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...Mannequin (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Actress Joan Crawford, in the lithe chic of a $2.98 bathing suit, adjusts her shopworn profile to a summer night and sighs to her handsome vis-a-vis, "why do you suppose the moon is always bigger on Saturday night?," a million understanding shopgirl hearts sigh with her. And when, temporarily exalted to a swank Manhattan penthouse, Joan looks over the parapet at the twinkling city, "piled up against the dark," many a less lyric lass wishes that she, too, might sometime be so pent...
...handsome, six-foot, curly black-haired and swankly mustached Robert Henry Ethelbert King-Tenison, Viscount Kingsborough, 40, heir to the Earl of Kingston, War veteran and a onetime subaltern in the Royal Scots Greys, was on terms of the greatest intimacy with a Miss Adele Royle, 34, dressmakers' mannequin. Early this spring His Lordship's attention began to wander, and Miss Royle promptly sued for breach of promise. The case was instantly quashed in the courts, and Mannequin Royle was fined costs of court. Last week Viscount Kingsborough struck back in turn. In Miss Royle's apartment...
...Bayville, L. I., at Palm Beach-Mrs. Williams has devoted her professional knowledge of porcelains, her flair for the paler sort of glamour. Since being given her title by a group of cold-blooded couturiers four years ago she has become the world's most photographed non-professional mannequin. In time spared from Society she has written a clever novel (Bright is the Morning, 1934) and cultivated prize-winning tulips. In 1929 Wall Street guessed that the fortune behind these pleasant activities was a fabulous $700,000,000. Last week, while blue-eyed Mona Williams was wintering in Italy...
...beginnings, Stefan Orloff (Claude Rains) engineers first a jewelry racket, and then, when things get too hot for him and his associates, he turns to crooked management of government subsidized pawn shops. Desiring an entire into society to further his ends, he elevates Niki (Kay Francis) from an obscure mannequin to the foremost couturiere in Paris. Using her as a front, he stage lavish balls and manages to get the names of many of the important governmntal officials linked with his. When his empire begins to crumble, he dupes Niki into marrying him, and invites only the most important people...
Allen, who was previously the Cuban Marquise de Casa Maury and before that the London modiste's mannequin Paula Gellibrand. H. R. H. Marina, Duchess of Kent, was described by News-Review as having "drifted from the smart set and left her husband to go the smart socialite rounds for them both . . . with zest." In London the Beaverbrook Daily Ex press (circulation 2,040,000) broke the Kent & Mrs. Allen story in Britain's daily press, sharply editorialized: "One way to keep clear of such news is not to do the things that make such news...