The Delta independent., 1904-02-12
GET REAL PICTURES
HOW STAGE COMIC SONGS ARE IL.
Illustrated.
No Make-eeIieve Poses Allowed
Model Has Decidedly Strenuous
Time While the Work 10 In Progress.

A pretty girl stood beside kitcheL
table In room with ceiling Of glass
Her sleeves were turned back over her
white arms, and she wore the short
skirt and the high-heeled shoes OF the
maid OF the theatre.
Ready" she asked
From corner a man behind a cam
era answered Ready" She buried
her hands in pan o. dough that was
Gu the table before her and the man
photographed ner in that attitude.
Now there came from dressing room
n gentleman of middle age In evening
clothes. He posed himself beside the
busy girl. He sat on the table. bend.
ing over her, very friendly. Ready"
he said.
"All ready" the photographer an.
swered.
A picture was made of the pretty
maid and the friendly. middle-aged
gentleman in evening dress who sat
beside her while she worked.
Then the gentleman. taking hold Of
the maids chin gently, turned her
pretty face up to his. He looked down
upon her rogusshly. tenderly. "Ready?"
he asked
A third picture was made. Now the
elderly man took the beautiful girl in
his arms. He placed his lips on hers.
He said "Ready?" this time in q some
what mufied voice, and when he de-
tached himself after the picture had
been taken from the entwining
maid the prints ct her four-covered
hands and arms stood out with amaz.
ing distinctness on the back of his
black coat.
woman, middle-aged and by no
means fair. entered. Tho man and
the maid stood far enough apart now,
hut there on the back of his coat were
those two white arms and hands. The
woman took up rolling pin. Ready"
she asked.
let her CO." said the photographer.
The woman brought down the roll.
trg pin on the mans head and at the
same time a picture of the blow was
made. 1t was genuine blow-a blow
tlat hurt. ouch" the man said. and
he looked at the woman vindictively.
that stood at hand.
"Ready?' she asked.
"All ready" said the photographer
She buried the water over the man.
II went in his mouth and up his nose.
II drenched him thoroughly. He
grunted at the shock. Another pic
ture.
Finally the woman took the bag o:
-four that stood on the table and threw
tbs on the man. 1t made him whittier
ti,an tombstone. The photographer.
the woman and the pretty girl laughed
heartily, but the elderly man smiled In
. rueful manner.
This" he said, the last picture hav.
irg been taken. sis strenuous posing
for fair. I've armed my money here,
MI right ali right
"Tha. what you have" said the
photographer. Now, hurry into the
bathroom and bathe before the -four
ard water form crust on you"
The photographer then handed to
each OF these three persons a greel.
back. and the episode was ended.
What meaning farmer from the
interior would have asked, does this
strange episode have? Why were these
strarge pictures made? Why did you
put our middle aged friend in the full
dress evening suit to such atrocious
suHering?"
The photographer would have an.
swered:
why. you see, we are illustrating .
comic song. 1t is song about a man
that makes love to mad servant and
gets caught by his wife. She beats
him. These pictures have taken H.
lustrate lines in the song. The pic
tnres will be thrown on q screen in
= darken ed theater, and man and .
woman will stand alongside Of the
screen and sing the song. the pictures
changing as the song coca on. each
line being illustrated with an appro
pirate. more than life-size. photo
graph" Record.