Word: mannequins
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...lives in Manhattan. Never destitute, she has acted as saleswoman, waitress, has traveled steerage, visited Soviet Russia to get material. Long and often the recipient of editors' rejection-slips, she is now one of the best-paid writers in the U. S. Other books: Humoresque, Lummox, Appassionata, Mannequin, Five...
...Born in Madrid in 1891, he still lives there, is one of the sights of the Pombo Café. He carries seven fountain pens filled with red ink. His apartment contains : a street lamp, acquired legally from Madrid's Consolidated Gas Co., a beautiful wax mannequin en deshabille, a life-size skeleton, a gibbet from which hangs the King of Bulgaria. Famed orator, he once made a speech from a trapeze (at the Circo Madrileño), from an elephant (at the Cirque d'Hiver in Paris). Says Critic Waldo Frank: "His true fellow is Marcel Proust. . . . Ramon...
Hard to Get (First National). Although this mild anecdote about a mannequin who tries to see life as her customers see it has been told before in various forms, it has been directed lightly enough to avoid being offensive and even at times to be funny. When a handsome fellow in a long shiny car picks up Dorothy Mackaill she tells him she lives on Fifth Avenue and gives him the number of a house that as inevitably happens in these cases turns out to be his own. Hard to Get does not rise to any heights of originality...
...Colors, brighter, with contrasting red and black in the ascendant, plus many new shades: pewter, menthe, lucifer, Capudne, Lelong blue and green. . . . 9) Fads red hair, tennis trousers for women, pajamas at luncheon.* naughtily named knee length nightskirts: "Dream of Me," "Alarm Clock," "Midnight Tonight," "Turn Your Head. . . ." French mannequins this year have dropped exaggerated posturing, are seeking to resemble la type Americaine introduced in 1924 by Jean Patou when he imported a dozen U. S. young women and an English brunette now famed as the actress June. Nephew Erskine Gwynne of General and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt promptly snatched...
...Taft's young niece Elinor Herron, also came into the public eyes last week, when she paraded at a Chicago fashion show in silk bloomers and a smoking jacket. It was her debut as a mannequin. Miss Herron, versatile, has studied ballet dancing in Paris intends to be an architect...