The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-01
PRETTY FACES WIN MUCH MONEY
England Buys Thousands of Photographs of Beauti.
full Women Every Year and Fortunes Are
Paid for Them.

Special Foreign Service.
LONDON, April 3O.-Probably there
isn't any country in the world where
1t pays better to have a pretty face
than it does here in England. That is
pays better in hard cash. Good looks
always have been at a premium in this
country, and the public fond of own
ing pictures of noted beauties, but in
the last ten or fifteen years this craze
has grown to such an extent that
photographers here pay heavy royal
ties to handsome society and stage
women in return for the exclusive
privilege of taking and selling their
ukenesses.
was told the other day by ]. w.
Downey the leading court photograph
er, that at the present moment there
are at least six women in England
whose good looks brings them in from,
$4,000 to $4,000 a year in this way, and
that there are at least 100 who are in
receipt of incomes ranging from $3.50
to $3.50 year from royalties on the
sale Of their photographs.
Mrs. Langtry Holds Record.
Mrs. Langtry, however, is supposed
TO hold the record for this sort Of
money making. When the craze over
~ was at it's height, 100000 photo
graphs Of the Jersey Lily" were sold
in Great Britain, their fair subject re-
ceiying cents per copy royalty and
clearing $4,000. Mary Anderson's
photographs also had a huge sale, go
Ing at the rate of something like 10O,-
600 year for a decade. Maud Jeffries.
the American girl who played Mercia
in Wilson Barrett's "Sign of the
Cross" made $4,000 in less than two
years out of Photographic royalties,
while Edna May is supposed to have
done even better. During the run of
The Belle of New York. in London
the Syracuse girls portraits were be-
Ing distributed in this country at the
rate of 5000 a week.
There is no doubt what woman it is
whose photograph now enjoys the
largest sale in this country. Queen
Alexandra enjoys this distinction. but
of course etiquette forbids her majesty
to make any profit out of the sale of
her pictures. The most popular picture
of the queen is one taken in the robes
and one of a doctor of music. This has
sold by scores of thousands and it is
estimated that the total number of the
queens pictures disposed of must run
Well into seven figures, and that her
majesty could easily make $500 a
year through their sale if she cared to
do so.
LADY Randy" Is Popular.
There is, of course, nothing to pre-
vent beautiful society woman from
realizing" on the sale of her pictures.
Al fashionable photograph shop in
the west End l was told yesterday
that the picture of an American won-
an, the former Lady Randolph Church
Ill, was asked for more often than that
of any other beauty, with the exception
of the queen. This seemed rather sur
prising, considering how long the pres
ent Mrs. CORVALLIS West has been in
this country. but my informant con-
sidered 1t due to the titled American
woman's constant social activity and
! prominence. The young Duchess of
Westminster. whose husband is sup
posed to be the richest peer in this
country, was named as the English So
ciety woman whose popularity with the
buyers of photographs is second onIv
TO that of Lady Randolph Churchill.
Oddly enough, the two are sisters in
law. the duchess, before her marriage,
having been Miss Shelagh West. Other
society women who undoubtedly gain
tidy amount of pin money through the
sale of their photographs are the
countess or Warwick, Lady de Grey.
Lady Helen Vincent and Lady Pole
Carew, who perhaps can be described
as the most classically beautiful worn-
an in English society. BY the way. /
was told that among the keenest buy
ers Of photographs of British women
of title are American tourists of the
gentler sex.
Actresses Have Great Vogue.
Edna May still ''sells" well, but ac-
cording to the dealers the actresses
who now are I'm all probability making
most money out of the sale of their
nkenesses are Gertie Millar and Billie
Burke. the American girl who has made
a hit at the Prince of Wales Miss
Millar Is comparatively a newcomer,
but her good looks and talent have car
rted her along SO fast that she is now