Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-20
Hosing for Pictures.
row FAyoRrEs OF THE STAGE ACT BEFORE THE
PHOTOGRAPHERS CAMERA.

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posing before the camera She was photo
graphed In nearly all the parts in which she ap-
pears on the stage. Miss Anderson is known as
| "a good subject" understands the art of dress
| ing effectively, knows how to pose to the best
advantage. and has learned just what express
sion takes best. not only with the instrument.
but with the public. On the theory that for the
purpose Of the stage there can be no better ad-
vertisement than an attractive photograph,
actresses and prima donnas almost without ex-
eeption have now adopted that manner of intro
ducing themselves to managers and the public
| In advance Of their appearance. To some great
stars and celebrities it is a source of revenue.
Actresses in general like to be photographed.
| There are but few exceptions to the rule. Mad
anne Theo. who will not permit her pictures to
be sold at all, is one. All photographers who
| have had anything to do with them seem to
agree that actresses in general are more partic-
uar about having their dresses properly photo
sraphed than they are about having their per-
sOnal charms advantageOusly presented. Mad
anne Janauschek is an exception. She insists
on assuming her own poses, will not allow the
photographer to touch her and lets the drapery
take care of itself. Just as am, so represent
| me" she said to the operator when she last sat
| IN this city. " l desire to be natural and hate
all that is artificial. am true to nature on the
stage and desire to be true off of it, She then
threw herself into the chair and said: AS my
dress falls about me- SO represent it. 1 desire
to be perfectly natural" When the great
tragedicnne saw the proofs. however. of these
pictures that were perfectly natural" she was
shocked beyond measure and pronounced them
dreadful She eagerly consented to allow
the resources of the photographers art to come
to her aid and one of the first things done to the
negative was to take the waist in several inches
oy etching and make other parts Of the figure
more symmetrical.
The touch of the etcher is often required to do
what nature has failed to do for some of the
reigning celebrities of the stage The majority
OF actresses own up that they want "hand-
some picture" above all else, and sometimes
they assert that they don't care whether it looks
like them or not. Accordingly, by retoucbing
| as many of the lines indicating age as can pos
sibly be taken out of the face without de-
strOylng Its character and expression are re-
| moved.
"MAKING UP" FOR PICTURES
Other improvements are made, such as bright
ening the eye, turning up the corners of the
mouth to give smiling expression and remov-
ing strong angular lines wherever they exist
Ihls is the more necessary as some phOtogra-
piers will not allow actresses to "make up"
their faces beyond penciling or little powder
Rouge is not allowed, because it makes the face
black. A naturally rudy person always takes
very dark. Actresses always pay great attention
to the preparation of their faces when sitting
for picture, especially when they wish to be
represented In character that has distinctive
makeup. When Modjeska was photographed
week before last in this city, she brought with
her four large trunks, two maids. her dog and
her husband. Two of the trunks contained cos
tunes, one cosmetics and toilet arrangements,
and the other, which was iron bound and pad
| nh MR. I,ad in,
fifteen different attitudes. as Juliet Ad,.ienne
LecOurre'u and as Marie Stuart. Nearly all the
leading actresses have French maids and often
In preparing for photograph as much time is
spent on each character appeared in as at the
theater. Rows of lights for curling irons and to
heat paste for the lips lighted, and the whole
place Is turned into Laboratory. Although
she Is handsome woman to begin with, it takes
ModJeska's maids over two hours to do up her
hair as Juliet.
REDUCING LoTTA's FOOT.
When Lolita, who was also taken by the same
artist, ran out of her room between the acts to
be shown proof of her photograph as Bob. she
exclaimed instantly, Humph; is my foot as
large as that5" Every one knows what pretty
foot she has, but in photograph the foot is
always out Of focus and takes larger than it is
Lotta's foot was promptly etched down to it's
proper size. In the gallery she is as playful
and frOlicsOme as on the stage, and sings and
dances to get up expression while the photog-
rapher prepares his plates. At her last sitting
In this city she smoked her cigarette like little
man.
Mrs John Drew, who has been photographed
as Mrs. lNdtdprOp in 1.-THE Rivals" is modest
and retiring. She says her desire in public is to
De great coincidence and her desire in private
Is to be let alone. She takes a great interest in
her protege, Miss Stevens. and lives for her two
grandchildren, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore,
who are being educated by her for the stage
Another unassumfng actress off the stage is
Miss Jennie Winston, who has been photo
graphed as the silly boy. the young student and
IN the devils costume Of BOccaciO." as well as
In the new opera Of "Don Juanita." in which
she was to have appeared but did not. owing to
business complications with Harry Ma1ln. '.Her
pictures are more called for than those of any
other woman we have. Old women and young
girls speak of her in enraptured terms. and
tnere Is continual demand for them outside of
the city, says prominent photographer
LYRIC ARTISTS PICTURES
Clara Louise Kellogg has favorite black
brOcaded dress which she likes to- be photo
graphed in and thinks more becoming to her
than anything else. Her favorlte characters are
MignOn and Carmen. VIM. Castle and Emma
Abbott have been photographed as Paul and
Virginia in this city, and also in an embrace as
Romeo and Juliet in the balcony scene. Their
faces necessarily come very close together, and
Miss Abbott jocularly inquired of the operator
if he really thought he could photograph kiss
Castle thinks getting photographed isa dread.
full BORE
Joseph Jefferson, who is painter as well as
an actor. poses his gun and key in Grip Van
Wrinkle " to suit himself and likes "moved"
picture, claiming that it is more artistic. He
will never have the head rest, and holds that a
picture in which the subject keeps perfectly
still cannot have any really artistic quality.
Rossi, when sitting as Edmund Kean, had mis-
man servant with him, and required the servant
to 60 out where he could not see him before the
camera. He recalled the servant by blowing a
silver whistle which he carried for the purpose
A very large style of photograph called the
panel and introducing etched scenes from plays
In the background, have become the fashion and
ladies In private life are now having them made.
They are the rage with actresses. Modjeska
ordered two hundred last week Over five hun
dred have been sold of Maud Granger in sThe
Galley Slave" which introduces a gondola and
moonlight effect, with Venice in the distance.
PRETTY FACES AND RICH TonETTEs