The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1893-01-14
MONTANA'S SILVER STATUE
THE MODEL THEREFOR. 1T IS
SAID, WAS NOT REHAN.
A Minneapolis Woman Claims the
Work Of Art to Be a Reproduce
. ton Of Her Form, With the
Exception OF the
Head,
A Beauty.

- NUIIlIb0oOSo 000ASy
Chicago, Jan. 1O.-After all the talk
about the now famous Montana silver
statue, and when it was thoughtthat the
peerless Ada Rehan had triumphed over
her rivals who wished to pose as models
for the heroic figure, the theatrical world
is convulsed over startling disclosures.
Ada's classic proportions, her graceful
outline, fat, chubby hand and Limerick
contour will not be reproduced in silver.
Another equally as fair as "our Ada"
and whose form is lust too sweet for
anything" has knocked Miss Ilehan's
claims into a cooked hat. Jealous ac-
tresses will but be forced to pass harsh
criticisms upon the silver statue when
they view it. for aside from The head
and features, which are perfect repro
auctions of those of Miss Rehan, the pro-
portions were taken from the plump
and rounded body of pretty Exile De,
Lambert.
II am really the woman who posed
six hours a day for several weeks while
Sculptor Parks and his assistants trans
ferred the proportions of my bod" to his
clay model" said she. Miss Rehan's
enthusiastic theatrical friends may rest
assured that only the fair Ada's head
measurements appear in the clay" And
the pretty little woman glanced over
ner small glasses as a trace of q smile
crept over her face. Il don't want to be
mean, but MI Parks has not treated
me right in telling his friends that the
measurement of the model were all
those of Miss Rehan. My home is in
minneapolis. and several months ago I
learned that the sculptor wished q model.
MY friends declared that 1 would make
a good poser, and just by way of an ex-
pertinent 1 visited 1913 Michigan avenue
10 ofer myself to Sculptor Parks as a
modei. That was in August. He said
that he had had nearly 2OO applicants
put that they had defects which made
tneM d to pose in the place of Ada Re-
han. Oddly enough he eyed me over and
engaged ME at a good compensation to
pose. Now, I'm in q position to saw that
Ine only !tehan measurements about that
fark model were those of the head. My
little hye foot ore and a half inches of
body and my outline furnished the form
Tor that statue. Minneapolis people gen
orally like to be heard, and I'll just stand
out for my share of the honor in that sill
yer statue from Montana. Poor Mrs.
Beach will feel relieved when she dis
covers that her rival, Ada Rehan, fur
nished so little of the line measurements
Of that statue. It may be a source of
delight for my Minneapolis friends to
think that u young woman from the State
Of Minnesota had actually outwitted the
Montana rivals, and wen Ada Rehan,
who the country thought had been immor-
talized, so to speak, in the shining
precious metal. Ada doesn't know what
a rare treat she missed in not posing as
her W model. No doubt she has been
forced to tell her friends just how trouble
some it was to stand on a pedestal. I'm
warm blooded, and the mere fact that I
had to remain for hours without clothing
is frought with very few shivers." And
the plump little woman paused to ask
u few questions about the popular opinion
of Ada :Rehan's fitness to serve as a
model. Il think Ada is too 'beefy,' as
they say, for a model. What I have seen
of her arm is up to the standard, but l
think her hips are entirely too broad.
Funny thing about Ada. In her stage
costumes she always takes good care to
| show as little of her arms and bust as
| possible"