"DIRTY HUMOUR" DECRIED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19886, 13 March 1939, Page 3

"DIRTY HUMOUR" DECRIED

CRITICISM BY BATEMAN YOUNG MODERN ARTISTS FREMANTLE, Feb. 28. The famous artist'and cartoonist, Mr. 11. M. Bateman, who arrived here -in the liner Gorgon to-day, does not like "the dirty humour ol .nany young modern artists." "I belong to the older generation, which does not like to see such things in print," he said. "Fifteen or 20 years ago they would not have got past the censor. '"This type of humour is really so limited, and.doe.s not. display much originality. The same old theme is repeated ad nauseurn. Real humour will stand on its own merits. This applies equally to drawings as to the stage." In Sydney, Mr. /Bateman proposes to hold an exhibition of his best known humorous drawings, such as "The Guardsman who dropped it." He is always on the look-out for fresh subjects. "The artist who forgot his pencil would make a good one,' lie said, groping in each of his various pockets to accede to the request of a woman passenger for an autograph.

Although the "Guardsman" drawing is probably- his best known, he prefers "Tha boy who breathed on the clock at the British Museum" and "The prisoner, when arrested, clung to the railings."