The Alaska daily empire., 1918-12-20
ALASKA LAD
 WHO WON FAME IS DESCRIBED Minor s. McLain Who Was Kissed by Mary Garden
 Arrives Back in
 Seattle. WAS A POSTER SUBJECT
WAS A POSTER SUBJECT
He Was Painted by Chan dIer Christie and Appear ed on Many of the
 War Posters.

Everybody says I blushed when Mary Garden kissed me, but I didn't have any mirror there to see, and I don't think that T did," says the Seattle Times.
 This is the way Seattle's Apollo of the Navy modestly explains his interview with the famous operatic singer during one of his recent tri- umphs in New York City.
 With a real, live, shipwreck and an icy plunge into the ocean and safety to his credit, and wearing the gold chevron of the foreign service" signifying that he has seen duty East of the 37th meridian, First Class Machinist Mate Minor s. Nc Lain, son of Mrs Fannie McLaln, 1718 Minor Ave, returned to Seattle this week McLain has been termed the Apollo of the Navy by Eastern art critics, who say that he typifies the real American sailor, and ia nous stage beauties have expressed admiration for his masculine charm. He was the subject of various arti cles printed in New York and Phila delphia newspapers.
 From a third-class stoker in the fire room of a United States battle ship to a guest in the $S,000,00o Riverside Drive mansion of Charles M. Schwab, president of the Finer gency Fleet Corporation, is only one of the astonishing features in the career of the handsome youth, as set forth by New York newspaper articles, Schwab skipping McLain on the back, exclaimed of him. You are just the kind of young man that Uncle Sam has need of"
 Explains Mary Garden Kiss
 In explaining about the Mary Gar den kiss, of which New York news papers had much to say, McLain said yesterday:
 q had been witnessing one of her exhibitions of "Thais" at the opera, when a friend took me behind the scenes to introduce me to her. Be fore ever we met Mary Garden she espied me and cried oh, there is a sailor boy. I must kiss him. And that she did. She also gave me one of the roses which she had re- ceiyed over the footlights.
 Later we went to one of the boxes, where met her mother. When Mary Garden came out to make a curtain call l waved the rose at her, and she came over to the side of the stage and threw many kisses to the box where I was. Of course everybody applauded and thought that was fine. You know audiences like that sort of thing"
 McLain's head and shoulders ap peared on many of the war posters painted by Howard Chandler Christy, during the last Liberty Loan drive. He formed the model for the central figure in the famous poster by MT. Christy, Clear the Way" which showed a glorified Columbia clearing the way that deck gun might be shot. He also appeared on the GOV CTS of popular magazines painted by Christy.
 Takes Liberties With Models
 q often told Christy that he took liberties with his models" McLain explained. He often would use one persons shoulders and some one else's head and stil third persons hands. He made me pose more than three-quarters of an hour at single stretch. and it was lots of fun"
 McLain explained yesterday that he took it as pore of a joke than anything else when people called him "Apollo". He said the crew on board the subchaser didn't call him that, but that many of his friends. particularly in Philadelphia. intro duced him as Apollo" It got so that 1t became very natural, he said. rIn .~fd fho xnou sslrsddodo hin, o11o,ff