International studio (18.1902/1903)

"A MODEL" FROM A FHOTOGRAFH
BY CLIVE HOLLAND

and still yWzz* for those who could
notpay.
A zzzzzzwczz by madame's regular r/zkzz/^/A was
always regarded much as one would suppose a
missionary is by cannibals ; only, of course, he has
no mission, and they don't eat him. But in a day
or two, when vouched for
by such an old /MAzA?
as Johnson, if he has no
" side," and no very pro-
nounced views upon art—
these come later, and often
very soon—he passes into
the circle of good comrade-
ship, and is fairly launched
on the sea of Quartier life.
"Say, do any of you
fellows know of an aA/Ayf'
questionsjohnsonat length.
And after a pause some
one suggests, not without a
gentle sarcasm, that D—'s
studioisatlibertyinthe
street at the back of
the Rue de la Grande
Chaumiere.
There is a roar of
laughter, because D-is
one of the most famous

exhibitors at the Salon, and his a/g/Ar, discarded
in favour of one he has built over near the Parc
Monceaux, is such as only D-would require.
In the end a Beaux Arts student suggests some-
thing small and cheap in the old Rue des Fourneaux
(now renamed after the sculptor Falguiere), and
Johnson and the set off through a bewil-
dering set of by-streets, the last of which debouches
into the Rue de Vaugirard, leading to the Hopital
des Enfants Malades, opposite which the Rue
Falguiere turns down.
They hnd one of the many aA/MT-y has been
ernpty some time, and the of the whole
block is instructed to let it at what would be in
England called an alarming sacrifrce. So a bargain
is struck. It is a bit far out, or at least so the
7Mz<w<%K thinks; for he is not yet used to the
Quarter, and anything half-a-mile from the Boul'
Miche seems in thewilderness. And consequently
he resisted all Johnson's persuasive eloquence that
he should go yet further along the endless Rue
Vaugirard to a nest of studios which usually let at
two-thirds the rent asked for the one in the Rue
Falguiere.
Two hours later he "moved in," assisted by
Johnson and the rozzwzy^ and scrutinised by a
couple of bright-eyed little models who had
hnished their morning's pose and were out to
take the air.
" V'la un nouveau ! "
"Mais, oui. Ilestgentil, qa!"


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