The Archive · 1938

This Wizard Aged 7 Talks

With Brush and Pencil

World's latest wonder child is placid, almond-eyed Plate X. Chan, who can provide you with a political cartoon on any theme you care to mention within four or five minutes.

He can also turn out some amazing ymbolie paintings in oil, to say nothing of eny number of black-and-white impressions. And that, you must agree, isn't bad for the age of seven!

Plate is the son of a Chinese tache in Paris. And it is no exaggeration to say that he startled the artistic world with his sketches and paintings.

He paid his first visit to England recently, with his parents, Mr. and s. Yoi-Kwong Chan, and his sister, Christina, states a "Reynolds" corres-

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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