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...detector," said Mrs. Edna Hancock, "lied...
Editor of Vogue itself is Edna Woolman Chase (mother of Actress-Author Ilka), an amber-eyed, blue-haired, 66-year-old. An able, experienced judge of style trends, Mrs. Chase started in the circulation department 38 years ago, in no time was writing picture captions. Sample: "Mauve is the prevailing nuance of the hour . . . even to the ear posies of one's carriage horses." In 1914 she became Vogue's editor. She gets to work around 10 a.m., Mondays through Fridays, leaves about 6. An admirer of things transatlantic, she is largely responsible for Vogue's British...
...EDNA L. MCFARLAND...
Heart-faced, carrot-topped Edna Margaret Cox (Stripteaser Margie Hart, "The Poor Man's Garbo") disclosed that since last July 4 she had been married to Army Lieut. Seaman Jacobs, her express agent. Now trouping in the play Cry Havoc, Ecdysiast Edna explained why she had stopped stripping: "It just isn't right for a married woman to do that kind of work...
...most U.S. welfare workers and by Government agencies. They resent the widespread notion that women who stay home to care for children are slackers. "Education is a lifelong affair, but, especially for the very young, that does not mean scrapping a mother's care," says Acting Secretary Edna M. Geissler of the Child Care Section of New York City's Welfare Council. "I wish we could convince mothers of youngsters that their job at home is as patriotic as any in a factory...