The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-04-12

man. Augustus it's "a safe 20 praise
"a nobody ~ Il Is 20 slam somebody.
m either case the simmer enjoys n
and bis friends admire his critical
taste"
How ara you come 20 get mirsd
up with this sculpiorg@ EDDIE Smith
querled
because he isn't an artist Hes
business man. It's a grand thing 20
be- able 70 seuip. and IN Michael An
gel0.s time. when rents were low and
che cost ~ living nothing 10 worry
about. artists could afford 20 indulge
their idle fancies and do a little plain
and lofty Eculping. Most Of their
patrons wers kings. anyhow. and
who ever heard OF a king who kept
track OF his check stubs.
Nowadays It's a disgrace for
an artist Ia be poor, and mas.
much As sciipinE i the least
pdronlxed 81 tho arts In this
country, naturally tho sculptor
has 10 90 out like the rest Of ~.
and dig up business. And hs
doesn't waste his time on folks
who aren't looking forward 60
moro complete. more fully round
cd life. II he did he'd stArye. I've
notIood that a pardonable human
vanity goes hand In hand with
tho complete life"
Weir" the BilEcwaterites demand.
"a IN chorus
This sculptor was let into my Of.
zoe ono afternoon recently when I
was having my after.luncheon nap.
was sitting on my spine. with my feet
on the deak. my head on my breast
and my mouth wide open. Ho photo.
graphed me. front and center. while l
slept and then be made a figure OF
mo IN clny and called my friends IN.
They syfore II was perfect, 80
II was cast In bronze and then
the news was slipped 10 mo that
there was n movement ON among
my friends Of tho wholesale lum.
Der and shipping world, 10 buy
the Job and SCI II up on tho floor
OF the Merchant Exchange. as a
compliment 10 me. 80 ! won't 90
this demons studio. saw what
was going 10 DO put over on mo
and bought tho work Of Art. IL
was labeled: Old Shipping Man
Asleep"
what happened then7- Ulysses
Grub queried. when tho laughter nj
cappys expense had subsidized.
ooh. nothing. except the word went
abroad that I had purchased n bronze
replica OF myself from his sculptor.
and ever since I've been speculating
on keeping savage bulldog 20 keep
tho portrait painters and purvcyors
Of old. rare and ualacious books out
Of my Office
I've been stung for part OF the
deficit accumulated when the
Chicago Grand Opera Co. came
to tihs town recently, and I'm
subscriber 20 two symphony or.
cfsestras, when n fife and drum
corps In action Is Just my gait. Tn
backing the Little Theater move
ment 90 produce drama when
Potash and Pcrlmuttcr' constl.
tutc my idea Of good nights
fun.
Ny daughter Is dragging mo out
10 art lectures delivered by men
wouldn't entrust with Job as sec.
ond assistant freight clerk on third.
class frelghter. and I have 20 listen
10 singers warbllng in French. Ger.
man, Russian and Spanish. when
can't help weeping when some sweet.
faced gir1 IN white comes on and
sings Just A.wcaryIn' for You
''But the thing that drives mo
plain. lunRtic crazy. II tho jabber OF
tho devotees OF art. Seems TO me
they spend their time knocking the
United States OF America for It's lack
OF art and It's surplus OF commercial.
ism. They say we haven't any ma.
tional nnusio--and all you hear In
Continental cafes Is the Sunday
Blues and other similar lines OF Jazz
Every spaghctti.eatng. unwashed
sculptor in Europe would be sweep.
Ing the streets II II wasn't for dubs
like me: all the painters would be
house painters and all the musicians
would be working In rathsltellcrs OF
IL wasn't for the money-grabbing
Americans who have no art in their
souls. Drat 'cm. know 'em. In
oil my life have only known one
real artist--onc OF the art for arts
sake boys, and no WINS painter who
took a commission from me to paint
a portrait OF my aunt some 80 years
ago.
Now, Aunt Martha never won any
prizes in beauty contests In the bloom
Of girihood. and what natural facial
charm she had was lost at 80 be.
cause OF her awful temper. Her face
was trifle on tho bias and she wore
on her chin two moles with tufts OF
hair growing out OF them. However,
her children wanted portrait of her.
for the family collection. and as the
family couldn't afford It they gave
Cousin Cappy Kicks 70 understand
that n portrait would be appreciated
1 ny AluL 4hAAAild " iii lnNiillH.
$50 hired painter TO do tho
old lady for two hundred dollars,
and when she came for tho sit
ting she let him understand II
would be n delicate action on his
part 10 overlook the moles and
put her face on straight. She
was 20 years old then. but she
brought along n daguerreotype Of
herself at 80. rs n sort Of guide 10
tho boy.
well. darosay he was hard up.
so no idealizcd her rather than lose
the check. He completed his con.
tract, but he didn't sign the portrait
and no never called for his check
and when saw the portrait, with
Aunt Martha and tho children raving
over II. realized that tho only true
art II that which has truth in II. I
sent for that painter and discov cred
he had been thrown out Of his studio
for non.payment OF his rent"