Studio: international art (89.1925)

CINEMA SETTINGS—LONDON

" THE PEDLAR." MINIATURE IN
ENAMEL BY LUCY E. PIERCE

(Panton Art Club)

cinematographic work in general. Mr.
Douglas Fairbanks is one of those enter-
prising producers who has devoted much
care and thought to the subject. In pre-
paring his fantasy " The Thief of Bagdad "
(launched in London last February) he
secured the services of the well-known
dramatist, Mr. Edward Knoblock, as con-
sultant on matters Oriental, and he ap-
pointed Mr. William Cameron Menzies as
art director, giving him a free hand to de-
sign the sets. Mr. Menzies was assisted by
Mr. Irvin J. Martin, (consulting art direc-
tor) and a staff of associate artists, including
Willy Pogany, whose illustrations to the
" Arabian Nights " are well known, Anton
E. Grot, Paul Youngblood, H. R. Hopps,
Harold W. Grieve, Park French, William
Utwich and Edward M. Langley. The
cooperation of these artists was an im-
portant factor in the production of an
exceptionally impressive film, in which all
things are co-ordinated to provide effects
of fantastic beauty and romance, a 0

Space permits only two reproductions,
but these are sufficient to give an indication
of the high quality of the whole production.

Great advances have taken place, par-
ticularly in the lighting of subjects,
but the art as a whole, we believe,
if its exponents steadfastly avoid the
meretricious, the tawdry and the sen-
sational, is capable of great develop-
ment, a a a a a a

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LONDON.—Among the most attrac-
tive of the recent exhibitions must
certainly be counted the show of drawings
by Forain at the gallery of Messrs. Arthur
Tooth and Sons. It was a remarkable
series of brilliant sketches in water-colour
and black and white, delightfully suggested
and, despite their apparent slightness,
most masterly in technical expression.
Another show of excellent quality was
arranged in Messrs. Colnaghi's gallery;
it included drawings of superlative merit
by Mr. Muirhead Bone and Mr. Glyn
Philpot, and notable water-colours by
Mr. Oliver Hall, Mr. W. P. Robins, Mr.
Clausen, Mr. Martin Hardie, and Mr. D.
Muirhead, and other works of interest by
Mr. Rushbury, Mr. James Wilkie, Mr.
McBey, Mr. C. Cundall, and Mrs.
Wheatley. a 0 0 a a
Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton has ex-
hibited in the galleries of the Fine Art
Society a series of water-colour paintings
of Japanese subjects in which were dis-
played the best qualities of his scholarly
and well-considered practice. He had
handled his material with admirable skill,
and the collection as a whole was remark-
ably convincing both in its suggestion of

MINIATURE IN ENAMEL
BY LUCY E. PIERCE

(Panton Art Club)