New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-25
The Illustrators
Illustrated
Continued from Page Fire

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Over in the studio General Motor, OF
Detroit, calls. He has been tipped off to
the beauties of JackyPs picture, Mo-
notony at Lyme" Curves Carroll, the
model, shows him another, in the same
happy vein, called THE Potter's Field"
which he buys at a big price.
Then Bourgeois White drops into the
office. He is an artist who has been
completely won over to business affairs.
He asks Snide how the business is pro-
crossing, and Snide replies: Rotten!
Getting the money is too easy-taking
it is too hard. The Miasma PROPOSE
ton is too big as it stands. 1t can't 90
through, and it makes a hell of a noise
when it falls through
White insists that if start is made
money will drive in, but Snide says they
can't always go on showing plaster mod
els and water color sketches, and that
some day some one will want to see the
deeds.
Snide rebels, and says that he Is
serious, and is going back to painting.
"Yes, you would be going back" says
White.
II wasn't meant for business" coun-
ters Snide. I'm no Joseph p. Day"
WnrrE-You amt no John Sargent,
either
SNIDE-I want to paint
WHrrE-So do all the nuts.
When White takes the stenographer
out to lunch he doesn't include Snide in
the invitation because, he says, there
isn't any complementary color for
blues" Snide, alone in the office, fes-
toons the typewriter cloth cover into a
Grape, which he hangs upon his desk.
AS a business man Snide is dead.
Over in the studio Artist Jackyl re-
ceives Thomas Warbride, another plct-
ure buyer. His interest in JackyPs
pictures is shown to be that Of specu-
lator gambling on the worth of JackyPs
pictures when the artist is dead. 1t Is
by this means that the authors have
shown that Jackyl has arrived as a
painter, and this thought is further
driven home when John Hancock, the
celebrity sharpshooter, calls with an
offer of fifty thousand dollars worth
of publicity for the artist.
"But | hate publicity" says the ar
fist.
HANcocK-That's because you never
had any. After you get the habit you'll
be always in front of the camera.
Jackyl insists that he wishes to work
by himself, alone, and Hancock replies:
IF you stick to that line of patter, you
may be famous all right-after you're
dead. Indorse my tobacco and the lime
light shines on you"
JAcKYL-But | don't smoke pipe
cigars occasionally, and cigarettes, but
never pipe.
SvIpE-Irvin Cobb could have writ
ten: Il like Battleaxe." But he's paid
by the word, so he pulled long SEN
tence 81 don't see any reason why [
should not say that like Battleaxe, be-
cause | do, very much"
JAcKyL-I get you-but | couldn't
think of anything clever to say--it
ought to be clever, of course.
Hancock has a ready-made quotation
from Nathan Hale-"I only regret that
| have but one life to give-to Battle
axe"
Jackyl remarks that this doesn't
sound dignifed, but Hancock assures
him that when that message begins to
ring in the ears of the multitude Jackyl
will have accomplished more than he
could in twenty years of patient work.
He asks for a signed authorization and
a good photograph. Jackyl demurs
about going through with 1t, and Han
cock comes back: Didn't Nero start a
fire to draw attention to his fddling?
Man! It's golden opportunity"
"My advent into advertising" says
Jackyl, as he signs the authorization,
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