The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1907-08-03
POSES WHICH MAKE
FOOT AND ANKLE AS
PROMINENT AS FACE
Queen of the Stage Nouu Runs to the Unconventional
in Posing for Photographs.

Ihere seems to be fashion in poses
as well as in clothes, for pictures go
IN cycles and actresses of a certain
period all affect the same kind of DOS
lures when they face the camera.
For time they went to the statu-
esque, the tall commanding figure,
with the long train draped around It,
being favorite for quite spell.
But now the dress has been put
away with the crinoline and the big
sleeves, and all the actress now asks
when she faces the photographer is a.
position that will put her feet and
ankles in quite as prominent view as
her face
In fact, in some pictures the slip-
pers and stockings quite overmatch
the face In the Importance they take
In composing the picture.
The big hit now is posing with the
legs crossed.
once such a picture would have
scored an absolute and ignominious
hasco. Not so long ago, no woman
thought 1t good manners to sit that
way and as for having such a posture
presented in a picture, she would have
resented the mere suggestion.
But woman, perhaps out of her nine
teenth century craze for initiating
man, has discovered that this is a COM
Portable and restful position, and she
is not only adopting it, for the home
and stage use, but is using it as the
ideal position in which to have a pic
ture taken.
Just who set the fad nobody knows
perhaps it was Fanny Ward, who long
before she became the Princess Chi
may, and a figure in a scandal of
worldwide dimensions, had herself
pictured as Cupid, and dainty and
charming picture she made, too.
But the idea did not at once catch
on, for even on the stage, much abused
as 1t is, a certain reserve exists, and
the actress hesitates to do that which
she thinks VIII offend the public.
But now the picture which shows
the dainty skirts, the well turned
ankle and rounded calf concealed in
the glory of a pair of French stock
ings, is a genuine hit, and, every beau
ty is Fastening to have this kind of a
photograph taken.
A celebrated beauty who gained
fame tn the recent Thaw case, May
Mckenzie, friend of the young wife of
the man who killed Stanford White, is
given credit by some for causing the
fad.
1t is said that she first posed for
this picture under the direction of the
architect, who had a great eye for the
beautiful, and knew instinctively what
would look we'll, either in painting or
photograph
It was not long before she had
host of followers, among who was
Lolita Faust, the bewitching singer,
who made such hit with the famous
Sammy" afterward burlesqued with
such success by Fay Templeton.
Anna Held's reputation for sur
rounding herself with beautiful women
is we'll known The French actress
has never been afraid to test compari-
son by hiring for her support the most
stunning show girls she could get.
Thus the chorus in Madame Napo.
leon" and in 1.-THE Partisan Model"
makes a sensation. One of the most
beautiful of the bevy of charmers in
the latter production was Dorothy
Bertrand. She and all the other girls
OF the show had themselves proto-
graphed in dozen different poses,
but the picture that made the greatest