The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-06-13
POSE FOR SONG PICTURES
A Work i'm Which Good
Looks Bring Money.
FEW HOURS, LIGHT JOB
Handsome Young Men Harder to
Find Than Handsome Young Wo-
men-The Calling One That Does
Not Afford Permanent Employ
ment-The Slides Catalogued.


Not Afford Permanent Employ
ment-The Slides Catalogued.
In response to an advertisement
calling for handsome young men to
pose for pictures" there appeared
young men to the number of five.
or these two could not have been by
any stretch OF the imagination con-
sidened handsome. says the Boston
Post.
What they were wanted for was
TO pose for pictures to be reproduced
on lantern slides to be used on the
stage with illustrated songs. For
IN illustrated song there are usually
required seventeen slides. AS to its
words. the song is likely to consist
of two verses, with a chorus repeated
after each verse, thus giving the song
as sung four sections.
one of the lantern slides used
with the song shows reproduction
and this picture Is first thrown on
the screen; and then as the singer
sings 1t the pictures in Illustration OF
the words are shown.
Most of the illustrated songs are
love songs, and SO of the men re-
CURED for the illustration of such
songs the greater number must be
young. 1t Is easy to say what would
be the ideal requirements of man
who would make a completely salts
factory picture Of lover.
He must be OF good stature, any
way, and then he would need to be
Of good figure and bearing, fine
manly courageous young man, and
withal handsome. AS such a combin-
alton Is tolerably hard to find in one
young man, the lantern slide people
have more or less difficulty In find
ing really suitable subjects. In
search them they advertise in the
newspapers, and have recourse to
theatrical agencies, where they may
find actors engaged In minor parts
or other young men who meet the
requirements and are willing to pose.
Occasionally, from one or another
OF these sources, they get precisely
what they want; more often, as hap
pens in so many other pursuits. they
must be satisfied to get as near to it
as they can.
The young man who finds himself
selected to pose for a series of pic
lures for an illustrated song may be
taken to be photographed a little
distance into the country or perhaps
to the seashore, there to be posed
and pictured, for many of these song
pictures are shown with nature
| background, and 1t is sought to make
| this true to the song. If city back
ground is required the subject would
be posed and photographed in the
city streets.
For this work of posing for illus
| trated song pictures the pay Is $4 a
day, which may not seem like very
| large pay, but 1t isn't so bad when It
Is considered that the hours are short
and the work easy; and really 1t Is
likely to be so much velvet for those
who can fill the requirements and
VINO nave the time Tor IL.
Frequently there may be required
for one series of pictures more than
one days sittings, perhaps day and
half, or 1t might be two days, max
| ing the work at the price paid fairly
remunerative. 1t cannot. however,
be followed as an occupation, but
only as occasional work.
The lantern slide makers keep
catalogue of all the subjects that
have posed for them, and In this
catalogue are jotted down not only
names and addresses but such per-
sonal charac teristics as might serve
as guide in the selection OF subject
to be called upon to pose In the
future as occasion might require
but commonly, to avoid repitition In
the pictures, once In say six months
would be as often as subjects would
be called upon, and so posing for
pictures for illustrated songs is an
occasional employment only.
Women are posed for pictures for
| illustrated songs as well as men,
and, of course, handsome women are
far more numerous than handsome
men; but still 1t is not SO easy as It
might seem 1t would be to find hand
some young women exactly suited to
the requirements OF this work. The
young women required are found
among artists models, and some-
times, as in the case of young men,
through theatrical agencies.
Royal Tectotallers.
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