The evening world. Newspaper, January 25, 1913, Page 8

nag oe ram eR THE EVENING WORLD, 8 @ & & Says Harrison Fisher, ALONZO KIMBALL: MRS. MYRA MUSSELMAN-CARR: “The American woman has the “The most utterly beautiful figure I most beautiful figure in the world. ever saw in my life and the one most She comes closest to the classic type as ry approaching the old Greek ideal is that embodied in the Venus de Milo.” of an American girl.” Harrison Fisher’s Idea of the American Venus SARA “Nowhere tion. lege sophomore. He is @ surprisingly young man to have “caught eecurely and unmistakably. American girl 1e—1s"— “Is just exactly what, Mr. Fisher?” T agked. “How is she more beautiful than all the rest?’ “The American girl io a fuished analysed, slewly. “She Marguerite Mooers Marshall. ‘Who is the most beautiful wo- ’ man in the world, the heiress of ‘Venus? Of course every lover in America fa most eager to settle this question once for al'. Several of them have wasted no time in mailing me their . answers, even honoring cold facts weed, the Len gecesi ) sufficiently to bolster up their ad- Paes’ ‘eo t fectives with height and weight Deantios of i measurements. But unfortunately, has what ' though all the world loves a lover it oo ; does not respect his judgment or wwe bis eyesight, particularly when he were plete—fnished. F Everything is done for her beauty. , . She is fed, dressed, exercised in strict accord with the very latest discoveries of eclence, She is not allowed to ir herself out with physical labor, nor 18 whe permitted to grow weak and flabby f a from under-exertion, Every form %f \ A ; healthful exercise ts open to her, and every hygienic comfort is at her dis- ; a tina posal. She hi alr ? uf movement of ‘3 4 . many other alds to beauty of which ; ‘ ‘ they never dreamed,” 1 “Yes, but do you think the beauty 1 Who needs ‘aids’ is a specially supreme type?” I protested. ‘Oh, I'm not talking about ‘aids’ in the Ddeauty parlor sense,” sald Me. Fisher, “though the: @ scientific laboratory theve days. » of clothes.” Fran told me that effective with- e reduced that place to 1 ‘was thinking, howe’ “But Charles C. ee I think the hats you are entirely delighttu “1 Uke them myself,” he admitted, “and it seems to me that they strike the note of individuality. © valuabl is gazing fondly at the beloved ob- Ject. Therefore it has seemed wisest to geek the championship of the; artiste, trained and impartial con- notsseurs of female loveliness, in our efforts to crown the American: girl Queen of Love and Beauty. And the knights of the palette have responded nobly to the call. Saturated with memortes of all that was loveliest, Th past ages, and that was therefore given a deserved tmmortality in marb! or bronze or on the painted canvan, ‘eminent and representative American artists have paid patriotic tribute to the American Aphrodite of to-day, Even, women have been generous enough to extol the bright, particular charms of thelr countrywomen, to ral thelr, beauty above that of any other race or land. ‘The American woman is the legitimate successor of that pure classic pulohritude caught and crystallised centuries cgo in the superb marble statue of the Greek goddess of beauty, Aphrodite, the statue known to millions as the Venus de Milo, According to the artistio verdict, our women more nearly approach this high Mellenic ideal thes Go the women of any other modern state, UFFRAGETTES—veg pardon, suf- S fragiste—have been everything that is amusing, spectacular, yea, instructive, mayhap, but so far as the written history of “the Cause” records they had not been parrots until yester- Parrots in @ iiteral sense, of ds of Tin Pan Alley, an-; Bounces that he is thinking seriously of “playing one number just for the love: When Harry Davis pia: ‘tor. te love of it" —well, just try to ait stil Max Rogers usually sits over in th: cormer by the gas log. Of Max it used to be said, beaten, sure.” he Cause” moves rapidly a rop” perch in the Berkeley Th t night was a novelty that puts Joan f Are on a white horse into the limbo * forgotten things. Verily they sat— r seemed to alt if you didn't look too inging perch before the of a parrot’s cage and Keeper of New York’s Bird House ao Had a Hair-Lifting Past 1W of the thousands who daily visit After leaving the service of the Lon-! F the Bird House in Central Park! don Zoo Burns returned to New Yor! know that the aged guardian of and went into the animal business on' the aviary was once the largest dealer| Roosevelt street near South street, in wild animals in the United States.|Here at one time he had eleven smal! ‘Half @ century ago Donald Burns was| elephants, 1,000 snakes and scores o 4 man of wealth and standing and all} eircus owners and mena, keopers pumas, leopards, jions and tigera, Burns, had made a fortune as fortunes wer. the country over came to him for their| reckoned in those days, He began wild beasts, birds and reptiles. Back in the sixties act as financial backer for travellins Burns had hiv shows, Then came a series of failures animal business on Broadway between! and Burns the animal king found him Howard and Canal streets, Then hej self in t, It was then that he ap was commissioned to take a rd of| plied to the Central Park Zoo for elk to England and shortly afterward , position. He had loaned the Zoo th entered the service of the Zoologica! first animals it ever displayed. Mb and the gallery droves of plain suffrag, ists and that other kind of the mascu- line gender that has not yet been jamed specifically pounded till they eplit their gloves in approval. " ci that was the “Happy” came back from Baltimor¢ last night and found George Mason who used to double with him in . f rots opportunity to perch and to talk of feminism from a parrot's viewpoint. It came in the programme of four suf- Soolety of London, He was commis: | gift of a number of monke: And nobody in New York is moregitaé me Ryle Bremen wioned to rove about the wild places of |of an Indian leopard and a Hon startedgermly convinced of this than Harrison ¢ | Mr. FY and to-night—by the Woman Suffrage the world collecting wild things for the|/the menagerie, F I suppose Mr. Fisher may have; arty under the direction of Bf London Zoo. | Burns for several years was a keeperiene a million pictures of beautiful girls and women—if I am underestimatin, hope he will forgive me, And he has, had studios in London and Parl that hia perspective ten't by a provincial. Yet your favorite 1p almost certainly an American. because the artist finds his most suc- cessful models among his own country- For a number of years the wilds of|in the Hon hou: India, the jungles of Africa and the | were moving 01 ome forests of Australasia kmew)to another he slipped trampled ‘urna the animal man, He trapped|upon, Both of his legs were brokén ‘sin India, captured elephants in| When he recovered he was put In charge; ca and snared birds in Borneo, Once |of the birds. in South America he was seized tn the| And so the man who once fough' nbrace of a huge anaconda and was|tigers in their native lairs, tracked the almost crushed to death before his fol-|mighty elephant through the jungles of Swers lopped off the head of the great| Africa and captured terror-inapiring’ ake and dragge}, the unconscious | snakes ts rounding out his strenuou rns from ite viselike folda, career as the keeper ef birds, “Mappy.” “Where'll yuh be? Where'll yuh bo George melodiously wanted to know While Phi} laid a heavy left hand against the buss end of the piano, “TU be right, there, ‘cause I got my - ste say, you know, that all they want 1s comment—for or against, suffragiet parrots are possesed lutin’ nam that are not In the directories of bird atores, Rationallet rot, for in- ““Bhow': tuh me! Show't tuh m George, und the next min simply nothing ike the merican girl,” he told me, with all the: oamaid and ingenuous fervor of « col: Fe a YS aS Oe — <0 gp enn \ ATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1913, _ The American Girl a Finished Venus, ® - and Other A American woman. springing lines, grace, fully moulded limbs and a finely set head.” “There’s Simply Nothing Like the American Girl,” Says Mr. Fisher; “She Is the Last Word, the Topmost Flower on the Tree of Civiliza- She Is Lovelier Than All the Beauties of Earlier Ages.” “Personally, I Think the Little Girl More Beautiful Than, Her Stately Sister; at Least She Is More Often Beautiful. There Are Only One or Two Ways of Being Effectively Statély, Many of Being ‘Cute.’” THEOLOGICAL PARROT MRS. CHARLES CAFFIN. the green and blue Philistine Parret—whe, MORRIS GREENE: is there anything like the She has long, where the wise woman's clothes help her out. ef i i 4 i rt jf | F a » ! | r i i 0 | a3 Ee il f E ef rf i i E | it | “And you don't find that modern fashions cripple and distort the figure?” ‘Not @ bit of it! I don’t pretend to be thority on women’s clothes, though Row and then somebody tries to make me gi wise and technical opinions regarding them. But I know that they don't spoil the figures of the women, because I can see that the fig- ures are not spoiled. To study these Is ® part of my business, and I haven't any fault to find with the New York aggre- gate, The clothes don't hide defects, either, for there are excellent American models for drawings in the nude.” “And you do find that the proportions of the American beauty tally with those of the famous Venus?” I asked. say that our women they beautiful in the ‘Many of them are,” sald Mr, Fisher. ‘On the avenue you will find tall, vig- orous, fully developed women built on the old heroic lines. They’are broad- shouldered and deep-chested, and they have that slow, swinging, majestic walk which Virgil praises as characteristic of the Greek goddesses. The type !s a falr- ly common one in this country, particu- larly in these days of athletics and out- “I Want to Be Free! I Want to Be Free!”’ Chatters The Heroine Parrot in the Suffragette Play EE 80U' M168 HELE IDEALIST MI88 C. GARLOR. the way, is tall for @ parrot and hi & very spirituelle face. Then there is the Theological Parrot, who seems to ‘be a he-parrot, judging from his lines, and whose speech might be construed to Indicate that a certain very August Episcopal prelate residing in Albany ‘was among the goats present. Finaljy, there is the lovely heroine Parrot, palpably Free-Gouled one, {8 as willowy as a parrot cdn be and still warm a perch, and the classic contour of her beak and the high re- solve in the lifted crest on her head all indicate that this Free-Souled Par- Tot would chuck a half brick at Premier Asquith's coachman {f she were in Eng- land instead of the Berkeley Theatre. Anyway, she couldn't go to England if she wanted to assault Asquith's coach- man, for she is chained to her perch with a very terrible dog chain and that's the sed part of the play. Now Miss Mary Shaw parrots on @ perch for at and Mise Shaw, put these five New York to who has writ- knew exact- hen si severe-sounding names to For, mark you, it {s pos- sfole—just barely possible, understand— that there are Philistines and Ration- aliste and euch among womankind and that they eniff a very parrot-like sniff the efforts of a free-souled lady to k her chains, “I want to be free! chatters the sweet her if she were!” sneers Phil: rot. And Idealist Parrot say: rot's highest mission 1s to amui ‘All of which is part of the allegory and “The Parrot's Ca and an allegory in on {n't much action. Who wi lemand action of suifragists inside @ theatre ‘when (hey'se ali dolling with it outside? ae 4 a so richly deserves. «. “Personally, 1 am thetihed to think the! Uttle gir] more beautiful than her stately slater. At least, the former is more often beautiful, There are really only one or two ways of being effectively stately. And th so many ways of being tout “The ijttle girl may curl up in a cor- ner of the couch, she may climb a fence, she may sit on the table and awing her feet, and she will be entirely charming in each attitude, When the tall, statu- rtists: Agree CHARLES C. CURRAN: “The slender, girlish, well bred little person is a genuine American beauty, and her charm is just as intense in its way as that of the mature Venus.” true Bohemian touch to thelr otherwise conventionally garbed owner. He wears them over very fine white allk stockings, it you should want to know. “IN tell you,” looked up sudéeniy, believe that pretty is as pretty thinks, ‘Me quick wit and the really fine intelli- nce of our American girls gives them the animated, swiftly-changing expres- sion which is as much of a beauty in women as it is the ocean. They are two most changeable thngs in the ual- esque girl tries to do any one of these| p things she merely succeeds in beings awkward. For leading a chargo against & city or posing on a pedestal the god- dees type in to be preferred. But tn most of the pleasant everyday situations of life the pretty little girl fits best. “By the way, do you agree w! grandmothers’ motto, ‘Pretty pretty does?” I asked. Mr. Fisher gazed at his brown san- dals reflectively. I meant to have men- tloned them before, for they lend the our iu as 15 RATIONAL ELIZABETH FREEMAN. Deautiful object, but you woulda’ eom- pare it with the sea. And the beauty of a vividly intelligent woman is bound to excel mere physical perfection coupled with dullness. have always been denied such expres- sion, but I believe Americans are ou- premely fortunate in attaining It.” PHILISTINE MI88 IDA MULLE. The Berkeley Theatre ! uch @ peace- ‘* Rationalist Parrot gold head ts ideally cast. @ cage once before. Miss Freeman, no less, one of the ‘mill- tants” from England, who once served six weeks in Hallowell Jail over there for smashing windows or some kindred Pastime of the ‘“milita of England. Freeman, smiling with gray ey: will tell you if you ask her that yeing tehind the bars, even of The Parrot's Cage,” makes her fecl at home again, Mrs, Charles CaM™n plays the part of the Theological Parrot—that satctimon- fous he-parrot who bears auch a inarked resemblance—in .he minds of the suf- at leas'—to the aforemantionnd of Albany, Miss Charlotte 14 Miss Ida Mulle, who 1# an ex-profeasional now in the amateur theatrical class, is a very im- portant amd very loquacious Philistine Parrot. and the Free-Soul Parrot—she of the dog chain and yearning deatrc to fly somewhere—ts none other than Miss Helen GriMths, one of the best snewn of the ouftrage camp ia New —— York. Upon Miss Mulle, the Philistine, fale the burden of the playlet’s chief action —she falls off her perch. And because of that terrifying incident Miss Mulle— whisper it soft—has to de prepared with the proper scenery. The other, you see, are only parrots from the waist up, the rest of them being ean- cealed by the “prop” perch, But when Mise Mulle falls off said perch she must necessarily be parrot all the way a she is. Yes, they're blue end yellow and not too tight, Miss Shaw, the playwright, dosen't take her effort with intense seriousness; Neither does she take her suftragion that way. " it in mbout four hours, I te- she says if you ask her hew suffragist par- and put them {sn't a strictly on @ perch, wuffrage playlet anyway; it's feminism defined, sf you know what feminiam ts. ‘Tt was not written either to bore er “and tt to convince poor man, He has enough troubles answering the suffragists’ eter- nal ‘Why not? It te just @ litt, Bat to come women to Ang ¢