The sun., 1919-01-29
HIGHsARTGkLLSCO COP
WHEN CRITICS CARP
Clivettc's mecca" and Soul
Light Shrine" Make Pill
grims Jest.
FACTS SOMEWHAT AWAY
20. Henry" Did mot Live at
Sheridan Square Address and
the Pictures WE'LL!

II almost goes without saying that
oven Greenwich Village couldn't help
but throw a CONFUSION shortly after
midnight yesterday morning when some
ructions began TO be raised by a group
Of roughhousers that Included Tom
Paine, of The Age Of Reason fame
or maybe 1t was Old Ratph. lsayhe OF
the Sdteuepost--George Washington
Nat Hawthorne, Ed Poe, q. Henry,
Ralph Rhinelander. Waldo Emerson,
Mike Angelo, Jake Da Vincis brother
Lee. Sir Tony, Van Dyck. the great
oscar Higginsink Cesaro of 40 Seventh
avenue. George Inness, ed Burne-Jones'
Bill Van Der weyde. OF IL East Fiji
tenth street. . Dolph Bouguereau. fete
Rubens and Antwerp and Patrolman
Francis Aloysius McGovern OF. the
Charles street police station.
Even this list of fussy folk. distin-
Euished as It Is by great names, is In
complete unless one includes the great
est Of all, the same being M'sieu Clirette
.-sculptor. painter. writer. "psycho-
astralst," lecturer, magician and pro-
prietor OF the Art Mecca and Home OF
the Soul Light Shrine" at / Sheridan
Square, the Village"
where 1t Occurred.
II was "in the premises Of said Gil
vette,- as the police bfotter of the
Charles Street station house doubtless
would have said IL Patrolman. Mctiovern
had arrived In time to make a pinch,
that the disturbance got under way
which set all Greenwich Village to and
fro. And the whole mixup got its stride
simply because NJ. and Nine Clivette
and Miss Alta Clivette, their daughter.
began to raise a deuce Of an objection
when old Oscar Cesare. the newspaper
cartoonist, Bill Van Der Weyde and
some other casual visitors who hap
pened to wander into the ClivetteS Art
Mecca" shortly after midnight yesterday
morning, began to scoff at the Clivette
faInily's assertions concerning the won
dars Of the Sheridan Square art Mecca
and Home Of the Soul Light Shrine"
As disturbers Cesare, Van Der Weyde
and the rest of the Village" sightseers
in their little group wandered into the
art Mecca which is one OF the many
pulsatlng curio shops OF Greenwich VII
lage, they came upon pile or leaflets
placed !nvitingly upon table Just In
side the door. THE Art Mecca a Fasci-
mating Place" was the headline on the
dodgers. Then from the leaflets and
orally from Nine. Clivette the sightseers
learned that the paintings and drawings
Nttering the shop were Originals by
Van Dyck, Bouguereau, Burne-Jones,
Jnness. Turner, Constable, J. q. Brown,
John W. Alexander-oh. by everybody
who Is and especially was. anybody.
Perhaps. Oh, Perhaps!
"And doubtless" suggested H2si hete
Oscar Cesare, with umid hopefulne ~.
-'you also have some Jolly little thing by
Michael Angelo lying around loose.
Madame-eh. vhat?"
'Oh. several" replied Madame lightly.
as one might have said in the days be-
fore the thirty-sixth State ratified. "Oh.
take n good one-we have a whole case
Of bottles in the ice box"
But Madame continued regreEuliy.
81 don't seem to see our original Michael
Angeles around the shop. Now. let me
nee Alta, my dear, whatever did pa do
with those original Michael Angeles
that used TO be piled on this shelf-the
ones he picked up abroad. .,...
Miss Alta Clivette. who wore her orig
snal Titan hair bodied a Ia Polly and
also maintained. just before the ructions
started. that she never read anything
except Shakespeare, Emerson. Dickens
and the poems of John Greenfield Whit
tier or whatever his middle name was,
looked up from the copy OF The Doc
tor" by Ralph Common, which she was
reading in II corner of the shop, and
oesttated n moment
'Lemme see," murmured Miss Alta,
and suddenly added brightly, "Oh, I
know. ma Pa Strengthened up that
part of the store the other day and sent
all our Michael Angelo originals up to
the Manhattan storage or something"
"Tuh-roo. Tuh-roo." She Says.
-Tuh-roo. tuh-roo," said Nine. Cllvette,
who used 10 be in vaudeville with Gil
vette. and therefore. being an eloCu-
4ionary artistic, always remembers to
give the proper value 10 every syllable
of even so simple word as true
I'm 70 sorry" continued Madame,
that my husband. the great Clivette.
ts not here AT the moment TO show you
his wonderful collection OF originals by
The greatest masters and interpret their
meaning for you so that you would DO
able. ladies' and gentlemen, To under
stand them. My husband, YOU doubtless
know, Is the author OF forty-fve great
books and sculptor and painter He
has painted Il great many pictures for
the Government and is now engaged
upon important sculptural commissions
for the Federal authorities"
Yep" chimed In Miss Alta. the Lon
don Times said once about pa. England
has her Shakespeare. America her Finer
son and France her Clivette, the greatest
writer OF the three"
Yes, and he so wonderful he is suf-
Aciert unto himself" Ma added. "He
10 genius who cares absolutely moth
ing for the world or the things OF the
world"
Where Is lie now" some one who
cares enough for worldly things to draw
pictures for newspapers, even read them,
asked.
Ia Had Just stepped Out.
"He stepped out right after dinner to
buy d Journal" said Ma, an continue i
6boughtfully, and / can't understand
what's OBTAINING him"
Maybe Pa had dropped into Gilligan's
over in sixth avenue: anyway, he was
gone so darn long tnat Nine Clivette
nnalv suggested that she would take
the visitors on a tour of the Soul LIgh,
Shrine" which Is down IN the coal cellar
l;admission two bits par nuD and up e
she exhibition Of paintings by the Great
est Clivettc (also admission two bits PEI
NUT above stairs, Madame allowing that
fhe would try to hammer some of the
meaning Of Chvettes great art into the
beans of Aesthetic Cesare and the rest
Of the low brow group.
During the trip through the ClivettC
Exhibition aluft-and there was 10 doubt
that every painting on the wall wa,
absolutely an original Clivette-it wa,
learned that the Greatest Clivette regu
Yates the price of his paintings IN direct
YatiO 10 RauaTO inchas Df tho panyaS