The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-27
BEFORE THE CAMERA.
Actresses Take the Best Pictures
Ward McAllister, La Prince.
From the Nevv Vorty prass

From the New York Press.
Commonplace peoples visits to the pho
tographer are usually few and far be-
tween. They regard the camera as mod
ern invention of torture and would rather
dozen times over have tooth extracted
than pay visit to the man who insists
that his victims "look pleasant''-or at
least that Is what they generally say. 1t
Is usually at the instigatiOn of some men,
Der of their family that they have braced
themselves for the ordeal The express
sion of their faces show that they con-
slder themselves martyrs to a worthy
cause. And when that martyrdom comes
out IN the photographers it always does
they go of and abuse the photographer
and say he knows nothing whatever about
taking pictures
However, there is a class of people for
whom the man of the camera apparently
has no terrors. Public positions compel
them to pay frequent visits to the pho.
tographer. Practice has evidently made
them perfect in it, for they always take
good pictures, looking happy and not as
though the photographer was submitting
Them to slow torture. There is no pro-
turberance on one side of their cheeks as
though they were raising hopeful gum
Doll; nor an energetic look in their smil-
ing eyes as though they were waiting to
see the bird jump out. How few of
these favored few act before the camera
was told recently by famous New York
photographer.
Lillian Russell, who, it is said, has
been photogra phed more than any woman
IN The world, is one of the most satisfac-
tory subjects for the camera. Like all
Theatrical women, she knows her best
points and how to show them to advan-
tage in a picture. She has one fault,
however, OF which no amount of argu-
ment can cure her. Miss Russell was not
gifted by nature with very small mouth.
Although her mouth is quite small
enough, the actress evidently admi-es a
smaller one. Just before the pho
tographer makes the exposure she inva-
r1ably does what children call ,scrooches''
her mouth, drawing it up to half its nat.
ural size. The photographers all know
she does it and have dubbed her little af.
fectation the Russell pucker."
WARD M'ALLIsTER A LA PRINCE.
Ward McAllister, New York's social
authority is very found of being photo
graphed. He has one pet idea-that he
looks like the Prince of Wales. Con
sequently he always poses before the
camera la prince. When he visits the
! photographer he always brings the latest
photograph of England's heir A min
ute copy Of the pose is the only thing
which will satisfy the one and only Meal
lister. He is very difficult to please, too
and rejects proof after proof Indeed, he
is so much trouble to photographers that
when they see him. coming. the majority
of them wish he had gone somewhere
else.
Nine. Bernhard is the most difficult OF
women to photograph. According tC
photographers she is composed of thou
sand electric springs which are never in
repOse. She is never quiet a minute, She
sings, dances and recites while the pho
| tographer in distraction tries to get her
in position just as he is ready to make
the exposure she will very likely burst
out in scene from Macbeth" Singu
| larry enough her pictures are rarely
failures despite her restlessness.
Nine. Calve, the singer, is another diff
ticult woman to photograph. Indeed, it
is almost impossible TO get a satisfactory
! picture of her Out of three dozen
proofs recently submitted to her only two
could be used. The reason was that
| Calves face in repose is homely almost
! to ugllness. In animation it is irreSiSti-
| bic and fascinating. Nor is Calve a pa
tient sitter. When things go too slow
for her she talks to herself in another
language, Photographers insist she is
swearing at them.
| filoS 4lclGu 6Oulu, bub n6lT6SS, Is one OF
! the most transformations of women at all
times. 10 escape publicity she frequently
! goes to a photographer who does moi
! know her under an assumed name. Miss
| Gould has very positive ideas about being
| Photographed. Nothing could tempt hel
| TO try to look pretty or theatrical She
is simply refined, graceful lady, above
all such absurd vanities.
MRS. LANGTRY POSES HERSELF.
Mrs. Langtry is a remarkable woman
! before the camera. She has made a study
of her beauty spots, and wants them all
to show She knows she has big hands,
and never will expose them in a picture
without gloves. Her profile, which is
classically perfect. is her pet pose
! Another which She likes is the view OF
her back looking over her shoulder Mrs
Langtry never let's a photographer pose
her. She will pose herself before mir
ror, and without moving a muscle of hen
face take her position before the camera
John Jacob Aston is unaffected before
| the camera as though he were the hum
blest clerk instead of one of the richest
men in the world MIR. Astor is nothing
| of dandy, and sits for his picture with
| out the slightest preparation, usually
wearing neat cutaway.
! Mrs. George Gould is no longer the JOY
TO photographers she was as Edith King
don. She was so thoroughly pretty anc
girlish then that her pictures were Away:
a success. Now Mrs. Gould is in danger
of showing double chin, and usually ha.
her photographs taken in dresses which
relieve the throat.