Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-09
MORE HELENS WAN TED
Modern Representations Of
Classic Type in Demand.
FASHION MODEL POSING
HOW ONE CLEVER PHOTOGRA-
PIER SUCCEEDED.
Invited ALI Pretty Women to Come In
and Have Pictures Taken
Free.
FASHION MODEL POSING
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
Edwin A. Abbey, the American artist who
is painting the coronation picture, was
once asked by an admirer what was the
hardest part Of his art
ITO secure beautiful women as models"
was the reply.
Like Mr.. Abbey, who voiced the universal
sentiment among painters. the photog-
rapher whose sole business is to supply the
ever-increasing demands of illustrated pub
locations and advertisement builders with
likenesses Of beautiful women has to
search far and wide and long for suitable
subjects.
The quest after modern Heens leads the
beauty photographers to do strange things.
Advertising for Models.
One man, after hunting for two months
to secure the right sort Of beauty for an
advertisement for champagne house. hung
out on his showcase glaring sign, which
read:
Beautiful women will be paid literally
for posing for photographs
The result was. according to the pho
tographer, that every woman who passed
by read the sign and then bolted upstairs
into the studio. For two weeks his place
was overrun with women who believed
lIldt tHcy were uTedUlS OI IOVeHneSS, ana
were indignant and called the photographer
mean, horrid brute" when he politely in
timated that their style of beauty was not
suited to the work in hand.
1t was on the morning Of the day that
the photographer, in despair. had decided
to give up the quest for the golden girl that
petite, sparkling eyed, chestnut-haired,
rosy checked and vivacious girl of about
seventeen summers tripped gracefully up to
the photographer and Iisped, in fright
ened sort of way:
Maybe I'd do
For full five minutes" said the photog-
rude. but 1 couldn't help it. After two
weeks Of gazing at streams of distorted
uglfness l couldn't keep my eyes from
feasting on that dainty bit Of beauty.
When did recover my senses and realized
my rudeness I apologized profusely and
then photographed her."
That was half year ago; today this girl
1s earning as much as $40 and $50 a week.
simply by posing before the camera And
she does not work more than four hours a
day on the average at that She is enabled
to make this comfortable income because
she possesses. in toto. the requirements of
an Ideal model-beauty of face and figure
however she may be placed before the
camera; grace and ntheness; winsOmeness:
patience and power to hold all sorts of
poses, and Intelligence and ability to adapt
herself to the pose-to act the part, and
not merely serve a rack for the gorgeous
bedeckments Of the girl of society.
Searching in Streets and Shops.
One beauty photographer, who in the last
twelve months posed 5000 different models,
says that he found among the number less
than fifty who came anywhere near the
ideal standard.
This man, like his fellows, makes a sys-
tematic search of the shops, the places of
amusement, the streets, and even the
churches for models
One beauty who has taken New York by
storm, and who is now posing for several
statues for the st. Louis worlds fair was
discovered In this way.
The photographer was walking along the
street one day. peering into the faces Of
passing women, when the girl in question
flashed down upon him. His trained eye at
once told him that she would make a model
far above the ordinary, and he turned
around and followed her until she stopped
before shop window to inspect the dis
play. Here was his opportunity. Walking
up to her he said:
BEG pardon, but I am a professional
photographer in search of beautiful MODELS
I haye-ah-been attracted by your-alh-
delicate type of beauty and 1-ah-wOuld
hke-propose that you--er-you-er-will
you pose for me?"
The girl at first was inclined to be in
dignant and was the point of calling a
| policeman, when the mans all too evident
| embarrassment convinced her of his good
Intentions. and she burst out laughing.
Her display of nerriment over, she said
she'd TASK mamma" and the result was
| that few days later she appeared in the
| photographers studio.
Her first poses made her career. Other
photographers and artists beheld the pic
| lures, waxed enthusiastic, hunted up the
| original. and swamped her with orders
| And on top of it all a well-known theatrical
manager sent for her and offered her a
remunerative place in the beauty line Of his
| star company.
The Stores the Best Source.
| This is not an exceptional case.
| "Of the thirty or forty models that am
| now working WITH" said photographer,
| NEARLY every one has been found In this
manner. Let's see can recall that 1
secured seven Of them by approaching them
| in the street. at the imminent risk OF being
| taken as an insulter. In the stores got
| twice that number. but there the task is
! not so delicate. A woman behind . coun-