An eminent artist who is more interested in anthropology than art and who would rather converse about the ordinary enjoyments of life than about the technique of portrait work was revealed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday during the course of an interview with Augustus E. John, famous English portrait painter who was recently elected to the Royal Academy and who is now in Boston doing a portrait of Governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts.

The CRIMSON reporter had anticipated an enthusiastic response to his reference to "The Green Jacket," but was astonished to find that Mr. John didn't seem to remember having done the picture at all.

Mr. John, in fact, suspected that someone over here in the States had been doing a bit of business in his name. Upon being reassured that there actually was a "Green Jacket" with his name in the corner of it on display in a local gallery, he registered suspicion and expressed a desire to see it.

A trip to the gallery with the reporter, however, revealed that "The Green Jacket" was a genuine John; and, after identifying it as one of his own works, Mr. John made profuse apologies and declared that he was very certain that people on this side of the ocean are very honest after all.

The rivalry among the various American cities, such as Boston, New York, Philadelphia and Chicago, in their attempts to gain artistic distinction highly amused Mr. John chiefly because the American cities do not go in for exhibiting much contemporary art in their museums.