DOI issue:
Nr. 220 (June, 1915)
DOI article:B. Nelson, W. H. de: The passing show
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43458#0429
The Passing Show
qualified on similar grounds. Some very excel-
lent work appeared, showing fine modelling
and a well-trained imagination. Much was
Beaux Arts and much was bizarre. The jury did
their best and showed considerable patience over
a very difficult and somewhat thankless task. In
the end, as usual, they did not please everybody.
It was noticeable that about 2 per cent only of
the exhibitors expressed the joie de battre, the rest
evidenced the sheer misery and tragedy of blood-
shed, the agony and despair of cities and people
devastated by poluphlosboysterous hordes of
murderers in armour. It is no wonder that the
public, deeply interested though it was, felt no
inclination to purchase. People want to outlive
and forget war.
The next exhibition to be held in the studios
of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who has done and
is doing so much for this cause, will take place
June 15 and will be painting, the subject, given
out by Mr. John Alexander, to Labour.
The latest enthusiast in this good cause is
Mr. Otto H. Kahn who has done much besides
making a donation of one thousand dollars.
WAR
BY ANTHONY DE FRANCISCI
the theme with enthusiasm, omitting
none of the horrors and misery which
war evokes. Many of the exhibitors
seemed so anxious to start that they
barely paused to consider what was asked
of them but rushed into subjects which,
though traceable to conflict, hardly ex-
press the spirit or essence. For instance,
a half-caveman, half-gorilla, clothed in a
German helmet and an upturned mous-
tache is but an unveiled satire upon one
of the contesting nations now at war,
while a very wooden-looking colt looking
over the pasture gate and labelled
Mamma’s Gone to the Front, hardly
claims serious attention. Two or three
dozen numbers should have been dis-
AT CLOSE GRIPS
BY GLADYS FERRIS
CXXV
qualified on similar grounds. Some very excel-
lent work appeared, showing fine modelling
and a well-trained imagination. Much was
Beaux Arts and much was bizarre. The jury did
their best and showed considerable patience over
a very difficult and somewhat thankless task. In
the end, as usual, they did not please everybody.
It was noticeable that about 2 per cent only of
the exhibitors expressed the joie de battre, the rest
evidenced the sheer misery and tragedy of blood-
shed, the agony and despair of cities and people
devastated by poluphlosboysterous hordes of
murderers in armour. It is no wonder that the
public, deeply interested though it was, felt no
inclination to purchase. People want to outlive
and forget war.
The next exhibition to be held in the studios
of Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, who has done and
is doing so much for this cause, will take place
June 15 and will be painting, the subject, given
out by Mr. John Alexander, to Labour.
The latest enthusiast in this good cause is
Mr. Otto H. Kahn who has done much besides
making a donation of one thousand dollars.
WAR
BY ANTHONY DE FRANCISCI
the theme with enthusiasm, omitting
none of the horrors and misery which
war evokes. Many of the exhibitors
seemed so anxious to start that they
barely paused to consider what was asked
of them but rushed into subjects which,
though traceable to conflict, hardly ex-
press the spirit or essence. For instance,
a half-caveman, half-gorilla, clothed in a
German helmet and an upturned mous-
tache is but an unveiled satire upon one
of the contesting nations now at war,
while a very wooden-looking colt looking
over the pasture gate and labelled
Mamma’s Gone to the Front, hardly
claims serious attention. Two or three
dozen numbers should have been dis-
AT CLOSE GRIPS
BY GLADYS FERRIS
CXXV