Show l I I The Stencil Plate Artists I lIE annual holiday crop 01 of tU artistic calendars I THE shows hos the tho pun poverty 11 of the tho men who made them dC despite lit the skill they employ One and all till the I faces which h are used are those which the artists have e I made their sign manuals their trademarks so to toI I speak as if they were patent medicine men or manufacturers manu manu- I of or a new brand of tobacco I Y You ou CUll can tell a n Gibson girl I. a Coles Phillips a Fisher FishI Fish Fish- I C er el or a n as a far as you can see her They I have han become such Mich familiar familial faces Laces that their beauty I their p piquancy 1 their heir general allure has become deadened dead dead- cued ened by familiarity Speaking as a a. mere layman whose joy in work I es ics cs largely in iii the ariet variety of it it the fa fad fact t that these 1 men make the same outlines over o and over again I seems n i wanton desecration of or talent The mere I monotony of it if must be terrible t the he spirit of comI commerce com corn I merce meree which it obtrudes must have a vulgarizing if not a destroying effect upon the tho ambition Here are arc men mell who do o nothing but hut stencil-plate stencil themselves s over oyer and find over oyer again Once Gibson did didI I I break awa away from the grind He threw away his pen and ink and took fook to i he brush and palette but I the venture was wa not a success co commercially or artis artis- And so he is now back hack at the old trade t t again tramping around in a circle like a blind horse t z I It t t in a mill nu 11 I The situation is ls often duplicated all aU along the line f of artistic endeavor It is particularly true r of the I I stage stag where one success a marked distinctive spectacular spectacular spec spec- success puts shackles on a mans man's ambitions I If it he makes a hit as the player of 1 silly silly ass Englishmen Englishmen Eng Eul he be is is doomed to such characterization all tl the c crest rest of his life irrespective of the fact that t the e ability ability ability abil abil- ity which enabled kim him to give new no values alnes to an old subject is still there ther anxious to do new things newly There is no appeal Managers l like publishers arc commercial They make a man do over and over fig fig-a again in what he lie has has once done lone triumphantly It is thein the day Iday in of types The rhe artist the actor the writer must stick tiek to them el else c he suffers But Bitt what about aboul t the le people who long for something new BOW ant and never ne get it 1 Are they never to bo be considered considered considered consid consid- ered Or will it H be necessary for them to strike strike- since since strikes strike arc are the tho fashion fashion and and by boycotting the stale force the new into the field There herc neVer ne was a better hetter time for talent that is novel l I pr provided if jf is H aggi too Jt vill ll have to fl fight but hut the rewards will be worth the struggle S kL L 0 r. o-r. L J 1 o-fj o L |