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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1945-05-25, Page 74' (r, • rc 1.' s 2tr �aaboutr h,er " y)' rat . tit inldelt andln$". hl "" at ah&pea our 'atter, : h i' C ,Dae nu sirow-clay'; ends, ib•aphhe , y os : donft It w a?Py'::b4►t►r`+s,.uaPPAt 4r "Perhaps, but,'soule, peoplo do. a lot ',.°11'r you do about 'the!°sta'ge,' so the more ug -he •�in than others, and > ^.,,r r'4 h. 'Pl.. . , we'll Tie event, he said `• I{rn going tD )hear m i a3" to a poll=. . ° ' othin t„ w l 'here s m.., g Aero . tIt,p ., oil d interest You- Just studies Primtbe„ life class." 'SI say there's .an idea for a .number -•chords of, art etceteras in eniechs end' artists' eaPO oild' a, ;'girl with art awfully good hgure on ,a. andel throne r no, t tat's been used. Still there ber •ofnal' u �t some so t an ori Ought .4Original v .riation of the theme." He took out his notebook and wrote aomething`1n' it. •. "Shall I bring tea, Mies Ruth?" George was standing in the.doorway, having appeared suddenly from . no- where. "Yes, thank you, George-" "Perhaps if we go on just as if we weren't -Waiting for. Gloria, she'll come."" . "I'd, forgotten that we were wait- ing ait ing for her," said Terry: "Do you know,`1 think that nigger is jealous of me -you know, as dogs ,are some- times jealous of their mistress' friends -and he's only being civil now beeause Tin talking to you instead of Gloria. Some day ,he's going to put something in my high ball." "What a terrible thing to say," said Ruth. "I'm sure George is perfectly' harmless. It'e only that he doesn't talk like other niggers." "Don't call him a nigger!" exclaim- ed Terry, pretending to be shocked. "Hasn't Gloria told you that he is a Hindoo--hair-caste I imagine, and he came from some weird place, and I 'heartily wish he'd return to it." A Hindoo-that explained George's appearance, but it made him more puzzling as "a' servant than before. He was not like the imaginations of Hin- doos that her reading had built up, but perhaps•as Terry said he was "a half-caste. Terry's words, for the moment, surprised her out of 'speech. "Here's Gloria now," he said. "We must stop talking treason. She thinks she has the best servants in the world." 'Gloria came in, filling the room with cold''outer air mingled, with the odour' of the violets pinned on her sables. "Just look who's here," she said, holding a small, plump, `frizzled, Ralrristore $oiidltorf atO • sg .FO1RTH p �Tenegll llgel Dike t eafort Phone 173 7+Let`rlall none A . MEDICAL SE;A ORTB CLINIC DR MM E. A. c A R R M.B. Graduate of Univ"ersity of Toronto fihe Clinic 3s rally `egldpa ed with complete and modern R -ray and other up-to-date diagnostic and therapeutics • egntplment Dr." F. 3. R. 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Prices reasona • le; satisfaction guaranteed. For information, etc., write or phonle HAROLD JACKSON, 14 on 661, Sea - forth; R.A. 4, Seaforth. (co xol, Soli mea?) looked at her V411 bbe li#t betWeen: bier 'Yea • ate,:. the, a W. S. O'NEIL, DENFIELD If you want to realize greater re- turns from your auction sales of live stockand farm equipment, ask those who know and have heard me. Fif- teen years', experience. Sales con- ducted anywhere. For sale dates, Phone 28-7, Granton, at my expense. 8919-tf twi's't »ta .11t,t' mouth that Ruth often observed when her aunt 'was `loie- r ACV' ing things to her. .d Ot coin �Olfi�,. it's not- his voices bis. song. He's" the cleverest hong • 'writer. • in. New York, and he's already written two fairly successful 'plays. He's Young, you know " I hemu be Chir• I •he . thought 8t s I th g tl at Ieast." Then ):Crloria. laughed outright. "He fe about thirty, but that isn't old. , He'S a funny, old dear, don't you 'thin'k so?" "Yes," admitted Ruth. "He -dresses o0(11Y-that, is-" • • . "I .'know what you mean, but lion see a man like Terry Riordaln•doesn't have to keep bis trousers pressed. No other man is worth listening to while Terry is in the room." Ruth' decided that sihe ,would pay particular attention to Terry Riordan the next time she met !him. Her opportunity' came'the next day. She had gone out to Iunch that day and had'been a little late at life, class ti consequence, and had to stand up at an easel in the back instead of sit- ting among the more fortunate ones in the front rows, where early arrival had usually placed her-' The model was a man-"Krakowdld, the wrest-, ler," one of the girls had whispered to her. "He's got .a wonderful body; we're lucky to get him-" • Ruth could not control a ,littlegaap of admiration when"he stepped on the model throne. He looked., like a sta- tue with his' shining smooth -muscled' 'body, and he stood almost as still. It' was several minutes before Ruth could get the proper, impersonal atti- tude toward him. -,Most of the mod- els had .qulte•-unintresting, faces, but Kradowski had a face almost as hand- some as . his body, and there was a half -smile ,on his lips as if he were secretly amused at the. students. For a second Ruth saw .them through his eyes -then, earnest -eyed girls, dress- ed in "arty" ,garments, squinting at him over drawing 'boards as if the fate of nations depended on their work, •well-dressed dabblers and shaab- ,by• strugglers after beauty. -She not= ed again •Pthe two old women, the fat one with the dyed hair, and the rib- bons and art jewelry -and, the thin one whose hair was quite frankly grey. The fat one ' had attracted Ruth's attention the very first day be- cause in the rest period she ran around insisting that every one near her should look at her work and of- fer criticism, and when the instructor came through she monopolized as much of his time as possible to his obvious annoyance. • Why didn't they think of study art twenty, years. ago? Ruth wondered. It seemed to her that the model was thinking the same thing. Then she forgot his face and begah to block in her sketch. - The girl next to her had a scholar- srip, her name was' Dorothy Winslow, a rather pretty, wide-mbuthed girl with a shock of corn -coloured bobbed hair and very merry ,blue eyes. Out of the corner of her eye Ruth watch- ed her work. She had large, beauti- ful hands and the ends 'of her slim fingers• were always•- smudged with charcoal or blotted up with paint. She wore a painting -smock of purple and green batik. Ruth was tremendously impressed, but tried not to be. She was torn between a desire to dress in the same,•manner and a determination to consider herself superior to such affectations and remain smug in the consciousness of her conventional dress. Still she did wonder how she };: ould look with, her hair bobbed. How fast Dorothy Winslow worked. Iler pencil seemed so sure. Never mi d, she mustrnot be (jealous: "Facility? Facility is dangerous - big things aren't done in a few min- utes -Rome wasn't built, in a day," she said to herself in the bat man- ner och•er instructor in Indianopolis. One thing that puzzled her was the way the instructors left the- students alone. They were there to teach, why didn't they do it? Instead, they Pass-- ed ass-ed around about twice a week and looked at the drawings and said some- thing like '"You're getting on all right -just keep it up," or now and then really gave a criticism, but more of- ten just looked. and passed on to the next without a' word,' in the most tantalizing manner possible. The re- ticence of the instructors was amply balanced, by the loquacity of the ,stu- dents. limey looked at each other -'s work and criticized' 'or praised In the frankest manner possible, and seem- ingly without a hint of jealousy or self-consclousnese. It was :tithe to rest. The model left the throne and jmmediately the students , alt left their .,draw1.ng•baarda.,'to talk. Dorothy' `"Winelo ' aired o'et Ftuth'e, shoulder. ,\ LONDON and CLINTON NORTH A.M. London, Lv. 9.00 Exeter 10.17 Hensail "10.34 Kippen 10.43 Brucefield 10.55 Clinton, Ar. 11:20 SOUTH Clinton, Lv.. • ' .Brucelleld Kippen ,e- elnsal' Exeter London, Ar. P.M. 3.10 3..32 3.44 3.53 4.10 5.25 C.N.R. TIME TABLE A.M. P.M. 6.15 2.30 6.31 2.50 6.43 3.13 6.59 • . 1 , 7.05 .27 7.12 3. 7.25 Goderich Holmes?Ille Clinton Seaforth EAST St. Columban Dublin Mitchell • Mitchell Dublin WEST St. Columbatl Seaforth t Clinton t oderich 11.27 11.37 11.40 11.51 12.04 12.36 '! het*u really •awtull!; nice,; 'the aY' Yela!'ve got khat list,.--••" she t►9int vi'?tb one long; slim ehareohx= smudged 'tenger. ' a . '"Do yen think so? Thank SU," 'said Rntla. "'Iirakowski's.lovely to work from?•, anyway. I'd love to "paint- him. He's. got soca) an Interesting head." • "Yes: it distracted ; mle . from my work a little," r'admitted. Ruth "Why,. you've almost got a finished sketch," e she continued looking atDorothY Dorothy's board. "I always wor'l;r fast,, admitted: Dor- othy, ')hut I'll do it all over • again a dozen times before .the week is fin - "I ' wonder how she happened to take up art," said Ruth, nodding to- ward the 'broad back of the fat lady with •the'dyed• hair. • • "Oh, she's -she's just one of the 'perpetual students they 'say she's been coming here for ten years - didn't they have any perpetual stu- dents *here you came from? • But perhaps this is your first year?" "No, I studied a year in the Indian- apolis Art School and we didn't have any • perpetual art students. Is the one with .grey' hair a perpetual stu- dent, too?" "Yes; we had one, a man too, in San Francisco where I came from." "Why do they do it? Isn't it ra- ther •pitiful:, • or are they rich women with a Ssad?" "No, indeed, they're not rich. I never heard of a perpetual student who was rich. Why, Camille De Muth, the fat .one, sometimes has to pose in the portraitclass to earn money to pay for her life." "How does she live?" asked Ruth. "Dear Lord, as ''well ask me why is an art student as how does one. live -how do any of us. live, except of course the lucky ones with an allow- ance .from' home?" All the time she was talking, Doro- thy Winslow was moving her hands, defying all the laws of ,physiology by 'bending her long fingers back over the tops of them, and by throwing one white thumb out of joint. "But you haven't told me why they do it -why they keep on studying year after' year. Don't they try to make any use of what they've learn- ed?" "Not that I ever heard of -they're just -just art artists. They spend their lives in class and at exhibitions.,, but I've never •tried to understand them -too busy trying to understand myself." e "What do they do when they're not here?" asked Ruth. "They spend their leisure id the cool marble twilight of the Metropolis tan, making bad copies of old mas- ters." The model had reappeared and they went 'back to their boards, but after class Ruth found that Dorotliy Wins- low was walking by her side toward Fifth, Avenue. "Do you, go Dorothy. "Yes," admitted Ruth. She was really •very, much interested in- Doro- thy, but she was a bit afraid that the girl would attract attention on the street. She now had a vivid blue on her • 3,47 10.33 10.44 10.56 •11.10 11.35 C.P.R. TIME TABLE EAST Goderich •Meneset McGaw' Auburn Blyth Walton McNaught Toronto Toronto' McNaught Walton Myth Kuban! ...Y ....... . ..... Y6 MCCAW .,....:r........a... , 12,47• r+ehetteb . 12:64 WEST ' P.M. 4.35 4.40 4.49 4.58 5,09 5.21 5.32 9.45 A.M. 8.20 P.M. $12.04. 1.2.10` 12.2$ ere:s a• n, it 41) Oen an the pre? tb,9t,' American.' : per- .trait palIlter 4744011 be so rougil either" Before suck 'bligd; self-conhdence Ruth was OM*, Shu 'also intended! to '$'e a great son@thing or other in the .world of art, bitt,,,':she had never thought definitelyanorugh ,about it l to d nld be.Shedid decide Justwo e de what rt think now, or spoke: without think- ing. 'Then I'll be the gli`ea'test landscape painter -landscapes wwith figures." Before they parted at Twentieth Street, Ruth, shad pronysed to go to an exhibition with' Dorothy on the fol- lowing Satt;rday..- , Gloria had given' her a latch key and she went into the house on Gramercy Square without ringing the bell, She expected -to hear her aunt's • voice, but instead a mares voice call- , ed out: • . you, .Gloria?" She answered tiyL,;walking into the drawing -room, disappointed at not finding Gloria there. "Where is Gloria?" They both Said it at once, they both laughed. Terry was very appealing when he laughed. He hadrisen'"at her entrance, andJ was standing loose-limbed yet some- how graceful in his fot niess tweeds. "I've been waiting at least An hour for her, though it was obvious that George didn't want me here. He quite' overpowered me with big words and proper English to explain why he thought my waiting quite uncalled for." "He's like that, but Gloria is sure to come if you wait long enough," said Ruth, sinking wearily into a chair and droppink her sketches be- side her on the floor. "Even if she doesn't I couldn't find a more 'comfortable• place than this to loaf. I'm too nervous to be any place else in comfort. The show' op- ens tonight., It was all right at the tryout in Stamford, ,but that doesn't Mean much. 1 want a cigarette, and George frightened me so that I didn't dare .ask him where they are." 'Frightened? You, `Ma. Riordan?" "There, you looked -, like Gloria then. You are relatives, Of, course, same name` and everylthing, but 1 never' noticed any _resemblance be- fore. Suppose you must be distant relatives." "Gloria• says we must be very dis- ant relatives in order to be close friends," said Ruth, dodging the invi- tation to tell We extent of •her rela- tionship to Gloria. •"As for the cigarettes, there should be some in the blue Ming jar over there, or, if you prefer, you cant roll your own. There's 'tobacco, in the, box -Gloria's own tobacco." "Thanks; I suppose I could_ have found it myself, but 4- was actually afraid to look around -George gave the such a wicked look -he d4d in- deed," said Terry. "What a wonder- ful woman. Gloria Mayfield is,"., he continued as he lit a cigarette. "I know," said Ruth. "No wonder she has so many friends." ' "Every one loves Gloria," continued Terry. "You love her?'• asked Ruth. She felt that this- man was confiding in her. She wondered if he had propos- ed to Gloria, and if his suit was hope - Jess. She felt sorry for him, but ev- en while she . sympathized she could i.ot keep the three husbands out of her mind. Three husbands were ra- ther overwhelming, but four! Some- how, it didn't seem quite right, even for so amazing a woman as, Gloria. "I should say I do love Gloria. Why, she lets me read everything I've writ- ten and always applauds. That's one of the things I came for today. I've written that number for Dolly Der= went. Want to hear it?" "Yes, please; I'd. love to hear it." "Got to' tell some one," said Terry, and without waiting for further en- couragement,•he began singing in his queer, plaintive voice, that made his words sound evenmore nonsensical than they were, a song the refrain of which was: downtaown?" asked tram with . a yellow tassel fluffy hair. .n` -'How de you go?" "On the bus," said Ruth. "So- do I, when I can' afford it; when i can't I walk, but I guess I can spend , the dime today. I got some fashion work to do last week." "Fashions?" Ruth could not keep the scorn out of her voice. "Oh, I know bow you fell about that, but one „can't become Whistler or Sargent all in a day, and paint and Michelet paper and canvas cost money." "You must be •awfully clever to be -able 'to earn money with your work already," admitted Ruth, a bit asham- ed of herself. `I have talent," admitted Dorothy, "but then so many people have tal- ent. I've got an idea that work counts a whole lot more than talent, but of .course that's an awfully prat-, tical, inartistic idea -only I email help it. I had to come to New X and I couldn't come without a schol- arship, so I worked, and got it. What do you think about it?" and then Riordan DQ a g+ ing to'. fall Bttt'viero Halt;:went• •40,14s.tht George, 410,0t ready;, Irwin.:. ht `o,.013 4 to stay rot a days.; "She means a few°, months,",!' pared;; Terry to Ruth, thereby esta% lishing between them a secret egiill ` , de nce. That night` Ruth 'got a new iulpres* Sion of Terry Riordan. _ e did, not, stay' to dinner, t'houg'h Gloria asked him; but ht Met them at the theatre .Every one seemed, to know 'hint and treated him as quite an "important Meson. It was her first experience of a first night, and she got the i pression that_these people were wait ing through the acts for the interred:a, cions instead of waiting through the intermissions for the acts. Terry, wasn't in their box, he had a seat ink theatre with Philip tten themusic, but out during the eve nd to hear words :of praise. "How do you think it's going to go?"' Gloria asked him when he • re- turned• totheir box after the first in- termission. "Badly; I'm afraid; 1 met several of the newspaper men out there, and they seemed to •like. If the critics like it, it's almost, sure to 'close in three weeks," said Terry.. "I won't, believe it. It is sure to. have •a long run," said Gloria. "God knows I did my 'beat to lower the moral tone of the thing and make it successful'," said Terry. "If it will only run long enough to give me some royalties, just long enough. to keep me going until my comedy is finish- ed, I won't care." They chatted on, commenting on the people on the 'stage . until Ruth lost all sease of illusion. They took away from her the fairyland sense that had formerly ,made the theatre a joy,' and as yet she had not acquir- ed the knowledge of stagecraft that gives the stage a stronger fascination for theatrical folki.than for the peo- pie who have never seen it in any way except from "out front." It u. o: for (-hofing.ikin irrftat)nn, the back of the Noel, who had wr he slipped in an ning to chat 1 slain w ' 'io )<.I,her ryyy#�t•Atdt yae a 4!c hl ,h .':bait 5 f pmerl 1 1: Y ' 9>,� pp} G I , rv_, �1 t r. d""th o '"1 a tib, I a ves thea rli' fil}e, theatrics folk except: ;from ",oust fro}' She kneww that the '.stolen from something else, ,for }1 composer, . rival of Philiht: ve4? had dropped ' in t4 chat with G hoameshinad:gsoo;rigithnaal i•tmheanco(mrerto- ii. iroduced frightful results, for Terry Riordan had .eoinmented On It;,.arid Billie Irwin had spoken of;;:how often 'the , leading woman flatted. her notes. Her voice had been bad enough when she started ten years ago • ands now' it was quite hopeless. (Continued Nest Week).' Ill! ion. ty ;1X ," >.r Y, - n` 4 r. Mother: "Jimmie, what are you -do- , ing in the pantry?"' Jimmie: "Oh, I'm just putting a few things away." S. tt ;fs Lux Tout wpm HOT 111111E1ILEY . 't. t• • A, r. oer1as "Work counts of course, but with- out the divine spark of genius -one must have talent aiid genius, and then work added makes the ideal combina- tion. Why, if onlyy"hard work were necessary, any one, any stevedore or cemnion labourer or dull bookkeeper, could become a great artist." "That doesn't sound se silly to me. I really think they could if the idea only occurred to them and they didn't glue up. I think any ope, can be any- thing they 'please if they only please it long etaough." ' It Was tike itu"th to alasittrer this With ttr quotation. "I dotttt- think go," she said,, iFS "Any judge'can recognize A perfect lady by her eyes, And they ain't got nothing, they ain't got nothing, They ain't'• got nothing on me." "Do you think that'll get across? You know Dolly Derwent. Don't you think that will suit her?" Now, Ruth had nevor seen Dolly Derwent, and looking at Terry Rior- dan: she suddenly decided to drop pre- , tense, "I've never seen her," she admitted, "and while I sttpposo; lith Gongs are brow filly clever and fatmtt , ,I„ d.'0nkt, know aaythillg about the algae. o-1 !ha'if th.e [t is Easy 0 GET RESULTS WITH Huron Expositor Classified Ads. •,. A Classified Ad. in the Huron Expositor will get you what you want or have, • to buy or sell "out from under the . bushel basket." Using the Huron Ex- positor's Classified columns is the most direct and inexpensive method of making your wants known. Our rates are only '1 cent a word (less for more than one insertion). All you need to do, is pick up your phone and call 41. 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