South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-05
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s melancholy looking Individual
zU laukv with his hair falling
Dose around his palrd face and in
ne style I have only seen in buzz
sque pictures OF artists. and wear
Ing over a pair % Khaki trousers q
-anron -coIorcd blouse which acccu-
fusted the general bi.iousuc-s Of bis
appearance. sat dcjectedy upon The
steps OF the art gallery. With many
despairinF gestures. nc Has talking
10 = zip OF "a sri wIth bobbcd hair
and bcyond-the-prese minute
Chlcnces Of costume. while "a group
90 men and women of everyday
commonplace aspect listened attcn-
lively % hls structures.
pearls, Pearls before swine he
was saying ss We passed 1--WE given
ms life TO tho truth as Two seen It,
and do YOU think any ~ these yokels
have the vision 90 discern what I'm
doing? Thirteen canvases-
Tho "SOuI Painter"
Don't mind himi" Mrs. Rumble
turned back to whisper eagerly I'm
L1lian's ear. There was crafty
look in her eyes which told me that
she was afraid some or Lillian's ready
sympathy might boz diverted from her
own case. Gle could do things IL
ho wanted TO. bait ne persists in
painting this ultra modernist portrait
stud-like that for instance We
were inside the gallery. Now you
know nobody in his FIVE senses is
going 10 buy a thing Ike that.
H.
pointing finger TO a small canvas
from which there gazed a weird fig
ure looking for all the world like the
caricatures which idle schoolboys
draw upon the hy-leavcs of their
Biographies and label Teacher" :
face all Jumps and knobs tipped TO
one side. eycs-or what We're meant
10 be eyes-stariug i'm directions that
only orbs badly crossed could gaze.
a figure scantily draped and out OF
an proportion. and wildly waving
projections. which should have been
labeled arms" to be recognized as
such-these were the salient points
of a picture which bore under 10 the
legend:
My conception OF the soul Of an
idle woman"
Il take il this Is the work Of the
gentleman outside who looks like the
before-tak king picture OF a liver-pill
advertisement" Lillian commented I'm
an undertona. and Mrs. Rumble nod
ded an assent.
All these conceptions Of souls
around the walls arc this" she re-
turned. Ia the same low tone. Gle
claims he can see through any ones
eyes 90 the naked soul beneath.
dodge him every time 1 see him for
fear he'll want to paint mine But
I guess it's too purple-hued. even for
him"
She gave a cynical little chuckle
and ushered us through groups OF
people gathered around the canvases
hung upon the walls 10 the front of
the room There the auctioneer. q
dapper white hanncled little man,
with am cye-giass was conferrine
with a everely-Eowned school
ma'mlsh looking spluster. who evil
IDENTIFY was the "arranger" of the
affair
Craft Move
Miss Corwin. Mr. Hunt" she be-
gan eagerly. Just think of it, Here
IS Robert Savarin, come to have a
looS a us"
That both knew what Robert
Savarin's name means in the art
world. I saw by the look i'm their
eyes. the almost reventiaI eagerness
with which they shook his hand. II
is the same attitude which 7 have
seen Dicky display although the in
timacy OF our mountain life together
this summer has made Dicly more
the chum of Robert Savarin than the