The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-07-19
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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1888.
QUEENS OF THE CAMERA.

ness. 1t is curious that those photo
graphers who were too heightened and
independent to have anything to do with
the stage have mainly gone to the wall.
while those who have catered to the
stage have invariably made fortunes.
Among these are Sarony, Mora, Ander-
son and Dana The latter has been
comparatively recently established. and
.e has done well by stage portraltures-
Sarony is. however, the most eminent
and the best known man in his line in
New York To the merely mechanical
part of photography he unites high
artistic ideal, and his work in water
color, oil and charcoal is of high de-
gree.
The average man has little idea to
what an enormous extent the photo
graph business is carried. For some
years American photographs have been
ahead of any others. This is due in
great part to the fineness of our at
mosphere, and it is why foreign actress
ses who come here usually adopt their
photographs taken here in preference
to all others.
Years ago, when Quincy and Freder-
icks were the crack photographers OF
New York, ladies and gentlemen of the
stage used to pay for their photographs
at what is known as professional
rates. But that is all changed now.
In some unusual cases the photographer
pays in place of being paid, and in spite
of stiff prices at times, he often makes
large sums of money by this class OF
custom.
When Patti arrived here two seasons
AGO there was an excited competition
among the principal photographers to
get her to sit. Sarony made the largest
bid-S5. 000-for two sittings of an hour
each He paid the money down to her
agent, NJ Franchi, and Patti sat, being
taken in some twenty or twenty-five
positions OF all the negatives taken
only one suited the prima donna. Sa-
rony desired to use several of the others
which he considered good, but she was
obdurate. 1.-The fact is" said Sarony,
''that Patti is no longer as young as she
was, but she wants to look as well in
her pictures. In painting or engravings
it is quite possible to make ideal pic
lures, but photographers will reproduce
life as it is" The result was, 1T any
rate, that Patti strictly confined him to
the one negative. 1t is the side face
with the black bonnet, now quite IA
miliar in programmes and engraVlngs.
He endeavored to get her to sit again,
but she always alleged previous engage
ments and the single photograph have
named cost Sarony the $1,000. This
speculation did not pay him, end the
most remarkable part of it was the de-
fox. NIL hot
graphs than for PATHS and it is the
most difficult thing in the world to get
the tenor to sit. He prefers to rest on
his pictures of twenty years ago and APP
pear forever young.
The photographers must take the
good with the bad, like any other trades
man. Sarony also over-bid the rest of
his confreres for the Langtry. She ma
| turally was great prize. Everybody
was anxious to see faithful portrait
of this much-talked-of lady. The price
paid her was IS, 900, and she was taken
in some twenty positions, all of which
suited her. She made no objection to
any of them. Thousands upon thous-
ands were turned out of the work-rooms
of the lucky photographer, and it is not
too much to say that the sale represent
ed the net profit of $4,000 over and
above all expenses. They are still sell
| ing rapidly, and have probably found
| a place in hundreds of private collec-
tons.
There is one woman, who, for a time
at least outsold even Langtry-an in
signifirant-looking woman enough, with
no talent to speak of and marvellous
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position. This was the great photo
graph actress, Maude Branscombe.-
Hundreds of thousands have seen her
photographs who barely heard of her
and never witnessed her acting. 1t is
estimated that the enormous number OF
100000 of her pictures have been sold
in the past six years. While photo
graphers everywhere were making for
tunes out of her singularly attractive
| Photographic beauty, she was, it is said,
| poor, and at times next door to actual
want. Then the idea struck her hus-
band, Mr.. Everard Stuart, to turn her
| popularity to account, and since then
he has received regular royalty on the
ale of her pictures. She is now in Eng
land, and has been for some time, but
her portraits continue to sell about as
well as ever.
Mrs. Alice Dunning Lingard is a
handsome woman whose photograph al
ways commanded ready sale. Her
photographic favors seem to have been
confined to San Francisco principally.
She poses very beautifully and the cam
era t1atters her. There are some la
dies of the stage on the other hand who,
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De done justice to in their photographs.
Of all the pictures the willowy Sara
Jewett has had taken-and she is fond
If photograph galleries-only one ever
lid her justice. 1t was side face and
makes her look womanly and intellec-
Gual-a rare combination. Miss Cogh-
Ian is taken no longer, but she used to
De the favorite of the photographer
| Mrs. Agnes Booth thinks fair woman
ioes not make very good picture,
while Miss Emil Leslie, a recent acqui-
sition to the Madison Square Theatre,
takes very well. Miss Alta Norman
| "a very handsome woman-does not
run to photography much, but those
she had taken by Sarony are very
fine.
1t is part of some managers con-
tracts that they shall have a photo
graphic monopoly of the people in their
company. This is done to secure uni
tormity and make the Photographic all
refreshments of a play more effective.
But, as rule, actresses go where they
please to be pictured.
Among men of recent years w. L.
Carleton, the baritone. has outsold all
other males of the profession. He is
handsome fellow anyway, and that he
is genius at makeup and wardrobe,
nothing more effective can be seen in
photography than his picture in Claude
Duyal. Barrett does not sell we'll
Booth is poor. Mccullough surpasses
both together. OF course, II. j. Mon
tague, when he was alive, outsold ev-
erybody, even the women, and it is fair
to suppose that women were his pur-
chasers.
Recently there has grown up big
trade in American photographs in Eng
land. The Anthonys export an enor-
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