MR PHIL MAY ON CARICATURE.

Press, Volume LIV, Issue 9812, 23 August 1897, Page 4

MR PHIL MAY ON CARICATURE.

Mr Phil May lectured before the Society of Women Journalists recently on *• Caricature." It was said (he began) that a man wm at his bast when h« waa saying or

doing something he understood, so he w_„u, say as little as possible, and set on *$& some sketches. (Laughter). He fi-ifc 3? all drew his types from Sydney, ahowinJS old priest who had been his model, and th_ his pupil. Afterwards he became a (Laughter). The larrikin and <« laSE_& were next drawn, showing a tyne *_?.-•■ thing like that of our coster, butV2' traliwi does not wear a collar. An rable sketch of "A Sort of gave the lecturer an opportunity L remark that the Chinamen in Sv-„n n „ do not wear pigtails out of for the larrikins, to whom the E gear was rather tempting. (LauehrTv Sydney babies were disfigured by tlie S of bonnets they wore, which were &W----twice the size of their bodies, as he _how 2' by a humorous sketch. Then there W _T_', reference to the new Australian pi which had a standing block portrait US passed for tbe new mayor, new bishon «. anything-(laughter) -and. which, with _ cigar stuck in its mouth, was kK«n_i "portrait, of Phil Mar'-a very ext ordinary production. It wm intcre_«o_ ti watch th» lecturer at his work, which h_ carried on in silence, only throwing in 1 few explanH..»-.-v remarks when each flcetVh was complete,:.. He mot a little '• gutter snipe" at Hammersmith, gave her his card" and asked the mother's permission to sketch the child. This was readily granted "Ar there any more of. you?' he 'asked* « Yes," said theyoungster, "there's six moron us, all wuss than mc." (Laughter! The next morning the whole troop came u_ but his little friend would not allow tha others to monopolise hia attention, exclaim ing, " 'Ere, Vs my artist; I found 'i_ fust." (Laughter.) The Chairman inteposed at this point with the remark that there was a general wish that the lecturer should sketch the " Women Journalists * and he promptly responded by drawing _« angel surmounted by a distinct halo H_ then drew as the last sketch a remarkable likeness of himself with a few rapid strokes of his pencil, and waß given a hearty vote of thanks for his first pnblic lecture. Mr Phil May, who is a man of a, few wmL* was rather dismayed at the prosoeat of having to reply, remarking, " I thought it was all over." (Laughter.)