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( a les-onavyILLER- Mr.hiir•nnltl « for rr.Vt'Glrr) it Mr. moieArtist’s Heroic CareerB at ii X WBSwcaslie is. and a con-tedmeWft.butnuetollseilaesId.ingupin*forin*forhor-NdIhatIt’sto*oRYDNEV, Sunday.—A man with paralysed anna watched people walking round a Phlllip-itrrrt studio yesterday praising 3fl paintings and drawings hanging on the walla. The studio visitors were not aware that the crippled man. Weaver Hawkins, hud painted the picture*.The exhibition was a triumph lor Hawkins, who had hla right arm almost torn ofT by machine-gun bullets and shrapnel and his left nrm poisoned 33 years ago In FYance during World War I.He hod more than 20 opera I Horn, in two and a hall years in I hospital, and was discharged with his right nrm totally paralysed. The poisoning left him with i only t.hc cramped use of hla left hand and forearm.Doctors told Hawkins he would | never paint again.C’RAMPFD LEFT IIANU | But slowly he taught himself , to paint with the cramped hand, I and H a few years was exhibiting j painting In London at the Royal Academy, I he New English Art Club, and the Goupll Salon.He also toured the provinces ; with hts work.Hla work now on exhibition at the Mercury Theatre School. Fhinip-street, reflect* his travel* —a Tahiti plantation, scenes from Sienna, Italy, a Wellington lt;NZi panorama, boats of Southern Prance, a Tnngler market square.Admiral W former ll.S. Oprra Ilona. tuiMador to that only a accident'1 r »oen. Ills «l that of leader*. »h greis recentl ger of war I rrcenManyToSYDNEY,° left to )lt; men on ahi in Auatralu had left asThe wan would desert porta aa neal Arab territoryThe travelle would easily re England or Ar The Palettlni suited In the c new racket in legitimately seamen are be sums of money books.Deserting sea offered large » charge papers • About 200 B deserting In Au weekShips algn uJomn cnun
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Mackay Daily Mercury
Mackay, Queensland, AU
Mon, May 10, 1948
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