Sister Act

The de Hellebranths took New York last week without a struggle and added several ounces to the 16 Ib. of press clippings which their scrapbooks contain. Newspapers were eager to favor them, for the de Hellebranths are young, deep-voiced, brown-eyed, vivacious Hungarians.

Theirs is the only sister act in modern art.

Bertha and Elena de Hellebranth are not twins. One is 29, the other 30. "But," insists Sister Bertha, "we have twin instincts. Life has treated us alike. I am a little too fat, and Elena is maybe a little too thin, but all otherwise we are the same."

The twin instinct has one important manifestation. Living and working together, they usually paint the same subject simultaneously. Any person who orders a de Hellebranth portrait has his choice of two canvases. He need pay for only one. As artists the sisters are evenly matched, for each sells about the same number of pictures.

The fact that their pictures were shown last week in the gallery of Mrs. Marie Sterner, a lady of impeccable taste, was proof that the portraits of the Sisters de Hellebranth are worthy of serious consideration. Among the sitters who have had to choose between their canvases are Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary; Cardinal Seredi; Countess Laszlo (Gladys Vanderbilt) Szechenyi; Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and her daughter Paulina; Senator William Edgar Borah. After just deliberation Mrs. Borah bought Bertha's picture. Mrs. Longworth could not make up her mind, took both.

The de Hellebranth sisters spend half the year in Europe, half in the U. S.

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