The San Francisco call., 1909-07-14
ART MUST STEP
ASIDE WHEN TIE
COIN IS NEEDED
Arts and Crafts Club Turns
From Lofty Idealism to
Money Wooing Stunts
"a Merry Widows Roadhouse"
: May Go Far to Raise the
PIebeian Mortgage

Finding that the esthetic and artistic
entertainments given for raising funds
to meet the mortgage of the Arts and
Crafts club have psen financially unsuc-
cessful, the literary and artistic colony
OF Carmel-by- -the-Sea have finally de-
of idealism and resort to the plebejan
tactics which strangely raise the
money! Therefore July "a there will
be portrayed IA Whfrl," which among
its acts will include such materialistic
stunts as "A Merry Widows Road
house, fictitious police court, in
which malefactors, and particularly
those of great wealth, will be put
through the vulgar but satisfactory
process of being fined.
LESION TAUGHT BY PLEBs
The Whirling Widows Roadhouse"
is the result of painful observation. At
Carmel-by- -the-Sea Tvs another colony
composed of those who are strictly
and emphatically not poetical and who
prefer to go through life in the usual
way. This colony formed the Manza-
nita club, as distinct and apart from
the arts and crafts of the noble fore
heads. The Manzanita club erected the
town hall and then, very inartistically,
proceeded to make it a paying propo-
sition. They gave no exhibitions of
wild flowers; they raved not over the
impressionist school.
Rather did they lean toward mas
querade balls. to attend which each
gentleman was requested to pay for
self and lady. This was prosaic, but
the farnlhands came in force and the
money rolled in. The literary ones at
tended these affairs also, but it was
with i'll grace, and it was palpably eyf-
dent sthat far rather would they be
enthused over Bersford's yellowed can
vases. And so vice versa The Mama :
nita attended the pottery exhibit, the
Dutch lunch. the wild flower exhibition
and the Aecture on the impressionist
school. ~ But withal they held their
opinion.
las it, they quoth, las if Lewis
could not paint 90 pictures like that in
one day." Lewis being the town painter
who has left much of his handiwork
on the surrounding fences. And who
shall judge of the silent sarcasm with
which the exhibition of wild flowers
367 varieties-was received And it
was freely intimated that there was not
a single piece of artistic pottery in the
entire caboodle from which one could
conveniently drink cup Of coffee.
AND THEY HAVE MONEY
Thus the sentiment grew and the
breach widened. Recently the time
came to collect more funds to meet the
embarrassing mortgage held in the sor-
did hands of Attorney Frank II. Pow
ers. Wild flowers were suggested.
Alas, The rank materialists who
possessed the money cared not one
tinker,s button for wild flowers learn
edlys designated by their Latin names.
The thought of pottery produced a
shudder and the plan of a lecture on
the impressionist school a howl of dis
may. Therefore was 1T decided to have
the widows merry whirl at the road
house or something akin. Just what
the whirl will turn 10 is a mystery.
There are several girls in the cast, how
ever, who. mounted on unpretentious
plugs, will go forth selling magazines
issued for the occasion. Art would give.
some say, vaudeville show, some tall
ent and some amateurs. Backing the
scheme are George Sterling, Fred Bech-
dolt, Arnold Genthe, Ferdinand Berg
dorf, w. Greer Harrison and a party of
college students. Judge Buck of Stock
ton will do the fining.