Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-11-16
From the Phil adelphia Press.

A "A .
IDEA oP POSING.
From the Phil sdephia Press.
Within the past three Oh four years the mania
for collecting photographs of actresses cele-
brated for their grace and beauty, or for their
genius. has assumed enormous proportions.
The production and sale of such pictures has
proved to be a very lucrative business with pho
tographers. The discovery of the fact is due to
the En2lishman who flooded the shop windows
In London with portraits of Mrs. Langtry Mrs.
CORVALLIS West, Lady Lonsdale and other So
clety beauties The enterprisng solar artist
realized fortune from the sale Of the photos of
those ladies, and 1t is asserted that the fair
DANES themselves received considerable adj
ditiCns to their pin money by the way Of COM
mission. Sarony, of New York; Schol and
Chandler and Sheetz, of this city,
experience of the English photographers. They
employed gentlemanly agents to cali upon prIma
COMMAS and actresses of note to solicit sittings
In many instances. especially with buffo artists.
whose celebrity was due more to their beauty
OF form or feature than to their talents sum
OF money In addition to las many photographs
as the lady desired" was the gudgeon demanded
Dy the beautiful prey of the camera and lens
Their pictures sold by the hundreds and thou
sands, and large numbers have been exported
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photographs are popular abroad owing to the
Tact that the atmospheric Influences Of this
Country enable the production Of far finer pic
lures than in Europe, and especially in forgy
and misty Britain. The production and sale of
actress photographs has thus become a lepiti-
hate channel of commerce of such ample emol-
nments that several photographers devote them
selves almost exclusively to that branch of their
business and ''the gentlemanly agent of the
firm is as frequent an attendant i'm the ante
han f,grs he q
the newspaper reporter and the theatrical cos
tuner.
Madame Janauschek was the first hit" re-
marktd Mr.. Samuel SheetZ yesterday In course
Of conversation with reporter. She gave us
nfteen sttings, involving five changes of cos
Tunes She must have been with Us at least
three hours"
Did she bring her dresses with herr"
"Oh. we sent for her clothes. of course. We
have room up stairs regularly fitted I'D as a
lady's houdoir, and maid to give assistance in
dressing. Then have lunch ready and do
our best to make the ladies as comfortable as
possible"
POSING FOR PICTURES.
Glow did Janauschek's pictures SELF"
Very well, indeed, particularly those in the
guisc OF 4Ndrie AftO5nete. Perhaps we sold one
thousand copies. With actresses we never at
tempt TO pose them ourselves. They have
usually studied positions far more than we have
and seldom fail IN striking the exact attitude for
q telling picture"
10 you charge actresses for photographs ="
-" by, of course not. We are only too glad
To ct them to sit for US. With certain buifo
artistes we make pecuniary arrangements and
witt all our fair Sitters We contract to supply
them with several dozen pictures and with
frames of photographs for advertising pur-
poses
''Do You, then. give ROYALTIES on the sales of
their photos to the huffo lades:''
No. not exactly that. We generally present
nnr ait for Of
and upwards"
II suppose you paid Miss Anelaide Neilson:"
'ph the contrary; she promptly refused our
Offer When she came here she would only
have one sittlng-the photograph i'm which she
wears hat That Is all | will have she said
send me a dozen copies We sold over three
Thousand, and are still selling them. Our more
recent photographs will probably be of interest
70 YOU. however. Miss CastletOn's picture sells
like wild-1ire; we took her in six different posi-
tions. There is a complete run on the Quaker
ess-'tOr goodness sake don't say | told you
Irene Perry also gees very we'll Alma Stanley
sells ali over the country and so does Pearl
Eytinge."
DO you find that pictures o! actresses in
leg BART sell better than in fGll-dress char
Acters?"
mo. by no means. We rather discounte-
nance that style of picture. for you must rot
not suppose that purchasers of actresses photo
graphs are only young men. The pictures are
bought by the most respectable of people. and
young ladies', in particular. are assiduOus cuStO-
mers- Old and middle-aged men are the cOllec-
tors OF page-dress pictures. We photographed
Nellie Larkelle, of Black Crook fame In the
Amazon uniform she wears. Our place was
besieged by gray-haired and bald headed gentle
men III quest of copies
PUZZLED PREMIERE.
81 was telling you about our leaving the posi-
lions To the tastes OF the ladies themselves The
other day we had rather an amusing instance of
ti.a az
1euse gave us some sittings. One of her
dresses was the costume she wears in the bal
let Of nations She could not speak O word of
English. and as there were no linsuists i'm the
establishment We had great difficulty in con-
yersng- She came out of the dressinp-room
with hop, skip and jump. and pirouetted i'm
mont OF the camera The artist tried to explain
To her tina. she was too near but she did not
understand and Immediately began maZourka
movement with lightning rapidity all over the
studio. In and out of the chairs round the
camera stand, up and down the room went the
ninlbie dancer in every possible attitude of
grace. except that OF repose but a photograph
was not feasible. Finally We sent for an inter
prefer, and while awaiting the advent of that
person the ballet queen continued her dancing
looking at the artist from time to time with O
puzzled and impatient expression. Talk about
pis-.as-Ssta, what | witnessed that day was the
most wonderful exhibition OF leg-arity Won
ever imagined Finally the Interpreter arrived.
anu Vile AsteggianO paused for breath. is it
nhisAed: she asked. in Italian; Il am tired On
IL beng explained to her that she was expected
20 remain stu for few minutes she laughed
very heartily. Dear mel she exclaimed
here | have been performing a complete
pallet In front OF the camera under the
Idea that all my movements were being
nstantaneousiy photographed. However /
am ready now She gave bound In the air
and landed on the tip Of the big toe OF her
right foot and remained motiOnless for over
half minute while the picture was being
taken.
Mile. Rhea's cartes have many admirers.
She was photographed here in the magnificent
dress she wears as Adrienne. Her costume cost
SlO.CO0. and was presented to her by French
duke OF enormous wealth. IL is entirely COM
posed OF shades Of red satin i'm light and dark
shades hand-embrOidered with flowers Round
her waist she had on a girdie of gems, which
She told me was worth $4,000.
DO you sell many pictures of Lotta."
MANY hundreds. The very incest peOple
buy them is she not sweet is their constant
remark Numerous ministers have written TO
US ior copies Our latest success. however. is
MIS- I2Hgtry In the mlkmad dress We have
already sold two thousand copies. arfo have
numerous wholesale orders on our books. II is
not iiattering likeness OF the beautiful actress
IL