Studio: international art (3.1894)

From Gallery, Studio, and Mart

Street, for all its brave display, is found as empty were futile to demand of the essay the qualities of
as Pandora's Box. There is no lack of new things the masterpiece. It is time, however, Mr. Hardy
characterised by a banal prettiness, a chic elegance j attempted a group of figures ; in this he will give
such things were never more
common than now. But one
may look through the whole
long length of the street, from
Piccadilly to Oxford Street,
and find nothing to satisfy a
fastidious and cultured taste.
One thing unquestionably
novel we saw lately in a
shop which ostentatiously
announces its adherence to
the cause of art. It was an
"art" yellow majolica jar of
the most commonplace
shape, crowded with needless
handles and spotted with
minims and crotchets. This
ludicrous object was invented
merely that it might be chris-
tened " A Plandel Festival."

" newcastle-on-tyne by col. goff, r.s.p.e.

A coster would repudiate the (Reduced from the original etching)
thing itself: the pun would

excite the derision of a child. us the true measure of his strength. His souvenir
- of A Gaiety Girl is quite charming, and, moreover,

A Gaiety Girl has shown marked good taste in it is intensely appropriate to the piece of which it
so far as she has declined to be announced or is the pictorial record. But A Gaiety Girl is not
remembered in the style usually in vogue with the only play of which an artist has been the
ladies of the stage. The capital poster by Mr. advertiser. For A Comedy of Sighs, the services of

Mr. Aubrey Beardsley have been enlisted.
While Mr. Beardsley has been original
enough in all conscience, we are not sure
that he has been well-advised in his choice
of a colour-scheme. It would, however,
be ungracious to inquire too closely into a
first attempt in a very difficult branch of
applied art. _

We flatter ourselves that after a cataract
of writing, a very fury of discussion, we
have at last the artistic play. It remains
for us now to secure the artistic playbill.
Long ago Alice Havers produced for the
Sullivan Operas a bill as pretty as Sir
"malefactors" by m. bolingbroke Arthur's music, but few have followed the

[Reduced from the original etching) 0f this pioneer. The Lyceum playbill

Dudley Hardy, representing an end-of-the-century has, indeed, always had certain undeniable merits,
young woman in crimson kicking up her heels, is It is well printed, and is altogether appropriately
the best thing of the kind seen on London hoardings grave and dignified, which is more than one can say
for a long time, and his smaller bills are full of of the playbills of most other theatres. Innovators
vivacity and gaiety. It may be urged that Mr. in all else, the new managers at the Avenue are like-
Hardy, while he owes much to Che'ret, has not wise innovators in this matter of the programme,
come within measurable distance of him. But it They present the playgoer with a reduced repro-
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