The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-02-24
rcAmiTie Clifford

Look pleasant, says the photographer. You attempt 1t; you put on the smile of a wooden image. You have fine teeth. and perhaps you show them ever 50 slightly. It is dangerous to be pho tographed showing one's teeth, even in a smile--for anybody except President Roosevelt, that is, or ladies of the stage who know how to do the act. Try 1t, gentle private citizen girl, and II you ever had any conceit of your beauty you will be disenchanted. In nine cases out of ten the face looks all teeth, these seeming large and long enough for horse to masticate oats with. Mean while the smile you have con5ured 10 order for the photographer which you fondly imagine was caught ana nxed m a bright, magnetic expression just as you sent 1t vibrating across your coun- tenance, has been transmitted instead into a fixed, awful grin encirciing chasmlike abyss. I don't know why this Is thus when the private citizen tries to smile in a photograph, but such is the fact.
 Then there are the beauty doctors, who tell you how to smile, at least. how not to. Some of them say you must not smile with your mouth, because after you get the habit it produces wrinkles
 
 your eyes, says this school of beauty tinkers. Others say, Don't smile with your eyes--not on your life--for that makes wrinkles.
 What is left? Either don't smile at all or smile with your insides. You pays your moLey and you takes your choice.
 But there are women who can open their lips In a smile that exhibits the teeth and look neither horse -toothed nor yet like a wooden tobacco sign. Here are some of them, whose smiles the picture snapper has caught. They all happen to be women of the stage. Two of them are French. Anna Held and Mime. Emma Calve, the others Americans.
 Note the difference between the Amer ican and the Frenchwoman's smile. The American smile, while plainly made up to be snapshotted, is more the inno cent expression of a roguish girl, bent on some harmless, teasing mischief. The Frenchwomans smile, on the other hand. suggests an undetnable, unfath- omable depth of deviltry. At the same time--odd 1t is, but fact--the French woman is really not a whit wickeder than her American sister, and neither one of them is uilty of badness to any great extent.
 Note the smiles in the picture. Some of these ladies smile with mouth and eyes. too, defying both schools of the beauty doctors. A wonderfully bright sweet, childlike smile is that of Vir- ginia Earle. The noted stage beauty here looks like a little girl who is playing a prank on somebody and stands off to see the effect of her joke. The artfully arranged hair and the frilled. fiounced and befurpelowed bon net add to the childish effect.
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 In fine contrast, observe the smile of Anna Held. Does 1t not say in ev- erything but words to every Individual who beholds it: There's a secret un- derstanding between yo1 and me. We know, oh. yes, we know. but I'll never tell. never, while grass grows or wind blows or water fiows" And yet, in private life, Mime. Anna Held is a se- date, irreproachable wife, whose hus- band. M. Ziegfeld. is her manager and always travels with her.
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 The same sort of suggestive smile-a trihe less subtle, bit coarser-is man. fest on the face of Emma Calve, here shown in the character of that reckless