The New York herald., 1920-01-25
LOOK TO AMERICA FOR NEW
IDEA IN ART, SAYS PALU TRIBE

more especially to fashion and ABOVE All
to decorative art He admires very much
the connection between classic furniture
and furniture meeting the modern require
ments. The only reproach that can De
made against him Is that he mas conllneu
his efforts TO luxury. He is a worker IN
In co,ier. bronze and precious woods. Ills
answer to this reproach was:- Iaste
comes from the top and not from the bot
tom. It is more difficult TO make
lacouered commode with beautiful lines
.rinnmed with bronze than q kltchen
table, -
~ have a greater lesson to learn from
tho sl<yscrapers. from Broadway oilumi-
mated at night, from the tumuit OF New
York. than from the Place Nenuofhe' III
Paris" said Mr.. Tribe Ihe new lornh
of art for which we are all preathlessy
waiting will come from here, from your
roarvellous America. Your beautiful de-
sire TO me the first in everything from
your taste for luxury, from the beauty OF
your women, from your pride, when sur
fers when forced to bend toWaro "Hdt
YOU have not created yourseh' 10 'he
marvel of the old world. The skyscrapers
are a creation all of your own. III Is tne
noost modern creation of art. The land-
scape OF Broadway at night is the most
original thing that know. L am not iDah-
ing fun | am not saying tnat IKE d
sign which advcrtises chewing gup or
stocLinps II is the ensemble that ! refer
10 am able to admire America more
than most Americans do, because ! am
a foreigner and see her faults anu her
triumphs compared TO the ola woriu'
don't want 10 repeat what every iorclEHcr
must say on his arrival in such - HVs-
nita blc MACE but I do wish to tell you
YOU arc creating daily something new
something irrcsstably enchanuns
DepIores Our Had Taste.
II think vour worst enemy here. TO be
frank now. Is bad taste. You nave Gre
ated everything but taste. You use your
modern idoas with our old world taste
AMI they DO not fit. Taste Is the disease
of old pcoplc. When you are too OLD
and feeble and cannot create anything
new. thcn YOU use up all your IDEAS ac-
cumulated In early life and arrange tnen.
to suit yourself-that Is my deIin'tlon pl
taste such q new and wondertui nauou
parallizes now taste. IL was right TO nave
,,etc in ruronc You have no right to use
our taste here. You must create ono ~
yourself
Mr.. Iribc finished by telling me now nc
won an American woman Tor ms pr'uc'
Althoui,h his ago lis "a secret nc cohilot "
much moro than thirty-five. nc appca' I
much younger. He Is tall ana nehNS So
Thick black bushy hair, brushed stralsn'
back. and n pair OF tortoise sncl Ei'lAscs
add q distinction seldom seen IN lorciSh''H
would have taken him for a good natured
Wcstcrner until I heard him speak hns
lish. lie has had much training from MS
wife.
Mr. Tribe arrived in this country las'
December. After q few months IN NeW
York. a few weeks in Chicag ond rev
days in The Middle West. he settled down
ir beautiful little cottage in Monterey IN
California. lie said It reminded him 50
iluch Of the south OF France that he hated
to lcavc IL and come back 90 the sterncr
realities Of life in a huge, b9ttcrinE. sha;-
tcring place like Now York. While ~
California he married Miss Msyoollc
Hogan, beautiful California sirl,