Show t INTEREST TO WOMEN im V lf IDE LIFE OF AN ARTISTS ARTIST'S M. M MODEL ODEL j i I 1 DECIDE TO BECOME A DANCER I J I t l By y Manya Many Rudina Rudina lou New York Artists Artist's Model I Ind id filled with determination to I visited all aU the exand ex- ex 1 i e a a. dancer ex- ex exand ns and art galleries and was so 80 soa a a ei that that I forgot the necessity of ol living nil heard that Isadora Duncan a p dance at the Metropolitan Opera I When When I went for a a. ticket there only 3 tickets left lett I could not lithe Uhe money but I determined I Isee Isee see her And so to I went without for tor three days to pay for the thee e saw say Miss Duncan Dunca it seemed seen her before I must known wn her always left the theatre I felt that m muscle SCle of ot my own hurt Thi That t I had followed her dance my y own body tithing would now change my de- de nation to become a a. dancer But 41 01 1 still without work and with very f money I asked the friends I Imet Imet met at a Russian ball what I It t Mid do dont don't hy dont don't you be a cashier I 1 was wasn n n L Others said Get a position as It was even suggested p 11 I should go on the vaudeville 1 rote ote home to my parents to tell teU that they should not worry that about to get a good position that thing hing was perfectly all right and l lhing did not need help I was not notto f to let them think that I had land fand and that their warnings when I Iome Iome ome orne had all come true ena na friend told me of ot a man who getting up a Russian dancing and a kind of operetta pt t In It it he advised be beto beto tOmake to mal make e enough money in a a. few fews hs s to o pay for tor your dancing les- les to take the advice I went d to the manager whose address but when I entered private office and looked at him I FUI didn't like his looks id not expect of ot course that the f Iger ger would have the kindly manner real artist but I did think that he hejl Id I'd jl look like a a. nice business man pu l make a a. success little girl q Remarked 1 marked as he looked me over overhead overhead F head to foot do asked me to sing for him I did e seemed pleased enI nl I thought I would like to see r eople oPle with whom I was to work I t to the shabby little hall halls s the company was rehearsing and andi i that hat most of ot the girls spoke I b. b rot fot dott into conversation with them I realized that It be sible for me to become friends these girls They were not the I girls of with whom I could be at JAnd And nd I would have to be friends friends' them if it I were to spend all my myon myon myon on the road and behind the scenes Ithem i card Bard the th stage tage man manager say She r Manya Marlys Rudina native of e Russia S came to sr rr Canada with her x parents who settled near neary y Winnipeg r Miss Rudina had longed ri t ta a to be an artists artist's 3 r model x After sketching ti I her earlier arlier Y life she is telling s how she he a came to A c tt New York N r and finally n became one of the sought most-sought i models 4 4 in the kf studios z i iCA CA' CA 5 pt 44 will be all right when I coach her That made me smile to myself because I already felt that I knew more about dancing than he did I told the manager that I would let him know the next day whether 1 I would accept his offer but I never went back In her next chapter Miss Rudina tells how she first sought work as an artists artist's model |