Show MODELING PROFESSION CARRIES FEW ILLUSIONS Nameless Faces on Printed Page Result of Long Hours I of Rigid Posing B By Associated Press Theres some Ome truth In the popular idea about the glamorous life liCe ofa of or ofa ora a model but its it's not nearly so romantic as most people picture It it H. The same is true of or the stage or dancing It gives the girls in Madame X's select costuming establishment a good laugh when they read of ot hear about the of being a a. model so o silly said Dorothy Wood of Brooklyn who has been a amodel amodel amodel model for seven en years but who thought bought at first she could never become be be- come ome accustomed to being on her feet all da day Were average girls and not lot night fly types Lots of us live at home or arc are married More of us marry ordinary men than any other group of people Posing for artists is the most difficult dif dif- job in the modeling business It t means long minutes of absolute rigidity few rest periods small sal sal- aries Many of them arc earning their way while studying art One i is a medical student and one wants to o become a stenographer Hardworking Hard Hard- working young o ng women who must stand tand motionless for lor 25 minutes at a time the they are lucky in earning as much as 25 weekly There is one girl model who ho might pose on the dais but she doesn't because be be- cause the advertising fie fied d pays pas her better She is Grace Orace Moore frequently frequent frequent- ly y called to pose for lor bathing suit and intimate apparel photographs The modern Venus is the description given her by the head of a large studio The art school rate rale is 50 cents an hour lour for portrait work and 75 cents in n life classes although th the league is isnow isnow isnow now inaugurating a system of giving its us ts models a flat 20 weekly And dont don't let anyone tell you OU they pose for lead head and shoulders only warned I s Clarke Those shoulders go all the way to their toes Many debutantes who formerly considered it smart to have a career now are becoming models with the frank admission that the they need the mone money They are arc well paid for their services services and when they arc are working as clothes models in shops they can wear their finery to social affairs Professional ProCessional models may do this only when the they have a heavy date or orif orif if it they are favorites of or the man management manage manage- ment Professional ProCessIonal models resent the debutantes dc de de- de butantes even cven the nicest and most reasonable of them one mannequin said But they arent aren't crowding us out she he added because they wont won't work ork hard enough The better places usually have one society girl or a princess prince as a model but the real work is done by professionals proCessionals The debutantes s want to have a fling at the poor working girls' girls paradise but they dont don't stay long The model who looks like a chorus s girl is out and the model who looks look ss se s like a debutante is is In whether it b be beto beto e to show the newest in spring suits suil o oto or orto orto r to pose carelessly beside the latest in streamlined limousines Five dollar hour an-hour faces are arc those that look like lik e ladies or at least like the tiser's ide idea l of a l lad lady Not only is the theatrical type o or fe f model out but models no longer ar are e known by that term They are subjects subjects sub and modeling has become 3 a smart career The models' models like agency was a small stock brokers broker's office Seven Seve an n telephones were ringing most of the th e time A girl clerk scrawled figures figure ea es s they were hours not prices on a bulletin board filled med with names in inan inn inan an n air of tense excitement In and out ut of the office oUke sauntered the youth and nd beauty of thc the thc girls whose faces look at you from newspapers news news- papers magazines and posters tilting tilling their heir favorite brand of ex ex- spring n hats hal or stepping delicately deli deli- cately from high priced automobiles These Theoe five hour dollar faces are arc destined some of or them for the screen some ome for drawing rooms of oJ wealth or for succesS in business They were I chosen partly because they look like Park avenue and not Broadway Some of them are a bit supercilious about the movies because the they say these are arc not pro properly th type and use a n beauty w wl the script calls for a grande d din dan |