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Show Soap Has Place . In World OfArt SOUTH HAXUET. Mass., Feb. 1. Soap humble, grease chasing, grime-removing grime-removing soap has come Into Its ewa aa an art material at Mt. Holyoks college. col-lege. I'nder the skllfiil fingers of alias Anne Hershay of Iauphln. Pa., a Mt. Holyoks college Junior, ordinary white soap is carved Into lovely statuettes rivaling In their beauty, figures of marble. In the college art classes. Miss Her-shey Her-shey has worked in clay, but In her own room she models In soap as a material more cleanly and convenient "Kver since 1 was a little girl I've liked to model things.' said MLss II r-shey r-shey In discussing her art work. "1 u"d to mold mud, whittle wood, and bits funny figures out of the cooklei 1 ate. One day I was cutting up soap for my mother; It wss such fun whittling whit-tling It that I got the Idea of using soap for carving. At first 1 msds busts and busts and busts- most of them pretty poor. Then 1 began working out my owa Ideas. Now 1 know the limitations of a bar of soap so well that I can utilise Its full possibilities. I've been earring sonp since I was t." At Mt. Ifulyoke Miss Hershey hss carved rnanv eiqutsfte miniatures. One of her latest she calls "Orientals." It is a nude figure of a woman, half t urned toward an oriental screen. If one looks at the hack of the screen, on, finds there the Impress of a welt known , enwp muker. Another Interesting study Is a death mask of Keate. HI nee this would not ' fit into the dimensions of a soap bar. Mlas Herfhfy melted several cakes ana modeled the heed from a square block. After bln r melted the soap scqulred a tinge of red almost fleahlike. Jn modeling model-ing this, as In all her work, she used only a nail file and a pin. Over in Mead hall, where Miss Hers.iey Uvea, the girls are proud of their soap sculptor snd th v additional bene-fits bene-fits from her work throus-h the soap chips which she whittle off, collects In a bag snd- give away with IftVieh hand. "I g J( rs I've whittled sway about a ton of aonp since I started." she ssid. "last summer 1 carved a set of chess men out of no, not soap Iron wood Do yon know how tough that l? It's ss I hard as its name. Soap is much supe-I supe-I rtor." Miffs Hershey has always wanted to be s sculptor, but she also wants to be a college grsduste. "Once a long time ago I met an artist who lmrreNied me aa being terribly Ignorant, and J re-polved re-polved right there to be educn(d evn If I werf going to be s sculptor," nhe aaid. "That's why I came to Mount Holyoke and that's why I shall postpone sny actual work In marble until 1 grad-:ntf grad-:ntf next year.' |