The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-06-10
DOES 1T PAY FOR A
GIRL TO BE PRETTY?
Chicago Sunday Tribune)

Chicago Sunday Tribune)
Does il pay to be pretty? This is the
question which the professional models
are asking each other. Which is bet
ter. to be born with a beautiful face,
or with a fine set of brains? If you
could have one and not the other,
which would you take, judging it COM
merCiallZ?
Does it pay TO be a beauty? If you
are thinking of becoming a profess
sional model you must settle this ques-
ton i'm your own mind before starting.
First you must decide if you are
pretty enough to be a model. There
are various tests for this. and unless
you can pass them you might as well
give UP. You must be able to hold the
expression" So few can hold express
ison. They can smile. bet they cannot
hold the smile. 1t turns to a sickly
grin. They can frown, but when the
picture is taken the frown locke like
a grinlaCe.
Next, if you are going to be a pho
tographers model, have you the fea-
lures for a photograph? They must be
clear cut and your profile must be
good Unless your features are strong
and sharp unless your eyes are large
and full: unless your chin is oval and
your forehead and eyebrows correct,
4bu ~ III tAON teAfAG q e5CDA -'AC1NAA- -
Here are the things that do not
count in the picture. Your complexion
does not count. A yellow skinned girl.
spotted girl. a pale green skinned girl
takes just as good a picture as
peaches and cream girl. The bright
ness Of your eyes is no aid. 1t often
happens that girl will go into the
model business because she has spark
Ill not
show i'm the tense and her eyes are no
prettier than those of any other girl
when the picture is finished.
Girls who blush, sparkle, lisp, and
seintillate are no better models than
any other. Frequently there is a
beauty who lights up we'll" She
thinks she can be a model But her
features. when the camera gets
through with them. are not pleasing.
A girl wandered into a Photographic
studio to get job as cashier. She had
a straight nose. large, full eyes. an
oval face, and a little, smiling mouth.
We do not want cashier" said the
photographer. but we are in need of
good models, and I should think you
We're one" He took a picture Of her
and it was d brilliant success.
Arc You young enough to be mod
eIo I'm photography this makes all the
difference in the world. If there are
lines around your mouth, if your nose
IS set iu deep wrinkles that look like
nanentheses. il there is a scowl be-
tween your eyes. and if your forehead
has lines and your hair has streaks of
white YOU are too old TO be photo
graphic model The camera is relent-
less
Have you the right temperament?
Are YOU good natured? Are you easily
iamad2 When you have settled all the
other points in the right way, and have
aa .3ed that you are pretty enough
70 DE- model, the next question is,
Does II pay? Is it a good profession to
Take up? How much can you earn? Is |
wen paid as the other profess
DOES Eirl model in New York. in |
tas on I'm any other city receive as |
much as a girl in any other profess |
don't think much of it for a girl"
said veteran artist for the reason |
That her beauty soon fades, and then
"e- business is gone. 1t is only a |
shift a tideover, a something to !
Keep her i'm pin money until such time |
p she can get married.
'ut supposing a girl thinks other
NI-a surposing she thinks she is
..EeH enough to continue to earn
.A". at the artist profession, in one
a..h. or another, is it, as business,
~. .af pays? 1t looks easy, but, like
pray acting, it may be a good deal
harder than it looks. Is the studio
1-aoH girl as likely TO make a good
-Ntg az the stage struck girl2 And
N.A ID she come out in the long run?
aHa The famous girl models. There
ttaE Gilmore, the prettiest model,
-al3 think, in the world. Miss Gilmore
V-aH 10 pose in 1901. She was then II
sld's old. She had a picture face, and /
'midly volunteered to pose as a
.',e r girl. She posed all the afternoon
a.l received S.
a. ne next time she posed it was for
'ssi heads. There has peen scarcely
-al since that she has not been busy.
~. mas posed for more book covers,
,it,1sazlne covers. for popular music
'aI any other girl alive. Her picture
Us always in demand.
,,'4S Gilmore gets IS for an afternoon s
&, h be it short or long Once she
- osIore the camera she is as willing
B-oSe Tor twenty pictures as Tor one
H. IoDably the most popular model in
studio now is Dora Bonn. She mas
NJ NJ eel face-One Of those girlish faces
d'sss.ogt trace of the classic, but Won
AM ..t1liy Winsome. Miss Bonn is busy
h.. 'le time. She. poses mostly for hats,
So She IS also a good gown model.
M. gets 50 day. So for half a day
'S Bonn has been called the Christ