DIANA KAN HOLDS SHOW IN LONDON
By JOAN ERSKINE
* gives me great plea
sure to open this ex- hibition of the paintings of Miss Diana Kan," said David Reco-Willams, M.P., Under- Secretary for the Colonies, speaking today at the Foyle Art Gallery, London.
It was a very big occasion for Diana Artemle Kan, 23-year-old Chinese artist from Hongkong, When she arrived in this country a fow weeks ago by air, with her paintings, site was unknown over here. Now her work will bo om
for a month, and display Those who see it can hardly fali to be impressed. She palata in the traditional Chinese style, on rico paper mounted on silk, and bogan when she was nine years old
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Since, then she has com-
ploted over a thousand worki
Mr Rees-Williams said in his short opening address that these of us who have any acquain- tancethip with Chinese art know that much of it is traditional, whether on the stage or in pain tings, and the Chinese astiatz for centuries have carried on the legends of China by their art.
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He ended by telling us that Miss Kon hoped we would take away with us a lille of China in our hearts when we loft the exhibition.
The paintlags were of Chinese historical benulles, and Miss Kan looked rather like one in miniature herself as she stood talking with Mr Recs-Williams. She was dreased in Chinese fashion, slim fitting pink dress, high-necked with split skirt, and wore high-heeled sliver shoes and white gloves. She is diminu- Live, and looked almost lost among the throng of people viewing the paintings.
While she pointed out Items of special significance to tho Under-Secretary, I talked ta another Chinese artist living in London,
Mr Chen Hsiao-nan held an exhibition of his own work in Ho this art gallery a year ago,
was particularly impressed by Miss Kan's drawings. "She has a lovely line," he told me, "a very delicate touch." He drew my attention to a large painting which won a representation of one of the pictures on the wall
of calm,
of the famous Tung Hwang cave, in a northwestern province of China. Centuries ago it was io centra of the Chinese artw and culture, and in the smooth serene face and brilliantly coloured costume, Miss Kan hos recaptured the sense ageless
beauty. Among the many Chinese and European visitors present I saw Dr Che
Cheng, the Chineso · Am- bassador: Admiral. Oliver (who was in command of a cruiser squadron at Hongkong); Montgomery, the United King dom Trade Commissioner, and his wife; Mr Grimwood, the Itongkong Government represen- infive in London (to whom much of the credit for organising this exhibition must go); and Miss Phyllis Woolford, "Miss Caribbean 1940," who is a friend of Miss Kan's.
Mr
Miss Kan comes from a very distinguished artistic family. Her writer and her mother is a father a painter, and at least another member of the family is
musician.
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She told me she has had some paintings sold already, and does not expect to begin work on any others while she is here. She hopes shortly to go to Paris where she will not hold an ex- hibition, but will visi alf the art gallérles she can.
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"I know the way back, there's no need for you to blaze a trail!"
London Expren Zerpion.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1949.
PARKING
“Quick! Go over and be nice to theta. Thank them for looking after the car.
AMERICAN COLUMN:
Cooking Done By Radar
By FREDERICK COOK
Now York. "MERICA is trying out an oven that
A cooks by radar. While itself remaining
ice cold. It works, up to a point. But it la not perfect yet.
Experiments at Cornell University, for the navy, show that the oven will cook a ib. meat patty in one minute. But it will not brown tho meat, which is left looking flabby and unappetising. Some vegetables cook well, but bread and pastry is a failure. How is it done? High-frequency waves are shot through the food, breaking down ita molecules and cooking it to the point of edibility almost immediately,
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AMERICAN women now have a new type of
zipper that will not stick. It looks like the conventional zipper, but the tab handle is not on a small swivel which, when turned, unlocks the meshed teeth,
PAUL ROBESON'S LATEST ROLE AS
P
IDOL OF THE COMMUNISTS
non-
DETROIT
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the IN
American having # signs with town of
Coventry, battle of roadside neighbouring
the
Highland Park,
Highland Park started it by puiting up, on the town boun- dary, a sign reading: "You are now entering the town of lower taxes."
Detroit retaliated with one saying: "You are now, leaving in the play, was Detroit, where life is worth.
up his spirits when lost in the Jungle,
AUL ROBESON'S He also gave Communist ceeded in seeing him, but He has given them inspiration Robeson, latest role na idol of audiences his political re- when I told him that the by his singing but little else is called upon to whistle to keep living." the Communisis, for pertoire directed mainly League in strictly
left to chronicle. whom he has been singing against those who had paid political and calls its mem- Ho understandably concen- for nothing as against the up to £1 to hear him sing hers children of the British trated on making £10 a minute ho earns pro- at Mr Fielding's concerts. Empire, he was not in- gained fame and fortune. fessionally, may
terested. soon put him courts.
in trouble in the 'Letters ignored'
London lawyers are draw- Ing up a claim for £10,000 damages against him for breach of contract.
Mr Robeson, having col. lected £20,000 for 20 con- certs arranged for him on his recent tour by Mr Harold Fielding, London impresario, sang for the Communists on another tour.
Thirsty?-Then
milk the
OR A
buffalo (COCONUT)
by BERNARDWICKSTEED
COLOMBO.
ful pince 1 have come across
but no one here seems
to
seven
NOW Mr Fielding main
tained to me that his
contract with Robeson for bids the artist to sing in Britain except by permis- sion of Mr Fielding.
money. He
"He put his son in a fashion able school in Switzerland.
"He was a social lion.
Robeson's whistling threaten- ed to spoil the scene. He asked he could sing a Negro epiritual Instend. The rest is history.
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THE atom is being put to work In more and moro Ameri- сап industries. About orders a
250 month
the
slon.
Atomic
are led by Energy Commis-
Radioactive isotopes are being used in car sparking plugs,
"He moved in select British Unending stream lighting tubes and other monu-
"It is true he promised to go further into our needs at the end of the month. That was in March. We and Continental society, are still waiting from him,"
to hear
The League requires £500 to wipe out a deficit on last Said Mr Fielding on this year and a similar sum for "Mr Robeson this year's work. It has not last point:
consulted me about received
penny his political singing. He Robeson,
never
ignored my many letters.
I have taken steps to re- cover damages from him
A
By
from
through his business mana- GWYN LEWIS
gers."
While the music work
"On his occasional vilalist to Amerlen he went to his CX-
pensive country place, and kept the people' at a safe distance.
PAUL ROBESON plucked
factures. In flour mills and grain elevators they are
lessen the risk of
for-ployed to
lunes Ilke flowers.
He turned to stage musicals and plucked, another fortune, then to straight acting for his next fortune. He made
more
"It began to be noticed that Left-wing groups could snare the great mong but ordinary American Negroes could not money again in films. even get a reply to a letter.
And all the time hla gramo~
dust explosions.
Texule factories and paper mills use them to cut down static electricity.
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COMPLAINTS ore being heard
war rum that since the has almost disappeared from goulash American bars, and from American menus.
Reamons: During the drought
"While they were yelling to, phone records, selling in hun- him for help, Mr Robeson was dreds of thousands, bring him | of Scotch whisky rum was cinging Russian work songs, in an unending stream of often the only available spirit, .
money.
"Out of the comfortable in-
and people do not want it now; goulash, during rationing, come that has been his far. 20 Said an executive of a gramo- WOL popular because meat years he could have given sub phono compony, wistfully:
"scraps could be used in it. Now He has raised money for the stantial sums to help his people. wish I could lure him into our the cry is for thick steaks, puzzled and grieved over Jews, the Poles, and, of course,
juley roasts, what a gramophone execu- the Communisis in recent weeks, International intellectuals....
"Instead, he chose a circle of studies away from politics.” “ tive, who has paid Robeson but to date has passed by the
Robeson is married, and has many thousands of pounds, propia of his race in
Robeson must have a
ebn aged 32, who is now at calicd "political mania," as represented by Mr Mitchell's fancied himself a general in the an American university with quietly organisation. Although claiming proletarint, but if he takes plans for becoming an electrical
Robeson slipped away to Prague.
Still waiting
BUT musical people are not
year.
Britain,
Communist-led army of tho
to be the leader of the Negroes occasion to glance behind him all over the world, he yet re- he will find but a thin sprinkling fuses to collaborate with the of American Negroes following two recognised Negro organisa- the banners and parroting the
monotonous, slogans."
tions in Britain
United States.
and in the
Richest artist
be puted to
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the
A MERICA'S new buildings fare
while flimsier, clamour of American life grows louder. This is the warning of the US.A..Acoustlent Society: engineer
"Probably worst of alf Robeson's wife, Eslanda, was sold an walls of one's "is the noise a singer who took up biology.
through neighbours at play or in battle. In 1034 Robeson was saying: "In England sound-proofing "I belong to Afrien. If I am standards are far, far better not there in body I am there in than ours." spirit,"
the
American
But the next year he visited" Russia, and then said: "Only in about the Moscow cana
Negro throw off the shackles of decadent white civilisation,"
ulone in their disillu-
'American Negroes, in their sionment. The disappoint magazine The Crisis, refer ment of Britain's 20,000 scathingly to Paul Robeson's
of Negroes in the ROBESON, who is 61, to re- Otherwise I'd send for waiters in the hotel, who like Negroes has been bitter treatment Votice. PART from my
own the family and we'd all go native to make quite sure that the since their self-proclaimed United States in an article, richest artist in the world to home in Hampstead be a little argument at first over
out here together. (There might guests understand the situation. champion arrived early this "Robeson speaks for Relicson," day. Most of his wealth was
Ceylon is slightly smaller after the children have the buffalo-milking, but, if she then Ireland, and the popu-
The article dismisses hits oft- camed in Britain.
· Is Moscow utterance seem- gone to bed, this tropica! Isle put her mind to it a woman lation.
repeated claim to be their re- million. With
Не was "discovered" in a ingly erased happier memories with
"No of Ceylon is the most peace- could soon pick up
Mr Malcolm Joseph Mit presentative that.)
ten curlous the exception of the Japanese
way in the United of 1931, when Robeson declared, All the way from Greece, Its people are the most literate chell, secretary of the American Negroes have ever States, but there he found racial "England is the place where I
named him their leader. They prejudice irksome and blossomed am at home." neross the Middle East and down in Asia. yet. It's most quaint, with the length of sun-baked India,
League of Coloured Peoples, 'have for many years admired to full stardom in Britain's more things
The Sinhalese are mostly Bud-showed me coples of five him as an athleto as they are today, the land is naked and dry. And
and singer, then, quite suddenly, you come dhists, and that assists them in letters sent at various times but the vast majority went sour
contentment. to Coylon and fly over a carpet their
As you to Robeson appealing for when he begun mixing the know, Coutama Buddha of green.
altting under a Bo tree (Ficus I saw had a haunted look. In that the colour is made up of wave.
As you come lower you see religiosa) when he had a brain- Greece, there was a war on with millions of coconut palms, the guerillas. The Egyptians termed Bliver
It came to him in a flash that, with glittering were neared that I'd spy on them
the sufferings of the world were and tell the Jews
streams. The palms hide about the Pyramids.
thing but the water, and the entirely due to the greedy country seems empty of people sires of the individual. If you Iraq, the alleged site of the and that the carpet is really a for
Will you land at the airstrip and could overcome your cravings power, for success, for Garden of Eden, was also at war with
money, for Juley rump steaks, Israel. Pakistan
roof beneath which the race of and a reduction of income tax, crowded with refugees from
lotus-caters llva,
the world would be better for India, and India Itacif WOB
your efforts ond you yourself
hate anybody.
In Czechoslovakin, the people
Wis
equally full of homeless people Smiling faces
who'd fed from Pakistan.
сусту
was money.
de-
would achieve serenity of soul. A cutting of the Bo which
you see their homes as you helped Buddha discover this ad It's true that the Taj Mahni I drive the 23 miles into mirable philosophy was brought by moonlight was peaceful, but Colombo or take the train to from India to Ceylon in 301 that was the peace of the fomb, Kandy. The road to Colombo B.C., and planted in the ecatre the ultimate peace of death.
rung under
the palm trees all of the Island. It is stil growing Here, In the newest Dominion the way, and every 50 yards or (at least they say it is the same of the Commonwealth of Na- no there is a tiled bungalow or
one) and now 2,250 years old. tions, it is different. They have thatched house that was invisible This makes it the oldest histori-
cal tree in the world. the curious gift of being content from the air. with what they've got, and so Each bungalow has a veran- (Nota the word "historical" they have peace, while they're da, and on each veranda is a You have to put that in, other- guli aliva.
family of brown, smiling people wise the Americans might trot
out thele ́non-historical
Mind you, when you, look happily doing nothing, round and see how much they There's no need for them to Trees of California.) have got, it's not so hard to do anything. They know per- understand.
Nearly everything in the world krows in Ceylon-coconuts, rice, fea, mangoes, bananas, paw paws, cacoa, breadfruit- any- thing you decide to planit. “'n
Easy
life
fectly well where the next meal What it costs
is coming from. They can see
Giant
It grow, and when it's big chough ŋTHE Island isn't hard to get to, they eat it, -
and it has the great merit
The men, as well as womes, of being in the klorling area. wear skirts down to the ankles. The beat months here are those They wear them so tight that that are worst in England when they run (which isn't very December, January, and Feb- often) they have to hold them ruary. **
"which * ́most of the people girls going for a paddle,
costs from 30s to
IF you have a plot of land, above their knees, like giggling A room with a bath and full bave, it is hardly necessary to In the villages you also see board at any of the best hotels do any work at all. You live in men with their hair done up in English cigarettes are Os, Dd. for £2 a day, Four little thatched house under little buns at the back. This 50, and whiskey is 48s a bottle. the palms, and watch the bana- style of hair-do is thought a bit You can have a suit made to nas grow.
old-fashioned in the towns, and When you are hungry you lan- only, the older men practise it. messure for Co and buy
a shirt Fuldly, reach out and pick one. At one time the men of noble. for 228.
104 Taxis are expensive, but who you're thirsty you toll f'rth wore When You to milk ano buffalo or in their hair as well. It was a under palm tree and watch tortoiseshell combs wants a taxi when you can sit open up a coconut. And if you algn that you didn't he
didn't havs to ever get tirod” of sitting, about, work. 13 tak the breakers come in? W
for.
Boing nothing you got out your Nowadays boat and go fishing, di granted that you don't have to
471'm sorry, tow that I paid the work, and the only men" you. ent-för-my fist at home in ad-„ate with combs, are some of the
If ever I win a big prize in my football pool this is the first place
I shall head for. You bet it
London Expran dervice)
-(London Exprtaa Service)
WIVES CAN
ADD TO HUSBANDS
with until one day, when he was a his son educated at an English LONGEVITY
lino Communist Party "Water Boy.' He said: . "Mr Robeson
"It is pertinent to examine ignored every letter. I suc- his record of service to his race.
"Some
say that Robeson em- tolerant treatment.
braced Communism when ho His "voice" was unsuspected tried, without success, to have
law student, he was invited to public school play in a Y.M.C.A. presentation at Harlemn of Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones,"
ER ONCE AGAIN-THE BRAIN TEASER THAT PUZZLES THE CRIME FANS
Get Him Out of This!
by ERNEST DUDLEY The Armchair Detective
(Holution on Page 13)
DHE
T
Frown Prince of Amnesia senda for Balp Carton-Insurance Agent-to get back the Frown Jewels which have been stolen from Bcowling Castle, perched like a regal eagle high in the mountains of Amacalo.
On tua way to the castle, Baip Carton unsuspectingly,
Waylandi. 12 beaten-up, shaken-down hobbled, nobbled. and generally given a going-over by Wotta Rotia, the Bandit Chief, and his gang.
Becretly in lesque with the Frown Prince's cousin Black Mark-who has actually lifted the sparklers-Rotta ||18 smuggling the Prown Jewels to. London to swop them for Cup Final tickets.
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Carton resourceful Blo escapes from the bandit's laff, however, and reaches a narrow path hanging over a -fearsome rarino, with towering ellies abore.. DiAt ha approaches a curvo round: the clin-face, Snip Carton muddenly sees tas bandits behind him in full, bloodthirsty' cry. Alarmed, he turns to press. On speedily and there, coming round the mountain, full-tilt at him, in Black Mark his face contorted insanely, babaind the wheel of an enormous, old-fashioned car which takes up entire width of path,
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At the same moment a dull rumbling reaches Balp Carton's, cars, and be looki up to 850 'n landsilde of great boulders crnaling down on top of him.
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Brip Carton throws a quick glance over the edge of the yawning shaam (the) chasm'a tired aljer a late night).
Certain değih awaits him that "way, on the cruel cings below. Certain death at the wheels of Black Mark's cur face him. Certain death at the hands of Rotte's bandits close behind. Certain death roaring down on him from above, Unicas YOU, GET HIM OUT OF THIS I...... All the clues are in the picture,
London Express Servios
he
told Yet ̧ recently
an AR too many men die before American Senate committee he their time, says Dr Morris would go to gaol before confear Fishbein, of the American Medi- cal Association. A little more Ing to be a Communist.
care on the part of their wives Roberon said he had given might add years to their lives. all his earnings from the film And he lists these ten golden **Sanders of the River" to rules by which a woman can "Negro relief organisations." help her husband to live longer: This was after the Alm had beon denounced by Communists as imperialist propaganda.
Finest home
ITTLE is known of Robeson's
1-Don't start family quarrels. They keep a men under constant emotional strain.
3-Don't
2-Be sympathelle and under- standing about his business problems.
make excessivo which add private, non-political bene financial demands, factions. Mr Robert Rockmore, to his worry and strain.
4-Encourage him to see his hia American lawyer,
when
doctor when anxiety upsets him. asked for details, replied: Twice-yearly once-over
Robeson is not known 08 1 philanthropist. He is known as a singer."
6-Urge him to have a physi- cal check-up every six months when he reaches middle age.
0-Give him well-balanced And of his wealth the lawyer said: "He is not in want, and meals, Including "rabbit food," owns one of the nest homes in but not too much fat,
7-Help him to keep his Connecticut, a show place, with m
weight down," k tennis courts and swimmingSee that the exercise hd pool."
anker
Jsonsible"not "excen-
Robeson elected to live more sive. simply for his Infest visit to 0 Be sure he Britain. Ho stayed at a smail reat. hotel off Baker Street, N.W.
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*10-Take an interest in bis hobbies and sea that he develops This was in harmony with them. They are "a" "safety: his. Inst audience here before valve."
leaving for Prague, a' conference
of
trade unionista, the Com-
Slimming "holps":
Dr Fishbein says few women munist-dominated Electrical realise the tragic shock which
| Trades Union at Worthing,
retirement is for an active man. They themselves seldom "retire".
"The electricians gave him a greater ovation than they gave and are the baller for Ita Me Galiskell, Minister of Fuel, physical resistance than
Women, he adds, have greater
-men
From Prague, Mr Hobeson has and out better dieta. Srednje The modern fad for alimness is announced that the freeing of Gerhard Eisler af Bow Street in their favour. So is their life- Police Court 1" a "great victory long psychological refusal to of the people over the forces of accept that they are growing olders. They, refuse to bok or reaction" WOW
feel or behave, olderman gifts
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