Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

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Such a lovely, fresh perfume, like wild roses in the morning dew. 4414111.WW1414 .qatp at!' IF Ito! alp Suomi 2.1aAt abed sqqi uo paanpoadu dupuped iuo HAAB t3MV10E las Csallereaglo klt.. Sydney. Letters Hoy 4001W13, 44.44.0. 21131210URNE OPTICS. Nee hpaper House, 147 C011111111 Bt., Melbourne. Letter. HON 1/5C. OP 0 BR23BANK OYMICE. al lillsabeth Bt.. Bruhane. le Boa 400M. li.P.0 Al/EGAIDX °evict: 24-26 Hallfaa Bl , Adelaide Lettere. 1404 MIA. (I P ti PIWTrI Olelet 34 Burling at., Perth Letter. tlok 4110. (i.P.O. TABlIAJNIA: totters to Sydney address. OCIDIER 2, 195/ Vol. 25, No. 17 EDUCATION MUST Our rover BE IMPROVED PROFESSOR j. P. Baxter, Vice - Chancellor of the N.S.W. University of Technology, thinks that facilities for education in Australia arc shocking. "Our schools are deplorable," he says, "and our universities almost bankrupt." This is criticism which the authorities and public cannot ignore, for education is basic to Australia's development. What are the reasons for the backward state of Australian educational institu- tions? One is that in a rapidly expanding community, in which State education is dependent on what amounts to a Federal dole, the Federal Government has a far greater financial responsibility towards education than it will admit. Another reason is that Australians, instead of being shocked into action by the best in education from other countries, especially Scandinavia, have bluffed themselves for years with the myth that thcir schools and educational systems are the best in the world. Yet another reason is that Australians, though they arc aware of the need for a better education as a means to a better job, have never developed that deep re- spect for scholarship and nmearcb which is apparent in many other countries. And that lack is often most obvious among the people who represent Aus- India is its Peadiameals. With 3,000,000 more people than in 1939, it is time Australian political leaders and public took a critical look, as Professor Baxter has done, at the sad state of its educational institution& William Dobell's portrait of Helena Rubinstein won the £1500 award for the best painting in our 1957 Portrait Prize. For story and other paint- ings see pages 7, 8, and 9. CONTENTS FICTION Taw Moos for Margaret, Mooroew Murder Wm Her Welcome (Serial, Part 3), Margot Needle. . . 20, 21 Twang Man WWI Pram, Edith Perrgoter . . - 22, 13 The New Owner, Olge.A. Koposanith . 24 SPECIAL FEATURES Going Steady 5, 30 Portrait Prise 7, II, 9 FASHION Dress Souse, Belly Keep . . 33 Frisian Frocks (color) . 57 Pancras 69 19 FILMS New Chaplin Film 49 Kay Kendall in Musical . 50, 51 Film Preview Jis Reviews HOMEMAKUNG American Home (color) 39 Home Plan . 46 - room Reuovatious 41 Make a Lamp - dude . . 41 REGULAR It Seems To Me, Dorothy 61 Gardening . 41 Smorpuolawil . 43 Cookery (color) Prise Recipes 46 Lace Mamie . 47 Transfers . 64 FEATURES Strome t 12 Disc Digest, 15 These Are Am- . 17 Readers' Letters 15 sass Coma 111 Living camp+ . 26 War* Ropers - log . . 27 Reality . Sweet and Suer Ibmarshe Tams . . Cronseseml . 37 Debbie . 30 33 15 53 71 71 71 THE WEEKLY ROUND Our issue oi last week was already on the niadahles when the judges made their deo* ion on the award /or the 1957 Portrait Prise. A S a result Dobellpaint- ingss grace our pages two weeks running. Last week's portrait of Dame Mary Gilmore was a commissioned work, and there- fore, of course, not eligible for entry, as winning paint- ings in our Portrait Prize com- petition become the property of this company. Dame Mary is 92. Madame Rubinstein keeps her age a pretty close secret. Estimates run from the seventies to the early eighties. We met her when she visited Australia earlier this year and were im- premed by the qualities Dobell has captured-her vitality and the shrewdness of those black eyes. That day she was wear- ing a Dior suit in green and black, the fabric pattern rather similar to that of the dress in the Dobell portrait. She loves jewellery-those are anent emeralds in the portrait -and on the day we met her she wore an emerald and a diamond ring, with stones about half an inch square. OFFICIAL opening of the Portrait Prize Exhibition in Sydney is this Wednesday (September 25). For further details see page 7. We are hoping that as many as pos- sible of our readers will go to see the exhibition, which will be shown in turn in the State capitals. Everyone in Sydney who reads this suf- ficiently early on Wednesday morning is welcome at the official opening at the National Gallery in the afternoon. * * * SEALS are the subject of our "These Are Australian" feature this week (page 17) and we were interested, in the course of handling the page, to learn something about the polygamous habits of seals. Ellis Troughton, in his book "Furred Animals of Australia," writes: "It is stated that old Alaskan beach -master males, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds, may gather a harem of upwards of 100 females. Locally it seems that the average harem is about six or seven, although counting is difficult and the smaller fami- lies may result from past de- pletion of population." One comfort for these seal sultana - however big their harems the ladies are supplied with fur coats. * * * irs safe to prophesy that the Dior fashion pazadal (see opposite page) will more excitanait than any previous parades. The manne- quins in their turn are wildly excited at the prospect of visiting Australia. Before the girls were chosen Marcelle Poirier, of our Paris staff, was besieged by them every time she visited the salon. They thought that she might know which had been chosen. She didn't, because Dior decided only after he showed his new season's collection. Marcelle has visited du Dior salon constantly, super- vising photographs of the girl and the dresses, and rho answers a continual barrage o questions about Australia. "Di Australians use boomerangs al the time?" one girl asked. Tun Auentatrau Wouvais WREILE - October 2, 1957