Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
POSING FOR PICTURES.
Hotc Edrorites of the Stage Act Before the
Photographers Camera.
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Photographer Camera.
[Philadelphia Times.
During the past week Mary Anderson
has been posing before the camera. q Sht
was photographed in nearly all the parts il
which she appears on the stage. Miss An
derson is known as "a good subject" un
derstands the art of dressing effectively
knows how to pose to the best advantage
and has learned just what expression 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
advertisement than an attractive photo
graph, actresses and prima donnas almost
without exception have now adopted thai
manner of introducing themselves to mana.
gers and the public in advance of their ap.
pearance. To some great stars and celeb.
rites it is source of revenue.
Actresses in general like to be photo
graphed. There are but few exceptions
| to the rule. Madame 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 particu-
lar about having their dresses properly
photographed than they are about having
their personal charms adyantageously pre-
sented. Madame Janauschek is an ex-
ception. She insists on assuming her own
poses, will not allow the photographer to
touch her and let the drapery take care of
itself. '"Just as I am, so represent me-" she
said to the operator when she last sat in
this city. Il 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: Gas my dress falls about me, so
| represent. I desire to be perfectly natu-
raj" When the great tragedienne saw
the proof, 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 photographer
art to come to her aid, and one of
| the first things done to the negative was
| to take the waist in several inches by etch-
ing and making other parts of the figure
| more symmetrical.
The touch of the etcher is often requir-
ed 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 a handsome picture
| above all else and sometimes they assert
| that they don't care whether it looks like
them or not. Accordingly, by retouching.
as many of the lines indicating age as can
possibly be taken out of the face without
destro..iI.x its character and expression
are removed.
"MAelNG UP" FOE PICTURES.
.. Other improvements are made, such as
Frightening the eye, turning up the cor
ners of the mouth to give smiling express
sion and removing strong angular lines
wherever they exist. This is the more nee
essary as ssme photographers will not al
low actresses to. snake up" their faces be-
yond 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 a
| character that has a 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 costumes, one cosmetics and
toilet arrangements, and the other, which
| was iron bound and padlocked, her jewelry,
She was photographed in fifteen different
| attitudes, as Juliet, Adrienne Lecourreur
and as Marie Stuart. Nearly all the lead
ing actresses have French maids, and often
in preparing for a 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 are 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 Us Juliet.
REDUCING LoTTA's FOOT.
When Lolita, who was also taken by tn ,
same artist, ran out of the room between
the acts to he shown proof of her photo
graph as Bob. she exclaimed instantly,
"Humph! is nay foot as large as thai.
Every one knows what pretty foot she
has, but in photograph the foot is al
ways 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
| SluSS auQ uduC66 W x0t UP expression
while the photographer prepares his plates.
At her last sitting in this city she smoked
her cigarette like little man.
Mrs. John Drew, who has been photo
graphed as Mrs. Malaprop in 1.-THE Rivals -
is modest and retiring. She says her de-
sire in public is to be great commedienne
and her desire in private is to be let alone
She takes great interest in her protege
Miss Stevens, and lives for her two grandchil-
dren, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore, who are
being educated by her for the stage. An.
other unassuming actress off the stage il
Miss Jennie Winston, who has been photo
grophed as the silly boy, the young student
and in the devils costume of "Boccacio,'
as we'll as in the new opera of "Don Juan
ita," in which she was to have appeared
but did not, owing to business compiled.
tons with Harry Main. "Her pictures art
more called for than those of any Other
woman we have. Old women and young
girls speak of her in enraptared terms, and
there is continual demand for them ont
side of the city," says prominent phooo
grapher.
LYRIC ARTISTS PICTURES.
Clara Louise Kellogg has favorit,
black brocaded dress which she likes to bt
photographed in, and thinks more be