New Britain Herald Newspaper, May 3, 1929, Page 19

(RITICSLIKE AT OF NESSENGER BOY Works of Loodon Youth Hailed 15 “Nastorpioces” Lendon, May 3 UM—Paintings by & telegraph messenger boy were singled out by art critics as amoeng the “masterpisces” of the Civil Service Annual Exhibition of Arts at the Victoria and Albert Museum. South Kensington. The artist is Victor C. Riches, 18, who .is a telegraph messenger ag \tbe Western District Post and Tel- egraph Office in Wimpole Street. He is selftaught, and works and atudies in lunch hours and betwean measenger calls. “I started painting when I was ten,” he related diffidently, when dressed in his uniform, he ‘was found examining critically the -pic- tures shown at the museum. “I have never had any lessons ex- cept some very elementary teach- ing’ at schoel,” the boy explained, “but I spend practically all my epare time studying art. In my lunch hour I go.to the galleries in the nelghborhood of Wimpole strest d on my days off I go \»-the Tate and National Qaueries to study. “I get all sorts of ideas for sub- jects by watching people and old buildings on my trips about the city. My great ambition is to do the Brangwyn type of picture. “Mother was the model for my first oil painting. After some per- muasion she gave me four or five sittings. 8he is not a good sitter; she in atiff and bored. I haven't tackled father yet, but I don’t think he i over keen on being painted, either.” Riches has three pictures in the exhibition. They are paintings of a group of waterside dwellings, a gale at sea and the oil portrait of his mother. Three of his pictures shown at previous exhibitions have been sold for small sums. . GENERAL PLAYS “JOKE” . ON UNSCARED YICTIM Civilian “Ordered shot” Turns Tables On Mexican Officer But Pleases Him By Bravery Mexico City, May 3 (®—It oc- curred to a certain general during the campainging in northern Mexi- co to have a little grim fun at the expense of a civillan arrested on suspicion of aiding the revolution. “It looks like a hopeless case, the general said gravely, addressing the prisoner, I'm afraid I'll have {o order your execution.” + The prisoner, a hungry-eyed, poorly clad individual, did not fllnch ince that is your decision, my general, may I ask one favor' he queried. “All right, but be quick about it,” snapped: the officer. “Would you be s0 kind, my: gen- eral, as to be present at the execu- tion to see a real man die.” The general bore a chagrined though not unpleased smile as he stamped away, Bravery is admired by all Mexicans, SINGING MOUSE DRAD “Caruso” Sat Up and Kept Time to Own “Songs—Had Usual Artistic Temperament. 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Hunkow has only one railroad but the rivers and streams of China form commercial arteries from which produce from nine pro- vinces tlows into the Hankow mar- kets, while the port is equally im- portant as a distributing point for foreign commerce destined to the Chinese interior. Decorated Junks Resemble Gaudy Circus Wagoas “Hankow occupies the north bank of the Yangtze where the Han pours its muddy torrent. On the opposite side of the Han lies Hanyang, and across the mile-wide Yangtze, Wn- - |chang, the latter a venerable town | which was rlourishing when Hanhow vas a fishing hamlet. Both Hanyang | and Wuchang now are a part of ‘Greater Hankow' with more than a million and a half inhabitants, 19‘79 “The Hankow river fron! is an amazing conglomeration of shipping. There are ungainly junks, but they move about the water in the hands of expert rivermen as easily as mod- ern vessels in our busy eastern har- bors. Some of them, displaying rot- ten hulks with gaping holes above the water line, cause the traveler to| wonder how they stay afloat, while now and then 4 huge high-pooped craft, adorned with brightly painted carvings and plates that make f look like a floating circus wagon, edges its way shoreward. 25,000 Native Boats Trade at Hankow | “Small sampans dart “here there by the muscle-power perspiring coolies whose ful with matting-covered awnin and two iies il the air along the shore with the ! singsong chatter of the orient. estimated - that 23,000 1t is est native boats | humanity. The y ply in and out of Hankow and its sister cities. Mecanwhile modern steamboats from lower Yangtze points come and go on schedule. “The walled city in the back- ground also secthes with commer- cial activity to the tune of noises that strain the visitor's eardruma. Some of he narrow lanes are paved with flagstones while others are mere ruts Nevertheless, they are the playgrounds ot thousands of chil- dren and the busy streets of a city which has been called the *Hub of the Universe." *“The children yell at venders cry out their ware bearing heavy burdens warn pass- ersby to dodge their bulky loads: beggars groan and moan; and rick- shaw boys, without regard to pedes- e | rade, but the wearers , | means ready to retire. Business in trians, shout as Ilh) hurry their fares through a jumbled mass of | Is of carriers of | Emerald Green in color for wealthy Chinese, as they bear their dignified masters, can be heard above the din. and the traveler won- ders if these men are not employed for the strength of their vocal cords. Colorful Signs Adorn Shop Fronts “But this is not all. Along the sidelines, the merchants bicker in loud voices with prospective pur- chasers in front of their shops. 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