Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1921-01-03
By FREDERIC
HASKIN

Thus did the secretary of the club,
as she later explained to the reporter.
nip in the bud movement on the part of
the male population of New York to give
the club its enthusiastic endorsement
The attitude of the public, especially
the masculine public. toward the artists
model said the secretary sadly, lis
much the same as it is toward the chorus
girl-entirely frivolous 1t is also in
curably morantic. 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 a
matter of fact, posing is hard work, and
until recently the. average artists model
has been poorly paid and has been given
about as much consideration as table
Or chair"
Getting Jobs for Models
Here the telephone on the secretarys
burst noisily into her condolences, 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't be-
lieve we have. anybody plumper. We
consider her one of the plumpest girls
We have. About $50 pounds, | should
say, but tall and well-proportioned Yes,
| think you might be able to use her
face. too. She's a good Spanish type.
Well, she lives right up in your neigh
borhood-suppose / 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,
will be back from Havana Friday
The secretary then explained that the
Clue runs an employment bureau for its
members, who are all registered and
classified by types. Posing is somewhat
Ike private nursing; a girl never knows
how long her job is going to last or
how much money it is going to pay her
Some artists take long time to com
plete their work, and others work very
fast Some can afford to pay high rate
Tor model, and others can scarcely
afford to employ one at all. But condi-
tons in this respect are better for posers
than they have ever been before, thanks
to the persistent mercenary efforts of
the club. A good model can now demand
and collect "A dollar an hour for her work,
at which rate some of them make as
much as eight dollars a day.
BESIDES its employment bureau. the
ates 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 models are invited,
since, az the secretary explained, "the
chief object OF the club is TO bring the
two factions together for the promotion
of better understanding
Thus, on q rainy afternoon, the big
clubroom is filled with models draned
about the furniture in graceful attitudes,
while they chat and drink tea with social
ly-iuclined artists. The room. with it's
artistic draperies and comfortable couch
IS and easy chairs, looks more like a
drawing room than a club room, and the
casual stranger never would guess from
the frivolous renartee and engaging man
ner of its guests that serious business
was being transacted. Yet it is at these
teas that many New York artists find
their various types of models.
The Costumes.
On the third floor of it's large. old
fashioned home, the club maintains
costume department, which contains cos
tunes of every period and nationality.
These are often rented at a nominal fee
with the model For instance, while the
reporter was visiting the club the other
day, wealthy artist, VINO nVeS IN
suburb of New York, came in and told
the secretary he was in search of q
type of Dutch costume of the kind worn
by certain group of peasants living on
an island in the Zuyder Zee. The artist
was told to so up to the club room and
make himself at home while the secretary
found him Il model In a remarkably
short time f1axen haired girl, with
broad cheek bones and robust figure
came in the front door in answer to the
secretary's telephone summons and was
rushed up to the third floor to be fitted
for the said peasant costume. The same
afternoon she was out at tho artists SUI
burban studio, ready to take her pose.
Once every February the club has q
models review, which is considered one
of the most important events in artistic
circles To this review all of the known
artists in the city are invited. The club