Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-16
HANGS ROCK ON
ARTISTS NECK
Eve SuspeRds Gibraltar Around
Collar of Painter ard He
Admits 1t.

1.-THE artists paint pot and q
woman's rouge stick are diametric-
ally opposed"
God gives man the gift of art
Eve and a baby carriage takes It
away from him
'Marriage--the conventional Rock
of Gibraltar that weighs upon the
artists soul"
Thus spoke William Auerbach
Levy, New York, Greenwich village
artist, to a gathering of intimate
friends not long ago. But this was
all prior to February 10, when he
startled the residents of this ultra
modern community by committing
the objectionable sin. For Artist
Levy forgot his own sayings and
shouldered the Rock of Gibraltar
with the assistance of Justice will
liam e. Rungee, of Greenwich,
Conn.
The news is just out
Miss Florence Won Wien, of
Cedarhurst, Long Island, a demure
little. golden-haired, blue-eyed girl
of twenty-five. is the one who is re-
sponsible for the artists sudden
change of mind.
But don't get the idea that il was
all my fault" she told a reporter.
Billy and | held the same views
when we first met about three
months ago, but | was shocked to
find so many of our friends who
held the same views actually oppose
our plan. And yet these people can
sit down and write page after page
denouncing marriage as the great
est IF all evils.
81 still believe there's a lot of
truth in what they say, though"
she laughed. Especially that part
about the ball and chain because
the surest way to lose man is to
put paddock on his affections and
throw the key away.
Billy and I could live together
every bit as happily, and perhaps
just little more spontaneously so.
if we'd never gone through that
foolish ceremony up in Greenwich.
But, then, l suppose there's always
be lot of silly, medieval people
who'd say: Isn't it perfectly dread
full"
When a fellow meets the one girl
in the world it's foolish to take any
chances with the conventions" MIR.
Levy frankly admitted. Even my
friend, Joe King, who edits the
Greenwich Village Pagan. and who
is very much adverse marriage,
advised me not to take that chance.
Then there's Barney Gallant. man
ager of the Greenwich Theater, and
Jack Charasb-all bitterly opposed
to the tie that binds until they met
the girl.
I'VE didn't intend to let it get out
that we we're married. but while we
were having a wedding supper at
the Pickwick Inn in Greenwich |
made a rough sketch of Mrs Levy
on the menu and sent it with the an
nouncement to a select circle of
friends whom we believed we could
trust. Some one must have betrayed
us"
MIR. Levy is a former student of
the National Academy of Design and
won the Paris travelling scholarship
in 1911. He studied two years at the
Academy of Julian and Ecole des
Beaux Arts in Paris, and at the
present time conducts a class in
etching at the National Academy OF
Design.
Mrs. William Auerbach Levy is
the younger daughter of DR.. and
Mrs. Won Wien, of Cedarhurst. L. l.
She played the principal role in
''The Golden knight" the first of
Harry kemp's series of playIets to
appear at the Little Thimble the
atre this season Mrs. Levy is also
somewhat of a poet. as well as a
writer of short stories.
Justice William G. Rungee, who
brought the idealistic couple down
to the plane of commonplace NOR
tails. is the same rural official who
tied the knot for the late Richard
Harding Davis and Miss Bessie Nc
Coy, a marriage that turned out so
happily that even the idealistic vii
layers ought to be convinced that
it's not such a bad institution after
ALL