Show Venus F Fat at Old Dame F amou Painter Terms Flappers Goddesses and Belvedere Mere Mer Gigolo J By CORALIE VAN PASSE CopyrIght Press Publishing Compa New York World 1928 DEAUVILLE Aug The 4 r Vet rde de Milo in the Louvre museum disgustingly fat old dane daDe Who bamboozled long en with her false claims to beauty is tIm timO that some courageous be factor of mankInd went up t tt museum and smashed the statu bIts and threw the fragments fragment If the SeIne rIver I So speaks Kees Van Dongen t r Franco Dutch painter of the ten feir nine form as he lies lits about In int I hot sands of the Normandy co S SI getting hImself a auddy ruddy coat oU ot I while watching among the baut I from all parts of the world C CI 16 perfect woman who might serve I a model for tor his new opus desta desta'S S for the autumn j We Europeans are a trusting a I believing race without any or orI orf I naUty or courage ot or our own says Back in the fourteenth ee Ce I tury some purblind old collect l j lS S or was he a gay toldo forbears that Miles Mile's Venus po I essed perfect feminine r We Ve have gone or on believing tn t joker ever since and basing whole conception of female c cupon upon that asinine declaration 1 Not until the American west started to flock over here close ot of the war did we sudden wake up and did we realize that L dear old Venus was really De MJ Idea ot of what an inmate of nian home for old and ladles should be AMERICANS REAL BEAUTIES AmerIcans showed us that boyish silhouette possessed elements of beauty We h ha hato to thank them for coming over h hand be and showIng us their women Sot folks feel grateful for the military aId during the war 11 not belong to that category Y should have won without the er their men were as ui no as our own But when they start starl to trot over their flappers I 1 heava a sigh of profound gratitude fo last I was begInning to see the Id woman Those young ladies who are derisively referred to as flappers a ain in reality perfect goddesses COl Ca pared to them our doting Madar Venus over there in the dusty con conof conor or of the Louvre Is an old hag lag less The young woman of our d who swIms drives her own c c. plays tennIs and who vho dances thE marvelous rhythmic innovations It Ii the Charleston and the Is so infinitely superior to the a adent dent clent conception of beauty that cannot fInd words to express J ir loathIng for the people who g there to gaze upon that lumP Jump f t frozen fat in the Louvre museum I If a young sculptor came ou op with the Venus de Milo for the firs fats time In our days he would could get et tb ha Ira from the critics and ami t tb public there l have you got would be asked Your grandma Dear old lady And that would be the end Of It APOLLO ONLY A GIGOLO Van Dongen is no less the Apollo de Belvedere the stair that has hitherto serve served 1 as a a. Bar so Barot ot of ideal for tIne the masculine form That statue Is too too delIcate he says It is sur posed to convey quiet strength so aD aDI virile force This is what we eve h I been told during l long ng agonizing ago ot of darkness But does docs I it conte these attributes to your mine mind G Q and look at it again agan Is that h type of man we enter In the box bot arena nowadays to stand up 3 agaI such magnificent nt specimens as Tanney Tan Tun ney or Dempsey No Ko The Greeks did not trot BUs BUs' flimsy youths as Apollo de J out into their Olympiads to toss disc or wrestle wre with the bl bind muscled heavy slaves from Part and ScythIa and the barbar from Asia They had he those days as well welI as we ours Tire TIM sculptor of the ApoliO tended to show us a little tittle dandY gigolo a dancing partner a bOY old ladies to rave about and bu ba sweets I 4 I li Neither Venus Ventis nor Apollo proportion EverythIng that proportion is beautiful I 1 ant am ly here in the sands of Deauville va aN Ing for the boatloads from c Ament to come In You dont don't see nie Ine nieto tra to old or take part in sOl geographical exploration in Rom ruIns for a lumpy old statue I Ido need to stir from my posItion i 1 can see the real desses come In while sipping atar atarI I hattan cocktaIl in theIr honor |