Show PREFERS OLD STYLE FIGGER Perfect Form Should Follow v Greek Ideal of Right Kind of Hips fIe He Thinks ny By SIDNEY n B. B WHIPPLE NEW YORK 19 After UP hour In the studio of April an Bryant Baker gazing at the figures of two very professional models this Investigator as a committee ot of one sauntered through the tars tors opinIon of a a. real figger is not that or of the modern modem or Independent dent arUs artists artists' eighteenth annual exhibition and discovered that the painter These so called modernists who vaunt themselves upon being so progressive pro pro- vc that can understand them are actually as a. as asa asa a pall pair o of high buttoned boots when it comes to the female torso Baker who is a conservative is 15 the real pro progressives res- res sive-s sive progressive let lct us say ay as an advertisement for tor debutantes debutantes' Baker whose hose statue of oC Pioneer Woman won him acclaim and has definite ideas of the proper measurements for today's ideal woman wooman woo wo- man and they have nothing in cornmon cornmon corn corn- mon with Mae West The independent artists on the theother theother other hand seem to have absorbed their ideas of beauty from Billy Waton's Vat Wat- Vatson's sons son's beef bee trust and of Frankie Bailey Bliley Baker surrounded by statues of t nymphs and dancing girls Psyches and a scattering of fauns not to mention a bust of King Edward VII II gave his ideas of womanly woo wo- manly beauty today and announced that the Greeks had a word for it- it Delicately put that means having the right kind ot of hips Ills His definition of the perfect form formis is this The back of the thighs must be bein bein in the same plane with the shoulder blades the wrist band should mark the center of the overall height the bent elbow should touch the top of the hip bone the shoulders should be slightly wider than the hips These are the ideals he says ot of the very early Greek times before Asiatic influences led the Greeks to use fuller figures My own wn feminine figures are a combination of the too too- rail frail Psyche type and the too full or Venus figure figure- Figures Figur like this appear now to be the ideal lit in America |