Show Afi S. S J p AD E FROM 1 BEAUTY MAKER cp J Jr We TR W Wheeler syndicate inc f J t By VIOLET 7 I i E D DARE R E I 1 t i I Charles Albin Has Discovered and Made f f. f Famous Famous' Many W ll Known Here Beauty Beauty Here r t H 1 Is S Hs Advice 0 t. t i A i j i J J J I J oj r 4 J. J To Y A I k au b 1 s t. t I 1 M J J r p i y y d R i q o f f ht t 19 v T The Wheeler heeler Syndicate t n Inc b p f i l f i iA iJ l' l v it I r. r J Ii A J f J If t j f I tt r r k Wr c r. r j I. I 5 1 r e 4 4 i z- z t u 1 I ar i r r- r A pl I. I r c I r t I 7 1 rJ k I o 4 Albin who has fame in in motion Mary Astor an discovery ry won pictures 0 y AN you rou ought to do t this ls MAN for a living That's wh what t people have been sa saying ing to Charles Albin for a ol long time whenever h he showed the world with the aid of or his camera just how beautiful some ome hitherto hither to unknown young girl was For his photographs always attracted at at- attracted attracted the attention of the famous I folk who flock to his studio and presently the young lady would be ben n signing signing a contract t to go onto the stage or into the movies r. r He always laughed at such kit suggestions because they didn't interest hi him He was looking far fart t 4 ahead toward a much bigger and more more- interesting l discovery that h he was going to show the world 1 through his camera camera but but more of st t that in a moment I Because he was a an ary artist before before before be be- fore photography interested huh 1 at all all he lie sees beauty not merely J 7 as it looks to other people but i also aiso as it will look rook in ph photographs photographs photo photo- to- to f. f graphs and on 01 the stage or sc screen een f f 1 1 When lie he was a boy in art school schoot t his his' teacher take him out J k Into the streets and make him r study the faces of the people who tra 7 passed so that he could read character at a glance The face facets is divided into two triangles yo you yoni know he told me methe 1 the theother other day when w we sat satin in his 7 studio high above the r roar ar of or Firth Fifth Avenue The upper upper triangle triangle tri tri- angle including the brow biow eyes and nose and the lower which in- in cl eludes udes the rest of ot the face lace The f upper is spiritual is-spiritual spir and mental the J er lower represents the more physical physical t cal side of a persons person's nature A AP I P well ell balanced character Slows shows the i f two Vo triangles well bala balanced ced also r i t Every persons person's face shows f. f what sort of ability they have v. v what what- characteristics are re their J dominating ones A photographer who understands that can bring r it out by lighting and In various other ther ways way so that he gets real Aft likenesses K Retouching chI With 1 1 Make up Ial g. g up But But ButI I should think think th that t when rM r a picture ij hT is' retouched retouched much of th that t would come come out I I pro pro pro- tested Well I dont don't b believe In hi going doing 1 ing t t t L Lr much retouching A A certain r amount must be done of ot course because there are flesh tints for instance that do not photograph k as na they should it is by retouching retouching retouch retouch- ing big that this fault is corrected up Make remedies this this' I dont don't mean that just a slap-dash slap 4 use of ot grease greaso paint and powder will do it it but the correct application k Si cation of th the right up make will KO go o far toward doing so I make makeup up my ray s subjects myself in this I way way I get right r results His formula is basically the one gen generally rally used No rouge Makeup Make Make- up on on- eyelids and brows and lashes A touch of or rouge on the lips Powder but hut not enough of it to make the face look flat fiat That ThatIs Is all I was interested because of oC the ther r results that he has obtained 1 I looked eq through so some of the photographs photographs photographs pho pho- that la lay on a table nearby Mary Iary Hay Barthel Barthelmess mess wife of the famous Richard Clare Eames a long long list of famous fa fa famous famous fa- fa men and women photographed photographed photographed pho pho- as I had not seen seen them photographed before the list ir in including eluding many of tile the t o beautiful girls who through his interest and influence and the tho exquisite pictures h he has made of them have won their heir way to fame and fortune Mary Iary Astor is one ono of them I If f remember member meeting her several years ears ago when she was just a beautiful young young red-haired red girl one of the prettiest I had ever er seen It is no exaggeration to say that Charles Albin is sile for her success all the way through Jane Winton Vinton who re recently recently recently re- re signed a term along contract with with one one of the big producers of motion pictures pictures and and ever s so 51 i many more whose names are are hous household hold words I was interested in Jane Winton's Winton's Winton's Win- Win tons ton's photograph and spoke of f the way in which it lad had been taken so that interest interest on the tyre eyes and hair which h are beautiful Yes the picture was wag taken so so that her eyes would be the most noticeable thing Albin told me They are her best feature She Is very young her mouth will later sh show w character that la is Is' Is not apparent now Her eyes and hair are her most beautiful features so far Lucky Jane to find fluid someone who would woul l photograph her so that her best p points ints were so ap apparent parent that the others attracted no notice at all The Thc Biggest Thing Yet As we talked I c came me to some of the m most st interesting things in ills hits collection things that have 1 not yet seen the light of day so far as the general public is Con Con- They are the art studies of Henry Kings King's Romola the motion picture which he recently completed in Italy with the Gish sisters and Ronald Coleman Inthe In Iii hithe the leadin leading roles k Charles ChaTles Albin went to Italy to todo do ero them He was was photographing Lillian Gish one afternoon and talking to her of his the theories ri s. s He 4 r t Sk II I v ir II V 0 i 7 c r It t x t t v i F R I i h 1 x ft i j 1 o iiA J A o j fr I. 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J i i v 2 V h q iy If i i 3 r f tl rP y t u Lillian Gish in Henry Kin Kings King's s 's Romola wh which ch Albin journeyed journeyed journeyed journ journ- I eyed to Italy to photograph Y b believed liev d that It was possible to 1 take a step in the production of I motion pictures that had not yet b been en taken He recalled a number number number num num- ber of the really good pictures that we have all seen of which nothing permanent remained The public sees them on the screen and then they are are gone gone dele dele delegated I gated to oblivion He elleves that it is possible to make records of I Ithem them that will be permanent permanent art art I studies so beautiful that people will wiH want to have them for their own to to keep just Justus as they would keep l any beautiful picture Lillian always s sympathetic where art Is concerned agreed with him with the result that he I went to Italy riot not lOt much later to tomake tomake I make mal not stills but art studies of Romola This had never been done be be- fore And because it is going to tobe tobe be he a tremendously sly interesting thing to all of us us It Is worth noticing For For- Forthe the pictures which he lie took tool of Romola in the tho makIng making making mak mak- ing are going to be exhibited at ata ata ata a one-man one show at a Fifth Avenue Avenue Avenue Ave Ave- nue gallery in the early and later on will he be shown throughout the country just as any remarkable collection of pictures pictures pic pic- tures would be bo exhibited Henry King is tremendously enthusiastic tlc Albin is an artist he told me It was an honour to be associated with him in this work We Ve had a still man on Jho ho job and his his' work worl was quite separate pictures taken talen as matters matters matters mat- mat of record but Albin Albi lifted t the le thing into the real realm of art Lillian was equally enthusiastic He He did such beautiful work she told me over a a. luncheon table on the balcony bal ony of her hotel from which we looked out over o th the tho city's roofs He He has made pictures pictures pictures pic pic- tures that are are unlike the usual stills really stills really artistic studies And Albin himself is most humble about the whole thing You cant can't keep step with motion motion motion mo mo- tion pictures unless you you ou add something to their development de he told me The people who make hem must contribute something to their progress or orthey orthey orthey they will find suddenly that the movies have lost their place with the public that people arent aren't going to pictures as they used toI toI toI to I think that this new departure departure departure depar depar- ture really is a step forward There are many photographers throughout the country men who do excellent work worl who could go out with a big production such as Romola and make such artistic pictures of it that tho the pictures would gain in prestige This Is merely a matter of development I believe Im I'm tremendously in interested interested interested in- in in it t. t He Is just as he lie has been heen interested In Interested Interested In- In In people not making mono mere pictures of them thorn but making photographs that would show them as their friends really know them and ancl as other people ought to know them The Value of of Showmanship We all i know the value of or showmanship of course We all know that sometimes half halt the battle lies in making other people think that we are what we want to think us not us-not not S something different from what we re really lly Iy are but just what we WEI are b but t what they dont don't see i 1 n l P t tv t C V- V vir II M t Clare Eames as Mary Queen of Sc Scots ts Albins Albin's photographs do this for his sitters I I recall two photographs pho- pho of Mildred l Rogers Countess Salm They were unlike unlike unlike un un- un- un like any of the hundreds that I had seen of or her They rhey showed sho her very simply dressed with her lier hair simply done one done one emphasized emphasized emphasized sized the rather Oriental setting of her lIeI eyes Now most of us like to have a photographer take our pictures so that what we consider consider consider con con- sider our best features' features are most noticeable Albin does that to be sure and then he persuades you ou to let him take a few photographs photographs pho pho- of the sort soft he thinks 1 would be Interesting Th The fact that they're the best youve you've had proves that he was as right i I I believe that pe people ought always to be photographed as they really are are not as the they'd d like to be he be told me mc The pictures their friends tire tiro of are the ones that are merel merely accurate reproductions of their features when character is photographed one oue never or tires of the picture As a rule the trouble is that people in insist insist insist in- in on hawing having their own way about their pictures pictured it if they would just let the photographer tell them then what should be done Y t n f d dy 7 r y 4 1 d a. a a I R. R f w C Above Another Above Another of the beautiful ful Romola art studies showing Dorothy Gish a and d William PowelL At left left Jane Jane Winton another beauty who owes her chance at success to this photo rapper the results w would uld be far mor satisfactory x As for tor my motion picture work let me say this I went to Florence actually to work under the inspiration of Lillian LUlian Gish That of ot course I found reallY found really i sublime But after seven seen months I away with a great discovery dis dis- f discovery covery that of ot Henry King Hait He Ha HeIt Heit It was was who made possible my work At the end of a days day's work ork or if necessary in the very Tery middle of ot it it he would turn over o C the entire show cast studio staff starr etc to me and that without su suggestion suggestion sug sug- or an order Never ever tho the usual Get this quick and get out of ot my way which the still photographer so frequently gel gets If stills stUls' ot of motion 1 pictures are to claim their place as artistic studies done by photographers the directors of or these pictures must cooperate as Henry King did with me r A few tew days later I was in Mr Albins Albin's studio while he was making mak mak- lug ing some pictures and learned even even more of his methods And AnI what I learned is very likely to tobe tobe be of use to you both when you ar are are having photographs made and when you are just trying your luck with your our own camera out outon outon outon on the lawn and cant can't get your our best friend to to forget forget to be self sel conscious long enough to have hare a 1 picture taken Albin o overcomes s self consciousness conscious conscious- ness with music There is an unusually unusually unusually un un- usually good gramophone in his studio one of or the best that I have ever heard He began b by 1 playing laying a piano solo of the tha ii charming actress who was to be I his subject who was in the adjoining adjoining ad ad- joining dressing room applauded when it was finished He tried i something lighter next then came a truly exquisite vocal number She was enthusiastic A bit of ot dance music she music she liked that even 1 s better y She came out to have the pictures pie pic tures tunes made The music went on 4 She sat down rather stiffly suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly a phrase of the music caught her ber she turned eagerly her face alight and alight and Albin caught the pose and expression both delightfully natural Again and again that happened Once she stopped and nue danced a abit abit bit the camera caught her just justas justa's as a's she stopped People always 81 respond to music he lie told me when she had gone They rhey cant can't help relaxing Frequently the sort of music that they are hearing determines their pose and anel also the kind of ot photograph photograph photograph photo photo- graph that I make I always work with music Sometimes its it's the radio that he calls to his aid He lie is adept at suiting his selections to his r sitters He lIe makes picture making y a 8 delight rather an ordeal And Anil that is one of ot the reasons why h he gets photographs that bring bring out b beauty auty which has hitherto been either unnoticed or |