WELLINGTON ACADEMY

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 10, 23 September 1927, Page 6

WELLINGTON ACADEMY

"Truly these are exciting times to live ii, Aren’t we all Incky to be alive? Airplanes, the kinema, radio! And the greatest of these is radio. Or so some of us think, as in the warm security of our ain fireside we listen o’ nights to the magical sounds and wonders that come to us over the air like gifts from the gods, ‘Television is not yet, though it may be in the offing, so to. speak. : And as one can’t see the Annual Academy show without going down to | the little building in Whitmore Street, | one wanders along there as a matter of eourse to see the latest work of New Zealand painters, Very fine it is, too, some of it; though, on the opening night, when Lady Alice Fergusson opened the show and spoke with that grace and charm. of hers, there was. wot much chance to study art. An interesting crowd it’ was, numbering men and women of achievement in the professional, artistic and social worla, also a few glowing representatives of those who, in the Victorian era, were termed the rosebud garden of girls. The play, the social play, is the thing at the opening function; but next day one likes the quiet hour when the pictures are noted at leisure and the portrait or landscape more carefully studied than was possible when it intrigued the fancy the night before. What a glow and sparkle Mareus King contrives to imprison, and the quiet poetry of Nugent Weilch’s painted fields and skies is irresistible. Memorable, too, is a picture of a fair and youthful maiden by that gifted artist, Mrs. Tripe; while Elizabeth Kelly’s portraval of a well-known Christchurch journalist is a. conyincing bit of work. ‘The women’s work in this show is outstanding.