Show ail V i Secre t Art A rf Life I 0 r j U t or 99 p i t y Why the Man Who Spends His Mrs r 1 t. t 4 E Days Adorning r the fhe Belles of o I v s rt t a Boccini Manuel Whose Who e Dual Artistic Personality Has Occasioned World Wide Comment Surprise and Admiration J CF 0 NI kolu ol GLORIFIER of already alread beautiful girls by byl A day by night a painter of sinister and l intimidating folk folk such such is the weird para para- paradox parac dox c that tl at rules the double life of Henry A. A All New v York City from Park Avenue to Broadway knows Mr Ir Manuel as perhaps tho the most famous fashioner of transformations in inthe inthe inthe the metropolis Stars of the stage and the ball ball- ballroom ballroom room invariably consult him when they are seek seek- seeking seeking seeking ing the last word in wigs though Mr 11 Manuel himself frowns on the pl bian label But Dut few except his most intimate cronies have realized hitherto that there is another and strikingly strikingly strikingly different side to this man a side which submerged for years rears in the stress of becoming financially independent is just now emerging into appreciative e fame In Manuel we have a case of expression dual-expression on the one hand the successful commercial artist who hit upon a fad for making women more beautiful beauli ul and whose hose every purpose is to soften often harsh lines lines to to beautify On the other there is the uncompromising artist who endeavors to portray his visionary reactions not as we would like them but as he sees them Beauty form line everything elL e ing is subordinated to truth and and reality As a result Manuels Manuel's paintings and especially his nudes are as uncomely as his famous transformations are beautiful 1 At At present at the select Anderson Galleries In New York there is being bein held an exhibition of his paintings some paintings some ome of them the same ones that were laugI laughed ed down years ears ago in Paris and were stored away by the disappointed artist when he decided to give up his artistic career and devote himself to a commercial trade But Dut re re- recently recently re- re recently they the were brought to light and it was found that a public whose appreciation of modernistic art has been developed by views of course Right They The would be his clientele Reasoning thus he arrived at his decision What considered the artist t would be the great greatest reat- reat est cst medium for beauty that would benefit the commercialist He lie considered his paintings which to him represented truth and sincerity Why were they not liked Because he had subordinated subordinated subordinated form and all else to color He lie would reverse his tactics He would bring color to meet and be enhanced by form As an artist he knew that harsh sh lines could be mitigated In the case of portraits many man un un- unlovely unlovely un- un unlovely lovely faces could be softened by the frame of neck line and hair Unpleasing faces could be into the appearance of beauty by the soft work frame of hair This then would be bethe bethe bethe the means by b which he would avenge his former failures upon the world The secret thoughts of this man as a. he deliberately deliberately atel set fet about to choke all natural expression and adopt a distinctly opposite one can only be beima imagined ima ined His Ills soul must ha e writhed in agony So it was that the newly born Henry A A. A Manuel combined his executive with his artistic ability He knew that he had hit upon something faddy enough to take publicity well well to to catch public fancy fan C He established himself in inA A u un A n smart little I shop in Paris Parl t. t- t He lie advertised nd The world of I 11 women must know what a f great boon he was about to bestow upon them He lie let Jet lethis t t J his purpose be known kno n In e 0 was y women more youthful youth youth- youthful ful women more beautiful and beautiful women mora individual Smart read of ot othis his great reat promises and flocked locked to the shop Soon he needed larger quarters With conditions improved s- s his clientele increased He lie became a technician of the highest order If It Ithe he was to startle the world with something new old old i methods must go Former Former- Formerly FF ly b hair for wigs bad had been glued on to a heavy neavy base Workmanship was crude and obvious His decision made Manuel l threw himself into the new work whole hearted He must devise new means As a result the hair for his transformations transformations transformations transformations- beautiful ful and lustrous in quality purchased from the peasants of Switzerland and Italy was Italy was given new treatment Each silky strand was knitted individually into a light silk gauze net Each client was studied The transformation must be de- de designed de de- designed designed signed to frame in the most flattering manner the contour of her features and her coloring She must be when turned ni 10 HI while hil failures l e with ih marked Je enthusiasm f erst erst- erstwhile A J glorifier r of already ahead y Henry Henl A A. Manuel successful business man beautiful b girls gl ls by day dayas by night a painter pamer of f was as born Boccini Manuel in the vil vii village lage of San Remo on the Italian sinister and intimidating frontier in 1896 dating dating- folk Dreaming of an artistic career fir 4 lie to Paris before he journeyed was tar twenty only to meet disappointment in the form of standardized un un- unsympathetic f c methods of instruction 5 sympathetic 1 on the part of the schools and little if any an encouragement ement toward in individual in- in individual nt expression on the part of h the public Not content to com corn compromise compromise y promise with his ideals in art he i turned his energies toward a busi busi- business business t jP 1 r f t ness career u wt Such is the marvelous combination S of abilities in this man that when he decided to give up for a a time at least his artistic career a I he did not flounder in a sea of r bewilderment He lie did not live li s upon his friends He lle did not 4 beg be or borrow 1 t He lie considered his problem He had something to give the r world world world-b b u t the t h e world f would have none of him a aVery Very well he would wait r His time would come But Dut what to do How I to bring the world to him 1 Did the world want beauty Did it wish to noN ig-noN reality Very well he would give e it beauty lr His work it would be to transform ugliness into softened lines so and art Who tho most de de- desired desired desired sired beauty The answer J was ivas w s simple women simple women of c tT P Y Zw 01 T f i i ip G p t s ti S St t t y Young Girl a Characteristic Manuel Canvas as in Which Mere Iere Beauty Has lies Been Uen Stalwartly Rejected I for Realistic H listic Truth I a I out by 1 y the great artist an achievement of per per- perfect perfect feet harmony harmon Hence Manuel became more than a wig Il He became the creator of transformations in which by visualizing womans woman's personality he en en- enhanced enhanced enhanced her attractiveness As a result the proprietor of the little shop In Paris is now established securely on three continents Europe continents Europe and the two t Americas His Ilis dictums regarding women's hair are absolute Several years ears ago he astonished the world by designing d and popularizing among the smart set the vogue of colored transformations unnatural transformations unnatural reds luscious greens and soft blues Hair to match ones one's gown own and mood was his slogan Manuel Manuello es loves to discuss his work He remarks upon a n peculiar psychological feature of it itIn itIn itIn In the old days when a n wig was a wig and anda a 8 thing of semi same shame semi he states Woman hid the fact of its existence as scrupulously as she disguised her other up make tricks But now that I have made it practically impossible to dis dis- discern discern discern cern a transformation woman has classed it with other accessories of dress and not only indifferent indifferent indifferent ferent to but desirous of the fact that she is wearing a transformation being known Many transformations are now considered in inthe inthe inthe the smart set as such universal dress accessories that it is taken for granted that a fashionable woman is wearing a transformation suitable to the occasion Bobbed hair has served but to increase the popularity of the transformation Milady may like her hair short in the latest and most con con- convenient convenient convenient modes for sports in the tho evening in a arl rl I 1 Society Spends Spends Spends' S ends Nights Painting Modern and Realistic Portrait t us' us Paradoxes of of- Girls Gals y I j x v t Jl J f f l' l f i J i eV S St t b V r i. i S t tr r ft r J wN lq Vat F y S'S 55 1 0 1 f t t M I e At Right Mrs Samuel Goldwyn Once Orce Famous on tho the Frances Prances Stage Stag as Howard as She pt 1 Appeared in One of or r Manuels Manuel's Expensive Expense e yN lr J Transformations Tran formations i A long clinging gown gon o g n of cloth of ot gold she will don the transformation de de- designed designed designed signed for that particular gown and will appear in a new mood and personality In peculiar contrast to this work in which beauty is the paramount consideration are the tho th paintings of Manuel Those unacquainted with th the tho methods and apparent lack of finish of mo mo- modern modern modern dern artists might be completely baffled by them They arc curious to say the least and depend for appreciation upon truth rather than illusion They are arc the time direct antithesis of all of Henry Manuels Manuel's commercial ideas They make no pretense of commercial beauty In them Manuel seeks to express form through color alone He lie disregards all al preconceived pre pre- preconceived conceived d ideas of painting He lie Heis Heis lieis is a sculptor with his brush Using color as his clay he builds buil s up the tho thomass mass mss then cuts and moulds until the form emerges Thus In each canvas the same problem is met in a new way spon spon- spontaneously spontaneously and with that zest known only to adventurers adventurers adventurers on new paths to paths to J those who believe that No man may be called calle l lan an artist we are all learners For the most part the tIle paintings are arc nudes the nudes the most remarkable feature r of which is their striking ugliness u g 1 i n e s s. s Languishing hin pudgy pud figures fires bulging In m Incurious incurious curious places in some in instances in- in instances instances stances giving givin the impression impression impression sion of captive balloons but in every case power power- powerful powerful powerful ful in conception of or line lino Z amla 1951 and color and denoting unusual artistic skill It is impossible to approach these paintings with any degree of understanding unless one first realizes that the artist is making no attempt to paint what his eyes ees see se but rather to paint what is visible to his mind and imagination For instance conservative painting is based on resemblance proportion and color The modern artist is now willing willin to bind himself with require require- ments-he ments he may see fit to discard any anyone one 01 oi of 1 m Above Aboc and at Left LeH Self Self- Portrait by Manuel Manucl and Stud w of My Iy Mother l I I J iJ i e eM M s Typical l of o Manuels Manuel's St Style le is This Unusual Portrait of Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh those thoe three in order to gain his effect ct Once when an ardent young oun lady a n Academic pupil in Whistlers Whistler's Carmen told him in defence of a study that she painted exactly what she saw he ha replied The shock will come when you ou see what you paint Those hose of us initiated to tho the modes of modern painting doubtless feel just that way about Manuels Manuel's work but the tho fact remains that uncertain erudite critics have pronounced them works of art J |