AN ARTIST’S TRIBUTE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21666, 9 June 1932, Page 10

AN ARTIST’S TRIBUTE

AUSTRALIAN GIRLS “COLOURLESS MEN.” (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY.' May 25. Mr Keith Bryant, a young New Zealand artist, who, after having spent a year in Sydney, is returning to London to resume contracts with English illustrated newspapers, spoke highly of the Australian girls in an interview at Fremantle, but of Australia’s menfolk sartorially he formed an opinion which, unfortunately, is fairly general among visitors. Mr Bryant gave it as his opinion that between 70 and 80 / per cent, of the girls in, Australia were worthy to sit as artists’ models. They were of good physique; they carried themselves gracefully, and they dressed with good taste. “ They are,” he added, “ alive to the colourful atmosphere with which they are surrounded, and respond to it, but the men are drab and colourless, with something of the characteristic in this respect that typifies men in Europe. In the clothes that they wear, the men of Sydney, taking them generally, appear to reflect the depressed state of that city.” The tendency towards the Americanisation of Sydney did not escape Mr Bryant’s eye, just as it does not. escape the eyes of other visitors who are sensitive to impressions. “ Sydney,” Mr Bryant "observed, “ is entirely different from the other capitals, where Tome life predominates. Sydney Ts very superficial. Night clubs, cocktail parties, and the beaches appear to be the main interests in the life of Sydney people.” I