Original Sketches Cause Favourable Comment Paddy O'Shea is 17 years old and jover since he was a small boy of seven he has been drawing pictures, dreaming that some day he would be a great artist, And now, although he has never taken on art Jessen in his life, It seems as though the Is well on bls way to fame—and maybe fortune, "Paddy," those critics who have seen his work say, "has developed a style all of his'own, He is a Benuine creative artist."
'When Paddy first found out that it was fun to put pencil to paper fund make interesting marks he wat interested in shoes—ladies' shocs—and 80 he sketched them, copying the ones he saw and making up his own designs which he considered a. great improvement, 'Then he became terested in the theatre, the Chinese theatre, forhe seldom goes to aforelgn theatre' or clne: no, and for several yeats be devoted himself to drawing Pketches of actors end making masks tone pald much attention to Paddy and his drawing. He was allowed to do xt in his spare time ut his sether, Mr Desmond O'Shea, tue son of Mr. Henry O'Shea, a Gloneer journalist in Shanghai, thought it was more Important that Vaddy spend long hours' in study.
(Classical Education Paddy. whose mother is a wolfe educate? Chines Indy, the former Miss Wong Bing-pay, has been educated in true Chinese classical fashion, He speaks several dialects including Cantonese, Shanghai, and Mandarin, "He has' cond all of the classics with the exception of a few fof the very difficult and now with his father, who also is quite a Chinese scholar, he is hoping to trans-Jate a Chinese book which tells the story of the Great Wall, His father will do the most of the text and he will assist and do the illustrations, Three weeks ago young Paddy grew tired of making masks, was ill, "He decided to amuse hi self and so he made sketch acleaturing the things he saw about
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