The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1911-05-06

York Dramatic Nilsson. Recently she,
wrote:
Clyde Squires, the young western
artist who has achieved metropolitan
vogue, told the writer that he agrees
with her conclusion that the matinee
idol is becoming passe, and that both
sexes now kneel at the shrine Of the
matinee idoless.
when was youngster of
twelve I was terribly smitten with
Mary Mannering, he said. She was
playing in Salt Lake City, and pin
ed for some tangible memento of her.
knew that she would play in Zion
but three nights and disappear from
my horizon, perhaps forever. | went
to newspaper office and labored at
desk for an hour writing her let.
ter. Some of the business letters of
the city editor were spread on the
desk and | copied portions of them
that seemed to me to sound especially
manly. 1t must have been an awful
mosaic. But in a week there arrived
from San Francisco what | had ar.
IDENTIFY yearned for, sheet of paper
with Yours sincerely, Mary Manner
ing, written upon it. priced it as a
courtier cherishes the buckle from a
queens slipper. A year later | read
with much distress that she had mar
ried James X. Hackett. | climbed a
hay NOW and swore eternal hatred Of
Hackett.'"
From him recently l endeavored to
get the story of his New York career.
regret to state nothing short of a
surgical operation would have ex-
tracted the entire history. My inquis-
itorial forceps, however, drew some
leaders from the innermost recesses Of
his modest memory.
81 was eighteen years old when an
insane desire to study art had grown
to such proportions that my mother
scraped together enough cash to send
me to New York for one year. We
all thought that one year would do the
trick, but at the end of the one year
could see that the worst was yet to
come, and as | didn't dare to go home
and listen to the neighbors ask me,
What are you going to do now?'
proceeded to place art on the shelf
for the time being and go to work.
That is the way he started his remin.
iscences of ten years ago.
SO Squires started to hunt work. 1t
is well worth while to note the fact
that he did not apply at a BARRIERS
shop-he was after something more
elevating. Finally he secured a man
ual job with the Manhattan Bedding
Company in New York City His ar
tistic temperament was set to work
on piling up cot legs in meat stacks
as they were received from the fac
tory. One day, after three weeks or
the job, the piled up stack thai
made the leaning tower of Pisa lool
like, as he put it, "a never was" He
had reached the last step on the lad
4 der, and thinking that there was al
ways plenty of room at the top" h,
set one more bundle of legs in place
In his dry fashion he said, while re
lating the story, The angle at whicl
| had built was too much for the poo
legs underneath. and, as what goe
up must come down proved to b.
true in this case there was one gram
sequel which sent all hands stamped
ing from the floor below. After tn
awful clatter had subsidized and wa
busily engaged in crawling out of tn
, wreck, the office force to a man al
, rived from below. | escaped with m
life, but regret to say that wa
noe even asked to resign. smpl
took my hat and coat and left.
!. My next move was to really
y something with my art After som
l. walking ! succeeded in securing a p,
!. sition with fashion company. | DIRE
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