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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE

1950

WOMANSENSE

Barbara

THE WORLD

The woman

who won France goes to London

A

Griggs

OF WOMEN

BEAUTIFUL American typhoon has erupted into the modelling world of London-and all the oldest-established agencies here are stirring uneasily in their offices. Her name is Dorian Leigh: her age is 40 (which she gaily admits to, but looks nothing like); as of the other week, her own modelling agency in Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, is a going concern; and I have a very strong feeling that the modelling business in London is never going to be quite the same ag

*ure Top model herself (a title she disputed with a ravishing sister called Suzy Parker) for years in Paris and New York, Dorian Leigh packed it in to start her own agency in Paris three years ago.

She was, in fact, Brst in the than five times over the past field. French law says you can't two years, take a commission on anyone's

"The trouble really is, English earings and there would-be agencies just don't like ther predecessors had stuck.

models working independently Dorian Leigh invented her of them, and discovering just own system: "Simple," she said how much they can earn else gaily, just made the clients where." pay me instead of the models."

After light had broken in this way, two of her male models and one of her secretaries all left in turn to start their own agencies. Dorian is unperturbed.

HER

Booked

JER London agency grew out of the Paris one: French and American magazine editors are always going mad trying to get hold of those English models who all look so wonderful.

"But whenever I try for them we always get the same answer: 'We're frightfully sorry, she's booked right up for weeks, or, more often. Sne's expecting a baby in two months time,' or 'She's just had one....It's amazing how often they'll tel: you that story.

"Now that girl looks wonder- ful but she's got to lose a lot

of weight, Sho's going to be real gaunt by the time I finish with her.

'Don't eat'

TOW! I just tell her 'Diet."

"How

What's the diet? Simple --just don't eat. (I told you this is a profession for healthy girls.) Hard-boiled eggs. Lettuce-no French dressing. Black coffee. And on fruit Juice there's an awful lot of carbohydrates in fruit juice."

frightening In spite of a reputation, English models are already clamouring to work for Dorian.

Major draw: the regularity of payment, which tends to be haphazard, coming in rushes at most with long intervals, English agencies.

Dorian's models are paid on the nail, at the beginning of every month, for work done during the past month, whether Dorian has collected or not.

Another point: top

models

will receive much higher rates, world, the best is the most expensive."

"Le every business in the

Efficient

ANAL draw; the machine- like clenoy with which her business is run. Telephone bookings are tape-recorded as a double check against errors.

in

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But if she is impressed by English looks, she is appalled by English lack of professionalism. Appointments are noted

diary with different coloured "In New York, where the competitian is terrific, no girl pages for each day of the week "Make one mistake and you would dare turn up for a job as an extra jog on attention.

says without her make-up on, her may throw five people out," hair freshly done, a wasple and Dorian. "And it's too expensive."

On a working week that would spare pair of shoes. I've agency is, in a fact, a service for her French known English models turn up have most women screaming and American clients who need at the studio without so much hysterical wrecks inside a month London models.

(three days in London, four in Paris, and trips to Hamburg, where she'll be opening another agency soon) Dorlan still looks beautiful.

The London

as a comb."

Is she worried about material? If any of Dorian Leigh's "Oh, the girls are there all models try that one, I imagine right: I see them walking in they'll hear from her. the streets every day.

of "Just looking out window this morning, saw four of the most beautiful redheads I've ever seen walk past.

before.

my

take anyone

"But English agencies have such stereotyped ideas about the sort of girl who will do. She must be a brunette with blue eyes -or a bionde with dark eyes... and they won't they haven't seen in their mind

It all so arbitrary. "It doesn't do your photo graphers any good either; models good the lifeblood of a photographer and if that blood goes flowing through the same veins all the time, 's, no won- der that English fashion photo graphy gets constipated occa-

are

"The agency of one top model I'm always trying to get hold of to work in Paris has told me she's just had a baby no less tonally."

Exacting

modelling, the

is A BOUT

ruthlessly professional, and her standards are hard, exacting New York ones,

"Modelling," she added, "is the hardest physical work in the world: you have to have perfect health for it.

"A really professional model can be dying on her feel: she still doesn't call the office and say I have a cold","

Flipping through the photo- graphic gallery of her English already. includes models t

names like Maggie Eckhart, Ann. Gunning, Enid Boulting and Judy Dent-she pounced on the picture of a beautiful leggy Australian girl....

CHILDREN'S CORNER

Mr. Pan's Pet Shop

The Shadows Whistle For The Animals-

By MAX TRELL -

shop for the first time. were curious about it, THE name of the man who "Now.

TH

They

that's strange," said

owned the pet shop just Mr Pan, "I've been here for a around the corner was Mr Pan. long time-for years and years: How he got that name Knart But I guess it's because I'm and Hardd, the Shadow Children around The corner that folks with the Turned-About Names never could find out.

He didn't

don't notice my shop at first.

"But go ahead inside. Have

Jook the least bit like a pan- a look around. See if there's

nor like a pot, either.

Mr Pan looked like

Lake anything you'd care to almost home with you. Everything is

any animal you could think of. free.*

Some days he looked like a "Free?" asked Hanid in sur-

Cal; other days he looked like prise.

a Dog, or a Cow, or a Sheep,1

or a Mouse, or an Alligator, or

a Lizard..

Continued dozing

Bul Mr Pan just pointed in-. On very special days he looked side his shop and went on tak- like a Deer. And when he got ing his doze in the samshine. angry-which was very seldom -he looked exactly like a Lan. So Knarf and Honid went inside.

The shop

Mr Pan's pet shop was just empty!

around the corner. But that didn't mean it was around the It was corner of the street, around the corner of the book- It was really around the corner and behind the bookcase, Looked like cat

case.

In order to reach Mr Pan's wonderful pet shop, you had to. make yourself as smell as Baby's thumb.

Was completely

Knarf and Hazið hugged

and petted the Burro.

The Rooster was made of gold or, at any rate, his feathers seemed to be made of gold, for they glittered and glistened.

Then a Monkey came in on á

bicycle, stayed for a moment,

rode around Knarf and Harid Khart and Hanld looked at and rode out again.

A Giraffe stuck his head In each other with expressions of

They through, the window. But he greatest disappointment.

out didn't make a scum because were just about to walk again, when Mr Pan himself Giraffes can't make a sound. suddenly walked into the shop. This time he looked more like

a Dog than a Cat.

They've got him

But the Animal that Knari

"Well," he said, "did you see and Harld both wanted the

To make themselves that size Knarf.

Her restlessness is the con- trolled restlessness of the born worker, not the chain-smoking fldgets of the woman who has taken too much on.

She always looks well dressed --an achievement for which she hands all the credit to Chanel, "I Just wear Chanel suits all the time I guess Suzy and I collect them the way Sophia Loren collects jewels, I bave 14 and I'd sooner have two good suits from her than 10 ridiculous things from Dior."

Dorian Leigh in London: impressed by English looks,.

appalled by lack of English professionalism

this hair-raising cellent restaurant, I called for brought me Whitsun story....

coffee-beans to chew (the only He owns a large caravan-site effective. antidete known to on the South Coast and on Whit man). Sunday observing the stungu- There wasn't a coffee-bean to lated queue of cars crawling past be had in the place....

to the sea at half a mile an kour, business and benevolence in- duced him to put up a large notice outside his spare field: Car Park: 2s. 6d. a day,

Instantly 60-odd cars detached themselves from the queue and rolled, in

And there, with the tempera- ture in the 80s, the sun beating down, and the cool sea within And nothing can dim her sight and sound and smell a enthusiasm, for her profession. quarter of an hour's walk away, "I always loved it myself their owners stayed all day well, who wouldn't? All that among the nettles and thistles. money and travelling all the Not one of them stirred from world and people telling you their cars to walk down to the you're beautiful all the time.

"It makes me so mad when I see models acting like 'You're so lucky I'm here."

sea. Not a single one...

I have absolutely no comment to make!

I

No beans

TOST thought-provoking ex- Mo

London Express Service).

Page"

JACOBY BRIDGE

IF you the one of those avid

bridge players who read all books on the game you will note that there is a rather large lexicon of names of plays. Seme that appear often are equeczés. end plays and all sorts of coup. Here is a play that is not uaméd in any books, but is still referred to in conversation among us old timers as the "No better place for it" play.

I was South. The late Ely Culbertson North and Waldemar von Zedtwitz East. West, whe shall be nameless; opened, hiş, singleton "heart. Wally cached two hearts and led a third.

My position was hopeless ex- cept that I had one slight chance

♥*CARD Sense♣♦ |

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Wert North

2.

South

3 ậ

Pass

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Pass

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3.N.T. Pass

PRE

WEST 4484

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NORTH

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EAST (D)

10 B

12

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No one vulnerable

South

West North

20

Double Pas

East

2.

44

Pass

Pass Fat J

Opening lead-❤ 3'

If West held three, trumps to the Kas ace and would make a mistake. Pais! So I ruffed with the king. -At this Pass

point West named the play by Pass semarking, "No better place for Pass

it." as he overruffed.

You, South, hold:. 432 VQ 105 4A94 MAK 1993

What do you do?

A-Pass. Your partner has falled to show the noe of hearts. Hence, if he does hold i there must be some other weak spot. Furthermore, you still hold your original IS points.

TODAY'S QUESTION You open one club, holding: A32 KQ 105 6A9 BAK 1093 Your partner responds two ipades. What do you do now?

Answer Tomorrow

If West had simply discarded I would have had to lose hvo trump tricks: Be it was I lost only one and made my contract,

West's mistake in this case is obvious, yet there are many, many other occasions when a player can gain by refusing to overruit and there is a pretty good general rule to follow, which is. "Unless you want the lead immediately, don't overruff with your honour when your holding is three to

king, or four to $aek."

the ace or the queen or

Rupert and the Squire-21

Beppo bounds away before enter believe he's just teasing me' and ing the wood again at another leading me on," thinks "Rupert as" point and Rupert follows as fast he works his way through the he can. The little monkey thick growth. Why, look where seems in a frisky mood, remaining he has brought me I Here's that in sight. sometimes on the ground

stone hut."

Then he 'stopa, and sometimes up in the bushes, abruptly, for the door is now though always out of reach. tightly ahur !

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LADY LUCK

YOUR CHINA MAIL HOROSCOPE

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29

21-

AQUARIUS (January

February 19): You will establish a social contact today which could prove of inestimable value to your future in the community. PISCES (February 20-March 20): Accumulation of work may make it necessary for you to concentrate on it to the exclusion of most of· your social activities. ARIES (March 21-April 19):

Break away from

routine

for a day or two and seek the company of people out- side your usual sphere. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): carrying out some intricate work be sure to adhere strictly to the lotter of your instructions.

In

anything interesting friends?" instant they saw it was a Burro GEMINI (May 21-June 21):

"It's emoty, Mr Pan" said with enormous clear boowD *"There aren't any eyes. They both hugged and was no trouble at all for Knart Animals at all in your shop!!! petted it, and Hanld. Being Shadows-of- Mr Pan only smiled as he This is the one we want! Mr Children and not real Children, walked across the shop and dis- Pan! Where dre. you?" they both all they had to do was pull appeared through a door in the shouted.. themselves together and Biffo! rear. He suck his head back

"Well, you've got me, friends," They were as small as a the next minute, though, and said Mr Pan, SAN Baby's thunblr, PA

The first time they visited Mr

Pan's shop he looked like - a

said:

Just whistle

Cat. He was sitting in front "Whistle and, they'll come Pan! He was the Burro! And

of his shop in the sunshine with his eyes half shut, But he

out,"

Hanid came along.

opened them whey Are and

M

Só Knart whistled. Then Horse with wings came sailing down from some

And when Knart and Hanid looked again, they saw that they were both hugging Ms

of course they couldn't take him with them!

Come again friends said "Come Mr Pan as they lert. again!"

Hanid glanced back over her and a Cat with wing. :) shoulder. This time she was Next a Rooster came strutte Mr Pan looked exactly ting in from the yard outside.. like a sleepy Cat again!

"Good morning, friends" he where near the celiniz followed

said to them, g there any

thing I can do for you?" "

Knart explained that he and Hanid had just noticed the pet

by a Pig with wings and a Dog

An élder person will give you some very useful advice about money matters and you would do well to act upon it.

CANCER (June 22-July 21): A good friend may call on you for a special favour. and you will be happy that. you are in a position to oblige him. LEO (July 22-August (21); person born the beginning of May is not likely to prove a very com patible companion for you. VIRGO (August

September (22) It may be

necessary to give a personal affair more of your time and attention, as you will not have much peace of mind until the matter is properly settled. LIBRA (September 23- October 22):"If your part- ner seems worried and pre- occupied today, don't ask too many questions, but do your best to make him relax. SCORPIO (October 23- November 21); It will not take you long on joining a group of people who are strangers to you to feel perfectly at case in their midst. SAGITTARIUS (November 22-December 21): Don't be

if a disappointed colleague is not very operative at first. When he' is more accustomed to the work, he will show more readiness to contribute to a

new

co-

joint effort. CAPRICORN (December 22- January 201: Avoid, being emotionally upset about the unsatisfactory life a friend. is leading. There is nothing you can actually do about it. YOUR LUCKY CARD: "/14

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