Framingham? Newspaper Article_1924

Newspaper article from an undated and unnamed newspaper. Title of article is "Student Life While in Paris/ Interesting Recital Given Before the Woman's Club/ Mrs. S. C. Fuller Speaks/ Aim and Methods of Sculpture Fully Explained". Article is in three sections, with two overlapping each other. The first section has the second on its back, but Meta found another newspaper to cut from and included it under the first section. The additional second is missing the very end which as been taken from the back of the first. Article is as follows: "A great many members of the Framingham Woman's Club were disappointed Tuesday afternoon, the bad weather preventing their attendance. The surprisingly large number who did brave the storm were well repaid and there was no dampening of interest, even though every pause was filled with the sound of the pouring rain against the windows. Mrs. S. C. Fuller, in her account of her student life in Paris, was most interesting and the talk upon her department of art, which, as she syas, is so often overlooked, and quite seldom very well understood, was very enlightening and her descriptions of the city itself gave some new lights on its civic policy, particularly in its extraordinary cleanliness. Even after market day everything is absolutely cleared away. Mrs. James Glass, chairman of the Art department, was in charge of the program and the department is greatly indebted to Mr. Shannon of the Lincoln school, who kindly loaned his lantern for the occasion, together with a detail of boys to operate the same. With this assistance Mrs. Fuller threw upon the screen a succession of views of different parts of Paris, beginning with a map of the city, in which she showed the student quarters, the Latin quarter and Mont Martre, the quarter of the more well-to-do artists - together with many scenes in the city, the Palais des Beaux Arts, in which are held the Continued on Page Two Student Life While in Paris/Continued from Page One. ... Salons, and other public buildings. Interesting views in the Latin Quarter were the rows of book stalls along the Seine and similar characteristic scenes. Included in the slides were a number of photographs of the work of rodin with whom Mrs. Fuller studied, including is famous "Thinker" and of many of her own pieces which have won diplomas at exhibtions and which have been made for especial exhibits. Among them was Mrs. Fuller's group "The Wretched" which was exhibited in the Salon in Paris. Interspersed with her descriptions of Paris and its art were interesting little stories and descriptions of the careless happy student life, the hard work, often far into the night, lightened by the good fellowship, the fun and nonsense of their hours of relaxation, which Mrs. Fuller said is all perfectly pictured in the once famous, now almost forgotten "Trilby." She explained the aim and method of sculpture, which is not as easily understood as painting, embodying as it always does an idea which does not appear at the first glance. The piece through which Meta Fuller won the interest of the great artist Rodin was rather gruesome, "Secret Sorrow," representing a man literally "eating out his heart." On seeing it Rodin studied it a few moments and then said: "Madamoiselle, you are an artist. You have the sense of form in your fingers." A pretty head of "Sylvia," the speaker accompanied by reciting Shakespeare's poem "Who is Sylvia?" The last included "John the Baptist," "Peeping Tom," suggested by Tennyson's "Godiva" and many others and closed with her "Emancipation" group. The nature of her work prevented the exhibition of much in other than photograph form, but she had brought a few of her smaller pieces, which exhibited, among them the charming reproduction of her mother seated in an arm chair, the portrait statuette of Mrs. Maude Cuney Hare, which was exhibited recently at the 116th exhibition at the Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia [end second section] [start third section] In her talk, Mrs. Fuller traced the growth of sculpture from the earliest Egyptian, which was simple and massive through its development in Greek and early Gothic which was more realistic up to the impressionistic which goes beyond the real and shows things as they appear, rather than as they are. The slides gave many illustrations of each in statuary and architecture, and the afternoon was profitable in an unusual line of thought for everyone present. The president, Mrs. Brown, called attention to the unusual number of conferences in the State Federation during the next few weeks and called attention to the next meeting of the club, which will be a public meeting, at which Chief Strongheart will appear in full native costume and lecture on the subject, 'From Peace Pipe to War Trail.' This is an event that will appeal - the first on record - especially to the sons of club members."

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"Student Life While in Paris"

c. 1924