6/27 She is in the cottage with the strange old mother. I have seen a painting in this mood by the Greek Nickolas Gysis. It is generally keyed to the hearthstone, and keeps quite close to it. But how well I remember when the first French photoplays began to come. Though unintelligent in some respects, the photography and subject-matter of many of them made one think of that painter of gentle out-of-door scenes, Jean Charles Cazin. |