Show J Jt I t I A 4 J n l I of l a I J l 1 J Jjr jr i tl r r l 1 i I t c a yG r r r I v vt vb r vt t t b n 7 t LS t 7 7 t r rI I N 1 r rY rt Y t rv J t r t raft vI 5 0 t C Cf f OHARLES CHARLES B HANFORD HANFOR as Haversack in THE OLD GUARD Which precedes the per perI I of The Taming of the Shrew OGDEN THEATRE I Mauch Maach When Sandow Posed as a Model Mode I In Tn the March arch Strand Magazine Eugent Sandow relates his Reminiscences Reminiscences Reminiscences which make very Interest Interesting interesting ing inh reading In the early days lI s of oi his career he found himself In Paris Bari with without without out a friend frioud and without the price of ot ofa n a meal Ho lie I e decided that his i physique h was worth something to Parisian sculptors and he hI made a atour atour atour tour of the Paris studios but hut the art artists artIsts artists had bad all the models they wanted and declined his services The Tho story of how he be finally persuaded a sculptor sculptor tor to 0 accept him as a model is told by b Sandow as follows Stith Still I would never say sa die dio whilst there remained a sculptor unvisited and mil in the tho course of ot time Hmo I knocked at tho the door of oC the atelier of ot a well known sculptor Krauk by name Do you jou ou want a model I inquired in my best French His Non was mighty and meant to be conclusive Spurred on oil by b desperation I rattled out some soma explanation but he shook his head and In n his hurry to lo return to his work almost thrust mo from the door In sadness and with weary wear steps stepa I descended tho the stairs and the tho lower I got gol the greater grenter became my m anger angel and Indignation at tho the treatment 1 I had received At the bottom in the cour I stood undecided but bitter bUter Up Tip Upstairs stairs I r had seen through the doorway d oTay of tho the studio that Krauk Kraut was working oil a statue endeavoring to model in lu clay a Greek god and there was I with the very perfect figure figuro bodily development he be was trying tr to reproduce duce duco in la clay cla starving on his It was more than flesh and blood and an empty stomach could stand The courtyard was deserted the stair staircase staircase case silent and an none to light That decided me inc I stripped off elf my mr upper garments and I 1 wasted no time in I mounting to studio I thun thundered thundered thundered dered at the door It flew he open and andI I 1 prepared to follow In but butI It stopped sLopped on a chain Krauk was evidently de determined determined determined that callers should not wor worry worry worry ry him lie came to tho the door yelling jelling apparently In anger As I could not get my ray body in I thrust In my m arm armIt armIt armIt It stopped Krauk for or a moment ho be was struck dumb The next Instant he hc had removed the chain and pulled rao mo Into tho the studio whore where I stood with his gaze fixed upon me in profound admiration a of ot my muscular development riet h which held him speechless Then his eyes agleam with ho he launched himself upon mo me and as lu In tho the way of foreigners embraced mo me m In his wild enthusiasm kissing me mo on both cheeks while I thanked heaven that my per por persistency had ud met with its reward rdward r ward My Mr anxiety as tho moment was how however over ever to be fed not admired and find finding finding ing Ins that he be was a good linguist al although though whon I had on my m first ap application application endeavored to persuade him to see seo me mc stripped he had feigned Ignorance of or my language I told him film that I 1 was hungry ravenous that food tood had bad not passed my lips Ups for three days My I heart gave gava a bound of Joy when he replied Terrible my poor follow terri terrible ble bie ho bo exclaimed e You must have haio food at once and then thon ho added you jou OU must como come and sit bit to me meA meA meA A few fow o minutes later I was enjoy enjo enjoying enjoying ing the tho for meal In a 0 neighboring cafe a meal I shall never noor forget the steak that followed steak and still another with the best part of a chicken and a bottle of cham champagne champagne champagne which Krauk ordered to cole cele celebrate brate brae what ho called his find On d And Aud then I lived again |