His understood that the increase

Mr. Delitz replied that he was not, used for the portraits, and would any He added that Lady Cunliffe-Owen because the dog looked "wooden." that Lady Cunliffe-Owen knew this at the time and raised no objection. used to bring guests into the studio

The plaintiff had been a painter into show what nice plctures are betration for the formalon of an active engineering industry. 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

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"NOT A REFUGEE”

Further questioned, Mr. Delltz said thai while he was painting the second portrait Lady Cunliffe-Owen Among distinguished Austrians discussed with him the possibility of whom he had painted were Countess mice damaging the bourd, He as- and Dr. Schuschnigg, sured her there were no mice in the the forner Austrian Chancellor,

and "everything was ll counsel continued, Mr. Delitz had a

right." picture exhibited in this year's Royal Mr. Paul: Did you ask Lady Can- Academy in London.

tiffe-Owen to keep the portraits as After Mr. Delitz sketch of each pleture he was com-

had prepared of you hoped to get your wife

missioned to paint them at a fee of Austria? 125 guineas ench, Mr. Havers sold. At no

time was there a discussion about the material upon which he was to paint them.

and

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 plece minesweeping and seaward defence. workers. Similar cinims are likely Financial assistance would be given to be advanced on behalf of the to the South-West African Adminis-workers in other sections of the

citizen force unit, and for the resusci-

The unions affected by the ogree- tation of rific associations.

ment had asked for the restoration It was recently announced that of the pre-June, 1931, conditions as sylvis Bay would be made "battle-affecting piecework, overtime, night situated in South-West Africa, Walvis A.E.U.

with 9.2 guns. Although

shift and khift conditions. The

separately applled. for Bay forms part of Cape Province. It substantial increase in wages and the was British before the war and can, consolidation therefore, be fortifled, whereas the surrounding mandatrà territory cun

not.

INDIA

children over to this country from RURAL-MEDICAL-AID

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

The hearing was adjourned.

H. M. V. RECORDS.

C2784. Thousand & One Night. Waltz, (Strauss.)

La Villanelle. (The Swallow.)

Soprano Nliza Korjus. C2082. Immortal Strauss, (Medley of Strauss Waltzes.)

Viennese Walta Orchestra, C2062. Kings of the Waltz. (Medley of Strauss Woltzea.)

London Philharmonie Orchestra. C2006. Happy Vienna. (Wallz Medley.) ......Viennese Waltz Orchestra. DB3307. Emperor Waltz. (Strauss.) ...Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, DB3515-17. Haydn. Symphony No. 88. In G Major.

N.B.C. Bymphony Orchestru. DB1751-56. Concerto In B Minor, Op. 81. (Elgar.)

Yehudi Menuhin & The London Symphony Orchestra. DB3090-102. Mozart. Concerto In C Major. 1487.

Artur Schnabel & The London Symphony Orchestra. DB3102-04, Mozart. Concerto In G Major. K453.

Edwin Fischer & His Chamber Orchestra.

K239.

DA1073-74. Mozart. Serenade In D Major,

- Adolf Buscher Chamber Players. ETC.. ETC., ETC.

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of bonus into

war wages. ercase in wages for time workers, an The other unions applied for an in-

equivalent advance for those under the system of payment by results, restoration of the rates and con- ditions which operated before June,

reduction of hours.

a shorter working week, and a

Girl Stages Own

Art Show

Calcutta. A scheme for the provision of rural medical ald on a scale never yet at- tained in India has been prepared by Lt. Col. Qadr. Abdur Rahman, Chief| Health Officer, for the consideration of the Bhopal Government. There is little doubt that it will be adopted.

AT the Redfern Gallery, 20, Cork Street, W., Miss Ursula McCannell Phe plan aims at providing a dis- has her Grst solo exhibition at the pensary for every 5,000 people in the 50 of fifteen,

Miss McCannell was elected a

State and a hospital for every 40,000 member of the Women's International

Communal Rist. The police were forced to fire in self-defence when Art Club when 13, and her earliest serious Communal rioting occurred of pictures in the present show display Vellore in South India. The District remarkable precocity: Magistrate of North Arcot and the District Superintendent of Folice both Indians were Injured. NEW ZEALAND

SUCCESS OF RAILCAR SERVICES

Wellington.

The technical ability apparent in some of these pictures is disturbing. They are smooth, finished, decorative, ft for the Royal Academy, and rather empty.

But Miss McConnell has passed Her latest work is more serious and through the Royal Academy stage. more sincerc

ITALIAN INFLUENCE She has been influenced by Italian

A new rallear service has begun be-painting, has looked at El Greco, and tween New Plymouth and Wellington has liked Augustus John. She is The general manager of railways, Mr. G. H. Mackley, states that the two ser attempting unpromising subiccts she vices already in operation in the seems pre-occupied with far from Dominion have met with increasing loses in smoothness it gains in life.

pretty Semitic heads. As her work popularity. As this new railcar is of

Her last few pletures are imperfect,

an improved type, the Department is but they are experiments in the right confident of its success.

direction. She could easily be a

The first service to be started was successful painter. Fortunately she that which connects Palmerston North

and the Wairarapa with Wellington, has decided to try to be a good one. through the Manawatu Gorge and the

Rimutaka incline, where the grade New Guinea To Be

rises 1 ft.in

every

14 ft over a distance

of three miles. The second service

connects Christchurch with Hokitika and Greymouth, through the 54 miles of the Otira tunnel.

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Sydney, Australia. Australia's

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-An offeer, national defence programme has

of the

the Royal New Zealand Air Force now been extended to include the was killed and two others were badly fortifications of mandated New burned when a Vickers"Vildebeest Guinea. Strategie bases will be es- machine crashed into a tree on the tablished and adequate fortifications boundary of Wigram aerodrome re-installed for the defence of Port cently.

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