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Show 'Other Woman' Inspires Book Blondes, Housecoats Feature New Novel NEW YORK. Thanks to a beautiful beau-tiful blonde and a $2.98 housecoat, novelist Isabel Moore expects to net $20,000 this year. They inspired her new book, "The Other Woman." Miss Moore confessed that she's had three unfortunate careers and a like number and quality of marriages. mar-riages. She said: "Maybe people won't think that record qualifies me to speak . . . "But I think the trouble with most married women is that they wear cheap housecoats, don't pay attention to beautiful blondes, prepare pre-pare too few breakfasts for their husbands, and think they've made a supreme sacrifice when they take the children to the dentist." The young novelist speaks her mind frankly from a Cheery Garden Gar-den apartment in suburban New York, where she lives with a midas-touch midas-touch typewriter and two pretty daughters who adore her writing. She tells the story of how as "a not-too-exemplary wife" she happened hap-pened on a best-seller inspiration "It came on a spring-house-cleaning morning," she recalls, "when I was working like mad, wearing chipped nail polish and a $2.98 housecoat that didn't fit. Up to the door came a blonde with glamour and a desire to see an old friend my husband." Luckily, Isabel grins, her husband hus-band was off on a week-end trip and the blonde had only one day in town. But after the girl left, novelist Moore ran upstairs, studied herself her-self in a mirror, threw away the housecoat and went on a diet. A month later, combining shock and imagination, she began writing her best book, "The Other Woman." This experience has paid off in sale of the title to Warner Brothers in Hollywood, sale of the novel to Bantam Books and a petite new figure for Miss Moore. At age 37, in face, she looks younger than she did in pictures taken 21 years ago when she started her first career as a trapeze artist for Sells-Floto circus in New York. She took that job, she says, because be-cause she had "courage, but no brains." |