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THE SUN, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER- lV, 1912. . SOCIETY WOMEN WHO WILL BE AT THE HORSE SHOW i i , ' 8) 1VU5S Mao-jr 13 c ... s m.h..n ,ru0o' Mr Arthur U-. j lj jj 1 1 i I 3 ry 5 Re elm a n cL Mrs.ChsrltiJc LooMiy OelritVii Mr4 .1 Ciot-cLori j)ou?lia PHOTOGRAPHING ALL OF THE PRESIDENTS FROM THE TIME OF GENERAL GRANT: I HAVE photographed every l'rrsi- dent since Gen. Grant," Bays a Washington photographer, "and I havo found President Taft the easiest poser of them all. President Taft isn't particularly fond of having hia pic ture taken, tint when he does face the lens no falls naturally into the right position, nrftn't havo to Ixi told to smile, doesn't stiffen up like so many photographic sub nets, and generully knows tho game ho well that all of his pictures are successful. "Mr. Roosevelt is an excessively hard man to pose for the camera. Ho is what wo call a frigid subject, and it is impos sible, it seems, for him to fall easily and naturally into tho desired position. Ho unconsciously fights tho photographer, as wc say. When in the chair for a bast picture he has a way of thrusting his chin far forward in a grotesquely aggres sive way which, in a picture, would make him appear to lie saying to the beholder of the portrait: 'Say, what's that you are talking about? Say it again! I dare you to say it again 1' "And Mr. Roosevelt is generally stricken with the fidgets when ho fa?es the camera. It appears to lie a positive misery to him to stick to one position for more than two seconds at a stretch. The very low cut collar that he wears appears to bother him when ho is Iwforo the lens, and he has a way of incessantly grabbing at tho front of tho collar with the right hand as if ho wanted to jerk it off and toss iv away, His hand appia- to bo doing sou thing at rll t nvs, and I never photo graphed a man who had less natural repose. I often wonder how Mr. Roose velt ever sleeps at night how he gets to sleep, that is. "Once I askisl Mr. Roosevelt to permit me to photograph him without his eye glasses, just as a sort of novelty, but he wouldn't consent to this. "The eyeglasses are just as much a part of me as my ears," he told m-, 'and I have a liad staring look without them. 1 look like somebody seeing a ghost.' "He never brushes down his hair if it happens to bo tousled when ho removes his liat upon entering tho studio. ""I don't liko sleek hair,' ho informed me once, when 1 hand.'d him a brush l'fo-e st i "ting to post him, and the U'st that he woiil 1 do was nervously to smooth down his hair with his hands. "During the list twoyjirsof lioos' velt's ineumlieiicy he didn't much IU to lie photographed full length or three quarters, for he grew undeniibly stout in spite of all his tennis, horseback riding and wrestling. He is always in a terrille hurrv to got out of a studio, but beyond a doubt is fond of looking at his finished photographs. He always wants proofs of all the plates and generally ends by ordering copies struck from all the dif ferent negatives. "McKinloy was a singularly oasy man to pose for the camera patient, plastiu, submissive to the 0eralor's roquo.Us and possessed ot a certain ted tii-.il grire tint made him valued photographic) subject, lie too, toward the 1 tttcr ye'trs of his life, grew to dislike nay but bust pi. tures of himself, for his tendency toward stoutness was over increasing. "I'ut no photograph ever quite did Mr. MeKinley justice. All in all. ho had tho most remarkable air of eyes tint I ever saw in a man's head. They were literally as mellow as the eyes of an anteloiv brooding, darkly luminous, suffused with pity, and yet they were strong anil wholly masculine eyes too. "It was hard for a photographer to c:,tch l.im without an expression of al most ineradicable melancholy in his fact". His.smiles were rare and I'ue, but they passed vory quickly. Ho was often compared with Vipoleoti for f.iciil ro sembl tuco, but Im fico was much liner than Napoleon's. It wis as strong, but licked the hirduess of tho Corsiirin's. For a handsome man, with a io illy noblo head, Mr. McKinlev was the last viin personage that 1 over Invited a camera at. "I Mioposo th'ro are few Kople who know ilnt Mr. ('level mil had i doei led aversion to the camera. It auuost took wild horses to get him to Im photographed while he was I'resi lent. II id it not been for his admirable who wo might never have got him at all, for she always as sisted us in our efforts to ohtiiu sitting from him. I 'I he curious rugged hoi e-p ot to' siy the stubbornness, of tiie in .n tvn' shown by the fact that lie despised ' photograph of himself the negative of' which hid been retouched. He wanted' the picture just r.s it had been taken.) He liked, for example, to stick his left hand beneath tho lisp of Ids frock cult in the conventional statesnv.il pose.) lint that sort of thing went out of daU with Webster. Clay and Calhoun end was mide ridiculous by black faced stump speakers of tho minstrel stage when Mr. Cleveland was yet u boy. All th same, we always had trouble in pre venting him from striking th-t outworn' attltido every time lie wanted a three quarter or full length photograph. " WEBER AND FIELDS AND THE NEW MEK4BERS OF THEIR COMPANY AT THEIR FIRST REHEARSAL EHjBttfcMj&k, BTs&vtnHiiiiMaHI T HMrafcf , ijy -vm: vBtwrre""" Tote-- (Left co riht) NORA BAYES, MARIE DRESSLER, BESSIE CLAYTON, HELENA COLLIER GARRICK, FLORENCE MILLER (Left to right) LEW FIELDS, JOE WEBER, JACK NORWORTH, FRANK DANIELS, ARTHUR AYLESWORTH, THOMAS BEAUREGARD ; m vy