The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-04-21
The FAKIRS' PICTURE SHOW
LAUNDRY SCENE IN EDEN AND A
BROWLESS LITTLE GIRL.

soul Kiss, ' which title covers a great part
Of the theatre district, opened at the Art
Students League yesterday afternoon with
q vanishing and press day. The Fakirs'
show. as. Simeon Ford and almost every
other devotee Of the masterpieces Of josh
art realize, is the grand climax to the leae
frivolous and less interesting picture show
Of the National Academy downstairs in the
Fifty-seventh street building. In fact about
the only reason for the National Academy
show Ia to hang paintings along the line
that are susceptible Of being caricatured
bv the Fakirs Of the Art Students League
which is the principal object il striving 10
be an Academioian,
This year the Fakirs have %studiously
avoided anything that might he interpreted
as a slam at Anthony Comstock. II will
be remembered that last season Mr.. Com
stock pulled the league life class output
together with a couple Of moving picture
shows further downtown in Fourteenth
street, and 80 when the Fakir show hap
pened along Anthony was handed his all
over the walls.
The first thing you saw as you entered the
grand gallery Of the Fakirs yesterday was
a large portrait OF Charles Battell LOOMS,
the jolly humorist Of Moutclair, in the act
Of trying to smile. T.. l.. Chase made the
fake OF the LOOMS portrait that has been
drawing crowds in the original downstairs
for weeks past. Mr.. Chase's portrait was
labelled Charles Bat Mr.. LOOMS may
object to the fnyOlity Of the title. but that's
what il was.
Portrait of a Little Girl Without Eye
brows,' which was not exactly a caricature
Of the Henri portrait at the Academy eXhi-
hilton but something like it, won the first
prize. The "P. o A. l.. G. W. H." was ac-
corded the palm not only by the jury Of
awards but by the distinguished art critics
from the morning and evening newspapers
who thronged the exhibition Yesterday,
Mr.. Seldom with wonderful genius caught
the little girl at the moment that her eye
brows were not on the job, aud therein lies
the success Of his picture. Her face buttons
down the front and the rest OF her is in paint
that has ~beenlembossel with q trowel shaped
palette knife. Happily she is wearing the
smile that won't peel on.
Miss Bessie Brown, an Art Students
lCdkhtl VIM bICt ulbN IlNlhlNh lOl lubLGl
out in the home village Of Youngstown. Ohio.
but who doesn't like to be reminded Of it
now that she is a regular artist, stood around
gowned in a Bingham work apron yester-.
day and explained what her charming pic
tuTe, "On to Pabst's," meant. "On 70
Pabsts' was suggested by the "Fawns'
Frolic." As Miss Brown Of Y onngstown,
Ohio, grasps the idea the fawns are book
beer goats hurrying over a heliotrope hill
or something. But in she days when she
drew pictures for money on the Youngstown
ImdNcator Miss Brown always wooded the
classic dope, so she SAYS, aud did things in
chalk plate that appealed more to persons
with low tastes
Fake 81. Mother Didn't Use Wool
Soap by G. J. Mccarthy. suggests Mr.
kendalls "Narcissus, " a little girl looking !
into. a mirror with bow legs. To be exact.
the mirror is quite without limbs Of any
kind and rests unassisted upon itself on
the floor, but the little girl is less fortunate /
IL ever she were squeezed into a narrow
necked bottle. say, she'd not be able to get
out without breaking the bottle or sending
for an osteopath. Besides this. her little
patch Of clothing has wasted away and the
color Of the actual girl herself is a happy
pea green, Dut ntT hnOtDultOn eyes are ]
winsome and wistful.
Mr.. Comstock never would stand for
Fake So. called by Ward Winchsll, the
artist Nothing TO Wear The entire pie
ture IL in the title. Eve Is represented on
the canvas Just after she has fallen. or, to
be exact, while she still il falling, for she
IA pictured before she has finished eating
the little red apple. At left stage is a clothes
line from which depends the tigleaf fastened
nafanfaNiptaly xrith IA gI,thaa,fp In tho
original downstairs Eve was depicted hold
ing one leg bent back a. the knee while
resting that particular foot on the atmos-
phere. The question Of how she stood up
IN that position has bothered many yisi-
tors to the Academy show during the past
weeks. Mr.. Winchelrs fske Hupplies a
WOODEN leg for Eve, which goes far toward
explaining her equilibrium.
lie Baron Scotford has a picture called
See Calmical. after Arthur Davies's Sea
Calm Of the Academy exhibition, that's
all to the mysticism Slabs OF leather and
such form the clouds and here and there
a cloud has become unlocked and fallen
into the foreground shamelessly. Wandering
along the ocean is a forty mule team, as in
the original Davies, cut from cardboard
and having the advantage oyer the Davies
mules in that the legs are fastened artfully
70 the mules in such a way that they may
he made TO kick upward by pulling a string
that falls below the lower edge Of the frame
from the back Of the picture.
Anybody passing the picture may pull
the mules limbs via the string, thus a~Tousing
hearty laughter from the pretty girl art
students clustered around. The string goes
far % fill IN the lulls in the conversation.
bulls that most certainly happen when one
hasn't known the girl art students more
than half an hour or so. When one cant
think Of anything else TO say one can pull
the limb strings Of the mules and say some
thing about -hamstrings' and get repeated
laughs over all around the place.
During the course of the afternoon the
celebrated Ultra Marine Silver Cornet and
Sideoomb Band Of the league marched into
the exhibition hall and gave a sacred con-
cert. Charles &. RadleY. who Affects arti-
fetal wiiiskeus like SOusa's led the band
gowned in white. After the rendition Of a
private version Of Bon Bon Buddie" word
got around that that would be about all Of
that, and the band crept away. 1t isn't a
very good band, when all is said and done,
Walter G.. Williams, president Of the
Fakirs. announceGlthat the grand side show
and concert would follow the concert, so
everybody followed the band and Walter.
Some that went to the side show room by
way Of the main corridor went right on into
the side show and stage performance, but
others who cut across lots and got a glimpse
Of the red candelabraed Partisan cafe to
the south OF the little theatre stopped right
there.
Why' Well, all the very prettiest art
student girls are working this week
In the cafe. They're done up in black
waitress gowns with white T.. n. Thaw
collars and white cuffs and black butterfly
ties and 30 forth, inst as We all are used To
seeing them Ia Paris. After you glimpse
the Mattresses there's. nothing TO II; you |
inst ait nTOIInH and h11U and htU and htty