The Washington herald., 1921-07-12
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who scon at the attic dwellers
munching on crusts of bread
starving for Arts sake. A pinch
faced garret artist, his eyes fever
bright from hunger. won the Prix
de Rome on the day Of his eviction
from a Village garret for nonpay-
ment OF S12 a month rent.
Truth walloped fiction indeed
The hero-Frank Schwarz, son of a
Delmonico waiter. He goes to Eu-
rope now for three years to STUDY,
with all expenses paid. For many
weeks he had been one of the long
haired, sad-eyed artists who made
the rounds of the cafes of the
Quarter. sketching with quick
dashes of charcoal the faces of
gaping tourists for such price as
they would pay.
At Bertilottis one night he faint
ed from hunger, Tiny Tim, who sells
soul candy from a lavender tray.
round him in hallway. Tim wears
velvet coat and black tam. just
IKE the struggling artist does in
tne play, but he Is rich and he
bought the artist a full meal All
Greenwich Village. now choruses
Il knew him when"
PENNY sketchers have taken a new
lease on life. The Village is now
flooded with them. Any night they
are expecting a Lady Boyntiful to
appear among them and Nwave a
magic wand-transformin <cobweb
lives into lives of fine spun eold.
Sonia, the cigarette girl. a buxom
dark-eyed Jewess, declares that the
case of the young Schwarz is moth
ing unusual. 1t merely symbolizes
the village heroism. "T know any
number of men and women down
here" she declares, "who are starv-
ing as they express their genius"
Greenwich Village is ever ready
to herald its poverty. The rich
artist is called magazine dauber."
The Village really believes that art
thrives in squalor A little pants
presser from Russia who models in
clay said to me in broken English
in speaking of the Schwarz case"
One cannot dream the big drea ms
In luxury. Poverty spurs the cre-
l>ative forces. An empty belly is a
lash for true genius" And he may
be right. Who knows?
A little haberdashery shop Is to
pay rent at the rate of s57 a square
foot in the Astor Hotel. The an
nual rent will be $4,000 a year.
The store is no bigger than a fair
sized room. Only shirts and neck
ties will be sold and four clerks en-
ployed. OF course it is the locatio on
that brings such high rental. The
same amount of space a block west
could be rented for $500 a year.
A weeping youngster in short
trousers excited the sympathy of
ferry passengers en- route to the
Dempsey fight. He ex-
pfained that he was Just lacking so
cents to have enough to buy a
ticket. When an officer arrested
him for begging he had collected
s26 in three hours. incidentally
Eddie Cantor who had to occupy
that he sat in the second row in
Newark.
Fiction writers are discouraged
about the outlook for their wares
for the next year. Several New
York magazines have hinted that
articles and stories And on top
of this the tendency is downward
in prices paid the author. One we'll
known magazine, noted for it's
articles. suddenly appeared with its
last issue in entire fiction form.
The announcement was made that
the newspapers so thoroughly COW
cred the article field that the maga-
zine saw no reason to run articles
The movie rights for authors have
also slumped. The movie producers
are at a standstill: and it will be
many months before they begin
casting about for new scenario
material. But in the meantime, as
one philosophic author remarked !:
There Is nice green grass for graz
ing in Central Park and there is
always room for one more on the
park benches"