Daily British Whig (1850), 21 May 1904, p. 12

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Mrs. Langtry Has Made a Great 'Deal of Money Out of Royal- London Correspondence. There isn't any country in the world where it pays better to have a pretty face than it does here in Kngland. That is--| 7 Dettet. in dard cash. Good looks dys have been at a premium in this country and the public is fond of owning pictures of noted beauties, but in t st ten or fitteen years this oraze has grown to such an extent that thotograghers here pay heavy royal ties to handsome society and stage women in return for the exclusive priv- ilsge of taking and selling their like- NOsKes, I was told the other day by J. W. Downey, the leading court photogtaph- er of Ebury street, Belgravia, that at the present moment there are at least six women in Fogland whose good looks bring them in from $2,500 to 85,000 a year in this way, and that there are at least 100 who are in re ceipt of incomes ranging from $350 to 81,250 a year from royalties on the sale of their photographs. Mrs. Langtry is supposed 10 hold the record for this sort of money-making. 3 the craze over here was at its height 500,000 photographs of the Jer- sey Lily were sold in Great Britain, their fair subject receiving six cents a copy royalty and clearing £50,000. Hair Grower ; A GREW i THIS you against imitations, are on every box. Mary Anderson's photographs also had a huge sale, going at thi rate of hothathing like 100,000 5 vear for a de- cade. aud Jeffries, the American girl, who played Mercia in Wilson Bar rett's "Sign of the Cross," made 810. 000 in less than two years out of pho- tographic royalties, while Edna May is supposed to have done even better. During the run of "The Belle of New York" in London the Syracuse girl's portraits were being distributed in this country at the rate of 5.000 a week. There is no doubt what woman it is whose photograph now commands the largest sals in this country. Queen Alexandra enjoys this distinction, but, of course, etiquette forbids her ma. jesty to make any profit out of the sale of her pictures. The most popular pictures of the queen is one taken in the robes and cap of a Doctor of Music. This has sold by scores of thousands, and it is estimated that the total number of the queen's pic- tures disposed of must run well onto seven figures, and her majesty easily SEVEN SUTHERLAND SISTERS SOLE PROPRIETORS Canadian Office, 258 Yonge 8t., Torento 4. H, alley. Foreign Manager ? '* Recommended and sold by Geo. W. Mahood, corner Princess and Bagot streets, Kingston. * of 'If you eat "FORCE" | .. regularly, it's more than 1. olikely I shall have to - . square myself with your . i aban vit + oss as 8 son 111. could make $7,000 a It other present in this country, considered' it due to the titled Ameri- can woman's constant social activity The young Duchess of Westminster, whose husband is sup- posed to be the richest peer in country, was named society woman whose popularity with the buyers of photographs is second only to that of Mrs. Cornwallis-West. Oddly enough, the law, the duchess before her marriage having been Miss Shelagh West. Other society women, who undoubtedly gain a tidy amount of pin money through the sale of their photographs, are the Countess, of Warwick, Lady de Grey, Lady Helen Vincent and Lady Pole Carew, who perhaps, can be described as the most classically beautiful wo- man in English society, that the graphs of British women of title are Amerjcan tourists of the gentler sex. and prominence. cording to the looks and along ess Ed of "The School Girl," the first night notices recorded the Burke and her ditty. noe," scored the success of the even- ing, and she has repeated the perfor- mance for 350 times, pretty and talented mand a fat salary indefinitely, but no doubt the handsome sale of her will not come amiss, ps e ¥ Cy . ; So Down; avy court hete, ie IT. i} | grapher, w i | © But shan't mind that. "taking" cclobrition is mow an oid man, and during his long career has photographed nearly everv roval per- two emperors of Germanv--the kaiser, and the Emperor Frederick, Napoleon hav The veteran photographer considers that he owes his fortune. which must be large ago there was dent at Hartley, Yorkshire. King Ed- ward, who was man, ordered Dow; photographs of done to then faction, and at the York Agricultural heir sale if she carea to 'do so. 'There is nothing to prevent a beau- tiful society woman from 'realizing' on the sale of her pictures. At a fash- ionable photograph shop 'in the West End, I was told yesterday that t picture of an American former Lady Randolph Churchill, was asked for more often than that of any rather surprising, considering how long the rs. Cornwallis-West has been woman, 1 beauty. This seemed but my infortia two are sisters-i keenest buyers of Edna May still "sells" well, but a. com talent have sO of Headfort; Belle Bilton, her American rival is most popular with the things over here first about a year 'coon songs' at the She "scored" at once, engag- the fact that av was supposedly the "star" the fair Billie. Despite na M fact that Miss "My Little Ca. Miss Burke is enough to com: sum which the photographs brings to her in Europe, Three czars of Russia, » and the three Sultans of Turkey © sat before his camera. to King Edward. Many vears a terrible colliery acci- then quite a young ney to take a set of he disaster. This was Prince of Wales' satis- to MRS. ORAVEN, P= Note your Increase In weight as the restored to the complexion by this treatment. year through this as the English 1 was told photo- dealers the actresses who now are in all probability mak- ing most money out of 3 i their likenesses are Gertie Millar, of | Strengthening British the Gaiety, and Billip Burke, the Am- erican girl, who has made a hit at the Prince of Wales". Miss Millar is paratively: a new 'comer, but her good carried her fast that she is now the bright particular star at the Gaiety. She made her debut at the old Gaioty in "The Toreador," where she g "Keep Off the Grass," and "Captivat- ing Cora," and promptly became the rage. She might have followed the ex- ample of Rosie Boote, now Marchion- now Lady Clancarty, and Connie Gilchrist. now Countess of Orkney, and married into the peerage, but instead she be- stowed her hand upon Lionel Monck- ton, the young composer of with which she made her hit. It seems to be a question whether Gertie Millar or Billie Burke, photograph buyers at present, a state at which no one who com- pares their likenesses will wonder. Miss Prk is even more of a new-comer in «ondon than the Gaiety favorite. She came r ago and sang music halls, and George Fdwardes, who was look- ing for somebody to do justice to a particularly "catchy" melody of the darky variety that Leslie Stuart had written for "The School Girl," the sale of sang f the songs about them. MRS. CHAS. 8, tate to recommend Dr. my right arm. No ton, the afterward Queen Victoria commanded the photographer to take her portrait at Balmoral. Downey arranged his camera in a sitting room and waited. When the queen came in she said: "I can give you only five minutes, Mr. Downey, Lord Palmerston has an appointment with me, and I must not keep him .waiting." The pidture was-a success, and from that 'moment commissions to photo- graph royalty literally poured in. Downey considers, however, that he practically made his fortune through one vhotograph--that of the present queen, then Princess of Wales, carrvy- ing the Duchess of Fife, who at the time was a little girl, on her back. He sold 300,000 prints of this photo- graph, and made close on £40,000 out of it. At the time of the diamond jub- ilee 1,000,000 prints were sold of a photograph of Queen Victoria, also n- | taken by Downey. he he nt Our ¢ Far-Flung Battle Line." The power of the British empire is in no way better shown than by the universality of its interests, No other great nation takes an effective leading part in so many diferent sections of the world. The 'despatches tell us just now, for instance, that four of the great pow- ers are endeavoring to get together to secure the naval supremacy of the Me- o. | diterranean, and they are Britain, France, Italy and Spain. Then Lord Curzon bas recently been touring in the Persian Gulf with a view to influence thers, the onlv other power greatly concer. ed being Russia. - In the China Sea, we have Britain, Russia, the United States, France and Japan. Germanv has a colony there, but little striking power. In Turkey we have Britain, Russia, Austria, German» and France. In South Amer- ica, the United States, Britain and Germany are about the only outside powers interested. In the varidus parts of Africa, it is | always Britain and another power--never other pow- ers without Britain. In Indo-Australi- an waters, it is Britain, France and Holland. In North America, it is Bri- tain and the United States. 'Thus it is Britain everywhere; and always in a leading position. 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