Trade Union methods can we doubt?
President Perier went "on strike";
Now, Faure has been "locked out."
Deux Mots.—The retirement of one of the oldest and most popular actors of the Comédie Française may be summed up in two words, "Got: gone."
"ART IS LONG——"
The Daily Graphic of February 1, commenting on the time-contest between two pianists, suggests that exponents of the other fine arts should follow their example. The idea has been taken up at the Royal Aquarium with great success, as will be seen from the following press-cuttings:—
From the "Magazine of Art."
The Directors of the Aquarium are to be congratulated on their new departure, which takes the form of a highly exciting and sportsmanlike contest between those two well-known entertainers Professor Herr Komer and Señor Hardli Duddi in their great poster-painting exhibition. This consists of a trial of strength and endurance, the challenger, Señor Duddi, having given out that he will beat Professor Komer's previous record in time and area combined by one hour and a hundred square yards. As the public are well aware, the latter performer's sensational achievement, "Miss Letty Lind," stands at present unbeaten as an artistic poster, having far eclipsed his "All Beautiful in Naked Purity," which attracted such attention on the Royal Academy hoardings last year. As to time, his Lind tour de force (shown at the Society of Portrait Painters at the New Gallery last autumn) was painted in one continuous whirl or sitting of fifty hours duration, and would have taken even longer, had not the accomplished danseuse fainted from exhaustion. (It is understood, by the way, that Miss Lind has issued a challenge that she will pirouette against the world, including Lord Yarmouth and Little Tich.)