Salt Lake Telegram | 1934-09-10 | Page 4 | Youthful British Artists Cultivate Facial Foliage

Y Youthful British Artists Cultivate Facial Foliage By LEE WILLS WILLSON ON United Press Staff Start Correspondent LONDON UP What UP-What What is art without without with with- out a beard beard on on the artists artist's chin The older and more successful artists of London have abandoned the picturesque pic pie picturesque hirsute appendages which have so long been associated with painters painter's palette and sculptors sculptor's chisel They have changed so that they cannot cannot can can- not nol be distinguished from similarly shaved close short short haired haired lawyers bankers I and business men Not so the h younger students of the arts They undoubtedly have little respect for lor the opinions or technique tech tech- which their elders once held but they are still less in sympathy with their smug air of or shaven clean respectability These younger members of the art colony of Chelsea and Bloomsbury as astonished the the visitors at the recent presentation of diplomas at the Royal ColI College Colleg of ot Art They sported beards of oC every hue shape and texture known to a Bussian Russian Rus Bus sian barber How However ver the dignity which is associated as as- with beards and whiskers was 4 missing in this look Bohemian ing lot Whenever a student stepped up to the distinguished member of ot his majesty's government to receive a diploma he was as pelted with shots from peashooters blown by his le fellow fel id- low y students at the rear of the hall hail