Stripper's Guide

Popular Young Artists Married in New York
Annette Bradshaw and Charles Tebbs Formerly of Call Staff Joined in Wedlock.
News has just reached here of the marriage in New York of Miss Annette H. Bradshaw to Charles Ernest Tebbs. Until recently both were numbered among the popular newspaper artists of this city. The couple were joined in wedlock at St. Michael’s Church on Monday, October 6. The announcement of the marriage of the young newspaper artists was not a surprise to their many friends in this city as it has been known for some time that they were engaged. Both Mr. and Mrs. Tebbs were employed on The Call art staff for several years. Mrs. Tebbs is a handsome brunette, well liked socially and withal a clever artist. The groom’s home is in New York, but he was employed on the newspapers of this city for several years.

From Annette B. Tebbs, New York City: "Will you kindly forward plans of Craftsman House No. 10, which appeared in the October number, 1904. Mr. Tebbs, who has charge of the Art Department of New York Journal and American, says that the things you are turning out of your shops are the most graceful and artistic he has seen and putto shame this up-to-date rubbish turned out by the thousand.”

After a while Miss Bradshaw came to New York where she worked for ten years for various metropolitan dailies, doing news illustrations of the big events of the day that lent themselves to vivid portrayal. During this time her deft pencil drew most of the famous characters brought into the focus of the newspaper lime-light, from Nan Patterson to Harry Thaw and alternating these “heart-interest” assignments with opening days at horseshows, notable weddings and similar spectacular events.
All the time Miss Bradshaw was leading a double art life—that is she was doing a certain amount of work each day in her up-town studio and was rapidly winning a place as a portrait painter, the work to which she now gives practically all of her time save that which she devotes to her “Feminisms” and “Her Problems”. “I cannot entirely sever myself from the old life in black and white and the occasional smell of printer’s ink,” she declares, “and the social cartoons are, sort of connecting link”.

Miss Bradshaw’s newspaper work has, among other things, made her an expert in fashions, but her inherent love of caricature and her unusual sense of humor has led her to make the lay figures, upon which her fashions are displayed pictorially, really human—just folks—such folks as one sew stopping or at theatres, or in uptown hotels or restaurants and with all the amusing idiosycrasies [sic] which even fashionably dressed people show at times.

Miss Eleanor Schorer, formerly an artist and feature writer on The Evening World, and Chester R. Hope, an editor of the Newspaper Feature Service, were married yesterday at St. Mark's Church, the Rev. Dr. William Norman Guthrie officiating.

For the last four years the bride has conducted the Kiddie Klub feature for The Evening World, and has written many children's books and plays. Mr. Hope was for ten years on the editorial staff of The Cleveland Leader. During the war he was a Lieutenant in the navy and attached to the Intelligence Bureau. They will spend their honeymoon in Provincetown, Mass.

Chester Hope was first married in 1906 to Eva Olivia Collins of Cleveland, Ohio. The first Mrs. Hope died in 1918 and there were no children of that marriage.

On January 19, 1922, Mr. Hope was married in New York City, to Eleanor Schorer, the daughter of William B. and Martha Frances (Dohm) Schorer. Mrs. Hope, whose father was a builder, is well known as an artist and writer.

And those of you who know anything about New York must know that there is there a Kiddie Klub which interests thousands of youngsters. It was started by the Evening World, and its fame has reached other parts of the country during the six years of its existence. The originator and director of the “Kiddie Klub” is “Cousin” Eleanor Schorer. She was just a slip of a girl when she started being a “cousin” to all children in the big town. But, when Chester R. Hope, a newspaper editor, recently made her his wife, he agreed that she would not have to quit being Eleanor Schorer. For the children would hardly recognize “Cousin Eleanor” in the person of Mrs. Hope.

...The Sunbonnet Babies really grew out of a group of children I saw playing in the sand. I drew a picture, the original Sunbonnet Baby, as it afterward proved. My fellow artists examined it critically and professed to like it. I fell quite in love with it myself and at once set to work to draw more….

…They came out in a book bearing their names in June 189[illegible] accompanied by little verses of explanation. Then the dainty maidens began to appear on blotters, valentines, Christmas cards and calendars, and now they are coming out in a primer, which Rand & McNally will publish soon.

…[Bertha] told of a visit to the theatre with a friend who, after watching her sketch this and that actor's face, remarked: “It is all in the face, isn’t it? There would be no expression or meaning in a picture if you left out the face?” Miss Corbett after a moment's thought sketched for her a little child tugging his wagon loaded with autumn leaves in which no face appeared and yet the picture told its story.

From that time the idea grew and the little sunbonnet people have grown and developed as healthy children will, until the oldest are 4 years of age.

Miss Corbett has collected a number of her earlier children late a little volume which has been published. She is now working on a Sunbonnet Baby Primer for Rand & McNally of Chicago, the text for which is being written by Miss Eulalie Grover….

A book which won the heart of all was the Sunbonnet Children with four leaved cloves over their shoulders, which Miss Corbett got out about Christmas time, four years ago….

Miss Corbett has an attractive studio in the Fine Arts building with some other young women in art crafts, but she uses the place now rather as business headquarters than as a workshop, for her work has taken an entirely new turn and now the babies and boys are being exhibited in chalk talks by their creator.

The Sunbonnet Babies made a great hit when the Sunday World gave them as illustrations of a series of art lessons to New York City readers. It has now been decided to give the set to out-of-town readers.

Each picture in colors. Just the thing for framing or passepartouting. Get the set. Order from newsdealer in advance. The Lovers Next Sunday. [illustration of sunbonnet baby and overall boy kissing]