The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 23, 1900, Page 3

THE SUNDAY CALL. 3 "SWEET FPuUD ! [ TAND WORSHIP THoU HAST ., ( HIM AS THE KING BEWITCHED ME - \ OF DAYy g LA ser kind of talk- n why your tongue I've seen a woman ng brooks, the soaring ing out with one hand fhe ng on the ground, while she he other water running of the body express 2s the expression of the I think of Ks 2 good v y be admiring” But her aud well enough that gence, which is at the 1 posing, after all n with well-rounded figure ce of motion fancies that d to pose. She could is sure, or an As if the body alone could be ful without the inspiration of a behi ! tic taste and in- ct the motions e to be graceful. when sayirg last week,” or claiming *“How These are no stures that to go on ses than the on to the idea. one who makes an art of t, to be sure, have a shapely here could not be beauty in her But the form is only part of the feve that graceful motions can to one naturally awkward. be cultivated, brought out, have been there originally. It can't be taught out-and out. And one who is endowed with it will need little teach- ing. 1 never had a dancing lesson—nor listened to a Delsarte lecture—nor pranced through scheduled exercises. I posed al- ways as unconsclously as I talked and gesture followed thought, instead of thought following gesture. I can’t help talking with my arms and body. To be deprived of the right would be to me to be taugh Grace m but it mus N - v 111 \lmht ‘ANC THoUL N PosT NoT VW THoU ART MINE_ B FoOREVER, to me, ‘Patrice, you mustnt wave your than #n automobils in Gllroy. Keep still, arms around that way on the street and for goodness' sake.” be) struck dumb. People sometimes say in the cars. You attract more attention Love ME” dave my neck. I can’t keep stfll. My body talks when I do and it always has done so and it always will. The people Who try to learn gestures and poses—well, you know how they suo- ceed. They thump thelr chests at regular intervals, they clasp their hearts at the correct time if they remember their cue, but often enough they miss it, How can the gesture suit the word when they don't I suppose I should, but I can't do it to think ef what the word means? And the hand-motions that are acquired In some dramatic schools! You krow the ones I mean—with the little finger extended, the others curved—the very hand seems to simper! I am going back to my old refrain to tell you that posing must be spontaneous or it falls of its purpose. What s its pur- pose? To present pictures, I should say. They may be flesh and blood pictures or painted picturss or photographic ones; but whatever the form there must be a mean- ing. Even the amateur, sitting for photo- graphs to send to friends and reiatives, should know this much about poSing or the pictures will be failures. Don’t let the camera drive every thought out of your head. Don't think of the camera at all. Tell yourself the joke cn Jack that sonie- body told you last night, and see if it doesn’t drive away that strained expres- sion of face and body. This applies {o the simplest picture. More elaborate poses should be guided by the same law of spontanelty, Think, when you go beforg the camera, what you are going ‘0 represent; get yourself into the mood of the picture to be, and your pose arranges itself. Suppose that when I say “Turning the streams from their channels,” I should gesture toward the tree tops in the glen. Wouldn't that be absurd? I am thinking of the streams In thelr channels, not of my arms. Streams and their channels lie along the ground, and as the picture comes to my mind I suggest it as best I can by a motien of the arm. “And thou dost not love me?" There is despair in the thought. No ranting nor raving, only abfect hopelessness, help- lessness. The arms fall back in surrender of hope. “Thou art & worm:” Luna has reached the conclusion and she announces it pos- itively. The gesture is one of assertion. “Never say good-by!” The Intensest emotion fills the mind here and must find utterance through face and body as well as lips, There is & combination of plead- ing and command, ‘When Luna discovers that Sweet Pud has bewitched her she grows for the mo- ment reflective in her admiration, Is it Posed by Pat a the Orpheum. to rest the face wpon the thought? How does one worship? 1 , If true wor- ship be In the s high, In the ecsta as impulse directs you of ‘the pose “What is ‘read?” " It !s the wondering question of a 1 child and the hand strays to the face when one is perplexed. All the passion of love speaks In “Thou art mine forever.” Intensity must show in the tense muscles, the strained face. But if I had practiced and memorized the exact position of both elbows and ten fingers could I show the feeling that I do in a less studied pose? There is great danger of spolling good poses by over-elaboration of dress. Sim- ple, even severe lines show the grace ¢ the body better than heavily tumes. You are not a display clothes, your ip your arms ation. Do it you can’t fail adorn you. I hawe tried gowns and I have never suited me until I hit upon t knitted silk. d and a factory garment. It clings ¥ closely than any fabric that —its effect is that of jer: After the model or actress chosen the drapeéri figure then comes the of how to pose in them. I ruct her any better than by telling her to listen to no instructions. e must think and feel and allow her motions free play—the rest will do itself. The first time I played Luna I had learned the lines and that was all. I went on the stage without an idea of how I should render them. So with every performance I do what comes into my head to do. If you have to depend on memorized gestures, give up an be bought s carefully d to her Ernest Seton-Thompson In a lecture in Baltimore recently switched off in one place from his wild animals to tell the story of a pointer—a genuine canine Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The dog lived in New York and was remarkably well be- haved and was particularly friendly to- ward the children in the well-bred set in which his lot was cast, His only idlosyn- cracy was his habit of disappearing for a day or two at a time. During one of these periods of disappearance a dog was caught in a distant section of the ecity who was viclous, degenerate and e~ ularly savage toward children. Hs was killed and the ewners of the suppesed good dog found upon investigation that their well-behaved and beloved pet was one apd the same with the vicious beast that had been ahet,