Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-06-25
QUEENS OF CAMERA:
Some F~ayoritss OF the Photo
grapher.
An Immense Trade in Actress Photographs
PATHS $4,000 Picture-lang-
try's 8oom-HoS the Pic
lures Of Some Nota-
bles Sell.

the wall, while those VINO nave CaLereU
to the stage have invariably made for
tunes. Among these are Sarony, Mora,
Anderson and Dana. The latter has
been comparatively recently establish,
and he has done we'll by stage portrait
ures. 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 q high artistic ideal, and his
work in water-color, oil and charcoal is
of a high degree.
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 II others. This is due in
great party to the fneness of our at
mOsphere, and it is why
Foreign Actresses
who come here usually adopt their
photographs taken here in preference
to all others.
Years ago, when Quincy and Fred
ericks 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
Idke6. IDul llldL u dl ClhdllhCu INV.
In some unusual cases the photograph
er pays in place OF being paid, and in
spite of stiff prices at times, he often
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,O 0O-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, Saro-
ny desired TO use several of the others
which he considered good, but she was
Obdurate. 1.-The fact isl said Sarony,
that Patti is no longer a young as
she was, but she wants to look rs well
in ner pictHres. In painting or enSrav-
ingS il Is quite possible to make ideal
pictures, but Photographers will repro
duce life as it So The result was, at
any rate, that
strictly confined him to the II mega
tive. 1t is the side face with the black
bonnet, now quite familiar in pro-
grammes and ~engravingS. He endeav'
Ored to get her to sit again, but she al
ways alleged previous engagements,
and the SINGLE photograph L have
namened cost SarOny the 5000. This
speculation did not pay him, and the
most remarkable part Off was that the
demand was greater for NicOlinTS pho
tOgraphs than for PATHS, and il IS the
most difficult thing in the world to get
the tenor to it. He prefers to rest on
his pictures of twenty years ago, and
appear forever young.
The photographers must take the
good with the bad, like all other trades
men. Sarony also over-6ld the rest OF
his cohfreres for the Langtry. She
naturally was a great prize. Every
body was anxious to see q taltnlui POr-
trait of this much-talked-of lady. The
price paid her was $1,000, and she was
taken in some twenty positions, all Of
which suited her. She made no OBJ
iectioHs to any Of them. Thousands
upOn thousands were turned out OF the
work rooms of this lucky photographers,
and il is not too much to say that the
>aIc rapresented a net profit of SlO,-
900 over and above ali expenses. They
are still selling rapidly, and have prob
ably found a place In hundreds OF prl-
vate collections.
There is one woman, who, for a time
at least, outsold even
Lapgtry,
an Notwithstanding woman enough,
with no talent to speak Of and a marve-
lous aptitude OF looking well pictured IN
n position. This was the great pho
toeraph actress, NIaude Branscombe.
Hundreds of thousands have seen her
photographs who barely heard OF her
and never witness her acting. 1t Is es-
timated that the enormous number OF
500, 900 of her pictures have been sold
in the past six years. While photo
graphers everywhere were making for
tunes out of her singular attractive pho
tographic beauty, she was, it Is said,
moor, and at times next door to actual
want. Then the idea struck her hus-
band, Mr.. Everard Stuart, to turn her
| popularity 10 account, and since then
he has receive a regular royalty on the
sale of her pictures. She is now in
England, 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
always commanded q ready sale. Her
Photographic favors seem to have been
confined to San Francisco principally.
She poses very beautifully, and the
camera flatters her. There are some
ladies of the stage, on the other hand,
who, though gOod-loeking, never ap-
pear to be done justice to their photo
graphs. Of all the pictures the willowy
sara JeWett,
has had taken-and she is fond of pho
tograph galleries-only one ever did
her Justice. 1t was q side face, and
makes her look womanly and inteliec-
tual-a rare combination. Miss COgh-
Ian is taken no longer, but she used to
be the fayorite of the photographer.
Mrs. Agnes Booth thinks q fair wo.
man does not makea very good picture,
while Miss Emily Leslie, 3 recent &C
QUESTION to the Madison Square Thea
tire, takes very we'll. Miss Alta Nor
mana very handsome woman-does
not run to photography much, but
those she had taken by Sarony are very
fine.
/ 1t is a 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 their
uniformity and make the Photographic
advertisements of aplay more effective.
But, as a rule, actresses go where they
please 70 be pictured.
Among men of recent years w. T.
Carleton, the baritone, has outsold al
other males of the profession. He is s
handsome fellow anyway, and as ht
IS q genius az makeup and Wardroba