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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1951.
GLAMOUR MENDS BROKEN LIFE
$440
JUST LIKE other girls her age, Claire enjoys dancing on Saturday night. Bof leaving, she brings date in to meet the Home's director, Kenneth L. Messeng
Dressed in one of the gowns she uses for modelling, Claire Kallen listons attentively to a tablemate at the Janet Memorial Home, where she has lived, for
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ten years.
HE radiant, strawberry blonde sat quietly-as-simple cotton dress, she headed for home-The Janet.
make-up men retouched the rouge on her face and lips, combed her hair back into place and added deft touches of eye shadow. Soon, batteries of flood- lights in the New York studio were trained on 17- year-old Claire Kallen. Shutters began clicking, re- cording for the cover of a national magazine the delicate beauty of the youthful model.
When the "shooting" was finished and Claire had changed from jewels and expensive gown to her own
Memorial Home in Elizabeth, N. J. A comfortable, friendly refuge for the orphaned and otherwise homeless, the Home has been Claire's résidence for, 10 years, ever since a family tragedy
Although Claire has been working only a short time, she earns 15 dollars on hour, a rate usually set for models with long experience. In a year's time she is expected to carn $250 a week, which will put her in the small elite group of top models.
Claire's work as a glamorous model is somewhat hindered by the fact that she's also a high school senior. She gets to New York about 4:30 p. m., each day, taking along a couple of text books to study on1· the train so I can keep my marks up."
When she becomes 18 and enters college, Claire says she will probably move to the city and take an apartment with a girl friend. Meanwhile, she's stay- ing at the Home because, "I'm a little scared about leaving the security that it means to me."
AT THE AGENCY, where her board is surrounded by the names of nationally mous models, Claire finds a number of assignments waiting, all-at-$15-an-ho
ALTHOUGH Claire doesn't engage in sports as much now as formerly, she is al- ways ready to umpire a baseball game at the Home. Here, with professional ges-
tures, she's calling a close one at first bare. Playing in the sunshine has 'glyan Claire the fresh, wholesome look' sought by so many photographers, in modefr
YOUNG CAMERA FAN at the Home gotu på expensive model free of charg Claire gladly poses for him. The boys buy some "equipment, with money,