The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-02
Greenwich Village
Really Psychic?

"Psychochromes," by Leon Fingers
Kennedy. have been exposed to public
view in the Paint Box Gallery on
Washington Square for some time past
and no undue disturbance has oc-
Cured; no windows smashed, no noses
tweaked, no riotous professions nor
letters to the public press yet Mr..
Kennedy insists that an advance In
art has been made, tina. this Is a new
movement in which for the first time
the eye OF the soul directs the hand
Of the craftsman" The absolute qui-
etude, the more than usual calm" Of
Greenwich Village during the last
month may mean that Greenwich Vii
lage doesn't care a particular damn"
for psyehics. OF else, as readers OF Don
up with 1t, and having done with It. is
ready to pass 1t on TO tourists.
Tourists may get shopworn goods in
Greenwich Village, but they DO also
get, when they venture into the pre-
cinct, a Whit of the real thing In the
way OF atmosphere that repays them
for the journey. The psychic portrait
artists are so youthful. the statesmen
and salesladies in the picture galleries
are so nonchalant and unworried. The
clients who enter seem more like
friends than clients-perhaps they amt
clients-and laugh and joke and never
ook at the pictures. It's as like the
early. glad acts of La Boheme" as
possible. Anything more different
from Knoedler's than the Paint Box
Art Gallery couldn't possibly be i'm
agined.
floor to relieve the visitor from all
worry as to the disposal OF the ashes
from his cigarette. and in the fireplace
there are heaps and heaps Of ashes,
last years and this years too. Before
the fireplace are one or two early Vic
torian upholstered chairs, now some
what dingy, but still quite comfy.
There is no fire in the fireplace. That
is reserved for gala occasions or for
evenings when there are more around.
The heat is supplied by an electric
furnace. Just because I really wanted
to know. and not at all because I'm a
newspaper reporter, I asked the genus
loci. also somewhat dusty. like the
chairs. but with a kindly CLINT in his
young eyes, whether the electric fur
| mace was expensive or not.
"Oh. no. not at all. That's why we
have It. It's actually cheaper than the
wood we burn. Last winter nothing
would warm up this place, so got the
electric stove TO help take the chill
on"
How much is it?' I persisted, for
really wished to know.
"weH, can't say precisely" said
the genus loci, blushing-he was not
Leon Fingers Kennedy, by the way
"but we only pay SIS a month for the
whole shooting match you see. and
that includes the lights of the gallery
in there and the kitchen besides"
"Oh. I see. so you can't detach the
stove from the rest of the bill?"
mo, but know its cheaper thar
wood. Wood is Just awfully expen'
sive"
This strictly financial but vague
conversation was interrupted by tive
young women who advanced with a
large pasteboard box from which they
distracted a new hat, which they pro-
ceeded to place on my young mans
head at is wonderful ft," they
said as they stood back bit to ge
the effect. didn't think 1t was my
self but the genus loci was quite in
different to his new hat. and winkeC
to me amiably to prove 1t.
What do you think" said one o
the young women, who being plumpel
than the other was probably Musetta
mimi got her pocketbook picked VI
town."
why should we worry?" said tn
young man, struggling his shoulder
csrelessly and trying TO resume con
versation with me.
But theIs were thyee dollars in II
insisted Mint Luckily had bough
your hat~pefore / missed it,"
This ought TO teach you a lessor
not to carry money with you whei
you venture UP town among thcs
thieves and robbers" said the genu
loci, laughing meTilyifo dissipate tn
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