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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1950.

Yugoslav Folk Art: National Character

& Foreign Influence

By Mary Burnett

London,--An exhibition of Yugoslav Folk Art was opened recently

in London which displayed the production of the cottage industries of both the past and present. The art of a country is a useful guide to its poli- tical and historic development, and this Yugoslav Folk Art Exhibition gives its picture of the history of that Balkan land.

It emphasises the impor- among the country's artistle their domestic patterns, music tanee and predominance of achievements, which have and dances, outlive the poll- the cottage industries been preserved until the ups and downs of any par-

Beer Floats The Navy

Every time Britain's beer drinkers lift a sociable pint, Bear sevenpence-halfpenny drops into the Treasury. supplies the Treasury with more money than purchase tax It pays not only for the Navy but a good or super tax. part of the Civil Service as well.

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present day. In cases where they have tended to die out, it shows the revival in folk crafts that is being brought

about.

ticular land.

That, briefly, is the back-

round or general picture, For

a close-up it is necessary to ge into the exhibition room itself. The walls have been decorated with carpets, models wear the sational costumes, and Glass

The Yugoslavs have been a gonzadie and agricultural people cases hold musical

musical instruments, whore country has suffered spinning looms and wooden and domiration and lavasion from metal ornamental work. The abronil,

Its are have accord- protominant colour is red, for inly been confined to the do- which Yugoslavia is justly fa- mentfe and everyday require mous, and this is characteristi mcuts such s weaving,

em- cally set off in the costumes by and, the coft whlieners of the home brokdery, carnet-making tery and metal work. under Eastern bifluence, Jewel-spun fax.

The o have been produced principally by the women who practise them today.

tory were 1914 and 1920 when the average head, and the liquor stronger tion than is put into it, and the will be aromed. than it is today. The highest |whiley, frothy, soapy-looking after that was 200 pinta a hat head-of-grand, at times as high in 1945-much of it, probably, un four feet, is one of the sights on VE and VI days. Since then hat a brewery. consumption has fallen i

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SIMILAR TO INDIAN

"Today" reports that quor. In the 1930% this wan

Entering the room, an Inlan 507,000,000 pints of beer fill down to 62 pounds to every 30

It was just like callons, While ince-the-war

The interist being taken in sald he felt Britain's tankards every brew net by with between 46 folk art in Yugoslavia is due to coming hone, the embroidery,

ornaments and the con- month, no there is comfort-land 50 potrade.

the desire to trace and malu- the ing proof that the Navy Yeurt is the great unknown tain a national tradition. Un- tunes being similar in

bere-making, in

Brewers have der foreign occupation It was able degree to the cottage will be afloat for a long-time

or full craftr อ thousands of yeats pimple domestic arts that industries fred it for yet.

the and relenlists have worked on chile!

clitefly developed

main- Makran and Baluchistan, in and

North-west,

the Punjab and And it ceaselessly, but knowledge of taled Slavonic characteristles,

coastal Kathlawar. The peak sears in ler's me its properties is still compara, and it is believe that by revert to

tively

More 230 taken off beer af er fermenting and sustaining these there is the Influence of Islam, rans-consciousness of the Slavs Introduced by the Turks during Per dominance of Yugoslavia. The carpets, typical of past and The Introduction in the cata-avurent cottage manufacture, toge of Yugoslav Folk Art the varlety known in the Eart Today when the (as durry', In weave and design peoples of Yugoslavia are buildare similar to thore frequently int a new pecialist ecfety and produced in Indian gaols. their own free socialist home- fail, they regard their cultural heritage selentiently in the lucht ef historical development; but at the same time they try to preserve it in the same fresh estition in which it has corne down to them and to carry its the Islamle character:tle vitality into the realities of which pervades Hives

Eastern speelators something to their everyday life."

feel and about the rolour, warmth and familiar designs of the embroidery and the decora

costs too much.

A pint of ale wap tot ty known FATIVITASZ They anchi Egypting and it did not take Julius Caesar long after arriv In in Britain to decover that

of our ancestors beer was one

staple diets. Hawing was one of the fist things the Romans developed and

organised,

Maids ! Honour in Itenry

MOTHERS GO TO COLLEGE

American universities are

VIE'S court had a beer allow-facing a strange now educn- ! ance of shelten pinto a day.

STICKING TO "STRONG"

Britain's hegy, war taxed for the first time in 1443. In these days the were only two clasicom" taxed at tw

timal problem-what they

says that:

ISLAMIC EVIDENCE

This same Introduction 15 should do about the increased to resent the foreign ing number of married infientes on the folk arts of students,

Yutavia, among which the Islamic evidences are especially

shillings a barrel, and "sand" Frar at six vner a barrel. The of end bel of strength was ma by [ "puter" who, dressed jo leather broches, rat in a port al beer for half an hour. If he sluck, it was strong!

Although the Yugoslavs maintain, or lofer, in the in- troduction to the exhibition the excellence and purity of a nas fina' heritage, the forel, in- be disguised,

cannot

carpet work found in the vives and small industrial

tres near their homes. This exhibition, with its large

Some have already decided apparent resulting from the mumber of life-size models wear- provi Tursery schools years of Otman rule. I burpsing many national costumes, was children, where the father on the true Slavonic form and opened by the Yugoslav Ambas- the wither are both at-. character which Taps resisted rador, 31. Ohead Clomil, and ar- outside influency and gives as pared by the Yugoslav Embassy in coclunction with the Anglo-

ading the university.

If they file to do so, done example the today, Tanday Society of Great Bri- vould lean a rinn adieont part of vinle drese, still worn Their kelent bodies.

single straight barle thread of and has no trace of Ein open

ailoring.

Latest Turvey; induate th. Which b woven in a picce from ity induction of such

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number

Br. wingt sndards have been forced to change since the apod! As than students profiz old day of quality. Gladstone jury fores

fishing their

proom.f education.

in 1880 G1 pound of

For wood

fain. It shows by the very con-

spoons from fines that the baste seeds od lite remain unchanged and that Hi: true that the folk art of utility and mass production, this country is vital. is charac- while lessening cost and increas-

amalt for 36 radions of finished Nem a univer iton are bad. } } rifle, and bow. how then! atailability, dúninish crafts-

Barton both swen and women souple agriculturat people with mate hip and grace.

Bleak House

To Be Put

Up For Sale

1 y have al o hel to provisie

peal byingg 12: akmi complex art com al- realy have unery facilitres for! julanta.

The story of the gl student

wel rail

take the bud Bexamination.. bent her baby arred jot a wet earlier, is typical of the strange bew

One of Britain's must in-į sattuition, portant links with the world! of Charles Dickens is to bel sold, and lovers of Dickens) are alarmed that it will markinge in itself is a sign of

bought by an American and shipped, tone by stone across the Atlantic.

that he feld."

A GOOD SIGN

"The trend toward early

at

Migration As Ruse To Escape Wives

Australia as

Some unhappily married British men are trying to escape from their wives by migrating to single men. Fow have succeeded,

DOG ENJOYED single men

THE FILM

hand-

I Migration officials reater maturity in youth.

ling the campaign to attract " is

sign," says

and women to a grad Harvard University psychia

Australia by offering A trist, Doctor Culket Caner

three within "Many authorities feel wo

jassage The Enk Is Bleak House, men should marry

months are quick to detect at 18 and 20-even if

Whiteley Bay, Northumn-sleeption. standing on top of Kemih eliffimen

marens At

private howhug of overlooking the Channel.

have to support them though bertand, a

They say that when a man the film "Master of Lassie" (a Dickens lived at Beat House the university years."

has filled in a mans of forms, agama film about a dop) was held for been checked by the British De- for 13 years, and it was there Parent I rebellion

wrote "David Copper- this

partment of Labour and NA- Anancial obligation thure dogs. new

tiona! Service, and Freon- has often be very marke i

A dog owner in the town had

a magistrate, justice brugging that hamended by Dickens Fellow.hip brunches One father, informed that one around

or other of the collie liked going to the ple-of

prace. have appealed to the Broad- his daughter wanted to marry

¡tures.

spensible citizen, he has to be clever to ret stoirs Council and to the Kent student who could not pro-

very lucky and County Council to buy Menk vide for her, hid her clothes

away with any deception.

Recently House for use as a children' on her wedding day,

Other home or for a Dickens muzeum

ve protested long

succeeded.

or library.

and loudly.

A woman called at Australin House asking whether a certain man was going to Queensland under the single migrants' cam- paign.

for

But when the house la put un The reserve price will

bo £20,000, and it is doubtful whether the councils would be NO FAMILY MEN able to pay this,

Family men were inissing Since Dickens's day, Bleak from a group of men who broke service firm in House has been enlarged, but it into a diaper still contains all the original Chicago,

They took bed linen worth- rooms where David Copperfield, Mlcawber, Steerforth, and Betsy $4,000 but shunned a valuable

bundle of diapers. Trotwood were "born."

K. O. CANNON

PRETTY WORK,

KEEP YOUR MIND

OFF THE GIRL! ~

WE'RE NOT OUT OF TROUBLE

YET...

Others who didn't believe ho, got a local cinema to put three dop. to the test.

One dog watched attentively. and even seemed to enjoy the show.

The

except

cond seemed bored, for a bark when the star dog appeared. The third went to sleep.

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One man

16-

almost

She was told he was. "No, he's not," she said. "He's my husband."

The only men with wives allowed to migrate as single men separated. the cinema manager. | are throse legally "Only a Talking dog would Double checks are made to see

if his wife minds his going. settle the argument properly."

The Riddle of the Red Domino

THE CAR SHOULD

(BE ROUND TO THE,

NEWS IN PICTURES

RESTING IN PEACE-The wooden crosses which mark the lonely graves of the British meteorologist and geologist who died at their posts in Hope Bay, Antarc tica, are kept in constant repair. Britons have spent many years of scientiße exploration in the region.

LACE FRAME-A Batin fold collar of gold under shadowy black lace trims the portrait neckline of this black tissue falle dinner dress. The softly, draped skirt and floating panel. givo fluidity and longer lines to the shorter figure.

'MIDTOWN SKI MEET-The first postwar Japanese National Invitation Ski-Jump was held on a gigantic artificial jump constructed at the Korakuen Stadium in Tokyo. The photo shows skiers climbing up the

jump as others Pack the side slopes.

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