The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 22, 1904, Page 10

R i'his article is for the retty girls of this town ho feel that their face i their only fortune, hut who do not know how to make the best of it—How to hire out as 1 model and what the models receive. e t to be a professional r chance, for the model is in great de- 10t enough models the artists and photog- them. y good model $10 for tes’ work—if I could find New York photographer “and 1 could keep not twenty. Of course I have f enough. 1 could three times as many as see 1 already employ e are he a large square book leav r faces with 8 written underneath E ots to come to town se she has her picture taken and ser it me with her name written ddress. I put he when the proper time r telegraph for her. I d get employment in the see th ny on my waiting list? ey do not wait long, for to New York almost im- e trouble is this. We great many more models ply. del is hard to find. Bhe different from the model of , for she must be a model s a good photograph. It does atter how poor her complexion is viding she has the right features to tograph. A model who wants to work at the ness—anrd the no reason why retty girl who needs the money t be a model—must make up k d what she wants to do. “If she wants to be a mude model, Il right. She feels that her figure is rtupe. She can apply to the ar- sts and the sculptors and they will ve her work. But she is not wanted photographic studios. A few photographers want the nude but naf ma: They are the excepflon to the rule. The great demand is for pretty girls to pose in advertisements, and for fashion. plates. In adadition to this they are needed for physical ure poses, for ideal heads, for fllus- trations to sto and for miscellane- ous pictures. Models Have Specialties. “Most models have their specialties and they are retained for that purpose. Evelyn N t is talked about & great 3 the best model in the world. ul face and beautiful She is always taken for the head. On the other hand, Miss Olive Cox, the Burme-Jones girl, is graceful. She is the most graceful model that ever stepped before a camera. We pose her in long gowns and in costumes that re- ire a certain amount of chic and dar- ing. She never falls us. “Of course a model must be good looking ell around, though we have a few who .,are famous only for their hands and their feet. There is a girl whose *‘gure is short and fat and who would never look well before the cam- era, but she has a wonderful little foot. It is all arched and the ankle is tiny, while the leg is plump. She finds con- stant employment posing for the foot and leg. And she does not have to ghow her leg above the calf either. T we have one model who has hand, though she is ugly fence. But her fingers are round and tapering, not fiat, and her cu wrist is also round. She poses for jew- elry advertise- ments. And we put gloves on her for glove ads. Her fin- gers are exquisitely man red and her hands are her for- tune. I forgot to mention that her arm is plump and round and there is a dimple in the el- be nd two dim- les in her should- ers We have a few avored models who i about more, Miss is tall, e, with the fea- of a Madonna. She can pose for anything under the sun and look well all the time. Teresa Bryant, the 1 atiful Irish model, is another example of an all around beauty. She is five feet nine, has hair like burnished gold, is gifted with a round waist, a full bust and a tiny foot. She makes a » Very mice society model, especially as she has a plump neck and owns a few fine gowns. “The possession of good dresses is a valuable thing for a model. She can aiways be relied upon to appear at the right hour with a handsome gown in her suit case. If she be clever she will change the dress so that it never looks twice alike, “A model who has earned hundreds if not thousands of dollars posing and who is always in demand is Maude Thomas, a girl built on the splendid order. She is very tall, very full figure and is Junoesque in her type. Her shoulders are very broad and she looks equally well in a sweater posing as a sir! gymmast, or in a long cloak posing as a soclety girl. “But it is seldom that you get an all around model. There is Dora Bonn, who is taken for her exquisite eyes and perfect teeth. ' Her face is an oval and her mouth a Cupid bow. She has a pathetic droop to her eyelids and can look charming mo matter what her role. Her specialty is posing for the head. “Miss Lester is one of the roly poly models. Tall and well shaped, she has the dimpled face of a child. Her ideal heads are always suggestive of inno- cence and glee. She takes the prettiest photographs for advertising purposes and the dearest little debutante pic- tures one ever saw. “At first the models did not like to pose for advertisespeats, but as high art began to apl#§¥ In the ads this adverse feeling d and now they are quite willing to pose for the best class of advertisements. “Occasionally it will happen that a photographer will impose upon a model and will tell her that the plcture is for one thing when it is for another. But this is not very oftea done. As a rule the advertiser and the photographer will take the girl into their confidence and will tell her exactly what is need- ed. And they are rewarded by a very good picture. Average Model's Pay. “"You are to:pose for a hose sup- porter,’ I said to a girl not long ago. “ ‘But, I refuse,” said she. ““Very well,’ sald I, ‘but you will lose & chance to make $15 and to get a fine photograph of yourself.’ “She finally consented and the pic- ture was such a success that the manu- facturer sent her $25 and enough hose THE SAN FRANCISCO SUNDAY CAL supporters to last her for years. She could not wear them out if she were & centiped. ® “Models get pay all the way from $6 up. For that sum any model will spend 2 whole morning, say from 10 o'clock until 12 o’clock. If a model comes in the afternoon she expects to stay from 2 o'clock until 4:30 or until the light fai’. about. “This gives a girl $10 a day. And it she be a willing and capable girl, she can get posing every day in the week. “There is a great difference in models. Marfan Murray, the Netw' England model, is noted for her obliging ways. She tries and she tries. She never ‘fools’ and she devotes herself to busi- ness from the minute she enters the studio. Other models fritter away thelr time and the photographer and the one who is posing for the picture all get out of patience. “Models c:e very well treated. In the summer time it is a hard-hearted photographer who does not provide ice- cream soda. And there are times when cocktails and candy are offered to those ‘who will partake. “The draped model of the studio be- longs to & very nice class of girls. She is, as a rule, entirely self-supporting, and though poor, she lives on what she earns, realizing that her face and her falr fame are her entire fortune, “There may be temptations open to the photographic model, but she is too busy a girl to care for them. Often she is too engrossed to know what they are. She minds her business and lets the chappies alone. “Are the chappies after her? Well, I should say so. They offer me any sum to let them come to the studio and see her pose and they would buy her pictures by the dozen if I would sell them. “Does the professional model marry well? Yes, very often. There is many a romance of the studios where some man falls in love with a pretty face and writes to the girl. She replies. They correspond. A meeting is ap- pointed and they fall in love with each ““The professional model, as a general thing, sings in the chorus. She cannot pose at night. So she earns her money by looking pretty in the front row. She can dance, for she is young. She can sing a little. And she can look pretty. So she earns her $18 a week with the other girls behind the footlights. How to Get a Job. “Is there any way for a girl to be- come a model? Certainly. Let her take stock of herself. If she has a nice round chin with a pretty dimple Mdsflmm In it heart. are there let her take If her eyes fairly large is hope for her. If she has any one good feature she is pretty sure to be an acceptable modél. She can put on hats for a milli- nery model. Or she can wear necklaces around her throat for a Jeweler s model. Or she can put on fine gowns for a fashion model. “There are girls of distinct type and these find no trou- ble getting a job. ‘We have one model who looks like an Oriental. She poses for cigarette adver- tisements. We have another who is de- cidedly Japanese in her looks. We put her in a native cos- tume and produce some wonderful re- sults. We have mod- els who, though full grown, have child- ish faces, and these we utilize In many ways. “Yes, it is safe to assert that any pretty girl who takes a good pic- ture can earn her living posing for the camera. She need not be a beauty. But she must take a good photograph. “I have one model whose skin is sal- low, her mouth is thin and her figure is scraggly. But she takes a glorious photograph. Her eyes light up won- derfully before the camera and she can hold the expression well. “Very few models are taken without a little make-up. The mouth is painted with grease paint into a Cupid's bow and the lips are made a wonderful red. The eyes are next lined with dark cir- cles to make them look large and the face Is powdered. The result is charm- ing in a photograph. “There are models who get $16 for posing. They take a beautiful picture and they understand their business. They can command their own price. “There is Jane Holly, a model who is rich in her own right. She takes a striking photograph and her wardrobe is magnificent. We have one model who will not pose for less than $20, but she is worth it. She comes to the stu- dio with a dress suit case full of fine clothes. Her hair has been dressed by a hairdresser and she is groomed and manicured to beat the band. She {s ready for a charming photograph. She puts on a handsome gown and can pose for a soclety lady, for a corset model. for an {llustration to a story or for a halr dmesser’s article. You see this model knows her business. “Ave the models intelligent as a rule? Not very. They are clever but they are indifferent. They do as they are told. But no more. They seldom make suggestions and they are too full of fun to be in earnest. Still such models do wake up once in a while and take an interest. “How many girls are posing as pro- fessional models? A great many more than you would suppose. Often their pictures are not recognized in the news- papers and they go on posing -until somebody drops on. Then {t is stopped by the family. “Is it nice business for a girl? nicest in the world!" The Of all the foreign-born population in the United States, 52.9 per cent are of the English-Teutonic stock, and 20.9 are Celts. Thus, practically three- fourths of the foreign born in the United States are of English-Teutonic and Celtic stocks. WHD GELS Y FRRT S/ WANTS FOR LLUSIREITING B FERTIY TR 5 ORIGIN OF | WHITSUNDAY | | OBSERVED | ‘| TO-DAY s - - O-DAY is celebrated the third of the great festivals of the eccle- siastical year of which Christ- mas and Easter are the other two. Like Easter, Pentecost, or Whit- sunday, has a place in both the Jewish and Christian calendars. For the for- mer it was the harvest festival, oné of the principal ceremonies of t day was the offering of loaves of bar- ley bread made from the first of the crop just harvested. These loaves were made with great care, the flour hav- ing been sifted twelve times. Each loaf contained the tenth of an eplah, or about three quarts and a pint of flour, by our measure. The loaves were each seven hands In length, four breadth, and the “horns™ of the loaves en fingers long. Those loaves with two one-year-old lambs were presente@ to the high priests, who waved them before the altar, and a number of lambs, rams, a bullock and other animals were sacrificed at the same time, The bread was given, one loaf to the higher clergy and the other to the common priests, who ate it at night, noting carefully that no erumbs were left by the time when the morn- ing light appeared. These loaves, un- like the pascal bread, were Kk ened. Besides the gathering of the harvest the festival commemorated for the Jews the reception by Moses on Mount Sinal of the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments, an event which happened fifty days after the flight from Egypt, or the events commemo- rated by the Passover of Easter. Con- sequently Pentecost comes fifty daye after Easter. The day was also called the Festival of Weeks, because it came at the end of a season of special jublla- tion lasting a week of weeks. Under the Christian dispensation the festival celebrates the descent of the Holy Ghost on the Apostlies and Disci- ples. We are told in the Acts that after the ascension of Christ, which took place forty days after Easter, his dis- ciples returned to Jerusalem and spent the following ten days in prayer in the Cenacle. At the end of that period about the third hour, which corres- ponds to 9 o'clock of our time, a vio- lent wind was heard coming from hegven, and on the heads of the 120 disciples In the room there descended tongues of flame. Jerusalem was crowded at that time by persons from all parts of the then known world, wha had come to witness, or take part, In the religious ceremonies of the Jewish festival; these persons we:e attractad by the noise of the wind to the Cena- cle and were there addressed by St. Peter and the other Apustles, W iore discourses were understood by all Fresent, ag though they were spoken in the manv native languages of the kearers, although only one sermon was beipg preached and that by the preach- ers in the language of Palestine. As the church grew and increased in num- bers‘'and power the celebration of Pen- tecost became more elaborate and the converts who, for any reason, had not been baptized at Easter, were baptized then. As they weore white baptismal robes, Pentecost also acquired the name of Whitsunday or White-Sunday. In the churches during the principal mass and services a white dove, sym- bolical of the Holy Ghost, was sus- pended from the center of the ceiling of the church, or a flock of doves were let loose in the sacred edifice. A fan- fare on silver trumpets recalled the rush of wind described in the Bible, and little pleces of burning tow were dropped on the congregations tp re- call the tongues of fire referred to m the Scrivtures. The church, too, was elaborately decorated with evergreens and wheat, barley, etc) to recall the harvest celebration of the Jews. In England Whitsunday is one of the great holidays of the year, and is the occasion of an annual bank hollday,