Gunnison Valley News | 1919-11-28 | Page 2 | Good Looks by Study

Good Looks by Study. The Cri de Paris, the weekly gossip gos-sip magazine, says that Maj. Sir William Wil-liam Orpen, the painter, who is still working on pictures of the peace conference, con-ference, was haunted by the idea, when he was young, that he was very ugly. He used to turn his face aside in the street to avoid being seen. Working as an art student, he noticed no-ticed that his fellow-pupils, by dint of mental concentration upon the beautiful beau-tiful models of antiquity, gradual'y came somewhat to resemble them in their own! features. Orpen eagerly awaited promotion to the same class, - and determined to spend all his time copying he Venus de Milo. "I shall thus acquire her admirable expression of haughty serenity," he said. "Unfortunately," "Un-fortunately," he continues, "when I was promoted) to copying antiquity ray master, made tne spend the whole year drawrng;i nothing but 'The Dancing Faun,' so that I never realized my ambition."