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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, ·OCTOBER 26, 1949.

SHE'S A TOP-SALARIED RAF TOLD:

MANNEQUIN

She climbed to

· success in two years: Now she' £40 a

earns

week : And the

secret-of-it-is...

T

by

JOHN PREBBLE

plE garage-hand leaned on his oxyacetylene tube and grinned; 2 lorry-driver gave An appreciative wolf- whistle.

A small girl said: "Oo, Mum," and thrust a thumb in her mouth. A woman wearily carrying 0 string-bag of Tale vegetables stopped, caught by

BROADWAY

AJO LONSTTOKEN

CO-SHOWING TO-DAY AT 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.

THE OSCAR WINNER OF 19481

BOX-OFFICE RECORD-BREAKING EVERYWHERE

Meet Mr. Belvedere..

Nothing quite like him ever

happened to the screen...or you!

ROBERT MAUREEN CLIFTON YOUNG - O'HARA - WEBB

Sitting Pretty

Crected by

Produced by

WALTER LANG SAMUEL G ENGEL

the dream of what could have been.

Photographer Zoltan Ginsa said, "Nice, Barbara!"

*

Elegant figure

LEANING gracefully against the white wall of a garage was a woman with the face of a sadder, wiser Jean Simmons, and the figure of an elegant greyhound.

It

Her puse was convincing. seemed natural that smart wo- men in 50-guinea clothes should support the walls of garages,, and

wear the

enigmatic vice gratuity (£30 smile of a reflective Maden- for a month's train- ing) in an effort to

na.

"That's the twenty-fourth become a manne- plate, Mr Glass," said af quin, young man in corduroys.

Barbara Goalen

Two studies of DARBARA GOALEN

work

and who still, no they tap their type- stood writers, wonder what went

down, eased her feet In her wrong. shoes, folded her arms, and

Flood-street

20% the

CINTURY moved on.

crowd

The answer lles some- where in the complex ruth- lesancas of fashion mer- chandising

has which

woman's

The deception learned that a

plc face, can launch a thousand

sales.

# TWENTY-FOUR

tures in almost as many minutes. That achieve- ment, without

copy

HEIGHT BUST

WAIST HIPS,

5ft. 8ins.

34ins.

·

21ins.

34ins,

is tied together with string, zhe saya).

Sho drinks occasionally, smokes cigarettes in a black- and-gold holder. After a morn- Ing's work she likes to sit on a pub stool and eat cheeso and pickled onions.

Some day, soon, she will go to America. For America is the

model's heaven.

America is the place where Lisa Fonzsagrives, at 38, is the greatest model of all, and can, by hard work, carn £000 in one

Sho still cannot explain why it happened, or how.

Just what it means to be top model is important. A top model in Britain can earn about £2,000 a year, It is the place where which means working every woman's face and figure can sell day, and working hard, anything from a breakfast food For the others the figure

to a cat-toothed automobile...

is nearer £500, with periods

of unemployment, of self- doubt

co

month.

Likes the fun

a

———————-IN-BRITAIN-Barbara-Gel=

On most days Barbara en thinks of modelling for no Goalen's day starts at len, or one but fashion houses. If her should. She la rarely on time for face once appeared in support of} appointments, a feminine foult

dentifrico no dress house exceptionally pardonable in her, would use her agalit. since it is her profession to be the absolute woman.

During the collections, the dress houses' bl-annual show ings, her day can last until mid- night,

The successful model must bo seen everywhere, night clubs.

parties, theatres, and there are

n

'STICK TO DESIGN'

Too Many Wrong Badges About

BAP badpo-#032$

WHEN a member of the

Air Council examined

She likes the fun, she sayɛ; | Christmas cards sent to him she likes the night-club life, the last year by RAF officers he theatres. And she likes the al-noticed 17 variations of the ternate week-end visits to see her children at Bath.

RAF badge on the cards.

As a result, the Air Minis- this

When she is before the camera try has just issued

But the life has its penalties.

people anxious to share her she is ice-cold and confident. publicity with her.

Away from work her nerves

In her post arrive Invitations hum like tout wires. She Ana to cocktail parties, premieres, at it hard to sleep. which publicity agents believe her beauty will do them especial merlt.

On the Riviera **

* TRIPS TO

Dress sense

order:

"It has been observed that various incorrect designs purporting to be the RAF badge have been used on FREE- LANCE models like official publications, orders Barbara Goalen must dress and Instructions, notepaper, France are themselves. Recently, with Christmas cards, magazines, important. She is just back most of her clothes packed away,| etc.

from Paris, where she wore i man's white shiri

her plcture, French Vogue (bible of knute couture), rivalled that of the Fr

renek model Sophie Malgat.

as blause, and as if it had been "In futuro the official de. Inilored for her,

sign of the RAF badge is The dress sense is important, Without it a model is as helpless to be used for all purposes, as a punter without his Guide to and all concerned are to en- the Turf. Without it she is not

world in which Barbara 15.0

made from this official de

long for that gilded world of sure that in no circumstan- In France there cream point and ormolu fumi- ces is any devlation to be was nino the ture. Riviera, to

I1 which she went, mainly, It Gon'en

confidently, sur-sign." Reems, for the ou rounded by fabrica which portunity Lo walk Britain is trying to sell to the about barefoot for world,

days on end. Taking off her shoes in π ritual with Barbara Goalen #1 relieves the tension,

snl

On Air Forco List

Making a picture TE Royal Air Force Review.

**

published by the Air Minis- try, saya that variations of the badge have found their way into

BEHIND THE camera R grey-haired woman, a young For ail her success pipe-smoking man, carried on an Air Ministry Orders, official there is precious le incomprehensible conversation stationery and even on business sense about which is part of the mechanies cover of the Air Force List. her.

This may add to of making a beautiful picture her charm, but it in- sell beautiful clothes to not-so- creases her agent's beautiful women.

headaches.

At the moment she is looking for a flat in the West End, and it must be the West End, for that is the glided hub of the wheel that spins her life. Once she hand u

car unbia

The model lives

with hitch. is a measuring tape in one hand sharp Indication

of why and a

She practises her pose in of French Barbara Goalon is the top- Vogue in the other.

her dressing-room before she friend folded it about a lamp Une fashion model in Bri-

faces a camera. In the in- post. Now she borrows one (it tain.

She must have poise, tervals between shota she talent, understanding, and is changing, rechanging the

ability. Thirty pose incessantly.

paper-

And why her elegance, acting

when slipped gown, pounds golden

"Your Your

expression, Barbara, terribly, terribly calm, please."

"One at 10. One at 12." "Two seconds is correct."

darling."

'Meisten your lips, Barbara

to the

Outside the Air Ministry, far

greater liberties have been taken with the official design. Chief sufferer is the famous Eagle, which has been redrawn. in various ways. The Imperial Crown and the circlet have been right."

altered continually, und the And with Barbara Goelen it laurel leaf has taken on many was all right.

strapes.

That's it, it's going to be all

-{London Express Service)

-(Loston Express Service)

walt, or fired into rule will not huge houer. Was a housewife C.V.R. Thompson Reports

Bar-

women, thumbing the bara Gonten had them for

pages of Vogue and Hur 25 years before ahe com- * BORN BARBARA BACH pers Bazaar. that they too mercialised them.

suit, fur, can persuade buy

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Her instinctive

housewife three their waists are really 21 inches and not 30, that nesa of mood, the demure. years ago, married to Cap- tain lan Goalen, a civil air YUNG HWA beauty did not pass them ness required by one gown,

the out-of-this-world

dis. Pilot. by with a sardonic

dain demanded by another, MASTERPIECE years before.

is increasingly important.

PAI YANG

TAO CHIN

in

"HEARTS AFLAME”

A CHINESE PICTURE WITH MANDARIN DIALOGUE

TO-MORROW, BY POPULAR REQUEST!

PASO"

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wink

The success of the decep-

TWI

The American Scene

NEW YORK. NYLONS, lipsticks, women's the judge: "Public Interest in a THIS is the encouraging story handbags and underwear free and democratie society does of a woman who stepped off are being displayed at my to- not warrant suppression of any pione from Loidun Just after bacconists' now, alongside the book at the whim of any unduly the Ewas devalued.

elgars and cigarettes.

sensitivo person' The reason, I discovered, that the once all-male American

Stie introduced rself as Mrs

When he was killed in a crash the responsibility for two children, a boy, Roger.M. Neven Dumont, boss of a a girl, Valerie, fell square

ly on their mother's

famous West End fabrics house, cigar store is going the way of

tion is nu the more remark- Loves the work

璀 PHOTOGRAPHERS no shoulders. She was then worth of goods all packed up and sells everything from

able since all know it to be a deception.

longer rely

ornate 25. on

Anchoring point backgrounds against which

Sald she: "We've got £400,000 the American drugstore (which

But for a model the age, if anything.

ready to go. Giva

WILS

bur

free weeks, I'll sell

drape their they used to SINCE THESE things models. When Glass chose

are important the statis- a garage wall for his back- her.

a

"HILDREN are maturing two

in grandfather's time, said Pro- years earlier than they did

a sand fessor Harold Jones, # child

me your wich to books), is that women specialist. He suld girls become

have become heavy smokers. adult at 13 instead of at. 15 or

16 two generations

Dgo, and boys at 14 Instead of at 15 to 18.

W

VORRIED at the prospect of less trade with "devalued" Europe, New York exporters

have

orders and they'll be here la sell everything the warehouse doors." against

Since then Mrs

And the chain of tobacconists' Dumont has Model training startled even the Americans with shops cannot resist tempting tical chart of Barbara Goa- ground last week he left it

schools like to start their her bustling And she has just them to do more of their shop- len must be stated here.

returned At that are suitcase bulging with orders.

to London with her ping at the cigarette counter. to Barbara Goalen to supply girls at 18. She has a waist of 21 mood and atmosphere.

they are malleable,

"I could get thousands more," AN ENVOY has been sent to have been told not to worry by inches, bust and hips of 34.

At 30 the average model she told me, "but I've got to get Hollywood by UNO to try to Walter Lord, Her height is 5ft. 8ins., and Photographers and ed- thinks

of America's of retirement, of back to my real job of buying, or persuade the bosses to boost the Research Institute. He said they she takes size 21% in shoes, tors are monotonously una- becoming hend sales we won't have anything to sell." organisation more often in their would soon be taking Britain's

She has also an arched nimous in their praise. woman, opening a perfumery Mrs Dumont began by selling films.

place as suppliers to India and ploce goods-checks, tartans, instop that photographers

the Middle East, "She loves the work, shop, marrying, if that has tweeds and reversible fabrics E Man responsible for Harry like to 160 as an anchoring that's her secret....She's not already happened. The to New York's more expensive point for the rising curves got the

Truman being President, 45- CTOBER heatwaves and Barbara stores. figure for clothes good ones,

year-old Robert flannegan, died of the rest of her body.

stopped 60 many Goulen is one of these 'rari- today....She's a

people born ac-

But then shops from all over recently at his Missouri homa. buying water clothing and furs But the most remarkable tress....She's

FUR's tica, will last until past 35. the country heard of her arrival. Hannegan,

campaign that shops in New photogenic

York and figure, in her chart is the

"Hundreds of orders came in," manager in the 1944 clecitons, Philadelphia report that their amenable pherio- fact that she has been menal

stvá zaid, "and they're still persuaded his boss

to name sales are 14 percent, down on ก dancer."

coming."

Truman, then a Senator, as his last year. model for two years only,"

vice-president. And on Roose- Perhaps the duncer is TWO YEARS ago de-DECIPE suggested by Mas velt's death Truman automati- A woman's face the clue. For the move-

to cally stepped up. selling

Robcoon's POLITICS: Pauí Bigner Joe.Mattli offered Dumont * 2.30,

ments of Barbara Goalen's her a job as a house model. price, saving un

Americas "Give them the full

campaign to make all U.S.. 130, 7.30, * JUST HOW this hap- hands as she takes

devaluation. URNED DOWN by Supreme Negroes Communists is falling Within a pose

# few months, style your goods to American Court Judge Anthony of Cadly. A report Just fasued pened is worth examinare like the graceful an agent Jean Bell asked her tastes, get the goods here when Glavanna (of Italian origin) was said that only one-tenth of one ng, if only for the educa- dulations of

of the total Negro a Siamese to model for the British In-you promise them, but, abovo a request by Murray Rosenberg, percent

all. come over and are them a. Jew, to ban. tion of those thousands of temple girl (she was born dustries Fair.

"Oliver Twist" population are paid-up mem- In a year yourself. They com

to co and "the Marchant of Venice bera girls who spent their Ser- in the Malay States). she was in top rank.

thut."

from New York's schools. Sald

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