Hamadryads and Sisters of Narcissus

Camera Studies Made Against the California Hills

THE opulent beauty of the Californian landscape has, for some time, been used to advantage by the motion pictures. There is an extravagant romanticism about it which makes California, more than any other part of America, an acceptable background for cinema romances. Here the producers have been able to find a new Riviera, a civilized Tahiti, a credible Treasure Island. Without the use of passports, they have discovered an Italy where the cypresses and pools at least are Italian, a Monte Carlo where the atmosphere is Monegasque to the extent of the "palms, the sunlight and the south". The true arts, too, have now and again caught the golden glint of the Apples of the Hesperides amid the heavy green foliage of California, notably Mr. Arthur B. Davies, who has painted there, and Vachel Lindsay, who recently published The Golden Whales of California. We are showing two of a series of studies posed by the Marion Morgan Dancers in the enduring sunlight of the Pacific coast, against stately and serene gardens or leaning over green and pallid pools, just to prove that there is no more delightful atmosphere in the world.