The sun., 1916-12-10

c%aricatures and little s~tatuettes have
furnished London with It's most anus
ing sensation.
"In one of these caricatures Orpen
Is seen looking through a telescope
to find Glyn Philppt, "A new star rising
in the sky and some one pointed out
that Dulac might well have substi-
tuted his own portrait for Philpot's
and have Max Beerbohm occupying
Orpen's place. Max has hitherto been
the only begetter Of such chefs d'pu-
vres but he will now have To look to
his laurels. 1t Is quite true that no
master can equal Max's "TennyAn
reading his verses to Queen Victoria
or write essays like More Such
masterpieces have justly earned him a
claim to i~nimitability. but Dulac.
though only a newcomer in the field.
has already won rare triumphs.
I'VE are credibly informed that
when her Majesty Queen Mary first
came upon the little figurine Of Sir
Claude Phillips. not only her gravit,
but that OF her dignified ladies in
waiting was for an appreciable space
of time seriously upset. 1t Is our ma
tional misfortune that Charles Rick
etts. the owner of this priceless pos
session. would not permit 1t, or its
companion. Mrs. Gibson the collector
Of Gender fans t. run submarine
risks. For the time being. therefore,
they fittingly repose among the Greek
marbles. Leonardos. Robins. Watteaus
and Daumiers, in the famous studio on
~Lansdowne road.
mir. Edmund Davis. who has on
riched the I.uXembOurs with a splcns
did collection of modern English art,
ii another fortunate collector, He
owns an entire group OF drawings and
cariCature~. among which the most
notable ones are 'Nlsstrovic Carving the
Colossal Toe OF Some Serbian Hero
and Ricketts, aud shannon the heav-
cnly twins. as Robert Ross calls them
in which Dulac has So Clcvoriy min
rled the spirit of Indian art and Eng
lish humor.
I'VE must. not be ungrateful, how
ever. for we have a drawing of the
late Lord Kitchener showing his pas
sion for blue china. and the unap-
proaChah'e SarHen, in Belgrayia
among other good ~caricatures. Al II
these are done from memory. and the
same Is virtually true Of such serious
portraits as that Of the Japanese actor
Mr.. Michio l'ow, and Mime. \.
Stage settings and costumes consti-
tutc still another departure. Dulac
began 10y creating some fantastic
rocco designs for lirecham's produC-
ton Of Bach's '!'hocbus and Pan in
which the chorus was CARRIED in eigh-
tenth century style. whereas the
principals. remarkable for their hi
zarrc %coifures. appeared in pseudo
classical costumes.
This artistic diversion was followed
Ivy the setting for Maud Allan of an
Egyptian legend entitled "khamma."
written by the gifted dancer and W.
J.. Courtney OF the F~OrtHiOhND Re-
riCtr. with music for an orchestra ~
ninety men by Claude Duhussy. who
has since Col.ahorated in a similar way
with BakSt. This important work Will
have its premiere in New York city
this spring.
FINALLY he has designed a series Of
masks. settings and costumes for Will
lam Butler Yeats's symbolical play en-
titled Al the Hawks Well or
Waters Of immortality a poetical
rama modelled upon the Noh stage
tradition Of aristocratic Japan.
, THE properties devised by Du'ac are
so simple that the actors can bring
them in a single cab and perform dur
ing their leisure hours in any DRAWING
room. Mr., Yeats. in his still uupub-
lish"d preface, tells Us what a etirtinI
adventure II would lc for a poet and
an artist working together to Great"
once moro heroic or grOtcSque types
that, keeping always an appropriate
distance from life, would seem images
If those profound emotions tina, cNs,
only in solitude and in silence.
1T would seem that in DulHc I've
found m artist who could Rot ONLY
enter into the spirit oC his Iuctry hu'
who was moreover familiar wrh the
ancient theatrical traditions of ~"
Romans ana of those couSImma'o
Japanese masters who hundreds Of
years ago moulded masks for various
types of tragic character"