New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-14
Everything Offered for
Sale to the Stranger
Except Subway.
PRETTY GIRLS SING
PRAISES OF WARES
Art Students League Expects to
Get Most of Money in Sight
Before Close.

According 10 the programme and the
posters. the "Fakers' Show" given by the
members Of the Art Students League.
which opened yesterday. is intended to
run all week. and II by the end OF that
time the league is unable TO endow "A
home for INDECENT artists. a college or
two and a couple OF hospitals, il VIII not
be the fault of the young women lcaguers
who were selling things 10 the visitors
last evening. Before the stranger had
been within the league portals i've MIN
utes he was invited 10 buy everything
but the subway. and there even were
some hints about that
And since all these damsels offering
wares were pretty. there was nothing the
poor man could do but dig deeply. Ad-
mission 10 the taking show, gorgeous
yellow programme. a takers button
carnation. tickets 10 all OF the four side
shows and the right TO walk the streets
OF Manhattan and breathe ozone were
some Of the things for which toll was
demanded.
Were il not that the various things one
acquired for the small sum OF couple o.
weeks salary were worth the money, and
then some. there might have been some
dissatisfaction. But they were from the
confetti on the floor TO the coiored WIGS
Of the women.
AS for taking, there were efforts oXhio-
tied that would cause the famed cobra eA-
perts of India, who are possessed OF con
siderable fakins prestige, 10 retire and SO
into the wholesale delicatessen business
II they got a glimpse of this show. Tho
paintings in the National Academy OF
Design, below the league quarters are inc
targets for the leagues satire.
Mountain Indnity," for instance. u
burlesoued by a drawing OF a large crowd
of women. all condensed into enc ana
labelled His Mountain Affinity There
IS "A Study in Green and Cold there
being depicted an unsophisticatcd rurallte
and a brick supposedly constructed OF the
precious metal. The prize fake j.
"Prune," the original OF which Is AleA-
ander's June" and the medal for being
the worst fake was awarded 10 traV-
estv on Duiner's Early Morning.
A woman who is studying cubist art is
the author of a multi ,hromauc and stu
nefvinc fake that entities her 70 rank far
ahead of the Futurists-almost as an IN
Anltist And-whisper-there were any
number OF students who could not Tor the
life Of them name the originals ~ more
than one o. two Of the fakes.
The side shows embrace musical CONT
edv. a sketch. living statues. traVelogue.
futuristic tango and any number OF
other things Individual honors went 20
Nuriel Muella and Kneeland Green TOT
their terpsichoreon work in "liigh ART
the musical comedy. The futuristc TANGO
was executed by Alice O'Neil ana "lii''m
Balm.
The posters advertising the sho" W.'t
also exhibited the prize one being cdlleo
"Gabv des Fallir" This was a soinpr'
a1air done in a few quiet colors. sue"
as scarlet. violet, wild blue. yellow pur-
ME lavender and heliotrope
The programme itself contains sketches
and attempts az literature. II the Dul'u
i,,, does not collapse from tho STRAIN IN
the mean time the fakes will be auctiohe"
-, IN Tho lowest bidder AZ the end OF me
week The show, incidentally IS ia Dun
e. between Broadway and Seventh ave