Show OF O INTEREST III E. E TO O WOMER THE E LIFE OF AN ARTISTS ARTIST'S MODEL I I I COME TO NEW YORK TO BECOME A MODEL i CHAPTER 4 4 f j. j r B By y M Manya anya Ru Rudina d. d ma f Famous Famous' New York Artists Artist's Model 1 r r-My r My father had settled In Winnipeg and as' as s on as ve e landed at Q Quebec wo we went there But I soon became homesick for Russia My expectations of ot America bad not been realized I locked myself in my room room and cried was strange and different When rhen I had begun to feel teel a little settled settled settled set set- I tried to find a n dancing school bu those in Winnipeg were not what I wanted But nut it was in that created my first dance and made my first appearance on the stage I 1 was taking p part rt In in ina a biblical opera a and one da day at a rehearsal when I heard the music a dance was created in my mind and I began to dance it They told me I must do it in the opera I danced for a week It was my first barefoot dance on the stage and I shall never forget It If The dance is so dear to me that I even do It now though it is a little primitive and nd I have not changed a astep a astep step stepin in It because in it I lived for the first time first time Then I determined to go to New York I knew that it was a center of art and artists artists' My y mind was wa busy night and day with how low to get to New rew York I r worked secretly as a a. cashier for eight months until I had saved 50 for forthe forthe forthe the railroad Yale fare art and en ugh to keep me ma for tor a time after I got here My parents thought all the time while I 1 was working that I was going to school learning English Arrived In In in New York knowing not a poul roul I af asked ked information of the Travel Travelers Travelers' Travelers Travelers' Trav Trav- el elers' elers rs' rs Aid Ala society and they sent me to their rooms where I stayed for two nights until I could find suitable ings I 1 got a map to find out where Greenwich Green Green Green- wieh village was 1 had read and h heard rd of this pI place act because the first question question question ques ques- tion I ever cyer asked of any from New leW NewYork NewYork York was Where do do dothe the artists live o and work worl In New York And the answer answer answer an an- was always Greenwich village maRe I 1 So I 1 tried to get rooms room there but found the lodging were much too e. e ive e I so I got a a room further downtown It was in a house on the east side a aI small room loom on the third floor in fn the I b lJ back ck 1 I could not help contrasting it with m my my- beautiful room at home in m Winnipeg with its garden filled with I flowers rs This was a tiny room with a small iron bed beda a washstand with a pitcher and bowl and a badly worn worn piece of c carpet carpet- with some atrocious flowered figures in it On n the tho wall was wasa a picture of a girl ir cut from a perfumery ery cry advertisement in a magazine a gallant cavalier on an Impossible horse and a a- really good print of George Washington In the morning when I awoke awol e. e instead of the sound of the birds I heard the rumble of the elevated lines and in instead instead instead in- in stead of a beautiful scene to look upon I had the long lines of washing strung over the rooftops of dirty anti and ancl ugly II houses But I did not care I was sure that I had done right in coming to New ew York and impatient to begin my studies and to meet the artists of G Greenwich vil vil- I lage I did not know then what was in store for me Tomorrow Manya lanya Hudina will tell tellof tellof tellof of her struggle to earn a living liking in New NewYork ew York Copyright 1919 by bv the Newspaper Enterprise e Association t 3 a y It t I I I T Ad r I I i a n y Y a fj I d if b. b y y I v mAy c r MANYA RUDINA |