The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-26
"MEDEA OF THE STUDIO"
How Grimm Got Ills 'ddea' at Last.
Br CHARLES GORDON ROGERS.

Among the women who In 1se-kmooked
at the doors Of the Milo Academy Of Art
to pose, was 'Medea.'
She was tall. slender, %sinuous. Her move
ments were graceful. but undulant and
snake-hke. Her beauty was OF a dark,
sinister sort, calculated TO at once attract
and repel. Her eyes were dark. heavy
lidded, sultry, their expression invar-
iably reminiscent and sometimes f%urtive;
yet withal a certain usefulness lay In
their sombre depths.
Her features were Of an Oriental cast,
vet the French parentage was evident
in certain gestures. though they were not
nervous. and In her accent, though she
spoke excellent English. Her hair was
da rk, and worn low upon a low fore sad
She would pose. she said. for the Life
Class.
She carried. that first night, a guitar
case. and every night thereafter hat she
came. 1t was cold that first night, as
it was almost all Of that winter in New
York, and she seemed to have felt the frost.
But her first care seemed to be for the case
with the guitar. She placed it carefully
upon the heating coils that ran along the
wall. Then, though chilled and shivering,
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the coils, laid IL carefully over the guitar
case. One would nave thought she was
tending a child; yet the maternal instinct
vas not writ large upon her. in either face
or figure.
Gold isn't good for musical Instruments
said Stuyvesant, who plays a mandolin In
a glee club. But such exceeding cart
- He broke of. bordering.
sI'ya aeon har in n canyas aonaYhare .
said Grimm; and he went grubbing in his
brain to find the name Of It. Grimm Is
a painter Of the nude. and has a studio on
Sixteenth street. His nymphs had brought
him some fame. and money. but the people
had grown tired, and Of late the dealers
wouldn't buy. Grimm had not don any
thing great, but he believed he had some
thing great in him, n we too had faith in
Grimm. He came often 10 the Antique
and Life Classes. to see the boys.
Il nave it, said Matthews. I'm swear
she was the model for de Saranac's Brood
ing Eve of the year before last. That's
the one In which the snake plays such a
prominent part"
AS il did in the beginning" remarked
Harris.
Does now, and ever SHALL concluded
Stuyvesant.
you're right said Grimm, but that
isn't the one" He passed his long, white I
hand across his brows. -Presto!" he OK
claimed, as il about TO perform a miracle
'It's WHERE'S Daughter Of the Snake
Charmer,' a Salon picture Of last year
-She seems 10 have been strong on
snakes. remarked Harris.
-She took that boa" said Richards, |
from about her neck just the wa I've
seen circus women han die snakes"
Perhaps she has another boa in the guitar |
case reflected Stuyvesant. His curious
gaze was directed toward the object Of
his remark, at the other size of the big, |
bare room.
In that case--- murmured Harris.
"Muslc hath charms. YOU know, to soothe
the savage snake" said Matthews.
Lizards and snakes and things of that
variety are particularly susceptible TO it,
remarked Grimm.
She's deucedly like Medea. " said Mat
thews. still reminiscent, You fellows
know the one. 1T In every shop in America
and in half the houses. in the form Of an
wing or steel print
4 know the one. said Grimm. Every
body does, But that's Year, and years
old. This girl can't te much over twenty
Il only meant there was a likeness, you
know
Wen name her Medea, aid Richards.
-Shc had something 20 do with snakes,
hadn't shel"
She got over a Jolly big one when she
oOllared the Golden fleece said Harris,
resurrecting his mythology.
she has a pane already, daresay and
may be classical. but IL bears a phonetical
resemblance TO a phrase Of Affection"
"Coexistent with the English tongue
said Grimm.
And other tongues that were Old before
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Medea stood for the life Class that even
ing
THE model Of a salon SUCCESS
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ou', In spite Of the weather, IN the
course Of time.
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told Va Of th. oafes and q the gossiP aud
wine and the laughter 81 the Blule NJ.
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her talk about the men Who were world-
famuus. ~ thor laaLits and idiosynnrasics.
Of their mstiud - work, and al thai
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all right know hh" married a foreigner
named jackson
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