Sale of Actresses' Photographs.
According to a New York paper, the profits attached to the sale of actresses' photographs is something enormous. The monia for buying these pictures begau in 1566, and at the cartes of Miss Fanny Davenport, Clara Morris, and Adelaide Neilson were most in demand. Madame Sarah Bernhardfc and Mrs Langtry, of recent times, were each paid £300, by a wellknown American photographer, for the privilege of permitting themselves to be taken. It is a singular fact in connection with this sale oi photographs that in Europe as soon as a celebrity dies the orders for his orher pictures increase considerably \\ hilst in the States it is exactly the reverse. Tens of thousands of likenesses of Mi?? Mary Anderson and Miss Maud Branscombe have been sold within the last three years, and the demand is on the increase. Among the men, Mr H. J. Montague was once a favourite, as was George Rignold, who played Henery Y. It was with great difficulty the photographer could keep pace with orders, as ladies from all parts of the country wanted their pictures. Oscar Wilde was paid a percentage for some time, and his cartes sold with marvellous rapidity.
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Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 5
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199Sale of Actresses' Photographs. Te Aroha News, Volume II, Issue 87, 31 January 1885, Page 5
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