FEMININE CARICATURES

Evening Star, Issue 19891, 13 June 1928, Page 10

FEMININE CARICATURES

The caricaturist, in (lie past contented himself with pillorying feminine fashions. Ho was never personal where lovely women were concerned. “ Coffee and pistols for two” would, indeed, have been the result. A few years ago ho sougjit his subjects among celebrities ‘Nowadays, be makes them! Women who would probably pass unnoticed, except among their immediate circle ot acquaintances, become personalities ” because they figure among the caricatures of tire younger group of men and women nho can indicate, with pencil and paper, the salient characteristics (or lack of them) of their friends. It was not many years aeo that a celebrated actress walked up to tiro famous caricaturist “ Sent,” ami slapped his face because be bad caricatured her. Nowadays if, is the ambition of every woman, in England at least, to bo caricatured! It was Augustus John, with his halfinsolent, half-malicious portraits, with which he loved to set people talking, and Epstein, with his extraordinary stripping away of everything but the barest outlines of a beautiful face, who started tho reaction from the merely beautiful towards the personality, and altered all oiir standards.— 1 Ladies’ Field.’