San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-11-08
Two of the Centaurs That Adorned the Walls.

Witness after witness was called.
"Have you ever seen a green phsno-
graph" That question was asked many
times.
Have you ever seen unicorns chasing
unclothed nymphs or rhinos drinking
pop?"
Some said they had and some had not
Mrs. Cline, the daughter Of Mrs. Lemon,
took the witness stand. She herself is an
interior decorator. She termed the
paintings vulgar, inartistic and disgrace
full" and Attorney Higgins, for the de-
tense, asked what she meant by vulgar"
Gust exactly what say" she retorted.
She then proceeded after request for
more detailed explanation into a lengthy
exposition of vulgar" art and the COM
mon Interpretation of the word.
"All artistic circles are familiar with
that type of student who considers it
funny to be coarse" she said every
daubing student sooner or later permits
his gross desires to get away with him and
produces such exhibits as that" and Mrs.
Cline pointed to an exhibit panel on Judge
Bullock's desk, showing unicorn chasing
a woman.
mo self-respecting person would per-
nit their children to look at red-tailed
satyrs making love to recumbent nymphs,"
Mrs. Cline continued, "and how could
anyone decently look upon the scene of
unicorn pursuing an unclothed woman"
Interrupted by Attorney Higgins, Mrs.
Cline was asked if she thought the human
figure indecent.
mo, do not" she replied. 81 think
that it is beautiful when painted the
proper way-the right lights and shading
but it may represent some decidedly
unbeautiful situations"
Police Judge Bullock listened atten-
lively to all the evidence tending to settle
the question of "What Is Art" then de-
cided that she herself would go to the
bungalow and look at the wall decora-
tons, the green photograph and the red
deskiand the black mantel. In the mean
time she dismissed the charge against
Miss Danzig when it was shown that she
had nothing to do with the rental of the
house-that all negotiations had been
conducted by Miss Helburn. The deputy
prosecutor offered to drop the charge
against Miss Heilburn if she would pay
the cost of repainting the bungalow and
obliterating the offending mural paintings.
mot one cent? emphatically replied
Attorney Graves. "Miss Heilburn is con-
fident that she has enhanced the value of
the bungalow"
The whole city began discussing the
strange situation and taking sides Police
Judge Bullock went to the home and
viewed the art" She returned with a
determined look upon her face and Or
dered the defendant before her.
You should have known better than to
do as you did in that home, which did not
belong to YOU" she said. "You should
have treated it as you would your own
and you never would have done that in
your own home. fine you $75."
Miss Heilburn hurriedly paid and de-
parted.
Judge Bullock declared that the painted
decorations might be art she didn't know.
She imposed the fine because Miss He'll
burn had gone beyond her rights as a ten
ant.
So great has been curiosity over the
futuristic paintings that suggestion was
made to Mrs. Lemon that she open the
doors to the public and charge an admis-
sion for viewing the decorations. But
this she did not do. Miss Heilburn assured
her the drawings were Of the type that
are all the rage in st. Louis, from whence
she came. Yarroslav Liska, the artist
who executed the. designs was declared
by her to be a famous artist. whose paint
ings hang in the Louvre in Paris.
His Los Angeles bungalow offerings,
however, are being removed from the
walls.