NYU Washington Square College - Album Yearbook (New York, NY)

 - Class of 1934

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In our own day Qsome thirty years agoj, the very wealthy Mrs. Whitney first opened her studio in Macalougal Alley. This recognition of the Village as an art center brought still more aspirants to Fame via the brush and canvas down into the neighborhood of Washington Square. Today the Whitney Museum on Eighth Street, just off Fifth Avenue, presents some of the most brilliant exhibits in America. With Art as its banner, the Village welcomed experimenters in all the forms of artistic expression. So it was that an old blacksmith shop saw itself emptied of forge and of horseshoes, and given instead footlights and backdrops. The Province- town Players invaded Macclougal Street with their experimental stage. It was to this that the noted English critic, William Archer, referred when he said: In the region of Greenwich Village we must look for the real hirthplace of the New American Drama. Tony Sarg's marionettes saw the first light of day in our Village. Eugene O'Neil little dreamed in those early days that the play which has recently estab- lished a record for length of run would ever go beyond the confines of the Village. Yes, The Emperor jones had its world premiere not very far from the shadow of the Arch, and his In the Zone, with our own college's Washington Square Players. And to prove how versatile Art may be when it dons the matronly garments of Green- wich Village and plays hostess to young neophytes of the Drama, it shall here be re- corded that the ardent lover in many' a Eve-reel flicker movie thriller, one John Barrymore to wit, has also sought Greenwich Village as a home and a retreat from the madding mob. There they are on parade, artists, adtors, playwrights, writers, critics, and even newspapermen. In 1921 the Greenwich Villager made its appearance as an eight-page weekly newspaper, and here, for the first time, a departure was made from the form followed by all of the existing newspapers of the City. Literary in charaster, the Greenwich Villager set about describing the doings and activities of the Villagers in a delightfully humorous and whimsical fashion, thus reflecting the spirit of friendship which existed amongst its neighbors. ' s HERE ARE thousands of bright-eyed men and women, young and old, who came to the Village looking for two things essential to their profession, atmosphere and human interest. These were the writers of novels. Thousands made their little bid, many succeeded. Recently it was confirmed by a representative group of book- sellers that of the forty living authors whose name deserved mention on a Roll of Honor, seven were genuine Villagers, and some twenty or so more were occasional visitors to our old Sappokanikan Village. O. Henry half ironically described a res- taurant in the Village as a resort for interesting Bohemians . . . only writers, painters, attors and musicians go there. To the writers of the nineteenth century the Village was the American Latin Quarter. The Village was destined to acquire the label Bohemia. It accepted its new mantle without comment, much as it had accepted other labels in earlier days. As early as 1878 William H. Rideing wrote an article in Scrihneris on The French Quarter of New York. Those were the days when the two hostelries, the Grand Vatel and the Tauerne Alsacienne, offered to struggling young vt 44 241 40 vN '4-,, 5 a I gp' .. -2 4 5 - il lil Q C-':cxi ' HI X

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They were fleeing into a safety Where they could practice their art unmolested, un- hampered by the conventions of the rest of the city of New York. They were fleeing into a sanctuary for the mind and for the emotions. A place where no one would bother about the kind of clothes they wore, about the way in which they let their hair grow, and about the way they let their ideas grow. Such a sanctuary, despite the fact that the Village is no longer as picturesque as it used to be, and despite the fact that pent houses have replaced attics, Greenwich Village still is. People who want freedom-freedom from convention, freedom from the tongues and the thoughts of more conventional folk still flee to Greenwich Village. Here, they may still dress, and act, and talk as they please. Here they may shirk their thoughts, paint their pictures, and write their poetry unhampered by a citizenry: still conven- tional and staid and unimaginative. Yes, they came looking for flagged courtyards and for delightfully tangled streets, they came looking for retreats and for sanctuaries, for havens and for escapes from boredom and from monotony. They came, these wild-eyed, long-haired young men, in pastel-colored smocks and black flowing ties- they came, these brittle-looking, slen- der young blondes, puffing away incessantly at cigarettes held between two trembling fingers . . . art students, cubists, futuristS, poets, playwrights, novelists . . . they opened studios, they opened art shops, they opened restaurants. just like their early ancestors fleeing before the epidemic, these nineteenth and soon to follow twentieth century children were also fleeing into the safety of the Village. There does not appear to be any record of the day when our Village first be- came the center of Art, but if the age of a building may be construed to be a calen- dar, we can look on West Fourth Street, near Sixth Avenue, to the ramshackle Old Studios as they were called until most of the original building was torn down re- cently. The estimate made by historians of this part of N eu! York and confirmed by engineers of the wrecking concern which cleared away the debris 'was that the Old Studios must have been built in the 1830's. It has been confirmed that John La- Farge had his studio here, and it was here that F-Frdx,-X xl-7f he produced his most famous Ascension. The 5' - - wit -. - Village beckoned and the young artist came, F ,Ur Dq seeking garrets and cellars, seeking all of the 4 -.f:gH E-: ,, ' ' - dinginess and poverty which seems inherent to A 3 the status of one who seeks expression in Art. Robert Blum, who won his fame in pen draw- ings, lived in an old house facing Grove Street Q! ' H Park. Jules Guerin, illustrator and painter of I bmi: murals, lived in the same house, and it was ..fi from here that he drew his inspiration for the M y H panels which now decorate a part of the Lin- ..l.ii if coln Memorial at Washington. It was the ,ffe ,,.f e - atmosphere of peace and freedom from inter- ,ef 1 if 1' 'f::r': .,.' f' : 2f'-Glu ruption which the Village offered to these young Artists-they answered the call. 6' if Q' '. . . I 1, 3 . I ii T 1 ' 5 ff-1 5 1 'lg ,x f ' T fa it 2' - -,,. . 5- A, e 'fri ' f fi. f ff f .v Mi X f ff- A 4, my, J ,f un- K l gym, ' I A Iilllh' ,X 'I M, ' df, f -1. V ' f -2 F a , F , Y r V ' . m ' K V ffl' ' i ni' H X ' 9 I 1 X 1 an 1' . i . xr st ' ' , X x, ll '1 1 Ki' t K x V iv' 1 x ' 1. it X 1 'Z 1 .ff ,....,.n. X - -1w.w-.- ,1::g,qt-5.5.4 -N -:Ply ' f Leis! ,eiizii'fr-i-5.1-5'--'J : , PEM s' :W 2'-ff-'.1f-54.27,-falf' X' X migtfffiiyl' ' gf' vf I M, f - ' -- 43, i F 1 U Jn 1 - 1- 4 ll. 1 9,1 J I 1 tv' 4 if ' . ' 'Q f 1 r ml , i , 1 ji fa U ,v If X f., Z J fn I igffifi, I I .I 1 J r ,g 5' L91 7, ,ff 5 ff ', e , ff , 43 H ll l' , f ,fwfr 79-f sf' ,. KN , , 1, , ,J .'5-4424,-1 - 'f'f'f' 'I---'-:'f',43fffLf e95?v.'g1ZjH2E!'f'?- Y-a: g.9f gif .4-,Viv mr 22 an 1 rf' ' . 4 13' f 1 .1 IAS- . e . f23 O56 Vfvlye A 9 l 5 , ' , -4-



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writers a four-course dinner and an excellent bottle of wine for thirty-five cents. Today a spic' and span self-service cafeteria stands facing Sheridan Squareg but the thirty-five cent dinner and the bottle of wine have vanished. n Does not Howells tell us that on his first visit to New York he supped at the table under the pavement in that famous old beer tavern, Pfajvs, and it was here that he met Walt Whitman? A This tavern saw such visitors as Bayard Taylor and Edmund Clarence Stedman . . . the younger generation of scribes whose greatest joy was to have a story accepted by Harper's or Scribnefs also came to the tavern seeking Bohe- vnia. To mention a few, there were Artemus Ward, Fitzhugh Ludlow, Thomas Bailey Aldrich and William Winter. Many of the little twisting streets and alleys found their way into the works of famous men. Henry James wrote a novel called Wash- ington Square. Innumerable writers have peopled the pages of their books with both animate and inanimate life of the Village. Brander Matthews in The Last Meeting calls one of his characters The Duchess of Washington Square. Julian Ralph in his People We Pass has Miss Grandish live in one of the brick houses with white trimmings on Waverly Place. Edward Townsend described the social contrast between the north and the south side of the Square in just Across the Square. F. Hopkinson Smith has the hero of his novel Caleb West entertain his guests in the house which faced the Square where they saw night life of the park, miniature figures strolling about under the trees, flash- ing in brilliant light or swallowed up in dense shadow as they passed in the glare of the many larnps scattered through the budding foliage. Near the southeast corner of the Square was the Benedic, a red brick bachelor apartment building, now the Student Building, which Robert W. Chambers glorified as the Monastery in Outsiders. If one really wants to feel the spirit of our Village of a generation ago, he may find it in Bunner's book The Midge. If, after reading Theodore Winthrop,s Cecil Dreenie, one is tempted to come to the Square seeking Chrysalis College, he will be disappointed for the locale of that story was the old University of New York build- ing which those Sing Sing convidts had erecited and which was pulled down a few years before the beginning of this century. From a little known book of Stephen French Whitman, called Predestined, we quote a description of our Village: It had been drizzling: the pavernents, beaded with rain, showed, under nzistily irradiating street larnps, hu- . rnid footprints. Frovn the juncture of Macdougal Street and Waverly Place, spread out a vnass of grey black shad- ows underlaid with the horizontal, pearly lustre of wet asphalt paths. v -if-'QM 9 E251 qfffc 'Q 'f fl

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