The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-25

this sort Is to be given to women at all.
certainly 1t should be done more pri-
vately.
81 think 1t would have been different
had the model been female and the audi
ence composed of men-men. that is, who
were truly students of art. With such, an
affair of this kind would have been just
what 1t was supposed 10 be-a giving and
receiving of instruction in art. and nothing
more. But this general public gathering
of ladies to look at semi-nuds man, un-
der the circumstances which l understand
attended the Sandow lecture, l cannot but
regard as having been in bad taste"
AS to men being less refined than women
in this regard G. W. Currier strongly de-
MED the MANY opinions advanced. He
thought an audience of men could view an
exhibition Of the kind. were a woman the
model. with as much refinement as the
ladies did Sandow.
al don't think there was any harm
DONE" said William Keith. at was like
an art-school lecture; that was ALL"
II. Albert Roberts thought art knows no
sex. and George E. Lyon brushed up his
history and quoted Honi soft Qui NAL Y
pense."
1t is more in sorrow than in anger that
the lady members OF the Sketch Club
realize the structures which an artistic
world is capable of passing upon lecture
on artistic anatomy, when it takes place
in a theater and is illustrated by perfect
man.
Yes" said one of them, with a sigh, to
a CALL reporter yesterday, "if you will
promise not to mention my name, l don't
mind saying that many of us ind even our
own relatives Incapable of realizing the
exigeDcies of art study. How, then, can
we expect the general public to show more
enlightenment? To Tell the truth we
don't, and we have resolved to bear the
cruel charges in dignifed silence"
Mrs. Captain Burns, the mother Of Miss
Ermendine Poole. secretary of the Sketch
Club. was very much surprised that any
exception should have been taken to the
lecture. "DO you think that | would
have taken my two daughters to hear it,
if there had been anything unusual or de-
grading?" she asked. IF people want to
criticize one phase of art study. let them
criticize all its phases. Why not find fault
with the young ladies' who paint in the life
classes with young men. In all the
European art schools they use nude
models. and yet no one there blames them
for making studies that are necessary for
learning their art.
I'm that talk of Solly Walters there was
nothing to cavil at. The ladies never for
a moment thought about Sandow being a
man; he was used merely as an illustra-
ton, and gave every one the effect that a
marble statue would have done. Any one
might have seen such an exhibition with
out having their modesty shocked, and
those who think otherwise should apply
to themselves the proverb. 'Honi soft qui
nal Y pense.'
Had the men been admitted they would
have seen how very unObjectionabe the
lecture and illustrations were. AT it is,
they were barred out. and they imagine
all sorts of things without any grounds.
why Sandow, at that distance from the |
fOotlights. had exactly the effect OF statue. !
He never left his pedestal, and never even
inflated his lungs. People who want some |
thing to cavIl at should turn their atten- /
ton to Shadows fight with that Door |
manned lion. | an told there were apum- !
Der Of women and girls present who were |
actually disappointed because the animal |
did not show fight. and deprived them of
the sensation and excitement of seeing the !
struggle. Do you not think they were
more TO be criticized than young ladies