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CORONET "INFINITE RICHES IN A LITTLE ROOM" [[image]] THREE MEMBERS OF THE CHAPIN SCULPTURED MENANGERIE CORONET 104 [[image]] PIG, CARVED FROM LIFE IN ROSE SANDSTONE the sculptor copies directly from life and digs directly into the stone. That is why Hernandez calls Miss Chapin a daring woman. Animals are her favorite subjects, and the subjects of her most successful efforts. In Paris, where they do these things better, she had a perfect outdoor studio at the zoon. In Paris they do not keep the animals behind bars-they keep them on little islands and the animals have at least the minimum requirement of room. Miss Chapin used to load a bloc of stone on the workshop-pushcart she uses, and wheel it to the zoo. The animals, she says, knew what she wanted. They knew they were being posed and the behaved accordingly. "I got to know the hours of the day when they would pose precisely the way I wanted them to," says Miss Chapin. "When I was making the penguin, I used to visit him at daybreak. That was when he AUGUST, 1938 105 AUGUST, 1938 THIRTY-FIVE CENTS IN GREAT BRITAIN 2/6