[Interesting Exhibition Opens at Civie Centre For the purpose studying of drawings by" children, developing the children's faculty for invention and promoting art education, 9 national exhibition of children's drawings was opened at the City Government gymnasium at the Civie Centre, Kiangwan, on Saturday morning, Mme, Wu Te-chen, wife of the Mayor, presided and cut the ribbons at the entrance, inaugurat ing the exhibition which will last ten days. A band from the Bureau of Public Safely played during the ceremony.
About 10,000 drawings, selected from a total of more than 60,000 exhibits sent in by children from all over the country, are on display. The exhibition is a splendid representation of the great and contrasting varieties in life in all part of China as the children attempted to portray and specially typify their own districts in their efforts. The quality of the work greatly added to the interest of those exhibits, In order to arouse international interest, foreign children of Shanghat have been specially requested to send their drawings to the exhibition, and these are on display ino separate room. A collection of masterpleces by some of the leading artists of the country is also exhibited, The exhibition is conducted under the auspices of the Central Executive Commission of the National Children's Year in ce-operation with the Bureau of Education of the Shanghai City Government and the National Child Welfare Association, and 1s under the patronage of Gen, Chiang Kal- Dr. LIH, Kung, Dr. Wang Shih-chi," Gen, " Chiang Tye-ping, Mr, Wu Ting-chang, and Gen, Wit Te-chen.
'The selection committee consisted of 36 artists headed by Dr. Liu Hal-shu, president of the Shanghai College of Fine Arts, The interesting display, was made possible after five months' elaborate preparation by a special committee,
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