Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING OCTOBER 3 1937 ' A crai n t33 BX3 E3 V J' Secrets of the Perpetual Charm of the Elsie De Wolfe U 'f S-Bo- v V0 rn ' ' Whose Parties Make History : Q - “ ' t r ' tA Told by Her Beautician t" v s r: rV 'V y MiU 4 "I 3W 4 Mendl Is Caught by a riend's Camera in the Act of Doing Two of the Dally Kxer-’- 1 rises Left and Above She Ad orates for Keeping Youthful Lady F - ''' nV °V n Lady Mendl in a Recent Photo with One of Her Pets She Is Credited with Having Originated the Fad of Dyeing a Dog’s Hair to Match Its Mistress’ Locks She Has Dyed Her Own Hair Blue She is like a mother to me She' tells green vegetables and she eats all the me who to go to and who not to visit ice cream she wants Sometimes she just says 1 would be Lady Mendl believes an essential in wasting my time if I went to such and retaining youth is to be such a client When I go out to her ‘‘If one has health a good figure and estate at Versailles she meets me at knows how to dress one need not be herself with her chauffeur ugly” she says "I believe that a the station four-seatlaundulette and woman should know her bad points as driving a sits back with me and her two pet well as her good ones and should ' study how to bring out the good'ohes “dogs Both in her Paris and Versailles and conceal the bad” homes her bathroom is also her sitThis explains Lady Mendl’s bablf curious to many who meet her of ting room where she carries on her correspondence and -- receives close wearing gloves almost continuously friends The Duchess of Windsor who Almost no one has ever seen her seems to have copied other things hands unclad Her hands have always from Lady Mendl also likewise uses grieved her and she has chosen this her bathroom as a sitting room Lady means of hiding them The habit of Mendl in her very charming hook hers started the fashion of short gloves "After All" which deserves to be betwith short sleeves which women all ter known says of her Paris home: over the world have adopted “When we rented apace on the roof Sensual in her dress with clinging clothes emphasizing every line pf her of the palace of the Prince Roland at well-dress- Lady Mendl as Lady Teasle When She Was Elsie DeWolfe Actress In the Days Before She Became Internationally Famous as Interior Decorator and Hostess s'v-- v heavy medicine ball which she throws up In the' air and catches on the run and she skips rope She used to bicycle Now instead having learned to swim in her sixties she gets her sport in her pool After morning exercises she takes either a glass of hot water in fchtch has been stirred the juice of half a lemon or a glass of orange juice $" er A Mile Annie LeGullIon the Author of This Story Attending to One of Her Famous Customers In Paris Therefore I no long- er county birthdays” she says ?She appears to be no more than fifty she has more vitality than most women in their forties and couturiers list her among the women In the world She d has one of the most perfect bodies I have ever seen even counting women she is thirty years or younger Yet — ——past seventy years old! Like Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt who charmingly confessed In her recently published memoirs that she was a very homely child Lady Mend explains ‘When I was a little girl in my struggle to lift myself out of the rut of ugliness and mediocrity I did everything I could to keep fit So determined was my course that my schoolmates used to tease me because I would not indulge in candy or bananas or any of childhood’s luxuries which might have figure spoiled my skin my teeth or mycontin-use“Throughout my life I have to be fareful about what I eat “I would rather do without cosmetics of any kind than to forego my careful diet my- periodical visits to the dentist my daily round of exercises and my weekly internal bath My one great object has been to keep well In my search for good looks I learned there can be no beauty without health “Many of my principles Of good health have been founded on my observation of animals Often I watch my cat or dog when he wakes up in the' morning The first thing he does is to strdteh— the back legs then the '—- The favorite beautician of the Duchess of Windsor is Annie Le Guillon who attended the celebrated Baltimorean regularly during the months when Mrs Simpson was the central Egure in the most publicized romanceof modern times Theyounganadianborn woman’ fame as manicurist pedicurist and masseuse has spread from Paris to New York and Hollywood and given her a clientele’composed of the best known women Jn all three By Annie LeGuillon most remarkable woman I THE is the American Elsie of now Lady Mendl wife the distinguished British diplomat Sir Charles Mendl Her charm is as enduring as that of the almost legendary Ninon de Lenclos who even in her eighties attractednll the greatest men and women of France to her Paris fealon and to whom royalty sent their cions to be Instructed in social graces - Elsie DeWolfe as career woman in fluences decoration and good taste' the world over Lady Mendl ' as hostess makes history Any account of the Windsor romance must mention her She is credited witf an important role in the restoration of King George of Greece Always she is like a magnet attracting the most interesting figures in- - Europe partienlarly - the youthful ones They find her one of them If is her philosophy thdt taking toll of years Is a destructive process Youth Itself has no community with age and is likewise unaware of it When ose begins to think of oneself as grow fe - best-dresse- d - lll-- 1 nnl hn ls hungry He refuses anything but the plainest food He will noj stuff himself as So many Humans do with rich foods which take alL- - of one’s strength ' to eliminate" 4 When Lady Mendl awakes she ' : M 1 arms then a good-size- d portion for my bathroom and I had it fitted-ulike a boudoir tat’ practical so that p her hex Tn her whole body Then she goes through a' regular exercise routine she has followed for many years It is founded upon Yogi Ideas of how to keep one's self in harmony with the universe Lady Mendl became acquainted with it through steam hurt it on — m begins j ‘The walla hri j staff with a' frieze of mirrors Ann Vanderbilt She not could - in and 'her daughter Princess Murat ardent disciples of Yogi-is- re- served stretches pi her — d o g "d 0 e J the planned apartment I ' ing old one is already old I love youth I venued’Ilena- and by which areV etched in black all the things one ps-- i sociates with the sea The low-- 5 er part of the frieze is treated with conventional-- 1 ized lines representing the waves of the ocean The mantel-piec- e is of mirrors — the first mirror mantel ever made her exercising them ward and forward six times sdeb way Then she gets down on the floor (“Some women” ' an Idea which I have since It is repeated quite small and the frame is decorated in shells fish and other water motif —as is the frame amjs" moving up' and down back- - of the mirror she says “prefer above the mantel One Corner of Lady Mendl’s Famous Paris Bathroom Which Is Described In This Article to take their lying All the hooks are Brothers) (From "After All" published by Harper down exercises in in the form of dolbed This is both phins The faucets are heads of swans she has a breakfast the wonderful body Lady Mendl loves to a bath not After do Mattresses futile and lazy extent of which depends on the kind be perfect from bottom to top She The bath is set in sf niche of mirror give proper resistance to muscles" columns and there is an engraved mirof day she is going to have If hard delights like a schoolgirl ln the sheerher and on back her She lies swings linror screen Which Conceals the ugly of silk the and est softest to hose of she confines it before her work is head over her legs straight out and up linnecessities A long low couch covered her for color favorite Her and milk the hampers gerie ("Nothing oranges until she can touch the floora! exsalmon-pinor bisque— a sort in zebra skin runs along one side of back with her toes She stands on her the mind as a heavy meal’ she one gerie is the room The carpet is of white of shrimp Color She is always perbSad "legs straight up Jnjtheair' and plains I For luncheon she has her hair in place velvet moves them back ahd forth for five tight dish — an omelette or a chop and fectly groomed a‘and “When I first opened-thapartment There is never letdow-- With her minutes like an acrobat "It keeps me a vegetable or lettuce salad with perit created such a sensation' that everythe most composed Yet she is one-ofrom getting a swelled bead" she haps fresh fruit At a hit of cheese for women attended- - She one wanted that gradually ever have herself has she for I dinner At dessert one me day 'laughingly told in there for we all drifted dinner or after never likes chatters attempts she of course one needlessly main She anything Thiq rs bv no means the end stands up' and turns cartwheels or NeVer does sue touch soup i"l do I am at ease many distinguished people — ambassawalks on her hands These are not of believe In building a meal on a lake" me at ease She knows work In dors statesmen artists writers “- perand therefore with doesn’t mix her procourse exercises any woman should she remarks) She in to see It time in undertake to do In the beginning They teins “and starches I e if she Has meat fect harmony andI most oftothetalk she dropped Once even there came king— wish silence Should op fish she has neither bread noe poshould be worked up to through gen-H M King Fuad of Egypt' never two one or she has a tatoes "interrupts has Mendl also Always tier exercises Lady k n f t -- s ‘ Copyright 1937 ’ r ) |