Show f A hi Mumbo Mumbo Jumbo He Holds Up to Ridicule His e Fellow Millionaires X Who pay 40 re w wr for pair of r I P T a f GP 13 9 ri A L V i A k si ts t tsi a g Store 4 w r f Mi 44 f Indians and Ac- Ac Acy Ac y 1 del 4 the Sense Senseless a t ww less Daubs of a aa i Half alb Wit as of Art The he dancers pull into the ballroom an enormous Mamas bird and when the silver egg on its ka back flies open the Duchess and Van Loon are seen enfolded in each other others other's arms arms r V P Ps Pa s a ly lye lyd d e i 4 t r ati atit er err hk be t 4 7 d I a t t 1 v Henry Clews Clewe jr who mercilessly satirizes the smart smart mart set get in which he isa is a prominent figure A HENRY HENEY CL CLEWS WS JR heretofore heretofore here here- MR Mn 1 known k to fame only be- be because be because cause he be inherited the millions of one of the country's richest bankers end and is the husband of one OM of its great great- greatest greatest est cst the beauties beauties the former formel Elsie Whelen dl wife of at Robert now Goelet-now Goelet has a new and very unusual claim to distinction He has become a literary artist and an extremely boldone bold one Cne His recently published book Mumbo Jumbo is a withering criticism of life ns liS it is lived day day to-day and particularly of the way ay many of his rich friends allow them them- themselves them them selves to be dup duped d by unscrupulous art dealers and crazy champions of thiS that or the other new school of artistic expression alon Mumbo Jumbo is the term Mr Clews has Invented to signify everything that thatIs thatis Is vulgar Unless we e can rid ourselves at of our fatal tendency to vulgarity ho he thinks we are headed straight for the th everlasting wows bow s In a preface that fills about half halt the volume Boni have recent recent- recently ly Iy recently published he explains his reasons for believing that mass education com com- commercial mercial science and power machinery havo annihilated our faith in love lovo and beauty and brought us Ud to a state of o f democratic decadence oJ The rest of the volume is devoted to toa ta a play in which Mr Clews Cles mercilessly merciless satirizes the rich dupes of the tho art deal deni- deniers ers era who buy cigar store Indians Indiana as pie pIC CIOUS specimens of American primitive o art and hall hail the daubs ofa of a poor mental 1 defective as priceless masterpieces I What fun rich Mr Clews has with his hisrIch hisrich hisrich rIch friends It will bo small entail wonder if some sonic of his bitingly barbed shafts of satire ahr stir stir keen resentment from many of those who have been guilty in the name of Art of follies quite as ridiculous ridiculous lous as paying for a l pair ur of elated wooden Indians The play opens with the discovery It in France by two o shrewd and unscrupulous New York art dealers of the wit half ted son of a dead artist who passes hi his time covering canvas with tho the most meaningless daubs and Rosengarten arrange to bring the un unfortunate un- un unfortunate fortunate young oung man to America and introduces him as Men Mervyn n the Master of Subjectivity and founder of n a brand new lIew art cult The Time public has never had an opinion opinion ion lon sas sa's says Rosengarten in explaining how easy it will be to make this scheme schema reap them a fortune and ne never neer er will have one Public opinion is merel merely the prIvate o opinion of one or more dominant spirits who mold tho mass which is clay in their hands entirely according to their personal ambItions and interests The scene shifts from jho he home of the witted half youth in France to the luxurIous art galleries of E Co Coin m In New York i The time is five months later ti 1 On the wall vall hangs a size life photograph of I Mervyn ina m in a costume befitting his role rolo r lo of Mas ter of Subjectivity Grouped about tho the portrait are numerous cigar stole stono Indians In- In Indians In Indians These are the very same samo wooden figures that zero ere to be seen twenty twenty years rears veara ago in front of nearly every cigar store The few fess remaining ones have been bought up as junk by Co Co and are arc being unloaded on their rIch and credulous clients as American at primitives at a pair pairl I Mervyn is ie the rage The art hate ha taken him up and everyone every one who is an anybody body is flocking to see the exhibition exhibition tion of his work at the Gal Galleries lenes His pictures are the same ab- ab absurd absurd ab absurd surd daubs he ho was producing when the partners discovered him Rosengarten finds in a book of Hindu phIlosophy the tho idea for tor the cult it is pro pro- proposed pro pro- proposed proposed posed to have Mervyn found It reads like this thu Man being the tho last and most per per- perfect perfect per perfect he ho not only gave him the five organs organ of sen sight sense e sight smell touch taste and hearing but hearing but also a sixth called Mamas by which he can com corn commune mune music with God and unlock the mysteries of nature The sixth sense is tho the dual force generated by the attuned union umon of the two se sexes e within each individual which is admitted by all Hindu philosophers Rosengarten discovers Mamas on time the very afternoon of the opening exhibition of Mervyn's work and within an hour bour it is being buzzed about the gal gal- gallery gallery gal gallery lery It n is given ghen a good start b by tha 1 4 shrewd Duchess of Mandelieu who says Bays the 1 he word vord ju just t came for when I saw Ills his pictures I had an entirely new sen- sen sen sensation an awakening of a new sense as asIt asit asit It were and of course knowing the Hindu word you Mamas Mamas you all ell know the word Mamas meaning the sixth sense the the idea flashed flashed through my brain that it was Mal Mamas as I was as feeling for the first time I always feel it here on the top of my head The millionaire boobs of Mr Clews's play are arc Ezra P Packer an all old fash captain of industry who ho made his fortune in hygienic toothpicks his elephantine ele elephantine ele- ele elephantine and ond guileless wife and the ethereal overeducated and terribly cul- cul cultured cul cultured cultured Miss Packer who has tendencies toward socialism and free verse and knows everything about art The Duchess of Mandelieu it should be explained is a beautiful adventuress and knows her little book Although born in a New York slum she is now a aleader aleader aleader leader of cosmopolitan society having lifted herself there by a 11 little successful blackmail and finally having reached through her third husband a bankrupt Duke the glories of a Bourbon title So Mamas becomes the raga rage HI in an afternoon and everyone every one begins to feel D I Unloading at a pair cigar store Indians which they had bought as junk the sixth sense sensa burning In some part of his or her head as they stare at Mer Her Her- Ier- Ier daubs But there is other business to ho bo dispatched The wooden Indians have to be sold first and Dier- Dier TI is is reserved for a sort of grand finale The Tho Duchess and her million millionaire Wire aire friends come Into the tho the show show- showroom showroom room from the gallery and the tha Packers group themselves in admiration around the cigar store Indians Ali Ah those Indians exclaims the Duchess those glorious Indians I havo have two beautiful ones Mr Packer I was as first to buy them wasn't I Mr Rosengarten They're pure Egyptian In sentiment Perfectly exotic l 1 I And just think they used to 10 be bo In front of every cigar store in Amer Amer- AmerIcal Amer- Amer Americal America Ical ica 1 exclaims fat Mrs Packer My If we only could have havo appreciated them then Miss Packer is anxious for her father to buy and old Packer himself wants ants the Indians badly for his coll collection The following conversation ensues Packer Packer-I'd Packer Id I'd like liko to know how much youre you're asking for your our pair of Indians To To be quite quito hone honest t Mr Packer I cant can't face the thought of sell sell- sellIng selling sell selling ing them They're become so 50 rare it its it's practically impossible to get them now But Packer Packer But cats lats why want rant them ont you iou ou really think you might be beable beable beable able to part with at least one of the Indians I I would so much rather sell you OU that beautiful Van Dyck Packer All Packer All my friends have Van Dycks but none nono of them have havo Indians Ah Ah that's just it they're so rare The Duchess buys six of Mervyn's l daubs including one called Relativity which when one has gone Into a state stata of Mamas makes the Idea of relativity quite clear They Thoy are all buying pictures when they hear the sound of a flute It is the great gnat Mervyn who when he is not painting amuses himself with a 11 travesty trav trav- travesty travesty esty on music Rosengarten enters holding yn l arm The Tho idiot is effectively gotten up in dark well cut clothes He wears a Byronic collar soft white double cuffs rolling roiling back over his coat sleeves and a flowing black silk tie His s hair has been allowed to grow longer and it is bobbed below his ears cars after tho the fashion of the Italian primitives Poor timid nearly dies of fright Will this poor wit half-wit say or ordo ordo ordo do the tha wrong thing at the tho critical mo- mo moment mo me moment menU ment But Mervyn comes through fairly well this time Fortunately he is in a II sort ort of trance The innocent simplicity of the Masters answers answers to his admirers worshipful or questions is interpreted by byall byall byall all as a whimsical and mystical maui mani manifestation of genius As a reward Ie ard fir his lucky mindedness absent the relieved art de dealers take him to the circus Mervyn's genius is being E hook line and sinker and Mamas Mantas fact a t becoming the favorite favOrIto fad fat of the nel nealy rich Then the Packers amaze New York With their famous Mamas Ball Dall in the gallery of their new Avenue palace Just inside the legal regal palace entrance e estand stand on massive pedestals the two cigar stoic stole Indians recently acquired by Mr Before Beloro Packer from Co Be- Be Be fore loro the ball the pe poor or duped magnate meditates before belore these wonderful art obJects lIe He cant can't for the life of him figure out why hy these Indians were not considered works of art when they were werd standing in front of the cigar shops They could have hase been bought for II a afew afew few dollars apiece he reasons discon- discon n Ando Anda think I had to get the Duchess to actually beg to sell them to me now for the 11 pair It might be a good Idea to begin collect collect- collecting collecting ing barber poles before belore they too are recognized as I Works of Art This being an anart anart anart art collector is no joke but It gets you to the top of society all allright allright allright right The ball in my new palace here hele to-night to ill cinch it To bo be boin bein boin in tho the swim s these days you have to tobe tobe tobo be artistic My daughter under under- understands understands stands She's a clever girl to have taken up sculpture al- al although al although though I did have to pon pony up a neat sum Bum to that shrewd old French Senator for landing the bust she did in the tho Lux Lut Lux- Lux Luxembourg Luxembourg embourg Museum Just then Mr Packers Packer's secretary hands him a letter It reads Mr Packer Noble Sir I hears the bust I make for your honorable daugh daugh- daughter daughter daughter ter in her studio was by Luxem Luxem- Luxembourg Lu Luxembourg be bourg Museum I did not before thinks I was so great sculptor and now as I Ibe Ibe Ibe be BO so great I thinks it only fair for you to pay me twenty five thousand dollars for the great honour coming to your daughter and family through me It If you dont don't pay me these moneys imme mime immediately immediately I will obliged be bc to tell all peo pea I j vI N y f fN y x y a 5 x gay gayy kJ s r w r rY Jj s 24 V Vi 4 i 1 I y t a ar w s sr r a i r d Ii r r W f j r rI I 75 Z r j f 3 j ra 4 1 3 r I J HA A H 5 r 1 r s Y cf ra y wb rf r t Z 4 s L M MJ MR J f f Mf Z f R t b d Beautiful Mrs Henry Clews jr who may find some of her fashionable society friends resenting her husbands husband's biting satire of their follies pIes ples how great sculptor I am and it was me who made the head and not your our honourable daughter Before the captain of industry has ha time tuno to recover from roni this blow the ball begins Four great gold chairs are placed at the end of the ballroom for forIr to Mr Ir Packer and his wife Mervyn and the Mayor of ol New York The ballet that has been arranged Is heralded by tho the rolling roiling of drums and ant n In 11 h Ih hi Ili IliJ J f fl l l 1 D DI I P J e 1 o oe oa a D d r r Ni I Tr t till ill I Ii I ID i D the Master of Subjectivity J is robed like a prophet in simple white whito draperies Lights are low low- lowered low low- lowered lowered ered anda and a bluish spotlight Is thrown on the first couple who appear on the light represent represent- representing representing ing the Sense of Touch They are gorgeously cos coso costumed turned and plc- plc pirouette pir pirouette about as they II seek e e k to touch each other ith finger tips and long anten anton antennas nas nn attached to their caps Each of tho the other five senses is just as gorgeously represented represented by by a dane dancing dancing ing ing pair When all ten couples have appeared they tiptoe back to a violet curtain and pull forward by silver chains an enormous Mam Ham as bird mount mount- ed cd on small golden wheels carrying on its iti backa back a n great silver sll egg eg The dancers pull silver lIver ribbons at- at attached attached at attached to the egg and it flies open re- re revealing revealing re revealing Norman DC De Punster Van Loon a celebrated art ee connoisseur and the Duchess entwined together under n II mas mass massof massof of white feathers and ails cc veIls The dancers prostrate themselves around the egg while the Duchess and Van Loon languidly come to life and emerge from it together They are arc exquisitely dressed in sliver silver spangles and diamonds with white plumes on their heads Van Loons Loon's neck neek is 19 bare Ili III i anus anns are covered with long r rV rR V I white kid gloves He lie nears Bears garters bracelets and earrings of diamonds lamonds and anci white tail tall feathers feathera trail behind him on the floor The Duchess has a large larg Mamas bird embroidered on her long court tram train of silver cloth After they ha have hale e exchanged cabalistic cabal SignS and anel assumed various poses they majestically tom join the other guests all of whom hom are in costume with large Mamas birds on their heads As they do so the curtains are parted reo re- revealing re revealing Mervyn n robed like a prophet In simple white draperies His IllS neck is bare and on his Ius feet are arc sandals His head is feath wreathed d with jasmine he advances to a gold chair Mr Packer and the Mayor of ol New NewYork NewYork NewYork York make speeches Then i i is Her Mer- Mer turn The nervous nearly collapses with fear for what hilt the wit half-wit may say The Tho lights are lowered and the lime lime- limelight limelight limelight light is thrown thrown on the gT great at genius gemus He recites the tho speech he has been taught In a n low monotonous voice oice as if saying a lesson Ho lIo gets through the harangue on art successfully and is launching forth on Hindu philosophy when then sud aud suddenly denly he begins to te stammer The Hindu the philosophers philosophers the Hindu philosophers philosophers Staring Staring wildly about the room he cries in a n terrified voice Iso Ivo 1 0 forgot forgot- forgotten forgotten forgotten ten It it Ive I've forgotten the resti Seeing a II statue of the tile Virgin |