The Washington weekly post., 1900-06-05

eoniine their dancing 20 one roof only-the
roof or the publication ONCE OF the paper
printing the view. Half a dozen chorus
gifis are grouped in startling poses. Per-
maps they hold bottles alOft and dance on
iSole. Perhaps they come out in simple
white night gowns and have little ring
a-rng-a- -ring-around ballet all to them
selves and the photographer This IL per-
maps designated. The Franks Of Boarding
Schooi Girls at a New York Seminary.
Ahothef startling view. which was origi-
mated by genius In the line. was this:
One girl stood at the window OF the
third story Of a certain house. which win
90" overlooked the roof OF the second
story wing, IN the rear. A soubrette then
stood on her hands on this roof. placing
her feet In the window where stood the
other chorus girl. who in turn grasped tile
legs OF the upturned divinity. The photo
Brapn was taken without showing the
roof which in reality supported ,he girl
VINO stood on her hands. ana the Illusion
was mat OF one girl trying 70 rescue an
clher g!rl VINO had fallen out Of window.
ms picture Vas labeled: Saved BY a
Trim Ankle
Making Rustic Views.
Very often half dozen or more chorus
girls. who get s. or g. day for
posing, are taken into the country
10 Eet local color into the pictures,
with scenery Of more realistic charac-
Ter than that supplied by the artist S
studio The girls get more money for 60
ing into the country, in addition 10 their
expenses and dinner A photographed,
Win Plates enough 10 take a months sup
plg or pictures, accompanies the party.
Perhaps The first posing shows a girl
who has tripped over a root coming down
a NH. She lies spTawling in the bushes,
with her clothes torn H. spots, and /
scared expression on her face. What
Was She Running FrOm-A Shaker might
be good heading for such a picture. An
other one shows three girls, say climbing
a peach tree. Under this, for instance. Is
such d heading as Peaches Are Ripe
Have One% Just think how the youths Of
far-on cities gaze on these pictures and
murmur TO one another. Say. but wousdn :
like 10 live IN gay New York.
Sometimes the girls are taken TO the
river or on a yacht, and posed in positions
which never occur In real life Some Of
them climb the rigging. others fall over
beard and are photographed as a stall
wart man reScues them. But il Is essen
tial that every picture snail show hosiery
and a distressed female
Another favOTite gTOuping-sOmetimes
obtained IN studio, sometimes at con-
venient theater on upper Broadway
shows a stream Of pretty chorus girls
leaving the stage door. while half
dozen chappies in long raglan coats and
opera hats extend invitations TO supper.
The girls wear their street clothes in
such pOsings. while the chapples are i'm
peTsOndted by office employees. In one Of
fee a well known vaudeville critic has
mania for posing in such pictures. and
with rea! skill makes up as d coon,
rounder a stage hand, a chappie, or an
actor, 10 be photographed.
some Bizarre Effects.
"In the search for novelties in artistic
stage pOsings, some bizarre effects have
recently been obtained. The picture Of
Mabel Gilman posing as Diana or top
Of the Madison Square Garden tower is
picturesque, but not at all convincing.
No one would dream Of seeing Amelia
Bingham seated on the roof OF the Marl-
borough Hotel. though such d combina-
tiOn was recently turned out Anna
Held sprOuting from an immense lily is
another incOngruOus but picturesque pos
ing This. Of course, Is accomplished by
planting tiny portrait Of Anna in the
midst Of large photograph Of a lily
Dorothy tsaer was once published in the
uniform, cap and coat of a Broadway
sripman, running a cable car; but this
strange Ia say, was q real genuine pho
tOgraPh, for she obtained permission 10
be photographed thus in the car shells.
She wanted 10 run the car down Broad
way, but couldn't get permission. An
other surprising photograph was the pic
ture of little Christie Macdonald being
shot upward from the mouth of a cham
pagne bottle, with the fiZZ squirting all
around her. This was made by placing
the photo Of Christie above the photo of
bottle, both being pasted 10 a back
ground of cardboard. Then a skiIlful
artist with a brush painted in the effer-
Vescent liquid shooting Christie upward
An extremely novel and ludicrOus com
bination of photographs recently evolved
the head Of Della Fox planted on the
body of Jefferson De Angels. which in
turn was proud in the possession of the
snugly encased tights of Lillian Russell.
Similar combinations have since been
made. Nat GOOdwin's head has been
placed on the body of Maxine Elliott.
NIllt Sle III TURN mas Deen PUBLICLY pre-
sented with Mats body. II requires no
small amount of ingenuity 10 thus put
these combinations together, and the
wonderful part about ii is that so clever
~ are the photographs cut no trace of A |
joint is TO be found.
"Of course, Occa siOnally absurd com
binations give the secret away. For in |
stance, last Christmas time a picture was |
printed of Marguerite Sylvia seated |
astride OF a giant turkey. Even native |
of Kansas City would understand that
the photograph of Miss Sylvia had been
skillfully pasted over the large photo
graph Of a gobler. But while some M /
these combinations are easy to fathom /
there are many others which are so ar 1
executed that they spread /
abroad over the land curious and To- /
tally wrong conception of life in New
York. The fact that strangers 20 there /
expecting to see chorus girls kicking |
hats off the heads Of Broadway police /
men, dancing the can-can in the omen |
air, running street cars, and climbing |
DOWN fire escapes in night attire. shows |
how deceptive these printed engrayines