ITIE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND. 5EPTE3IBER 7, 1919.
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Vhinia Lee,
Model for
Neisa McMein
the Original of
Many Charming
Pictures.
W7j Is to Become of
Art if Beauty Is Going
to Complain of the High
Cost of Living, and
MoviesKeep onLnring?
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Statue for
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BT NINA C MARBOtJRG.
YES, It really is true. The models
are en strike. Not that the
beautiful srirls who have been
posing for artists and sculptors have
openly announced a strike, but such
Is the situation just the samf.
The embarrassing situation has been
- developing for the last couple of years.
Flrt. just isolated difficulties and a
Crowing sense of something wrong.
Now tho artists find themselves de
serted. Too might say that the models
have left the studios en masse.
No longer, when walking through
tadlo building, will you find the terse,
almost Insulting, notes on the doors
that read "No models wanted." Instead
f this you wtU see pitiful pleas read
tug: "Model wanted." But nary a tap
on the door comes to cheer the artist's
heart and to announce the arrival o
a candidate for the posing stand.
"The models are done finished
through with the' artists and their star
vatlon wages, said a young woman
the other day: and she added: "We
may look simple, but we're not. The
cost of living haa gone up. and as for
standing an hoar for art's sake and
SO cents those days are In the dim
past."
The Vint Rebellloa.
The first hint of unrest among the
models came when the price for posing
went up. A dollar an hour, cried the
braver models. The artists rebelled.
refused the services of those demand
ing a dollar an hour, and succeeded in
locating a few young women who
would pose at the old wage.
But this relief did not last long, for
the girls still posing for the SO cents
came In contact with the objectors and
finally they raised their prlce..too. But
this was not the end, for the next de
mand to come was for a dollar an
hour, not less than five-hours' work,
with a S-mlnute rest between each pose
of 10 minutes it the pose was simple.
and 10 minutes between each 15-minute
pose If difficult. This meant that the
artist was paying $5 for his model for
6 hours work. Including the rest
periods. So you see he did not by any
means get five hours' work for his
money.
Though the artist grumbled a bit. he
decided that the best thing was to put
up with the situation and make the
best of it. He had settled down com
fortably to the new run of things,
when suddenly the models began to
answer to telephone calls and notes,
"I'm not posing any longer. No, I
couldn't possibly do it. No. not for any
price. I have changed my profession,"
and he found himself high and dry
Without a model.
Who Begaa This, AaywayT
Who started it? The tea kettle or
the cricket? There is no mistake about
it, the busy tea kettle in the role of a
certain world-famous theatrical pro
ducer started the trouble.
This theatrical producer suddenly
realized that the world is anxious to
see the beautiful models. He immedi
ately proceeded to advertise for sucli
young women, to set his agents busy
rounding them up. and to each he made
splendid offers inducing them to join
his musical company, and so, as far
as the studios were concerned, they
ceased to be "artists' models."
Then came the camera man. For a
time before this employer's appearance
the girls posed for the artists in spare
time, but along came the camera man.
with flattering offers, and away flitted
the girl, saying good-by for the last
time to her old artist friends.
The moving picture lure is strong.
Many a young woman on the screen
today started life as a model, and one
of the first to leave the studios and
go into pictures was Audrey Munson.
whose figure was so lavishly employed
at the San Francisco exposition. Fol
lowing her was Beatrice Machin, a
popular model and a prize beauty.
Dolores Zatelka, Arna Deck and Mil
dred Lewis Imitated their retreat.
In New Tork City today there are
four musical shows running at top
speed in which "artists' models" are
featured. la on f them, tioa tber
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OLGA Zll'KiU, FOITLAR RUSSIAN MODEL, POSIXG FOR THE CAMERA.
are 20 models. So now please tell me
where there is a possible chance for
the painter or sculptor?
There is an artist who certainly felt
keenly the result of this strike. He is
Eduardo Camillle. Camlllie received a
certain, very important commission.
He looked about him for a model. He
found just the right one, just his ideal
for the work. Posings were begun;
BABETTE BUSEY, MODEL FOR HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY
the first day things went well. The
next posing was postponed by the
model. . Then came a phone message
saying that' she could not go on unless
she was paid more. Camlllie paid. This
was the second posing. Camillie's
dream was taking shape.
One more posing and the preliminary
shetch would be complete. But that is
the posing that never was made, for
another message came that the fair
lady was beginning rehearsals with a
musical show and all her time was
taken up. Camlllie begged, offered
more money. Offered to take his
sketch anywhere she was if she would
give him that last posing. The model
was obdurate, and finally Camlllie
went into a fine Italian frenzy. But
all to no end. The young woman hung
up the receiver and left Eduardo Ca
mlllie staring stupidly at the telephone.
Other models, one after the other, em
ployed on the work failed to "see it
through."
Camillie is an artist to his finger
tips. His spirit in this work was
broken; his dream vanished and the
work remained unfinished. The client
is still waiting for the work, and Ca
millie has declared that it will never
be completed.
This Is the sort of thing that has
'been happening daily in the studios for
some time. Other men and women
have made shift to use sometimes as
many as half a dozen models in exe
cuting one piece of work.
But the models' point of view, what
is it? I talked with several young
women the other day and their opin
ions summed up were this:
Ifo "Future" In Posing!
Tn the first place the artists won't
pay enough. In the second place there
is no future in posing. We have to
look out for our own interests, and
what can an artist do for us, save
paint a picture, or make a statue on
which we have no credit at all? No
matter how hard a girl worked at the
old wage, 50 cents an hour, she couldn't
make more than J15 or $18 a week,
and that only when she had steady
work. The artists never . bothered
about the matter of your living when
they did not want you to pose. In fact,
when you went to many of them and
asked for work when, they were not
"ABJAJJOXT," FORMERLY MODEL FOR THE I'AI.M'ER CAMILLIE, WHO WAS
LI RED AWAY BY THE FOOTLIGHTS.
using your type, they were many . beauty. It was an artist who f trt
times rude. I don't see why we should suggested that I learn to dance. That
have any consideration for them. This ' was when the classic dancing first
Hnoa nnt nnnlv to all artists. There ' came out. He was doing a piece of
are exceptions but, believe me, they
are few and far between."
One young woman, Irene Marcellos,
one of the most popular models in
New York, said:
"I owe much to the artists. It is
through them that I have had my
chance. I began posing when a little
girl, and one acquires much grace
from posing. The artistic atmosphere
helps this and gives one an uncon
scious grace, I think. Then one be
gins to appreciate beauty, and that
adds to grace, for your thoughts be
come filled with ideas of grace and
work in which he wanted a dancing
figure. , It was a canvas that he wad
willing to take a long time to work
up, so he made arrangements for nm
to have dancing lessons at one of the
studios. This man was a real human
being, and still is. He knew a moving
picture man and got me a chance to
dance for the movies, but I always
had time to pose for' him. Today I am
making good money In a musical com
edy, but 1 am also posing for this ono
artist. He is the only man for whom
I will pose. He gave me a chance.
But all artists are not like that."
UNCLE SAM PLANS TO EXTEND
TRAINING OF EX-SERVICE MEN
Number of Discharged Soldiers, Sailors and Marines Now at Rehabilita
tion Schools to Be More Than Doubled in Near Future.
WASHINGTON, Sept 6. (Corre
spondence of the Associated
Press.) Plans to more than dou
ble the number of discharged soldiers,
sailors and marines receiving rehabili
tation training were announced yester
day by the federal board of vocational
education. The increase will be made
at the fall opening of schools and col
leges. More than 7000 men now are re
ceiving training.
"There have been delays In carrying
out the work of vocational rehabilita
tion," aald the board's statement, "but
most of them have been due to causes
which were beyond the control of the
board and which It has made unceasing
effort to remove.
Much Valuable Time Loat. .
"Nearly six months elapsed after the
passage of the rehabilitation act be
fore the agents of the federal board
were admitted -to the military and
naval hospitals. This exclusion was a
necessary war measure; but during this
period, as well as during the 14 months
which elapsed between our entering
became law, thousands of disabled men
wre discharged and were scattered all
over the United States without any
knowledge of their rights under the
law. Altogether, more than a year and
i a half of precious time was lost.
"Under the terms of the rehabilita
tion act the federal board could put no
disabled man in training until after he
was declared compensable by the war
risk insurance bureau. The amend
ment curing this difficulty and allow
ing prompt action by the federal board
did not become law till July 11, 1919.
Excellent Progress Made.
"The board has made excellent- prog
ress, for on August 1 It had estab
lished contact with 130,000 of the 160,
000 men registered, had surveyed near
ly 108,000 and had approved over 12,000
cases for training and had put 7192
men in training. .
"Those men, as. of July 26, were in
449 public and ' private secondary
schools, in 159 institutions of college
the war and June 27, 4918. when tue aet-'-grade and In 363 industrial and other
plants. They are being trained for
1363 different lines of activity and, by
utilizing existing means of training
rather than creating new schools for
rehabilitation, the men are being bet
ter trained and millions of dollars have
been saved to the United States, bmce
legislation giving the board a free
hand did not pass until July, when
most schools and colleges are closed,
the full measure of training activity
cannot be reached until the latter part
of September. At that time the pres
ent number. in training: will be much
more than doubled."
Mexico Not to Be Medtaotr.'
MEXICO CITY. The Mexican gov
ernment has not offered its services as
a mediator in any disputes now ex
isting among Central American coun
tries, according to an official state
ment by the department of foreign re
lations, refuting stories printed by sev
eral newspaper in the capital that Mex
ico 'desired to act as an arbitrator be
tween Costa -Rica- and -Nicaragua.
RICH DOMAIN OF CHAMBORD
MAY BE FRENCH PROPERTY
Inhabitants of Rich Chateau District of Lorraine Petition to Be United
With Republic.
B
LOIS, France, Sept. 6. (Corre
spondence of ' the Associated
Press.) The domain of Chambord,
one of the richest and most interesting
of the chateau district of Touraine,
which is included in the sequestered
enemy property in France, will become
the property of the state if a petition
signed by practically the entire adult
population of the department of the
Loir-et-Cher is granted.
Chambord, which for years has been
visited annually by thousands of tour
ists, was a hunting preserve in 1519
when Francois. I. beeau to-transform. it
into a royal country seat. Since then
it has served as a residence for Henry
II, Charles IX, Louis XIII. Louis XIV,
Stanislas and the last Count of Cham
bord, pretender to the throne of France
under the title of Henry V.
On the death of Henry V the elder
branch of the Bourbon family became
extinct and the domain of Chambord,
with its magnificent llennalsnani-o
chateau, passed into the hands of the
Spanish Bourbons.
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