Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-13


$40 a week when lucky enough to get an
engagement are alike registered at the
office of the several concerns which make
and keep the pictures moving, as well as
women who have learned the business Of
the stage without getting a chance to put
it all in practice.
All these. and in the aggregate there are
several hundreds of them. jot down by
advice of managers in the line under
their name any speciality they imagine thcS
have. whether it is falling down stairs,
fainting, giving a knockout blow. weeping
real tears. running, swimming, playing
ball, firing a gun, climbing ladders or
jumping out of a window.
There is an adage that no woman can
be taught how to run or to throw anything
straight, therefore the woman who regis
tiers as a good runner or ball player US
ually finds herself as much in demand as
the woman who records that her specially
is Shakespearian roles. What is more to
the point, her pay will be equally good.
Five dollars a day is the usual remunera-
ton received by a moving picture model
and often It takes many days TO complete
a series of pictures. particularly If the
scenes are made out of doors and photog-
raphers and models must travel to some
distant spot.
Women engaged by a biograph manufac-
turer need give no attention to wardrobe
or properties of any sort. Every company
sets up a property room which Includes a
collection OF wearing apparel, draperies,
sporting goods, musical instruments and
other things which would make any sec
ond hand dealer the world over turn green
with envy.
Therefore, when the clipping young woman
Is spilled into the stream she wears clothes
from the property room. When the ath-
letic, sure-footed young woman in the
role of thief at a house party climbs at
night out Of one window, crawls along a
narrow coping high above the ground and
into another window she is done up in
pajamas which belong to the property
room. Trolley and railroad fares, car
riage and automobile hire are all paid by
the manager. Thus the S. bill handed to
each actress-the word model is not popu-
lar with biogyaph employes-at the end
Of a few hours work is subject to no de-
auctions for expenses and none is asked
to wait for her pay until the end Of the
week or until the series of pictures is
finished.
To students from the various schools OF
acting the moving picture business is 4
boon, in one case an impecunious young
woman confessing that but for the en-
ployment she got from time TO time with
one concern she would have been obliged
to give up finishing her course Of study.
do you really succeed I'm getting ac-
tresses who have played leads in Shake
spearlan roles to pose for moving pictures?'
a manager was asked.
Certainly We do. They are not TO be
had every day. of course, but at the of
seasons when there is nothing doing ir
their line and no revenue is in sight womer
who when playing IN engagement draw
their little 800 or $50 a week are per
fectly willing to register with us. And
at any time when we are short of a certain
style Of woman TO pose for anna pic
lures Of a high class all we have 10 do IL
to advertise the fact and we have mor'
applicants than can be taken care OF.
w have no graded scale Of pay, ant
the woman with a beautiful face gets nj
more than the palmer woman. Action
not looks. Is what recommends a woman
for employment with us. and the NOR
experienced the applicant the better chsnc'
she has. Ingenues are not popular witt
biograph managers and novices with N
stage experience have no show at an