The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1921-05-25

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More Consideration Than Formerly
Mot All Models In Greatest De-
mand Are Beautiful, But All Are
Distinctive.
To have the artists model taken Sc
riously is the purpose Of an interest
ing club which has its headquarters
in an old-fashioned house on West
Fifty eighth street, New York. Pass
this house at any hour during the day,
and if you are lucky, you are apt to
see its ancient door creak open and
the original of your favorite magazine
cover girl "trip sedately down the steps.
For the house is usually full of them.
1t has about $50 such enchanting dam
sells on its membership list.
But they are to be taken seriously.
Don't forget that.
The other day, Broadway Don
Juan, bewitched at the sight of his IA
vorite bathing girl picture actually
walking down Seventh avenue-not in
bathing suit, you understand, but
recognizable, proceeded
to accompany her at a discreet dis
lance as she turned down Fifty-eighth
street. When she left the pavement
and ran up pair of steps, he stopped
in his tracks and stared in deep pre-
occupation at the door where she had
vanished.
Suddenly the door opened second
time, and a gray-haired, sweet faced
matron came out.
Matron Delivers Lecture.
young man, what do you mean by
following one of our girls3" demanded
the lady, quietly but firmly. "Now,
suppose you just run along back to
Broadway, where you belong. The
girls in this club are nice, quiet, re-
fined girls, and they don't want to be
annoyed, and, furthermore, we are not
going to have lot of idle, gaping
men standing out here in front of our
house"
Thus did the secretary of the club,
as she later explained to the reporter,
nip in the bud a movement on the
part of the male population Of New
York to give the club its enthusiastic
Endorsement.
"The attitude of the public, espe.
cially the masculine public, toward the
artists model" said the secretary sad
ly, sis much the same as 1t is toward
the chorus girl--entirely frivolous. 1t
is also incurably romantic. People
seem to have an idea that an artists
model is a gay young thing, who earns
an easy, If not luxurious, living by
posing for fascinating artists with long
hair or oriental fezes, If they have
bald heads. Now, as matter Of fact,
posing is hard work, and until recent
ly the average artists model has been
poorly paid and has been given about
as much consideration as q table or
chair"
Getting Jobs for Models.
Here the telephone on the secre-
tnrys desk burst noisily into her con-
fidence and she grabbed notebook and
pencil.
Excuse me Just minute" she said,
taking up the instrument. "Yes, think
we have just the girl you need-Miss
B.. You know her? Too thin? !
don believe we have anybody plump
or. We consider her one of the plump
est girls we have. About $50 pounds,
l should say, but tall and well pro-
pOrtioned. Yes, l think you might
be able to use her face, too. She's
good Spanish type. Well, she lives
right up in your nelghborhOod-sup-
pose have her come in and see you,
anyway. If she doesn't suit, perhaps
we can get you some one else. Miss
NJ. whom you had before, VIII be
back from Havana Friday"
The secretary then explained that
the club runs an employment bureau
for its members, who are all regis
tered and classified by types. Posing
is somewhat like private nursing; a
girl never knows how long her job
Is going TO last or how much money
Il is going to pay her Some artists
take long time TO complete their
work, and Others work very fast. Some
can afford to pay a high rate for a
model, and others can scarcely afford
TO employ one at all. But conditions
In this respect are better for posers
than they have ever been before,
thanks to the persistent mercenary ef-
forts Of the club.
A good model can now demand and
collect n dollar an hour for her work,
at which rate some Of them make
as much as 50 a day.
Besides its employment bureau. the
Art Workers club. as Il is called, OPP
crates a restaurant on the first floor
of the house, which serves excellent
meals at cost, while five O'Clock tea
Is served every afternoon absolutely
free. To this artists, as well as mod
els. are invited since. as the secretary
explained. the chief effort Of the club
Is 10 bring the two factions together
for the promotion Of a better under
standing
Where Models Are Engaged.
Thus. ON a rainy afternoon, the big
clubroam Is filled with models draped
about the furniture in graceful atti
tudes. while they chat and drink tea
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